Film The Redcafe Movie review thread

entropy said:
You cannot be serious? Silver lining was lot better than hustle. Atleast it was funny. American Hustle was so bad with its Shiite Steadicam moves for the entire film. Tbh, Russell has always been a douche bag.
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Got excellent value out of Bale and Renner (probably his best work) and Louis CK. I didn't really have anything against the story, it was a whole lot of nothing. I don't give a shit about the Steadicam, he used a lot of that in SLP and The Fighter as well.

He's supposedly calmed down and has said he's happy making more conventional cinema. Power to him, it just isn't doing as much for me as say, Three Kings did.
 
Archie Leach said:
Got excellent value out of Bale and Renner (probably his best work) and Louis CK. I didn't really have anything against the story, it was a whole lot of nothing. I don't give a shit about the Steadicam, he used a lot of that in SLP and The Fighter as well.

He's supposedly calmed down and has said he's happy making more conventional cinema. Power to him, it just isn't doing as much for me as say, Three Kings did.
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American Hustle was an okay film, it was just ridiculous it got such a huge buzz and was nominated for so many Oscars (even though they don't mean much). It was pretty entertaining and some of the acting was good. However, I thought Silver Lining Playbooks was genuinely a very good film, with good performances by the two leads, and a proper role for De Niro which happens way too rarely nowadays. I remember going into that film expecting to hate it and being pleasantly surprised.
 
Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation

More like Five Find Outers-The Movie, than Mission Impossible, although the level of danger and actual threat to people outside of the protagonists might have been greater with the Find-Outers. They spend most of the movie creating action set-pieces to chase after a USB dongle, and want us to empathise with the poor little secret agents' sad existence in the process. No.I won't. Fun in bits, largely silly, daft enough for a 5/10.
 
Gerrard in Istanbul said:
American Hustle was an okay film, it was just ridiculous it got such a huge buzz and was nominated for so many Oscars (even though they don't mean much). It was pretty entertaining and some of the acting was good. However, I thought Silver Lining Playbooks was genuinely a very good film, with good performances by the two leads, and a proper role for De Niro which happens way too rarely nowadays. I remember going into that film expecting to hate it and being pleasantly surprised.
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Yeah it's well made is what I'll say for it. And I'll put the acclaim down to Russell been the king of Oscar bait and its charming cast.
 
Tusk
Had this on my harddrive for a while and finally got round to watching it. WHAT THE HELL did I just watch? A film about a podcaster that is captured and tortured by someone he goes to interview. This was like a mix between a modern-day Misery and Human Centipede. The below actually happens:

the mad man turns Justin Long into a human walrus :lol:

Not sure what I felt towards this film but here's a warning, once seen, it cannot be unseen... ?/10

Would love to hear someone else's opinion on this...
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
Right so, the site I write for has done a list of the best films of the decade so far, as split into their genres. I submit myself to your disagreement and/or derision here: http://filmfixx.com/the-best-films-of-the-2010s-so-far/

@R.N7 , you first.
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That's a decent list so far but there are a few things I disagree with:

Best horror is definitely not Cabin in the Woods for me. It Follows, The Conjuring, Clown and Sinister were all better in my opinion. Cabin in the Woods was a good film but wasn't scary in the slightest (shock horror or psychological horror).

Best comic book movie for me has to be Guardians of the Galaxy or Captain America 2, but I haven't read the Scott Pilgrim comics so I could be wrong there I suppose.

Why do the Irish get their own category?

Otherwise, great list!
 
Dirty Schwein said:
That's a decent list so far but there are a few things I disagree with:

Best horror is definitely not Cabin in the Woods for me. It Follows, The Conjuring, Clown and Sinister were all better in my opinion. Cabin in the Woods was a good film but wasn't scary in the slightest (shock horror or psychological horror).

Best comic book movie for me has to be Guardians of the Galaxy or Captain America 2, but I haven't read the Scott Pilgrim comics so I could be wrong there I suppose.

Why do the Irish get their own category?

Otherwise, great list!
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We're an Irish website. For the record all our writers voted from a selection in each category. Most of what I voted for ended up as what was picked except I voted It Follows for horror, The Guest for thriller, The Master for drama, The Guard for Irish and A Separation for International.
 
I think Cabin in the woods for best horror is actually a good call cos it's a clever deconstruction of the genre and it was quite gore, but I agree Babadook or It follows could've been perfect for that category as well. Toy Story 3 was an obvious choice as well, I loved Inside out but it's still too fresh in my mind to know whether I'll still think so in a year or so.

Scott Pilgrim is a cracking film and an excellent choice for best comic adaptation.
 
Finally watched Ex Machina today. It was decent right, but it was one of those movies that was more intriguing than entertaining. You see the ending coming a mile away, but the way they get there at least makes sense.

3.25/5
 
I could show you our full list of nominees if you like? We only ended up with about 3 for musical because nobody had seen any, and sorting what to put in what genre drove me a little mad but it got some good discussion going.
 
