Nega-Brent Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 The official trailer. This looks like a really, really, really good movie. It's certainly an original premise for a film. Link to comment
Belial Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 With the exception of King Arthur, has Clive Owen done a bad flick yet? I know Inside Man was awsome. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 Wow Thats a must see Indeed. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 hm...it's not a remake of a movie from the 30'-70's...and it's not a comic book movie....and it isn't a September 11th memorial movie...are we sure it's real? God I hope so. Link to comment
Arcane Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 hm...it's not a remake of a movie from the 30'-70's...and it's not a comic book movie....and it isn't a September 11th memorial movie...are we sure it's real? And it's not even a sequel. Link to comment
Baltar Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 It does look really really good. Link to comment
Mithrandir Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 I dunno, it looks like it will be on the high end of mediocre to me. Not to say it'll be bad or anything, just it'll be Hollywood and I'm so incredibly sick of the Hollywood style of storytelling. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 I dunno, it looks like it will be on the high end of mediocre to me. Not to say it'll be bad or anything, just it'll be Hollywood and I'm so incredibly sick of the Hollywood style of storytelling. It doesn't look remotely like anything Hollywood's released in years. Link to comment
Ceraziefish Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 It looked pretty awesome at the beginning and then the rest of the trailer made me less and less interested. Why were all those people going crazy? I hope they explain that in the movie. Also... Why did they set up a premise and then ruin it by having the movie be about breaking the premise? Stupid, stupid. Still, I'll go see it. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 It looked pretty awesome at the beginning and then the rest of the trailer made me less and less interested. Why were all those people going crazy? I hope they explain that in the movie. Also... Why did they set up a premise and then ruin it by having the movie be about breaking the premise? Stupid, stupid. Still, I'll go see it. The people were going crazy because the world is ending, duh. Link to comment
Ceraziefish Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 The people were going crazy because the world is ending, duh. But why were they shooting each other? The world wasn't going to end for like, fifty years. It didn't make any sense. Link to comment
Belial Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 But why were they shooting each other? The world wasn't going to end for like, fifty years. It didn't make any sense. Without hope what reason is there for life? If you where told that the world ends tommorow, I bet you'd pretty much go crazy too. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 But why were they shooting each other? The world wasn't going to end for like, fifty years. It didn't make any sense. Rarely does the world ever make sense. Humans are an irrational people prone to succumb to fear and violence when there is no hope in sight. Link to comment
Mithrandir Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 It doesn't look remotely like anything Hollywood's released in years. Not on the surface maybe, but when you get past all of that neat hopeless apocalypticality it's going to be the same sort of "save the world and don't lose hope" story peppered with a little compelling interpersonal drama that we've been seeing for years. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 Not on the surface maybe, but when you get past all of that neat hopeless apocalypticality it's going to be the same sort of "save the world and don't lose hope" story peppered with a little compelling interpersonal drama that we've been seeing for years. I don't recall seeing movies like that for years. The only one that comes to mind is the Shawshank Redemption. Link to comment
Ceraziefish Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 I don't recall seeing movies like that for years. The only one that comes to mind is the Shawshank Redemption. It sounded like Mith pretty much described every movie in years. To me, anyway. I still don't understand why "We've got no hope" translates into "Let's wave around AK-47's and kill shit." More likely people would just sit around and not doing anything. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 It sounded like Mith pretty much described every movie in years. To me, anyway. I still don't understand why "We've got no hope" translates into "Let's wave around AK-47's and kill shit." More likely people would just sit around and not doing anything. Apparently you don't watch the news. Link to comment
Tull Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I would hold back on talk of this being just a typical Hollywood film. One factor that makes me say that is the director Alfonso Cuaron who seemed able to inject a sense independent spirit to a franchise film as cookie-cutter as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Plus, I never understood this complaint about film being Hollywood. I've seen independent films turn out as bad as anything a major Hollywood studio has released in the past 25 years. It's not Hollywood that's the problem. It's Wall Street and the investors who force studios to continue cranking out cookie-cutter films they know will turn a profit. It sounds abit elitist to say that all things Hollywood is crap. Children of Men has a nice hard science-fiction feel to it that may just give it the same kind of buzz Aronofsky's The Fountain has been getting. Hopefully, it'll do more business than Soderbergh's Solaris. Link to comment
FaultyClockwork Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Looks interesting. I'll see it. It reminds me sorta of parts for the Edge of Sanity song "Crimson" where women have lost fertility but this child comes and she turns out to be evil blah blah. Good song though. Link to comment
Nega-Brent Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Children of Men is being adapted into a television series by the producer of Battlestar Galactica for the Sci-Fi channel. Apparently it's not really a continuation of the movie, but it does take place in the same continuity and focuses almost entirely on the clandestine group of scientists called the Human Project. Link to comment
Alundra Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Children of Men is being adapted into a television series by the producer of Battlestar Galactica for the Sci-Fi channel. Apparently it's not really a continuation of the movie, but it does take place in the same continuity and focuses almost entirely on the clandestine group of scientists called the Human Project. This is good news to me, the movie is no. 3 on my list of favorite movies. Hopefully they don't fuck it up. Link to comment
GummyBearOfDoom Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Children of Men has King Crimson in the movie which makes it win, that and I found it at Best Buy for 5 bucks. Link to comment
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