Comments on: Children of Men Is Very Sad

By: joshua

joshua — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:49:58 +0000

Yeah, My sister said that Y Tu Mamá También was really good. I haven't seen it, but she knows what.

The thing about The Prisoner of Azkaban is that Harry Potter just seems really fluffy to me. Like, it's fun, and I like seeing weird things onscreen, but it doesn't move me.

Agreed about those action sequences. Both are genuinely terrifying.

And Michael Caine's ending is brilliant. I really couldn't muster a joke through the entire movie, but for the one moment when he died, when I said, "He died as he lived."

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:28:30 +0000

Yeah that’s basically one of my favorite movies.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:19:55 +0000

Plus Michael Caine!

The long takes are amazing; also the 'future props' that denote that WE ARE IN TEH FUTUAR! are handled as good or better than any other movie I've ever seen.

By: Remi

Remi — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:08:10 +0000

I'm a little sad to hear you say that, Y Tu Mama Tambien is excellent and surprising and Prisoner of Azkaban is the best of the Harry Potter movies.

And both the car ambush sequence and the running battle through the city battle are among the best action sequences I've seen in the post-Matrix world.

I think I need to see it again.

By: joshua

joshua — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:04:15 +0000

Yeah, actually, the Minutiæ of the movie were right there, too. The updated double decker buses, the worn-out Citroên, the terrible realism of the fighting, the "I cut myself, so now I'm hurt for the rest of the movie" griminess.

The movie was almost uniformly yellowy green, which was neat. It gave a feeling of fluorescent lights, like the world had burned out. There were these moments where it wasn't, and they were these brief moments of hope.

He's a really good filmmaker. I wish he'd do more like this. His other films have been things I haven't really cared about (with the exception of his producing of Pan's Labyrinth, which, dude, wow.)

By: Remi

Remi — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:41:31 +0000

All your points are right on, but I was also very taken by the technical mastery of the film. The long takes, the color palettes, the unflinching grimness of every scene.