Green Room

MilesMorales1

I was fortunate enough to see Green Room today and its the best movie I've seen all year and you need to go see it right now. Fantastic performances, sickening violence though never gratuitous, tension that'll have you on the edge of your seat, and a narrative that strips down the typical siege movie, with a pitch black sense of humour. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0Ic6-OShE

maximoose

Was a big fan of Blue Ruin and I'm really looking forward to this, hope to see it this weekend

Mr E

Doesn't seem to be in many cinemas outside Dublin, but I'll be going to see it on Tuesday. Really looking forward to it.

Fysh

I caught this at an early screening a couple of weeks back, having really enjoyed Blue Ruin I thought it was great. Well-paced, with a straightforward premise established efficiently, with some great choreography and effects work. It's simple but it works.

johnny_ultimate

Thought it was really strong for what it was, even if what it was felt rather limited to me. It's as tense, visceral and focused as it needs to be. Barely a wasted beat in the thing. It's an unapologetic genre piece - enough novel ideas and confident delivery to elevate it above its peers, but not enough to launch it into the highest of echelons. Saulnier's a director I find myself appreciating, but get the sense he has something really special in him to that perhaps hasn't come to the fore yet.

Still, one of the most purely entertaining films of the year so far, and there's no doubt it keeps its hooks engaged throughout. Also nice to see the likes of Shawkat and Yelchin in slightly different contexts - think their goofiness plays well off their attackers. Was a wee bit disappointed in Stewart's performance, though - again, delighted to see him outside his comfort zone, but don't think the character exuded the level of unpleasantness or ruthlessness he needed to.

e_e

From other threads here:

e_e wrote: »

Loved loved loved loved loved Green Room. As a lover of punk rock the concept of an ultra-violent grindhouse thriller about left-wing vs. far right punks pretty much had me at hello. I actually preferred it to Blue Ruin because it had less redundant vengeance themes and felt like a more like a totally novel concept brought out with such amazing skill.

Also the cheekiness of inserting this song (or at least something very similar) into the central band's live performance was great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ

Even the level of detail like Fugazi stickers and Minor Threat t-shirts endeared me to it more. An amazingly gripping, nasty (can't understate this enough, thought the guy next to me was going to pass out) and satisfying movie.

e_e wrote: »

I actually do consider Green Room a horror in that it was genuinely the scariest film I've seen in the cinema in years. It's a claustrophobic thriller but with the neverending bloodshed, tension and terror of a classic slasher movie.

Loved it at the Dublin Film Festival, I'm going again this week.

tunguska

Saw this tonight......... Fooking hell, that was some film. Had an air of menace from the get go. I've been to those punk gigs and they nailed it here. The atmosphere of violence, like something could kick off at any moment (which it usually did). I even have that minor threat T-shirt.
Its violent and brilliantly acted. Feels like a john carpenter film in a lot of ways. I thought it was a great movie, but it's the type I'll only watch once.

MilesMorales1

Imogen Poots was great as well, and I hadn't rated her as an actress before this so thats cool.

Banjaxed82

Realy good film. Simple plot. Unpleasant violence but it worked.

What I will disagree with is the tension and suspense, which I found to be wanting. It didn't have me on the edge of my seat. I was expecting a more oppressive atmosphere to the film. It was a bit too much craic for that.

It's just an example of a simple story executed extremely well by a filmmaker who knows his stuff.

P.S. I want more films that clock in under 100 minutes! Ideal length.

Hande hoche!

Got to see it this afternoon in the lighthouse. Quite enjoyable little movie. Well acted and a few twists. It's hard to beat a competently done siege film. Also nice to see what happened to Justin from a realism perspective. Tempted to pick up a bomber jacket.

charlie_says

Just back from this. Great film again from Saulnier.

Overall it was brutal, tight and gripping.

The dogs were particularly scary as was their handler. Little in the way of annoying exposition, laugh out loud funny in a couple of moments and I really loved the twilight setting in the final act.

Knowing a bit about the plot from a few podcasts, I really enjoyed the way the band arrived at the gig down from a hill and got a sweeping view of the entire area from the cockpit of the van.

Hope this does really well.

I would agree with above mention of Patrick Stewart not being his best here, for me he didn't seem like the right casting for his role. He will undoubtedly bring in some more money for the film though.

pumpkin4life

savage film, a real john carpenter feeling to the whole thing. weird to see happy happy friendly star commander man go all white nationalist fruitcake and all that, but it works really well, scary bastard in it.

couple of walkouts there as well. some people just dont like dogs.