Green Room reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2016
- Punk band The Ain't Rights take a last minute gig in a secluded bar in the Pacific Northwest, only to find it run and populated by neo-Nazi skinheads. When they stumble upon a crime scene backstage, the night quickly descends into violence.
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I loved it - I hate when reviews seem to point out it's emphasis on violence or the "dumb" decisions of it's characters. The film never lingers or indulgences on it's graphic imagery and the decision making of the band is (as the director said) how people would behave in such a complex situation of panic and anxiety.
Love your videos bro! Please do one on Memories of murder! 😁
Yoo it's Ryan "calls everything pretentious" Hollinger!!!
You’ve come a long way brother
This film sounds like Bill Hicks’ nightmare stand up gig in Arkansas, he regularly mentioned.
You sound smart…😅
RIP Anton Yelchin, gave a great performance in really tense and riveting film.
Heart breaking
Honestly, his performance holds the movie together.
Let's be clear about one thing: Jeremy Saulnier knows how to make a great movie.
+BobbyBoatman33 Absolutely!!
I think he makes great flicks. He's a genre master out of the gate. But his films haven't had too much to say so far, so I wouldn't call his films great pieces of art.
"Nazi Punks EffityJeffity."
lmao so British i love it.
Blue Ruin is a great film.. The atmosphere keeps you on the edge of your seat , looking froward to this.
+chanceie12 I generally love slow burn movies, but I found Blue Ruin boring. I think it was because the lead actor just didn't have enough charisma to carry a movie like that.
+Johnny Threefour I thought he did great , the coffee scene with his sister was quite moving , thought he did fine.
+chanceie12 He's great in Green Room too. Had a gravitas that stopped the nazi side from being cartoonish caricatures which if anything made them more frightening.
+chanceie12 I loved that scene in Blue Ruin, and Blair was the highlight in this too.
This film sounds like Bill Hicks’ nightmare gig in Arkansas, he regularly mentioned.
I loved The Room, Tommy Wiseau really brings a lot to the art of cinema.
Oh, hi Mark.
+glesgabear33 YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA!
"I can't talk about it,it's confidential. Anyway how's your sex life?"
+scerpalman
You, you're just a chicken. Chip-chip-chip-chip-cheep-cheep.
+pastrychef1985 i'm fed up with this worl
Saw it a few weeks ago. It was really down and dirty, I mean even someone like me who's pretty good with gore in movies was cringing though some of the stuff being shown. But I was glued to the screen for the whole thing. I felt like Assault on Precinct 13 meets American History X. I persoanlly liked Blue Ruin more but it still a really well made film and if you got the stomach and it's playing near you I'd say go for it.
Fantastic, been waiting for this one for a while. Glad it didn't disappoint!
This movie gets me rock hard, man. I think Blue Ruin is one of the best movies of the decade so far, so going into this film I had titanic expectations. Somehow, though, it completely exceeded them. I'm no stranger to gore but I was feeling uneasy numerous times throughout this film. Incredible buildup of tension, fantastic performances and cinematography, ugh, I loved it so much. Everything about it. I'll never be able to see Patrick Stewart the same way again.
Just finished watching it, I had great expectations after this review and Blue ruin, and wasn't disappointed, fantastic film, the tension is handled very very well.
I felt blue ruin managed to get more personal and emotional, but this is a great, gory, dirty, heavy and exciting film!
- What was the moment that made Kermode and audience gasp? I've seen the film tonight, and it could have been one of some.
Probably the arm scene or the box cutter scene
deffo poots with the bc. both me n the missus made that noise!
the arm made me cringe the most.
eagle_italia I would say the arm cutting scene, made me gasp!!
The shotgun scene without a doubtfu
These guys are excellent. I remember Kermode's analysis of The Exorcist when it was re-released: broad-minded, very intelligent, and uncynical and unsceptical about the film's religious-faith values. Talk about an open mind. Charlie Higson reviewed it on TV at the same time: he might as well have just seen Frozen for all it meant to him. How could he not have been moved and then questioned his atheism?❤❤
Oh..... He directed blue ruin too. Now the quality of the movie makes sense.
Which scene is Mark referencing when he mentions Last House On The Left? Been a long while since I've seen it. Was it the box-cutter part?
I never saw this film in cinemas, I saw it when it came out on DVD. And I wonder if studios are intentionally dumbing down the quality of their movies for DVD to persuade people to buy the Blu-ray version. I've been noticing it with a lot of recent movies. And that's my biggest problem with the movie, the audio quality, or the sound quite inaudible to the point I couldn't understand what they were saying, so for the first part of the movie I couldn't follow the story.
Being from Oregon, I want to say thanks Kermode for pronouncing our state right.
Amazing film. I think its a horror classic in the making. It makes the last bunch of horrors irrelevant since maybe 2007's French peak.
