General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

[wordsfromlee]

Sightseers is hilarious although he only directed that.

[Factotum]

Didn't PTA basically sort of remake Rebecca with Phantom Thread? Which was class.

I find Wheatley gets a lot of props despite only directing one good film (Sightseers) and one semi ok one (Free Fire) The rest is pretty awful.

 

[Devon Malcolm]

He's really shit but he showed some flair for action with Free Fire, which was one of the best films I saw last year. He doesn't really understand how to craft films around unpleasant characters and as that's his only trick, he's a bit fucked. At least when they're all shooting at each other you have the satisfaction of seeing them all die. I hated Sightseers intensely.

[Loki]

Whilst I get the hatred for things like A Field In England, I really really enjoyed High Rise.   I loved the visual style, the chaotic and mixed up narrative and the allegorical touches.  It was a good take on a difficult book, and reminded me a lot of early Cronenberg.  Plus Luke Evans is fucking great in it.

Sightseers I enjoyed mainly because it was like a warped version of Nuts In May.

So I take him film by film.  I think he must have touched Gladstone as a child or something, as your hatred of him is visceral  

[Devon Malcolm]

Luke Evans is never great in anything. He was perfect for High-Rise.

[Keith Houchen]

I took a mate to see High Rise with the free tickets I got for renewing my HOME membership.  As we were leaving I said to him that I preferred the book.  "I've not read it" he said, "Nor have I" I replied.

[Guy Bifkin]

Hi Rise was terrible. I can only really remember Sienna Miller getting her tits out, it was so forgettable.

[HarmonicGenerator]

Sightseers had Alice Lowe in it, which raises it to 'tolerable'. High Rise wasn't the worst film I've seen this year. Everything else he's done, I've hated. Especially A Field In England. 

He also nearly ruined Capaldi's Doctor Who in the first two episodes.

[wordsfromlee]

He did a bit of writing for Time Trumpet too which was brilliant.

[Keith Houchen]

24 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Everything else he's done, I've hated. Especially A Field In England. 

[Devon Malcolm]

40 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

He also nearly ruined Capaldi's Doctor Who

I like him now.

[The Maestro]

Is this the guy whose films have really good posters that make you think the film is going to be good but then end up really disappointed? I watched A Field In England at about 2am on Film 4 when I used to smoke weed and it hurt my brain. 

[Merzbow]

Even I don't care for Ben and I'm all about that pretentious arty shite.

[Hannibal Scorch]

10 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Luke Evans is never great in anything. He was perfect for High-Rise.

Balls. He was great in Beauty and the Beast and Fast & Furious 6 & 8. Overall he’s pretty shit though, but like Colin Farrell, the right role in the right film and he’s good

[PowerButchi]

1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Balls. He was great in Beauty and the Beast and Fast & Furious 6 & 8. Overall he’s pretty shit though, but like Colin Farrell, the right role in the right film and he’s good

That's essentially saying the same as putting forth that I make a urinal cake great when I piss on it.