the ben wheatley/amy jump thread

guess what I don't like Dead Ringers either

here are all of Cronenberg's bad films btw:
M. Butterfly
Crash
Dead Ringers
Spider
Cosmopolis

Maps to the Stars and Dangerous Method are worse than most of those (haven't seen M Butterfly)

never saw maps to the stars

Dangerous Method was v funny imo

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 is a fast company stan

(said shot being Julianne Moore repeatedly smashing the viewer/camera in the face with an Oscar statue)

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v 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.

I liked Madame Butterfly (think its underrated) and A Dangerous Method as well.

guys

wheatley/jump are directing/writing

TOMB

RAIDER

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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

fuxake. 0 interest in this

what about my revelation before the (amy) jump

I can't think of a much worse idea than overrated horrible hack UK amateurs fucking with Hitchcock! Nolan will be at it next.

they're fucking with du maurier, just as hitchcock did

also in the same breath as N*lan = you're barely skirting a FP :P

It's fucking with DeMaurier tbf, not like Hitchcock has a claim on the book.

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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.

I don't think I've really liked anything Wheatley's done post-Kill List tbh

there have been lots of variable Highsmith interpretations, but I'd argue that Hitchcock sort of owned that one?

Horrible Brit directors of this era are such parochial mediocrities, of course he's fucking with Hitchcock!

not saying Rebecca was a Highsmith novel like it probably sounds like there!

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!

im just like why is it that when directors "arrive" it has to be with middleclass period guff, always
whats wrong with the furrow that wheatley was ploughing with the lower class, the despised, the mud/blood-encrusted

I violently despise the few things I've seen since Kill List (which was enjoyable trash) imo.

I would be more interested if Joanna Hogg was doing Rebecca, with a focus on middleclass period guff!

^ YES

not too high on Hogg either but she'd be a significant upgrade yes

This website is free.

Hogg wouldn't be right for this. Mumblecore DDM? We need full roiling madness

Maybe Hogg should nab Tomb Raider 2 off them as well

Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid

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.

...so then he made High-Rise and Free Fire lol

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.

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

They might have been their own films but with more of an eye on commercial potential than they'd ideally want.

Granted, yes. Not that they were particularly successful iirc...

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

Budget
£6.1 million (approximately US$8 million)[2]
Box office
$4.1 million[3]

High Rise bombed

Wondering how they're gonna deal with the figure of the Evil Lesbian in 2020.

Bombing doesn't mean they intended to bomb!

True true.

Cronenberg's Crash...this is how its done:

Budget $9 million[2]
Box office $23.2 million[3]

Empire Of The Sun meanwhile

Budget $25 million[1]
Box office $66.7 million[2]

dammit etc

Budget $25 million[1]

for Spielberg I would guess that was pretty low!

hmm. not so. ehh

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

Lol