"Children of Men" is such a good film that even showing it on SyFy can't fuck it up

Orrex

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:09 PM
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"Children of Men" is such a good film that even showing it on SyFy can't fuck it up

Damn, what a movie.

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The Velveteen Ocelot

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:09 PM
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1. The book was even better.

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Orrex

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:13 PM
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2. I've read about the book, but I haven't read it.

I've got a fairly long (for me) list of things-to-read, so it'll be a while before I can get to it.

Thanks for the tip, though!

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The Velveteen Ocelot

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:18 PM
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3. I read the book before I saw the movie

and I actually found the movie a little disappointing because the book was so good. In the original story the it's the men, not the women, who are sterile (hence the name, "Children of Men"), so the whole premise is different.

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Orrex

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:47 PM
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6. That's interesting

I could easily have missed it, but I didn't get the sense that the film singled out the women particularly; it seemed more like a general, nebulous "plague of sterility" rather than a defect in one sex or the other.

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Skittles

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:46 PM
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5. Orrex, I think the author is in a scene in the movie

I think she's the elderly gal holding the small dog in the cafe right before it's blown up

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Orrex

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:48 PM
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7. No shit? That's pretty cool, in a horrifying way.

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Skittles

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:56 PM
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8. I don't think she's listed in the credits

but this is in IMDB's trivia portion for this movie:

Cameo: P.D James plays the old woman in the cafeteria with Theo

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Skittles

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Sun Feb-21-10 11:45 PM
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4. AWESOME movie

:thumbsup:

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KT2000

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Mon Feb-22-10 01:56 AM
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9. Very good movie

if you can, rent the video. There is a documentary (by the film's director) included in the extras that has philosophers and others discussing the future - some of what they predicted is already coming true.

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Ghost of Tom Joad

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Mon Feb-22-10 07:23 AM
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10. one of the best

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