Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

SwansonsTache said:
Sounds fecking riveting, mate. I've waited for a movie that fully explores this exact subject.
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Wow, sarcastically making fun of another poster's taste in films, this is novel!

Been wanting to watch Burning for a while, I think they're still showing it in certain cinemas in Paris, I should try to catch it.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
Wow, sarcastically making fun of another poster's taste in films, this is novel!
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Yeah, it is not like people have taken the piss out of me and my fellow horror fans in here before. All in good fun though, no need to get all French about it.
 
That being said, I am curious to how you would rate my three favourite movies of all time @R.N7

They are as follows:

1: Rosemary's baby
2: The thing
3: Big Trouble in Little China
 
SwansonsTache said:
Yeah, it is not like people have taken the piss out of me and my fellow horror fans in here before. All in good fun though, no need to get all French about it.
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Have they? Don't think I've ever noticed it.
SwansonsTache said:
That being said, I am curious to how you would rate my three favourite movies of all time @R.N7

They are as follows:

1: Rosemary's baby
2: The thing
3: Big Trouble in Little China
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I was in my late teens when I saw Rosemary so it's been a while but I remember having mixed feelings about it, very much in need of a rewatch. Didn't think much of The Thing and haven't seen the third one.
 
VorZakone said:
- King Of New York (1990)
- The Departed (2006)
- The Valachi Papers (1972)
- Road to Perdition (2002)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Carlito's Way (1993)
- American Gangster (2007)
- American Me (1992)
- A Bronx Tale (1993)
- Brooklyn Rules (2007)
- State Of Grace (1990)
- Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
- Kill The Irishman (2011)
- The Iceman (2013)

The bolded ones are my favorites from that list, although not all are purely focused on the Italian mafia.
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Wow thanks mate
Haven't seen any except Departed
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Priest
A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece. Looked really nice, great art design, some cool action scenes and edited well but overall it was a flat, boring, soulless film 4/10
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Saw this was on TV last night , I have seen it before ,so watched something else, anything else !
Your 4 is generous.
 
Watched A Fantastic Woman. It wasn't fantastic. The script was quite rough which didn't help the acting, and it lacked respect for its characters. It felt like the trans-rights equivalent of Haggis' Crash. Contrast it with Tangerine, a film that treats its characters with compassion and dignity even when at their lowest point.
 
dumbo said:
Watched A Fantastic Woman. It wasn't fantastic. The script was quite rough which didn't help the acting, and it lacked respect for its characters. It felt like the trans-rights equivalent of Haggis' Crash. Contrast it with Tangerine, a film that treats its characters with compassion and dignity even when at their lowest point.
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I remember Leilo's direction been incredibly perfunctory and the digital cinematography was network television quality. Daniela Vega was excellent though.
 
Green Book

Roll up, roll up, its Oscar season baby. Cynicism aside this was anchored by two wonderful central performances and a genuine warm humour throughout. Felt it was a little unnecessarily heavy handed in places with the Russian guy "you ask why he does this?" scene and a call back on the journey home that basically waves it's willy in front of your face with the message attached to the tip. But still a very enjoyable evening at the movies and free with ''see it first' so you should get on that if you haven't already.

1 KFC Bargain Bucket & a hand made Calzone / 10
 
Bohemian Rhapsody Started well but lagged in the middle and they didn't really nail the Live Aid performance. Entertaining enough but WTF they had to compress events that occurred a few years apart into a single day is totally beyond me. You also didn't really feel that you got to know Freddie Mercury any better than you already did. Fun but also an opportunity missed. 6.5/10
 
Suspiria. An uber-hip remake of Roald Dahl's The Witches. Hackles stirred early on at the mention of a Thom Yorke score in the opening credits, then chapters, Jung, Baader Meinhof, unchecked Tildy and a glance at the running time. I was not made any happier by the way it began troweling on subtext and unnecessary exposition from the off. However, with that said, and on the other hand the film turned out to be quite decent in places and I was able to eventually sooth my curmudgeonly heart. It does a good job of being quite nasty in places and the final ritual was sort of excellent - although Haxans did it a bit. Certainly not my type of film and I'm more a Roeg than an Argento guy anyway but I get it.
 
