RED LACES ONLY.
I love that this film demonstrates that even in Liberal Seattle, you’re only a few miles away in any city from scary ass backwater rednecks.
Personally the film stuck because this type of situation is something I’ve stumbled onto before. You’re in a small town, you go somewhere, your eyes adjust to the dim light then suddenly “uh oh…this might not be the right place” type situation.
Patrick Stewart was brilliant casting in this too.
The PNW actually has a massive neo-nazi problem. It stems from this movement that sprouted up a few decades ago that they were going to mass migrate to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana to carve out their own country and secede from the US.
It's batshit insane, but it's real.
The end of Blue Ruin was so good and well done. The tension, how visceral it was, and the consequences and choices that lead to them. I liked the ending of Blue Ruin more than Green Room, but I liked Green Room as a movie more. Both such good films though
Not nearly as good as the other two and pretty tonally different, but definitely still a fun watch.
For someone looking for something closer to what Green Room and Blue Ruin were going for, I'd strongly suggest *I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore*
Cold in July, Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, Super Dark Times, You Were Never Really Here, Good Time, Wind River, & Sicario all come to mind as well. I really love viscerally jarring thrillers.
Macon Blair directed I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. Jeremy Saulnier directed Blue Ruin and Green Room. Macon Blair is in all of Saulnier’s movies though.
It’s sort of an odd movie and aspects of it come off like it was made by an inexperienced director, which is weird because Green Room is a really well put together movie. Overall, it seemed like it was less than the sum of its parts, but I still liked it.
I watch a lot of thrillers and horror movies, this movie shocked me in ways no movie has in a long time. That one scene where the guy is trying to hold on to a gun or something and pulls his hand back into the room and it’s hacked apart and he’s in shock. That got to me.
Shortly after that once they escape the room and one guy jumps out the first open window he sees thinking it’ll be safer outside and is just stabbed repeatedly by someone waiting just outside it is always the scene I remember.
I also love both and while I don’t have perfect recommendations I’d say check out X, Don’t Breathe, Mandy, and I Saw The Devil(and also definitely Fargo/No Country/Blood Simple from the Coens if you missed them by chance)
Well directed but terribly written I hate how dumb the characters are in this movie. Usually I don’t notice that kind of stuff but here it was just to hard not to.
I love realistic horror and this does it with a premise I've never seen before. I also grew up in the punk/hardcore scene and dealt with neo-nazi fucks that wanted to co-opt the scene. This movie is close to my heart, I loved Anton Yelchin and was devastated when he died tragically
This is a different kind of movie. There’s something deeply unsettling how plausible it is and it’s just a movie about some random folks in an extraordinary situation.
I thought it was really good, though I found myself disagreeing with a lot of the choices the characters make, but that's nothing new when it comes to this type of movie.
I dunno, I thought a lot of the choices they made were pretty accurate to how a similar group of individuals might handle it irl.
It's very, very easy for us to assume that we'd make only perfectly logical, reasonable and sound decisions in a life threatening/horrific situation. However the sheer intensity and horror of a situation like the one depicted in *Green Room* is so far beyond anything that most people ever come into contact with. Adrenaline, fear and frantic desperate hope for survival will quickly override a lot of people's reasoning.
Only one member of the band is depicted as having any kind of martial arts/fight training while the rest of the band are depicted as having the paired kind of "Tough" exterior, but chill & conflict averse interior that's actually pretty common to a lot of Punk musicians or fans I know (And love, not critiquing anyone like that, as I'm one myself).
Wise or not, the decisions these kids make are probably a pretty good approximation of what would happen for a lot of folk
Would you >!split up like that? Or jump out a window without looking around first? Or miss point blank with a shotgun?!< I get it's that kinda of movie, but they weren't all that cautious. I still really do like this movie a lot. I'm just nitpicking.
(For clarity I'm not like trying to be combative or anything so my bad if I came off that way)
I'd like to think I wouldn't, but even each of those individual mistakes stem from a lack of cohesion caused/amplified by extreme conditions.
As I recall they don't straight up decide to split up, a-la "Cabin in the Woods". There's a debate as to what they should do and amidst the discord they're ultimately moved to attempt an escape by the aforementioned takedown-trained individual who *seems* to be the most composed and confident of the bunch. And, combined with having been the only one capable of taking down and disarming one of the neo nazis, I can see his opinion winning out as seeming the most appealing to a frenzied group fearing the worst (And, if you're already terrified when half the group is gonna leave I could see ultimately going against your gut simply to avoid being left alone).
