Ok so for three consecutive days MovieMind has suggested I watch Children of Men so last night I did and I was impressed. I was a big fan of 12 Monkeys and Wasa told this was similar but better and it think that was a correct assesment. While I didn't find the acting Oscar worthy. The plot was well concieved and written. Kudos to
Alfonso Cuarón and
Timothy J. Sexton for their writing and also
Cuarón's direction. It often seems to me that when the director also writes, things seem to be tighter, unless that person is well...lacking talent. The sets in the movie were awesome every thing was believable. I'm one of thoes agnostic types that just really don't get into things that are "sloppy fiction". This movie, take for instance, the cars in the movie are futuristic not overwelmingly so and they still drive on regular pavement. In twenty years this will most likely be the case, unlike
Minority Report or
The Fifth Element. This was definatly
a dark film, not noir , but to use a better adjective, grimey. A similar feel as
28 Days Later. Over all a very good watch. I kept thinking while I was watching this that Alfonso Cuarón would do a good job with a screen version of
Jose Saramago's book "
Blindness" about an episode of blindness that sweeps across the globe, excluding only one woman. It's a very dark grimey book that would make an excellent film. Please someone take me up on this.