It's been a while since i've seen it - this isn't a review, but i just wonder if i missed something.
I really don't rate it much at all. For a start its got Clive Owen in the lead role, yet it seems wherever i look, geekdom seems to think it's ever so deep and worthy and a cool film to boot. I don't think it's any of those things.
In the spirit of the OP, I thought it was a deep and well done film with Clive Owen in the lead role.
But I won't tell you why.
:p
That's not very Christian!
Can you show us where in geekdom it gets such acclaim? I'm a qualified geek and this is the first time I've seen it mentioned in the dom.
It's a good apocalyptic flick, nothing to shout about.
The inexplicable "epidemic sterility" was novel enough, to me anyway.
And Michael Caine as an aged, irreverent pothead is priceless.
Very well made on a technical level.
Quote from: The Butcher;436620And Michael Caine as an aged, irreverent pothead is priceless.
QFT! :)
I've heard acclaim for the movie, mostly from doomsayers, but really didn't see anything of great worth in it when I watched it.
I thought it had a lot of great production - the pseudo-PA world really came across well - but the story itself was less than brilliant.
The film came out in the era of 28 Days Later, and is a more realistic version of a global epidemic.
Clive Owen isnt everyone's cup of tea, but I think he did the film justice and carried it through the slightly boring bits.
Funny, all I ever hear from geekdom is bewilderment and indignation over how overrated it is.
The production design and the camera work was amazing overall. I also liked how relatively down-to-earth it was. It wasn't glitzy and full of crazy cannibal mutants like Doomsday, and it didn't have an invincible god-hero straight out of a shitty anime like Book of Eli. The future the movie portrayed may or may not be plausible, but it looked plausible, and that's something most apocalyptic sci-fi movies don't bother with.
Quote from: Insufficient Metal;437504Funny, all I ever hear from geekdom is bewilderment and indignation over how overrated it is.
The production design and the camera work was amazing overall. I also liked how relatively down-to-earth it was. It wasn't glitzy and full of crazy cannibal mutants like Doomsday, and it didn't have an invincible god-hero straight out of a shitty anime like Book of Eli. The future the movie portrayed may or may not be plausible, but it looked plausible, and that's something most apocalyptic sci-fi movies don't bother with.
Wait. So the movie is overrated because it has amazing camera work and it bothers to present a remotely plausible apocalyptic senario when most other's don't?
Does not compute. :hmm:
I can't speak for gamer geeks, but most of the high praise I saw for the film came from movie geeks and amateur critics.
Quote from: Spike;437778Wait. So the movie is overrated because it has amazing camera work and it bothers to present a remotely plausible apocalyptic senario when most other's don't?
Does not compute. :hmm:
I can't speak for gamer geeks, but most of the high praise I saw for the film came from movie geeks and amateur critics.
Maybe it's just the places I hang out online, but I saw a short burst of breathless praise followed by a truckload of backlash.
I don't think it was overrated at all, though, I love it.
I've never seen it. Guess I'll have to.
Quote from: Insufficient Metal;437504Funny, all I ever hear from geekdom is bewilderment and indignation over how overrated it is.
The production design and the camera work was amazing overall. I also liked how relatively down-to-earth it was. It wasn't glitzy and full of crazy cannibal mutants like Doomsday, and it didn't have an invincible god-hero straight out of a shitty anime like Book of Eli. The future the movie portrayed may or may not be plausible, but it looked plausible, and that's something most apocalyptic sci-fi movies don't bother with.
Exactly. I am working on a review of
Book of Eli and why it is just about the shittiest movie on which to base your post-apoc game. The cinematography was OK, but the story was insanely trite. I mean, really, Gary Oldman couldn't find a single fucking copy of that book lying around in the ruins somewhere?
Obviously, your review will be made of fail. :p
Quote from: danbuter;437837Obviously, your review will be made of fail. :p
Touché. :)
I didn't mind the movie so much, a bit heavy on the sexual violence angle. Especially the later scene with Mila Kunis. Don't you guys have a woman handcuffed to a shopping cart not 10m away? Gratuitous. It would have been more believable if they were presented as cannibals like the couple they run into a few scenes later.
I start giggling hysterically every time we learn that cannibals seriously get the shakes...