Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

Archie Leach said:
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?
Click to expand...
I nearly put Milk in there as well. The Great Escape is pretty meh but Bullitt even more so. I didn't like The Wrestler. I haven't seen Collateral and Magnolia might have been in there if it weren't for raining frogs.

This thread: https://www.redcafe.net/threads/favourite-films-by-actor.338836/
Muffled Funk said:
So one day you might change your mind about, under the skin, that is great to know.
Click to expand...

Never!
 
R.N7 said:
I nearly put Milk in there as well. The Great Escape is pretty meh but Bullitt even more so. I didn't like The Wrestler. I haven't seen Collateral and Magnolia might have been in there if it weren't for raining frogs.

This thread: https://www.redcafe.net/threads/favourite-films-by-actor.338836/


Never!
Click to expand...
If you don't like The Great Escape and Bullitt you don't really like McQueen. I didn't care for The Wrestler but it was a top performance by Rourke. I see the thread is favourite film by actor though, as oppose to performance, so these points are null and void I guess.
 
Archie Leach said:
If you don't like The Great Escape and Bullitt you don't really like McQueen. I didn't care for The Wrestler but it was a top performance by Rourke. I see the thread is favourite film by actor though, as oppose to performance, so these points are null and void I guess.
Click to expand...
Yeah, I don't really care much for McQueen.
 
Thought I'd join the fun, my list of the top of my head:

Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
Kevin Costner - JFK
Clint Eastwood - A Fistful Of Dollars
Arnold Schwarzenegger - T2
Brad Pitt - Inglorious Basterds
Sean Penn - Carlitos Way
Tom Cruise - Eyes Wide Shut
Michael Caine - Italian Job
Will Smith - I Am Legend
Mel Gibson - Mad Max
Leonardo DiCaprio - Catch Me If You Can
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Al Pacino - Carilto's Way
Jack Nicholson - The Shining
Robert De Niro - Deer Hunter
Bruce Willis - Armageddon
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
Christian Bale - American Psycho
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Denzel Washington - Bone Collector
Nicolas Cage - Gone In 60 Seconds
Morgan Freeman - Se7en
Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Edward Norton - Rounders
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
Jim Carrey - The Mask
Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk The Line
George Clooney - Oceans Eleven
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
 
Berbaclass said:
Thought I'd join the fun, my list of the top of my head:

Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
Kevin Costner - JFK
Clint Eastwood - A Fistful Of Dollars
Arnold Schwarzenegger - T2
Brad Pitt - Inglorious Basterds
Sean Penn - Carlitos Way
Tom Cruise - Eyes Wide Shut
Michael Caine - Italian Job
Will Smith - I Am Legend
Mel Gibson - Mad Max
Leonardo DiCaprio - Catch Me If You Can
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Al Pacino - Carilto's Way
Jack Nicholson - The Shining
Robert De Niro - Deer Hunter
Bruce Willis - Armageddon
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
Christian Bale - American Psycho
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Denzel Washington - Bone Collector
Nicolas Cage - Gone In 60 Seconds
Morgan Freeman - Se7en
Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Edward Norton - Rounders
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
Jim Carrey - The Mask
Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk The Line
George Clooney - Oceans Eleven
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
Click to expand...
Here's hoping you'll reconsider many of those in 4 years time.
 
Phoenix - Vertigo in Fassbinder territory. It's a strange film, very interesting themes, great performances, but it failed to grip me as much as I wanted it to do. Lacked some dynamism I guess.
 
Watched Bullets Over Broadway, Sleeper, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Play It Again, Sam, Take the Money and Run, Broadway Danny Rose, Radio Days & The Purple Rose of Cairo, recently. Good stuff all-round.
 
Ant Man: 8/10

The overwhelming, self-serious sense that we are watching something very important blissfully doesn't exist in Ant-Man. It's just plain fun: light, breezy, simple and enjoyable.
Great story. amazing cinematography, never seen before special FX with added lessons in MetaPhysics and ant biology.Movie works on many levels: as a comic hero story, as a science fiction wonder and some times like an awesome NatGeo documentary.
Also the ending sets up multiple options for sequels which promise even more fun in the future.

It's a must see in 3d. One of the best movies this year.
 
Last edited:
R.N7 said:
Here's hoping you'll reconsider many of those in 4 years time.
Click to expand...
A lot of them are just personal favourites, swayed by nostalgia etc...

I'm not saying there were the actors best performances, merely my favourite roles of theirs.
 
R.N7 said:
Still.
Click to expand...
Don't be a cnut :lol:

Gyllenhaal's transformation from Nightcrawler to Southpaw was seriously impressive. He must have lost more than 20-25 lbs playing Lou Bloom. Have no idea how much muscle he put on for Southpaw but it was a lot :lol:
 
Ted 2 - 2/10

Rubbish, just don't bother. I thought the first was funny, but I am seriously surprised at how long and boring this film was. The whole legal process the producer went into so much detail about dragged on sooo much and was not at all funny, in any way. Appauling film in fact, just wanted it to end after half hour.
 
Berbaclass said:
Thought I'd join the fun, my list of the top of my head:

Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
Kevin Costner - JFK
Clint Eastwood - A Fistful Of Dollars
Arnold Schwarzenegger - T2
Brad Pitt - Inglorious Basterds
Sean Penn - Carlitos Way
Tom Cruise - Eyes Wide Shut
Michael Caine - Italian Job
Will Smith - I Am Legend
Mel Gibson - Mad Max
Leonardo DiCaprio - Catch Me If You Can
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Al Pacino - Carilto's Way
Jack Nicholson - The Shining
Robert De Niro - Deer Hunter
Bruce Willis - Armageddon
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
Christian Bale - American Psycho
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Denzel Washington - Bone Collector
Nicolas Cage - Gone In 60 Seconds
Morgan Freeman - Se7en
Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Edward Norton - Rounders
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
Jim Carrey - The Mask
Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk The Line
George Clooney - Oceans Eleven
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
Click to expand...

No. Just no.

Please don't ask me for an alternative list. Just be content with my arrogantly superior stance.
 
We should do this thing where posters who are interested and enter into a draft like thing have to watch a movie on recommendation from another poster. For eg, I tell Berbaclass to watch a particular Hindi/Japanese/English movie, and he can then review it.

Probably been done before?

I'm saying this as someone who has very little patience for a 2-3 hour film unless it's at the cinema, and maybe once a month or two months. Would be a nice incentive to watch something new and different.
 
Yeah we definitely tried that, I'm sure, it was meant to be something like a bit of a cinema club. I think Nilssy was meant to be in charge but he Cina'd it so it all went to shit.
 
Gerrard in Istanbul said:
Yeah we definitely tried that, I'm sure, it was meant to be something like a bit of a cinema club. I think Nilssy was meant to be in charge but he Cina'd it so it all went to shit.
Click to expand...
Did we? We've tried the Caf 250 films a few times but it has always ended with only me watching any films.
 
Phoenix - I enjoyed this although it's probably not the masterpiece it's been made out to be. A couple of implausibilities and a slightly tumescent middle act (I was knackered and nearly dozed off at one point) but it has an absolutely sublime final scene and the acting, writing and look of the film are all brilliant.
 
Archie Leach said:
Phoenix - I enjoyed this although it's probably not the masterpiece it's been made out to be. A couple of implausibilities and a slightly tumescent middle act (I was knackered and nearly dozed off at one point) but it has an absolutely sublime final scene and the acting, writing and look of the film are all brilliant.
Click to expand...
It was kinda hard to suspend ones disbelief after a while, especially due to the languidness of the middle act.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.