Green Room, which premieres in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight on
May 17, Saulnier has instead decided “to bob and weave.” The result is a
bloody siege movie in which a punk band, trapped in a green room at a
club, has to fight o ff a gang of white power skinheads.
. “This film goes back to my roots — the crazy genre films of the ’80s see this as a batshit crazy punkrock horror thriller.”
There are few situations more hellish than being trapped for 16 hours in
a music venue by a gang of murderous neo-Nazis in the Oregon backwoods.
The story follows the members of the hardcore band The Ain’t
Rights—Pat, Tiger, Reece, and Sam, whose lean names befit their means.
Low on gas, money, and energy, the band reluctantly agrees to one final
gig, the catch being it’s at a white-supremacist club just outside of
Portland. The musicians aren’t thrilled, but at least Pat (Anton
Yelchin) recognizes what may be the only upside to their situation: How
often does a band get the chance to cover the Dead Kennedys song “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” in front of a crowd of actual Nazi punks?
But the fun doesn’t last: Minutes after their set ends, the band
witness a brutal crime and realize their odds of getting home have just
dropped dramatically. The venue’s owner, Darcy (played by Sir Patrick
Stewart), mobilizes his most devoted foot-soldiers to take care of the
outsiders. What follows is a tense gore-fest, one that’s as grimy and
claustrophobic as the titular room. But scrape off the scum, and you’ll
find Green Room full of visual artistry, dark humor, smart
writing, and glints of humanity. The film’s bleakness and B-movie
trappings won’t appeal to everyone: The violence reaches demented
heights, and having the antagonists be neo-Nazis may come off as lazy
storytelling. But there’s a cool, macabre charm to the whole effort. In
short, Green Room has all the makings of a cult classic—one likely to find enthusiastic fans sooner rather than later.
Saulnier’s third feature film, Green Room bears many of the same sensibilities and characteristics as the director’s first two works, 2007’s slasher comedy Murder Party and the infinitely improved, Kickstarter-funded drama Blue Ruin,
which was the indie success story of 2013. The latter—a Coen
Brothers-esque tale about a man seeking vengeance for his parents’
murders—revealed Saulnier’s deftness at both writing dialogue and
cultivating silence, at knowing the exact moments to hold back or to let
the action spill forth. On the surface, Green Room has more in common with Saulnier’s messier debut, but it retains the cinematic flair and self-assuredness of Blue Ruin.
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
If nothing else, the Finnish film Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydan) deserves a pat on the head for daring to set up one hell of a wacky premise: neo-Nazi Teppo (Peter Franzen) falls for a beautiful blonde Sari (Laura Birn) but then – surprise! – finds out she has a mixed-race son (Yusufa Sidibeh) from an earlier relationship. It sounds on paper like the makings for an insane, blackly-comic update on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) but maybe with an Oi!-punk soundtrack. Alas,Heart is, in fact, a painfully earnest drama, albeit one with thudding comic moments, that still manages to be offensive – but not in a fun way – as well as credibility stretching and tacky. Franzen’s fully committed lead performance represents one of the few redeeming features (young Sidibeh is another) which might partly explain why this ludicrous work from director Dome Karukoskihas secured program slots at both Toronto and Santa Barbara’s film festivals, as well as closer-to-home Goteborg.
When Sony dropped the trailer for Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters,
the reaction wasn’t even mixed — it was universally hated. Now, the
preview’s underwhelming status has been solidified in the annals of
YouTube history, as it’s officially the site’s most disliked movie
trailer of all time.
For one thing, the Internet is a hive of mob mentality, and that often manifests as hatred. Many of the other videos on the most disliked list are
things that have largely been appreciated by the general public, but
that detractors abhor with passion. Justin Bieber’s “Baby” video sits at
No. 1 with a hearty 6,042,981 dislikes. While there are objectively
some terrible things about that clip, the song also helped launch an
international superstar and has gone 12 times platinum. It’s also
simultaneously the 10th most viewed YouTube video of all time, so people
are certainly going back for more. Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda”, Adele’s
“Hello”, three Taylor Swift songs, and even the classic “Charlie Bit My Finger — Again!” clip also all sit on the most disliked list.
