My God. I cannot begin to tell you how this movie affected me.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Children Of Men. http://www.childrenofmen.net/

I'd never heard so much as a single word about it until I saw a mention of it on a movie review site a couple days ago. I immediately knew it was something I had to watch, so I tracked it down and watched it today.

Eighteen years ago all the women of the world became infertile and stopped giving birth. The last human generation was in existence, and the world was being torn apart by mankind's death throes.

Then a pregnant woman was discovered.

I cannot begin to describe this movie, other than to say it's so ultra real you'll think you're within the scene yourself. I'll just give one very small example- during a battle scene a person hiding on a burned out bus is shot. The blood sprays onto the camera, and the camera continues to follow the scene while flecks of blood and brain remain visible on the lens.

Don't expect to laugh during this story. Don't believe that it's a light-hearted bit of fiction. It's not. This is hard core real, my friends. This is hard core humanity going down for the third time. This is one hell of an incredible film.

See it. Please.

[wiggs]

1. I liked the film a lot. My wife was depressed for two days. nt

[SoCalDem]

3. You like a weepy wife??

:evilgrin:

[wiggs]

6. I liked the film a lot. My wife was depressed for two days. nt

[helderheid]

7. !

:spray:

[FVZA_Colonel]

2. It was an amazing film that should have been the recipient of the Best Picture award.

I really feel that had it been released earlier in the year it would have stood a better chance.

[SoFlaJet]

4. It's on our must-see list

and since Clive Owen is my wife's new boyfriend I sent her your link-thanks (she loved him in King Arthur)

[PassingFair]

14. He SHOULD have been BOND

WHAT were they thinking?

NO ONE would have been a better choice than Clive.

(Sean Connery excepted)

[KT2000]

21. No! No! He's my new boyfriend!

King Arthur! The "caveman" in Closer! Croupier!

Rented Inside Man but he spent nearly the whole movie with his face and head covered! NOOOO!

[Rex_Goodheart]

5. The story line is very implausible...

and I believe they deviated from the book to a female fertility problem from a male one. Why?

However, the battle scenes are TERRIFICLY REALISTIC. Great stuff.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. Instead of a woman exposing her pregnancy, would you rather

have seen a man showing off the world's first woody in 18 years?

:shrug:

[Sal Minella]

19. Yes.

[bling bling]

34. Totally.

I can't say I've ever gone to a movie and seen a man with a woody on the big screen. That'd be something to see. Kind of in the same way that everyone in South Park tuned into some network television show because the previews promised they'd be saying the word "shit" on the show.

[ComerPerro]

11. I prefer stories with realistic story lines, like dogfighrts in outer space

and poor people who become millionaires overnight and are treated with respect by high society all of a sudden.

[Malikshah]

32. Actually, having recently read the P.D. James novel, I'm not sure she was

terribly specific about which gender was affected. I know that in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, it was the elite women who were barren, but I'm not sure w/ this one.

Waiting impatiently for the DVD release on Tuesday.... :)

[proud patriot]

8. I am going to watch it soon

:hi:

[ComerPerro]

10. fantastic movie. Sadly, though, the American movie goer only likes happy movies

or, if the movie is sad or has sad parts, all must be well by the end.

It didn't do very well here

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. Then the American movie goer is a fool.

:mad:

[1monster]

15. This American movie goer does not like blood and guts violence

spattered all over the screen. I see no reason to give myself nightmares for weeks, months, and years ahead. (As prolific and voracious reader, I have very good visualization skills. I don't need them improved or to have bloody scenes done for me.)

It is for this reason I don't watch realistic war movies, Quentin Tarrentino garbage, or horror flicks.

I enjoy movies that make me think, movies that give me another point of view, movies that educate me.

I also enjoy a good fantasy.

I don't think that makes me a fool or someone who puts her head in the sand.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. I agree.

Give me a good Harry Met Sally movie anytime.

No brains on the camera lens for me either. Blech. :P

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. I refuse to see horror movies too.

I am the same way. I don't want to see excessive violence. I don't want to have nightmares from having the shit scared out of me.

