Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

Pogue Mahone said:
So. More reviews. I've watched a lot of movies over the last week.

Kingsman
I reckon if I was 14 or 15 years old this would go down as my favourite movie of all time. Being a fully grown adult I was less impressed but it was good fun all the same. Yer man who played the spy kid had bags of charisma and the whole clash of cultures between a London "yoot" and the landed gentry of the Kingsmen lifted it above run of the mill fair. The knowing nods to other films of the genre worked quite well too. "This ain't that type of movie". I just hope they didn't get a 15 certificate because that would exclude the people to whom it would appeal the most.
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Watched this last night and loved it, but one major gripe they had a conference at the start with all the other agents. Where the feck did they go for the rest of the film.
 
Zarlak said:
Watched this last night and loved it, but one major gripe they had a conference at the start with all the other agents. Where the feck did they go for the rest of the film.
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Merlin said something about not being able to trust them as they had no idea how far into the organisation the treachery had gone. I think that was the excuse for not using any of the others.
 
Have any of you known a woman who enjoyed Withnail and I?

I showed it to the missus and about ten minutes in she turned to me and said 'is this supposed to be a comedy?'
 
Grinner said:
Have any of you known a woman who enjoyed Withnail and I?

I showed it to the missus and about ten minutes in she turned to me and said 'is this supposed to be a comedy?'
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It's one of my (female) friend's favourite film.

Saw It Follows last night and loved it. Joint best horror film I've seen since The Descent, along with The Babadook. Thought the set up, visuals, and score were all incredible (latter two very Halloween), was only let down by it the story losing momentum in the last half hour. Was genius how they made you on edge every time the shot simply had a large, visible background.
 
Some films are just not meant for women. A lot of the films that came out in the eighties are over most females heads.
 
Grinner said:
Have any of you known a woman who enjoyed Withnail and I?

I showed it to the missus and about ten minutes in she turned to me and said 'is this supposed to be a comedy?'
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My wife's a big fan. Or was. We haven't watched it in at least a decade. Is your missus American?
 
ThierryHenry said:
It's one of my (female) friend's favourite film.

Saw It Follows last night and loved it. Joint best horror film I've seen since The Descent, along with The Babadook. Thought the set up, visuals, and score were all incredible (latter two very Halloween), was only let down by it the story losing momentum in the last half hour. Was genius how they made you on edge every time the shot simply had a large, visible background.
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All three great films. Have you seen The Orphanage? One of my all time favourites.
R.N7 said:
I'm gonna watch Interstellar.
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Didn't know you hadn't watched it. Did you enjoy it?
 
Poltergeist (remake)
God awful. You can see this was made by a director that had no clue in how to execute horror. This story has all the ingredients for a classic horror story and all the director had to do was get the pacing right but that seemed all over the place. Along with that, the it seemed to be completely miscast and a complete bore. It's funny when you see low budget horrors such as It Follows be so uniques and interesting, then you see this... a Hollywood 'throw money into effects' horror film... ugh 3/10
 
R.N7 said:
Interstellar - Doesn't Matt Damon just ruin films? I didn't like the third act much but I can't say that I didn't kinda enjoy the ride as a whole.
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That's just your reluctant way to say you actually enjoyed it, isn't it? Didn't really mind Damon (though I don't mind him generally speaking), but I know a lot of people don't really like him.
 
That love speech scene was one of the worst scenes I've seen in quite a while and it kinda took a nosedive after that.

I know I shouldn't expect too much of a Nolan blockbuster but it didn't even deliver on a sentimental front, a far cry from the brilliance of A.I.
 
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ThierryHenry said:
It's one of my (female) friend's favourite film.

Saw It Follows last night and loved it. Joint best horror film I've seen since The Descent, along with The Babadook. Thought the set up, visuals, and score were all incredible (latter two very Halloween), was only let down by it the story losing momentum in the last half hour. Was genius how they made you on edge every time the shot simply had a large, visible background.
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Seems to be a common problem in modern day horrors it seems. I loved the first hour of Insidious for example but then the whole film just turned into a disaster as they didn't know how to close it off and went with a stupid angle.
 
