Anybody else seen GREEN ROOM?

HOLY SHIT, IT'S AWESOME

p cool

Yeah it was pretty good! Very tense. Super violent! Surprisingly not-embarrassing (for a movie) portrayal of punk rock!

hell yes. good punx vs. evil punx was a solid theme. just found out the same director made Blue Ruin, which also was great!

yea i think i slightly prefer blue ruin but green room is also cool/good

may all his future films have colors and settings in their titles.

up next: Taupe Veranda

I saw Green Room and Purple Rain on the same day. You'd think I'd be dreaming about a crossover.

ahhahaha. cute.

What's I also saw Green Room and Purple Rain back to back!

Whoa*

I saw Green Room and Purple Rain on the same day. You'd think I'd be dreaming about a crossover.

― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, May 2, 2016 7:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahhahaha. cute.

― davey, Monday, May 2, 2016 8:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What's I also saw Green Room and Purple Rain back to back!

― Star Wars ate shiitake (latebloomer), Monday, May 2, 2016 9:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whoa*

― Star Wars ate shiitake (latebloomer), Monday, May 2, 2016 9:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the motherfuck, so did I

went to Purple Rain first, then Green Room right after.

I enjoyed Green Room. I liked that they got the attention to details right re: the punk scene. I knew what song they were going to play at the White supremacist compound as soon as they said "wanna do something really stupid?".

Imogen Poots is always solid.

I like that she didn't even really hold the shotgun right, like someone who wasn't used to holding shotguns would hold it

I liked how their actions were perfectly in line with a band stupid and brave enough to play an anti-nazi song at a nazi club.

Like, this movie could have been called The Courage of Your Convictions.

Haha. I like that Imogen Poots's name is Imogen Poots.

Yea I giggle like a 12 year old

Still not sure if I'll like this but increasingly want to see it.

But really I just wanted to add that my favourite actor names to giggle at are Mimsy Farmer and Randy Mantooth.

This is pretty good but has been overrated. The acting is mostly good, it looks beautiful, and I agree the punk band aesthetics/sound/friendship was really well done. But Patrick Stewart was just wrong for his part. I couldn't understand the dialogue frequently so then when the characters made weird choices I couldn't tell if it was dumb plotting or if I missed an important line. Like why did the nazis give them a gun in the first place?

I thought Blue Ruin was overrated too though I think I liked it a little more than Green Room bc that main dude is great (and was great again in Green Room).

I was a little confused, too. I think they gave them the gun just to buy time and make them feel OK staying put while they sussed out the situation, figuring they weren't going to use the gun. Agree Patrick Stewart wasn't quite right for the role. Or at least, he might have been, had his role been a bit bigger/showier. But he's pretty quiet and methodical and not in it nearly as much as his grunts.

While we're talking about shouldas, yeah, the Nazis were way too chill and gave the punks too much leeway. If they really wanted to cover their tracks and didn't care how much of a mess they made doing it, they would have just done it. I mean, a lot was introduced to show the nazis as super meticulous - fire codes, accounting, that sort of thing - so I suppose the way they handled the interlopers was supposed to be the same strain of ultra-cautious behavior. But given they had no problems letting a dog rip out someone's throat on the dance floor, I don't see why they even gave the punks a fighting chance. Unless, again, it was just Patrick Stewart being super methodical and not being rushed into making a mistake. At one point he even pauses and says "wait - am I forgetting anything?" and I'm not sure there's a specific payoff for that.

I think the idea is they like to disappear people in staged ways that don't require them to hide or dump bodies and worry about them being discovered. hiding in plain sight, so to speak - yes, there's dead bodies, but hey there's a good explanation for it!

It had little to do with the messiness of the killing, everything to do with the way they wanted to stage it. They wanted to make it look like a bunch of loser punks trespassed on their property by hopping the fence and tried to siphon gas, when protective guard dogs spotted them and attacked them. So naturally, they wouldn't care if the dog mauled the punks - that's why they sent them in there.

giving the punks the gun, well...it happened before they'd killed any of the punks, so they needed enough bodies that they could stage as being mauled. If they ran at the bouncer, he might shoot and kill one or more of them, and then that ruins the staging. Meanwhile, giving them the gun would make them less likely to jump the bouncer, instead just using the gun to subdue him. also makes it more likely that they won't try to immediately escape, as Stewart's gang still has the upper hand due to knowing the terrain and having a much larger barrage of weapons, including said dogs. They don't even use the gun to kill the bouncer!

still, it doesn't all entirely hold up to close scrutiny, no, but I kind of like the idea of these guys, instead of relying on chopping up/dumping bodies and hoping nobody sniffs around and asks questions, instead hide in plain sight by saying 'hey these guys are dead, our dogs killed them when they trespassed'. less likely to be suspected when they are cooperative with authorities and aren't hiding, much more easily swept under the rug.

whereas someone getting their face shot off couldn't be disposed of that way.

also figured the giving the gun thing was seen as a gesture of 'good will' to the punks, to lull them into a false sense of security.

Yeah, that's what I thought, just buying time and getting them to stay put.

The local cops didn't have much trouble getting to this backwoods enclave. Think they'd been there before, given all the violent punk concerts and known white supremacists hanging around. You'd think any call to this place would raise suspicions - "not again" - let alone finding an entire van of young people mauled by attack dogs. But best not to think about it. Otherwise the movie would be 30 minutes long. And I really had no prob with any perceived lapses in logic.