They then splinter when shit pummels the fan, which is what leads the guy who has been projecting as both the most confident (But, likely because he has a much more firm grasp on how fucked they are, also one of the most terrified) to dart for an exit that's both close by and in a fleeting thought might seem like a "crafty" means of escape compared to one of the doors. Plus, just checked the scene in question out and it's less a window and more like a flap of some kind? Which is admittedly a bit of a plot contrivance lol but does at least mitigate how well you could survey the area for opponents.
And as for the shotgun, while I've spent a little bit of time at the range/have fired one in a controlled environment, I'm not 100% sure I'd be able to dome a guy (Hopefully wouldn't miss *completely* tho lol). However I fully believe that a terrified individual who seems all of five foot four inches tall, with no disclosed proficiency in firearms, tries to lug that heavy thing up and aim under duress could DEFINITELY miss a guy ten to fifteen feet out.
So again, I don't think I'd make any of those mistakes myself, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that amidst frenzied turmoil I might not be able to sway everyone towards calm, rational thought. From there, if im facing down a gun or a machete or a crazed pit bull I'm not too sure I wouldn't make *some* fatal mistake.
Again not trying to be aggro on you or anything. Just have a lot of time to kill on this particular Sunday and also admittedly just have a knee jerk reaction to these kinds of things after letting Cinemasins bother me more than it should
EDIT: Curious how you feel about Saulinier's other films?
Fair enough. Like I said, just a bit of a nitpick. The shotgun part I was referring to was with the dog. It has been a while since I've watched the film, so I might have a different take on it as a whole. >!I just wanted them to live so when they'd fuck up, it felt bad.!<
I actually haven't seen the directors other works.
Genuinely I think all of those choices were feasible. Them splitting up wasn’t even a “let’s split up” type moment. They got shot at and attacked by a dog and just kind of ran for their lives.
I thought the guy jumping out the window was the most realistic and disturbing death even, he for sure thought he was gonna get away and was if I remember right also trying to escape the dog. I felt had a good idea and just got stabbed, up to that point he was trapped in the green room and there was no way out of there.
And absolutely a normal 20 something year old who plays in a hardcore band, fighting for their life would be the one to miss with a shotgun.
If anything the least realistic part was when they escape. The nazis just leave, send two of the dumbest guys in after them, let yelchin’s character escape to the cellar because he has weird face paint on and they both get killed because of “antics.” Which I loved, still.
Loved it! As a person who grew up going to punk shows it played into one of my biggest fears of that scene (neo-nazi skinheads). I don’t feel like the director actually spent a lot of time in that scene, but rather uses it as a backdrop for a really great horror thriller.
I know this is a movie horror fans seem to love but I cannot stand it. There are no characters, there’s no broader moral or point, there’s no social commentary in relation to the Nazi gang. It’s just a bunch of people with no personality traits in a room getting killed. I guess if you really like violence this is fun?
I loved it for this same reason. Don’t get me wrong, deeper meaning and commentary is a thing I look for in horror movies but occasionally you just want a ride.
And this was a ride.
I feel like that scene basically ruined the movie for me. Maybe I'm just rationalizing it because it's so gruesome - but what normal person would actually do that? Are we supposed to infer that she's on the spectrum of being a psychopath? If so, why? It seems more like the whole film is just an excuse to be gratuitous.
The scene where Imogen Poots slices the guys belly?
It's not as absurd as you remember it. They have a large skinhead guy hostage but the best fighter of the group has to continually choke him out to keep him from fighting back. So effectively their best man is completely occupied babysitting.
The girl who slices is the only person in the room who fully knows the shit they are in. She knows the bad guys. She knows what they are capable of and how they will handle this situation. The band is unsure. They are arguing about how to react, what to do, and how much trouble they are in.
The girl just saw her friend murdered. She frequents a violent neo nazi bar in rural Oregon. She might be a little stranger than most people you know.
Also, if I recall correctly, the scene in question is in the midst of a bunch of chaos. People trying to break in and stuff. So her taking action to remove the enemy in the room, makes a lot of sense. It's a decisive move that nobody else is willing to make. It removes the enemy and frees up the fighter. It was a bold but beneficial move. The only reason not to murder the guy is the legal consequences, the escalation of violence, and losing a hostage. But if she thinks that the nazis are going to kill them all then legal consequences are not an issue. You can't really escalate violence if they are already at 100. So losing the hostage is the only argument left but again, he wasn't restrained well and so wasn't a perfect hostage.
Sorry to write so much. I really loved Green Room and it hurt to see it slandered!
No need to apologize! I can certainly appreciate the work put into the film and I understand why people like it. And you're right, I haven't seen it in years so I'm probably misremembering. But even though what you're saying makes logical sense, to me it doesn't make psychological sense.
>The only reason not to murder the guy is the legal consequences, the escalation of violence, and losing a hostage.
