A Waste of Celluloid
Added 11/17/2009
Tim Roth and Naomi Watts must have really been desperate for work to do this stinker. I'll bet they walked around in heavy disguise for weeks after it premiered. It's not the worst film I've ever seen, but it's in the top 5. The only more disgusting movie that comes to mind was a biker film I saw 35 years ago in Tijuana. Frankly, I've seen better plot development in a porn film, and at least they don't make any pretense about their work actually being art. Whoever wrote this garbage needs years of counseling. I can't believe it's priced at $19.95. I'd gladly pay ten times that to have it erased from history. To sum it up, the only positive thing about this cinematic flatulence was that I saw it for free. Save your money. If you MUST buy a movie, pick any title at random and the odds are 2,000,000 to 1 that it will be a better film than this one.
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This is not funny. This is not a game. This is not Straw Dogs, this is not Unforgiven, this is not any other thoughtful movie on violence either.
Funny Games: Two hoods work their way into house, emergancy and need to use phones. They disable husband with golf club. They order wife to undress. Wife says no. Hoods beat kid. Wife undresses. Hoods kill family after husband puts up predictably feeble resistance.
There is absolutely no moral ambiguity to make this interesting, and watching this family die is completely pointless. Is this film meant to show there is pure evil in the world? No kidding. Watch the news.
Don't let people fool you saying Funny Games is some huge statement. It is a useless endurance contest with absolutely no message or payoff. Mean adolesents who will enjoy this do not need to see it and smart veiwers looking for something here will never find it. Want a deeper exploration of violence? Watch a hockey game.
The film sucks.
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purposeful misunderstanding
Added 11/6/2009
There's little sense in writing another completely positive review. My predecessors got it all right.
The detractors of Hanake got it all wrong simply because they couldn't stand a story about themselves as a violence craving audience. The terror in this movie is a reflection of the terror in our own couch potato war mongering souls.
So far there have been 151 reviews. That says more than the 51 one star reviews. People have been affected and want to talk about it.
Mission accomplished!
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Ridiculous
Added 10/15/2009
A well made, well acted and superbly directed horror movie with wall to wall tension and absolutely nothing to show for any of it. This film is an appalling waste of talent, time and money. The final blow was some "breaking the fourth wall" cop-out instead of a much needed ending. Inexcusable rubbish.
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The Most Disturbing Movie Ever Made
Added 10/3/2009
I have been a huge horror buff fan for years and have watched several of Naomi Watt's movies; who seems to choose more disturbing, thought provoking roles. Mulhund Drive, 21 Grams anyone? But by far this one takes the cake. Michael Pitt is sinister and pure evil. All the characters make you glued to your seat whether you like it or not; only because the more you watch the more unbelievable it gets; the more you want it to end. Because it is so incredibly acted by all it's characters you really become engrossed in a way that is hard to describe. First, you can't believe that people could just do something so evil, so incredibly mean spirited- yet we know that happens every day. People are missing every day; do you really think those people died happy?....This movie is not for the novice viewer
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