Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

Unfriended - simple idea, really well executed. Uncannily accurate depiction of online interraction, that brilliantly captures the narcissism and duplicity of our social media landscape, shining a light on the solipsistic web bubbles we inhabit.

The discomfort and horror comes not from the trite death scenes or the formulaic genre staples, but from the film holding up a mirror to bullying, public shaming, curiosity and online impunity. Most disturbing of all is the way the film challenges our own complicity and subsequent denials. It's the human monsters that haunt the tech-horror world.
 
Silva said:
I would say the same, but I image it's hard to get the producers to agree to have my bowels being emptied on the silver screen.
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You're approaching the wrong types of studios.

@pauldyson1uk Have you seen 'Dear God No!' before? Seems to be a fairly low budget brutal slasher. Only been watching it for five minutes and we've already had a few dead nuns (with some early nudity too) and lord knows what else is in store. Mad bikers on the rampage and there's a dead livestock sub-plot- sounds right up your street.
It's on Zone Horror now but you can catch it on +1 if you feel the need!

No proper review on rottentomatoes, but got 34% audience rating.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_god_no/?search=dear god
 
phonics_tid said:
Oft, I thought my comment was controversial. Admittedly they have a fair amount of pap included in their catalogue but some cracking standouts too; The Departed, Good Will Hunting, Man on Fire, The Hurricane? Early days yet but I think The Martian looks excellent.

Mark Wahlberg?
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'We own the night' was excellent.
 
Jippy said:
You're approaching the wrong types of studios.

@pauldyson1uk Have you seen 'Dear God No!' before? Seems to be a fairly low budget brutal slasher. Only been watching it for five minutes and we've already had a few dead nuns (with some early nudity too) and lord knows what else is in store. Mad bikers on the rampage and there's a dead livestock sub-plot- sounds right up your street.
It's on Zone Horror now but you can catch it on ** if you feel the need!
No proper review on rottentomatoes, but got 34% audience rating.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_god_no/?search=dear god
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Not seen it, I have it d/l now
Back in work tonight , so will give it a watch.
Sounds pretty brutal.
 
Gerrard in Istanbul said:
It's a miss much more than a hit for me, could've been very good but it's a mess overall pretty boring.

Dunno if I posted about it earlier in this thread but I saw Mission Impossible Rogue Nation and really enjoyed it. I thought the action scenes were excellent (especially the opera scene), and it's been ages since I've enjoyed a car/motorbike chase on screen, this one was very well done. It's of course ridiculous at times but the cast pulls it off, Tom Cruise being his usual self, Jeremy Renner is quite believable overall and Simon Pegg is very good also, and Rebecca Ferguson was great I thought.

Minor qualms are that the main baddie is quite well written but wrongly cast imo (shit voice) and I can just imagine Ving Rhames sitting by his phone in his Beverly Hills mansion desperately waiting for the producers to call him to announce they're making a new installment of the franchise, what the hell is his point in this film? He's actually a liability to the team as he's too overweight completely unfit (and no don't bring your goddamn Rooney comparisons into here you bastards)
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Didn't like it. Apart from the smart arsed characters and the terrible quippiness, the plot was stupidly convoluted and the final set piece in London laughably bad. The plane bit was pretty good, and the bikes were cool, but overall it just seemed to get lost in it's own plotting whilst feeling very smug about itself.
 
Transformers: Age of Extincion

I quite liked the first one. Second was alright, third was bad. All that with a mindset that the movies are silly and the cinematography is Michael Bay crapness. Holy mother of god was this one bad. Without exaggeration, this is one of the worst movies I've seen if not solely because of it's length. There's just nothing in this film. The story is lackluster, the Transformers are really bad, the villains are bad (sigh Kelsey Grammer), Tucci is awful. One of the best things in this movie was Wahlberg and he was a bland uninteresting version of himself. That's how bad this movie was.