The Ghostbusters trailer currently has 507,610 dislikes on YouTube. To put that in perspective, the Fantastic Four trailer from last year has only 20,175 dislikes. The Ridiculous Six trailer, which has an impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, has only 5,803 dislikes. Could Ghostbusters be that much worse than either of those two movies? It’s seems unlikely knowing what we know about both Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six. What is actually happening is that a certain subset of people on the internet have an unhealthy fixation with hating on the Ghostbusters remake and are teaming up to downvote it into oblivion.
Consider some of the rest of the videos on this playlist, which ranks the Top 100 most “disliked” videos on YouTube (current as of April 16, 2016). With 507,610 thumbs down votes, the Ghostbusters trailer
is the most disliked movie trailer in the history of YouTube and
currently the only movie trailer that even cracks the Top 100. The only
other movie-related videos on the list include two versions of “Let It
Go” from Frozen.
Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (#1 on the
list) has a whopping 6 million thumbs down votes, but that’s on 1.36
billion views for a 226:1 ratio of views to dislikes. Psy’s “Gangnam
Style” video (#4 overall) has almost 1.5 million thumbs down on 2.5
billion views for a relatively high ratio of 1,666:1. The Ghostbusters
trailer is remarkable in that it has 507,610 dislikes on just 28.7
million views. That’s a staggering 56:1, almost exactly four times the
amount of dislikes per view of Bieber’s aforementioned most disliked
video on all of YouTube. (By contrast, a trailer for a movie like Captain America: Civil War
has a 5,237:1 ratio.) It’s not just that people dislike it, it’s that
they’re disliking it at a highly disproportionate rate to other YouTube
videos.
As the inclusion of “Let It Go” might indicate, the
majority of the list is filled with songs that were popular but quickly
became annoying. Justin Bieber, for example, has 11 of the most disliked
videos. But a more telling statistic is that the majority of the videos
on the list (59%) star or feature women or female characters. In
addition to the Ghostbusters trailer, there’s Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, and even Adele. Who hates Adele?!
There
is a lot of hatred directed towards the new trailer, primarily because
it stars four women (though the haters would have you believe misogyny
is not the real driving force behind their invective) and seemingly not
at all connected to its quality. Quickly the misogyny began to overwhelm
the comments under the Ghostbusters trailer and Sony Pictures
was forced to delete many offensive remarks, though it doesn’t take long
even now to find comments like, “When are people going to learn that
women aren’t funny?“ and “GhostBusters - Fat Dyke Edition”. The dislikes
eventually got to a point where it became a game among those who hate
the movie and frequently return to watch the numbers grow. When one fan
commented, “We made it to 500000 dislikes,” another followed up with an
enthusiastic, “Lets [sic] get it to a million!”
And that’s really the bigger problem here. It’s not that people disliked the movie on an organic level. As shown above with Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six,
even when people don’t like a movie they don’t “dislike” it this much.
The thumbs down votes aren’t organic, they’re part of a coordinated
attack on the film by people who are opposed to its very existence.
There have even been reports across the web that angry fans are using
bots to artificially drive up the “dislikes” on the trailer. What’s
worse, there’s a culture of misogyny and toxicity to YouTube comments
that fosters this type of attitude. Just a quick look at the same
trailer posted by Sony Pictures to Facebook shows only 12,000 “angry”
votes (the Facebook version of the thumbs down “dislike”) on 22 million
views.
The good news is that while there are over a half-million “dislikes” on the Ghostbusters
trailer, there are still over 27 million people who watched the trailer
who either officially liked it or had nothing negative to say about it.
So while there may be a vocal minority trying to game the YouTube
voting system to bring down a movie with a female cast, they are still
the minority.
Sadly, at the rate they are going, it’s not crazy to think the video could reach 1 million dislikes by the time Ghostbusters
opens in July. At that point, who knows how much this campaign will
have hurt the movie and all this before we have any real idea whether
this movie itself is any good.
