the ben wheatley/amy jump thread

It's "Industrial Estate"

Eh close enough

Saw High Rise last night and it was... not terrible but not great eitehr... looked and sounded excellent overall, fine acting pretty much throughout, excellent Mansell soundtrack with a creepy cover of SOS by Portishead... definitely a better film than Crash, but I'm beginning to think Ballard's stuff is maybe not well suited for cinematic adaptation. Without his expositions behind them the transitions in the film seemed to strike most of the audience I watched with as a little preposterous and jarring and the final bit with the Thatcher speech was too on the nose. I didn't hate it, but it felt like a miss and honestly I'm not sure how it could have been made better.

Where did you see this?

Where did you see this?
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Castro SFIFF.

after reading some underwhelming reviews I was actually pleasantly surprised by High Rise

Alex's opinions are pretty otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfNs3YOIVA

looks fun. do amy/ben have anything to do with this?

Besides writing and directing it?

This reads like a Martin Mcdonagh film more than a Wheatley!

xp oh... i'm having a strange day, sorry.

I liked David Ehrlich's Twitter synopsis:

A real-time pistol opera about how men are too stupid to have guns

I'd completely forgotten this was happening! I love films shot in a single location - hope the warehouse takes on the same psychedelic characterfulness of the apartment block in High Rise. It really really does look like a Mcdonagh film.

Loved High Rise. A little padded and muddled in the middle but a great adaptation imo.

Wigs. Accents.

Brie looks like she's just decided her character should be from now rather than the 70s though. I guess she has that much pull now.

Last night I watched TANK 432 which I was aware was somehow connected to this crowd and now I check the director was... "camera operator" on some of these? Wheatley gets an "executive producer" credit on it anyrate, and you can surely see the influence, the more abstract stuff from A Field In England and the latter parts of Kill List. I'm not sure it all totally came together for me at the end, but I was pretty drunk, and a lot of visual stuff has stayed with me nonetheless. Also nice Michael Smiley performance, and I'm pretty sure that was Neil Maskell over the speakers at the end, although he's not listed on the IMDB.

saw Sightseers last night. Really enjoyed it, although I get why some people were underwhelmed by it following on the tail of Kill List. Still, the performances were excellent and some really great comic violence in there.

I like sightseers as well as kill list if not more so.

Two different kinds of film I guess.

On one hand I think it's cool that Wheatley / Jump are moving onto more production-led stuff like High Rise but I'm sort of sceptical about this new one. Looks like the work of someone else, PTA or Tarantino or someone.

and the way new sections would be kind of signaled by sudden gong or bell sounds like in a monastery ringing the different phases of the day (starting with the shell giving the scholar tinnitus).

Jon Lewis, did you think of this or recognise it as as explicit reference to the "tinnitus" sequence in Klimov's Come and See? A sequence which similarly marks a sudden extreme shift in mental state? I think it definitely is.

I thought this film was amazing. The psychedelic scenes were literally mind blowing.

I never saw Come And See but maybe I will!

(Memorable tinnitus sequence in Cop Land of all things but I dunno if that's what gave me the thought)

Oh, you MUST See it.

my favourite film of the last few decades, possibly

Um I know it's not a Wheatley/Jump film but Alice Lowe's Prevenge is about as good as any British film of recent years and I'm scared for my safety

HIS NAME WAS JOSH

:''D

Free Fire being talked about anywhere? Just watched it, I actually found the first act more intresting than the fire fight, which tested my patience. Appreciated it as an exercise, but I don't think they really pulled it off. Some good lines though.

it's good and fun but i basically think of it as a mcdonagh film

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.