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I just watched Children of Men

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JoeFahey

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It definitely ranks up there as being one of the best movies that I have seen made in recent years.
The single camera shot was amazing, and it even had some "blood" splatter on the lense during that sequence. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but it was something I haven't seen too often. The best scene of the movie was right after this when the baby is guided out through all the soldiers. That was such an emotional scene.
Amazing!
 
Originally posted by: JoeFahey
The best scene of the movie was right after this when the baby is guided out through all the soldiers. That was such an emotional scene.
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I thought that was the most ridiculous scene in the movie.
 
Man, I love that movie and can't wait to watch it again when it makes DVD release.

As regarding the believability of the scene with the baby - if society went to such ****** that Britain established ghettos for immigrants and were using tanks and weaponry within it's own borders and no humans were being created, who's to say how they'd react to a little black baby coming out of the place they were riddling with bullets just seconds before - maybe they would be shocked into decency.

Meh. I just thought the movie was superb.
 
Originally posted by: JujuFish
Originally posted by: JoeFahey
The best scene of the movie was right after this when the baby is guided out through all the soldiers. That was such an emotional scene.
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I thought that was the most ridiculous scene in the movie.
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too bad do you like to club seals too?

J/K
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I thought they shot that scene very well. Ridiculous why? There were many more ridicuous scenes. They gave you plenty of backstory and visuals as to why that was the most potent scene of the whole movie.

I can see atheists not liking the movie due to the Baby Jesus overtones. Yet they are toned down compared to what they could have been.
 
Originally posted by: JujuFish
Originally posted by: JoeFahey
The best scene of the movie was right after this when the baby is guided out through all the soldiers. That was such an emotional scene.
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I thought that was the most ridiculous scene in the movie.
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Why, when you put it in context it makes perfect sense. It's something no one has seen in over 20 years and it would shock anyone including people involved in a war.
 
Originally posted by: akubi
one of the most over rated films of the year

personally hated it
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Thought it dragged on, didn't care for the acting. Although, I did somewhat enjoy the camera work.


 
Camera work was great. Story not so much.

It seemed like Jurassic Park all over again:

1. OH NO! RUN!!!
2. Phew, we made it.
3. Cut to new scene where they're somewhere else with a new friend.
4. GOTO 1
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Camera work was great. Story not so much.

It seemed like Jurassic Park all over again:

1. OH NO! RUN!!!
2. Phew, we made it.
3. Cut to new scene where they're somewhere else with a new friend.
4. GOTO 1
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Well, movies are like that. You have to think deep into what ideas movies like this expose and what the themes are.
 
Very good movie indeed.
Definitely leaves enough to your own interpretation, but does so very well.
 
The camera work was excellent, but they didn't do a good job drawing me into the story. Apparently mankind was doomed because of the infertility problem, but for some reason I just didn't feel it from watching the movie. Maybe they should have devoted some time to explaining the cause of the problem?
 
I am very picky about movies, and I thought this one was excellent. I don't know why OT seems to dislike, even hate, the film.

Also, I don't know why so many were confused about the plot/events.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Camera work was great. Story not so much.

It seemed like Jurassic Park all over again:

1. OH NO! RUN!!!
2. Phew, we made it.
3. Cut to new scene where they're somewhere else with a new friend.
4. GOTO 1
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That's one of the reasons I loved this movie. Everyone is trying to make their stories and movies really really long and complex. Look a two of the biggest movies this year, Pirates and Spider-man, and they are too long and there's too much crap in them.

Children of Men had a simple story with a simple goal and it delivered throughout. It also was less than 2 hours long which is almost unheard of these days.
 
Originally posted by: Special K
The camera work was excellent, but they didn't do a good job drawing me into the story. Apparently mankind was doomed because of the infertility problem, but for some reason I just didn't feel it from watching the movie. Maybe they should have devoted some time to explaining the cause of the problem?
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They left the infertility problem up to your interpretation. They shouldn't hand hold you in everything.
 
Originally posted by: Special K
The camera work was excellent, but they didn't do a good job drawing me into the story. Apparently mankind was doomed because of the infertility problem, but for some reason I just didn't feel it from watching the movie. Maybe they should have devoted some time to explaining the cause of the problem?
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The whole idea that the youngest person alive was killed and he was 18 years old didn't do anything?
 
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