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Product description Genre: Suspense Rating: R Release Date: 10-JUN-2008 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com 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 Horton
MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 2.88 ounces
Item model number : 1000026359
Media Format : Widescreen
Run time : 112 minutes
Release date : June 1, 2008
Actors : Naomi Watts, Tim Roth
Dubbed: : French, Spanish
Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
Language : Unqualified
Studio : Warner Home Video
ASIN : B00187FPC2
Reviewer: Paul Morel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brilliant film!
Review: Excellent film by M. Heneke, as thought-provoking as anything he has directed before or since. Many have commented on the premise of the film as a violent experience that takes YOU into the scenario with little or no catharsis. The plot is simple on the surface. A couple with one child, a son, travel to their ultra-expensive summer villa for a week or so. They play games along the way, the parents, Naomi Watts and Tim Roth, guess which opera singer is singing what opera or Oratorio on cds placed carefully into a deluxe machine. Their son listens to them quietly guess right answers and wrong ones as well. They are cultured. They have the world, their small world, under control with wealth and pseudo-sophistication. They seem interesting, but have bourgeois values, such as "grilling" all week in the back yard with other well heeled neighbors. They have an Irish setter who barks at everything, ominously named "lucky." Their summer house has everything and more. It has space, modern appliances, a nod to past TVs, an old Samsung, with no added features. They have a large white gate for an entrance protector, fences all around them as do their neighbors. They are barricaded against friend and possible foe alike. All of these outdoor barriers will work against them, as will their confidence that nothing outside what they produce, decide, or do will. They are invincible against the common mob; they have earned their pennies, perhaps at the expense of many others. They have a sial boat, not large that has been refurbished we are told, and golf clubs that retail at about 500 dollars apiece.Things look good, except that a neighbor they see on their way to their summer place seems oddly vague, indifferent to them, and even less involved when he calls on them to help launch their sailing craft. There is a young man with him, introduced offhandedly. The dog barks and barks..a warning? No. An untrained dog whom is told to shut up.Soon this same young man comes to borrow eggs and the nightmare begins. At one point, the older of the two intruders, re-winds the film we are seeing so that a heroic move on Naomi Watt's part is edited out of the film, so that we can be entertained all the more. (I have never seen in any film such a daring scene..brilliant.) The torture presses on and on. Then, Naomi Watts is asked a final time to play the game, but this time she is asked to say a favorite prayer. She says, "I don't know any prayers." The two psychopaths actually give her as prayer to say, and the older of the two tells her how to pray this simple prayer of no more than two lines. She pleads with God.This is the most startling scene I think, among so many in this film. It is thematic in Heneke's work to explore the worlds of people without spirituality of any kind. "Amour", his Academy Award winning film, has Emanulle Riva say in a side bar commentary that the script for Amour had not one mention of God. This absence of any kind of spiritual back up or barrier, as in Funny Games, throws the film into darker realms, not any associated with absurd ideas about Satan and exorcisms etc. Naomi Watts merely says there is no prayer life, no rejection of God, but no God. Hence, for me at least, the inadequate barriers outside the house and inside. The lack of a sensibility that evil,banal as it often is here, exists. This is just one point I would make about the film, and how it threads itself throughout upon reflection. Art is pervasive in these people's lives, to a degree, but not salvific. They do not have those extra keys to play on, as it were, and so become trapped in their own self-made traps. Their neighbors have the same problem. The film invites us to explore how we see each other as human beings, how do we know about people and their motives, what invisible barriers do we need to keep ourselves from being exploitative, manipulative, and how to we pick up on such lack of values in others who might be asking for eggs at our very door step.Heneke's film is not for those who seek thrills and heroes and heroines. It is a journey into the every-day world , very complex I would say,and definitely very very disturbing. Life, Heneke suggests, can be a survival game, ending up in a vortex of evil and its attendant irrationality. One should be prepared. Heneke would know all about these things, having emerged from a Germany which produced Hitler. But then look at his other films. Very revealing about the nature of violence and how it persists.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect Condition
Review: Perfect condition and a great price + Fast transit time so yes, 2 Big Thumbs Up!
Reviewer: Hellbound
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Twisted
Review: Movie was definitely not what expected going into it. Great movie with a twist.
