Control

Excellent movie and acting. Sam Riley brings back Ian Curtis in all his glory and despair.

Watch 24 hour party people instead.

Its in black and white, giving it a slightly underground/grunge-y type feel to it (which goes with the style of music played), I suppose, plus it highlights the bleakness of the north, where its set. I certainly felt sorry for Debbie. I'd say the mundanity of their married life is well portrayed. The live sessions featured sounded decent too. Its undoubtedly sad to see what apparently happened, although Ian Curtis was far from a perfect guy but it is a sad story never the less. A decent film.

Some of my science and philosophy teachers had a motto: "teach the mystery." That is, for most of the really big questions, there is no simple tangible answer that will make us feel in control. There is only an ongoing mystery that we can obliquely understand. "Control" shows us Ian Curtis as he appeared and does not try to explain. The music and lyrics speak for themselves, as do many of the seemingly erratic statements made by Curtis/Riley in the film.

If you're not a fan of Joy Division, you probably won't like this movie. Even I didn't like it the first time. Second time, I loved it. Directed by photographer Anton Corbijn who used to know the band

Marginally more interesting than a typical Oscarbait biopic, especially visually, but it ultimately fails its attempt to capture the liminality of Curtis, and he doesn't truly show up as a character until the last quarter. At its heart (especially given the source) it's nearly Debbie's movie anyway, and Morton delivers as always, with nice performances from Riley and Kebbell too. Ultimately, it may be that Curtis didn't have enough content in his life to sustain this particular type of focus.

Let's hope for more full length movies by Anton Corbijn.

Control is a look at the life of Ian Curtis through a series of gorgeous photographs. The photographs just happen to be moving. It seems that at any moment of Control, you could take a still image of it, and it would make a great photograph at any moment. Now there is a major problem with Control. We never really have a emotional connection with Ian Curtis. But how or weather or not you feel anything about the characters, it won't stop you from being taken away by the visuals.

Visually, Control is a really well-made movie and the cast, headed by Sam Riley, is really great. Unfortunately the movie fails to really establish any sort of emotional connection with the characters, meaning that it's not as engaging as it could have been. Solid nonetheless.

Just not that good. I only know one Joy Division song, and maybe that didn't help. But surely the film should be accessible to those who don't know the music. It wasn't. I was hoping for a "Walk The Line" type attempt, but it just wasn't there.

A well-made biopic about Ian Curtis, possibly showing that he wasn't everything he was cracked up to be.

One of the best movies about a rock band if not the very best.

I really liked this movie a lot. Sam Riley was amazing and not knowing a whole lot about Ian Curtis going in, I found the story to be fascinating and compelling. Really well done.