I think 21 Jump Street is hilarious and I'd probably have it on there as my favourite since 2010, I don't actually think of Grand Budapest as a comedy but if it's in that genre, why not.

Looking at a compilation of thrillers since 2010, I enjoyed Inception, Prisoners, Shutter Island, Millenium and Gone Girl more than Drive, well maybe not Gone Girl, but I can understand Drive being put there.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Tusk
Had this on my harddrive for a while and finally got round to watching it. WHAT THE HELL did I just watch? A film about a podcaster that is captured and tortured by someone he goes to interview. This was like a mix between a modern-day Misery and Human Centipede. The below actually happens:

the mad man turns Justin Long into a human walrus :lol:

Not sure what I felt towards this film but here's a warning, once seen, it cannot be unseen... ?/10

Would love to hear someone else's opinion on this...
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I've seen it, and yeah it stuck with me for quite a while. I watch a lot of horror movies but I've never seen anything like Tusk before, and doubt I will do again. Not a good film by any stretch but definitely original.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
Right so, the site I write for has done a list of the best films of the decade so far, as split into their genres. I submit myself to your disagreement and/or derision here: http://filmfixx.com/the-best-films-of-the-2010s-so-far/

@R.N7 , you first.
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That's not a bad list at all really. Wouldn't disagree with much on there bar Drive. Surely there has to have been a better thriller than that? Nightcrawler? Kill List?

I also preferred Shame to 12 Years a Slave from McQueen.

But yeah good list. I like Scott Pilgrim and glad to see you picked that over the obvious choices. :)
 
CassiusClaymore said:
I also preferred Shame to 12 Years a Slave from McQueen.

But yeah good list. I like Scott Pilgrim and glad to see you picked that over the obvious choices. :)
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Agree with these two comments, but Shame is quite a difficult film and I guess more people have seen 12 years and it's more popular. As for Scott Pilgrim it's definitely nice to see a film that's not a Marvel or a DC picked for that category (even though I have a lot of time for DC films).
 
Shame was quite good, yes. The Master had some nice elements, same goes for The Place Beyond the Pines. Dallas Buyers Club was good but conventional. Then there's the sorely underrated Snowtown, Killer Joe & Spring Breakers. They all pale in comparison to the greatness of Amour, Ida & Oslo, August 31st though.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
That's not a bad list at all really. Wouldn't disagree with much on there bar Drive. Surely there has to have been a better thriller than that? Nightcrawler? Kill List?

I also preferred Shame to 12 Years a Slave from McQueen.

But yeah good list. I like Scott Pilgrim and glad to see you picked that over the obvious choices. :)
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The other films we submitted for voting under thriller were The Guest, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Black Swan and I think Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
 
Hard To Be A God is a jovial journey through a putrid medieval land, decorated in spit and piss and blood and shit. What it lacks in coherence it makes up for in rancid, animalistic beauty. Captures something of the essence of a Bosch, and better than the Chapman's attempts to do so.
 
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Gerrard in Istanbul said:
Agree with these two comments, but Shame is quite a difficult film and I guess more people have seen 12 years and it's more popular. As for Scott Pilgrim it's definitely nice to see a film that's not a Marvel or a DC picked for that category (even though I have a lot of time for DC films).
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Shame is pretty dull. 12 Years had a poor first act but built into something pretty powerful. It's also the first of McQueens where he really got the hang of being a film director.
 
The End of the Tour - In 1996 Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky joined David Foster Wallace for the last stop of his book tour for Infinite Jest. Fascinating insight in to how a great writer thinks and also a good study of depression, Jason Segel nails it as Wallace. How much you get out of this film may depend on your interest in him as a writer but I thought it had some telling things to say about all kinds of creativity. It's basically one long conversation though. On a side note, people need to stop casting Jesse Eisenberg in roles that require even a little bit of humanity. He is incapable of showing it and it doesn't work at all in this kind of film.
 
Archie Leach said:
Also @Wonder Pigeon , Inside Llewyn Davis isn't a musical.
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Probably not, but it's got as much music in it as a lot of films that would class themselves as musicals.

I think they're grand choices overall, the one I disagree with the most is probably Cabin in the Woods... which I thought was good, but don't love as much as some people.
 
Cache
Seen this a few times and still love it. Great cinematography, a multi-layered plot that keeps you thinking and re-visiting the film and an overall pleasure to watch. Never gets boring 8/10

The Piano Teacher
Watched this for the first time and didn't like it at all. Thought it was waaaay too slow and tiresome to sit through. The lead actress does a great job but I just couldn't enjoy it. Maybe watching 2 films in a row by Michael Haneke is too much! 4/10
 
Gerrard in Istanbul said:
Dull? Surprised to see it described as such, brilliant film. Both McQueen and Fassbender on top form.
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It had a lot to like about it: Fassbender, New York, James Badge Dale's sleazy boss, it's look. But I didn't actually get anything out of it. It was about a guy addicted to sex but didn't really explore why other than some vague allusions to abuse as a child. I did enjoy it though, I just think 12 Years was better, although not as perfect as some claim.
 
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