The Ghostbusters trailer currently has 507,610 dislikes on YouTube. To put that in perspective, the Fantastic Four trailer from last year has only 20,175 dislikes. The Ridiculous Six trailer, which has an impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, has only 5,803 dislikes. Could Ghostbusters be that much worse than either of those two movies? It’s seems unlikely knowing what we know about both Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six. What is actually happening is that a certain subset of people on the internet have an unhealthy fixation with hating on the Ghostbusters remake and are teaming up to downvote it into oblivion.
Consider some of the rest of the videos on this playlist, which ranks the Top 100 most “disliked” videos on YouTube (current as of April 16, 2016). With 507,610 thumbs down votes, the Ghostbusters trailer
is the most disliked movie trailer in the history of YouTube and
currently the only movie trailer that even cracks the Top 100. The only
other movie-related videos on the list include two versions of “Let It
Go” from Frozen.
Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (#1 on the
list) has a whopping 6 million thumbs down votes, but that’s on 1.36
billion views for a 226:1 ratio of views to dislikes. Psy’s “Gangnam
Style” video (#4 overall) has almost 1.5 million thumbs down on 2.5
billion views for a relatively high ratio of 1,666:1. The Ghostbusters
trailer is remarkable in that it has 507,610 dislikes on just 28.7
million views. That’s a staggering 56:1, almost exactly four times the
amount of dislikes per view of Bieber’s aforementioned most disliked
video on all of YouTube. (By contrast, a trailer for a movie like Captain America: Civil War
has a 5,237:1 ratio.) It’s not just that people dislike it, it’s that
they’re disliking it at a highly disproportionate rate to other YouTube
videos.
As the inclusion of “Let It Go” might indicate, the
majority of the list is filled with songs that were popular but quickly
became annoying. Justin Bieber, for example, has 11 of the most disliked
videos. But a more telling statistic is that the majority of the videos
on the list (59%) star or feature women or female characters. In
addition to the Ghostbusters trailer, there’s Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, and even Adele. Who hates Adele?!
There
is a lot of hatred directed towards the new trailer, primarily because
it stars four women (though the haters would have you believe misogyny
is not the real driving force behind their invective) and seemingly not
at all connected to its quality. Quickly the misogyny began to overwhelm
the comments under the Ghostbusters trailer and Sony Pictures
was forced to delete many offensive remarks, though it doesn’t take long
even now to find comments like, “When are people going to learn that
women aren’t funny?“ and “GhostBusters - Fat Dyke Edition”. The dislikes
eventually got to a point where it became a game among those who hate
the movie and frequently return to watch the numbers grow. When one fan
commented, “We made it to 500000 dislikes,” another followed up with an
enthusiastic, “Lets [sic] get it to a million!”
And that’s really the bigger problem here. It’s not that people disliked the movie on an organic level. As shown above with Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six,
even when people don’t like a movie they don’t “dislike” it this much.
The thumbs down votes aren’t organic, they’re part of a coordinated
attack on the film by people who are opposed to its very existence.
There have even been reports across the web that angry fans are using
bots to artificially drive up the “dislikes” on the trailer. What’s
worse, there’s a culture of misogyny and toxicity to YouTube comments
that fosters this type of attitude. Just a quick look at the same
trailer posted by Sony Pictures to Facebook shows only 12,000 “angry”
votes (the Facebook version of the thumbs down “dislike”) on 22 million
views.
The good news is that while there are over a half-million “dislikes” on the Ghostbusters
trailer, there are still over 27 million people who watched the trailer
who either officially liked it or had nothing negative to say about it.
So while there may be a vocal minority trying to game the YouTube
voting system to bring down a movie with a female cast, they are still
the minority.
Sadly, at the rate they are going, it’s not crazy to think the video could reach 1 million dislikes by the time Ghostbusters
opens in July. At that point, who knows how much this campaign will
have hurt the movie and all this before we have any real idea whether
this movie itself is any good.
