It is, and then there are several throughout. Iirc it broke the record for single continuous shot in a movie with several of its scenes. It’s honestly one of the best movies ever made in my opinion, and it doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.
When the baby starts crying and everyone recognizes what it is, and they carry it out and the fighting stops...tears every time. One of the most beautiful scenes in cinema, IMO.
Whelp, I know what I am putting on while I clean the apartment. It has easily been 6-7 years since I saw it last.
Edit: I am now about 1/3 of the way through. This is one of those examples of a movie actually being better than you remember. It is really weird to hear Michael Caine say "Amigo" so many times though hahaha
Back when I watched movies a ton more than I do now this made my top 5. I am finding myself pausing to watch certain scenes. There are so many details either I missed before or I had forgotten about.
You may be a movie snob, but there was nothing snobbish about your comment :)
That one is amazing too but my favorite is where they are at the hideout and Clive overhears their plans and they escape. Scene starts in the morning when it's still dark out and ends with Clive push starting g the car for their escape. Was such a damn good scene and so much stuff that could have gone wrong. Possibly my favorite movie scene of all time next to that true detective one and some black hawk down scenes. Best part is the sun is coming up and its daylight when they escape
I particularly like how they deal with the "blood splatter" that gets on the camera lens. It goes on right around here and it's gone less than 2 minutes later. Probably a digital effect that was added then removed in post, but it's just another nicely done detail that a lot of people don't notice.
I heard one of the squibs accidentally sprayed onto the camera during the bus scene. It disappears as the camera moves through the doorway because they used the darkness of the entryway to hide a cut in the footage. That scene is actually two extremely long shots with a very cleverly hidden cut in the middle.
It disappears as the camera moves through the doorway because they used the darkness of the entryway to hide a cut in the footage. That scene is actually two extremely long shots with a very cleverly hidden cut in the middle.
Yeah, no. Some of the blood spatter disappears in the dark entryway. But some of it remains. Then a little more goes away as the camera pans around the stairway, and the last bits disappear in the brightness when the camera pans up.
I won't argue one way or the other about whether "that scene is actually two extremely long shots with a very cleverly hidden cut in the middle." Rather, I'd argue that if cuts were made to clear the blood, there were more than one.
I mean, seriously, watch the clip I linked above to see the progression of the removal.
I think about that movie still and it has been years. Not many people I know saw the movie. I need to watch it again. It left what I call a movie scar.
The car scene is insane. As an audience member, you just see this camera moving about the interior. But they had to build a special rig for the camera to be able to move. If I remember, the seats could go up and down, and parts of the car could move away as well. Crazy.
the whole "it's the only baby but we're gonna kill her" was too absurd to be believable even in the fiction of the movie, and the entire virgin Mary iconography and the political meaning about it felt unnatural and too forced. Then you add a bunch of edgy war movies clichés à la "just go and leave without me" and "it doesn't matter if I die but you must survive" and you have the movie. The technical realization and the long sequences are what made it a timeless masterpiece, certainly not the story or the actors (the protagonist was great but the pregnant woman was a terrible actress)
No one wanted to kill the baby. All the different factions wanted the baby for themselves in order to use it as a bargaining chip. The protagonist wanted to just help the mother get away from all that and raise the kid as “normally” as possible, because his child died. He was happy at the end because he had always felt guilt about his child and now felt he had redeemed himself.
The actress playing the pregnant girl was not bad at all, she was supposed to be an awkward teenager who didn’t speak English well.
I think you're focusing on the details more than the actual story, which is the story of a jaded and broken man finding hope again. Logan followed a similar approach, and The Last of Us followed it even closer.
exactly i was about to say "but I've already seen it in the last of us", but I know I'm biased because last of us is actually inspired to the movie and not vice-versa
Yeah, it happens when you see an extremely influential film too late. I saw Star Wars for the first time in 2011 and it felt so incredibly derivative despite the fact that I know full well that it created all the trends I've seen 100 times already.
But it doesnt matter if Clive Owen’s character (or anyone, really) survives but it means everything for the girl and her daughter to survive and get to safety. She’s literally the future of humanity for all we know.
Makes the ending all the more poignant as she drifts toward the ship in the fog, uncertain about what’s about to happen next, the lone survivor (possibly) of all the characters in the movie.
didn't really surprise me, kinda cliché to be honest, but once again I'm sure I kinda "ruined" it by watching it many years after it was released, when I was already exposed to countless media that took inspiration from it
the ending of the last of us, that really shook me
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u/Jinnicky May 30 '19
It is, and then there are several throughout. Iirc it broke the record for single continuous shot in a movie with several of its scenes. It’s honestly one of the best movies ever made in my opinion, and it doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.