Just by looking at the characters, the story, actors and exciting scenes it's not even comparable to the first Transformers movie and that movie was a 6/10 flick on the entertainment scale. Megan Fox was freshly hot, Shia wasn't crazy yet and the whole rehash of comic book and toy movies hadn't hit its stride yet so in some ways that movie was fresh. In this movie the transformers were riding dinosaurs. Even TJ Miller was bad.

165min. When I paused it and thought it was almost over it had an hour left. Jeezus Asia, letting this film getting over the $1 billion mark.

I feel ashamed to have watched it all. I'm going to take a shower now. Please recommend me something good on Netflix to clean myself with.
 
dumbo said:
Unfriended - simple idea, really well executed. Uncannily accurate depiction of online interraction, that brilliantly captures the narcissism and duplicity of our social media landscape, shining a light on the solipsistic web bubbles we inhabit.

The discomfort and horror comes not from the trite death scenes or the formulaic genre staples, but from the film holding up a mirror to bullying, public shaming, curiosity and online impunity. Most disturbing of all is the way the film challenges our own complicity and subsequent denials. It's the human monsters that haunt the tech-horror world.
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Thanks for the review. Just finished watching, good film.
 
Jippy said:
You're approaching the wrong types of studios.

@pauldyson1uk Have you seen 'Dear God No!' before? Seems to be a fairly low budget brutal slasher. Only been watching it for five minutes and we've already had a few dead nuns (with some early nudity too) and lord knows what else is in store. Mad bikers on the rampage and there's a dead livestock sub-plot- sounds right up your street.
It's on Zone Horror now but you can catch it on ** if you feel the need!

No proper review on rottentomatoes, but got 34% audience rating.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_god_no/?search=dear god
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Dunno what the feck is that, but "brutal", "slasher", "nuns", "nudity", I'm sold buddy!
 
Snow said:
Transformers: Age of Extincion

I quite liked the first one. Second was alright, third was bad. All that with a mindset that the movies are silly and the cinematography is Michael Bay crapness. Holy mother of god was this one bad. Without exaggeration, this is one of the worst movies I've seen if not solely because of it's length. There's just nothing in this film. The story is lackluster, the Transformers are really bad, the villains are bad (sigh Kelsey Grammer), Tucci is awful. One of the best things in this movie was Wahlberg and he was a bland uninteresting version of himself. That's how bad this movie was.

Just by looking at the characters, the story, actors and exciting scenes it's not even comparable to the first Transformers movie and that movie was a 6/10 flick on the entertainment scale. Megan Fox was freshly hot, Shia wasn't crazy yet and the whole rehash of comic book and toy movies hadn't hit its stride yet so in some ways that movie was fresh. In this movie the transformers were riding dinosaurs. Even TJ Miller was bad.

165min. When I paused it and thought it was almost over it had an hour left. Jeezus Asia, letting this film getting over the $1 billion mark.

I feel ashamed to have watched it all. I'm going to take a shower now. Please recommend me something good on Netflix to clean myself with.
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How do they drag that out for nearly three hours. The first one is reasonably entertaining if you accept it for what it is but gave up on them midway through the third.
 
Jippy said:
How do they drag that out for nearly three hours. The first one is reasonably entertaining if you accept it for what it is but gave up on them midway through the third.
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Michael Bay isn't a quality director but he usually knows how to make popcorn films and usually you get to waste your time watching his movies without feeling them wasted. That certainly wasn't the case now. But two of his worst films have both grossed over $1 billion. Maybe we're the suckers for not liking it? (Definitely not).
 
It Follows

Disappointing. The concept's great, but there's so much more they could have done with it. Actually preferred Unfriended. 5/10
 
Horns

After that horrorfest of a Transformers movie this one is Oscar-worthy. An interesting movie. Apparently the movie didn't capture the ending from the book well, which I agree after reading about it. Up until then it was a pleasant surprise. Wasn't at all what I expected. Just nice to see an original movie which you had no expectations or knowledge of and it's well done. It's emotional unless you're that sort of person to roll your eyes at the screen. Mr. Radcliffe is good. Juno Temple should be the new it-girl.

