Ben Wheatley is a personal fascination for me because I think he’s got a lot of unrefined talent, and tons of cool style and energy, but he’s never made a movie that I have really really loved or that wasn’t super uneven in some ways. A Field in England is the closest he got for my taste. But I was excited to hear today he has a new movie coming out!
Field in England is my favorite by him
ya it’s suuuuper cool
this is way better than actually watching driller killer
my review of the 2017 IT:
another one of those SCREAMING INTO THE CAMERA TO STARTLE YOU!!! movies. more of the same shit. also, the pennywise looks too inhuman so the fact that it’s a clown means nothing. clowns are creepy (to me, anyway), because they look like corpses. pennywise’s head is shaped like an 8 in this, it’s really comical, so he comes off as more ragdoll like than anything else, and that’s not as creepy as a human corpse acting like a goofball.
Brian O’Connor driving his coworker’s head into a stone wall with blank faced apathy
Brian O’Connor like two scenes later apologizing profusely to his car for driving it through some posts
is it ok to occasionally post movie news in here? i’m excited that todd haynes is making a velvet underground documentary. he did velvet goldmine, which is a mess that i love. if it weren’t him making it then i’d have no interest in a tvu documentary.
I feel this on a pretty deep level tho
this thread is hilarious because it’s about 1/4 people being like ‘at the end of schindler’s list, the whole audience was just sitting there stunned, some of us were sobbing cathartically’
and then 3/4 ‘i liked it when captain america used the magic hammer in avengers’
i liked it when the 60 year old lesbians at bruno cackled uncontrollably at the penis spinning scene with me while everyone else left the theatre
i watched 8mm because sometimes i give in to the SEASONAL PICKS FOR YOU my ps4 does and why is that movie so long. 8mm is longer than 1900. it is so long! it just keeps going! also someone show me all the dark green painted walls we had in 1999. i dont remember this many dark walls in every fucking building, the only room with dark paint i remember as a kid was my half sisters half brothers room and he had a crossbow pointed at the door because he was SAD and A BOY so he could only show his sadness by purchasing weapons and threatening his parents.
the best part of 8mm is how the underground porn ring is literally underground. also when nic cage picks up child porn and then just puts it down and keeps going
This makes sense because Marvel movies and Schindler’s List are about at the same level of self-righteous certitude HOT TAKE ALERT
This is an eerily on point take because I just watched Dark Man today for the first time.
Sam Raimi presents a movie adaption of a marvel comic book that doesn’t exist starring Liam Neeson as The Phantom of the Opera by way of The Thing (fantastic four) getting revenge for his attempted murder is a hell of a thing.
Extremely fun and just gross enough to feel distinct, even if you can feel Raimi about to abandon his horror roots for more commercial fare the whole time.
dark man is a great example of how the era in which no one took super hero movies seriously made it possible for people to actually make super hero movies that were extremely weird.
In some ways it’s weird, but it’s also really wild because of how completely it nails the comic book tone? Like a lot of the shots feel like stuff you’d see in a post-watchman Vertigo book. There’s so many clever cuts, and visual metaphors, and the movie works like a comic book.
It’s a closer adaption of comic books as a concept than most movies based on actual comic books.
oh yeah. because comics themselves are pretty weird! or at least they were, i feel like they try to be more like movies these days so it is all just kind of bland. like, raimi’s spider-man captured a certain amount of the oldest comics very strange vibe, but i feel like a straight adaptation of even the most mainstream spider-man comics from like the 70s-80s would be one of the weirdest movies ever made.
like imagine if this was the plot of an MCU spider-man movie: