Added: 2 years ago
From: belda67
Views: 160,795
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (314)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Michael Caine gets shot in this movie. Not many people know that.

  • the shots in this movie are a copy of soy cuba,

  • One of the best movies I've ever seen. A wonderful piece of cinematic art!

  • Maybe it doesn't matter now, but one should watch this film without watching the trailer. It's much more exciting without knowing what the movie is about.

  • @scorpider That's the same thing I said, though i haven't seen the movie

  • the music is way to happy for this movie

  • im a dude. and this is the only movie that has made me cry

  • the only pregnant woman is african...oh the irony ...

  • great film, and clive owen almost breaks out of his dull-persona in this film finally.

  • Fantastic movie

  • Yes, Jean-Luc Goddard and Bela Tarr have a lot to learn from this movie . . .

  • but why call it children of men!!! its women that have the babies, im very intelligent but i never understood the title! and i love this film by the way, but the title annoys me greatly. i just think that men need to get over their self importance, we both need each other.

  • @kayzi17 because we are the race of man. hence men. It doesn't refer to males, it refers to humans.

  • @kayzi17 Native speaker here: men refers to mankind (humans). Children of Men as in children of the adults, it brings attention to the generational gap between children and their parents and is an eloquent way of saying 'children of humans' which doesn't sound as eloquent.

  • @kayzi17 it seems you have sexism issues. Im sorry for you child :(

  • I started crying when they shot Michael Caine.

  • I dont know if this movie was based of a HL2 or HL2 was based of this movie.

  • @FunnyKid000 movie after game but based on book about ten years before HL2

  • @FunnyKid000 I think both got inspiration from 1984 (book)

  • @FunnyKid000 HL2 came before the movie, The book came before HL2. The book probably had a touch of influence.

  • @FunnyKid000 wierd because i was thinking of half life soon as i seen this

  • The Human Fund: Money for People

  • jeez, talk about heavy-handed..

  • Name me one trailer that accurately represents the film it was made for. This trailer does Children of men a huge disservice.

  • As far as best camera work goes Russian Ark gets my vote.

  • naghh, sorry but that's not best camera work i had ever seen.

  • Whats the name of the song at the end?

  • @ff7rcs Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla

  • why isnt this movie huge?

  • haven't seen this......

  • there is one particular scene in this movie with camera work that is extremely impressive. the one long shot where clive is running in his flip flops through the refugee camps in the midst of a battle. sooo awesome

  • ha-ha the greatest, your joking right? Better then LOTR's Trilogy? is it better then Citizen Kane? or Metropolis? or maybe Ben-Hur or even Lawrence of Arabia. This is a modern movie with hand-held stuff. good movie but not the greatest.

  • @directorlog LoTR was very entertaining, but I don't remember any stand-out camera work. It was pretty standard stuff in that department. The final action sequence in CoM is a continuous un-cut twenty minute shot. Think about that. Think about choreographing all that. With no computer work. Just from a technical standpoint, thats incredible.

  • @Hendar23 LOTR had outstanding cinematography. Where Smeagle and Gollum battle it out and the camera angle changes left to right between them, the climactic battle in The Two Towers, the close ups on the ring which provides the sense of how powerful it is, the powerful shot of our heroes walking over the hill which symbolizes bravery, the close up on Frodo as he loses himself to the ring in ROTK and much more.

  • @ManofTinProductions I'm sorry, but every example you just gave you would be taught in any cinema school. It's very effect, and very standard. It's done well, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't really stand out.

  • @Hendar23 none of the long shots in CoM are what they seem. The seemingly uncut shots are computer splices. Extremely well done to give the illusion of continuous shooting, but they are CG spliced.

  • @Hendar23 I can name hundreds of camera techniques in LOTR'S - False perspective, Scale photography, miniature photography,4 months of night shots at helms deep, VFX photography, go's on and on.

  • @directorlog Have you seen the uncut shot in CoM? It was amazing.