The Ghostbusters trailer currently has 507,610 dislikes on YouTube. To put that in perspective, the Fantastic Four trailer from last year has only 20,175 dislikes. The Ridiculous Six trailer, which has an impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, has only 5,803 dislikes. Could Ghostbusters be that much worse than either of those two movies? It’s seems unlikely knowing what we know about both Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six. What is actually happening is that a certain subset of people on the internet have an unhealthy fixation with hating on the Ghostbusters remake and are teaming up to downvote it into oblivion.
Consider some of the rest of the videos on this playlist, which ranks the Top 100 most “disliked” videos on YouTube (current as of April 16, 2016). With 507,610 thumbs down votes, the Ghostbusters trailer
is the most disliked movie trailer in the history of YouTube and
currently the only movie trailer that even cracks the Top 100. The only
other movie-related videos on the list include two versions of “Let It
Go” from Frozen.
Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (#1 on the
list) has a whopping 6 million thumbs down votes, but that’s on 1.36
billion views for a 226:1 ratio of views to dislikes. Psy’s “Gangnam
Style” video (#4 overall) has almost 1.5 million thumbs down on 2.5
billion views for a relatively high ratio of 1,666:1. The Ghostbusters
trailer is remarkable in that it has 507,610 dislikes on just 28.7
million views. That’s a staggering 56:1, almost exactly four times the
amount of dislikes per view of Bieber’s aforementioned most disliked
video on all of YouTube. (By contrast, a trailer for a movie like Captain America: Civil War
has a 5,237:1 ratio.) It’s not just that people dislike it, it’s that
they’re disliking it at a highly disproportionate rate to other YouTube
videos.
As the inclusion of “Let It Go” might indicate, the
majority of the list is filled with songs that were popular but quickly
became annoying. Justin Bieber, for example, has 11 of the most disliked
videos. But a more telling statistic is that the majority of the videos
on the list (59%) star or feature women or female characters. In
addition to the Ghostbusters trailer, there’s Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, and even Adele. Who hates Adele?!
There
is a lot of hatred directed towards the new trailer, primarily because
it stars four women (though the haters would have you believe misogyny
is not the real driving force behind their invective) and seemingly not
at all connected to its quality. Quickly the misogyny began to overwhelm
the comments under the Ghostbusters trailer and Sony Pictures
was forced to delete many offensive remarks, though it doesn’t take long
even now to find comments like, “When are people going to learn that
women aren’t funny?“ and “GhostBusters - Fat Dyke Edition”. The dislikes
eventually got to a point where it became a game among those who hate
the movie and frequently return to watch the numbers grow. When one fan
commented, “We made it to 500000 dislikes,” another followed up with an
enthusiastic, “Lets [sic] get it to a million!”
And that’s really the bigger problem here. It’s not that people disliked the movie on an organic level. As shown above with Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six,
even when people don’t like a movie they don’t “dislike” it this much.
The thumbs down votes aren’t organic, they’re part of a coordinated
attack on the film by people who are opposed to its very existence.
There have even been reports across the web that angry fans are using
bots to artificially drive up the “dislikes” on the trailer. What’s
worse, there’s a culture of misogyny and toxicity to YouTube comments
that fosters this type of attitude. Just a quick look at the same
trailer posted by Sony Pictures to Facebook shows only 12,000 “angry”
votes (the Facebook version of the thumbs down “dislike”) on 22 million
views.
The good news is that while there are over a half-million “dislikes” on the Ghostbusters
trailer, there are still over 27 million people who watched the trailer
who either officially liked it or had nothing negative to say about it.
So while there may be a vocal minority trying to game the YouTube
voting system to bring down a movie with a female cast, they are still
the minority.
Sadly, at the rate they are going, it’s not crazy to think the video could reach 1 million dislikes by the time Ghostbusters
opens in July. At that point, who knows how much this campaign will
have hurt the movie and all this before we have any real idea whether
this movie itself is any good.
A new French movie is causing ructions over claims that it is too
incendiary for general release. The film is about a violent skinhead and
the origins of France's far-right political movement.
