Funny Games

[almaty 19]

it was a bad and cruel movie...

[Jasman0717 9]

it was a bad and cruel movie...

I am just surprised Naomi Watts would take a roll like that, Tim Roth too for that matter

[Empress of Groovy 373]

SORT OF SPOILER WARNING

It's certainly not a movie for everyone (including me--I'm a wimp), but it's a clever, albeit disturbing, commentary on movie formulas, viewer expectations and manipulation, and the ubiquitous "family in peril" drama. If you take the typical horror or action movie formula, for example, viewers accept, and indeed expect, a lot of death (particularly of a few innocents to get the blood boiling), violence, destruction, cruelty, etc. As long as there's a formulaic payoff at the end and the bad guy(s) meets a gruesome demise, everything's cool. This movie blows apart that formula to expose something else altogether. This is particularly obvious in the part that's rewound and "deleted."

I'm not sure why the original was remade, tho. The English remake is, apparently, nearly line-for-line identical to the Austrian version.

[Jasman0717 9]

SORT OF SPOILER WARNING

It's certainly not a movie for everyone (including me--I'm a wimp), but it's a clever, albeit disturbing, commentary on movie formulas, viewer expectations and manipulation, and the ubiquitous "family in peril" drama. If you take the typical horror or action movie formula, for example, viewers accept, and indeed expect, a lot of death (particularly of a few innocents to get the blood boiling), violence, destruction, cruelty, etc. As long as there's a formulaic payoff at the end and the bad guy(s) meets a gruesome demise, everything's cool. This movie blows apart that formula to expose something else altogether. This is particularly obvious in the part that's rewound and "deleted."

I'm not sure why the original was remade, tho. The English remake is, apparently, nearly line-for-line identical to the Austrian version.

those two guys were so weird with the gloves and golf club and eggs. I thought the knife being dropped in the boat would be important later, thinking the good guys would win.......NOT

[panamania79 2]

SORT OF SPOILER WARNING

It's certainly not a movie for everyone (including me--I'm a wimp), but it's a clever, albeit disturbing, commentary on movie formulas, viewer expectations and manipulation, and the ubiquitous "family in peril" drama. If you take the typical horror or action movie formula, for example, viewers accept, and indeed expect, a lot of death (particularly of a few innocents to get the blood boiling), violence, destruction, cruelty, etc. As long as there's a formulaic payoff at the end and the bad guy(s) meets a gruesome demise, everything's cool. This movie blows apart that formula to expose something else altogether. This is particularly obvious in the part that's rewound and "deleted."

I'm not sure why the original was remade, tho. The English remake is, apparently, nearly line-for-line identical to the Austrian version.

those two guys were so weird with the gloves and golf club and eggs. I thought the knife being dropped in the boat would be important later, thinking the good guys would win.......NOT

That's why the movie freaked me out so much.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

SORT OF SPOILER WARNING

It's certainly not a movie for everyone (including me--I'm a wimp), but it's a clever, albeit disturbing, commentary on movie formulas, viewer expectations and manipulation, and the ubiquitous "family in peril" drama. If you take the typical horror or action movie formula, for example, viewers accept, and indeed expect, a lot of death (particularly of a few innocents to get the blood boiling), violence, destruction, cruelty, etc. As long as there's a formulaic payoff at the end and the bad guy(s) meets a gruesome demise, everything's cool. This movie blows apart that formula to expose something else altogether. This is particularly obvious in the part that's rewound and "deleted."

I'm not sure why the original was remade, tho. The English remake is, apparently, nearly line-for-line identical to the Austrian version.

those two guys were so weird with the gloves and golf club and eggs. I thought the knife being dropped in the boat would be important later, thinking the good guys would win.......NOT

That's why the movie freaked me out so much.

Indeed--the two boys had to be creepy and loathsome. The viewer manipulation throughout is quite clever. The red herring involving the knife is sort of a parody of the foreshadowing in movies w/ a more traditional structure.

[panamania79 2]

SORT OF SPOILER WARNING

It's certainly not a movie for everyone (including me--I'm a wimp), but it's a clever, albeit disturbing, commentary on movie formulas, viewer expectations and manipulation, and the ubiquitous "family in peril" drama. If you take the typical horror or action movie formula, for example, viewers accept, and indeed expect, a lot of death (particularly of a few innocents to get the blood boiling), violence, destruction, cruelty, etc. As long as there's a formulaic payoff at the end and the bad guy(s) meets a gruesome demise, everything's cool. This movie blows apart that formula to expose something else altogether. This is particularly obvious in the part that's rewound and "deleted."

I'm not sure why the original was remade, tho. The English remake is, apparently, nearly line-for-line identical to the Austrian version.

those two guys were so weird with the gloves and golf club and eggs. I thought the knife being dropped in the boat would be important later, thinking the good guys would win.......NOT

That's why the movie freaked me out so much.

Indeed--the two boys had to be creepy and loathsome. The viewer manipulation throughout is quite clever. The red herring involving the knife is sort of a parody of the foreshadowing in movies w/ a more traditional structure.

Those two remind me of a couple of mean Ken dolls.

[Jasman0717 9]

The movie just started again at 6pm our time but Weekend At Bernies is on so we are watching it instead

[pedroh 21]

I don't think the movie is bad, the purpose of the director is to create a disturbing movie, and he did so...

shocking cinema is for a diff niche of people, Japan has been making those movies forever.. watch Tetsuo the iron man, Ichi the Killer, or The Machine girl

check the trailer is awesome

Edited January 31, 2009 by pedroh

[Jasman0717 9]

I don't think the movie is bad, the purpose of the director is to create a disturbing movie, and he did so...

shocking cinema is for a diff niche of people, Japan has been making those movies forever.. watch Tetsuo the iron man, Ichi the Killer, or The Machine girl

check the trailer is awesome

Doesn't seem to have the same affect on me as the German fellow

[pedroh 21]

na this is more of a parody gory movie..

[panamania79 2]

The movie just started again at 6pm our time but Weekend At Bernies is on so we are watching it instead

Weekend At Bernies sucks but at least it won't freak you out.

[slim 1,525]

I refuse to watch "scary movies."

My wife watched "funny games" a few days ago and told me how it was disturbing, freaky, etc. She did, however, take the time to explain to me that sometimes women have intuition about things and in this movie, like in life, if the guy would've just listened to his wife and kicked the boys out when she said to do so, they would've been OK.

So, the lesson I took from her watching the movie was if I ever come home and she's freaking out because two weird young men are in our house I should immediately kick them out and listen to her, not questioning her judgement or trying to ascertain what's going on first.... just listen to her and do it!

The lesson she took from it is our shotgun is always ready to be pumped. Creepy guys usually leave once the "persuader" comes out.

[Jasman0717 9]

The movie just started again at 6pm our time but Weekend At Bernies is on so we are watching it instead

Weekend At Bernies sucks but at least it won't freak you out.

The Funny Games movie just disturbed Claudeth so much I decided to watch something else so she wouldn't freak out