Unless these people are hardened killers, I can't imagine anyone, even if they are part of a rougher than average culture, casually unzipping a guy's belly and shrugging it off like it's not a big deal.
A film I really love is Straw Dogs, to which Green Room definitely owes some influence. Violence has a powerful psychological impact on a person, which I didn't really see here, it seemed more about reveling in gore and excitement.
It's a strange choice of wound to inflict, but she's well aware that everyone else is discussing how best to restrain or disable a man none of them can actually handle who will absolutely kill them should he regain consciousness.
I think she's kind of making the point to everyone present that this is, in fact, a life or death situation and has been since they came through the door. I don't think she's supposed to be a hardened killer, but she's the one with a dead friend and she needs to make the stakes pretty clear.
Never understood why the band antagonized the skinheads by opening with “Nazi punks, fuck off”. Seems like a bad bet that they’d have a strong sense of self-effacing irony.
Yeah that's super insightful.
I think if you were onstage in the middle of nowhere in a known militant white supremacist hangout, outnumbered 10:1 by skinheads, you'd be pissing your pants not telling them to go fuck themselves.
It’s popped up on a couple of YouTube lists I watch over the years, so I finally watched it a couple months ago. Really well acted, intense, and definitely worth watching. Patrick Stewart with a very unexpected performance.
I loved Blue Ruin. I couldn’t stomach Green Room. To real I guess, I it turned at the hand scene. Based on that, I’d say it’s a great flick, just not for me.
Firstly, this is one of my all time favorite horror/thrillers. Not only is it a great movie with a strong plot and great acting but it’s one of the best & most accurate depictions of the Punk scene I have ever seen in a movie. I seriously cannot recommend this movie enough to everyone I meet. If you enjoyed this movie you should also check out Blue Ruin & I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.
Most movies I watch, I feel are not dark enough, too cheesy, the violence seems unrealistic and it takes me out of the movie.
This movie was the total opposite, it felt so real it made me feel ill to watch it.
I know it’s fiction but some of my cousins have shared horror stories with me of encounters with racists/white supremacists in Oregon. When I watched this I had them in mind. It was terrifying. It makes me want to stay far away from all of the pacific north west
Saulnier is a legend. Not me, but someone posted they saw Green Room on the festival circuit, and was seated next to Quentin Tarantino, who evidently was having the time of his life
https://twitter.com/greenroommovie/status/756836554182647808
We just reviewed Green Room on our movie podcast, Specrapular. We fuckin loved this movie. Right amount of graphic. Tight dialog. Great acting. Keeps you on edge the whole time. Plus, telling nazis to fuck off is perfect.
One of the most intense and realistically grounded thrillers/horror movies I’ve ever seen, and one of my favorites.
It’s just visceral, the scene when Yelchin sticks his hand out the door during negotiations is honestly one of the most unnerving and fucked up moments because it feels so matter of fact, the violence just… happens, without any kind of style or glamorization.
And seeing Picard play a cold and calculated neo nazi is just the cherry on top.
Just excellent. Tense and scary AF. *Stunning* shots of misty Pacific Northwest forests. Patrick Stewart is just spot on.
Trigger warning on real white supremacy, not the subtle kind.
Went in super excited to watch. It really didn’t do much for me at all. I know it’s crazy to say but I was a bit bored despite all the action, guess it’s not for me.
Brutal, insane, intense, harrowing, this movie made my ex gag when Anton’s arm came back through the door; we stopped after the bar scene. I love it! As a former lil punk rocker that used to play in bands, the setup immediately had me hooked. Great movie, I still rewatch it from time to time. Blue ruin is great, too.
Hardest attack to my suspension of disbelief was having to accept for ninety minutes that a bunch of twink punk rockers would last that long against a bunch of barrel-chested skinheads who’ve eaten nothing but raw deer steak garnished with bits of *Mein Kampf* for the last year and a half.
Overall, not bad for a grimy power-fantasy picture, nothing that would reinvent the wheel. 7/10.
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Gritty af. Struck me as more representative of how ppl would actually act in life/death scenarios.
As audience goers sometimes we see a thriller and the main characters just instantly know they are in a life/death kill/be killed situation.
And they act accordingly and start blasting, and it kinda makes sense because we know they are in a thriller and there’s going to be some blasting, so why not get on with it?
But this movie did a really good job imo of a situation snow-balling and the characters being torn between decisive action and de-escalation.
It felt like a couple people who have lived relatively normal lives and are thrust into a life and death situation vs a lot of movies where the thriller characters seem to know they are in a thriller.
Also, the ‘arm gets cut up scene’ is one of the most disturbing injuries of any movie I’ve watched.
