Michael Pitt was really good in this and he is a very underrated actor. I enjoyed the parts especially where he would look into the camera and talk to the audience.
What an incredible movie. Most movies glorify violence, destruction, and mayhem, while this movie shows the true face of it. It tortures it's audience with a mix of brutality and humour and keeps you thinking of it long after the credits finish rolling. And boy is it funny! The constant bickering between "Peter" and "Paul", the giddiness of which they carry out their torturing, and the shattering of the fourth wall provide multiple laughs for the audience. This movie was truly a masterpiece.
I saw this movie in... 2015? 2016? Years after it came out, and almost a decade later found myself googling "movie guys borrow eggs" because it's still on my mind. Absolutely shows the true face of it - well put.
@@iREP87 sure, here's a heads up: there is a scene where the mother is forced to strip naked and get objectified before being allowed to put her undergarments back on. The scene doesn't go any further than that, she's not touched and nothing lower than her collarbone is shown, but it's still HIGHLY uncomfortable. If you're sensitive to scenes of SA, it may be too much for you.
The point is that they were never going to escape, their fate was sealed by the movie’s script. The scene where Paul rewinded the scene emphasized this point.
Remember Haneke made this movie and said "if you manage to sit through the entire movie without walking out....your part of the problem I am pointing out". Film is basically a big fuck you to the audience.
+Lewis C I just wanted to see the ending man :( this movie made me feel extremely unnerved, I really wanted to stop watching it. (got so happy when they left for a while, wish it stayed that way)
+Lewis C so i'm guessing you were too wimpy to sit through the whole thing? i'll be honest i fucking hated this movie but i sat through the whole thing....why? because i was hoping the family would fight back and at least kill one of those little bastards, that's why. was i disappointed at the end? yes. did i enjoy anything about the movie? nope. would i ever watch it again? nope i'd like to see what the point of this movie was though
Oh don't get me wrong I'm not pointing fingers or saying people are awful because the they manage to watch it. I just think, well know from interviews he's done, that haneke intentionally made it too make a point about voyerusim. I'll say this he's a great film maker but he does sometimes come off as aloof and disdainful towards people in general. the concept of this film is incredible even if the actually film itself is not.
This movie is meant to break the rules that American mainstream movies are made of and that viewers abide to. This is the greatness of this film, it's been made by someone with great insight into human psychology. When I watched Hostel I was surprised that despite the amount of gore and disgust nobody left the theatre. When Funny Games was in theatres a multitude of people left after 30 minutes.
really? hahah what a bunch of pussies. I bet they left when the kid died. The average sheep movie viewer has to be spoon fed a happy ending where Naomi's watt's character overpowers two guys twice her size (yeah right!) or they won't be happy. Either that or the reverse time bait probably got those ppl, they were cheering and then the film took it all away from them lmao. I bet they walked out after either of those 2 parts in a huff. I would have heckled them.
That would be me. I couldn't watch more than about 30 minutes of this without getting very upset. I don't know what's the matter with you people that you can sit and watch something like this and call it your favorite movie. Yes, it's brilliantly made but that makes it all the more hideous.
I have to be honest, if you’ve seen this movie and hated it there is a good reason for it. The movie is black comedy personified. This movie is pure creative energy. If you look at this movie as a horror movie you’ll be disappointed, if you look at it as self-aware comedy it’s a masterpiece. Listen closely to the ending, there is a point in the movie where he rewinds the movie to prevent dying, he breaks the fourth wall multiple times. After watching this recently I established a whole new appreciation for it. I watched it when it came out and enjoyed it but I have to say I enjoy it a lot more now and see it as a must have to my collection.
That's what I loved about the movie. Where there is no hope at the end and the bad guys win. Every single horror movie is the same shit, happy ending. Btw the remote scene was made to make you feel like the movie has no chance of changing. Everybody's going to die and the family lost the bet.
uhm.. most horror movies end up with a twist and a bad ending so i don't know what you're talking about. other than that,,i agree that the movie was really good!!
