Anyone seen Children of Men?

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Nik Samson
09/01/2008 at 07:57
Blimey, bit of a bleak portrayal of Britain in the future, isn't it?

Err, was there any significance in the fact that all the way through the film animals seemed to like the main character? Was it summat from the book (if there is one) that didn't transfer to the big screen?

D.S.
09/01/2008 at 08:00
Thats the one with the black pregnant woman being taken to safety somewhere?

What animals???

Thought it was an okish film, nothing really to write home about.
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RiceBurner
09/01/2008 at 08:54
Quite possibly the most depressing film I've ever seen.



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Nik Samson
09/01/2008 at 09:21
RiceBurner wrote
Quite possibly the most depressing film I've ever seen.


Was a bit, yep, quite good though.
Blue_Summer
09/01/2008 at 09:25
the war bit was good rest was a bit boring...
Fielder
09/01/2008 at 09:27
A very very good film.

The IMDB page for it is hilarious. Lots of butt hurt Americans who don't like the idea that the UK is the last known society giving it bad reviews.

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Sirus
09/01/2008 at 09:31
Not a bad film IMO, filmed a lot of it around Fleet / Rushmoor Arena Aldershot just down the road from me.

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stoocake
09/01/2008 at 09:33
I really liked it at the cinema. I thought it was quite powerful and a good story, and Clive Owen is perfect for the part.

..but when I saw it on DVD I wasn't so impressed.




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m00c0w
09/01/2008 at 09:36
I thought it was good. If you like Clive Owen, I can recommend Shoot Em Up too, quite a good action packed film.
Nik Samson
09/01/2008 at 09:43
m00c0w wrote
I thought it was good. If you like Clive Owen, I can recommend Shoot Em Up too, quite a good action packed film.


I've seen about 3/4 of that, but the people I was with thought it was pap ... shame I was quite enjoying it.

Ideal film to take a bird to, I reckon - lots of guns and shooting and an especially fit girlie with her norks out for the blokes and a baby for the ladies.

Loz
09/01/2008 at 09:47
I like Children of Men (yet another film with my mate Joe the stuntman in it). Although the ending was a rather weak I thought.

A bit of location related trivia for you: in the scene where clive owen is hiding in an archway under a railway, the external shot and the internal shot are in completely different towns.
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Judge
09/01/2008 at 10:00
Yeah it was a good film. I think it got slated because it was a film where you had to think and understand issues rather than remove brain to believe it's plausable, which is the current hollywood trend.
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Danny_Two
09/01/2008 at 10:02
One of the worst films ive ever seen, utter shit.
echus
09/01/2008 at 10:03
Well just to be different I thought it was shit.
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Nik Samson
09/01/2008 at 10:12
Nobody knows the answer to the question then?
Loz
09/01/2008 at 10:53
Nik Samson wrote
Nobody knows the answer to the question then?


There is a book (it's by PD James), but alas I haven't read it. So yes - there could well be something there that counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor. Or something like that.
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m00c0w
09/01/2008 at 10:55
Nik Samson wrote
Nobody knows the answer to the question then?


No.

But if you were enjoying Shoot Em Up, may I recommend you Crank as well.
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m00c0w
09/01/2008 at 10:57
echus wrote
Well just to be different I thought it was shit.


Ignore him, he has the whole of Babylon 5 on DVD.
Fielder
09/01/2008 at 11:01
m00c0w wrote
No.

But if you were enjoying Shoot Em Up, may I recommend you Crank as well.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0479884/


That film is filled with total rubbish, And that is what makes it so excellent. Forget realism, Forget common sense, Just sit back and enjoy the carnage! Great film.

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m00c0w
09/01/2008 at 11:07
Fielder wrote
That film is filled with total rubbish, And that is what makes it so excellent. Forget realism, Forget common sense, Just sit back and enjoy the carnage! Great film.


I totally agree.

However, the potentially bad news is, Crank 2 is being released next year.
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