Btw, fave details: the band corrects the interviewer that they're from Arlington, not DC. Not that Arlington to the best place on earth (I'll be there tomorrow!), but it lacks the cred of DC. Also, the guy I think very fleetingly notes he learned those moves in wrestling. Neither of these things reflect poorly on the band as poseurs or anything, just little details that show that even these righteous punk dudes had childhoods and educations and stuff. Was the punk least willing to stay put the same one in the interview who half-boasted he wasn't going to live as long as Iggy Pop? I got the sense he came from a less comfortable or stable background than his bandmates.

Loved this movie.

"wait - am I forgetting anything?" and I'm not sure there's a specific payoff for that.

The shotgun. They forgot about the shotgun.

Agree that it probably does not hold up to absolutely clinical scrutiny (thought Stewart was plenty creepy though) but I found the leaps to minor enough to not disturb my enjoyment.

Totally dorky former D&D playing kid admission but I thought this was the case and IMDB trivia just confirmed it: "Toward the end of the film, the Dragonlance novel "Dragons of Spring Dawning" can be seen in the band's van." LOL

This kicked ass

I love that it ended on Poots' zinger

Oh hey, I saw this film before this thread was started B)

I'll go so far as to say Patrick Stewart was bad in this film, they should have found some random weirdo for this part

It was good but preferred the comically lurid blue ruin

The two other dudes in the theater were drunk and wandering in and out halfway through (I noticed them getting up and down a little but didn't realize they were lit), eventually the police were called to escort them out. The manager gave me a refund pass for another film and told me that apparently they strolled into various theaters. So basically I had it to myself.

PUNK ROCK
NEO NAZIS
JEAN-LUC PICARD
DUCT TAPE

I thought this was actually better than Blue Ruin, and want to see it again.

haha yessss so much duct tape

Best punk movie since the '80s?

this was brilliant. best punk/hardcore film ever, maybe. def an improvement on BR.

patrick stewart should not have been in it though. hes too big a name for a movie like this. but thank god he didnt do an american accent.

I kinda felt like he was trying to in places! It can be hard to tell with that guy tho

Thought he was great! Obviously he could've hammed it up and gone big and probably been very fun, but his understated, been-there-done-that banal evil made him effectively very creepy IMO

thought this was kinda like an assault on precinct 13 for hardcore kids

is there a soundtrack/playlist for this anywhere?

the OST w/ playlist is on Amazon fwiw

this came and went where i live, i think it was here for 2 weeks. bummed i missed it

saw it today. it was okay. some good bits. rather confused by others really.

the song was "nazi punks fuck off"

First half great, second unraveled a bit. Happens all the time. Loads better than Blue Ruin tho, looking forward to whatever Saulnier does next.

he sure likes people being stabbed in the head, huh?

the patsys rats songs on the OST are excellent.

Fuck. That was absolutely terrifying.

Amazing

I got lucky I think in that I was following what plays locally and was able to catch this, just as easily could've missed it.

movie good, Stewart bad

Stewart good for "we need the the push-broom!" alone

Very tragic news -- Anton Yelchin died in a freak car accident this morning.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-trek-actor-anton-yelchin-dies-car-crash-175216196.html

damn rip

always liked him

sad

whoa, RIP

Memories from the director:

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/green-room-director-anton-yelchin-dead-jeremy-saulnier-1201690466/

RIP, that's super sad news

So fucked up. Probably one of the worst ways to die.

roundup of tributes

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-remembering-anton-yelchin

This was a lot better than I expected it would be. RIP Yelchin, very fine actor with rare qualities :(

Can someone explain why the club owners thought it would easier to knowingly murder 5 people than just report an accidental stabbing?

Uh

You might want to watch this again.

Sorry that might sound like a jerky thing to say but honestly, I think you might have missed some stuff because

SPOILERS

I'm pretty sure someone getting stabbed hilt deep in the temple is gonna be pretty hard to play off as a whoopsie

again SPOILER, but the nice white power final girl (friend of the deceased) was a witness to the murder. when the band members saw both her alive and her dead friend dead, the nazis decided they had to clean everybody up.

"What if the big bads actually felt like they had to worry about covering their tracks" is such a great starting point for a borderline horror-thriller.

"SPOILERS

I'm pretty sure someone getting stabbed hilt deep in the temple is gonna be pretty hard to play off as a whoopsie"

But the band doesn't know who anyone is or anything about the stabbing. Everyone who works at the club suddenly acts panicky and guilty when the band sees the body. Just seems weird.

at least there weren't any kids at the nazi bar

made total sense to me honestly
the band sees the murder, panics and immediately calls the cops - they're obviously not going to go along with whatever story was going to be cooked up. four witnesses m/l
the nazis don't want the cops to investigate what is obviously a cold-blooded murder over drugs and/or nazi betrayal (a little confused admittedly about how planned this was) ten feet away from their hidden basement drug factory

the nazis are alluded to having quite a body count prior to this one, having cops on their property for longer than necessary probably something they want to avoid.

Holy shit, this was good. I assume studios are going to line up to throw money at Saulnier -- surprising to see nothing in development on Wiki or IMDB.

http://www.thewrap.com/green-room-director-jeremy-saulnier-reteams-with-a24-for-revenge-movie-hold-the-dark/

"the nazis are alluded to having quite a body count prior to this one, having cops on their property for longer than necessary probably something they want to avoid."

Not to mention the room the dead body is in is right above their DRUG LAB which they want the police not sniffing around.

xp Woah.

Good but lost steam once the siege started, I thought. Not really enough invested with anyone but Anton Yelchin to feel like their potential deaths mattered.

yeah otm. enjoyed but didn't love

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

"you back out now, I tell them you're Jewish!"

HOLYFUCKINGSHIT. My jaw hurts from clenching. Intense as fuck.

I've seen me plenty of gore, but that dangling, machete-ed hand made me woooozy.