Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

saw the new Terminator trailer, I think it's best to say Arnie should've given up the role a couple of decades ago. It's shame Cameron didn't collaborate with Arnie to make a third five or so years after the T2. But judging by the trailer, it's going to be a steaming pile of poo.
 
Spoony said:
saw the new Terminator trailer, I think it's best to say Arnie should've given up the role a couple of decades ago. It's shame Cameron didn't collaborate with Arnie to make a third five or so years after the T2. But judging by the trailer, it's going to be a steaming pile of poo.
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What annoyed me is that they gave away a couple of twists in the trailer that could have been potentially shocking if they left the audience to discover it in the film.
 
Bill.s.preston said:
What annoyed me is that they gave away a couple of twists in the trailer that could have been potentially shocking if they left the audience to discover it in the film.
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Yeah. But Arnie. Why? Why? This is the future we all dreaded - A 100 year old Arnie playing Terminator.
 
Bill.s.preston said:
It can't be as bad as the 100 yr old Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones, or can it?
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Probably. Arnie/The Terminator shouldn't age, should he? As for Harrison Ford, let's see how the 100 year old Han Solo looks in the new Star Wars eh. At least the Whookie won't have aged though.
 
Camp Nowhere
What the hell was I thinking? Why the hell didn't I hate this? I don't know 4.5/10
 
Spoony said:
Probably. Arnie/The Terminator shouldn't age, should he? As for Harrison Ford, let's see how the 100 year old Han Solo looks in the new Star Wars eh. At least the Whookie won't have aged though.
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From what I gather in the trailer, that Terminator has been around for a while. He's covered in actual flesh so I guess he should age.

Berberian Sound Studio - well made, atmospheric, eerie. Total rubbish. I don't think there's ever been a more insipid protagonist than Toby Jones' Gilderoy. I liked all the analogue recording equipment though.
 
Archie Leach said:
Berberian Sound Studio - well made, atmospheric, eerie. Total rubbish. I don't think there's ever been a more insipid protagonist than Toby Jones' Gilderoy. I liked all the analogue recording equipment though.
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Wow! I have to say I think its a brilliant film that does a really good job of capturing the type of psychosis that watching disturbing images in dark rooms can possibly induce.

Can't say I liked Strickland's next film The Duke Of Burgundy as much( I only saw it today so will have to watch it once more to really make up my mind), but I must say I'm surprised you though it was rubbish.
 
BAMSOLA said:
Wow! I have to say I think its a brilliant film that does a really good job of capturing the type of psychosis that watching disturbing images in dark rooms can possibly induce.

Can't say I liked Strickland's next film The Duke Of Burgundy as much( I only saw it today so will have to watch it once more to really make up my mind), but I must say I'm surprised you though it was rubbish.
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It just had a complete lack of thrust. It was very well made and I enjoyed the setting but the development of the psychosis was non existent. He wasn't and then he was. And like I said he was such a pathetic character in general and he didn't move from there.

I've heard good things about The Duke of Burgundy although I think @peterstorey reviewed it and disliked it.
 
Archie Leach said:
It just had a complete lack of thrust. It was very well made and I enjoyed the setting but the development of the psychosis was non existent. He wasn't and then he was. And like I said he was such a pathetic character in general and he didn't move from there.
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Ok to each his own I guess but I do think he was supposed to be pathetic as a means of allowing him to really be stringed along by most of the characters and the overall situation. I really liked it, but I guess film is art so everybody will see each film differently.
 
Incendies (2010)

Had to stop watching after 30 minutes. Too much french and i wasn't sure what the feck was going on. But a friend told me it was a great movie so i resumed the next day and finished it. And yeah, it slowly develop into a pretty good movie. Emotionally exhausting but well worth a watch. A "boring" movie in general, so depending on your attention span, it might take a while to finish it.

7/10

sinopsis: Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
 
Ex Machina is a likeable psycho-thrilling potboiler in sci-fi clothing.

I liked the brevity of the plot. It knows what it is and tells it's story with precision, it never over reaches like a lot of modern sci-fi (Interstellar). The unhinged three way relationship, with it's powershifts, is developed well.

I didn't like that it hinted at such themes as the caustic nature of objectification and voyeurism as a form of dehumanisation, whilst happily trading in such grubby commodities itself. It seems to wants to have it's cake and wank over mutilated and exposed, imperilled mAIdens. Also some of the explanatory dialogue was terrible. Having two top notch computer coders repeatedly explaining the Turing test to each other is hella dumb.
 
REC 4: Apocalypse
LOVED the original, the second was ok but the third was a joke. This one is a step back into the right direction but was flawed. It tied everything together and ditched the 1st person camera perspective which was ok with me but the film just wasn't that exciting. Still, you could find worse films to watch 5/10
 
dumbo said:
Ex Machina is a likeable psycho-thrilling potboiler in sci-fi clothing.

I liked the brevity of the plot. It knows what it is and tells it's story with precision, it never over reaches like a lot of modern sci-fi (Interstellar). The unhinged three way relationship, with it's powershifts, is developed well.

I didn't like that it hinted at such themes as the caustic nature of objectification and voyeurism as a form of dehumanisation, whilst happily trading in such grubby commodities itself. It seems to wants to have it's cake and wank over mutilated and exposed, imperilled mAIdens. Also some of the explanatory dialogue was terrible. Having two top notch computer coders repeatedly explaining the Turing test to each other is hella dumb.
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That's purely for the benefit of the audience though isn't it tbf. An understandable concession.
 
