Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

Keenst said:
The 90s one was awful, Matthew Broderick was in it.
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And all the French people were called Jean-Claude, Jean-Pierre or Jean-Eudes. When only 50% of the French population actually have those names.

It was incredibly shit though, never forget.

At least, they're no remaking Independance Day. Came out the same summer I think, and that was a really dreadful film. Though it'd be funny to jave Jaden Smith in it!
 
Watched a bunch of films on a long ads plane ride:

Killing Season
Putting aside the historical inAccuracies it was quite entertaining but I don't know who's retarded idea it was to have John Travolta playing a Serbian 5.5/10

CRUSH
Senseless stupidity I only watched due to Leigh Whannels involvement but I don't think he had any hand in the script. Decent twist at the end 4/10

White House Down
Not as bad as people say. Was fun and action packed like a 90s film 6.5/10

Percy Jackson Sea Of Monsters
Boring snoozefest thin plot but decent effects 4/10

Youre Next
Not as genre defining a s people been raving about. A bit tense and a bit silly but overall enjoyable enough 6.5/10

Class Of 92
Loved it for obvious nostalgic reasosns. Only let down because they didn't interview SAF 9/10
 
Insidious 2

Pretty scary if you're into that sort of thing. Might just be me but I've watched this, the first one and The Conjuring all in the last month or so and I'm not entirely sure I haven't just watched the same film 3 times.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Insidious 2

Pretty scary if you're into that sort of thing. Might just be me but I've watched this, the first one and The Conjuring all in the last month or so and I'm not entirely sure I haven't just watched the same film 3 times.
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The conjuring was pretty good IMO... Insidius 1 was going pretty good until the last half hour when all went bollocks and silly.

Insidius 2 you would say is more like the first hour of insidius 1, or they went straight to the last half shitty hour? not sure if i want to to watch this
 
The Entity (1982)

Very good movie. Creepy stuff happening from the very beggining, a hammering score that help to underline the horrors happening, good acting, excellent dialogues and mostly not stupid reactions to what's going on. The characters do what u expect them to when facing stuff like that. Much better than many of these days horror/paranormal movies. Watch it at night, lights out and high volume. I wouldn't say is that scary, but pretty intense.

7/10
 
This is the end
Finally got to see it and absolutely LOVED it. This is my type of comedy... vulgar with no boundaries. Was a masterstroke to have all these genuinely funny actors playing themselves and that ending! Absolutely marvellous 8.5/10

The world's end
Was also funny but maybe it's because I saw this after This is the end that I didn't enjoy it as much. It was still ok but not as many laugh out loud moments 6.5/10
 
George Owen said:
The conjuring was pretty good IMO... Insidius 1 was going pretty good until the last half hour when all went b*llocks and silly.

Insidius 2 you would say is more like the first hour of insidius 1, or they went straight to the last half sh*tty hour? not sure if i want to to watch this
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Yeah, you should probably give it a miss then. Tbh it's like a mish mash of the first one and The Conjuring hence my original comments.
 
If they remake It are they going to have the aul "bunch of kids have an orgy in the sewer" bit? Because they...probably should not do that.
 
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 6.5/10

Saw this last night in 3D. Peter Jackson can be a frustrating director at the best of times, with elaborate set-pieces and tedious storylines, not to mention his inability to handle female characters. This movie, however, skips along at a more rapid rate than the first one did, with impressive visuals and action sequences (par for the course for Jackson). I don't mind the deviations from the original plot as much as most, purely because most of what has been added seems to add to the story rather than take away from it.

I do have to say though, that the reason I loved the Two Towers, or parts of RoTK, were because of his sensitivity in dealing with characters. The Hobbit Middle Earth is grimy, sticky and doesn't feel as rich as LoTR did. Perhaps it's a rather more realistic portrayal of Middle Earth, and he does add dollops of entertainment with the current screenplay, but he does lose out as a director. The action, while impressive at times, is overdone, and repetitive. The Orcs hold no menace. I remember the Uruk Hai in Fellowship, and they were genuinely menacing... The orcs, were slimy, detestable characters. In these movies, their purpose seems to be to die in as unique a manner as possible. Less said about the white orc (s) the better. CGI nonsense.

The character of Tauriel had potential, ends up being a rather conventional one in the end. Legolas probably has more lines than he did in all of the first three films, and looks like someone's made him out of white clay. The dwarves are irritating characters at the best of times, and you wouldn't mind if one or two of them had their heads chopped off sometime...Cumberbatch is regal and malevolent as the vain Smaug, and Freeman plays himself.

Don't watch it in 3D would be my advice. I actually feel like I dreamt the whole fkin thing because it was so dark.
 
9 (2009)

It's quite good, actually. I think. I did watch it last night at around 2am, so it might have been rubbish for all I know. It certainly looked nice in terms of the animation. If anything, I'd say it was too short, and I was left thinking "well, hang on a minute, I'd quite like to have learned a bit more about this world, and these characters." Having said that, it's probably because it was so short that I checked it out in the first place, so as a "I quite fancy watching something, but don't want to be here too long" sort of film, it works fine.

