So i saw "Children of men" MINOR SPOILERS

WOW, man was this movie amazing. this probably one of the few movies to make me shed some tears. throughout the whole movie im just thinking, "omg omg omg whats ganna happen next?" the part with the mother giving birth in the middle of a friggen war zone was one of the most powerfull things ive seen in a movie. also the part when she and clive owen walk out of the building with everyone just standing still looking at the baby with awe was very emotional. i actually felt as if i was in this movie experiencing this.

so yeah this movie is amazing, discuss?

also the part when she and clive owen walk out of the building with everyone just standing still looking at the baby with awe was very emotional

legend26

I remember that. That was intense. You couldn't not feel something after that.

Yes that movie was really good. I also love the part where they walk out of the building and everyone just stares at the baby. Truly emotional. But I wanted some kind of closure as to what happened to the girl and the baby. Did they actually get rescued? What happened to the child? So many questions!CrazyKilljoy117

well im sure they got rescued, you see the boat come for them

i didn't like it....story didnt make sense AT ALL...it didn't explain why people couldn't have babies....i hated how the ending just left you hanging.....only good part about the movie was the 12 minute war scene...otherwise...it was a big MEH and i dont recommend it. And it looked like they only had a $1 million dollar budget to make the movie with.......

watch the trailer if you want...i thought the trailer was more excting then the movie.

i didn't like it....story didnt make sense AT ALL...it didn't explain why people couldn't have babies....i hated how the ending just left you hanging.....only good part about the movie was the 12 minute war scene...otherwise...it was a big MEH and i dont recommend it. And it looked like they only had a $1 million dollar budget to make the movie with.......

watch the trailer if you want...i thought the trailer was more excting then the movie.

ReaperV7

The story made alot of sense to me

It was amazing. Love love love this movie. And yes I shed a tear or two as well. The atmosphere was eerie, the soundtrack was great... and omfg Love Michael Cane in this movie!Sajedene

"pull my finger"

lol

story didnt make sense AT ALL...

ReaperV7

To you.

it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesReaperV7

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]

i didn't like it....story didnt make sense AT ALL...it didn't explain why people couldn't have babies....i hated how the ending just left you hanging.....only good part about the movie was the 12 minute war scene...otherwise...it was a big MEH and i dont recommend it. And it looked like they only had a $1 million dollar budget to make the movie with.......

watch the trailer if you want...i thought the trailer was more excting then the movie.

alexmurray

The story made alot of sense to me

k then why couldn't women deliver babies?

i didn't like it....story didnt make sense AT ALL...it didn't explain why people couldn't have babies....i hated how the ending just left you hanging.....only good part about the movie was the 12 minute war scene...otherwise...it was a big MEH and i dont recommend it. And it looked like they only had a $1 million budget to make the movie with.......

watch the trailer if you want...i thought the trailer was more excting then the movie.

ReaperV7

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesSaugaGames

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

[QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesReaperV7

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

There there. It's okay. Thought-provoking movies aren't for everyone.

i didn't like it....story didnt make sense AT ALL...it didn't explain why people couldn't have babies....i hated how the ending just left you hanging.....only good part about the movie was the 12 minute war scene...otherwise...it was a big MEH and i dont recommend it. And it looked like they only had a $1 million dollar budget to make the movie with.......

watch the trailer if you want...i thought the trailer was more excting then the movie.

ReaperV7

basicly this just tells me

"wtf this is to hard for me to understand, i dont want to think, i just want to see crap blow up!"

[QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesReaperV7

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

Yeh lazy on your part. Use your imagination. Like in that spongebob episode.

[QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesReaperV7

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

The irony :|

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesSaugaGames

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

There there. It's okay. Thought-provoking movies aren't for everyone.

uh right.....please i have seen way better thought-provoking movies then this trash....if you REALLY want to use your noggin go see the movie "oldboy"

i really loved this movie

i enjoyed the car chase scene with the motorcycle and the long continuous shot in the warzone

i dont really understand why some people just outright hate it. maybe its just me. in any case i loved it.