I don't particularly like fantasy or sci fi, in fact I can live without those.

[ComerPerro]

36. wrong on two counts. One, its obvious the American moviegoer loves blood and violence in films

consider all of the top blockbusters, all the mindless action movies, horror films. They keep getting made, they keep making money.

Second, if you think this movie was about blood and violence, you either didn't see it or completely didn't understand it.

[1monster]

38. I didn't say that the American movie goer doesn't like blood and guts

drenched movies. Obviously they do since there are soooo many of them.

I said THIS (meaning me) American movie goer does not watch movies with blood and guts violence.

No, I didn't see the movie and don't plan to having read the OPs description of the war scene.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. That Ten Minute War Scene Was Quite Chilling And Well Done. Rest Of The Movie Was A Huge Yawner

though.

Bored me and my wife to tears and left us at the end feeling like we just completely wasted the night. And the ending was one of the weakest to any movie I've ever seen.

War scene was amazingly realistic and gripping though, I'll give it that. But the rest of the movie was as boring as boring can be.

[Jonathan50]

20. What, no torture scenes?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

22. Is That Supposed To Mean Anything Or Do You Just Like Hearing Yourself Talk?

[Jonathan50]

25. It's just that you have shown a liking for torture porn..

So I wondered if the reason that you didn't like the movie was because there was no torture.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

27. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh The Melodrama! ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

Why, cause I thought 300 looked like a good movie?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

You are just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO silly!!!!!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


:silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:

[Jonathan50]

28. Actually I was thinking of 24...

And your histrionics don't impress me at all.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. Oh Well In That Case The Insinuation Was Exponentially More Pathetic! ROFLMAO!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

You seriously are so silly willy nilly lad.

[leveymg]

16. One of the best films I've seen in years. "Brazil" meets "Full Metal Jacket"

Better than both in some ways. More restrained humor than Gilliam's Brazil and less stylized than Kubrick. Very British in its pacing and sensibilities, which to me is a good thing.

It's packs quite an incredible message - everyone at DU will applaud that part. It takes everything that sucks about the Bush-Blair era and shows the end result two decades from now.

It's visual realism may be uncomfortable in the same way Saving Private Ryan was. As a film, it's almost as good.

Go see it, if you haven't.

[Bronyraurus]

17. Blood and brain?

I'm totally there!

[Shine]

23. Yes, I agree, it was powerful

I was deeply moved by it.

what I thought was fascinating to see was how the society had gone so far downhill, because of the lack of children, the lack of a FUTURE that they represented, didn't exist....so they had nothing to live for and no reason to care for anything, like taking care of their environment, etc...

the scene where they were leaving the building as she was carrying the newborn crying infant was unforgettable. The way the shooting stopped and the soldiers let her pass.

It was so uplifting to see that even in the midst of WAR, people can ultimately remember their common humanity and recognize the gift of LIFE.

I was inspired and moved to tears.

:thumbsup:

[saltpoint]

24. The film's terrific. Clive Owen and Julianne Moore are at their best,

and their average is already outstanding.

Michale Caine is terrific also.

Intense and beautiful stuff.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

37. Michael Caine makes a GREAT aging doper long-hair.

He portrays what I'm fast turning into. :evilgrin:

[cgrindley]

26. You realize it's a christian allegory, right?

Just asking.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

30. I happen to BE a Christian.

What's your point?

[cgrindley]

35. None whatsoever

as Christian allegory goes, it's awesome. I think that some people want to read it primarily as a "man wrecking the environment" allegory, and that would probably be an error. It has more to do with original sin than environmentalism.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. Yep of the current crop

that one and Amazing grace have made it into my list of films to get in DVD release

[Lisa]

39. I cried when I read the P.D. James book

There was a scene where the museum people are carefully storing the world's art treasures. They know that in less than a century there will likely not be any humans left alive who will be able to rediscover and enjoy them, but they still feel a need to save something for the future.

[skipos]

40. Great movie.

I liked the fact that everyone had pets. Pretty realistic.

The scene with the baby and the old ladies, and the baby in the war zone were great.