Compared to Funny Games... - Secuestrados (2011) Discussion

[–] jay10536 13 years ago

This movie is like the Spanish version of Funny Games or The Strangers.

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[–] pgodlewski 13 years ago

Yeah, I kind of figured...which is good because I did enjoy both Funny Games and The Strangers. Now, would you say is it better or perhaps as good? I saw the trailer, and I'm still not sure how there is only 12 shots...unless of course trailer showed-cased fragments of shots in the film.

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[–] jay10536 13 years ago

This movie is better than both. It is SO intense and good. There's a new movie coming out called Trespass which is exactly like this movie, but it's English. I advise you to watch this movie, but it's not for weak stomachs. It's brutal.

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[–] jay10536 13 years ago

Also, Mother's Day (2010) is like the English version of this movie.

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[–] mec_os 10 years ago

I tought mothers day was a remake of a 70s movie

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[–] yfguitarist 12 years ago

No, it's not as good. The Strangers wasn't original but it had effective scares. And Funny Games is far more original. Kidnapped was predictable.

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[–] malificati 12 years ago

This movie is NOT like Mothers Day! Where the hell are people getting that? Mothers day was a HORRIBLE TROMA film. And this movie doesn't hold a candle to Funny Games, the original OR remake!

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[–] badscene 12 years ago

They're talking about Mother's Day (2010_ starring Rebecca Demornay. The films are very similar, but Mother's Day is far more disturbing with a much better cast.

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[–] EmmanKiddo 13 years ago

Funny Games is crap. This film is really shocking and brutal. Funny Games is just dumb. Shocking? ppfftt what a joke.

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[–] PseudoFilmCritic 12 years ago

Depends on which version of "Funny Games" we are talking about. The original is clever though too clever for its own good. Never saw the remake with Naomi Watts.

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[–] seph82 12 years ago

*English is not my primary langage.

I think Funny games was better, but this spanish movie is quite good actually.

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[–] nvcplus 12 years ago

Funny Games is better hands down, but this was not bad.

What people fail to realize a lot of the time is that Funny Games was an experiment on the viewer. It wasn't meant to be a "horror" or another type genre film. But kidnapped certainly is. Basically, you can't really compare them past the vehicle of a home invasion.

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[–] fabian5003 12 years ago

That's right. Funny Games was meant to be an experiment. The director wanted the viewers to realize how hypocrites we were about someone's death.

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[–] infestorOfSouls 12 years ago

this film is not particularly good but one can say that it is sort of combo of funny games+(bit of)irreversible+your common home invasion cliches

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[–] freff 12 years ago

This movie wanted very badly to meld the brutal and unpredictable situation of a movie like Funny Games and the tight dramatic suspense of a movie like Taken.
It doesn't come close to either one. But the long takes do tend to draw you in to what's happening to the characters, and is probably the real saving grace for this film.

Kidnapped is worth watching, but it's nowhere near Funny Games.

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[–] grantss 12 years ago

The original (German/Austrian) Funny Games was excellent (I gave it an 8/10) but the US remake (also directed by Michael Haneke) was crap (2/10). I saw the similarities between Kidnapped and Funny Games immediately. In the end the two diverged sufficiently enough on plot for me to feel that Kidnapped wasn't a ripoff of Funny Games.

I actually rate Kidnapped up there with the original Funny Games, so a 8/10. Had the same uncompromising grit, and no Hollywood happy ending.

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