Comments on: Remakes Run Rampant: Funny Games (1997)

By: Movie Review: Funny Games (2008)

Movie Review: Funny Games (2008) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:06:28 +0000

[...] said this, my friend and fellow Geeks of Doom writer, Dr. Royce Clemens, wrote an excellent review of the original Funny Games. Whatever value I thought the original film had has been tarnished by [...]

By: mortally.com

mortally.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:48:13 +0000

[...] Dr. Royce Clemens takes a look at director Michael Haneke’s original 1997 German film, Funny Games. [...]

By: Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:07:03 +0000

Wow! A fantastic articulation of what’s wrong with this film. My god, YOU are a real writer of film criticism, as opposed to the jackasses who write for most of the major publications in this country. I’m glad I stumbled upon this site.

By the by, I think this film and the remake should be called “Two Useless White People Get Killed By Two Other Useless White People.” Not like it matters, because I know it’s not the point, but for the sake of logic there are about twenty different instances in the movie where Roth and Watts can do SOMETHING, ANYTHING to save themselves, and they don’t. Mind you, the antagonists are two snotty teenagers with a knife and a golf club. Not exactly the Terminator. Haneke’s intellectual masturbation would have frustrated me less had his protagonists proved somewhat independent and resourceful. Que Cera…

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:40:09 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself. We are reviewing the exact same film.