Thread 213014959

How did Alfonso Cuarón nail it so well?

The entire aesthetic is harrowingly accurate.

He just walked into London one day and started filming

Even down to adding The Shard into the London skyline even though it wasn't built yet, and the Police helmets having CR on them for the reign of Charles III instead of EiiR for the reign of Elizabeth II

Why the FUCK did he stop making kino after this? How do you make children of men and then decide hmm yess I'll make sandra bullock george clooney CGI slop for reddit moms

>>213014959 (OP)
>Lots of great action setpieces
>Filmed expertly, but also not in a way that draws attention to itself
>Clive Owen giving a brilliant performance (what ever happened to him anyway?)
>Brilliant soundtrack

And the sound work on it is top notch, I take it you saw it at the cinema yesterday too? Totally blew me away.

>>213015012
The computers and HUDs in the car was totally accurate too, the film could have come out this year with how well it holds up.

>>213015049
Gravity is kino you fuck

One of my favourite movies.
Feels like a video game.
Like The Last of Us if it were good.
>>213015049
Gravity felt like a video game too.
I'm gonna put them in a list along with 1917.

it's accurate only if you are chronically online this is your deranged perception of the real world

>>213014959 (OP)
it's still a good movie but that one shot sequence doesn't hold up as well as you remember it, looks goofy as fuck rewatching it today.

>>213014959 (OP)
>go to any big city in the UK
>take out a camera and start filming
There, you just achieved the perfect decaying shithole aesthetic

>Children of men warned uf but we didnt listen
Kino as fuck movie too.

>>213015098
If you want more video game movies:

>Hardcore Henry
>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
>Pandorum
>Escape From New York
>Doomsday
>Knight & Day
>London Has Fallen

>>213015077
I haven't watched it I'm just assuming anything with those actors is going to be slop

>>213015058
It comes down to the fact that it made $70 million on a $70 million budget, meaning it lost the studio a lot of money.
I'm thankful it was made in the first place, Even if it had been successful, Hollywood never learns the right lessons.

>>213015058
The cars are great. The Renault Avantime with extra bodywork

I am so mad The last of us basically copied this and called it a day.

>>213014959 (OP)
looking at london now, its scary how accurate it captured it

>>213015186
Some of those didn't quite feel like video games to me.
Ready Or Not (2019) kinda feels like a resident evil-ish sort of movie though.

>>213015187
Surprisingly solid rule of thumb.

Gravity is easily the best Sandra Bullock movie and probably a top 3 George Clooney movie and it's barely above average

>>213015117
...is it?

I'm actually quite a sociable person and also left wing. And this country has gone to the fucking dogs.

>>213015187
I had the same opinion when it came out, but wife wanted to see it. clooney is only in it for 5 minutes, and Bullock gives a fantastic performance.
It really is worth at least one viewing.

*predicts zoomers*

Makes me wonder why Cuaron doesnt want to fucking direct when he is actually a good director. He makes a movie, receive praise from critics and audience and just fuck offs for 10 years. His last fucking movie was Roma in 2018. Nigga start working nigga what the fuck

I love this movie so much, it's incredibly beautiful, haunting and touching. I still cry every time when the babe is born and the fighting stops as people; soldiers, refugees and insurgents, are awed at the miracle.

>>213014959 (OP)
>entire aesthetic is harrowingly accurate.
That's just 2006 dude

>>213015293
i remember finding this character really stupid like "this dude watching a screen while eating lmao, how fucking dumb. ENJOY YOUR MEAL FAGGOT"
BROS...

>>213015293
This is what happens when men are denied a future. Men stop caring and retreat from society. You have no duty or obligation to a society in decay.

I remember i didn't like the feel i got from this

>>213015258
It's looked shitty like this for at least 30 years

That bit where he stoves the bent border cop's head in with a car battery. Fucking hell.

>>213015117
> t. nepo baby living in a gated community/degen relishing living in squalor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imT3wQIy6p4

Pure pure pure kino, absolutely harrowing

>>213015258
It's less about the environment and more about the people populating it. A lot of modern Britain has always had a, somewhat unique, post-industrial grimness to it but people made do. Poverty, alcoholism, domestic abuse, robbery and the occasional serial killer were the biggest problems society faced from say 1945-95. But that was a homogeneous community dealing with the handful of their own people that couldn't play by the rules. Positively quaint compared to machete gangs, looting, suicide attacks, industrial scale child abuse etc

>>213014959 (OP)
The only thing inaccurate is in the movie the borders are actually closed and enforced and all the immigrants are treated like caged dogs as they should

In real life england you got all the third immigrants running around like rats with total impunity and immunity and the state do everything they can to protect them. So in its actually worse in reality.

>>213015349
holy shit haha youre right. It was so unbelievable and cartoonish at the time. This is how most people eat now. My girl eats with the phone propped up with tiktok running the entire time. RIP

>>213015258
Oh no... is that a clean street with maintained roads and people walking around touring the local businesses! And it's bloody overcast?? This is the lowest I've ever seen our once proud country.

>>213015049
?