  • @ManofTinProductions all the seemingly "uncut" shots in CoM are just computer splices. I freakin love CoM, one of my all time favourites, but once i figured out that none of the extremely long shots are in one go it lost some of its magic. They're extremely well done, but still.

  • @ManofTinProductions yes very well done, but it doesn't deserve the best camera work in movie history.

  • It DOES look like a great movie but it can't have better camera work than SUCKERPUNCH! Some truly amazing shots in that one and all kinds of kewl spiffy action and hot babes in skimpy outfits with big guns and big ass swords beating the crap out of everyone. WOWEE!

  • I love this type of cinematography is quite impressive and a new way to tell a story

  • more like one of the greatest movies ever.

  • 1:34 Curahee!

  • michael caine shoulda kept his hair for the dark knight

  • @MrInception12 lol. with a spliff as well?!

  • love this movie

  • oh please... this is not the best camera work in movie history. you'd be surprised (hopefully) that before the advent of chroma key (green screen) & vfx & steadicam & simple traditional interior 360 car shots what Directors were doing with huge sets and cranes. this is nothing but ease compared to the 50's. Ben Hur's race scene alone is probably in the top 5. also watch Citizen Kane. saying its the best camera work ever is an overstatement

  • @2legit2quitz the director refused to use CGI in the single shot sequences to keep its origionality, credit where credit is due the storyline however is excellent and far outweighs any camerawork.

  • Oh wow, I just saw this movie again recently. It is pretty fantastic, and now that I think about it, the camera work was really cool. I like long, uninterrupted shots. I don't think this trailer does the movie justice though..

  • amazing film...awful trailer.

  • such an amazingly shot film

  • weed?weed?weed?weed?weed?weed?­weed?weed?weed?weed?weed?weed?­weed?weed?

    

  • Fantastic movie

  • 0:39 he growin weed?

  • @BananasforBrenda Dude whoa he is 0_o

  • This film really does have some of the best cinematography ive ever seen. The shot inside the car when the people attack and you know who gets shot. (dont wanna spoil it) thats done in all one take. from inside the car, the cinematography in this film is what makes it so gripping and realistic to watch.

  • @MysterEy1 it was beautiful, the way everyone silenced and led then thru the war zone, protecting the child and mother... Once again, goosebumps. I can keep watching this over and over. Beautiful.

    And as full metal jacket and clockwork orange being great camera work, I just dont even see how you can even compare those to the amazing, realist artful work of this film. Clockwork orange? Good movie, but not any amazing camara skill, I dont see it.

  • @MysterEy1 it was beautiful, the way everyone silenced and led then thru the war zone, protecting the child and mother... Once again, goosebumps. I can keep watching this over and over. Beautiful.

  • I loved love love this movie. Especially the end. Goosebumps and tears.

  • @firestarr1979 i agree, incredible movie. deep messages in there. what-if. useful metaphor.

  • One of the most underrated films. It's so realistic and so capturing. One of the few films that manages to be cinematically superb and still transmit the horror of war (without making it look cool or even "artistic"). See it, I didn't expact much of it and I was greatly surprised!

  • Crap

  • ADDING TO MY NETFLIX LIST........

  • lol hahaha I love reading the top comment in full then the one below lmao

  • Sooo is this about a black jesus or something?

  • if this happened guess what i would do.......i would do the same thing humans have done since the dawn of existence. i would enjoy all the time i have and love the life I've been blessed with

  • @williambrazzers this is better than both batman begins and the dark knight, it has alot of very intense scenes and very sad and moving scenes too you should watch it

  • @williambrazzers top 5 t o me are

    1.schindlers list

    2.no country for old men

    3.children of men

    4.devils rejects

    5.the dark knight

    5.

  • @2pacAmazesSuperman Did you even WATCH the movie, or are you basing your opinion on the trailer? Because this movie was absolutely amazing in my book. Ijs...

