So, you have a great idea for a movie, a great lead character, it should have worked. You could have had a great movie. Instead, you opted for stupid post-apocalyptic cliches that we all have seen in Hollywood movies hundreds of times. Just to screw up your beautiful original idea and the opportunity to create a beautiful movie. I really can't understand why.
shareYes, I just saw this one in a Finnish film festival and cannot but agree with you. What an almost schockingly bad film out of quite promising premises. After the rather atmospheric first 20 minutes, it was all downhill. Towards the end, the faithful repetition of all possible genre clichés supported by the overly sentimental dramaturgy gave the film almost a parodical B-movie feel.
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I liked it. I can't see how this compares to the typical Hollywood apocalypse crap. There's nothing overdone in the relationships of the two main characters, and each one has his own motives, which little by little are shown through the film. I even liked the new-beginning ending.
shareThe list of stupid cliches is too long, but I saw this movie a while ago and have forgotten most of them. Just a few I remember:
-Marc moves throughout Barcelona almost without any difficulty, kilometres and kilometres and kilometres, but can't get to Julia because when he finally finds her, the final 50 m are blocked. What are the chances for this, statistically? How Hollywood and how stupid.
-Marc hasn't seen Julia's sister for months. She survived just fine. But when he finally finds her, she dies almost at the same moment in an overly dramatic way. What are the chances for this, statistically?
-Enrique and his death. One of the two has to die to stay faithful to the cliche requirements.But of course it won't be Marc, because there is a love story there. He is also young and good looking, he has to be the one who survives.
What else sucked?
-Enrique himself. The actor failed to convince me half of the time.
-The photography. Too pretentious. Something about the colours.
-Unrealistic. What exactly did Julia eat in the months she was alone in that building? And for that matter, where did all that food and water come from in general to feed all those people moving around all those months?
If I watched it again, I could expand this list.
There were good things: the brilliant idea underlying the movie, Quim's performance, the flashbacks were done well to explain how the situation came about, the idea about the ending was good - how the children are left to build a new world...
What I would have liked to see? More realism. More exploration of human nature and psychology. Less useless melodrama. Drama yes. Melodrama no.
Cant help but agree. Forced clashes of ego's, extremely unprobable situations, plus the whole "Oh man, the world sure is mean, who will cuddle me? I definately can't see myself continuing my luxurious lifestyle in this harsh world. Oh, and think of the children, the CHILDREN!" :'( theme.
Could've just let a nuke hit the place and force everyone underground cuz of magical radiation. Actually, they should've just made a movie of the Metro games.
- Using GPS in a subway, really?
- Instanteneous, infectious agoraphobia, really?
Just plain stupid
-Growing corn from popcorn kernels (try it...go on and try!) lol
share-Growing corn from popcorn kernels (try it...go on and try!) lol
I liked the movie, but have to agree that the idea of growing corn from cooked popcorn was as silly as the underground GPS idea.
I agree. I would add your list the pacing of the film itself. Even with the journey as a metaphor (or the whole acrophobia as a metaphor!), the film spends entirely too long on redundant building searches, near death experiences, moronically timed events, then after the chicken--I mean the main character--crosses the road the film is in fast forward! Hurry up, we gotta know that the children made it!
I was with the film (albeit barely) about 75% of the way through...then there was so much melodrama that I started my own comedic dialog in my head. This film starts out great (not sure where it was going, even now) but goes steadily down hill from there. Sad but true.
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This movie was amazing so I have no idea what you're on about. The concept was brilliant and was beautifully executed.
shareBiggest stupid point: going outside and getting scared to death.
Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and roam the streets while these idiots are sh!tting their pants inside.