Starts off right before Curtis gets married and joins Warsaw, who would eventually become Joy Division and ends, well, you know where. I guess if you don't know how it ends you probably don't care. And if you do know, you'd probably guess correctly that this is a pretty dismal story. Curtis struggles with his work and family right as his band is about to blow up and things just go from bleak to bleaker.
I was kind of falling asleep throughout this one. Not that the movie is that bad or anything, but it is kind of slow. I think Anton Corbijn did a good job of directing, and Sam Riley is great as Ian Curtis, but the story is just a slow, painful one about a very short musical career. Not really anyone's fault, but there just isn't much of a story arc, more like a story slope. But, what can you do?
6.5/10
Funny Games dir. Michael Haneke
Two preppy boys terrorize a family when they arrive at their vacation home in this shot by shot remake of the Austrian movie by the same name by the same director from ten years ago. I really don't know what the point of that was, other than what I read about Haneke wanting to specifically direct this movie at Americans. Why you ask? Well let's find out!
I was with this one at the beginning, as the movie starts out pretty suspenseful. But after awhile it just gets boring. I'm getting sick of these long takes in movies. At least the shots in "Atonement" and "Children of Men" there is stuff going on. There's an incredible amount of time spent on trying to get a cell phone to work when one of the characters has a chance to run for help (or get the other cell phone out of the car.) One of the kids keeps talking to the camera and at one point rewinds the movie. I guess we are just like the kids doing the torturing because we're watching.....whoa..... I have more complaints but I'll just say this movie is just goddamn annoying.
4/10
51/150 movies.
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