  • @williambrazzers this is one of the top 5 films ever made but the trailer is bad

  • everyone hear gimme shelter by the rolling stones at the beginning? it's in orchestral form

  • My greedy scientists know farmers are having bumper crops and are still dabbling into genetic manipulation just to look scientific and blah about less chemicals needed Nature allways finds a way to repel such ideals..It is at Merredin. Cross contamination may see this happen

  • @williambrazzers go watch the movie

  • The entire scene where he goes into the building to get the baby which seems about ten minutes of uncut camera work and action everywhere is the best in the film! I like the bus ride too tho!

  • @munee3000 totally. I love when they are walking to the boat. No communication barriers, everyone coming together to protect the child. Just a beautiful moment. I love this movie. True art. 100%

  • @munee3000 Amazing. No communication barriers, even tho everyone was speaking diff languages, everyone shielding the child from the war going on. Then the gunmen kneeling and crossing themselves. Amazing. Arty in its true form. Beautiful. 100%

  • This film had an interesting premise prior to viewing but the execution was really bad. I dont really care if the camera work was technically good because the general direction didn't work. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine are really strong actors so this is inexcusable. The film looked like a BBC sci-fi drama series; not a £40million movie.

  • Comment removed

  • what's the name of the song at the end?

  • Such a great film. And the car camera work was amazing. Julianne Moore's death affected me more than anything in A Serbian Film. That's how well made this film is.

  • "Baby Diego was a wanker!!!" xD

  • Comment removed

  • Baby Diego R.I.P.

  • That's true, long film sequences without cuts requires a lot of work, rehearsals and sharp talented actors.

  • I haven't seen any technically unusual shots in this trailer...

    If you want to see "greatest camera work in history", watch "A Clockwork Orange" or "Full Metal Jacket".

  • What's so impressive about the camera work??

  • @TheFilmMaster I believe just how many things are going on at once. I don't see it as so much the camera as the actors and director (and, of course, the cameramen) pulling off some amazing, complex, and long scenes.

  • @TheFilmMaster watch another movie and compare the shots and movements and length of cuts.

  • @TheFilmMaster If you saw the movie you would now!

  • @TheFilmMaster TheFilmMaster has clearly not actually watched this film.

  • @gorgolyt - Actually, I got the DVD this Christmas. So I will be watching the film...soon.

  • Comment removed

  • pull my finger lol

  • Great movie, terrible trailer. FULL OF SPOILERS! So glad I seen the movie before watching this!!

  • This is a pretty good movie, but this trailer doesn't really capture the fact that it's like 90% depressing haha.

  • @Neverjustforever ....................uh

    Also what about test tube babies.

  • @FienStudios @Neverjustforvever I don't claim to be a fertility expert but I know that either way, the zygote, embryo, whatever has to eventually be inseminated into a woman's womb. If the infertility is based on just women not being able to incubate cells, then it wouldn't matter what technique is used to start the zygote, it wouldn't take and would die off.

  • @xjxm you are right. The basis was on the fact that women had become barren, in which case, even the 31st tube babies couldn't become implanted into a host mother.

  • Its films like these that make me pleased to know that England still make great movies, and that America hasn't taken over the film industry by making high action films. (Not to say that America does have a HUGE amount of fantastic movies)

  • @FienStudios This is a Universal Pictures film... As in an American film not English.. awkward.. America hasn't 'taken over' the film industry it always controlled the film industry. Wake up.

  • @FienStudios You failed to observe the main reason for my comment.. you said "films like these that make me pleased to know England still make great movies" Which doesn't make sense as this film is an American film... Take it or leave it dude, long live the Queen.

  • @landonbrown6 Its an American/ Mexican/ UK film, the actors are English, its set in England and Filmed in England and the book is English, while the directors and writers are English and Mexican and the Cinematographer is Mexican, so is the Film Editor, but the other editor is French, the studios are English and American, and is produced by English and Americans. So the first comment, Is a bit incorrect.

  • @landonbrown6 America invented the film industry. The first working motion picture camera was created by Thomas Edison.

