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Rating:  - negative stars were not avaliable.......
Words cannot describe how horrible this movie was. I mean my god it was down right awful it sucked and it was the worst of all times, with no plot and the villians acting like they are talking to you. SUCKED !!! Do not waste your time........!!!
Rating: - Social Experiment? Perhaps, but what is proven?
Funny Games is a strange film. In fact, the term film only applies because (I assume) it was shot on film. Yet, it is intended as anything but a story. There is no arc. No discernible first, second or third act. Instead, the audience (who is on trial throughout) is served an enormous helping of judgment. You see, Funny Games is more of an excercise or experiment than a movie. We, the audience show up expecting to be scared or at least mildly entertained by a good story. Instead we are in so many words, accused of being violence-hungry heathens whose patronage of popular film implicates us as accomplices in the real-life violence we see every day.
I suspect most movie goers patently resent this implication. Violence and cruelty have been a part of the human condition since we've walked the Earth. Further, violence is a central component in some of the most famous literary works ever written (the Bible comes to mind).
The director of funny Games argues that violence exists in cinema (specifically American cinema) because we demand it, crave it, lust for it. He attempts to prove this by making a movie devoid of any story, that instead centers entirely around senseless violence. The idea being that our mere presence in front of the screen proves our guilt. I am confounded by this judgmental theory because it flies completely in the face of the most basic tenet of art...that art exists to comment on life. Violence and death happen in real life. Thus it should be reasonably expected that violence would be seen in art. And to no one's surprise it is seen in art, film being no exception. But so are love, pride, sadness, anger, depression, kindness, apathy, and all the other adjectives that sum up the whole of the human condition.
The director clearly has a very ugly view of humans in general. No doubt humans are capable of unspeakable violence. Yet I submit that violence in film represents nothing more than a vehicle to achieve a desired response in viewers. People do not crave violence on film for its' own sake. If that were the case there would be no need to include plots. We could simply line people up and slaughter them then roll credits. While the definition of entertainment may vary from one person to another, the simple truth is that in viewing a film, we seek to occupy our minds with compelling ideas, behaviors and situations. At their best, these cinematic experiences invoke thoughts and emotions which serve ultimately to remind us that we are alive. A good laugh perhaps. Or a good scare. Perhaps a story that reinforces our belief that good things happen to good people. Or maybe that bad things happen to all people irrespective of their moral compass. What we do not require is violence for violence's sake (which ironically is just what Funny Games is), nor is it necessarily true that film violence translates into real life violence. Last I checked, people have been killing and hurting one another since people have been in existence. Film has only been around a scant 100 years of that time.
Rating:  - The games people play
I have to admit that I expected something different from "Funny Games" - more of a suspense film than a horror flick. So I was shocked at times by the movie, although I think I would have been shocked regardless. Naomi Watts and Tim Roth star as Ann and George, a wealthy couple visiting their pristine lake-side vacation home with their young son, Georgie. When arriving, they see one of their neighbors and remind him about their planned golf game the next day. The neighbor acts oddly and introduces them to a preppy-looking young man of whom they take little notice. Later that day, the young man, Peter (Brady Corbet), visits their house and asks Ann to borrow some eggs. She thinks that the request is odd but acquiesces. Another young man, Paul (Michael Pitt), arrives, and Ann senses that something is wrong. When George and their son returns, she asks George to make the boys leave. That's when everything starts to go wrong. During the rest of the movie, the two boys torment the family, playing their "funny" mind games.
"Funny Games" is clearly different from the average horror film, in that it plays with the typical conventions of the genre. In doing so, it prevents the audience from having the catharsis these kinds of movies usually provide, such as seeing a final victim getting revenge against the killer. German director Michael Haneke ("Cache") likes to play games with his audiences, and he knows the material here well, as this version is a remake of his own 1997 foreign-language film. Although very little actual violence is shown on-screen, "Funny Games" is one of the most brutal and shocking movies I've seen. Unfortunately, the mind games Peter and Paul play with the family aren't enlightening or even entertaining and pale in comparison to the mind games played with the audience. While watching it, I was at times infuriated and irritated with the director. I was prepared to give "Funny Games" only 2 stars; however, it's been over a week since I watched the movie, and it's stuck with me in a way that most horror flicks don't. Although I didn't love the film, it's effective.
Rating: - What NOT TO DO if your home invaded
They will have to kill me before I just sit there and watch my family be tortured and killed right in front of me. Even if they kill me I guarantee you one or both of them are coming with me.
This movie is a good example of what NOT TO DO in a home invasion.
- THINGS THE FAMILY SHOULD HAVE DONE -
-Never trust ANY stranger know matter who the hell they are.
-Never let Any stranger or anyone in your house without being very sure of how to handle things if they go wrong.
-Train and drill your family in advance to be ready if things go really sour.
These three tips are just a few of the things this family SHOULD have done before and during the fact.
I know it's only a movie but these kind of things really happen all the time all around the world.
So stay sharp and aware my friends,
GOD Bless :)
Rating:  - Please Pass Me The Brain Bleach
After watching this brutal, supposedly satirical thriller, you too will wish you could cleanse your psyche of the lingering imagery and emotions. That's not to say the film is without merit, on the contrary, there's plenty to appreciate here - if you can stomach it.
The plot, which chronicles the merciless physical and psychological torture of a hapless family, will leave you wincing and wishing it would just be over. Yet, like a bumfight video on youtube, you can't look away even though you know you should.
The irony is that the purported purpose of the film is to mock our obsession with violence and its consumption as mass entertainment. One can debate the ethics of using the very methods one is criticizing to make a dramatic point, but there's no question that the concept is effectively executed here.
Hanekes scene by scene recreation of his original German work is both captivating and nauseating and arguably brings the film to the audience the director originally had in mind. You'll have to decide for yourself whether the ends justify the means, now please, pass the brain bleach.
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