I can see where Reaper is coming from. First time I watched it I felt like I was reading a book with some pages ripped out. Throughout most of the movie I was waiting for an explanation as to why humans couldn't produce babies anymore; and only until it dawned on me that it was not going to be revealed did I start to appreciate the movie. I think there were also more things that I didn't understand but I don't remember them.

I agree with the TC though. It was a pretty powerful movie with some great scenes. Best of all, I love the realistic take on it. Like how the youngest kid in the world was such a celebrity. Seems like something our society would do.

Yeah I really liked that movie...

also the part when she and clive owen walk out of the building with everyone just standing still looking at the baby with awe was very emotional. i actually felt as if i was in this movie experiencing this.

legend26

The most emotional part of that for me was when they suddenly just went back to fighting each other. That was just so symbolic of real-life human nature - amazing things can bring us together, but in a split second we go back to being divided.

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesSaugaGames

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

There there. It's okay. Thought-provoking movies aren't for everyone.

uh right.....please i have seen way better thought-provoking movies then this trash....if you REALLY want to use your nogin go see the movie "oldboy"

The simple fact that everything needs to be explained to you just goes to show how childish you are when it comes to movies. To not like the movie is one thing, but to bash it simply because you are too narrow-minded to accept a little mystery is really just sad.

ya it true that some movies aren't for everyone, but when people can't accept peoples opinions that is just really sad. Then again you started it...you didnt have to quote me you know :wink: ...next time keep it too yourself

[QUOTE="SaugaGames"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesReaperV7

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

There there. It's okay. Thought-provoking movies aren't for everyone.

uh right.....please i have seen way better thought-provoking movies then this trash....if you REALLY want to use your noggin go see the movie "oldboy"

children of men is way more thought-provoking then oldboy and i love that movie to

plot of old boy

[spoiler] dude gets impresind in a cell for no reason for a LONG time, then he escapes and goes on a killing spree of the people who impresind him, and he accidently does it with his daughter he diddnt know he had [/spoiler]

dosnt take much to get

AND how dare you call it trash!

ya it true that some movies aren't for everyone, but when people can't accept peoples opinions that is just really sad. Then again you started it...you didnt have to quote me you know :wink: ...next time keep it too yourself

ReaperV7

Like I said, there's nothing wrong with not liking the movie. Your reasoning, however, is painfully ignorant. Congratulations for being a child about this. Good day. :)

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babieslegend26

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

There there. It's okay. Thought-provoking movies aren't for everyone.

uh right.....please i have seen way better thought-provoking movies then this trash....if you REALLY want to use your noggin go see the movie "oldboy"

children of men is way more thought-provoking then oldboy and i love that movie to

plot of old boy

dosnt take much to get

AND how dare you call it trash!

you missed a few MAJOR parts......but whatever ill let you go :wink:

[QUOTE="legend26"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"]

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]it didn't explain why people couldn't have babiesReaperV7

No offense, but do you need everything to be spoon fed to you? Some people like mystery.

....i call it laziness.

There there. It's okay. Thought-provoking movies aren't for everyone.

uh right.....please i have seen way better thought-provoking movies then this trash....if you REALLY want to use your noggin go see the movie "oldboy"

children of men is way more thought-provoking then oldboy and i love that movie to

plot of old boy

dosnt take much to get

AND how dare you call it trash!

you missed a few MAJOR parts......but whatever ill let you go :wink:

i diddnt say becouse i dont want to spoil the whole thing

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]

ya it true that some movies aren't for everyone, but when people can't accept peoples opinions that is just really sad. Then again you started it...you didnt have to quote me you know :wink: ...next time keep it too yourself

SaugaGames

Like I said, there's nothing wrong with not liking the movie. Your reasoning, however, is painfully ignorant. Congratulations for being a child about this. Good day. :)

While I disagree with Reapers opinion but he's right when he says that you started it. A man has a right to his own opinion no matter how stupid you think it is. It's not gonna kill you if someone doesn't like you're favorite movie.

I agree with the TC though. It was a pretty powerful movie with some great scenes. Best of all, I love the realistic take on it. Like how the youngest kid in the world was such a celebrity. Seems like something our society would do.

