Originally Posted By DAR I don't know if anyone has heard of or seen this movie. It's been on HBO a lot. It's a remake of a German film with the same director for both. It stars Tim Roth and Naomi Watts. It's about a couple and their young son who go to their lake house for the weekend. While there they're terrorized mentally and physically by two young men who appear in white shorts, shoes, gloves and sweaters. Let me say that I absolutely hate this film. I think it's repulsive, smug and has contempt for the audience. I would get into spoilers but there's a scene 3/4 of the way that just seems out of place and caused me to say(a word not acceptable for LP). That being said, I watch the darn thing every time it's on and I hate it even more. I don't know if I'm expecting a different film. I want to recommend it just to see if anyone will hate it as much as me but then I don't want to subject anyone to this.
Originally Posted By Spooky Ghost I completly disagree. This was one of my very favorite films of 2008. The script is very clever and the direction was superb and top notch. It also sparks a lot of discussion about violence in film and media which I think is very stimulating on a phillosophical level. Now as much as I loved it, I can reccomend it to very few people because it's so very not entertaining. For that I reccomend the very similarly themed The Strangers. Same sort of "Home invasion" premise, but much less brutal/disturbing and without much of the commentary of violence in film undercurrent.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm somewhere in the middle. I get that it was SUPPOSED to be a critique of violence in film (at one point one of the bad guys essentially talks to the audience and says something like "now you're going to get what you came for"), trying to implicate the audience, and all that. I get it. But I don't think it quite worked as intended. It ended up essentially being the very kind of film it decries. Of course, how to critique violence in film without being a violent film? I admit that's a tricky one. But if you're going to take on that problem, you should have a way to solve it. Presumably there's a way to do it that's better than what Funny Games came up with.
