Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" (U.S.) is an unsettling stylistic exercise, a darkly funny social commentary, an existentialist nightmare (of sorts), and a bleak, nihilistic vision of the encroachment of evil on ordinary, everyday affluence. In short, a frightening and wickedly po...( read more)
So much stress for politeness' sake.
You shouldn't forget the importance of entertainment.
Such perfection in film rarely exists. This movie has you captivated from beginning to finish. The direction and writing is flawless, as well as the characters. The vision is so twisted, but you can't help but be intrigued. By far, the best part of the movie was Michael Pitt. He ...( read more)
I love the beginning of this movie! A happy family listening to classic music and suddenly the title of the movie with metal, WOO!
And when one of the bad guys talk to us, awesome! xD The rewind part was pretty cool too, gave me a good laugh, lol.
The ending is great - basically,...( read more)
I wanted to like this movie.. I thought the plot was good. I was so wrong. The acting was awful. Not believable at all. Just ugh! It could have been so good. I was so disappointed. I didn't even want to finish it, that's how bad the acting was. Naomi Watts, what happened? She was...( read more)
No lie, Naomi and Tim Roth can't save this US version from being much worse than the original. See the original.
Freaky. I love the acting, directing, and silence instead of music. Creepy. Very well done.
Only watched 23 mins then left because it was boring and slow. hmm not funny at all is it?
it was not funny...
i felt di anger rise in me...
even in films, i hate to treat pets & kids cruelly...
good remake.
idk why i love this kind of disturbing movies.. :)
(michael pitt is awsome in this charactere)
I just recently watched this movie.. and i thought it was pretty good. a little twisted but good..
Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet do a good job as psychos...some scenes dragged on for too long though...and that whole rewind thing killed it for me...
i hated this film. and wat the fuck was that whole thing with the remote control?
Brutally uncomfortable throughout. The sense of foreboding lingers like an unwelcome house guest weilding a 3 iron. Some superb performances throughout. Don't expect a happy ever after ending here, even the one 'you go girl' incident is cruelly defiled.
Really incredible. Films like this have a lot in common with well made post apocalyptic films like The Mist...films were all the things that hold society together are completely thrown out of the window...law and order are gone...which is incredibly, incredibly scary, disturbing ...( read more)
Didn´t expect such a disappointement from Michael Haneke, whose most movies I admire.
Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet don´t convince.
Hitchcock´s Rope is much a better example of psychotic guys and cold murder.
Seriously disturbing but, nevertheless, a great film! It draws you in and almost makes you feel guilty for watching the events unfold. I think that's why a lot of people dislike this film, it really pushes the limits. In all honesty, I haven't seen many films like this come out ...( read more)
I have heard pretty much nothing but good things about this movie, however, I found it boring at points. It did have it's highlights, including something that I had never seen in a horror movie, and then something else that I had never seen that was completely ridiculous that rui...( read more)
quite thrilling. whimsical. pretty brilliant, if you'd ask me. the 'break all conventions'-type of movie that basically leaves the watcher unhappy all the time, since nothing you'd even want ever happens! no gore, no scary jumps in the background, just annoying suspense and long ...( read more)
A shot for shot remake of the original. So obviously like the original, I absolutely loved this film. Like the original it is the perfect example of a director of a film using the film itself to emotionally manipulate their audience. Brilliant! Only this time no subtitles.
This really was pretty pitiful. Michael Pitt is promising but this let him down. And Roth, i can forgive him this once but he really did not shine in his usual manner in this film.
very disturbing. michael pitt is a very under-rated actor. he was great in this movie.
Such a bizzare and sick film. It's a well done suspense movie with realistic acting (Corbert and Pitt are towards the top of my list of sickest movie villians, they were amazing), but it's almost unbearable to watch sometimes, because it's just seems so real.
It's a crazy movie ...( read more)
There was no reason to remake this film but since it's the original director I'll probably watch it anyway.
I heard that this movie is really fucked up. I'll be clicking the "want to see it" button now...
Usually when I see a trailer to a film I immediately know what I'm in for whether if its something original and worth seeing or a horrible experience. Funny games was the best example of a film I got really exicited about seeing after watching the trailer. The trailer to Funny g...( read more)
Awful, Sick, Awful, Sick. Tim Roth, Naomi Watts not bad. Rest of cast especially the villians, awful.
a let down, I was expecting more thrill, more depth, more twists. Not just a superficial scratch of the surface
I really enjoyed this film, the first half is brutal and the suspense is built very well. However there is one part half way through the film which really ruins what is otherwise a brilliant horror.
PAN AND SCAN. No he visto la versión austriaca, así que esto es nuevo para mí, pero aquí Haneke no hace concesión alguna y genera una rigurosa y estoica reflexión acerca de la violencia y del consumo de esta. Más allá de ser una denuncia, aquí la visión profundiza en la naturalez...( read more)
Relentlessly bleak, even when the home invaders are studiously maintaining a pleasant tone, the film makes several points of turning to the audience as if to ask them why they are still watching such horrible fare.
Why do we seek out this kind of thing? What is entertaining abou...( read more)
This was something that was thrown at me after I had rated Last house on the left movie, and being that I use this site to suggest things that I might have missed I took the opportunity to watch this movie even though it was made by a major movie house indie department, Avoid it ...( read more)
I really liked this movie, mainly because of the constant reminder of how much violence we want in movies. And to me, this film REALLY gave us enough violence where instead of something like "Saw" with it's treacherous and intelligent ways of people dying, we got simple little ga...( read more)
You know you are going to see a different movie when in the opening scene you have a nice quiet family traveling in a van listening to classical music when all of a sudden the director decides to put the title in capital red letters with hardcore heavy metal music in the backgrou...( read more)
Movie makers nowadays are seeking a new way to attract audience which is by making disturbing imageries that will intrigue the viewers. We can't deny the fact that it clearly works with some movies even if their quality wasn't that good (The "Saw" series) and some others have gre...( read more)
A really provocative movie. The film ends like it began... without concession. It's quite disturbing but really interesting. Michael Pitt is excellent and very scary. Naomi Watts is beautiful and admirable.
/Un film très provocateur qui va jusqu'au bout de ses idées. C'est assez ...( read more)