I'd like to see a cut of the film with the whole old man subplot cut out, probably about 40 minutes gone from the running length and I doubt it'd make a dent in the main story at all.

I can't get enough of Unmade, probably accumulated more plays in a month than Radiohead's entire ouevre has done since I first layed ears on them.
 
2cents said:
Once Upon a Time in America is as good if not better than The Godfather I & II. Absolute classic.
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Wow given that Godfather is one of my all time favourites you have just set the bar extremely high
 
R.N7 said:
I'd like to see a cut of the film with the whole old man subplot cut out, probably about 40 minutes gone from the running length and I doubt it'd make a dent in the main story at all.

I can't get enough of Unmade, probably accumulated more plays in a month than Radiohead's entire ouevre has done since I first layed ears on them.
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For all my initial misgivings I think the music was excellent and I'm usually very picky about the Radiohead I like, I'll certainly look to get hold of a copy of the album. One of the percussive dance accompaniments early on in the film was really working, and then at other times the very distinct vocals slightly detracted from the whole witchy vibe. I'm still not completely sold on the idea of drafting one of the most acclaimed rock songwriters to score your genre film though.

Yeah, I don't know the reason why the film had to be quite so long, other than it being distributed through streaming land, the place where everything arrives 25% in excess of plenty.

I still have the directors previous films on standby, years after you were recommending them, and still Cold War to watch.
 
dumbo said:
For all my initial misgivings I think the music was excellent and I'm usually very picky about the Radiohead I like, I'll certainly look to get hold of a copy of the album. One of the percussive dance accompaniments early on in the film was really working, and then at other times the very distinct vocals slightly detracted from the whole witchy vibe. I'm still not completely sold on the idea of drafting one of the most acclaimed rock songwriters to score your genre film though.

Yeah, I don't know the reason why the film had to be quite so long, other than it being distributed through streaming land, the place where everything arrives 25% in excess of plenty.

I still have the directors previous films on standby, years after you were recommending them, and still Cold War to watch.
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I get what you mean, 'Suspirium' and 'Unmade' are really good songs but at the same time their presence in the film felt a little distracting, not the first time Yorke's voice has took me right out of a film. Just having one of them playing over the credits would have been more apt.

The way Sufjan Stevens' music was incorporated into Call Me By Your Name felt a lot more organic. You could also feel the jump from James Ivory to this Kajganich fella writing the screenplay.
 
Wibble said:
Bohemian Rhapsody Started well but lagged in the middle and they didn't really nail the Live Aid performance. Entertaining enough but WTF they had to compress events that occurred a few years apart into a single day is totally beyond me. You also didn't really feel that you got to know Freddie Mercury any better than you already did. Fun but also an opportunity missed. 6.5/10
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I think you'd have learnt more if you'd read Queen's Wikipedia page instead. The more I read about the production problems behind Bohemian Rhapsody, the more I dislike it - and I didn't like it that much to begin with. It's a film that has the authorisation of the band's surviving members all over it, much in the way that Straight Outta Compton did, and it's no surprise to see they were all producers. For example, Brian May and Roger Taylor both released solo albums before Freddie Mercury did but the film seems to put quite a lot of the blame for Queen's lull in the early 80s at Freddie's door. And the way the film treats his sexuality is unusual - on the surface it seems to represent him quite positively and fairly, but then the prospect of him being in a same-sex relationship feels synonymous with his downfall, and then they treat the most important part of Freddie's story as a minor footnote at the very end. It's how Straight Outta Compton treated Eazy-E, as though Ice Cube and Dr. Dre were geniuses who knew when to make the right decisions while Eazy-E fell into a life of squalor (which is just not true) before he died. You can feel the hands of Brian May and Roger Taylor all over it and them raking in the cash for a film that essentially lies about the band's history is pretty nasty.
 
