'Funny Games' vs. 'Teorema'

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Slightly off the topic but remember when you were a kid and the neighbour's family always seemed cooler than yours and you sort of half-wished they'd adopt you?

― dave q, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Alt TS's: 'FG' vs 'Henry', J Dahmer vs the Sinthasomphones

― dave q, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought funny games was about as perfect a film as i have ever seen just the way they move on to the next family - baddies winning

― james, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

funny games: a friend recommended it (mainly because it had zorn in there). very crrrreeeeeppeeeee.

― nathalie, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

'Funny Games' vs. 'Code: Unknown' vs 'The Piano Teacher' = three-way tie for first.

― Andrew L, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Not seen Theorem (better TS for that = Poison Ivy series tho'?). 'Funny Games' wins out over 'Henry' because it's largely seen from the victims' perspective (which you'd think would be dud given the number of teen-slasher picks that also do this, but no.) Apparently motiveless evil also much creepier than the banalities of 'H-POASK'.

― Jeff W, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Funny Games" would have been one of the greatest movies ever if i hadn't broken the fourth wall. Being constantly reminded it was a movie (particularly in one pivotal scene) killed it for me. Still, what happens to the mom is one of the coldest things ever captured on film. (Context is a huge part of that, though.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

B-but Dan - the whole 'rewind' scene is the greatest thing evah! W/out that doesn't it just = another thrilla?

― Andrew L, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

dan perry breaks fourth wall shockah!!

― mark s, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The rewind scene was innovative and clever and reinforced that you were watching something fictional. Given the hyper-realistic and downright scary tone of the rest of the movie, the knowing winks to the camera and talking to the audience completely negated the power of what was happening on the screen.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry as you were)

― mark s, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I personally thought the 'victims' were idiots for letting the crims get in in the first place, there were more than enough opportunities to get rid of them in the first 20 minutes or so, but they were just being foolishly polite. I mean, I wouldn't even given them the eggs, but then, I'm not a very nice person IRL so I probably got it all wrong.

― dave q, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, I completely agree with you. Both the kid and the mother had several great opportunities to get away from them. I might have been polite at first, but I certainly wouldn't have replaced the eggs. They also wouldn't have gotten near my golf clubs.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

they would have probably received a "f*** off and dont bother me on my holiday~" but then i am a real grump with other people

― james, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Re 'rewind' seq - who wishes they couldn't do that? Especially people who are going to allow obvious bad 'uns wreck their kitchen, they're going to be so repressed that they probably spend lots of time fuming about what they 'should've said' etc. ('Better murder infant in cradle than nurse unacted desire' [Blake?])

― dave q, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I read in Terrence Stamp bio that Pasolini who directed him for Theorem only said to him: "open your legs a little bit more"

now everytime I watch Stamp sitting in the family's garden reading Rimbaud I hear Pasolini whispering....

― erik, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahah - Funny Games = worst movie eber. eBer!

― david h(0wie), Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Funny Games - the shot-for-shot remake. (Story is an interview with Haneke from the NYT.)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

it says "a shot-for-shot revision" on the photo caption. which is something to think about.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

Brings me back to that NY Times magazine cover story on Gus Van Sant remaking Psycho that made it sound so intriguing.

― Eazy, Sunday, 23 September 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

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