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Time and Again (2007)
filmed on location
It is a nervous and exciting thing to see a film on the screen in a space so familiar to your life as your own house. I grew up in "the crazy aunt's" house in this movie. It was surprising to see how the floor plan of the house as it was in the movie changed from the way it actually is in real life. People would run through doorways and come into "the next room" only to be somewhere completely different, or they would come running down a stair case from a room that wouldn't make sense with where they had supposedly come from. Ahhh the magic of film huh?
As for the movie itself, I give it a high 6 to a 7 out of 10. It was better than I expected overall, however its always hard to get good acting out of a child and some of the lines seemed a little rough/weak either in their delivery or just in the dialogue. Its one that definitely does make you think. The plot is good but the character development would need a lot of work to turn this one into a theatre production. Besides, its only 1.5 hours--clearly made for TV.
Children of Men (2006)
refreshingly NOT filled with icons of America
This is the best filmed "end of mankind" movie I've ever seen. Usually these set-in-the-future, apocalyptic kind of films end up being clichéd and filled with overused crumbling Manhattan landmarks like they're the only buildings in the world that matter. And then invariably some nobody at the end has to (successfully) by "fluke" dodge 10,000 rounds of ammunition and rise to a challenge of running up the colors in true American heroism that ruins so many could-have-been good movies. I loved how this film had NONE of that. It was set in Britain in 2027 but it definitely took some political stabs at the whole "Homeland Security" stuff going on in the US right now. All that aside however, it was a film that took you right into the action. Many times it was all hand held, 1st person perspective filming like Saving Private Ryan meets The Bourne Identity kind of thing. I had seen the previews and I wasn't thrilled about seeing it but some friends dragged me along last night. I surprised even myself as I came out immediately raving about it.