Children of Men

Wizarddeath · 07-21-2006, 08:00 AM

New Clive Owen movie, previews look decent enough. Not his same old role, looks very up lifting in some parts....

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/childrenofmen/

Ham n Cheese · 07-21-2006, 08:07 AM

Helps they used Sigur Ros in the trailer. It's funny how a properly placed song can make a trailer look 100x better than it actually looks.

However I watched this trailer yesterday and thought the concept was pretty cool for sure. Except the lady being black.

kidding.

Wizarddeath · 07-21-2006, 10:07 AM

[quote=Ham n Cheese]Helps they used Sigur Ros in the trailer. It's funny how a properly placed song can make a trailer look 100x better than it actually looks.[quote]

Qouted for the truth and 1/2 half there...Or how it can be an already awesome movie 100X better....like M83 unrecorded's song for Nightwatch, or the Cells in Sin City, or the origina underworld evoluation red tape song.

Ham n Cheese · 07-21-2006, 10:46 AM

Yep. That Fantastic Four trailer even looked pretty good when they played that APC song. And I don't know if anyone has seen the trailer for the science of sleep, but it has several good songs in there which probably makes the movie look better than it actually looks.

Injektilo · 07-21-2006, 02:15 PM

Is that a string version of a rolling stones song at the beginning? sounds awesome heh

Enchiladitos · 07-21-2006, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Injektilo

Is that a string version of a rolling stones song at the beginning? sounds awesome heh

Yeah it's Gimmie Shelter.

Himeo · 07-21-2006, 11:38 PM

If women were infertile, wouldn't the world degenerate into a mass orgy?

Movie looks interesting.

Mir · 07-22-2006, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Helps they used Sigur Ros in the trailer. It's funny how a properly placed song can make a trailer look 100x better than it actually looks.

However I watched this trailer yesterday and thought the concept was pretty cool for sure. Except the lady being black.

kidding.

Death Cab over someone Crying = INDIE GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!111 To quote Airheads, if it's in english it's a gold record at least....

Awanka · 07-22-2006, 05:10 PM

Just fertilize the eggs in a test tube. Geez.

Etadanik · 07-23-2006, 12:47 AM

Judging from the trailer alone, this movie could be good. Or it could be complete shit. Two alternatives I could see:

* The new Eve is black because of political correctness. In this case the movie will be shit, because it'll be about how a man and woman, with seemingly no race consciousness of any sort, play heroes to the platonic rebirth of the human race. In other words, generic idealistic narrative of "intrinsic" human heroism with archetypal do-gooders situated smack in the middle of moral universalism and color blindness - not the sort of stuff that requires any degree of thought.

* The new Eve is black because she's black, and you just gotta deal with it. In this case, I can see a narrative of divided loyalties, of racial irony, wherein the white man must come face to face with the reversal of his manifest destiny - that he, instead of inheriting the world, must sacrifice himself to allow a people he once denigrated take his place. The main character will be tormented, because every man is a racist at heart and will wonder whether he should ushur forth a new black millenium or nip it in the bud because "if I can't have it, neither can you." Only at the end, amidst much internal turmoil, would he make a decision to stand with or against the new Edenic myth, to perhaps accept the idea of an universal humanity and the need to transcend racial realities, or to deny it and kill the infant in a bout of xenophobia. While not the greatest movie of all time, such a movie would at least raise a few eyebrows, and that's better than sitting through the two hour rendition of an utopian fantasy.

GrobbeeTrull · 07-23-2006, 07:19 AM

Thanks for spoiling it twice Etadanik!

FanBuss · 07-26-2006, 10:56 AM

Or she's black because...no fucking reason

Szlia · 11-14-2006, 02:00 PM

Raise dead thread! Raise!

I just saw this movie today and it was, as a whole, very good. There are some minor problems that I can elaborate if we start to discuss about the movie, but for now I'll just say it has an instant classic feel to it. Solid story, good acting and let's say.... insane film making from hell. Not very theoric, but insane and certainly from hell (maybe digital hell, I don't know, but hell for sure).

End of DECEMBER in the US.

Zefah · 11-16-2006, 11:23 AM

I wonder why this film is coming out so late in the U.S.
It comes out tomorrow (November, 18th) in Japan and I plan on seeing it around then.

It definitely looks like it will be a good movie.

theawddone · 11-16-2006, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zefah

I wonder why this film is coming out so late in the U.S.
It comes out tomorrow (November, 18th) in Japan and I plan on seeing it around then.

It definitely looks like it will be a good movie.

Hollywood needs time to ruin it for us by unnecessarily editing out half the scenes.

