Funny Games (2008)

Touches You

To me, this movie is perfection.

Memorable, crazy movie

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Suspenseful thriller that had me hooked till the end. What an annoying,ridiculous cop out ending. Ruined the whole film. Such a pity!

This is one of those "arthouse films" so I would take it with a grain of salt due to some quirky "indie" "artsy" choices that are made. Thats the best way I can put it without going into spoilers However as a home invasion film I think its a good movie. Give it a watch

Funny Games was made as in insult to those that love all things sick in their movies. The movie itself is relentless and brutal, evoking a reaction that other films in its genre struggle to, That being dread. Funny Games calls you a horrible person, while delivering an experience that impacted me more than a lot of other horror films. It excels at terrifying me. It's a hard film to watch, but it brings up questions that I think any horror fan should answer within themselves. Why do I watch this, what is the part of me that enjoys this?

Many others have written thoughtful critiques here, most of which cite the director's amazing scene-by-scene duplication of his original German film......okay.What got me about this film, almost more than any film I have watched, is the extraordinary graphic capture of psychopathy.That the two young white-gloved (nice touch: innocence, cleanliness, oblique reference to mimes, fingerprintless) captors embody complete lack of caring for others better than any other film characters I have seen---complete lack of empathy, or sympathy for that matter-- makes this the consummate movie to watch if you want to try to understand psychopaths.Ellison's character, Bates, in "American Psycho" comes close, but that film heavily redacted the violence portrayed in the book (which had they shown it would have gotten it blacklisted, probably)....still, this movie, even though violence is inferred and usually off-camera, manages to give the viewer a look at callousness in its purest form. In war movies, in movies about concentration camp abuses such as "Schindler's List" the callousness occurs in an ambiance of prison barbarity. Everything in that matrix conveys heartlessness------------but here, the setting is upscale Americana. Regular well-to-do folks, in their well-to-do-not-far-removed- lookswise-from-regular-homes vacation home setting. Thus the jarring juxtaposition of meaningless violence in upper suburbia has the effect of increasing the horror factor as it also ups the unease one experiences the entirety of the film.Watching a spider toy with its prey by moving in and biting the unlucky netted victim repeatedly and then beginning to wrap it before death has overtaken it -----gives some idea of how one feels when watching this movie. But the spider is gathering food. That's not the case here: everything that happens is gratuitous, without reason, without rational sense. That Micheal Pitts looks remarkably at times like young Donald Trump....? Just more icing on this truly sick, but amazingly powerful film about people using other people without any regard for them.I would give it a 10, and considering I am still shaking after watching it last evening it probably could be a 10.Not for the sensitive, or easily disturbed viewer at all.