Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

Everything up until the hotel room meeting is brilliant... first-rate action sci-fi. Loses a bit of steam after that, but still a grand movie overall.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Southpaw - Better then I thought it was going to be, but not as good as it could and probably should have been. It has a lot of things working for it - namely Jake G, who is great, and the production values for the boxing itself which, whilst the bouts are very glamorized, they are presented like the real deal - but through a combination of being a bit too formulaic (lots of melodrama here), not having the best scripting in the world and, mainly, having real problems with its pacing, it never quite reaches the level it probably wanted to be it.

Still, thanks in large parts to Gyllenhaal (one of the best actors in Hollywood today?) a nice support turn from Whitaker, and Rachel McAdams looking hot as hell (she's not in it for much, but she starts off in a very tight dress, and then goes on to wear less and less) I enjoyed it.
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The pacing of the film was ridiculous really, how much time progressed from start to end? It was less than a year and loads happened to him!

The film was ok, worth watching. Gyllenhall and Forest Whittaker carry it really. It is all very predictable though, wish I hadn't seen the trailer for it really as it pretty much ruins the whole film in just over 2 minutes.
 
R.N7 said:
Minority Report - I'm gonna have to let this one sink in for a while but it was a nice ride, excellently made. Like with most Tom Cruise films tho it left me with a sense of detachment.
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Wait, you hadn't seen this one before?
 
Valhalla Rising

I'm not sure what I just watched. I guess I sort of enjoyed it.
 
Barely Lethal : Alba was a hottie, and Liz Larson owns this movie, a so so teen flick with secret agents actions thrown into the mix

5 cocks up, but Alba does made my day

Spy : Was bland, McCarthy's foulmouthed cooper was too crude for my liking, although it's refreshing to see Statham acting like a cuckoo

5 cocks up
 
Furious 7 - Bringing awesome back to absolutely stupid action since 2011. It kinda got a bit too silly for me near the end, but the Rock with his ArnieT2 impression brought it back.
 
Brwned said:
Just about to start episode 4 of the Dekalog, it's fantastic. Harrowing right from the start, but brilliant. I know dumbo's not a fan (I don't know anyone else on here who's seen it) but I'm mesmerised.
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Started watching this again 4 years on and it's had exactly the same impact - it really is mesmerising. I've still never seen anything that comes close to being this affecting. Breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. It's a must-see.
 
I'm home alone this week without much in the way of evening plans. Hit me with film suggestions please, oh knowledgable cafites.
 
R.N7 said:
I have too many, can you be more specific?
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Not really, could watch anything. Feel stuck in LA at the moment - watching Get Shorty and The Player (first time) tonight.

A quick skim of Netflix gave me the following that I've been meaning to watch at some point too:
Calvary
Blue Ruin
Network
Locke
 
ThierryHenry said:
Not really, could watch anything. Feel stuck in LA at the moment - watching Get Shorty and The Player (first time) tonight.

A quick skim of Netflix gave me the following that I've been meaning to watch at some point too:
Calvary
Blue Ruin
Network
Locke
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Network is the pick of that bunch, a classic.

As for LA. Mulholland Drive, The Big Sleep, Sunset Boulevard, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk-Love are some good ones.
 
R.N7 said:
Network is the pick of that bunch, a classic.

As for LA. Mulholland Drive, The Big Sleep, Sunset Boulevard, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk-Love are some good ones.
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Ha, I love all of those except for The Big Sleep, haven't seen it. Will add it and Network to the list.

Punch Drunk Love is my favourite PTA as well, perfect film.
 
52 Pick-Up is a good LA film.
I watched Criss Cross the other week and it wasn't bad. Some nice scenes of the old downtown LA area..
 
Time Lapse (2014)

"Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop."

I liked it.

7/10
 
R.N7 said:
Meh.
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R.N7 said:
Tom Hanks - Road to Perdition
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Clint Eastwood - For a Few Dollars More
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
Brad Pitt - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Sean Penn - Mystic River
Tom Cruise - The Last Samurai
Michael Caine - Zulu
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Johnny Depp - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Al Pacino - The Godfather
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert De Niro - Once Upon a Time in America
Bruce Willis - Die Hard
Christian Bale - Mio min Mio
Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
Morgan Freeman - Se7en
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Harrison Ford - Blade Runner
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R.N7 said:
Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now
Marlyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
Frank Sinatra - The Manchurian Candidate
Tony Leung - Chungking Express / In the Mood for Love
Orson Welles - The Third Man
Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
Jean Claude Van Damme -
Charles Bronson - Once Upon a Time in the West
Micky Rourke -
James Caan - The Godfather
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
Matt Damon -
Faye Dunaway - Network
Paul Newman - The Hustler
Steve McQueen - The Great Escape
Dustin Hoffman - All the President's Men
Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Gene Wilder - Blazing Saddles
Cary Grant - North by Northwest
Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
Grace Kelly - Rear Window
Gene Hackman - The French Connection
Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now
Jackie Chan - Rush Hour
Samuel L. Jackson - Goodfellas
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
Guy Pearce - L.A. Confidential
Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter
Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon
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I love it when people trawl back quotes from years ago, you know tastes change as you see more right?

Do you still consider The Last Samurai Tom Cruise' best film is the question that truly eating me up though?!?!
 
Zen said:
I love it when people trawl back quotes from years ago, you know tastes change as you see more right?

Do you still consider The Last Samurai Tom Cruise' best film is the question that truly eating me up though?!?!
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Probably not, but I'm really indifferent to his films.

I'd probably make these changes now.

Leonardo DiCaprio - Maybe Django or The Aviator instead
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces / The Passenger
Mickey Rourke - Angel Heart
Cary Grant - Charade
Cristopher Walken - King of New York
Samuel L Jackson - Pulp Fiction
Meryl Streep - Adaptation.
Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
Sean Penn - This Must Be The Place
 
Just saw Southpaw.

Would agree with what people above have said. Good but not great and the trailer ruined it for me. Gyllenhaal, Whittaker and the daughter were excellent. Adams was hot as hell and the rest were just meh.

It was hard to get invested in anything because there were so many stages to the film in a short amount of time and I felt the film really lacked someone to hate.

It should have been 50 Cent's character but he's just such an awful actor that you felt nothing about him except frustration. I'm looking at the table lamp in front of me and it genuinely has more facial expression than he does, just sitting there with that gormless look on his face for the whole film.
 
R.N7 said:
Probably not, but I'm really indifferent to his films.

I'd probably make these changes now.

Leonardo DiCaprio - Maybe Django or The Aviator instead
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces / The Passenger
Mickey Rourke - Angel Heart
Cary Grant - Charade
Cristopher Walken - King of New York
Samuel L Jackson - Pulp Fiction
Meryl Streep - Adaptation.
Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
Sean Penn - This Must Be The Place
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Penn should be Milk, McQueen should be Bullitt, Rourke should be the Wrestler and you should keep Hackman as Popeye. Oh and Cruise Magnolia or Collateral. All the rest are fair shouts. What's that list from anyway?
 
R.N7 said:
I'm always changing my mind. When I first joined this site I was young and wasn't that into films so I imagine that I have a few shockers in the beginning of this thread.
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So one day you might change your mind about, under the skin, that is great to know.
 
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