07-21-2006, 08:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
Wizarddeath EQ 4life ~ Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 208 -5 Internets	Children of Men New Clive Owen movie, previews look decent enough. Not his same old role, looks very up lifting in some parts.... http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/childrenofmen/

07-21-2006, 02:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
Injektilo A sad statue of liberty Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 176 +0 Internets	Is that a string version of a rolling stones song at the beginning? sounds awesome heh __________________ *Injek, Vindicatum, Icecrown* Injektilo, Dark Horizon (eq1, retired)

07-23-2006, 12:47 AM	#10 (permalink)
Etadanik Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,643 +0 Internets	Judging from the trailer alone, this movie could be good. Or it could be complete shit. Two alternatives I could see: * The new Eve is black because of political correctness. In this case the movie will be shit, because it'll be about how a man and woman, with seemingly no race consciousness of any sort, play heroes to the platonic rebirth of the human race. In other words, generic idealistic narrative of "intrinsic" human heroism with archetypal do-gooders situated smack in the middle of moral universalism and color blindness - not the sort of stuff that requires any degree of thought. * The new Eve is black because she's black, and you just gotta deal with it. In this case, I can see a narrative of divided loyalties, of racial irony, wherein the white man must come face to face with the reversal of his manifest destiny - that he, instead of inheriting the world, must sacrifice himself to allow a people he once denigrated take his place. The main character will be tormented, because every man is a racist at heart and will wonder whether he should ushur forth a new black millenium or nip it in the bud because "if I can't have it, neither can you." Only at the end, amidst much internal turmoil, would he make a decision to stand with or against the new Edenic myth, to perhaps accept the idea of an universal humanity and the need to transcend racial realities, or to deny it and kill the infant in a bout of xenophobia. While not the greatest movie of all time, such a movie would at least raise a few eyebrows, and that's better than sitting through the two hour rendition of an utopian fantasy. Last edited by Etadanik : 07-23-2006 at 12:50 AM.

11-14-2006, 02:00 PM	#13 (permalink)
Szlia Conquest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 4,813 +16 Internets	Raise dead thread! Raise! I just saw this movie today and it was, as a whole, very good. There are some minor problems that I can elaborate if we start to discuss about the movie, but for now I'll just say it has an instant classic feel to it. Solid story, good acting and let's say.... insane film making from hell. Not very theoric, but insane and certainly from hell (maybe digital hell, I don't know, but hell for sure). End of DECEMBER in the US. __________________ -retrosabotage- Last edited by Szlia : 11-16-2006 at 01:30 PM.

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07-21-2006, 08:07 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ham n Cheese You can betray me Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 8,925 +18 Internets	Helps they used Sigur Ros in the trailer. It's funny how a properly placed song can make a trailer look 100x better than it actually looks. However I watched this trailer yesterday and thought the concept was pretty cool for sure. Except the lady being black. kidding.

07-21-2006, 10:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
Wizarddeath EQ 4life ~ Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 208 -5 Internets	[quote=Ham n Cheese]Helps they used Sigur Ros in the trailer. It's funny how a properly placed song can make a trailer look 100x better than it actually looks.[quote] Qouted for the truth and 1/2 half there...Or how it can be an already awesome movie 100X better....like M83 unrecorded's song for Nightwatch, or the Cells in Sin City, or the origina underworld evoluation red tape song.

07-21-2006, 10:46 AM	#4 (permalink)
Ham n Cheese You can betray me Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 8,925 +18 Internets	Yep. That Fantastic Four trailer even looked pretty good when they played that APC song. And I don't know if anyone has seen the trailer for the science of sleep, but it has several good songs in there which probably makes the movie look better than it actually looks.

07-21-2006, 11:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
Himeo Memento mori. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Riverside, Ca Posts: 911 -1 Internets	If women were infertile, wouldn't the world degenerate into a mass orgy? Movie looks interesting.

07-22-2006, 05:10 PM	#9 (permalink)
Awanka Seething with dark power and -internets Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,798 -63 Internets	Just fertilize the eggs in a test tube. Geez.

07-23-2006, 07:19 AM	#11 (permalink)
GrobbeeTrull Banned Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Springfield, Ohio Posts: 1,685 +0 Internets	Thanks for spoiling it twice Etadanik!

07-26-2006, 10:56 AM	#12 (permalink)
FanBuss hates O RLY Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,378 -1 Internets	Or she's black because...no fucking reason

11-16-2006, 11:23 AM	#14 (permalink)
Zefah Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Kanagawa, Japan Posts: 1,474 +1 Internets	I wonder why this film is coming out so late in the U.S. It comes out tomorrow (November, 18th) in Japan and I plan on seeing it around then. It definitely looks like it will be a good movie.