Red or Dud? Are there any good movies with Red in the title

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In the French movie thread we discovered that films with the word Blue in the title were invariably rubbish. Its just hit me that if the same game is played with red you get much the same result. Red Dawn, Red Heat, Red Sonja the yawn fest that was the Thin Red Line - not to mention silly submariner nonsense The Hunt For Red October.

My side of the scales has five movies so far. Try and unbalance me.

― Pete, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Red Menace.

And if that doesn't exist, I'm going to make it.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Predator

― scott, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Red Balloon was pretty good.

― Nick, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Red Hot Bitch and the Red Shoe Diaries?

― Martin, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Red Shoe DIaries : not a film so does not count. Red Menace and Red Hot Bitch - more info required. Nick - don't you mean the White Balloon?

However I will accept Predator for both imagination and correctness. However Predator 2 would have been more on the money.

― Pete, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And The Red Shoes (no diaries), you know you love films about ballet Pete.

― Emma, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Red Shoes is pretty and all but plotwise is absolute bobbins. Great use of technicolour does not win it over. ANd anyway, I can trump it instantly with Richard Gere saying CHINA = BAD in Red Corner.

― Pete, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Deep Red (Argento)

― dave q, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, I mean the classic French short Le Ballon Rouge about a boy chasing a balloon through Paris. Although I fear it might still not be accepted by you on the 'plot is bobbins' technicality.

― Nick, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unfortunately it gets disqualified on the "not having red in the title" technicality. You'll be claiming Moulin Rouge is really called the Red Windmill next.

― Pete, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Red, by the polish filmmaker .
BTW the Thin Red Line was brilliant.

― anthony, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dave Q beat me to the punch on the Argento, so howsabout 'Color Me Blood Red' (H.G. Lewis).

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I coculdn't think of any film I have ever enjoyed that had 'red' in the title, though to go along with the idea that they are all bad I can happily say that Red Planet annoyed me. The film isn't exactly bad as it had its moments but it was 100% pointless and had nothing to its story at all.

― cat, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would agree that Red Planet isn't exactly bad. If you wanted to be exact you would have to use the word abismal.

Argento does not have the word red in the title and the translation Deep Red is unsatisfactory. So disallowed. It is a good film though. Anothony's Red: I assume this is Three Colours : Red - in which case the Rouge argument can be applied again as its proper title is in French (to marry up with the French flag and the big themes of Liberty Equality and Fraternity).

Gee, I love making up my own rules as I go along.

― Pete, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reds? I suspect it may be rubbish, but I'm not sure.

― Nick, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dave-so profondo rosso has been translated with deep red ,I thought american version was called unsane (the guys from"unsane" the band say they took their name from that title)

― francesco, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah deep red is the correct translation for "profondo rosso",argento best effort .

― f, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Red River"

"The Masque of Red Death"

― scott, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember liking Reds. In the peak of the cold war Beatty makes film sympathetic to communism shocker. McCarthy couldn't have been very happy... especially with all that jangly pop nonsense later on.

― Martin, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In an effort to shame the entire Red genre, I give you:

The Man With One Red Shoe

― Graham, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Judge Dredd. It's a decent pinball game, anyway.

― Kris, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh... The Hunt For Red October?

― JM, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...I liked that movie...

― JM, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The red badge of courage

― Scott, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

red beard

― scott, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you can get away with "Reds", I'm having "Colonel Redl".

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom Hanks himself doesn't rate _The Man With One Red Shoe_.

― David, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's wrong with The Thin Red Line then?

― DG, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eric the Red. That rocked.

― Kim, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

red dawn was classic.

― keith, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Awwww, Red Balloon! Way to go, Nick! That movie made me so sad in 2nd grade. I wonder if they still show it in elementary schools.

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At the age of 8 or so, I quite liked "The Man With One Red Shoe". "Reds" is a good film. "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" was, well, it was terrible.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think The Red Shoes is amazing, there is too a plot. How about Raise the Red Lantern?

― suzy, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Red Dawn = classic, Thin Red Line = worst ever!

― dave q, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm still not persuaded betty blue is bad.

― Geoff, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes but we are not allowing colours in translation, i.e. no Ballon Rouge, no Moulin Rouge and no 37 Degres le Matin thank you very much.

― Emma, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

R.E.D.! (Robot Eat Dinosaur!)

― Tom, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This thread is officially over now Tom has bought up the Robots & Dinosaurs. His borther will be shagging Ned in about ten minutes.

― Pete, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about Raise the Red Lantern?

Yep. Good movie, that.

― Phil, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They showed The Red Balloon before the first ever Gentle Waves gig. Then some film about boys sniffing bicycle seats where girls have been sitting. Pretentious twats.

― Ally C, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why is sniffing girls' bicycle seats pretentious? Some people genuinely enjoy it!

― Nick, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

red dawn = classic in an awful way, Swayze gets blooded and should give up trying to act but doesn't, Cuba invades USA, in fact that was the first ever video I watched, I remember it was at Scott Richardson's house, way back in the early 80s. and so it will always have a place in my heart

― cabbage, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Haven't seen Mildred Pierce but, uh, it's got red in it. Red Dawn's principle triumph = scene where "good guys" pop up from hidden bunkers in field & mang down commiez.

― AP, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two Pre-Code Jean Harlow movies....Red Dust & Red-Headed Woman.

― JC, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was there ever a Mr. Ed movie?

― Kris, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Mang' - fine word if not typo (or maybe esp. if typo!)

― Andrew L, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amazing that not one post here mentions Antonioni's Red Desert - one of the greatest films ever made and definitely the best film ever shot in color.

― T.Ed, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Il Deserto Rosso fails on Pete's draconian 'no translations' rule. What country is ei?

― Nick, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Otherwise, I would also nominate L'Ardilla Roja, aka The Red Squirrel

― Nick, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm, my draconian rule cutting out the one film with red in the the title I really like - ie The Red Squirrel. Darn.

― Pete, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, your game, your rules. Like my spitting thing. Does the Red Squirrel in question display its top rodent intellect by finding peanuts at the end of an arduous squirrel assault course like the ones on TV?

― Emma, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SHit, that's what I though it was. I bet he drink Carling Black Label ad infinitum. Actually in said squirrel intelligence test it was always the grey squirrels which did best. The British red is a lazy arsed mofo which frankly deserves to be out-evolved by our American grey cousins.

― Pete, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Shawshank Redemption

― Ronan, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

RED HEAT, RED SCORPION

― TOM PLATT, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is also the good one The Red Violin. :)

― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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