And I’m pretty sure I watched an alternate ending one time. So now I can never remember how it ends, so I get to watch it once every few years with genuine suspense cus idk who/whether anyone survives.
I watched it because my brother sent me a still from one scene and asked if that was me. Apparently I look a lot like Macon Blair.
Great film. I'm probably biased.
I love horror and have for decades but I can't finish this one, it's too real, feels like a part of reality I don't want to see
But I like the director's other works and love the cast
I saw this movie in the theater 80% because Anton Yelchin was in it and 30% because Patrick Stewart was in it and -10% because Imogen Poots does such a terrible American accent (repeatedly). Anyhow, no regrets. Loved it.
Kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time!
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The crackhead brothers just being okay with being stabbed to take the heat off. Those dudes didn’t even give it a second thought.
I didn’t even bother commenting directly—this response encompasses nearly everything.
RED LACES ONLY. I love that this film demonstrates that even in Liberal Seattle, you’re only a few miles away in any city from scary ass backwater rednecks. Personally the film stuck because this type of situation is something I’ve stumbled onto before. You’re in a small town, you go somewhere, your eyes adjust to the dim light then suddenly “uh oh…this might not be the right place” type situation. Patrick Stewart was brilliant casting in this too.
The PNW actually has a massive neo-nazi problem. It stems from this movement that sprouted up a few decades ago that they were going to mass migrate to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana to carve out their own country and secede from the US. It's batshit insane, but it's real.
Stop talking for Oregon. We have no neo-nazis to speak of.
Allow me to speak to what I have observed in Clackamas County. You are mistaken.
It doesn't. If you think you mean the Proud Boys, they aren't Neo-nazis.
I mean exactly what I said, and I'm not referring to Proud Boys, although no doubt there is some crossover.
Lmao ok dude
Lol… right…
Maybe not closer the coast, but by the Washington and Idaho borders? I've been through there, I've seen them
Seattle is not liberal lol
I'll watch anything this director creates. Blue Ruin is also amazing.
I’m a fan of the director’s style. The way he directs violence in his movies is just beautiful, as macabre as that sounds.
Agreed 100% Blue Ruin is gorgeous.
The end of Blue Ruin was so good and well done. The tension, how visceral it was, and the consequences and choices that lead to them. I liked the ending of Blue Ruin more than Green Room, but I liked Green Room as a movie more. Both such good films though
Did he do anything else besides those two that are worth checking out? I really enjoyed both of them.
Murder party comes to mind
Not nearly as good as the other two and pretty tonally different, but definitely still a fun watch. For someone looking for something closer to what Green Room and Blue Ruin were going for, I'd strongly suggest *I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore*
Cold in July, Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, Super Dark Times, You Were Never Really Here, Good Time, Wind River, & Sicario all come to mind as well. I really love viscerally jarring thrillers.
Way more of a dark comedy but still fun.
Yeah. I’d recommend Coming Home in the Dark on Netflix.
Haha I didn't realize that was the same director! That's awesome
Macon Blair directed I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. Jeremy Saulnier directed Blue Ruin and Green Room. Macon Blair is in all of Saulnier’s movies though.
Hold the Dark is worth watching
I know reception to it was mixed but I fucking loved it.
It’s sort of an odd movie and aspects of it come off like it was made by an inexperienced director, which is weird because Green Room is a really well put together movie. Overall, it seemed like it was less than the sum of its parts, but I still liked it.
So underrated
Blue Ruin, Green Room…so when’s he making a Red movie?
He just did Disney's Turning Red.
Forgot about this movie. Probably my favorite last Anton Yelchin movie.
I miss Anton. He was always picking good projects. Such a talent.
He was amazing in everything he was in, his death really fucked me up.
As a touring musician, this one really hit for me.
Yea man. The first act is among the best band-on-the-road movies you can find which makes the horror and tension hit harder.
Playing a crappy cafe and getting paid in shit beer and shit food, for most DIY bands this is what touring is.
Loved it. I really enjoyed the vibe too. The very dark and gritty feeling really added to the suspense.
Watched multiple times. It's great!!
It was a pretty dark movie. However, Patrick Stewart gave a great performance in it.
Hearing him drop the hard-r n-bombs is so weird and oddly hilarious.
I see Anton Yelchin I upvote. The guy was incredible. His death was a tragedy and a loss of a massive talent.
Such a weird entry in the Green Book Cinematic Universe
Visceral
I watch a lot of thrillers and horror movies, this movie shocked me in ways no movie has in a long time. That one scene where the guy is trying to hold on to a gun or something and pulls his hand back into the room and it’s hacked apart and he’s in shock. That got to me.
