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
Lol
well that looks like utter dogshit!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
starring Armie Hammer
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
yikes
― Number None, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
waiting for LJ to weigh in
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
doesn't look hugely promising it's true. music in the trailer was a bit overbearing as well
― this is my clean tone (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
Might have looked passable but ‘who cares’ if not for the music.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
should've kept it cornish and got aphex to do the music, not that pwei tit
― this is my clean tone (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
I guess I'm in the minority even among Wheatley fans, in that I've liked all of his movies to one degree or another. Granted, Kill List and A Field in England are his/their peak to date, but I thought both Free Fire and High Rise were well constructed and entertaining.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
the godawful Free Fire is where i got off the bus and i will never watch it
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
think the music makes that trailer much worse. jury is out
― imago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
as i keep saying though idrc about this. roll on tomb raider 2
― imago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Granted, Kill List and A Field in England are his/their peak to date
Nah, Sightseers.
― chap, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
Sightseers and Kill List are the only movies I'd revisit from this lot
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Lol just say you are a fan and don't care than post this rubbish
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
'The Meg 2' finds its director with 'Rebecca' filmmaker Ben Wheatley (exclusive) https://t.co/K6KZl5EFgG pic.twitter.com/yX1bj1ItXn— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 23, 2020
weird career path
― na (NA), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
Rebecca seems to have been universally panned as a waste of time so this kinda makes sense.
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link