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Originally Posted by Festered
Are you talking about the lukewarm American version or the brilliantly intense German version of Michael Haneke's film? The original I recommend. I haven't seen the US vers. on DVD yet. No rush.
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The American version. Have not seen the German version. The English version -- with the usually very good Naomi Watts -- was simply an awkward, thoroughly puzzling experiment in gratuitous violence. Now I'm all for beheadings, limbs being torn off, and occasional forays into cannibalism as long as it connects in some way to the characters and the plot. "Funny Games" doesn't try for a plot -- and provides nothing in way of motivation for the characters -- who are all cliches.
Quite frankly, the most frightening part of the movie was Watts' terrible hygiene while cooking.