Me being me, I spent my day off yesterday at the movies. I started with my second most anticipated film of the year, Children of Men, which was well worth the wait. I think everyone knows — it’s set in the near future, where all women are infertile, and it is just brilliant. I should probably read the book now, but the film was so well done and so real that I want to hang on to that for a while longer. It was very much a world I can see our world becoming, a future arrived at organically. Beautifully shot, with amazing visual detail and great use of the handheld typical of Cuarón, and one of those great scripts that -seems- effortless in how natural it is, but is actually carefully put together.
(Also, can I just say, Clive Owen is painfully attractive. Not news — we’ve all known it since Croupier at the very least — but still worth mentioning.)
Then, against my better judgment, I saw The Good German. Since I have gone, I can spare you all the experience. I know, I know, you’ll think, “It has people I like! And it’s shot in black and white — that should be cool!” But you should not think these things. You should think about how, when he was asked on “The Daily Show”, George Clooney couldn’t come up with a reason why they had made the movie aside from the fact that they could. That’s a red flag right there, folks.
At least I didn’t pay for it.
(Oh my GOD. It was LUCA. From the BABY-SITTERS CLUB. No wonder he looked familiar. Aiiee.)
wicked jaws 
I am so glad that Children of Men is amazing! Cos it looked SO good, and I was hoping that it would be so.
It is fabulous! I am still not over how effortlessly beautiful it was … effortless, of course, in appearance only, in reality it’s a ton of work to make it that awesome.
THIRTEEN?!
Speaking of films that are being made for no good reason.
(what?)
(Ocean’s 13)
that is not at all what i was talking about, silly.
i was quoting luca.
Si. But it was still appropriate for this entry, and the unholy union of Clooney & Soderbergh.
ok. i do not speak that language.
Really, that is for the best 🙂
It sounds like Children of Men was more “inspired by” the P.D. James story than a faithful retelling.
Yeah, I got that after the fact. I’m still interested in reading it, though, as the only scifi/fantasy I really dig is dystopian/apocalyptic.
And, as a general rule, I prefer inspired adaptations over faithful. Different kind of storytelling, yada yada yada. Though this is a bit more extreme, taking the premise and running with it.