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.

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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.