Marco is a skinhead, a real one. With his friends, Braguette, Grand-Guy,
Marvin, he hits the Arabs and glue the posters of the far right. Until
he feels that, despite himself, his hatred is abandoning him. But how to
get rid of violence, anger, stupidity that has in oneself? This is the
journey of a bastard who will try to become a good person. French Blood (original title: Un Français)
Connecticut-based hardcore/metal masters HATEBREED will release their new album, "The Concrete Confessional", in the spring via Nuclear Blast. The CD is being recorded with longtime producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris (ROB ZOMBIE, SUICIDE SILENCE, WHITECHAPEL) and will be mixed by Josh Wilbur, who has previously wirked with LAMB OF GOD and MEGADETH, among others.
In support of "The Concrete Confessional", HATEBREED will embark on a North American headlining tour. Joining them on the trek are modern metal stalwarts DEVILDRIVER, Nuclear Blast labelmates DEVIL YOU KNOW and Metal Blade recording artists ACT OF DEFIANCE (featuring former MEGADETH members Chris Broderick and Shawn Drover).
Comments HATEBREED vocalist Jamey Jasta: "New album and tour in 2016?! Let's do this!
"Our return to the states has been a long time coming and we could not be more excited!
"Fans have been asking for us to tour with DEVILDRIVER and DEVIL YOU KNOW for a long time, and we're pumped to have ACT OF DEFIANCE on some shows as well.
"Get your tickets and we'll see you in the pit!"
Iconic rock musician Prince died
April 21, 2016 at the age of 57. Police and EMTs responded to a 911
call at his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen, Minn., on Thursday.
Sales of Prince's music have skyrocketed since the artist's death last week.
According
to Nielsen Music, in the three days following his death, there were 2.3
million Prince song sales, including nearly 1 million on Thursday, the
day he died.
Albums sales were led by "The Very Best Of Prince."The 57-year-old singer was found dead Thursday at his Paisley Park compound in suburban Minneapolis. An autopsy was conducted Friday. Authorities said it could be weeks before the cause of death is released.Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said Prince's body had no signs of violence and there was nothing to suggest suicide.
South East Asia Dates:
March 15 - Bali, Indonesia March 16 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam March 18 - Immortal Bar, Bangkok - Thailand March 19 - Jb Rock Fest, City Plaza - Johor Bahru - Malaysia March 20 - Jakarta, Indonesia March 21 - Malang, Indonesia
John "Brad" Bradbury, drummer with The Specials, has died at the age of 62.
The ska group tweeted the news: "It is with deep regret that we say goodbye to our great friend, the world's greatest drummer, our beloved Brad. RIP."
Bradbury
joined The Specials in 1979, and continued with the reversioned band
The Special AKA, who had a top 10 hit with Free Nelson Mandela.
Bradbury took part in The Specials reunion tour in 2009. He also headed up a band called JB Allstars.
The band's representatives said the drummer died in England but no cause of death was given.
In
a statement, his family said: "It is with deepest regret that we have
to announce the very sad news that our much loved husband and father
John 'Brad' Bradbury passed away on Monday the 28 of December.
'Ground-breaking'
"Brad's
drumming was the powerhouse behind The Specials and it was seen as a key
part to the Two Tone sound. He was much respected in the world of
drumming and his style of reggae and ska was seen as genuinely
ground-breaking when The Specials first hit the charts in 1979.
"He
was an integral part of The Specials reforming in 2008 and toured with
them extensively up to the present day. His contribution to the world of
music can not be understated and he will much missed by family, friends
and fans alike.
"It is the family's sincerest wish that they are allowed the time to remember him privately."
The news comes three months after the band's trombonist, Rico Rodriguez, died.
The band, famed for their 1960s mod-style outfits, had seven UK top 10 singles including Too Much Too Young and Ghost Town.
Founder
and songwriter Jerry Dammers dissolved the band in 1981 but they
re-grouped and continue to perform and record without their former
leading man.
Bradbury was born and brought up in Coventry where the band was formed in 1977.
Music producer Pete Waterman, also from Coventry, expressed his shock at the news of the Bradbury's death.