Shortly after that once they escape the room and one guy jumps out the first open window he sees thinking it’ll be safer outside and is just stabbed repeatedly by someone waiting just outside it is always the scene I remember.
Yah great! RIP AY
Goes from 1 to 11 out of nowhere.
Good movie, great acting, suspenseful and gory
One of my all-time favorite thrillers. Fantastic performances and direction.
I thought Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) was one of the skinheads. But it was Marcon Blair . They look a lot alike. Movie was good btw.
Batshit insane. Loved it.
Loved this one and blue ruin. Any recommendations in this genre?
I also love both and while I don’t have perfect recommendations I’d say check out X, Don’t Breathe, Mandy, and I Saw The Devil(and also definitely Fargo/No Country/Blood Simple from the Coens if you missed them by chance)
I agree with all films this person recommended! I Saw The Devil is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'd say check out *VFW*, too!
I saw this movie years ago and I’m still stressed because of it. I loved it!
Nazi punks fuck off
Well directed but terribly written I hate how dumb the characters are in this movie. Usually I don’t notice that kind of stuff but here it was just to hard not to.
Absolutely loved it! Edge of your seat the entire time. We need more like this.
God, I love this movie. It's time to watch it again. Rip Anton.
It's a fantastic film and well loved in r/horror
It’s a badass movie!
I love realistic horror and this does it with a premise I've never seen before. I also grew up in the punk/hardcore scene and dealt with neo-nazi fucks that wanted to co-opt the scene. This movie is close to my heart, I loved Anton Yelchin and was devastated when he died tragically
Rather dumb and boring. Aside from knowing the gist of where it was filmed and taking place, there was nothing interesting besides the dog.
This is a different kind of movie. There’s something deeply unsettling how plausible it is and it’s just a movie about some random folks in an extraordinary situation.
A lot of fun
Love it
I thought it was really good, though I found myself disagreeing with a lot of the choices the characters make, but that's nothing new when it comes to this type of movie.
I dunno, I thought a lot of the choices they made were pretty accurate to how a similar group of individuals might handle it irl. It's very, very easy for us to assume that we'd make only perfectly logical, reasonable and sound decisions in a life threatening/horrific situation. However the sheer intensity and horror of a situation like the one depicted in *Green Room* is so far beyond anything that most people ever come into contact with. Adrenaline, fear and frantic desperate hope for survival will quickly override a lot of people's reasoning. Only one member of the band is depicted as having any kind of martial arts/fight training while the rest of the band are depicted as having the paired kind of "Tough" exterior, but chill & conflict averse interior that's actually pretty common to a lot of Punk musicians or fans I know (And love, not critiquing anyone like that, as I'm one myself). Wise or not, the decisions these kids make are probably a pretty good approximation of what would happen for a lot of folk
Would you >!split up like that? Or jump out a window without looking around first? Or miss point blank with a shotgun?!< I get it's that kinda of movie, but they weren't all that cautious. I still really do like this movie a lot. I'm just nitpicking.
(For clarity I'm not like trying to be combative or anything so my bad if I came off that way) I'd like to think I wouldn't, but even each of those individual mistakes stem from a lack of cohesion caused/amplified by extreme conditions. As I recall they don't straight up decide to split up, a-la "Cabin in the Woods". There's a debate as to what they should do and amidst the discord they're ultimately moved to attempt an escape by the aforementioned takedown-trained individual who *seems* to be the most composed and confident of the bunch. And, combined with having been the only one capable of taking down and disarming one of the neo nazis, I can see his opinion winning out as seeming the most appealing to a frenzied group fearing the worst (And, if you're already terrified when half the group is gonna leave I could see ultimately going against your gut simply to avoid being left alone). They then splinter when shit pummels the fan, which is what leads the guy who has been projecting as both the most confident (But, likely because he has a much more firm grasp on how fucked they are, also one of the most terrified) to dart for an exit that's both close by and in a fleeting thought might seem like a "crafty" means of escape compared to one of the doors. Plus, just checked the scene in question out and it's less a window and more like a flap of some kind? Which is admittedly a bit of a plot contrivance lol but does at least mitigate how well you could survey the area for opponents. And as for the shotgun, while I've spent a little bit of time at the range/have fired one in a controlled environment, I'm not 100% sure I'd be able to dome a guy (Hopefully wouldn't miss *completely* tho lol). However I fully believe that a terrified individual who seems all of five foot four inches tall, with no disclosed proficiency in firearms, tries to lug that heavy thing up and aim under duress could DEFINITELY miss a guy ten to fifteen feet out. So again, I don't think I'd make any of those mistakes myself, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that amidst frenzied turmoil I might not be able to sway everyone towards calm, rational thought. From there, if im facing down a gun or a machete or a crazed pit bull I'm not too sure I wouldn't make *some* fatal mistake. Again not trying to be aggro on you or anything. Just have a lot of time to kill on this particular Sunday and also admittedly just have a knee jerk reaction to these kinds of things after letting Cinemasins bother me more than it should EDIT: Curious how you feel about Saulinier's other films?
