Couldn’t quite put my finger on what was wrong with it but I like your summary 
. I had a mere ‘ok’ in my head but I can’t remember fuck all except one moment where I thought the bloke was going to have sex with the daughter and Julia Robert’s was going to have sex with the owner of the house. Which didn’t happen.
If they did, it would have at least served as a story beat to have them all turn on each other.
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You can file Rebel Moon in the meh pile, although it’s almost worth it to hear Charlie Hunnam do the single worst Irish accent i have ever heard
Wicked, thanks for that, will check it out.
You should check out Hitchcock’s Rope from 1948. It’s somewhat experimental, similar to 12 Angry Men in that it’s set in the same apartment, but they’ve tried to make it look like it’s all done in one take, so each cut is somewhere between 5-10 minutes long. C+V from IMDB - Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
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Posted this a while back, found it while searching for your post.
self quote, CMOAC
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I will watch this if I can. Feels like one of those films that’s on iplayer.
I’ve only ever watched two Hitchcock films - Strangers On A Train (v. good) and The Birds (v.v.v. bad).
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You should check out Birdemic then. It’s a classic.
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Watched it a couple of weeks ago and had a similar negative reaction. There’s this trend in Netflix films for them to spunk the budget on big-name actors and a nice-looking location and then neglect the rest of the film.
The dialogue in LTWB was dreadful - full-on treating the audience as thick and explaining the symbolism/wider meaning, eg. Julia Roberts’ character says “We fuck each other over all the time, without even realizing it. We fuck every living thing on this planet over and think it’ll be fine because we use paper straws and order free-range chicken. And the sick thing is, I think deep down we know we’re not fooling anyone.” The CGI was also really, really bad, like sub-Jumanji bad.
At this point, if I see that a film is made by Netflix, I think twice about putting it on. The non-Netflix films on there tend to be worth more of your time.
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The director made it on and off over a few years, shot largely on weekends. The VFX is hilariously bad.
Watch The Room while you’re at it, that’s legendary. The James Franco move The Disaster Artist is based on it.
And any Neil Breen film, or even just a YT feature about how he’s the modern day Garth Marenghi, writing, producing, directing and acting in his own “films”.
Come to think of it, Neil Breen and Tommy Wiseau are basically like the Messi and Ronaldo of cinema, we’re incredibly lucky to have them both creating their art for all to see in the same era.
Spoiler alert - end scene for Fateful Findings
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After the recommendations on here I bought 12 angry men off ebay for £1 and watched it last night. Great film itself but moreso it’s an amazing window into general society. It should be mandatory viewing for everybody today. A real mirror up to general folk.
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Watched it last night, whoa. (Saltburn). Pretty full on, dark and funny, but mainly dark, recommended.
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Just watched Mindhunter in 3 or 4 days, the whole thing. Really liked it.
Watched The Serpent before that, good stuff too.
I think it’s the first time I check this thread and I’m usually very late to the party when it comes to anything TV-related. Watched Breaking Bad last summer, should give you an idea of how up-to-date I am, haha. Breaking Bad was awesome by the way, my favourite series for sure. Loved Better Call Saul too of course.
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Beef was good
Watched Saltburn tonight. Sort of enjoyable but not really sure what the point of it was. Are we really meant to hate these stereotypical posho characters and relish their demise? It all felt a bit whatever.
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Yeah I wasn’t looking for anything deep and meaningful just a fucked up story. I guess I wasn’t expecting much and thought I knew where it was going and it caught me out a bit. Agree it probably doesn’t have much of a point to make
Despite it’s dark themes/scenes, it felt a bit tongue-in-cheek to me, and not to be taken too seriously. Worth watching for the final scene alone. Agreed with someone above that the Aussie dude totally nailed the accent of the head posho. Never would have guessed!
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Yeah, it seems to be satirical but I struggled to see exactly in what way? This article helped me think about it a bit more:
Perhaps the story isn’t really a critique of extravagant privilege but of someone pretending to be working class, which is something you see at university a lot (and sometimes even in skateboarding!).
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I don’t remember every detail of the film but that main posho guy was actually….a good dude?
It’s a really good question you pose thinking about it.
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Yeah, he does some of the films only genuinely nice things - lending Oliver the money at the bar, inviting him to his house, and going to see Oliver’s parents. But the latter is maybe revealing of his nasty/selfish/inconsiderate streak - as characters point out, he likes to treat Oliver as his ‘pet’ and dumps people when he gets bored of them.
I found the morality/message of the film really hard to pin down.