A Most Violent Year. An intriguing, low key crime drama about a self made man trying to expand, on his own terms, in a landscape of moral and structural decay. Character and situational ambiguity are favoured over stark revelation or moral surety. It looks beautiful with it's lumbering, industrial sets, stained by earthy brown dirt and flaking green paint. Fine performances and a couple of sharp chase set pieces.
 
dumbo said:
A Most Violent Year. An intriguing, low key crime drama about a self made man trying to expand, on his own terms, in a landscape of moral and structural decay. Character and situational ambiguity are favoured over stark revelation or moral surety. It looks beautiful with it's lumbering, industrial sets, stained by earthy brown dirt and flaking green paint. Fine performances and a couple of sharp chase set pieces.
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Oscar Isaac is the master of being the subtle dickhead.
 
Finally watched Mad Max Fury Road yesterday. Thought it was fantastic, but also a bit underwhelming. There's so much to love about the setting and the lack of long character introductions. I loved it that you get instantly thrown into this batshit crazy world and the action starts. So many totally weird and insane ideas, so much love for details. Even in its weirdest and ugliest moments, it was kinda beautiful and always entertaining. Easily the best action film I've seen in ages.

Towards the end, the film lost its way though. You don't need a complex story, you don't need a deeper meaning in a great action film at all. But you shouldn't take the easiest and silliest way to continue the action and finish the film either. I didn't hate it or anything like that, because the action and the stunts got even better and it was still beautiful. It's just a bit of a shame, that there doesn't seem to be a middle ground in modern action films between adding way too much deeper meaning (like Nolan's Batman trilogy for example) or having no story at all.

Mad Max 2 (easily the best of the series) managed to stay entertaining throughout because it was a bit shorter and therefore felt less repetitive and more importantly it gave the characters a somewhat believeable reason for what they did in the final showdown and it had that nice little twist in the end that reflected the world and Max's role in it perfectly.

In Roard Warrior Max actually left the group in the refinery behind once he got what he wanted. He failed to get away and almost died, which lead to him being brought back and forced to take part in the final showdown. And we got that great little twist with the sand in the oil truck, which he didn't know. It wasn't much, but it was fantastic writing for an action film and added so much to the world,.

Fury Road had visions of the dead daughter, which turned Max into a softie. So he drove after the women and convinced them to drive back to the citadel. Seriously?
 
Mad Max Thunder Road A reboot using a bit of the plot from MM2. Brilliant stunts, fantastic fun, Max is a bit too one dimensional even for an action film and 30 mins less action and 30 mins more plot would have been better but WTF - the set design and vehicle are worth the entry fee alone. 8/10

Frank Interesting idea and first but it totally lost it's way sadly. I'd have preferred a biopic based film as Chris Sievey was really interesting person. I'm really not sure what the point of this film was as the only connection to the Frank Sidebottom character was the head. Hugely disappointing. 3/10 for the head

What If Fairly standard ROM COM fare but done pretty well unlike most. Radcliffe was surprisingly good.7/10
 
Dumb and Dumber 2 Utter rubbish. Turned off after 20 minutes.1/10
 
Spoony said:
Looks like I'm the only one who thought MM was pants.
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I had very low expectations and it held my attention and entertained pretty much. It could of course have been much better.
 
As a pure action film, I don't think it could have been any better. It was pretty much perfect in that regard.

Who cares about character development and a scenario when all the rest is so bloody good?
 
Avengers: Age of Ultron

I was disappointed with this. I have enjoyed quite a few of the Marvel movies, the first 'Avengers' being one of them, and last year my superhero fatigue was postponed by 'CA: The Winter Soldier' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy', which I felt were perhaps the two best films in the MCU so far.

But with this, the fatigue is back. It was chaotic, too many small side plots with too many characters (that whole thing with Hawk-Eye's family led absolutely nowhere) and by the end, all those action scenes become somewhat deafening. So much is happening all the time that you can hardly distinguish them and you just can't be arsed to keep up by the end.

Also, as much as I love James Spader, I thought Ultron was a weak villain. They didn't do nearly enough to build him up as this believably intelligent and dangerous foe. I also felt the incessant quips and wisecracks that used to be funny and refreshing felt forced this time round, like they were trying to hard.

In the end, this felt like a completely unnecessary movie, highlighted by the mid-credits scene that seemed to take a piss on the whole film. It's all leading up to Civil War and Infinity Wars and this was frankly a waste of both the characters' and the audience's time.

5/10
 
There's a film I can't remember the title of. It's either Korean or Japanese (it's been out in Japan for a while anyway) and it's got either dog or dogs in the title. It's a new film not an old one. Anyone able to help?
 
Silva said:
There's a film I can't remember the title of. It's either Korean or Japanese (it's been out in Japan for a while anyway) and it's got either dog or dogs in the title. It's a new film not an old one. Anyone able to help?
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Rainy Dog? Great film by the way.
 
Spy - one of the better Apatow era comedies. Plenty of laughs. They throw so much at the wall some of its bound to stick. Jason Statham is funny, who knew.

Kingman - crap and surprisingly cheap. Taron Egerton is a useless lead. Sophie Cookson is lovely and I can't help but like Mark Strong, no matter what he's in.
 
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