If it weren't for the fact that I finally watched Jin-Roh a couple of days ago, Pan's Labyrinth would have been the most depressing film I'd seen in a long, long time. Went out drinking with some old Fed people, saw the film at Sunshine, left completely sober and just wanting to go home. Stunning, but too harsh to get me enthused (and yeah, that first guy who died really set the mood).
Now, as for Children of Men... visually/technically amazing, the single-shot action sequences are unbelievable, Michael Caine is great. Something about the film just didn't click for me, though. It felt too clinical sometimes, like the story was told impersonally. The first half was plodding, but the second half made up for it by being really intense. It was good, but I don't know how I feel about it.
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Date: 2007-01-13 01:52 pm (UTC)Now, as for Children of Men... visually/technically amazing, the single-shot action sequences are unbelievable, Michael Caine is great. Something about the film just didn't click for me, though. It felt too clinical sometimes, like the story was told impersonally. The first half was plodding, but the second half made up for it by being really intense. It was good, but I don't know how I feel about it.