Lyphe2k

when he dies its like princess diana all over again

[QUOTE="SaugaGames"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"]

ya it true that some movies aren't for everyone, but when people can't accept peoples opinions that is just really sad. Then again you started it...you didnt have to quote me you know :wink: ...next time keep it too yourself

bigfatcrap

Like I said, there's nothing wrong with not liking the movie. Your reasoning, however, is painfully ignorant. Congratulations for being a child about this. Good day. :)

While I disagree with Reapers opinion but he's right when he says that you started it. A man has a right to his own opinion no matter how stupid you think it is. It's not gonna kill you if someone doesn't like you're favorite movie.

I may have started it, but I don't think I can make it any clearer that him not liking the movie is not what bothers me.

I thought the movie was subpar, it's extraordinarily hard to relate to it for me, for instance I don't find anything awe-inspiring about a women having a baby, even if I try to use my imagination and imagine a world of infertile men. (or was it women? I heard the book switched it up, so I can't remember which was which). So without using spoilers that scene in the movie (you know which I'm talking about), did absolutely nothing to me. It seemed so silly. Siofen

you woudnt be afraid if you were giving birth in the middle of an active war zone?

i didn't like it....story didnt make sense AT ALL...it didn't explain why people couldn't have babies....i hated how the ending just left you hanging.....only good part about the movie was the 12 minute war scene...otherwise...it was a big MEH and i dont recommend it. And it looked like they only had a $1 million dollar budget to make the movie with.......

watch the trailer if you want...i thought the trailer was more excting then the movie.

ReaperV7

children of men is way more thought-provoking then oldboy and i love that movie to

plot of old boy

dosnt take much to get

AND how dare you call it trash!

legend26

Actually, that's not quite right.

(The damn site says I have invalid tags or some BS, so you're just going to have to avoid reading this) SPOILER!!!

The guy was imprisoned for 15 years and his family was killed and he has no idea why. Then he is released and given 5 days to figure out why he was imprisoned, all the while attempting to get revenge. Though his nemesis blackmails him by withholding the reason he did it all.

He DID know he had a daughter, it made it bleedingly obvious at the start and he thought she was killed. In reality, she was kept alive and he was locked away for 15 years so that she would have time to grow up and he would then have intercourse with her without knowing it was his actual daughter. The antagonist did this as revenge for telling everyone that that he slept with his own sister and spread the rumour that she was pregnant, after which she killed herself.

The real kicker was the photo album the protagonist flips through showing his daughter growing up in to the woman he met at the sushi bar...

/SPOILER

Personally, I didn't enjoy Children of Men all that much either. Not to say it was a bad movie, I thought it had a nice sense of realism and cinematogrophy but I felt the central theme to the movie was a bit vague, I found myself wondering what was the actual point. Suddenly everyone is infertile, their are wars and immigration issues spiralling out of control and a woman who became pregnant must be smuggled to the safety of a rebel group... I think I must be missing something?

I remember another topic just like this a while ago.

I loved Children of Men. Its easily one of my favorite movies. Its a shame it didnt get any Oscar's though. They lost all credibility as far as I am concerened after that.

Plot spoilers:

i hated this movie and i only watched it because of this boards high ratings of it. 90 % of the movie was useless dialogue laced w/ political undertones. Talk about boring as hell. There was absolutely no character development nor was there any plot development. Nothing happened besides a woman giving birth and then getting on a boat.

SPOILERS!!!

[QUOTE="legend26"]

also the part when she and clive owen walk out of the building with everyone just standing still looking at the baby with awe was very emotional

SaugaGames

I remember that. That was intense. You couldn't not feel something after that.

Yeah, I think that may have been my favorite scene in the movie. It was really tough watching the characters played by Julian Moore and Michael Cane get murdered. I definitely teared up.

[QUOTE="Siofen"]I thought the movie was subpar, it's extraordinarily hard to relate to it for me, for instance I don't find anything awe-inspiring about a women having a baby, even if I try to use my imagination and imagine a world of infertile men. (or was it women? I heard the book switched it up, so I can't remember which was which). So without using spoilers that scene in the movie (you know which I'm talking about), did absolutely nothing to me. It seemed so silly. legend26

you woudnt be afraid if you were giving birth in the middle of an active war zone?

