http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/Funny Games is a shot-for-shot remake of the 1997 German film also written and directed by Michael Haneke. Hm. That doesn't sound right to me, for some reason. I don't think I've worded that correctly, but, uh... he did both. Blame the school system. So, I don't really know who buddy is but he appears to be pretty well respected in the film community by looking at his imdb profile. Caché (2005) sounds vaguely familiar... but I dunno.
Boy, I'm really on tonight. I think it's because I'm listening to the 2004 Phantom of the Opera soundtrack. Gerard is very distracting.
So, the story revolves around an upper class family that gets kidnapped by two creeps who want to play a few games with them before they kill them. Some funny games, you know.
The film stars Naomi Watts, Tim Roth (THADE! THADE! THADE! I'm sorry, he'll always be Thade from Tim Burtons, "Planet of the Apes" to me [YEAH, A-HOLE, I LIKED TIM'S APES!]), Michael Pitt (II), Brady Corbet and Devon Gearhart.
Let's jump right in. This kind of movie always pisses me off. It's that kinda Donnie Darko movie that just crosses it's arms and snarls, "If you don't get it, you're an idiot". Well you know what? There's nothing to get here! It's all on the table. This is a wannabe art film! It's murderers are pasty white with pouty lips, dressed in preppy white outfits that just SCREAM "art film". Ob-noixious. All I could think about well I was watching this was Gus Van Sant and how I could totally go for To Die For right about now. Sant makes good art freak movies. The guy is genius.
Hanky tried so hard to make this both sick and quirky but it was so tame. The golf club bit? Very predictable and that dog was so annoying, I didn't sympathize at all. There were a few things I did like, like the egg scene, that was interesting, and I liked when Michael Pitt (who was, admittedly, a little hot in this) addressed the camera but otherwise it was just blah. Oh, and the end was so WHATEVER. It was supposed to leave you like, "Oh shit, it's gone full circle!" but I was just like, "Uh, well, effin' duuuh... That's it?!" And I didn't care about the family at all, but I wasn't rooting for Peter and Paul either (oh, yeah, those are the preppy art freak murderers names). Shouldn't I have been on someones side? I was just so apathetic to the whole movie.
I remember when this came out and everybody was all gaga over it. They were calling it disturbing and hard to watch. Gimme a break. Sigh, I'm so let down. I am, however, a little intrigued to check out the original. Though I don't expect much since this was a shot-for-shot remake.
OH YEAAAH, don't even get me started on the 20 minute scene of Naomi Watts standing up. Dear. God.
In Conclusion:
On a scale of 1-10 I give it a 3.2.
Boo.
On a scale of 1-10 I give it a 3.2.
Boo.
- It's Courtenay, mmkay?