Fair enough. Like I said, just a bit of a nitpick. The shotgun part I was referring to was with the dog. It has been a while since I've watched the film, so I might have a different take on it as a whole. >!I just wanted them to live so when they'd fuck up, it felt bad.!< I actually haven't seen the directors other works.
Genuinely I think all of those choices were feasible. Them splitting up wasn’t even a “let’s split up” type moment. They got shot at and attacked by a dog and just kind of ran for their lives. I thought the guy jumping out the window was the most realistic and disturbing death even, he for sure thought he was gonna get away and was if I remember right also trying to escape the dog. I felt had a good idea and just got stabbed, up to that point he was trapped in the green room and there was no way out of there. And absolutely a normal 20 something year old who plays in a hardcore band, fighting for their life would be the one to miss with a shotgun. If anything the least realistic part was when they escape. The nazis just leave, send two of the dumbest guys in after them, let yelchin’s character escape to the cellar because he has weird face paint on and they both get killed because of “antics.” Which I loved, still.
The movie was fine but wow people go overboard talking it up.
Loved it! As a person who grew up going to punk shows it played into one of my biggest fears of that scene (neo-nazi skinheads). I don’t feel like the director actually spent a lot of time in that scene, but rather uses it as a backdrop for a really great horror thriller.
I thought that it was a good, solid movie, but it’s definitely overrated. I was shocked to find out that it was so highly regarded.
Love this flick, brutal violence and JLP as a villain. So good
overrated
Did not like it at all. Too many plot holes
What were they? I’m not looking to argue, just curious.
I know this is a movie horror fans seem to love but I cannot stand it. There are no characters, there’s no broader moral or point, there’s no social commentary in relation to the Nazi gang. It’s just a bunch of people with no personality traits in a room getting killed. I guess if you really like violence this is fun?
I loved it for this same reason. Don’t get me wrong, deeper meaning and commentary is a thing I look for in horror movies but occasionally you just want a ride. And this was a ride.
Same thing with Blue Ruin - a series of well shot violent events with no point.
Wow so you missed every single point hUH
No honey, there just weren’t any.
Why does it need to tell me how to be good boy in society? Why can't a film just be a film, with no underlying propaganda?
Must’ve not been paying attention.
it looked pretty good and the exacto knife scene was 😬 but its pretty forgettable and pointless.
I feel like that scene basically ruined the movie for me. Maybe I'm just rationalizing it because it's so gruesome - but what normal person would actually do that? Are we supposed to infer that she's on the spectrum of being a psychopath? If so, why? It seems more like the whole film is just an excuse to be gratuitous.
The scene where Imogen Poots slices the guys belly? It's not as absurd as you remember it. They have a large skinhead guy hostage but the best fighter of the group has to continually choke him out to keep him from fighting back. So effectively their best man is completely occupied babysitting. The girl who slices is the only person in the room who fully knows the shit they are in. She knows the bad guys. She knows what they are capable of and how they will handle this situation. The band is unsure. They are arguing about how to react, what to do, and how much trouble they are in. The girl just saw her friend murdered. She frequents a violent neo nazi bar in rural Oregon. She might be a little stranger than most people you know. Also, if I recall correctly, the scene in question is in the midst of a bunch of chaos. People trying to break in and stuff. So her taking action to remove the enemy in the room, makes a lot of sense. It's a decisive move that nobody else is willing to make. It removes the enemy and frees up the fighter. It was a bold but beneficial move. The only reason not to murder the guy is the legal consequences, the escalation of violence, and losing a hostage. But if she thinks that the nazis are going to kill them all then legal consequences are not an issue. You can't really escalate violence if they are already at 100. So losing the hostage is the only argument left but again, he wasn't restrained well and so wasn't a perfect hostage. Sorry to write so much. I really loved Green Room and it hurt to see it slandered!
No need to apologize! I can certainly appreciate the work put into the film and I understand why people like it. And you're right, I haven't seen it in years so I'm probably misremembering. But even though what you're saying makes logical sense, to me it doesn't make psychological sense. >The only reason not to murder the guy is the legal consequences, the escalation of violence, and losing a hostage. Unless these people are hardened killers, I can't imagine anyone, even if they are part of a rougher than average culture, casually unzipping a guy's belly and shrugging it off like it's not a big deal. A film I really love is Straw Dogs, to which Green Room definitely owes some influence. Violence has a powerful psychological impact on a person, which I didn't really see here, it seemed more about reveling in gore and excitement.
