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Anyone watched Children of Men?

Saw it last night, and it's easily the best movie I've seen this year. The movie would be great purely for the 2 steadycam tracking shots (you'll know the 2 I'm talking about if you've seen the film), but when you add in a gripping and plausible story, solid acting and great direction you have a real winner. This movie is excellent. Highly recommended
 
BlueCollar said:
Anyone watched Children of Men?

Saw it last night, and it's easily the best movie I've seen this year. The movie would be great purely for the 2 steadycam tracking shots (you'll know the 2 I'm talking about if you've seen the film), but when you add in a gripping and plausible story, solid acting and great direction you have a real winner. This movie is excellent. Highly recommended
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Also thought it was an excellent movie ... walked out expecting to be shot at though :D, loved Clive Owen (good acting). First took notice of him in Closer.

Camera techniques were interesting and new but made me queezy at times but I guess that was the idea. It was a nice surprise, I was expecting a B-grade Sci-Fi movie (not that I don't have a great appetite for B-grade Sci-Fi :D) but instead I got a well made movie and not quite the Sci-Fi I was imagining.
 
re the Departed - its based on two awesome Hong Kong cop movies (there are actually three in the series but 3's a bit lame. As far as I know, Scorcese just used the first two to make Departed) - if you can find them, you should watch them. Titles are 'Infernal Affairs' & 'Infernal Affairs 2'.
Some vidshops in Joburg do have them..way better than the fairly lame boring remake that Scorcese has done.
 
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BlueCollar said:
Anyone watched Children of Men?

Saw it last night, and it's easily the best movie I've seen this year. The movie would be great purely for the 2 steadycam tracking shots (you'll know the 2 I'm talking about if you've seen the film), but when you add in a gripping and plausible story, solid acting and great direction you have a real winner. This movie is excellent. Highly recommended
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Colour me underwhelmed...Not really what I was expecting from the previews...Not a bad movie i didn't think, just a very bleak outlook of the future..

As for the steady cam shots, they were great :)
 
Watched Happy Feet the other night and it was also not all i had hoped it to be...Seems that all the funny parts are in the preview and they don't tell u that there is a LOT of singing in it, which i didnt really like...

Anyone else seen it?
 
FINALLY got a hold of "A Scanner Darkly". Gonna watch it this weekend!! YAY!!

:L:
 
Anyone seen the movie "Stay" with Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts? Brilliant movie. Stunningly shot. Not sure if it came out here, but I saw the trailer and bought the DVD.

:L:
 
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