Haneke's FUNNY GAMES (remake) discussed on Late Review

Mark Kermode et al discuss Heneke's 2007 remake of Funny Games

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Film & Animation

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• funny
• games
• remake
• michael
• haneke
• review
• mark
• kermode

[geezpleez]

The point of Funny Games is that it forces you to to address your relationship to movie violence: why is violence in a film only valid if it's thrilling or offers you some sort of redemption at the end? Funny Games gives you neither of these payoffs, so to call the film "senseless" is actually more of a compliment than an insult; it proves how effective the film is in delivering its central message: violence is worthless.

[WankstaProductions]

that girl who was talking about naome naked is retarded

[TedGoranson69]

Haneke is just another prude moralist, only instead of wearing the clothes of a religious zealot he wears the clothes of a secular liberal. I enjoy violence in film and I will continue to enjoy violence in film, and Haneke can wag his finger at me all he likes, but I really could care less what someone who's willing to film an actor actually killing an animal and put that footage in his film thinks of me.

Haneke strikes me as a closet sadist, anyway. All of his films are fixated on suffering.

[SirMoebbelsKerr]

lol @ at all the furious fanboy comments

[dvg87]

I think Haneke tries to get rid of any redemption whatsoever towards violence in any film, since even in films where there´s no good guy or anything (and these are in my opinion the best ones) and after just having one hour and thirty minutes of slashin´and slicin´, we still can seat back and enjoy and watch the next film, this time with Bruce Willis, and forget about violence entirely

[TheCandyHole]

@kralle7611 fuck Dawn of the Dead or the Hills have Eyes remake? Most are bad but Funny Games didn't do the original injustice

[fitzy098]

The genius with the original Funny Games was that the violence was very much implied. It also forewent convention by having an interactive element with its audience to heighten the impact of the violence being perpetrated against the family. This remake was a totally unnecessary retread and felt more akin to a home invasion movie; rather than a commentary on people's complacency with violence in the mainstream.

[MrKeepitunderyourhat]

@geezpleez But there are plenty of films that raised the same themes in much more intelligent, subtle and original ways. So not only is it like being shouted at by Haneke for two hours, it's not even an original concept.

[kralle7611]

fuck remakes.

[terratrema]

@korrekterelfer

I've always been wanting to ask this of someone with your opinion:

What exactly is wrong with wanting those two murderous psychopaths to get blown away with a shotgun. Why does that qualify as "bloodlust for revenge", which is clearly a bad thing in your view.

Why? Why?

[korrekterelfer]

"and then when the really awful thing is happening you rewind it - Oh, grow up!" This woman is stupid ^^ -

There is all this torture and when finally, you see the killing and blood you have desired but not were able to see all the time in this movie - then it gets rewinded and the satisfaction derived from your own bloodlust for revenge is suddenly diminished! It is so pointless to make a movie unsatisfying like that - oh. grow up!

It worked as it should. You didnt notice it, little girl. ;)

[korrekterelfer]

@sylvainthefrenchman

The guy wearing a tie understands it. And is aware that the others there dont. Discussion is useless. Either you get it or you are too frightened to accept what it is telling you. He is totally right when he says that people able to understand it would have been satisfied with seeing the original already. The brunette is the opposite, furiously whining about naivity she sees in it - confronted with her own immaturity in watching violence. She just doesnt want to accept it