dumbo said:
Suspiria. An uber-hip remake of Roald Dahl's The Witches. Hackles stirred early on at the mention of a Thom Yorke score in the opening credits, then chapters, Jung, Baader Meinhof, unchecked Tildy and a glance at the running time. I was not made any happier by the way it began troweling on subtext and unnecessary exposition from the off. However, with that said, and on the other hand the film turned out to be quite decent in places and I was able to eventually sooth my curmudgeonly heart. It does a good job of being quite nasty in places and the final ritual was sort of excellent - although Haxans did it a bit. Certainly not my type of film and I'm more a Roeg than an Argento guy anyway but I get it.
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I really need to watch this.
 
robinamicrowave said:
I think you'd have learnt more if you'd read Queen's Wikipedia page instead. The more I read about the production problems behind Bohemian Rhapsody, the more I dislike it - and I didn't like it that much to begin with. It's a film that has the authorisation of the band's surviving members all over it, much in the way that Straight Outta Compton did, and it's no surprise to see they were all producers. For example, Brian May and Roger Taylor both released solo albums before Freddie Mercury did but the film seems to put quite a lot of the blame for Queen's lull in the early 80s at Freddie's door. And the way the film treats his sexuality is unusual - on the surface it seems to represent him quite positively and fairly, but then the prospect of him being in a same-sex relationship feels synonymous with his downfall, and then they treat the most important part of Freddie's story as a minor footnote at the very end. It's how Straight Outta Compton treated Eazy-E, as though Ice Cube and Dr. Dre were geniuses who knew when to make the right decisions while Eazy-E fell into a life of squalor (which is just not true) before he died. You can feel the hands of Brian May and Roger Taylor all over it and them raking in the cash for a film that essentially lies about the band's history is pretty nasty.
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Wibble said:
Bohemian Rhapsody Started well but lagged in the middle and they didn't really nail the Live Aid performance. Entertaining enough but WTF they had to compress events that occurred a few years apart into a single day is totally beyond me. You also didn't really feel that you got to know Freddie Mercury any better than you already did. Fun but also an opportunity missed. 6.5/10
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I must say that I thought it was good as a film, very sad in parts also and almost had me in tears. However the timeline of events appears to be different than I remember from when I was in my mid teens in 1985. I was a huge fan of the band and imo they were top dogs at Live-Aid which really revived their fortunes in a similar way as to how it made U2 one of if not the biggest rock band in the world at the time. I never knew that Freddie revealed to his bandmates that he had HiV/aids just prior to Live-Aid, I always thought that he was diagnosed after Live-Aid. Just downloaded Queens actual performance at Live-Aid and watching it sent shivers down my spine, they were incredible, Freddie had the whole crowd in the palms of his hands like the brilliant performer he was. If anything the film re-ignited my passion for their music, it was fun and quite emotional but certainly not perfect. Having said that I do think it deserves 7/10.
 
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Nialler said:
I never knew that Freddie revealed to his bandmates that he had HiV/aids just prior to Live-Aid, I always thought that he was diagnosed after Live-Aid.
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He was diagnosed a year after Live Aid. The film muddles the timeline deliberately.
 
robinamicrowave said:
He was diagnosed a year after Live Aid. The film muddles the timeline deliberately.
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Thanks for confirming that, when you think about it, if you were told you had a terminal illness just prior to such a massive event as Live-Aid would you bang out such a performance as Queen did? All in all though, it did succeed in capturing how brilliant their music was despite the obvious flaws with the timeline.
 
Wibble said:
1987 I thought?
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Sorry, I meant to say "... more than a year." He was tested in October 1986 and then diagnosed in early 1987. If anything this is just making the film look even worse.
 
Glass - Bit disappointing and way too long. They also focussed a bit too much on the whole comic book aspect imo. Shame as I had big hopes for it seeing how much I liked Split. 6/10
 
Rush Hour 2
Yeah I've seen it probably 20 times over the years, but it's ageless. If it's on TV I'm watching it. I reckon I can quote 90% of the movie.
 
He's Out There
Whilst at their summer home, a woman and her two young girls are terrorised by a masked intruder. This is literally it. No sub plots, no character development, no twists, no exposition. Nothing. Typical home invasion movie with a decent setup, ok acting but no pay off whatsoever 4/10
 
Glass - feck off, utter tripe. McAvoy aces it but the only redeemable feature 4/10
 
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