Friday, July 18, 2008

FUNNY GAMES 1997 (4 STARS)

I do think this is a superior film to the new remake by the same director. It's in Austrian, which adds maybe, to the style of it. Also i'd say the 2 bad guys are much more suiting for the story that's being told. The leader bad guy is much more annoying and you really do hate him as much as your supposed to. The new one, i found myself saying, "Man he's cool" far to much. And the other guy "tubby". He was a real creep in this one. He seemed way more threatening. He could do anything... he was a little more crazy. I didn't feel that at all with the new one.

When watching a bazzar movie like this for the second time scene for scene, shot for shot, word for word. It makes you think about how deliberate every second really is. And now watching the original trailer after seeing the film... every second in the trailer is extremely deliberate. Very interesting.

In my top 5 of the year... unless it came out last year, then, never mind.

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