@@lukess.s actually no. most horror films end with a "fake" happy ending twist or with everyone good dead. dont know what horrors youve been watching lol
Ed Zung You have to have a disturbed mind to think killing and torturing is a funny game, thats why it's tittled so. Two mentally disturbed individuals going out and killing just for the fun of it.
I loved that film, because I didn't get what i was expecting. Most people who doesn't like it, also hear and see mainstream music and films, same chords and plot over and over again. They want their heros, and rather like open-endings than unsatisying ones. I've got a recommandation for all of those: Transformers 4.
Grow up a little bit, find some sort of happiness (if your mental health allows that) and then turn on the news for a week and realize this is the silliest most unrealistic piece of wanna be horror and then you'll perhaps be able to find some real horror works in cinema. If you still find this appealing after those lengthy and for yourself difficult processes then you either need to seek counseling or perhaps enroll in some sort of online college course to better understand human interaction ;)
I would argue that it does in the sense that it tricks the audience into thinking it's a typical horror movie where the family wins, which is what the movie actually does multiple times.
I love the way the two antagonists play off each other. Paul has a charming confidence and Peter has a shy endearing nature(well they do at first lol).
If people would pay attention to the boat scene and dialogue between Peter and Paul, when he pushes her into the water, you could get a lot more from this movie. The boat dialogue is on purpose. The director already tells us the point of the movie but he also gives us a window to theorize imo. My take/theory on the movie; there are two constants, Peter & a family/sidekick. The family/sidekick are a random type of "actors in the movie", this is one of the reasons he keeps calling him random names of the past sidekicks who make mistakes and everything else. Peter is trapped in a typical horror movie, but he becomes aware of this and learns people are watching and hoping for the turnaround for the family. The time when they defeat the bad guys. It's apparent that he gets annoyed at so many things, even with his sidekick who clearly shows he's not aware he's in a movie. It's a cycle that he keeps punishing viewers for expecting the inevitable "tables turning". It's his only form of communication. He's in the anti-material world. He addresses us and is aware of us completely. He has games that he finds funny with the audience, since the family(s) of each different movie's anti-material-multiverse, they seamlessly visit, are not real. He learns powers to rewind, interact, reset the day and prey on our desire to escape and root for the family(s). The family(s) never realize a reset and the boat is a kind of gateway to the next lake family(s), beginning of the movie. His disdain for the rules of the game he made up and the growing annoyance of repeating scenarios will only heighten and get more severe with each new audience. He's not going to leave you with any positivity or letting any hero's save the day unless one finds a way into the anti-material world. Not a perfect theory but how I see it.
I don't think it's any of that, I think that this is just a movie that questions why you're watching it. Is it for the gore? Well, you get none of that, all the violence is conveniently offscreen. Action? You're forced to sit through over half an hour of nothing partway through. Drama? Utterly shattered by the TV remote. Hope? Dashed by the same thing, and doubly so when they toss the knife away in the boat. What else does a slasher film have to offer? ...So the reason he brings up fiction - and then stares right at the audience in the last shot - is because if you're still watching and haven't walked out of the theater at that point, it must be because you're sick in the head, exactly like him. The only thing this movie truly has for you is cruelty, made as realistic as possible. Your mind is in the fiction, it's "real" enough to you to keep watching despite denying you any reason to continue, and so in the end all you've really done is watch a "real" family get tortured for no greater purpose. That's pure evil.
@@TooFewSecrets you're projecting your own preferences. At least OP introspected and put forth his theory. Yours is just some subjective rant about evil based on your feelings. Imagine this reductive rant about a happy Christmas film or kids movie, it would make equally no sense. It's only use is for morally outraged ppl who want to agree. OP's theory was way better. I got tons from the film.I loved the atmosphere, the tension, the characters (imagining what their upbringing was etc) and dozens of other things. It wasn't meant to be a slasher...If you walk out of the theatre I think it says more about you being a dull conforming idiot honestly.