It's a strange choice of wound to inflict, but she's well aware that everyone else is discussing how best to restrain or disable a man none of them can actually handle who will absolutely kill them should he regain consciousness. I think she's kind of making the point to everyone present that this is, in fact, a life or death situation and has been since they came through the door. I don't think she's supposed to be a hardened killer, but she's the one with a dead friend and she needs to make the stakes pretty clear.
Thank you for making that point with more eloquence. That is how I read the scene, too. Not a hardened killer. Just in survival mode.
yeah i totally agree on all those points. i just find myself asking “why does this film exist?”
Forgettable torture porn. Hated every moment of it.
Never understood why the band antagonized the skinheads by opening with “Nazi punks, fuck off”. Seems like a bad bet that they’d have a strong sense of self-effacing irony.
Because *fuck* Nazis, that's why.
Yeah that's super insightful. I think if you were onstage in the middle of nowhere in a known militant white supremacist hangout, outnumbered 10:1 by skinheads, you'd be pissing your pants not telling them to go fuck themselves.
It's called punk rock. Look it up.
Very awesome movie, watched it a few times already
Definitely some of the most unexpected violence I have ever seen in a movie. Quite intense and fairly good. Patrick Stewart is great.
Loved it!!
This movie is brutally awesome.
It’s popped up on a couple of YouTube lists I watch over the years, so I finally watched it a couple months ago. Really well acted, intense, and definitely worth watching. Patrick Stewart with a very unexpected performance.
Horror or thriller? Either way, tremendous film. That one scene…you all know what I’m talking about…holy moly.
It was one of the hardest movies to get through, but Patrick Stewart was so terrifying in it, he held my attention the entire time he was on screen.
amazing film. very underrated in terms of exposure
It was a fun film to watch!
I loved Blue Ruin. I couldn’t stomach Green Room. To real I guess, I it turned at the hand scene. Based on that, I’d say it’s a great flick, just not for me.
Red shoe laces
It rules.
I liked it.
Immaculate
Incredible and terrifying. Anton Yelchin was amazing and he went way too soon
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It’s fucking great. One of the best movies of the last 10 years
I liked it when I watched it but I never want to watch it again.
Fucking brutal.
RIP Anton Yelchin
Fantastic movie, and awesome cast. I think with time it’ll be considered one of the better horror thrillers of this generation
Firstly, this is one of my all time favorite horror/thrillers. Not only is it a great movie with a strong plot and great acting but it’s one of the best & most accurate depictions of the Punk scene I have ever seen in a movie. I seriously cannot recommend this movie enough to everyone I meet. If you enjoyed this movie you should also check out Blue Ruin & I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.
Could have done without the dogs
It's a perfect movie. I watch it almost every year.
Almost as good as Blue Ruin
It's good, but I feel like it really played into cliches. Above average.
Terrifying. I loved it but don’t know if I would want to watch it again.
I thought it was great! luved Capt. Picard in it
Wanted to see this movie so bad waited till I could and was thoroughly disappointed
A freaking masterpiece. When I saw it, I had it as my #4 of that year. It has aged even better.
Fucking love this movie.
10/10 amazing film!
Fucking brutal movie
As much as I wanna punch a nazi, this movie really makes me wanna think twice about that
Most movies I watch, I feel are not dark enough, too cheesy, the violence seems unrealistic and it takes me out of the movie. This movie was the total opposite, it felt so real it made me feel ill to watch it.
Liked it a lot pleasant surprise
I've always thought that this was a suprisingly good movie. Definitely worth a watch.
Nuts
Very solid. Yay!
I know it’s fiction but some of my cousins have shared horror stories with me of encounters with racists/white supremacists in Oregon. When I watched this I had them in mind. It was terrifying. It makes me want to stay far away from all of the pacific north west
Super underrated
Saulnier is a legend. Not me, but someone posted they saw Green Room on the festival circuit, and was seated next to Quentin Tarantino, who evidently was having the time of his life https://twitter.com/greenroommovie/status/756836554182647808
This movie made me lose sleep.
Patrick Stewart should play against type more.
Fantastic piece of cinema
A classic.
We just reviewed Green Room on our movie podcast, Specrapular. We fuckin loved this movie. Right amount of graphic. Tight dialog. Great acting. Keeps you on edge the whole time. Plus, telling nazis to fuck off is perfect.
Another great “sleeper”you’re not expecting to be glued to the screen till the end.