Which films? Inside? Any other recs?
A wild ride. So wild, in fact, that I'm reluctant to watch it again. Edge-of-yer-seat help-me-Jesus wild.
I've seen this movie 8 times now and I still think the box cutter is a lot less cringe worthy than the aftermath of the machete to the arm. Not that I'd know, but the box cutter seems less realistic looking than the arm.
The wrist scene made me have to pause and take a lap around my living room. That was one of the most brutal and uncomfortable thing I’ve seen in a movie.
Fantastic film.
Yeah, a sweet movie. I did a review at Elements of Science Fiction, but you guys are out of my league. Well done.
loved this film. A real action movie with no men in lycra
Really looking forward to this. Patrick Stewart as a baddie? Yes please. 😄
wasteyelo1 And he plays it very well, honestly a role I never thought I’d see him in!
Really enjoyed this film.
Loved this movie
This is a great movie!
(Spoiler alert)
The part that got me was when the band member was pacifying their captor and the white haired woman took the box cutter to his stomach.
jeez that was hard to watch.
@ up to 1:01 | Careful with that generalization; many on the 'far left' do not support 'communist' dictatorship, racism, xenophobia or any of the other trappings of the (usually 'devoutly religious' ) right (they embody everything their 'saviour' supposedly hated (Catholic-edited version of saviour: anglican priest Peter Owen Jones, Lost Gospels; also: Shepherd of Hermas), from murder [commanded and condemned by same god-character, needing papal translation {to mean whatever they felt like that day}] slaughter to usury {debt slavery to swindler banksters, tables overturned {they were robbing the church as well and that wouldn't do}}).
The traditionally politically conservative / socialist progressive wing of politics usually don't like guns, dirty oil money, war or religious regression (opposed to the property 'right' types). The political climate presently places anyone not adhering to the madness of imperial American Neoliberalism as some kind of radical; what is radical is being part of a business system that is fundamentally changing the chemistry of planet Earth's life-support systems, killing them.
It's alright man
I loved Blue Ruin. I can't wait to see the Stew-dog smash someone in the noggin for morally dubious reasons.
One of the best films of the year so far.
Second best film of the year
Same. The Witch is first for me, and High-Rise is third.
Connor Chapman The Neon Demon is number one, The Witch is three, High-Rise is four.
Alextromagnetic Have yet to see The Neon Demon but it's on my list
Connor Chapman it's everything I personally love about filmmaking.
haaaaard movie
Would love to have seen a Shane Meadows version of this set against a BNP skinheads backdrop.. just for a more authentic feel. Couldn't connect with the dialogue in the flick, never warmed to the band, some characters felt too acted. Liked the atmosphere and sudden acts of violence but was a little disappointed after Blue Ruin. Still think he's a good director.
+elimnine More authentic? Saunier grew up around the punk and hardcore scene, as did I, trust me, this movie is 110% authentic, including the portrayal of the Nazi boneheads in the roadhouse. All Meadows would have done is added in some maudlin folk music and jarring comedy. Don't get me wrong, Dead Man's Shoes is awesome, and I love some of his early work too, but This Is England is flawed and the television show is just terrible, despite having a brilliant cast.
+disgraceland uk Maudlin folk music, ha.. I quite like Smog but I hear what your saying. In fairness it's more Dead Man's Shoes/Room for Romeo Brass I was thinking rather than the TV series in terms of it feeling 'authentic'. And I didn't mean authentic as in the setting or portrayal of the skinheads. I meant the scripted dialogue for initially the band and some of the other characters jarred, and tonally some of the acting felt like... acting. It just didn't fully land for me. That said there was stuff I liked.. but at the end of the day my feelings on the flick land me squarely in the minority on this thread, so much like a family on their way to Disneyland who've wandered into an NSBM clubhouse, I might just use granny as a human shield to escape a bottling as I exit the way I came in.
After the pathos of Blue Ruin, I was a bit disappointed this was such a one-dimensional hack and slash film.
Did not care for this movie at all. The script was awkward, the editing was inept, trying so hard not to go for conventional tension build up and jump scares that nothing actually resonated, the gore was blunt, gross and again, strangely choreographed - it was icky sure, but I didn't feel that sense of pain because the direction felt so off. The pacing is sluggish, some of the characters still made questionable decisions, important plot points didn't really register and the ending was stupid. Power to you if you liked it I suppose, but I was very let down and the movie did not affect me much at all.
Would you prefer I just say "it's a bad movie"? I wrote out the faults I found with the film's production and narrative, I didn't go into specific details with each scene because they are escaping from my memory and didn't want to spoil, but I certainly provided more than your basic disapproval lol.
Will Rance UA-cam comment sections are for posting a fully fleshed out thesis only, every time. As I'm certain your commenter has always done. If you can't do that, don't post.
Blue ruin is fantastic.
Green room is terrible.