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Film The Redcafe Movie review thread
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
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Perfect Sense: A quite poetic and surprisingly moving drama based around the importance of the human senses and the ensuing problems as human beings begin to lose them amidst the outbreak of what seems like a pandemic. Enjoyable in parts and mostly well constructed with a decent sense of its own poetry, it does however have occasional moments that don’t quite fit together as well as some of the more successful parts and the movie takes a bit of a dip in the final 3rd before redeeming itself somewhat with a good poetic ending. Both the main performances by Ewan Mcgregor and Eva Green lack a little polish in small parts (neither are good on screen criers) but are overall good enough to carry the piece well and as mentioned it does have a good ending which thankfully does not feel like a cop out. Good, solid small budget movie that is based around an interesting idea and whilst it doesn’t always pull off parts of that premise as well as it might, it still has some good to decent high points.
6.5/10
6.5/10
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Force Majeure - seriously uncomfortable viewing. Asks some very awkward questions and draws a lot of tension out of very little plot. Quite impressive.
I really wanna see that one, Östlund is a poignant director.
Jessabelle
Horror movie about a woman that moves in with her father after she breaks her legs in a car accident. There is then an evil spirit in her family home which is linked to some VHS tapes her dead mother made for her. Starts off really well and the feel of the film is refreshing, mainly due to where it is set but becomes rather convoluted in it's final act. Good attempt, but if the pay off matched the setup, it could have been great as there are some moments of great suspense 7.5/10
Horror movie about a woman that moves in with her father after she breaks her legs in a car accident. There is then an evil spirit in her family home which is linked to some VHS tapes her dead mother made for her. Starts off really well and the feel of the film is refreshing, mainly due to where it is set but becomes rather convoluted in it's final act. Good attempt, but if the pay off matched the setup, it could have been great as there are some moments of great suspense 7.5/10
I have that to watch, sound pretty decent.
The annoying thing is that it could have been excellent but the more they reveal, the more silly it becomes
7.5 is generous. It reminded me a lot of The Skeleton Key...and every other horror film of that ilk tbh.
Lucy
Worst movie I've seen in a long while. 1+1/10 (+1 for Scarlett)
Worst movie I've seen in a long while. 1+1/10 (+1 for Scarlett)
Cheers , I quite like Skeleton, looking forward to it, thats my Sunday night at work sorted.
But ok, I can look past this for the sake of story telling (Limitless had something similar, and was a much better movie). The whole movie is just incredibly bad.
Ran - For the first time, I really don't know if I liked or hated a movie (to be fair, I was tempted to not finish it a few times). It was just weird. The acting was, I don't know why. Not familiar with Japanese culture (especially the old one) but I really find hard to believe that actual humans might have acted like people on Kurosawa movies. To make things even worse, the main character and the antagonist were acting like in theater, not in the movie.
About the movie, well the story was basically an extreme Japanification of King Lear. It was done well, I think. Couldn't for the life of me understand why the second son practically decided to kill his wife because of the wife of his brother (which he killed) only after a few minutes she put a knife near his neck, and told him that she doesn't care for her dead husband, she cares only for herself.
Couldn't understand why people tolerated the fool. Yes, he's a fool but he was bloody annoying.
More importantly, couldn't understand how someone, anyone can love or respect the main character. He wasn't King Lear (who was quite clearly a fool). He was a ruthless monster who has spent 50 years fighting and killing, including innocents, women and childs. He killed for fun and didn't had any sympathy for him, when he went mad or when his third son got killed. minutes after they refound each other.
One of the most nihilistic movies I have ever seen!
I would put it as a combination of Ben Hur (on the level of epicness) and The Room (on the level of looking a comedy despite not being planned to be so). 7/10
About the movie, well the story was basically an extreme Japanification of King Lear. It was done well, I think. Couldn't for the life of me understand why the second son practically decided to kill his wife because of the wife of his brother (which he killed) only after a few minutes she put a knife near his neck, and told him that she doesn't care for her dead husband, she cares only for herself.
Couldn't understand why people tolerated the fool. Yes, he's a fool but he was bloody annoying.
More importantly, couldn't understand how someone, anyone can love or respect the main character. He wasn't King Lear (who was quite clearly a fool). He was a ruthless monster who has spent 50 years fighting and killing, including innocents, women and childs. He killed for fun and didn't had any sympathy for him, when he went mad or when his third son got killed. minutes after they refound each other.
One of the most nihilistic movies I have ever seen!
I would put it as a combination of Ben Hur (on the level of epicness) and The Room (on the level of looking a comedy despite not being planned to be so). 7/10
Impostor
Sci-Fi flick starring Gary Sinese, based on a book, I think from the author of the books Blade Runner and Total Recall stemmed from. It had some good ideas and the themes of paranoia in society came across well. The twist at the end got me good too. Shame the middle of the film was just one chase scene after another. Probably worth a watch if you are mad into sci-fi 6/10
Sci-Fi flick starring Gary Sinese, based on a book, I think from the author of the books Blade Runner and Total Recall stemmed from. It had some good ideas and the themes of paranoia in society came across well. The twist at the end got me good too. Shame the middle of the film was just one chase scene after another. Probably worth a watch if you are mad into sci-fi 6/10
What a load of crap
Kurosawa was a well known admirer of the silent film and much of the acting is "overacting" because it reflects the acting of that era that he adored. I tried to search for a source to back this up and in doing so I came across this snippet which might go some way to explaining the influence of silent film on his films.
