Transcending the stereotype or possibly just fooling myself.

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Children of Men, is the best movie you won't see this month. You won't see it because you're still asking yourself, "Is he just making this shit up? I haven't seen any commercials for this movie." You're thinking of the name and it doesn't sound as entertaining as Snakes on a Plane or Samuel L. Jackson Continues Ruining the Stock of Black Actors.

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[spoonshake]

This is a pretty strong recommendation. I'll have to place this in the queue. Incidentally, I saw Pan's Labyrinth last night and I thought that was well done.

[spoonshake]

Just saw it. Holy shit. I can't imagine I will see a movie this year that I will enjoy more. I instantly got the 28 Days Later vibe from it, but it did so much more - far exceeded my expectations. The flaming car chase and the battle scenes at Bexhill were some of the most engaging things I've ever seen captured on film.

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I found out that the scene in Bexhill where the blood spatters onto the camera wasn't cut to clean the lens. Curon(spelling?), the director, kept the entire shot and had a tech guy digitize out the blood in each frame after a while. Just some brilliant shit right there.

The car chase and the couple of minutes preceding it = best driving scene I've seen on film yet. Introduce two new characters, develop a relationship between each of five different characters in a car just through their actions and short dialog, then immediately put them into a situation that seems completely unsurvivable. In, what, less than ten minutes? Not a wasted second.