My god, never expected this film to get this much hate. Look, if you wanna see something more different than what you are used to, then I would recommend this movie. Michael Haneke is a fucking fantastic director with such a fascinating style and has no absolutely no problem making original films. But if you decide too watch this on a slow friday night, expecting too see another typical horror movie, you will probably be dissapointed. The problem with these types of films, is that you sometimes have to know what you are about too watch.
This movie was incredible, if you can even call it a movie (I think it was more of an experience). If you like films that leave you feeling uneasy, and shaky, then you will love this. Very Clockwork Orange!
Absolutely brilliant film. the two young killers are ingeniously written and the storyline is very original. It's more an experience or a mind exercise rather than a standard film. It raises some very good points and i like the challenging nature of it. Would be interesting to see those characters again, but i doubt it was ever intended for a sequel.
It's just a movie about movies, it's pretty obvious, it is said several times in the movie. The title is not cynical, it is really a comedy. A comedy about violent movies, that's all.
coming at this from a more modern day horror fans view point (as in I was to young to comprehend movies when this was released) from the trailer it doesn't really seem scary at all, I've seen people talk about how disturbing it is but honestly the music choice makes it seem more like a weird dark comedy thats a parody of "the strangers" like the content looks like it could be scary but the editing(as said before, mostly the weird music choice) and some of the torture's lines seem to contrast. maybe things were different in 2007 but nothing that takes it self seriously uses that nutcracker song.
This was one of the most disturbing, but thought provoking horror movies I've ever seen. Way better than The Strangers, Hostel, or The Last House on the Left!
I was wondering what the term Clockwork Orange meant, because I only heard the term as a passing reference. When I finally looked it up, the description reminded me of this movie I stumbled upon on HBO.
+The french Timelord have you watched the film? It's an absolute masterpiece in my opinion. And A Clockwork Orange is my all time favourite film, just because this one also has psycho characters doesn't mean it's a copy. A Clockwork Orange was more about violence and how society and the government deal with it. this movie is more about the nature of film, and how we use it as a means to explore our violent nature, since there's no consequences for us while we watch a film, we don't care, just like the crazy guys in the movie, in that sense the movie is basically exposing how much we are psychopaths by nature. both great films, but each deals with different themes in different ways, just because the trailer kind of remind us of a clockwork orange doesn't mean it's the same
Knurdyob Clockwork Orange also exposes how much we are psychopaths by using classical music with violent scenes. I laughed a lot while watching some. Of course they're different. But the trailer are almost the same, you can't deny it. I think that CO was an inspiration for FG.
The outfits look very similar... and the premise is not the same, but it is reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. Both movies give an important message to their respective audiences.
Torture porn. If you liked this movie you are emotionally inept and know, don't know or pretend not to know there is something wrong with you....or you're hipster who only watches movies when it bombs at the box office and fails with critics.
It was just a joke; obviously, I didn't mean it as a serious generalization. And believe it or not, I really like this movie. If I was offensive, I didn't intend to be. Lighten up, and learn to laugh a little buddy :)
nah, the music used in the trailer captured that it was all just a big 'game' for the antagonists. If the music was darker the trailer would make the film seem like a generic horror film. The music they chose made it stand out. Just puttin' my two cents in.
what's up with the rewind scene? I think it was a technique from the director to cancel any satisfaction felt at the time it happened first, guess he's way obsessed with disturbing your brain
AJ10 FCB Aeroldoth3 I had a different interpretation. I felt it was a statement that is saying that deep down people enjoy watching the bad guys win. They created two realities to demonstrate that even though you may say you want the protagonist to win that is often a lie. When she shot the guy there was less satisfaction because deep down we want them to win. There is also no reason why the guys are being cruel other then for our (views) entertainment. The games that they are playing are for us. They break the forth wall to involve us in the situation. It makes you question how messed up we are as a society.