**SPOILERS**

the gripe I had was that is was very hard for me to feel what the soldiers or people around the child birth were feeling, which was that this child was beautiful, or the guy saying "They're so small". We see kids, babies and children everyday so that scene is very hard for me to relate to, I would guess that scene appeals to the older generation, people who aspire to have kids and admire seeing couples with them. But as for me, it did absolutely nothing, it was silly to me.

**END SPOILERS**

I really liked it, but the ending was a bit poor in comparison to the rest of the movie.SolidSnake35

^This.

Plot spoilers:

i hated this movie and i only watched it because of this boards high ratings of it. 90 % of the movie was useless dialogue laced w/ political undertones. Talk about boring as hell. There was absolutely no character development nor was there any plot development. Nothing happened besides a woman giving birth and then getting on a boat.

amob

Well, that's how life works. There is a lot of dialogue exchanged between thoughtful adults. And in a story like this, how could there not be politics?

Anyway, I liked this movie. It was thoughtful. It's not a shoot em up action movie. It's not meant to be. It's more of an ideological statement, more than anything else.

I do agree with you somewhat...I think the character development was a little rushed. To me, it would have helped to develop the relationships between the main characters a little more. But, I still think the movie was well done.

[QUOTE="bigfatcrap"][QUOTE="SaugaGames"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"]

ya it true that some movies aren't for everyone, but when people can't accept peoples opinions that is just really sad. Then again you started it...you didnt have to quote me you know :wink: ...next time keep it too yourself

SaugaGames

Like I said, there's nothing wrong with not liking the movie. Your reasoning, however, is painfully ignorant. Congratulations for being a child about this. Good day. :)

While I disagree with Reapers opinion but he's right when he says that you started it. A man has a right to his own opinion no matter how stupid you think it is. It's not gonna kill you if someone doesn't like you're favorite movie.

I may have started it, but I don't think I can make it any clearer that him not liking the movie is not what bothers me.

k if the movie isnt going to give you half of the main plot....and it just leaves you to decide what happens next....whats the point? the filmmakers might as well not be lazy and fill the audience with a little bit more then saying...."okay....there is no reason why women cant deliver babies...the audience has to figure it out themselves so they can say this movie is awesome and thought-provoking " :roll:

k if the movie isnt going to give you half of the main plot....and it just leaves you to decide what happens next....whats the point? the filmmakers might as well not be lazy and fill the audience with a little bit more then saying...."okay....there is no reason why women cant deliver babies...the audience has to figure it out themselves so they can say this movie is awesome and thought-provoking " :roll:

ReaperV7

So to ask someone to think for themselves qualifies as laziness? To challenge imagination is laziness? If that's your outlook on thought, we may as well be overrun with reality shows and shallow music.

[QUOTE="amob"]

Plot spoilers:

i hated this movie and i only watched it because of this boards high ratings of it. 90 % of the movie was useless dialogue laced w/ political undertones. Talk about boring as hell. There was absolutely no character development nor was there any plot development. Nothing happened besides a woman giving birth and then getting on a boat.

StrawberryHill

Well, that's how life works. There is a lot of dialogue exchanged between thoughtful adults. And in a story like this, how could there not be politics?

Anyway, I liked this movie. It was thoughtful. It's not a shoot em up action movie. It's not meant to be. It's more of an ideological statement, more than anything else.

I do agree with you somewhat...I think the character development was a little rushed. To me, it would have helped to develop the relationships between the main characters a little more. But, I still think the movie was well done.

I think you missed a keyword in my post: useless. The majority of the conversations did absolutely nothing to further the story. This is the main reason why there wasn't any development.

Of course there is going to be politics in this movie, but damn, nothing happened. It consisted of an old hippie sitting around complaining. Who the hell wants to listen to that? Nothing profound was brought forth here. Politcal undertones relating the fictional government to real governments does not equal good nor thoughtful.