Film The Redcafe Movie review thread
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I really wanna hate-watch entourage after Kermode's review.
Does he really say 'boyo'?
Great rant. Even Mayo loathed it and he's usually a lot less opinionated.
I liked the first season or two of the TV series but it really lost the run of itself. I suspect this is the same, yet even worse.
10 seconds in and it's already brutal
Wait until you get to the Human Centipede reference.
I never watched it. It's basically Sex and The City for guys though, right?
But worse, apparently. Love Kermode.
Feck Kermode, he's a massive douche
Not a big fan of Kermode (or any critic, tbh).
I've just started watching the review to hear him say "I've never watched the show" so how can he possibly put the movie into any sort of context
It's a bit of fun, nothing more or less. It's never to my knowledge been billed as anything more than that...
It's a bit of fun, nothing more or less. It's never to my knowledge been billed as anything more than that...
Tbf, film versions of TV shows should always work in their own context. Otherwise, why make a film? Just make a feature length episode.
I can't be 100% but in my mind he definitely did. Several times.
It hits its target demographic, people who are familiar with the TV show. It is essentially a prolonged episode.
It heavily relies on the show to give it context in this particular case though IMO.
Pretty much, yeah. Slightly funnier though. At least it used to be.
oh dear. Burton wouldn't have gone that route.
He never said "boyo". The Welsh accent was a bit ropey and unnecessary though.
I don't like the fact that he already harbours these views of his before watching the movie despite not actually watching the show.
What a shit review...
What a shit review...
I don't know, I caught a few episodes of the TV show on ITV2 and everything he says could easily apply to those episodes too.
What views? He has no opinion on the TV show. He judges the movie on it's own merits. Harshly but fairly.
I just thinking he's making too much of a generalisation based on not an awful lot.
If he'd have admitted to watching some episodes etc. and then deciding he doesn't like it then fair enough but to say he hasn't watched it just shot down the guy's credibility IMO...
He's giving his opinion on the film. And I'm inclined to believe him. Does nothing either way for his credibility, you're just being a bit touchy.
I don't think he is that fair though TBH. Entourage wasn't all like that.
That's ridiculous. He's a film critic criticising a film he's just watched. Of course he shouldn't watch the TV show in order to be allowed an opinion.
Um no he had quite clearly confessed that he had preconceptions before it he watched it....
and then decided "10 seconds" into the film that he was right, surprise surprise
He's a cnut...
Haven't seen it so can't comment on whether I agree but I'm sure he's being fair. Kermode is a very astute critic with excellent taste IMO but he's also a leftie feminist, so was always going to hate Entourage, which has really dubious gender politics.
I can totally see the misogynistic angle to it sure but I don't think it's fair to say Its all like that, it isn't. Which is what annoyed me.
If you need to watch an entire TV show to contextualise a film, it's definitely shit.
I didn't say that.
I just got annoyed by the guy feeling he had the right to judge something he had no experience watching...
You guys are making a positive argument for having prejudice here
The movie and show are really not two separate things IMO in this case so there's that...
It's his job. The TV show is also a pile of sexist shite. If the film isn't a separate thing, they shouldn't have made it. And again, you're just being a bit touchy. Someone would think you wrote the thing.I didn't say that.
I just got annoyed by the guy feeling he had the right to judge something he had no experience watching...
You guys are making a positive argument for having prejudice here
The movie and show are really not two separate things IMO in this case so there's that...
If he doesn't do proper research he's obviously not very good at it is he...
I wouldn't expect someone who likes entourage to have nuance in these things, but if that level of research is needed, it's the films fault.
I didn't say that.
I just got annoyed by the guy feeling he had the right to judge something he had no experience watching...
You guys are making a positive argument for having prejudice here
The movie and show are really not two separate things IMO in this case so there's that...
He's reviewing the movie, not the TV show. He's watched the movie.
The movie was made for people who watched the series. It is basically just an extension of the show.
Last sentence in my post pal...
It's got 31% on rotten tomatoes and 38% on metacritic so he's not an outlier.
Films don't work like that. Unless you're a Seinfeld or Top Gear you won't even break even at the cinema.
The way I see the show (and the movie) personally is that it's meant to be more of a satire of hollywood culture. It's in no way meant to be taken seriously is it FFS.