I just finished watching Children of Men, which I’ve heard nothing but good things about. … it did not live up to my expectations.
I found the characters to be wafer thin, the main idea poorly explored and unexplained, the plot contrived and trite. The whole movie felt like a chain of cliches. In my view, it is not a good movie. … So then I’m a bit puzzled as to why it is so highly rated. I mean, different people have different tastes - but I’m now doubting that someone would really call the movie a ‘masterpiece’ or anything like that. I find the contrast between what I heard about it and what I experienced to be quite bizarre.
So I’m curious about what other people think of it here - outside of reviews on popular websites. I’d like to know if people do still say that it is a great movie. If you do like it, you don’t have to justify why or say what was good about it if you don’t want to. I’m content to accept that different people have different tastes. I’m really just curious whether or not there is a mismatch between online reviews and opinions on Lemmy. There’s certainly a mismatch with my own opinion!
Personally I liked how vague it all was. I love when movies leave stuff unexplained for the viewers to figure out or interpret instead of having unrealistic exposition. The characters live in that world, they don’t need to talk about how things are. The only real exposition is the news report in the beginning
Unlike most movies, I felt like I was IN the world. This was helped by the cinematography. I haven’t watched it in a long time but I remember the first time I saw the last (?) gun fight scene. Asking myself “Did [character] just die??” as the camera keeps moving. Yes, they did, but there’s no time to even let the camera hang.
Not the best story, not the best characters, but I still loved it.