>>213015258
>overcast? in England
>aaaaaaah! save me Farage!

film
>fertility rates plummet because of some virus or whatever rendering all the women barren
real life
>fertility rates plummet because women are such cunts nobody's bothered fertilising their eggs

>>213016727
real real life:
>fertility rates plummet because males lose ALL viable sperm due to microplastics, heavy metals, pesticides and toxins

>>213016757
This was debunked by the plastics industry.

>>213016727
>>213016757
>>213016790
There's been a secular decline in birth rates more or less globally since the late Victorian era thoughbeit.

>>213016790
this has been proven by multiple independent case studies.
-signed, the pesticide industry.

>>213016937
>Victorian era: early 1800s - 1900ish
>womens suffrage in the west: late 1800s
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>>213016603
Roma is pretty good but come on now. There's nothing that comes close to children of men.

>>213015293
I didn’t understand this character. His facial injury made me think he had a brain injury or something. Rather than just being autistic

>>213015635
>They thought Britain would be the last European state standing against the invading hordes
Lmao, what were they thinking? This, 28 weeks later, V for Vendetta...

>>213017587
It's like how in anime, every alien decides to attack Japan and the rest of the world just watches.

Same poltard threads over and over.

>>213017461
Judging by the scar and the tattoos I always assume the kid's a problematic, hedonistic nepobaby who got into a bad crowd and his parents forced him to stay in the penthouse.

>>213015293
>eating food while gayming
>completely detached from reality
>shitty tats all over the place
>has to take meds to function
holy shit

>>213015098
>Feels like a video game.
Glad i'm not the only one that feels like this. Everytime the guy with the dreads showed up i felt like i was entering a bossfight.

>>213017461
It’s implied he was messed up from having attempted suicide

>>213015058
>Clive Owen giving a brilliant performance (what ever happened to him anyway?)
he went on to make even more KINO

>>213015187
its good

>>213018020
What attempted suicide leaves a cheek scar?

Also what pills was he taking

>>213017984
you now realize that it's methed up charlie hunnam playing that character

>>213017461
He's part of the last generation, they have no baseline of immaturity to form themselves off of because nobody is younger than them.

>>213015295
better to quit while you are ahead. otherwise you will end up like another ridley scott

>>213018127
THE FRIENDLY BARTENDER!?

>>213015258
>I've never been outside of my own country

>>213018114
Falling on the chair because the noose didn’t hold

>>213018186
lmao

>>213018384
Lmao

>>213015077
nah. it sucks.

>>213015058
>>Clive Owen giving a brilliant performance (what ever happened to him anyway?)
He had a great run in 2001-2006 (Bourne, Gosford Park, Sin City, Inside Man) culminating in Children of Men and he literally has not been in a good movie since

>>213017587
have you noticed the geography of an island power? they have a better chance of maintaining then any continental power because if shit ever really hits the fan their navy will prevent immigration/invasion

>>213019938
>their navy will prevent immigration/invasion
lol

>>213019979
they can

>>213019979
He said can, not will.

>>213020091
nm he did say will

>>213020091
no he didn't

ok i did say will. they can and they wont. RIP

>>213015049
why does everyone shit on Gravity?

It's pure space kino unlike that Interstellar garbage

>>213018384
hmm yes

>>213019938
>something something /pol/rot something something anglo-saksii cyka blyat west has fallen bla bla bla etc etc

>>213020155
nobody does. the mouth breather already admitted he never watched it, just saw the leads and immediately presumed its a romantic comedy IN SPEHS

>>213015049
his last tv show was bloated as fuck
pretty hot sex scene thoughbait

>>213015049

Gravity is kino and I'm happy I watched in a theatre.

>>213014959 (OP)
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WARNING, NOT AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL!

Just amazing location selection too.

One of those films where everyone was working at their best

>>213015293
Zoomers were pushing their teens when the movie was made, anon.

>>213014959 (OP)
Isn't this movie about how we need to stop mistreating immigrants and how a black woman will save humanity?

>>213014959 (OP)
Julianne Moore was brilliantly cast as that ex you really want to fuck again, and then she comes back and raises your hopes that it might happen just to fucking die. It's one of the greatest movies of the century, they got so much right.

>>213020888
wtf are you even trying to say you tweaking freak?

>>213014959 (OP)
I cannot believe writers of Handmaidens thought it was a good idea to use Children of Men as a basis for their setting.

>>213017461
>His facial injury made me think he had a brain injury
I think it was some fad just like face tattoos now, he even got one on his neck. At the time it was gross but nowadays it's pretty tame.

One of the most immersive movies I've ever seen.
Very few dystopian films draw you into their world like this.

>>213021226
Ahhh yes, the sex scene is between a young boy and a thirty-year-old woman who is supposed to be a young Cate Blanchett.

>>213022672
>that ex you really want to fuck again

>>213014959 (OP)
Probably my favorite movie. Anyone who doesn't like this movie is fucking soulless.

>be director
>get 1k dollars
>fly to london
>start filming

It's a documentary dumbass.

>>213017126
Why didn't they listen to HRM? She tried to warn them.