Reviewer: DavesNotHereMan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A film designed to have its audience love hating itâ¦
Review: Funny games is clearly not for the more âliteral mindedâ among us. The film is as much a sort of play on words as the title is. Thereâs ultimately not much about this game thatâs funny, in fact itâs virtually devoid of humor. Even in the sardonic sense it plays upon heavily, itâs cruel, pompous, arrogant in character and inspires frustration, degrees of loathing, and general annoyance in plot developement. Itâs also suspenseful and jarring. Thereâs not much to like about any of its characters in fact, lines are blurry here between protagonist and antagonist. Thereâs inherently a bit of satisfaction in seeing these rich elitist pretentious people being tortured, toyed with, and reduced to blubbering captives to be dispatched like so much garbage. Thereâs also not much to like about the two young psychopaths inflicting all this pain. The most significant thing about the film is the casual murder of a child, something Tim Roth said he had a difficult time with amidst all the other violence. But, aside from the basic human compassion and shock of this aspect, I didnât much like the kid much either, and was practically unmoved by his sudden demise. Sounds terrible right? It is and itâs effective this way. Thatâs what this film does, itâs desensitizing and rather original in approach. Plus there is the oddly inserted âremote controlâ magic sci-fi act that shoves the viewer into shaky reality ground entirely, that none of this is real at all, not to mention the murderous lead speaking directly to the audience, to confirm we are in agreement that heâs taking the best approach in this home invasion. All this adds up to a unique experience that did capture and hold my attention all the way throughâ¦in a really weird abstract way. Have to call that a win.
Reviewer: Michelle L Elliott
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just okay
Review: My son watched it. It was just OK according to his review.
Reviewer: The Preacher
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another low budget bomb
Review: This film masquerades as something clever and unique when in fact it is far from intriguing. The protagonists of the film are so ineffective and passive that it defies the sensibilities. Any reasonable person would have seen that their lives were very much in danger and at some point made a move. The husband is more crippled by impotence than his broken leg and his feckless whining becomes almost unbearable. The antagonists are designed to be upper class country club youth whose lives lack any challenge or meaning so they decide to torment and kill other rich people. We could go into s deep analysis of this to try to make the film seem thoughtful -- but this is no Hitchcock and I can be sure the writers simply wanted to scare people by making it the boy anyone would let into their home. The sociopathic boys come off as cheaply designed in that they try so hard to seem polite and socially graceful (as if to build irony against what monster they really were) even down to their overly sweet apologetic tones which become like nails on a chalkboard by the second act of the film. The movie starts to collapse under its own weight and the lack of budget does not allow for much in the way of special effects. In a last futile attempt to seem clever the two antagonists of the movie begin to speak directly to the audience (Ferris Buehler style) as if we are voyeurs sitting in on the crime --- unfortunately this too comes off as contrived and actaully takes away from what little tension the story had mustered. In the end one has to be honest and say that none fo the character captured our interest and their fates therefore are of little consequence.
Reviewer: 17
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Eine Familie kämpft ums nackte Ãberleben, nachdem sie zwei junge Männer mit einem zunächst unscheinbaren Anliegen in ihr Haus lieÃen. Der Film ist brutal, konsequent und regt nicht zuletzt deswegen zum Nachdenken über Gewalt an sowie die Grenzen die wir ziehen. Naomi Watts in Topform.
Reviewer: Franco Sottocasa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: DVD a posto e consegna puntuale. Film molto bello, ma non per tutti.
Reviewer: Agente Lex
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Pese a que tengo un bluray multiregión este no lo pudo leer, lástima, no existe una versión para América, tuve que devolverla.
Reviewer: Maree Ciavola
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Having a DVD station, overcomes the on line unfriendly "unavailable to watch from this user / service" policies that pop up from time to time, as, being blocked or barred policies online, is none of the business of simply buying the DVD online and viewing it in the privacy of your own home. Plus, as it has been bought and paid for legitimately, and delivered by the customer, as the customer you then have it ! You own that product. And can watch in your own time, when desired, in the privacy of one's home, and that nullifies all and any copyright politics, region politics, not letting this user or service watch this politics etc, because one has merely gone around all that, and bought the DVD online itself. And that is why I prefer and have a DVD station. It eliminates online difficulty politics which comes with blocks and cancel culture.There is always , a way around the ð¤ difficulty.
Reviewer: Mitchell Fournier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Another tour de force from the wonderful Naomi Watts. I've been a fan of this lady since her part in Tank Girl, and she perfects her craft a little more in every consecutive role.Well cast, well acted, well written, and overturns our comfort level about the natural order of things, this was a difficult film to view, considering my affection for Ms. Watts .The terrify part of the antagonists is their lack of genuine malice; they seem to act out of boredom, instigating the incidents and gauging their following acts from an amoral assessment of the next logical steps.