Funny Games U.S.

This movie is about two psychos who try to play with people's lives. A couple with a kid come for vacation and they meet these 2 boys who tie them and torture them. The whole movie was slow and was very depressing. I would not recommend watching this movie as it has no story really.

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.... Full review

The purpose of "Funny Games" is to provoke and disturb the audience. It does this so well that you may not be able to watch it -- a curious thing for a filmmaker to shoot for, but hey, that's the Austrians... Full review

I had never heard of 'Funny Games' before I saw the trailer for the re-make of the German Original. I was really just expecting a run-of-the-mill horror/thriller movie that entertains, but is forgettable. When I finally saw the film my first... Full review

Normally I would never have seen this film, as I have vowed never to see any type of slasher/torture-porn. However after reading about the director's vision of trying to show the audience how sickening the watching of graphic torture for... Full review

Funny Games US is a motion picture study of two young psychopaths and the pain, suffering, and ends they inflict. In the end it gives just one line that justifies what actually took place and that line was unable to make... Full review

This may contain MILD spoilers.I like good horror/suspense movies in a genre which is full of PG-13 Asian Horror films that are Americanized or complete torture porn such as Hostel.I was hoping this movie would be different. Unfortunately, the director... Full review

this is not a movie so much as it is a statement, an essay, a motion picture installation. in it two angels visit a family, torture them for eight hours, then murder them. the family makes attempts to escape but... Full review

I had not read any reviews of this movie when I saw it last night. I came out of the theatre thinking I'd just watched an extremely well-acted, well thought-out movie about evil. This morning I read some of the... Full review

I thought this movie was brilliant. Not just for it\\'s commentary on the packaging and consumption of gratuitous violence as legitimate entertainment (btw, I myself hate violence and hollywood horror movies like Friday XIII and Hostel. THAT is gore porn (gorn).... Full review

's English-language remake of Funny Games is a dark, distressing thriller....Funny Games' takes the fun out of seeing bad things happen to others....After seeing Tim Roth whine his way through Reservoir Dogs (so you got shot in the stomach, walk it off already), it's always been a dream of mine to watch a two-hour movie about him getting tortured.....Home invasion movies usually play on our anxieties, tweaking us with images of ordinary people suffering through graphic violence (the best kind of violence).. ... Full Review

I can't recommend the film, though, even for its superb performances.....The music goes from tranquil Handel to unnervingly screaming punk rock guitar in the flash of an eye....Michael Haneke likes to inflict pain -....Roth is also strong as the helpless husband and father....Unfortunately, this cast is every bit as excellent as was the original..... ... Full Review

I am not necessarily saying it is a terrible film;....Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet were all terrific.....I was just disappointed I did not like it more.....However if films about home invasion bother you, avoid this one.....I realize this is an unconventional film, but even taking.... ... Full Review

Thereafter, the film becomes gradually more unpleasant and less involving....he likes his viewers much either.....In its original European version, his Funny Games was an unkind trick played on anyone naive enough to walk in expecting a psychological thriller.....Haneke scolds us for our bloodlust, yet leaves us wondering how the suffering of a fictional character can carry any weight at all.....Haneke slowly gives up the pretence.... ... Full Review

Thereafter, the film becomes gradually more unpleasant and less involving....he likes his viewers much either.....In its original European version, his Funny Games was an unkind trick played on anyone naive enough to walk in expecting a psychological thriller.....Haneke scolds us for our bloodlust, yet leaves us wondering how the suffering of a fictional character can carry any weight at all.....Haneke slowly gives up the pretence.... ... Full Review

By common consensus, Cannes 2009 is a cinephile's delight. The festival's competition is bulging with films from big-name, much-cherished auteurs. The question is whether they will all be on form. ... Full Article

Stephen King labeled it one of his favorite films of the year in his Entertainment Weekly column but I don't see the appeal of writer/director Michael Haneke's U.S. remake of his own film Funny Games (2007). ... Full Article

Julie Rigg In Michael Haneke's 1996 film Funny Games , two polite, well-spoken young men in tennis whites knock on the door of a middle-class family cocooned with their child and their dog in a prosperous holiday home. ... Full Article

So your average, white bread, upper class family takes a trip up to their secluded vacation house for a little summer getaway, hoping to get in a golf game with the neighbors and do a little light sailing on the... ... Full Article

Warner Home Video will release "Funny Games (2008)" on DVD this June 10th. The film, written/directed by Michael Haneke, stars Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, and Michael Pitt. ... Full Article

Many have not heard of Michael Haneke's 1997 German film Funny Games, I myself thought that it was mesmerizing and terrible at the same time, so when I read that he was making a remake with Naimo Watts and Tim... ... Full Article