Children of Men

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Has anyone seen it? I read a synopsis of it and it sounds very good.

Good movie

I didn't like it. Thought it was pretentious, with offputting christian symbolism, and was a bit of a mess. Julianne Moore horribly wasted, and a trite and sentimental message. I was doubly disappointed because the synopsis and trailers looked so good.

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While some people do seem to hate it, I'd advise at least renting it. Most people I know love it, and it's in my personal top 10.

It's all a matter of opinion isn't it. I enjoyed the movie but the book is better (in my opinion).

I thought it was very good. Nice to have firmly grounded Sci-Fi movie for once.

It's fantastic. What really makes it stand out is that there are shots that last for five minutes or even twenty minutes that were so intricately coreographed that it's amazing. Really makes you wonder how they shot it all. The acting, script, atmosphere, etc. were all great as well. Gotta love Alfonso.

Children of Men was an awesome sci-fi movie!

Emmanuel Lubezki is most likely one of the best
cinematographers working in Hollywood!

It was a good movie. Clive Owen right? Julianne mOore was terrible in it, the role didn't seem to suit her at all, but the idea of people who will fight for what is right, despite odds, didn't seem at all pretentious. It wasn't perfect, but it was gritty and pretty cool. I didn't think Christian though, so much as humanist.

Anybody remember the name of the movie Clive Owen was in where he avenges his brother's death? I can't remember the name, good movie. And Shoot 'em Up ( I guess this makes me a Clive Owen fan, that's okay. I'm not sure if I've got his name right though). I liked that movie, but it was absolutely filled with complete gangster movie chaos, times 10. Some people might think it was bad, but it was kind of fun.

Its a very accurate concept as far as future Britain is concerned. (Perhaps sans the no-baby thing.) I loved the "Future cars" that are all pseudo-contemporary, but with all the accrued rust and wrong-coloured panels of old bangers from here and now. That and the final sequences are blinding, as firefights go.

I like this movie a lot. It starts out slow and gets gradually more dark and wild.

You know, I wasn't really all that impressed with the plot. In fact I thought it was absurd and didn't even plan to rent it. But somehow it ended up in my netflix queue, I watched it, and I was totally blown away! The cinematography, like others said, is just amazing. I don't think I've seen another movie so beautifully shot in many, many years.

I actually wrote a review for this on my blog a while back, I'll just paste it from there. (says basically what I said above)
http://magelyn.wordpress.com/2008/02/07 ... -men-2006/

Children of Men (2006)
February 7, 2008

I went into this film with low expectations. The plot sounded silly to me. How could all the world’s women suddenly go infertile? Couldn’t scientific advances solve this problem pretty quickly, especially by 2027? And where is the struggle? Just put the girl in front of some TV cameras and the whole world will know she’s pregnant and I’m sure the second half of the film could have been avoided. Why they just didn’t call a news show the moment they got out of the first safe house was never explained.

However, this film does have one big redeeming quality. The style is simply amazing. Unlike most action films, instead of doing short, quick cuts, waggling the camera all around and throwing in some heavy metal, you get long, slow takes that draw out the action and let you live it. The entire time I was watching the first major encounter, in the car, all I could think was “Holy s**t, that is just one take???” I was spellbound.

Near the end of the movie, during the gunfire anarchy, I thought the same thing. Normally in movies the violence is so boring, you just don’t care anymore. But here every death was a tragedy. Every human life was worth saving, every person’s pain was real. Sometimes people forget these things. Even in real life, a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Maybe if someone could bring to life the deaths in Iraq, Darfur, Kenya, the way people can be made to care about fictional people, then the world would stop being so apathetic and actively try to fix things.

I totally agree about the style, visual effects etc, was just sorry it was used for such an absurd/non-credible story.

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