Yeah I don't get that AT ALL.
(Also the BFI book on it by Iain Sinclair is really good, probably one of the best things he's ever done)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
guess what I don't like Dead Ringers either
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
here are all of Cronenberg's bad films btw:M. ButterflyCrashDead RingersSpiderCosmopolis
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
Maps to the Stars and Dangerous Method are worse than most of those (haven't seen M Butterfly)
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
never saw maps to the stars
Dangerous Method was v funny imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
no wait that's not true I did see Maps to the Stars, and while yes it was bad it had one redeeming shot/sequence so I gave it a pass
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
Οὖτις is a fast company stan
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
(said shot being Julianne Moore repeatedly smashing the viewer/camera in the face with an Oscar statue)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
xp
xpostv much agree w/ xyzzzz that the Sinclair book on Crash is excellent and one of the best things he's done, though he's (unsurprisingly) much more interested in Ballard than Cronenberg.
I watched a collection of Cronenberg's pre-Shivers/They Came From Within films not that long ago - they're not very good either.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
I liked Madame Butterfly (think its underrated) and A Dangerous Method as well.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
guys
wheatley/jump are directing/writing
TOMB
RAIDER
2
― imago, Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
Here's your first look at Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas in REBECCA, from director Ben Wheatley.On Netflix globally 21 October. pic.twitter.com/jZ5vderalT— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) August 7, 2020
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 7 August 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
fuxake. 0 interest in this
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
what about my revelation before the (amy) jump
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
I can't think of a much worse idea than overrated horrible hack UK amateurs fucking with Hitchcock! Nolan will be at it next.
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
they're fucking with du maurier, just as hitchcock did
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
also in the same breath as N*lan = you're barely skirting a FP :P
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
It's fucking with DeMaurier tbf, not like Hitchcock has a claim on the book.
xpost
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
I'll believe that when I see it, which I will do my upmost not to. But knowing how formulaic and mediocre Wheatley is it won't be a fresh interpretation.
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
I don't think I've really liked anything Wheatley's done post-Kill List tbh
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
there have been lots of variable Highsmith interpretations, but I'd argue that Hitchcock sort of owned that one?
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
Horrible Brit directors of this era are such parochial mediocrities, of course he's fucking with Hitchcock!
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
not saying Rebecca was a Highsmith novel like it probably sounds like there!
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
like with Highsmith there are some variable adaptations of the same novel ranging from good to excellent. Just not not expecting anything better than shit from this talentless nothing!
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
im just like why is it that when directors "arrive" it has to be with middleclass period guff, alwayswhats wrong with the furrow that wheatley was ploughing with the lower class, the despised, the mud/blood-encrusted
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
I violently despise the few things I've seen since Kill List (which was enjoyable trash) imo.
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
I would be more interested if Joanna Hogg was doing Rebecca, with a focus on middleclass period guff!
― calzino, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
^ YES
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 7 August 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
not too high on Hogg either but she'd be a significant upgrade yes
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
This website is free.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 7 August 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
Hogg wouldn't be right for this. Mumblecore DDM? We need full roiling madness
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Maybe Hogg should nab Tomb Raider 2 off them as well
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 August 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
whats wrong with the furrow that wheatley was ploughing with the lower class, the despised, the mud/blood-encrusted
― glumdalclitch, Friday, August 7, 2020 4:50 PM
Just like a lot of other directors he's probably just taking what he can get. After he made A Field In England he said it was the last film he'd be able to make for himself for a long time.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 August 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
...so then he made High-Rise and Free Fire lol
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
High Rise definitely seemed like a hired hand sort of job that a few other directors might have done but Free Fire (which I haven't seen) didn't so much?
Rebecca and Tomb Raider are almost certainly jobs. But I might enjoy them.
Poor Takashi Miike.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
Wheatley/Jump def made H-R and FF their own!
He was interviewed about Tomb Raider, said yeah it was a job but one he was stoked to do. The right attitude
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
They might have been their own films but with more of an eye on commercial potential than they'd ideally want.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
Granted, yes. Not that they were particularly successful iirc...
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
High Rise starring a popular dude from Wallander and the Marvel movies, Free Fire set in America with some Hollywood actors - they definitely feel like more commercial moves, relatively speaking
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Budget£6.1 million (approximately US$8 million)[2]Box office$4.1 million[3]
High Rise bombed
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Wondering how they're gonna deal with the figure of the Evil Lesbian in 2020.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Bombing doesn't mean they intended to bomb!
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
True true.
Cronenberg's Crash...this is how its done:
Budget $9 million[2]Box office $23.2 million[3]
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
Empire Of The Sun meanwhile
Budget $25 million[1]Box office $66.7 million[2]
dammit etc
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Budget $25 million[1]
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
for Spielberg I would guess that was pretty low!
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
hmm. not so. ehh
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
OK, you’ve waited long enough. Here’s the trailer for REBECCA – directed by Ben Wheatley, and starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Coming to Netflix 21 October. pic.twitter.com/rYRSlzN4Kv— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) September 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link