What we do get to see of the world, and the characters, is very good. The enemies that they have to avoid, or fight, are quite inventive, and the first death works very well in terms of making the viewer think "oh...well if they've killed him off, then who is safe?"

7/10
 
Donaldo said:
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 6.5/10

Saw this last night in 3D. Peter Jackson can be a frustrating director at the best of times, with elaborate set-pieces and tedious storylines, not to mention his inability to handle female characters. This movie, however, skips along at a more rapid rate than the first one did, with impressive visuals and action sequences (par for the course for Jackson). I don't mind the deviations from the original plot as much as most, purely because most of what has been added seems to add to the story rather than take away from it.

I do have to say though, that the reason I loved the Two Towers, or parts of RoTK, were because of his sensitivity in dealing with characters. The Hobbit Middle Earth is grimy, sticky and doesn't feel as rich as LoTR did. Perhaps it's a rather more realistic portrayal of Middle Earth, and he does add dollops of entertainment with the current screenplay, but he does lose out as a director. The action, while impressive at times, is overdone, and repetitive. The Orcs hold no menace. I remember the Uruk Hai in Fellowship, and they were genuinely menacing... The orcs, were slimy, detestable characters. In these movies, their purpose seems to be to die in as unique a manner as possible. Less said about the white orc (s) the better. CGI nonsense.

The character of Tauriel had potential, ends up being a rather conventional one in the end. Legolas probably has more lines than he did in all of the first three films, and looks like someone's made him out of white clay. The dwarves are irritating characters at the best of times, and you wouldn't mind if one or two of them had their heads chopped off sometime...Cumberbatch is regal and malevolent as the vain Smaug, and Freeman plays himself.

Don't watch it in 3D would be my advice. I actually feel like I dreamt the whole fkin thing because it was so dark.
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I've just seen this, just come out of the cinema. I watched the first film in 3d and having watched the trailer in 3d while viewing Gravity i decided to watch it in 2d. Cumberbatch is superb, Smaug actually looks like him too at times! It does stray from the book for most of the film i generally enjoyed it on the whole. The love story seemed a bit of a random inclussion and we'll see where that goes in film 3... But i enjoyed the film more than film 1. I'll let it sink in though!
 
I've just started watching Police Squad due to recommendations on the Caf, Nielsen is incredible in how he manages to remain so straight faced despite anything he says and anything happening around him. He's a legend, really stupid to try to replace him. :(
 
Donaldo said:
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 6.5/10

Saw this last night in 3D. Peter Jackson can be a frustrating director at the best of times, with elaborate set-pieces and tedious storylines, not to mention his inability to handle female characters. This movie, however, skips along at a more rapid rate than the first one did, with impressive visuals and action sequences (par for the course for Jackson). I don't mind the deviations from the original plot as much as most, purely because most of what has been added seems to add to the story rather than take away from it.

I do have to say though, that the reason I loved the Two Towers, or parts of RoTK, were because of his sensitivity in dealing with characters. The Hobbit Middle Earth is grimy, sticky and doesn't feel as rich as LoTR did. Perhaps it's a rather more realistic portrayal of Middle Earth, and he does add dollops of entertainment with the current screenplay, but he does lose out as a director. The action, while impressive at times, is overdone, and repetitive. The Orcs hold no menace. I remember the Uruk Hai in Fellowship, and they were genuinely menacing... The orcs, were slimy, detestable characters. In these movies, their purpose seems to be to die in as unique a manner as possible. Less said about the white orc (s) the better. CGI nonsense.

The character of Tauriel had potential, ends up being a rather conventional one in the end. Legolas probably has more lines than he did in all of the first three films, and looks like someone's made him out of white clay. The dwarves are irritating characters at the best of times, and you wouldn't mind if one or two of them had their heads chopped off sometime...Cumberbatch is regal and malevolent as the vain Smaug, and Freeman plays himself.

Don't watch it in 3D would be my advice. I actually feel like I dreamt the whole fkin thing because it was so dark.
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I'm going to the BFI in London on Monday for the full 3-d imax spectacle.

3-d is definitely darker isn't it. I don't know why they just don't turn up the brightness. It's not like people are gonna take their glasses off. I might ask the guy in the protection booth.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
I'm going to the BFI in London on Monday for the full 3-d imax spectacle.

3-d is definitely darker isn't it. I don't know why they just don't turn up the brightness. It's not like people are gonna take their glasses off. I might ask the guy in the protection booth.
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3D in India is crap so don't go by that.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
I've just started watching Police Squad due to recommendations on the Caf, Nielsen is incredible in how he manages to remain so straight faced despite anything he says and anything happening around him. He's a legend, really stupid to try to replace him. :(
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Christ I haven't seen that in years. Loved that when I was younger. Stupid humour but funny. Like others have said, it's an odd film to remake given Nielsen made it so good. They'll probably remake the Mask or something next. Ridiculous.
 
Goooose said:
Impossible to replace Nielsen, it's definitely not going to work.
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:lol: I thought R.N7 had got banned for a second.

On topic Ed Helms was quite good in Cedar Rapids but he's best as the straight man, which Leslie Nielsen was not.

And not to start a Denzel Washingon sized argument but does anyone else think Airplane! is grossly overrated?
 
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