  • @superclaydude I am aware of that thank you so much, might pass that onto the guy my comment was intended for.

  • @landonbrown6 I was adding to your argument....

  • @superclaydude thanks, my mistake

  • I came here because my YouTube account reccomeended it,

    This looks apsolutly brillaint,

    not because Michael Caine is in it, but because its has a fantastic story.

    Plus got nominated for three oscars including Cinematography so... "The greatest camera work in movie history... " LOL there's your answer.

  • The Evil Dead series knocks every movie in this category of cinematography out of the world.

  • I see from the comments that despite everyone involved clearly stating that the "single-shot sequences" aren't in fact, single-shot, loads of people still believe that they are.

    The battlefield scene is 5 takes. It still looks great, but stop calling it something that it's not.

  • I like it they choose a black woman to produce the first baby, which grow up to be the original man, to ensure the continuation of the human race.

  • Long lives Cuaron!

  • i'm so glad my media teacher introduced us to this film for our coursework such a beautiful piece of film

  • why would the world break down if women couldn't have babies? It wouldn't matter to those already here.

  • @cb11082

    It would spell the end of our entire civilization. No more new generations, no more younger people stepping up to take the place of the older. Our population would shrink and shrink and shrink away into nothingness. It would give people a profound sense of hopelessness. Creating a new generation and passing on our genetics, knowledge and experiences is a fundamental aspect of what makes us human. Losing the ability to makes babies would be like losing what it is that makes us human.

  • @Chadwich well not really. how do you think that statement would make a gay person feel? they can't make babies? They key thing that makes us human, is independence. to be able to make decisions.

  • This movie is more an example of great direction and not camerawork. I don't think it is the movement and fluidity of the shots, but the nauseating orchestration of subjects within them that boggled my mind. Honestly, that uprising scene was astonishingly meticulous. Kudos to the people who toiled over that one for weeks.

  • @hellofart16 And camerawork as well, the action sequences are filmed all in one take. Just look at the uprising scene. It's as good as it is cause of that.

  • @FloppinPoptart623 Yeah that's what I meant by good direction. Imagine setting a shot like that up, with extras in certain places, vehicles, tricky terrain, etc.

  • I loved this movie so fucking much. Then I watched teh trailer and found out Sigur Ros was in it... Amazingness.

  • I fully agree, 100%. Children of Men has become my all time favorite film for a number of reasons. The cinematography is some of the greatest the screen has ever seen, and to go along with that style is more substance than you can shake a stick at. It's a shame that it didn't nab a few Oscars but even more of a shame that it didn't even get nominated for best picture. However, how often does the Academy even come close to getting it right? Children of Men is better than the value of any award.

  • i love this movies keep on the good work

  • i love this movies keep on the good work

  • Amazing camera work,you thought you're almost there!I watched the movie via youtube and still it was much much impressive!

  • an amazing movie , a masterpiece

  • este trailer arruina la pelicula 

  • Best LONG TAKE Ever!

  • Great movie... but i think too accidental script for such difficult issue as it's shown in the movie. Too much action. Too much killing. Too much rebellion crap. The apocalypse is shown too dramatic. I believe in situation like shown in the movie the girl would be served best medical help You can imagine, served from anyone.

  • To everyone asking why this film wasn't considered for Oscars, it was. It was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

  • If this is some of the greatest camera work in movie history, then I have a couple of questions for you: 1. What do you think a camera work is? 2. What movie history are you talking about?

    Movie history is fortunately much more than technological progress.

  • @militodiego The poster is referring to the film itself, not the trailer.

  • @spfccsmft I'm talking about the movie as well. Complex actions in long takes with almost impossible camera movements make neither a better camera work nor a better film. It all depends on the meaning of the image.

    But let's say movies are better when the camera work is amazing. Then I disagree once again with you, I refuse to put this movie in the same category of films directed by Murnau, Ophuls, Tarkovski, Bergman, O. Welles, D. Sirk, Eisenstein..etc. They do know how to impress.