>>213018384
DOOR STUCK

>>213021886
No they weren't lol the movie came out in 2006. Just what is your baseline for what a "zoomer" is

TWENTY FIRST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN

>>213014959 (OP)
Sons of Wives

>>213014959 (OP)
Legitimately one of my favorite movies. I don’t give half a fuck what the dumb contrarian nigger faggots say. This move hits and it hits hard.

>>213022672
yep that angle was great kino

>>213021944
Nah more like if everyone stopped breeding non whites will outnumber everyone and turn the world into shit.

>>213023552
Speaking of, how did a song written in 1969 perfectly predict the 21st century western man?

>>213014959 (OP)
Dropped it when weed smoking Ian shows up. This movie sucks

>>213015012
Why CR and not CiiiR?

>>213016326
>Poverty, alcoholism, domestic abuse, robbery and the occasional serial killer were the biggest problems society faced from say 1945-95.
>its okay to be mugged, raped and killed if someone of my race does it
kek

Every deleted scene I've seen could have been kept too. They got it so right

>>213023179
Sean Peen's ex-wife

>>213022875
It's a good thing that didn't happen.

>>213023793
Now post the per-capita crime stats per year from 1945-2025.

>>213023657
decline comes very gradually, then suddenly

>>213015503
Pure Kino. Both actors sell it perfectly.

>>213023793
The crime problem would've been essentially solved in Europe had it not been for third worlders.

Our crime stats are quite low as it is, and removing immigrants responsible for like half of them would make the problem virtually nonexistent

>>213015005
anon,the London depicted in the movie is far less hideous, violent and gloomy than the current real one

>>213014959 (OP)
>oh my god how did Alfonso do it?
>Alfonso: Holy shit modern day UK is messed up

>>213023657
It’s easier to see the path ahead if you open your eyes to it and aren’t blinded by propaganda.

>>213023463
Born after 1995.

>>213024849
and those stats are all botched post (((austerity)))
people are actively discouraged from filing reports because the local precinct will get funding cuts for "not performing"
and actual reported crimes like assaults are reported as "public disturbances"

>>213015049
It was a good movie (if you watched it 3D)

>>213014959 (OP)
There are things that happens once a lifetime. Cuaron had it at this film. Also he had Emmanuel Lubezki.

>>213017587
>>213017608
>>213019979

It's propaganda you brainlets, to make the citizens trust their government as being strong and still standing compared to the rest of the weak world. Something the bong government has perfected since before television. You have to remember these are people who lived outside of castle walls next to pigs eating slop for hundreds of years and liked it

>>213024965
I stan Adam Curtis

>>213024965
Is this new Curtis?
>>213030171

>>213030280
Yes, read the filename.

>>213014959 (OP)
genius

>>213032054
>>213014959 (OP)
One of my favs along with Brazil

The bri'ishers are the kangz of dystopia kino

Children of Men is the perfect IQ test.
Only dumb fucks praise it.

The Dark Knight Rises is the perfect IQ test.
Only dumb fucks praise it.

>>213014959 (OP)
haven't seen it but it's probably over optimistic desu

>>213014959 (OP)

>Mediocre movie but european/(((american))) director
>HOLY HECKIN' KINOOOOO

>Great movie but spic/non-european director
>HECKIN' SUCKS I DON'T LIKE IT

>>213015077
its fucking trash, m8

>>213018384
kekek

>>213015049
Didnt he do that dicaprio oscar bait too? The Retarded or something. That wasnt bad

>>213020888
What?

>>213033995
Lmao no that was the other mexican

>>213025583
true
but what's implied onff-screen is the country is much worse due to poverty. niggers in gibsmedat withdrawal are a destructive sight to behold indeed

>>213016727
There is no problem with "fertility rates". In 1late 1600s there were less than 700 million people globally, now there's more than that crammed int Europe alone.
This is just nature course-correcting. And before you spout some incel nonsense about how the turd world keeps breeding, no, they were behind the curve but TFR is plummeting everywhere now (it's on a downward trend even in India, but not fast enough)
The reality is we don't need these many people, we'll be fine. Whining about fertility rates is really just incels concern trolling about how they're owed a girlfriend by the government

>>213015012
>thinking about future developments is unprecedented

>>213015392
the kids are like that for being spoilt

>>213015012
Good attention to detail but you never see cops with those hats anymore.

>>213015258
> Doesn't have at least 3 balaclava'd niggers on e-bikes circling looking for phones and bags
> Doesn't have Mohammed letting his 140kg burqa'd wife out of the free motability people carrier with his 12 epileptic kids

You must have filmed this utopian shot in the Cotswolds

>>213014959 (OP)
If you are smart / have imagination you can see whatever you want if you squint a bit

>>213014959 (OP)
I just warched thos for the first time because of this thread. Holy kino. It was so great. And only an hour fourty. It just kept going. The camera work was fantastic, the tone of the world and attitude of all the characters was amazing. The last scene was tense. I was expecting the boat to blow up or something, but it just ended. Great.

It was unbelievable how much the last of us took from this. The burning car scene, the entire transport a girl savor across a dying world thing. The lone smuggler. I couldn't believe it.

Wayyyyy better than i expected.