Waterman said: "I always had a good
laugh with Brad. He was always proud of being in the band and what we'd
and he'd achieved.
"He never left Coventry because he always wanted to be part of the scene... he was tremendous."
Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, founding member and singer in the British heavy
metal band Motörhead, has died at the age of 70 shortly after learning
he had been diagnosed with cancer.
The band announced on their Facebook page that Lemmy learned of the disease on 26 December, and was at home when he died. Lemmy,
born Ian Fraser Kilmister, formed Motörhead in 1975 and was its only
constant member, as singer and bassist. The band released 23 studio
albums and are best known for their 1980 single Ace of Spades.
The band requested fans “play Lemmy’s music LOUD. Have a drink or
few. Share stories. Celebrate the LIFE this lovely, wonderful man
celebrated so vibrantly himself.
“There is no easy way to say this … our mighty, noble friend Lemmy
passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive
cancer. He had learned of the disease on 26 December, and was at home,
sitting in front of his favourite video game from The Rainbow which had
recently made it’s way down the street, with his family.
“We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness; there aren’t words.
“We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please … play
Motörhead loud, play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy’s music LOUD. Have a
drink or few.
“Share stories.
“Celebrate the LIFE this lovely, wonderful man celebrated so vibrantly himself.
“HE WOULD WANT EXACTLY THAT.”
The band signed off: “Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister
“1945 -2015
“Born to lose, lived to win.”
Tributes poured in for the heavy metal giant, with Ozzy Osbourne
tweeting: “Lost one of my best friends, Lemmy, today. He will be sadly
missed. He was a warrior and a legend. I will see you on the other
side.”
Former Motörhead drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor died aged 61 in November.
“Fast” Eddie Clarke, who becomes the last surviving member of the
band’s most famous lineup, wrote on Facebook: “I have just been told
that Lemmy has passed away in LA. Like Phil, he was like a brother to
me. I am devastated. We did so much together, the three of us.
“The world seems a really empty place right now. I am having trouble
finding the words … He will live on in our hearts. RIP Lemmy!”
Lemmy’s public struggles with illness intensified in recent years.
The singer underwent surgery to have an implantable defibrillator placed
in his chest in 2013, and has cancelled shows in recent years due to
exhaustion and a haematoma.
The band had been scheduled to tour the UK and France in early 2016.
Lemmy was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on Christmas Eve in 1945. His
musical career began in the early 1960s and he was, for a time, a roadie for Jimi Hendrix.
He played in several rock bands, including the Rockin’ Vickers, Sam
Gopal and Hawkwind, before founding Motörhead (originally named
Bastard).
He wrote in his autobiography, White Line Fever, that he had been fired from Hawkwind for “doing the wrong drugs”.
Motörhead’s loud, fast style was a pioneering force in heavy metal.
Lemmy’s vocal growl and aggressive bass playing has been emulated by
countless other bands, but the singer joked that he largely learned on
the job, telling Spin in 2012 that “the volume’s loud so nobody really notices that much”.
The band’s highest-rating record was the live album No Sleep ’Til
Hammersmith, which peaked at number one on the UK album charts – a
testament to the band’s crushing onstage performances.
Other highlights from Motörhead’s extensive discography include their
second and third albums, Overkill and Bomber, both recorded in 1979,
and several high-rating singles in the early 1980s. The Ace of Spades
album reached number four in the UK charts, and the single number 15.
The band’s early years are credited with laying the ground for thrash
and speed metal, but Lemmy consistently refused to categorise their
music as either punk or metal, often playing to audiences of both
genres.
Despite the band’s success, Lemmy said in interviews over the years
that he had made more money from writing Osbourne’s 1991 hit Mama I’m
Coming Home than from the entire Motörhead catalogue.
He told the Guardian earlier this year: “I didn’t really want to be
in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music
without the lifestyle.”
Among those to pay tribute to Lemmy after his death was announced
were Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine, Gene Simmons, the Kiss frontman,
and Motley Crue’s Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx, and rapper Ice T.