+LOIZOS V the film isn't supposed to be taken too literally. You are meant search for the hidden meanings or the feeling/feelings the director intended you to feel instead of watching the film for how realistic the plot/scenes are. It's really just up to how you interpreted it...
this is honestly a really bad trailer. i just watched it in full and haven't formulated an opinion quite yet, but it's a lot different than what this trailer makes it out to be. it makes it seem like a comedy horror like Scream or something. plus taking the scene of Naomi Watts stripping and using that as "sensual" footage is kinda shitty and misses the point of that whole scene.
+dan ”dan dan dan dan dan” terlizzi Have you seen A Clockwork Orange? This movie is sooo inspired by that one. Just compare the trailers. They're the same. It's a reference.
thats. the. whole. point. its making fun of people that like movies like the ones this trailer seems to be. Thats why it cuts "brilliant" and "awesome" in between shit like "evil" and "dangerous"... its mocking people that get off to generic ass horror movies and bla bla cliche trash everyone loves it if the characters just fucking die a bloody death. Its a middle finger to shallow entertainment
i think....because the audience automatically roots for the good guys, its conventional for things happen in their favour, (Anne shooting peter, the knife conveniently slipping in the boat) that the film maker leads you to believe they have a shot and constantly fucks with us into believing the possibly of a happy ending. even Paul speaks with the audience in some scenes, asking us what we think. and the ending...you have to admit you didn't expect that.
I haven't seen it, but I get the feeling they try to copy Clockwork Orange, but changed it enough for people to defend that it's nothing like Clockwork Orange...
I know this might be hard to COMPREHEND for someone who can't spell COMPREHEND, but, believe or not, an awful lot of people 'got' this movie. Please don't judge everyone by your own low standards.
In the movie I saw part of, there was an older brother who got hit with the golf club. Can someone please help me figure out what movie I'm thinking about?
My thoughts on this movie: I kept waiting throughout the movie for there to be some turning point, where the family stops getting tortured and gets revenge. But no, at the end, all I felt was frustration, and disappointment. I think this movie was trying to go for one of those huge twists that happen in many psychological horor movies like this one. But it didn't really pull through. If you want to watch an hour or people crying and being tortured without gore, be my guest.
Saw it last night (personally I wasted my time and should have tried to sleep..,lol. but nothing else on) I can answer this question if you really want it.
Actually the whole movie is here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gvWW0dajKl0.html , you can just just skip to 1:39:46 and get your answer.
BUT IF THE GOOD GUYS DONT WIN I CANT FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF VICARIOUSLY!!!! I hate people claiming a movie sucked because it didn't fulfill their stupid power fantasies and trick them into thinking the world is a better place.
i don't think thats why they didn't like it. This isn't an enjoyable movie to watch. It's well acted but it's trying to make a point. Which is not really cinema. just write an essay...
nanoaug I think some, or most just say it sucked because it seemed unrealistic on certain parts. Regardless of the ending, as long as it's realistic is what people want. The more realist the better which movie directors are aware of, but then again life doesn't always play out like we want them to so its kinda hard to make a movie realistic to the point where it seems like real life which would rather be creepy asf in a way
@@dazzkhan2299What was it you didn't like? I'm very curious. I remember this movie being hilariously sick, perverse and shocking. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and am confused why anyone wouldn't like it.
This movie is designed to annoy you and put you in an uncomfortable mood, you can see it right from the start where the classical music turns into an annoying super loud death metal. Thats what the seen with the remote did too, it made you feel good for a moment and then took it away.
The problem of this movie is that nobody gets the point. It is a criticism of society and the glorification of violence. The aim of the movie is to make violence look as it is: pointless and horrible.
I think the film is trying to say violence is pointless a little more than sickening. The entire film breaks so many rules. It doesn't really even have a point, its almost frustrating. Just like violence.
Not everyone will have the same point of view as me about the two men as antagonist, but the reason why they’re antagonists at the beginning didn’t seem that clear for me.
you can't call that a remake , all the scenes are EXACLTY the same . what is the point of 100% copying a movie . A good example is "the hill have eyes" by alexandro aja , this remake try new things and does it better than the ogriginal one , this is the point of a remake . i just don't see why they did a new funny game ... just to swap the actors and have a better picture ?