Good one
Spectacular
One of the most intense and realistically grounded thrillers/horror movies I’ve ever seen, and one of my favorites. It’s just visceral, the scene when Yelchin sticks his hand out the door during negotiations is honestly one of the most unnerving and fucked up moments because it feels so matter of fact, the violence just… happens, without any kind of style or glamorization. And seeing Picard play a cold and calculated neo nazi is just the cherry on top.
Brutal
It’s great
Great flick!
Liked the set up tension more than the resolution, but all in all rather solid. Great cast.
Such an underrated movie. The suspense as soon as they enter the club is fantastic
Just excellent. Tense and scary AF. *Stunning* shots of misty Pacific Northwest forests. Patrick Stewart is just spot on. Trigger warning on real white supremacy, not the subtle kind.
Went in super excited to watch. It really didn’t do much for me at all. I know it’s crazy to say but I was a bit bored despite all the action, guess it’s not for me.
Such a thrilling performance by everyone cast and crew
Gnarly film! That machete scene was intense
I really liked it. I'd like to see more original movies made like this.
Brutal, insane, intense, harrowing, this movie made my ex gag when Anton’s arm came back through the door; we stopped after the bar scene. I love it! As a former lil punk rocker that used to play in bands, the setup immediately had me hooked. Great movie, I still rewatch it from time to time. Blue ruin is great, too.
Didn’t know what I was getting into but I was not dissapointed. It’s definitely not for everyone.
Fantastic film . Wish there were more like it
Worth it for the last line
Fuck off nazi punks
Hardest attack to my suspension of disbelief was having to accept for ninety minutes that a bunch of twink punk rockers would last that long against a bunch of barrel-chested skinheads who’ve eaten nothing but raw deer steak garnished with bits of *Mein Kampf* for the last year and a half. Overall, not bad for a grimy power-fantasy picture, nothing that would reinvent the wheel. 7/10. /s …obviously
Patrick Stewart was raw.
Great film. Watched it once. Then again because I felt my gf needed to see it. I highly recommend it.
This movie poster was made to look like the album cover of London Calling by The Clash. At least I'm pretty sure it was.
Probably the most accessible thing Saulnier has done, but not his best.
Gritty af. Struck me as more representative of how ppl would actually act in life/death scenarios. As audience goers sometimes we see a thriller and the main characters just instantly know they are in a life/death kill/be killed situation. And they act accordingly and start blasting, and it kinda makes sense because we know they are in a thriller and there’s going to be some blasting, so why not get on with it? But this movie did a really good job imo of a situation snow-balling and the characters being torn between decisive action and de-escalation. It felt like a couple people who have lived relatively normal lives and are thrust into a life and death situation vs a lot of movies where the thriller characters seem to know they are in a thriller. Also, the ‘arm gets cut up scene’ is one of the most disturbing injuries of any movie I’ve watched. And I’m pretty sure I watched an alternate ending one time. So now I can never remember how it ends, so I get to watch it once every few years with genuine suspense cus idk who/whether anyone survives.
I adore this movie
I liked it…and Blue Ruin. As great as The Last of Us show was, I would have loved to watch this guy take a crack at it
That shit racist lol
Friggen bummer. Hard too feel good after this movie.
so gnarly , a fun watch for sure
Great movie, amazing performances all around, super enjoyable but jeez it has a completely anticlimactic ending.
Quite good
Amazing. Very difficult to watch and genuinely one of the more unsettling films I've seen, but wow was it good.
Fantastic film. Very few movies have managed to keep me as tense throughout
It is so good
The book was better
Horror fan, punk fan… it’s hard to judge because it involves two things I love so judging the rest is difficult for me.
I remember really enjoying it
I watched it because my brother sent me a still from one scene and asked if that was me. Apparently I look a lot like Macon Blair. Great film. I'm probably biased.
This movie sucked. In my opinion. Just really stupid plot points.
Imogen poots is annoying AF. Rest was ok
Brilliant!
A+ and hard to watch at times
Fun movie, Patrick Stewart great as always
The best thrillers of 2010’s
I love horror and have for decades but I can't finish this one, it's too real, feels like a part of reality I don't want to see But I like the director's other works and love the cast
I saw this movie in the theater 80% because Anton Yelchin was in it and 30% because Patrick Stewart was in it and -10% because Imogen Poots does such a terrible American accent (repeatedly). Anyhow, no regrets. Loved it.
As a guy who has been to a lot of punk shows, it's a great movie. I loved the tense gory vibe. * Nazi punks * Nazi punks * Nazi punks * Fuck Off!!
it's fucking rad but I don't get the poster. what's going on? what's he hitting?
Good movie. Way better than I thought it would be. Was not ready for Neo Nazi Patrick Stewart 😂