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| Funny Games (2008) | 
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| Actors: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 4156
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 107
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD026359D
UPC: 085391176299
EAN: 0085391176299
ASIN: B00187FPC2
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr
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Michael Haneke is a modern master, which his spellbinding films Cache and The Piano Teacher proved to an international audience. When it came time for a Hollywood remake of his ultra-disturbing 1997 picture Funny Games, who better than Haneke himself to helm the new version? And indeed, the second Funny Games bears the impeccable sense of control and technique that the Austrian version had: it is a horrifyingly precise account of a family terrorized by two psychopathic young thugs at a vacation home. For anyone who's already seen the '97 film, this new one--a nearly shot-by-shot transcription of the original--will seem superfluous, no matter how impressive the performances of Naomi Watts and Tim Roth are. (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet are suitably creepy as their menacers, too.) For newbies, the movie might be as infuriating and thought-provoking as Haneke intends it to be. That's because Funny Games is an intellectual game itself, a direct rebuke to the audience that gobbles up gratuitous violence and cynical manipulation. Haneke sets up our expectations, and then refuses to provide the conventional catharsis… or the conventional anything. All of this was pretty bracing in the first go-round, but feels like gamesmanship in the remake. Even if you dig what Haneke's up to, this is a brutal movie-watching experience. --Robert Horton
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 Somebody owes me an hour and a half! December 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
About 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Not much I can say about how ridiculous this movie is that has not already been written. Two guys come into your home with no weapons and are able to hold you and your family captive and torture them while you do nothing??? I am not usually angered by the time I wasted watching a movie, after all, no one put a gun to my head to make me watch it, but after this one, I really felt I was robbed of precious time in my life. Even renting this movie is a waste of $2.50 that I wish I had spent on something more entertaining, like laundry detergent. What a waste!
3.5 Stars--Some genuinely, truly terrifying moments. December 26, 2008
At one point during Michael Heneke's American adaptation of "Funny Games," we watch as a young sadist fixes himself a sandwich, while his equally sadistic pal tortures a family off-screen. There is no swelling music: Just the sound of a television (NASCAR) and the groans and eventual screams...and all we see is a guy fixing himself a sandwich.
It's moments like this--and the long, one-take shot afterwards--that show the movie that "Funny Games" could have been. As is, the movie largely falls flat, mainly because we've seen this before. Two young home invaders (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) have decided to torment a well-to do family (Tim Roth, Naomi Watts, and young Devon Gearhart) at their summer home. Their games are as much psychological as physical, and what they do is truly terrifying...but we are a culture that has seen "Saw" and its immitators take torture to a whole new (if not always high quality) level.
"Funny Games" excels on the psychological note, but is almost too dependent on the threat of physical harm. Pitt, Roth, and Watts are spectacular as usual: Pitt has played this role before ("Murder By Numbers," where he was partnered with an evil Ryan Gosling) and so has it down pat; Watts is always good as the daring damsel in distress, unafraid to fight back; and Roth is just good in any role (although, arguably, he makes for a poor chimpanzee; but that's another film and another discussion). The dialogue is conversational and realistic, but certain things just never gel together. Ultimately, though the threats are realistic enough, it's just never threatening; we feel like we are watching two spoiled rich boys acting out violent fantasies, which is nothing revelatory, and ultimately has nothing new to offer the film-goer (the afore-mentioned "Murder By Numbers" suffered a similar fate, though this is by far a superior film). It certainly tries--especially with some "cinematic cheats" near the end, which come out as more frustrating than clever. This is more than "torture porn," but it's not the great psychological horror film it could have been. As is, "Funny Games" is little more than well-acted, bloody popcorn entertainment...which is certainly better than most horror films out there today.
 deeply disturbing art horror film that breaks all the rules December 20, 2008
Watching "Funny Games" is a bit like coming across a major accident on the highway - you know you should continue driving on past the scene, but you just can't keep yourself from slowing down and gawking at all the wreckage.
The premise of the story does not sound very promising at first, as the idea, or a simple variation of it, has served as the foundation for countless such films in the past: an innocent family of three is held hostage in their home by a couple of sadistic killers who systematically abuse and terrorize their victims for their own twisted pleasure.
So many horror movies are predictable and formulaic that it's a pleasant surprise to come across one that actually makes an effort to break free of its bonds and make its own way in the world. And, indeed, "Funny Games" busts through the horror movie conventions with an almost ruthless determination. In this Americanized version of a film he made in his native Austria in 1997, director Michael Haneke scrupulously avoids obvious camera setups and editing techniques, bypassing virtually every storytelling, visual or audio cliche endemic to the genre. There is no background music, for instance, to cue us into the scary moments, no screeching cats jumping out of the shadows, and no point-of-view shots designed to generate easy suspense. Unlike in most films of this type, the violence here happens in an entirely haphazard and random manner, making it all the more frightening in its unpredictability and plausibility. Haneke refuses to cater to the expectations of his audience, making them face the reality of the nightmare he's showing them rather than giving them what it is they may want to see.
Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet are cringe-worthy and terminally creepy as the smarmy psychopaths who get their jollies out of watching other people suffer, while Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and Devon Gearhart engage our full sympathy as the hapless victims who have come up against the blank wall of two twisted minds they are woefully unequipped to even understand, let alone wage battle against.
This is one of the most memorable and artful horror films of recent times, but it is also one of the most unnerving and difficult to watch. The movie gets into your bones, no matter how much your better angels may be telling you to keep it out. It's depressing and disturbing and is certainly not intended for all audiences, but it is a movie that it is very difficult to shake off once you've given yourself over to it.
Pointless Crap by a disturbed director December 20, 2008
This might be an all-time low in movie making. It ranks right up there with the worse films I have ever seen. I hear critics saying how masterful Michael Haneke is at spinning a thriller. If he were to walk into my home I would beat him to death with a golf club or slit his throat with his own DVD. Haneke is Trash and nothing more. He is a very disturbed person who has no business making movies. What a waste of time. I am severely disgusted at this movie and would not recommend anyone to buy it or watch it. I can't get over it, it's so unbelievably bad and pointless. This DVD will be fun to take out to skeet shoot with my 16 gauge this spring, if I can wait that long. Nah, I'm gonna have to destroy it quicker than that for I don't even want to have it in my house any longer.I can't even believe that he acquired the money to make this movie. Please don't waste your time with this trash. I have watched some very edgy movies, such as Eraserhead, The Ironman(japanese) and more off the wall stuff. I'm not some pure at heart movie critic, I rarely watch anything that comes out of Hollywood. I enjoy movies that dare to be different but this movie just plain su*ked. I wonder what Tim Roth and Naomi Watts will think about it in years from now. No more Haneke for me, he's a disturbed bum.
Don't make any excuses for this "movie" December 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Killers are able to rewind the movie to avoid their own death. When you finally get a moment of relief in the movie, they pull out a tv remote control and "rewind" it. Really? Really!
I get the point the director is making. Don't insult our intelligence. If I invest an hour and a half watching a movie, it needs to end correctly. Happy ending, sad ending, uncertain ending, whatever...
Its like the actors say, "Take the dvd out. Its over and we won and to hell with you." If you want the killers to win, make a plausible ending.
I got this for free from the library. Don't waste your money.
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