Children of Men

[schild]

Oscars.

If you get the opportunity, you can not miss this movie.

[Velorath]

Oscars.

If you get the opportunity, you can not miss this movie.

Well, no I can't miss it, but that's only because I'll be subjected to it at work.

[schild]

Subjected?

Bullshit. You'll enjoy every viewing of this thing.

[Velorath]

Subjected?

Bullshit. You'll enjoy every viewing of this thing.

Well that's possible, and in all seriousness I have been looking forward to it.  I should be getting a couple prints of it in tomorrow that I'll have to build so I guess I'll find out soon.  Hell, I managed to enjoy Dreamgirls.

[ahoythematey]

Are you sure you aren't being lulled in by your love of Clive Owen?

[Ironwood]

Sorry, after the last 4 months, I'm not going to see anything that has 'Babies are Wondrous' as the central premise.

[schild]

The other two guys who watched it with me were stunned by the awesome that is Children of Men.

[Ironwood]

And they're thinking of adopting now that the state lets them marry ?

 

[schild]

What?

[Ironwood]

Nevermind.  I'm not taking being back at work too well.  I have hit snark overdrive.

[Signe]

I have giggled uncontrollably and still am.

[Fabricated]

Oh yeah, this is the movie where everyone on earth suddenly can't have kids anymore and than like a few decades later the world has become Mad Max with Audis, some black woman mysteriously becomes pregnant and the rest of the movie is a "It's a small shitty hell-like world afterall" ride to a group of predictably secluded scientists.

[Cheddar]

Oh, this movie looks hot.  I will go watch it Friday.

I am a huge fan of dystopia and zombies.  But not in that order.

[tazelbain]

Those damn Aschen are trying to conquer us again.

[Krakrok]

Didn't Children of Men see Aeon Flux?


Edit: Sliders has a similar episode as well except 99.99% of the men died.

[Yoru]

This sounds like a crappier, softened-up adaptation of Frank Herbert's "The White Plague".

Which I never actually finished reading... hm..

[Rasix]

94% on Rotten Tomatoes plus Clive Owen.  Yah.  I'll be there.

[Tale]

I'm surprised the US is only getting this in cinemas now. It's been and gone months ago in most of the world.

[angry.bob]

I'm surprised the US is only getting this in cinemas now. It's been and gone months ago in most of the world.

Shhhhhhh!

Most American's don't realize we're not #1 at anything anymore, even in the order of movie releases. But at least our high retard/atheist quotient means that we're triple blessed by the love of Jesus. And who needs anything worldly when you have such a powerful blessing?

And Ironwood, babies ARE wondrous. The key is in making your wife do everyting and you just play with it a couple hours a day while she cleans the house and makes more bottles. And to those of you about to bitch about my misogyny, one of us works 10 hours a day, 6 days a week and the other one stays at home and doesn't have a job aside from watching the kid. I'll be damned if I work 10 hours and then come home and wash the dishes she dirtied making food for herself.

Also, The Wicker Man sucked.

[Ironwood]

I'm surprised the US is only getting this in cinemas now. It's been and gone months ago in most of the world.

Yeah, I thought I'd already missed this opportunity ages ago, but I'm still drugged up, so I couldn't be sure.

[Big Gulp]

Apparently it's "selected cities" too, so we're only getting a limited release.  It's shades of 28 Days Later and The Descent all over again...  Talk about leaving perfectly good money on the table.

Is it just that there aren't enough prints to go around?

[Tale]

Oh well, at least you got it before Kuwait.

[Lantyssa]

I'm sure watching the kid and taking care of the house is only a couple hours a day job.

[MrHat]

I'm super excited to watch this, mainly because I have a huge man-crush on Clive.

[ahoythematey]

Those damn Aschen are trying to conquer us again.

I'm awfully ashamed to have understood this.  Bring back General Hammond, beyotches!

[Velorath]

Apparently it's "selected cities" too, so we're only getting a limited release.  It's shades of 28 Days Later and The Descent all over again...  Talk about leaving perfectly good money on the table.

Is it just that there aren't enough prints to go around?

They actually started the limited release a little over a week back, and it will be expanding to more theaters tomorrow.  I don't think it has anything to do with a limited number of prints.  The ones I built today were new, so it's not like I had to wait for another theater to finish with them.  My understanding is that limited releases are usually used for marketing reasons, starting small and allowing positive word of mouth to spread before the larger opening.  December is also a fairly tough month to compete in, while January and February often end up as the dumping ground for shit movies (Ghost Rider, I'm looking at you).  Going up against shit like Codename:  The Cleaner probably seemed more appealing than going up against Dreamgirls or Night at the Museum.

[Polysorbate80]

I'm sure watching the kid and taking care of the house is only a couple hours a day job.

Of course, that's the easy part.  It's re-cleaning the house after the kids have destroyed it (faster than you can clean it in the first place) that takes more hours than are in the day.

[MrHat]

Best Foreign Film.

[Abagadro]

This movie is amazing. Great, great film.  It has the best single-take sequence in movie history.  Go see it. Really.

[bhodi]

I agree. Excellent movie. Two, spoiler-laden questions for those who have seen it:

1) Why would the ENTIRE british army, after seeing the most amazing thing in 40 years, completely forget about her and her baby? I would think it would be more along the lines of "let's get you to saftey!"

2) On the bus near the end, what was the point of the man and the dog dragging people off the bus? Was it a scare tactic to convince people not to come back? Was the camp full? You saw the makings of execution squads out the window, but you didn't really see any of THEM get shot, so i was a bit confused.

[schild]

Best Foreign Film.

What?

This movie is american through and through. Only America produces movies that look like United Colors of Benneton ads.

[Venkman]

Been wanting to see this. Haven't read anything, on purpose. Makes sense the rest of the world saw it first to. Until this past November, it would have excommunicable blasphemy in the U.S.

And to those of you about to bitch about my misogyny, one of us works 10 hours a day, 6 days a week and the other one stays at home and doesn't have a job aside from watching

Fighting words. ;)

[MrHat]

Best Foreign Film.

What?

This movie is american through and through. Only America produces movies that look like United Colors of Benneton ads.

Felt foreign.

[sinij]

Best movie I have seen in a long time. I was impressed by story, characters and set.

[Yegolev]

Want to see the movie.  Clive Owen.

Babies are no fun.  Toddlers, however, are lots of fun.  Until six months in they are basically like lumps that shit everywhere.  After that, the awesome starts.

I would much, much rather be at work than at home.  Here I can at least ignore people during lunch or go eat something at a restaurant.  Less crying and smell of shit, too.  Of course, I'd swap places with the wife if she could make any amount of money.