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
think the music makes that trailer much worse. jury is out
― 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
Statham panned The Meg 1 as a waste of time tbh
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Friday, 23 October 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
directors gotta make a living
― mh, Friday, 23 October 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
could be he is a hack
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Friday, 23 October 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
(nb: Statham said the script and original cut of The Meg was an entertaining violent dumb horror action film, but the released PG-13 cut was pointless)
this looks like the sort of thing Wheatley would sign onto and be happy to get paid off and fired from two years before production starts, or be happy to be paid more and get a chance to make a big-budget movie with no expectations if he stays attached
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Saturday, 24 October 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/all-the-wrong-reasons-to-remake-rebecca?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 25 October 2020 08:24 (three years ago) link
More interested in this than Rebecca... Ben Wheatley's directed the new Sleaford Mods video.
https://youtu.be/iKcbSOjIzjQ
― brain (krakow), Friday, 30 October 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
Everybody’s gotta eat but still...never expected him to turn into Neil Marshall.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 30 October 2020 11:39 (three years ago) link
I think that's probably going to happen to lots of directors who were previously able to do their own thing at a decent budget. And maybe Neil Marshall didn't expect to turn into Neil Marshall, no offense meant to him because that has probably always been the lot of most directors.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 October 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
I was hoping that he'd get a chance to direct more episodes of Strange Angel (and that there would be a third season)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 October 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
I read somewhere Down Terrace is supposed to be a dark comedy? It's horrifying
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link
it reminded me of the Australian film Animal Kingdom from a year later. I thought that film was more interesting
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
Down Terrace was pretty good though
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link
snuck this one out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lqkfo7IymU
― Number None, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
Where do you watch this one? I couldn't find it on netflix or prime
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
It says "in theatres 4.23" right there in the trailer. The distributor's website has it still running in independent cinemas in Texas, Colorado, southern California and a few other cities (or a $7 digital rental) - multiplectra here didn't get it. Major cinemas in the UK appear to be reopening next week, so maybe check the programming at your local/s?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
Ben Wheatley’s ‘In The Earth’ will be released in UK cinemas on 18 June 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 16 May 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
Thanks
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 May 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Thanks, sic.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 16 May 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
Saw this last night, and really enjoyed it.
a companion but not a sequel to AFIE, some overt and some implied links between the two.
Like AFIE the visual effects and sound design deserve to be seen on a big screen, at least for the first watch.
Kermode has a good review that hits most of the points I would make.
Cant tell if the pandemic premise will date it, but it added an extra charge to the narrative that might be lost in a few years.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 25 June 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
Fun, but inferior to AFIE in virtually every regard. Still, nice to be back in a cinema!
― imago, Sunday, 27 June 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
Watched In the Earth over the weekend, and was pretty disappointed... kind of a mess, with too much explaining. Cool idea but a ham-fisted execution.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 28 June 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
As per the Meg thread, the trailer is now out for the Ben Wheatley directed sequel, Meg 2: The Trench.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG91B3hHyY4
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
Just watched High-Rise and really enjoyed it. Need to watch some more, I guess.
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
finally someone else thinks it's good lol
i'm v glad that after tomb raider got canned, wheatley is still operating in the daft lower-budget action field now
― imago, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link
ok maybe not that lower-budget
― imago, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 09:08 (one year ago) link
Lol what an odd career trajectory.
― chap, Friday, 19 May 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
Pro tip= work back from High Rise not forwards
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 May 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
Heh, was thinking of going straight to Kill List.
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 May 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
Do people actively dislike High-Rise or just think it’s worse than what preceded it?
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 May 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
High Rise is unfilmable but Wheatley had a good shot at it is how I see it.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
Wheatley was right to cast Hiddleston but even his blank charmlessness couldn't quite match what Ballard was reaching for.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
Years ago, I remember seeing a mock poster for Concrete Island with Christian Bale, but I don't think they even began filming
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 May 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
Pretty sure Concrete Island is similarly unfilmable. If it wasn't for Cronenberg's *Crash* I'd say all of Ballard is unfilmable. *Empire of the Sun* kind of doesn't count.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
There is even an ebook of High-Rise with Hiddelston as reader, to close the circle.
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
Hiddleston
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
this from 2011... I remember looking forward to it
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3Vllqvqw8c/TpeH0zoEXyI/AAAAAAAAABc/oN4iR1XbreY/s1600/Concrete+Island+Teaser+Poster.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 May 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
if you found the right location you could shoot Concrete Island for cheap!
― mh, Friday, 19 May 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
yeah.. i'm not sure it's 'unfilmable', but it would be like a play with a lot of traffic noise
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 May 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link
agreed
― mh, Friday, 19 May 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
First I've heard of the forthcoming zombie TV show (and other projects).
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/aug/24/ben-wheatley-zombie-drama-generation-z
Obviously a very well worn genre, but hopefully he's done something interesting and/or fun with it.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 24 August 2024 16:17 (four weeks ago) link
pro tip: he won't have
― the news is terrible, i'm in the clear (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 August 2024 06:48 (four weeks ago) link