"During this period his older brother, Heigo, became a benshi – providing live dialogue and sound effects to silent films during the 1920s. Kurosawa was very close to his brother, and when the introduction of sound films left Heigo unemployed and depressed, his subsequent suicide had a marked effect on the younger sibling."
http://oneroomwithaview.com/2014/01/10/a-beginners-guide-to-akira-kurosawa/#ixzz3IsmdqT9Q
Another one to watch , I like Gary Sinese.
Following - Nolan's first movie. Considering all things, it was brilliant. One of the best ultra-low budget movies I have ever seen. And it is clear to see how some elements of Nolan later movies started here. The acting is infinitely better than on Primer (which costed around the same). And the characters are portrayed very well. So yeah, an intelligient short movie which is worthy to be watched. 8/10
The main guy's a bit wet, but the guy playing Cobb (*cough* Inception name *cough*) is great.
I remember thinking it was nowhere near as smart/clever as it thought it was.
Big Hero 6
Stunning graphic, so so plot normal Disney movie (nobody's too bad, and the good guys is just too good, morality cliche et al), but Baymax does make the movie, the thing about pixar/disney movie was that the character and animation are so adoring that you find yourself laughing at them doing the simple thing (like literally walking) and that's enough to make you laugh.
All and all, an entertaining flick, not sure if it's worth the 3D, but my guess is that it will be even better.
7/10
PS: Gonna watch Kungfu Jungle soon, looks good on trailer
Stunning graphic, so so plot normal Disney movie (nobody's too bad, and the good guys is just too good, morality cliche et al), but Baymax does make the movie, the thing about pixar/disney movie was that the character and animation are so adoring that you find yourself laughing at them doing the simple thing (like literally walking) and that's enough to make you laugh.
All and all, an entertaining flick, not sure if it's worth the 3D, but my guess is that it will be even better.
7/10
PS: Gonna watch Kungfu Jungle soon, looks good on trailer
The Japanese does tends to go overboard with their portraying in movies when they decided to go theatrical. You should see the recent Japanese crap they does tend to seriously overact. But I guess it's part of their nature of being overly expressive... /shrug
on Ran itself, the way I symphatise is that he lost everything at his old age due to the simple thing of greed. I guess the thing with Kurosawa's movie is that the character feels so human, there's no redeeming character, they're just plain human we can attribute ourself with.
Building an empire big enough for his 3 son to split, finally doing the noble thing of retiring, but fate can be cruel, who would have thought this carefully and smart moves still ended up in his sons killing each other despite him leaving them with their own territory. It connects alot if you're an older person
You should watch the Seven Samurai as well
Nah, that's Insheeption
Have watched Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Yojimbo. Yojimbo easily my favorite from Kurosawa movies. Now have to watch Ikiru and Hidden Fortress (the movie which served as inspiration for the first Star Wars).
I agree with you for all things you said about Ran. Just that I didn't felt sympathy for the main character because he was evil, a monster. He got what he deserved IMO. I also understand the part for overacting (I mentioned the main character and the wife of his son to exagerate but then read that it was deliberate, and they were acting in Noh way). Anyway, I don't like overacting, and on English movies, I found North for Northwest the worst when it comes to it.
Run Lola Run - what a batshit crazy movie this was! If there are movie rules, then this movie has broken them all. Tarantino, Rodriguez and co movies look completely normal if you compare with this.
Saying that I absolutely loved it. Crazy, but awesome crazy. Which means that it was incredible fun on those 75 minutes it lasted.
Also, how much did Franka Potente trained for all that running she had to do (in full speed) on this movie?
Just saw that the director, was also codirector (with The Wachowskis) for Cloud Atlas, which is also a crazy movie. 8/10
Saying that I absolutely loved it. Crazy, but awesome crazy. Which means that it was incredible fun on those 75 minutes it lasted.
Also, how much did Franka Potente trained for all that running she had to do (in full speed) on this movie?
Just saw that the director, was also codirector (with The Wachowskis) for Cloud Atlas, which is also a crazy movie. 8/10
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I've seen it all now.
Wizards - Pretty shoddy stuff but imaginative and works well with weed.
Birdman - Absolutely brilliant cinematic work. Watch it. Then watch it again.
Tess - Nice visuals, nice music, nice language, nice girl, nice film.
Nah it was great.
Yeah, but you love Forrest Gump.
I don't love it, I just don't think it's 'evil'!
That's because you're an even bigger fool than the fool in Ran.
Watched The Possibilities are Endless tonight with Edwyn & wife in attendance for a Q&A then an acoustic set afters. It's a great story and he's such a warm, engaging character, as is his wife.
Has Adrian Durham started writing film reviews?
I've heard nothing but great things about this movie. Hope it pushes Keaton back into the mainstream.
Wasn't bad but thought the last time she started running was one too many.
That overrated series started well, not surprisingly given Bradshaws their lead film guy, but then it just went all modern with obvious backlash stuff everyones read everywhere already on Dark Knight, TWBB, and I've forgot the other 2. I wouldn't be surprised if Slumdog or Crash ended up being the next one. Modern films are too easy, theres endless films with like 85%+ on RT that probably don't deserve that, but when the level of modern mainstream cinema is so low, critics have to praise something...
Begin Again - 8/10
One of those few feel good movies that would leave you smiling even when you walk out of the cinema. Add Keira Knightly, a soundtrack worth humming throughout a day, and a very novel and interesting idea of how to make/record albums, and you would have a near perfect recipe for a movie.
One of those few feel good movies that would leave you smiling even when you walk out of the cinema. Add Keira Knightly, a soundtrack worth humming throughout a day, and a very novel and interesting idea of how to make/record albums, and you would have a near perfect recipe for a movie.
Huge performances from the cast in general, but especially him.