  • @militodiego You don't have to put it in the same category, but complex action shots are just as much a part of the art of cinematography as anything those directors did. I understand this doesn't as impress you as much, and those other directors were certainly much more groundbreaking, but that doesn't mean this isn't great camera work.

  • Good film. Looks and sounds great in BluRay.

  • extraordinary movie

  • what the fuck is this?

  • I seriously why wasn't this considered in oscars.Atleast for best Cinematography,Script,Director­..

  • COUGH COUGH!!!!

    MMMMMMMMMMM FRUITY!!!!!

  • The car scene was main technically interesting shot in the film. It was a nicely directed film, but definitely doesn't come close to the title. There is no such thing, fortunately, as with stories there is no greatest just a host of ones that grab us in one way or another. Consider this against any of Antonini's films, or Orson Wells' Touch of Evil, Kubrick, Max Ophuls, Chris Doyles work on Wong Kar Wai's films, Fassbinder, Godard or kurosawa. I respect your passion, Its just a bold statement.

  • @SBWaffelmann They are different... each great in their own way...

  • whats the name of the song

  • @JordoF6 sigur ros - glosoli

  • @CRAZYslowpoke Nope, it's sigur rós - hoppípolla

  • @FredUhrbrand my bad lol, only heard of them a few days ago.

  • this film is about 9/10 strife and about 1/1000000 a happy ending. I'm sorry but I've read the plot synopsis and that's

  • @MrGodkid yeah, shit ending

  • This is not a very good trailer. It has a far more uplifting tone than the actual movie and, thus, does the movie a disservice.

  • One of my favorite films . absolutely genius! this trailer gives away way too much though!

  • I thought it was quite cheesy. Kinda interesting idea, but script needed serious work to turn it into anything else but summer fare.

  • I love the camera work in this movie.

  • who was the DP in this film??

  • @imansutiki Lubezki

  • @Tribefull THANKS!!!!!

    

  • Just watched this movie.  Bought for 3.00 quid from Asda. I feel guilty having paid so little because it truly is a great film. I agree that it breaks away from the routine predictable movies that have been produced for decades. It has a fantastic story, a dedicated and talented cast. The cinematography is captivating. I was enthralled. A+++ If you haven't already watch it!!!

  • movie name pls?

  • @lightsweep

    childrens of men

  • i admit it had a good plot but it was ruined by some shit dialogue and a non-existant ending.

    and why does the director think making us watch him put on flip flops for 20 seconds would be entertaining?

  • This and The New World best two films of the 00's.

  • kill all illuminati's & new world order member.s. destroy the fake govt of USA & also of NATO. (i am saying kill the govt only, not normal & innocent people)

  • As someone who also loves the camera work in Children of Men, I wanted to let you know that I used clips from your upload in my fan vid about "The Hunger Games." I hope TPTB use Alfonso Cuaron & Emmanuel Lubezki in the final movie of the trilogy (Mockingjay). My fan vid has Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Hunter Parrish as Peeta, Jadagrace as Rue, Chloe Moritz as Prim, and J.D. Pardo as Gale. Thank you for making this video.

  • @1raraavis I think Alfonso Cuaron's take on some of the scene's in Mockingjay would be simply fantastic :D

  • @MyHallelujah I totally agree (obviously). He's one of a very small group of people who I think could bring an appropriately beautiful subtlety to what would essentially be a film about a violent, chaotic world on the eve of destruction. It would be a shame is they "disneyfy" a book that exemplifies the contrast between quiet, total personal loss and echoing destruction. Just because something is labeled YA doesn't mean that the audience needs a sanitized, sparkly version...IMHO

  • I wish somebody would upload the the "Ruby Tuesday" scene. I tear up every time I see it.

  • @kungfujones1

    just another great thing about this movie; its use of (good) music

    there is even some dubstep in there fukin awsome piece of filmmaking