R.N7 said:
That love speech was one of the worst scenes I remember watching for a while and it kinda took a nosedive after that.

I know I shouldn't expect too much of a Nolan blockbuster but it didn't even deliver on a sentimental front, a far cry from the brilliance of A.I.
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Oh come on
 
Jurassic Park (Lost World, New World, Whatever the hell it's called. The latest one)

Probably my least favourite of the series. There was something about it that just felt really unrealistic to me, even more so then the others (inb4 someone says 'it's dinosaurs, always going to be realistic), Not sure if it was the fact the dinosaurs were CGI or what, Just didn't feel the same.

The story was meh, Some little entitled dickhead and his younger brother run away from the child-minder and explore through the park. Usual happens when a themepark ride breaks down in the middle of the dinosaurs pen \ area and they bump into a 'super' dinosaur with a daft name that I can't remember right now.

45 minutes approx. later they still haven't killed the beast as it's more intelligent then anything they have ever experienced, this blows the mind of the hipster virgin guy in the control room who it seems must just be there through winning a competition or something.

They then decide to set the Raptors on it who after chasing the beast through the forest, decide to do a Hulk Hogan heel turn and join forces with the big fella. Add a few more scenes of fighting and then the Raptors turn back into heroes, although this then was to be a fatal decision as they were all seemingly decimated by UberSaurus.

The final scene is when they set free another Super Saurus they had hidden somewhere to fight against UberSaurus. 5 minutes of grappling starts before one of the Raptors named 'Blue' that was thought to be dead earlier then comes back to helps the good dinosaur defeat Uber, with the help of a Shamu-asaur, who then decides it needs some supper and eats Uber.

The film ends with absolute no closure of what happens to Blue, Cue a load of tears from my Girlfriend upset that it has ruined her Saturday night now.

Thanks a lot Colin Trevorrow.
 
R.N7 said:
That love speech was one of the worst scenes I remember watching for a while and it kinda took a nosedive after that.

I know I shouldn't expect too much of a Nolan blockbuster but it didn't even deliver on a sentimental front, a far cry from the brilliance of A.I.
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Have you seen Ex-Machina yet?
 
Get On Up - 7 - It says a lot about James Brown, the man, that a film which begins with him shooting up his own store because someone's used his private toilet, contains spousal abuse and regular tantrums, and ends with him trying rather pathetically to reconnect with the best friend he's spent years treating like shit and failing to pay royalties, has been criticised for treating it's subject too softly. Most of this is probably down to the performance of Chadwick Boseman, who is so charasmatic as Brown that you instinctively find yourself on his side, even when he's being a dick, which he is, frequently. The film flits around a bit too much, and doesn't have enough of a natural narrative to be a truly great biopic, but it's always entertaining, and Boseman's performance almost feels like it's been let down by the film, as it's easily as award worthy Foxx's Ray or Phoenix's Cash, even though he looks nothing like the man he's playing. Worth it for him and music alone.
 
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Terminator Genisys

I enjoyed it way more than Rise of Machines or Salvation. Of course there are many flaws, loopholes, the cast could have been better (Kyle, Sarah)...but it had soul. Flashbacks to number 1 and 2, well written role for Arnie, some proper action scenes. It was worth it.
 
Shakespeare in Love

I thought I'd hate it so I put off watching it for the last 15 years or so, but it was really good (for what it is). Was a bit weird to see Ben Affleck arrive almost out of nowhere, but he played the role well. 8/10.
 
R.N7 said:
That love speech was one of the worst scenes I remember watching for a while and it kinda took a nosedive after that.

I know I shouldn't expect too much of a Nolan blockbuster but it didn't even deliver on a sentimental front, a far cry from the brilliance of A.I.
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Almost unwatchable.
 
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