the ben wheatley/amy jump thread

Nah the McDonagh bros tend to have more warmth than that.

a less corny mcdonagh film then ;)

It's the one mehhh Wheatley so far for me. But I have much faith in the Wheatley/Jump machine and sure the next one will be back on track.

Two mehs in a row for me. Slightly preferred this to High Rise as it happens.

didn't see this due to to being v unenthusiastic about premise/setup

new one has way too much plot for its own good

oh that sounds promising!

lol did think 'imago will love this' several times during. personally would have liked less reveals and more people just talking shite.

not an accusation you could level at the last one

lol

keep seeing him out walking his dog. might've stopped and said hello by now, but ours totally blank his mutt

new one sounds a bit Tennesse Williams in Dorset

five on a hot tin roof

nadir might be when the word 'remoaning' is used

huh

“Last night I dreamt I went to Mandeley again”: LilyJames to play 2nd Mrs.deWinter in new film of #DaphneduMaurier never-out-of -print classic #Rebecca - ⁦@armiehammer⁩ to play Maxim de Winter. #BenWheatley directs in 2019 for ⁦@Working_Title⁩ & ⁦@netflix⁩ pic.twitter.com/OySyFfnW5v

— Baz Bamigboye (@BazBam) November 14, 2018

what a shame for the bairn

HNY Colin Burstead is on BBC2 on Sunday night.

Want to see it.

Meanwhile, you all hated High Rise but let's be real here: it's the original Brexit movie isn't it

I liked High Rise!

I watched HNYCB last night and I have to admit its the worst Wheatley yet. A lot of improvised acting which attempts for naturalism but really just ends in a messy and forced type of film.

worse than Free Fire? Yikes

I'm probably the only fan of Free Fire on here

I liked High Rise a lot. found the premise of Free Fire really offputting and never watched it.

kinda not interested in anything he does without Amy Jump tbh

Couldn’t finish HNY. It all seemed so pointless.

High Rise is pretty much a (metaphorical) vision of what the next two or three years of the UK could be and I think of it often

Free Fire was fun! As I keep saying, McDonagh but better (maybe)

well, no one can stop you from saying it

if i've only seen high rise, what do i watch next?

imo high rise had a mismatch with ballard's tone that kind of made it into an exercise of reproduction rather than a film with a statement

A Field in England is their best by miles

I mean it is, but it's also arguably my favourite British film of the last....very long time

definitely their best since sightseers imo

Kill List and High Rise also grand fare, Sightseers worth a watch, haven't seen the first one for some reason

xpost I'll go with Kill List. I'll need to watch A Field in England again though. I just didnt get it tbh

my rankings would be:

A Field in England
Kill List
High Rise
Sightseers
Down Terrace

That feels right but I'd put High Rise second as...well, it was kind of made for me

of those ive seen

kill list
field in england
sightseers

dont see free fire its rubbish

Another thing I like to say: if Wheatley/Jump protege Alice Lowe's Prevenge was added to that canon it'd be not far behind AFIE for me, it's sensationally good

I do think A Field in England is so incredible and unique that it's miles ahead of the others, but that makes it sound like Kill List and High Rise are somehow also not great and they are

idg complaints about High Rise re: Ballard, felt like that was the best on-screen translation of Ballard's ouevre and milieu that anyone's gonna be able to pull off (similar to Jackson and the LOTR films).

also High Rise ending with the kid listening to the Fall's "Industrial Estate" was chefskiss.gif

not sure what it says about me tbh, but the cosy psychopath pair of down terrace and sightseers are the two where i really feel the vibe

i like his fun genre exercises like Free Fire and Down Terrace

xps shakey why the fuck would you say that why would anyone say something like that

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triggered by jackson

the whetstone is over there if you need to grind yr axe

idg complaints about High Rise re: Ballard, felt like that was the best on-screen translation of Ballard's ouevre and milieu that anyone's gonna be able to pull off

This is how I feel, too. (had already cut off the Jackson remark tbph bcz fuck lotr) High Rise stayed with me for a long time after watching it, though perhaps I'm easily pleased by dystopia.

I need to see A Field in England, don't I?

yes
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Field in England is the only one I really remember AND the score is one of my favorites of the last ?? years

my complaint re: High Rise is that it's a direct translation of the novel and the things that work in prose, from the perspective of a very level Ballard-style narrator work well because there's a disconnect between the narrative voice and the lascivious and violent things that occur in many of his stories. not advocating that the events on screen should be completely over-the-top and x-rated, but I felt like there were only a few framing moments that were truly nasty. the point is that the audience should be wondering why the narrator isn't recoiling in horror and the perspective seemed a little blunted

I'll grant that there is a generally detached, inscrutable interiority to Ballard's style in general, and that doesn't seem like a natural fit for a medium like film. nonetheless, I thought Wheatley and Jump did a good job of casting a suitably blank cipher in the lead and generally portraying the gradual disintegration and degradation of the residents as a kind of comically horrible, slow, death-of-a-society.

I mean, I liked it quite a bit! I just thought the approach could be a little different

at the very least it was way better than Cronenberg's "Crash"