{"id":8808,"date":"2013-09-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2013-09-17T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T04:00:54","slug":"sightseers-2012-ben-wheatley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8808","title":{"rendered":"Sightseers (2012, Ben Wheatley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A murderous road comedy. So far Wheatley is living up to the hype, even if I wasn&#8217;t thrilled by the ending of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7329\">Kill List<\/a><\/em> &#8211; this was fully excellent, with much more interesting filmmaking than most comedies. Beardy Chris and girlfriend Tina go on a sightseeing tour and accidentally kill a guy&#8230; then they just keep killing people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/sightseers4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/sightseers5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Made myself a note while watching that this should be some sort of baseline for filmmakers. Got a screenplay and want to shoot it. Watch <em>Sightseers<\/em>. Think you can do better?  No?  Then just quit now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/sightseers3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Murderer.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It was an accident, mum.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So were you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I could cope without potpourri&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you kill Ian?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah.  Well, I mean&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/sightseers2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221; plays over two killing scenes.  Chris and Tina were also the screenwriters.  Tina is Alice Lowe: Liz from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6936\">Garth Marenghi&#8217;s Darkplace<\/a><\/em>, also in <em>My Life in Film<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/248\">Hot Fuzz<\/a><\/em> (worked for Timothy Dalton at the supermarket). Wheatley already has a new movie out, which I must see.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mouse-over image to see Tina&#8217;s owl face:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/sightseers6a.jpg\" onmouseover=\"document.flick2.src='\/journal\/image13\/sightseers6b.jpg'\" onmouseout=\"document.flick2.src='\/journal\/image13\/sightseers6a.jpg'\" name=\"flick2\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to be feared and respected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A murderous road comedy. So far Wheatley is living up to the hype, even if I wasn&#8217;t thrilled by the ending of Kill List &#8211; this was fully excellent, with much more interesting filmmaking than most comedies. Beardy Chris and girlfriend Tina go on a sightseeing tour and accidentally kill a guy&#8230; then they just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1495,102],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-ben-wheatley","tag-britain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8825,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}