Funny Games (2008)
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Actor: Michael Pitt, Naomi Watts, Tim RothAudio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
Movie Reviews of Funny Games (2008)
Movie Review: Funny Games... for the viewer.
Summary: 1 Stars
...and that isn't a bad idea. However, these FUNNY GAMES, are a sad, overly sadistic joke on those who enjoy clever, visceral films. Bad idea. Although this movie is tagged with a supposed 'in-joke' on the zombified majority of viewers who may be glued to such wretch as the SAW franchise, enjoying numerous scenes of bleak torture, it doesn't hit the mark anywhere close to what it tries to be. Its just trash. If disturbing stories of torture and death without rhyme or reason is what you crave, tune in to your local newscast at 6:00. To find this flick entertaining one has to be able to laugh in the face of true sickness. That to me is not entertainment, it's a nod to cruelty.
I'm a true fan of Horror. I love bleak endings. Some of the best Horror films of our time have an unhappy outcome. This motion picture doesn't even come close to being effective in its quest to jokingly play to the sadistic nature of the viewer. Said viewer is watching a movie to be entertained. If entertainment has become uncompromising enough to where the irony is the mindless slaughter of innocents, then whats the point of the jest? Not funny by any means, these games are just mean.
Summary of Funny Games (2008)
Michael Haneke is a modern master, which his spellbinding films Cache and The Piano Teacher proved to an international audience. When it came time for a Hollywood remake of his ultra-disturbing 1997 picture Funny Games, who better than Haneke himself to helm the new version? And indeed, the second Funny Games bears the impeccable sense of control and technique that the Austrian version had: it is a horrifyingly precise account of a family terrorized by two psychopathic young thugs at a vacation home. For anyone who's already seen the '97 film, this new one--a nearly shot-by-shot transcription of the original--will seem superfluous, no matter how impressive the performances of Naomi Watts and Tim Roth are. (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet are suitably creepy as their menacers, too.) For newbies, the movie might be as infuriating and thought-provoking as Haneke intends it to be. That's because Funny Games is an intellectual game itself, a direct rebuke to the audience that gobbles up gratuitous violence and cynical manipulation. Haneke sets up our expectations, and then refuses to provide the conventional catharsis. or the conventional anything. All of this was pretty bracing in the first go-round, but feels like gamesmanship in the remake. Even if you dig what Haneke's up to, this is a brutal movie-watching experience. --Robert HortonHorror DVD Video
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