I can't agree...

[errantember]

...with Rotten Tomatoes that Children of Men was better than Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Matrix, 2001, Aliens, The Day the Earth Stood Still and any number of other classic movies. It came in at number 7 in their most-critically-acclaimed 100 Sci-Fi movies of all time countdown. The movie was definitely very good, and well worth seeing, but for whatever reason I never achieved the level of suspension of disbelief necessary to completely get into it. To be fair, the fact that the DVD I rented from Vulcan had a large smudge on it that caused the audio to occasionally skip, leading directly up to a completely audio breakdown right at the climax of the movie didn't help. But even if it had held together, I just can't like this movie as much as other sci-fi classics.

Comments

[erinlefey.livejournal.com]

That list has ET as number 1. That's all that needs to be said, really.

I agree...

[errantember.livejournal.com]

...it felt incomplete. Especially since I lost audio, and possibly video, during the last two minutes or so of what I'm assuming was the end of the film.

[spottedvasa.livejournal.com]

Blade Runner? That movie was horrible! The book wasn't even that good...

I've never really caught on to the appeal of Star Wars and Aliens...they just seem "ok" to me. Give me Close Encounters, Dark City, Gattaca, The Matrix, and a bunch of others anytime...

Wow.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

I think you're the first person I've ever met that didn't like Blade Runner. It was once my favorite movie of all time. It's definitely very different from the book, and, in my opinion, a rare case of the movie being much better.

[dancingb4diana.livejournal.com]

that is nuts. i enjoyed the movie but it wasn't classic to me by any stretch. i was really excited about it when i first heard about it (about a year before it premiered) because it sounded similar at the surface level to a book i've been sketching out but the movie turned out to be far less interesting (which was encouraging for me at the least).

I wonder...

[errantember.livejournal.com]

...if there's any degree of "Recentness Bias" in the ratings. Both this movie and The Host are in the top 15, neither of which I'd ever heard of before reading the countdown.

Ironically, I tried first to rent The Host from Vulcan, but one of the DVDs was missing, so I got Children of Men instead.

Now, as my "the disc flaked out during the last two minutes of the movie" consolation prize, I have Casino Royale.