Overall an alright movie.

edit: Something that I just found out. Didn't know much about the book but apparently it was written by Stephen King's son and was well received.
 
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Jippy said:
You're approaching the wrong types of studios.

@pauldyson1uk Have you seen 'Dear God No!' before? Seems to be a fairly low budget brutal slasher. Only been watching it for five minutes and we've already had a few dead nuns (with some early nudity too) and lord knows what else is in store. Mad bikers on the rampage and there's a dead livestock sub-plot- sounds right up your street.
It's on Zone Horror now but you can catch it on ** if you feel the need!

No proper review on rottentomatoes, but got 34% audience rating.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_god_no/?search=dear god
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WTF have I just watched, it was terrible.
Bad acting , in fact bad everything, but I had to watch till the end, in the vain hope it would get better, It did not.
Maybe the only time I have heard the line, " Do you want to drink my tampon" in a film

1/10 and that is being kind, very kind.
 
Just saw Straight Outta Compton. Flawed in places (definitely has Dre and Ice Cube's fingerprints on it; shame that Eazy-E cant present his side of events,) but it's a pretty awesome movie to see in theatres. The music is obviously amazing, and it's a pretty compelling story.
 
I watched Trainwreck last night and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Amy Schumer was fantastic and it had plenty of laugh out loud moments. I thought it would be a bog standard romcom but it was so much better. I rarely lough out loud in the cinema but some of the stuff she'd written was brilliant. 4.5/5 stars!
 
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True Story http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2273657/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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I watched this on the plane the other day and was quite disappointed. I thought Franco was great and managed to convey the ambivalence of the character very well, but all the rest was a bit poor (Jonah wasn't convincing at all), and it was a bit messy, lacking in rhythm and intensity. Shame, it could've been a good film with a better director and a better choice than Hill.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
WTF have I just watched, it was terrible.
Bad acting , in fact bad everything, but I had to watch till the end, in the vain hope it would get better, It did not.
Maybe the only time I have heard the line, " Do you want to drink my tampon" in a film

1/10 and that is being kind, very kind.
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:lol:Forgot about the tampon 'shot'. I was quite pissed when I was watching tbf.
 
LitterBug said:
I watched Trainwreck last night and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Amy Schumer was fantastic and it had plenty of laugh out loud moments. I thought it would be a bog standard romcom but it was so much better. I rarely lough out loud in the cinema but some of the stuff she'd written was brilliant. 4.5/5 stars!
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I also watched it last night, and whilst I mostly enjoyed it (probably because I like Bill Hader a fair bit, and Schumer's a mostly decent writer) - it was surprising just how much of a generic Romantic Comedy it actually was. It pretty much hit every single RomCom story beat you'd expect, and really was only set apart from your bog-standard Hilary Swank fair by a) Having likeable people in it and b) Having lots of oral sex jokes.

The film it reminded me of the most actually was that No Strings Attached film with Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis...
 
LitterBug said:
I watched Trainwreck last night and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Amy Schumer was fantastic and it had plenty of laugh out loud moments. I thought it would be a bog standard romcom but it was so much better. I rarely lough out loud in the cinema but some of the stuff she'd written was brilliant. 4.5/5 stars!
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Annihilate Now! said:
I also watched it last night, and whilst I mostly enjoyed it (probably because I like Bill Hader a fair bit, and Schumer's a mostly decent writer) - it was surprising just how much of a generic Romantic Comedy it actually was. It pretty much hit every single RomCom story beat you'd expect, and really was only set apart from your bog-standard Hilary Swank fair by a) Having likeable people in it and b) Having lots of oral sex jokes.

The film it reminded me of the most actually was that No Strings Attached film with Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis...
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Ah, the groundbreaking feminist romcom where the girl realises all she really needs in life is a rich doctor.

Gerrard in Istanbul said:
I watched this on the plane the other day and was quite disappointed. I thought Franco was great and managed to convey the ambivalence of the character very well, but all the rest was a bit poor (Jonah wasn't convincing at all), and it was a bit messy, lacking in rhythm and intensity. Shame, it could've been a good film with a better director and a better choice than Hill.
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It was like the first half of a decent film, but no one had bothered to make the second half.
 
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Ah, the groundbreaking feminist romcom where thd feminist realises all she really needs in life is a rich doctor.
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Exactly. Not to mention her doing away with her terrible life that she had before said doctor (promiscuous sex is BAD) , and realising that her sister - married with kids - is who she really wants to be.

The only thing that really elevates at all is Schumer's writing and Bill Hader being Bill Hader.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
I also watched it last night, and whilst I mostly enjoyed it (probably because I like Bill Hader a fair bit, and Schumer's a mostly decent writer) - it was surprising just how much of a generic Romantic Comedy it actually was. It pretty much hit every single RomCom story beat you'd expect, and really was only set apart from your bog-standard Hilary Swank fair by a) Having likeable people in it and b) Having lots of oral sex jokes.

The film it reminded me of the most actually was that No Strings Attached film with Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis...
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I thought what set it apart from the bog standard romcoms was the genuine laugh out loud moments. For me at least, it would be extremely rare to actually lol in the cinema or at home. Also forgot to mention
the gay, John @Cina in it :lol:

Mockney said:
Ah, the groundbreaking feminist romcom where thd feminist realises all she really needs in life is a rich doctor.
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Definitely wasn't this! I'd be very surprised if you would be saying this after watching it.
 
LitterBug said:
Definitely wasn't this! I'd be very surprised if you would be saying this after watching it.
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I have watched it. It's far too long, the two main characters are given no real reason on paper to like each other as much as they do, and like all Apatow comedies it's way more conservative than it seems 'cos it's got dirty words in.

It's not bad at all though. It's funny, and Schumer's great. It's just not particularly groundbreaking IMO. And way too long.
 
It's weird how he's never replicated anything quite as interesting as Freeks and Geeks in film.

40 Year Old Virgin is still his best film by a distance.
 
This is 40 is the worst. A very expensive and elaborate way for him to tell his wife she's a crazy bitch.
 
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MI: Rogue Nation

Meh, another blockbuster with a standard-formula that involves forced jokes, a shit one-dimensional villain, over-the-top action etc, you know the drill. I'm getting real tired of these blockbusters that don't take themselves or the audience seriously. I crave for a blockbuster that's dark, serious, unnerving, or realistic. A movie that really stucks in your mind for the next few hours/days because it was so amazing. Something like Heat (1995).
 
VorZakone said:
MI: Rogue Nation

Meh, another blockbuster with a standard-formula that involves forced jokes, a shit one-dimensional villain, over-the-top action etc, you know the drill. I'm getting real tired of these blockbusters that don't take themselves or the audience seriously. I crave for a blockbuster that's dark, serious, unnerving, or realistic. A movie that really stucks in your mind for the next few hours/days because it was so amazing. Something like Heat (1995).
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I was with you until the final sentence.
 
I think Heat's great, but I agree it's overrated. It's like the Scarface of cop films: Very good, but not the undisputed genre peak it's made out to be by the generation who watched it on video at Uni. If it hadn't been DeNiro & Pacino in their first screen sharing roles, that whole holding hands deathbed thing would've been hilariously corny.
 
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Mockney said:
I think Heat's great, but I agree it's overrated. It's like the Scarface of cop films: Very good, but not the undisputed genre peak it's made out to be by the generation who watched it on video at Uni. If it hadn't been DeNiro & Pacino in their first screen sharing roles, that whole holding hands deathbed thing would've been hilariously corny.
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Heat isn't that highly rated though. It's like Casino, generally considered second tier. Which it deserves.
 
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