I was way more disturbed by the second hand embarrassment than by any of the "disturbing" scenes. Except the vampire one, I couldn't stop thinking "poor woman doesn't know the man going down on her also puts his mouth in drains".
when the burberry hero commercial with adam driver turning into a centaur came out i thought to myself, "i want this to be a movie." after seeing saltburn, i feel like we've all been treated to what it would be like if a perfume commercial was a movie
I think the thing is, Saltburn wasn’t advertised to the same crowd that Antichrist was. So it's not shocking to people like us who are acclimated to this sort of content.
I loved this film. I think those who are disappointed by the lack of a message kinda missed on the fun (and the themes). This movie is just unapologetic fun, cringe, and hornyness for the bisexuals. We need more films like this!!
After filming this, I saw someone talk about how it was a retelling for the Greek myth of the Minotaur and that gave more to go on. I do love to see a queer film too, you’re right! Especially one that’s gotten so much attention. It’s absolutely important in that way, I agree. Thank you for watching!
@@weirdobookclub YES!! They even made the minotaur statue in the center of the labyrinth to resemble the main character's physique. That connected with the wings on the angel costume (Icarus?) give the story a really cool layer of symbolism. I saw some opinions expressing that the film needed to take a stronger stance regarding capitalism/class struggle, but the Greek tragedy, queerness, and monster themes are awesome too! This stuff is revolutionary as well.
Honestly, I feel like the people in this movie I most want to hear from are the maids going around cleaning up after these whack jobs. Like while Oliver was enjoying the bath water, there was a maid standing off to the side, waiting patiently, checking her watch and wondering how much longer he’s going to take.
Definitely enjoyed the movie but I also agree with everything you’re saying. Especially the fact that the level of “disturbing” was way overhyped to me. I watched it with my husband and we were both like “those were the scenes everyone was horrified by?” Without the murderous context they were just fairly normal scenes in kink. Drinking fluids? Normal. Eating someone on period? Normal. Like you I also thought the grave scene was just nothing. But me and my husband both enjoyed it mildly. It was a beautiful movie more than anything else. Rosemund Pike in her many dresses was worth it alone.
I really enjoyed this movie (even rewatched it) but I do agree with some of your criticisms. I think that it if this was a hidden gem, it would have been more enjoyable for some people. I went into it blind and had not seen the hype happen until after I watched it. I’m glad my viewing happened when it did because the overreaction would have skewed my opinion. I feel that going in with no expectations or input from others really elevated my experience. By the way, I almost gagged in the drain scene too. I don’t give a shit about the c*mmy bath water. However, learning about biofilms in microbiology (specifically on tub drains too, lol I even had to make a model of a drain and replicate a biofilm) made that harder to watch than graphic gore for me. 😅 Edit: This may be a shit take, but I just wanted to add that I also liked how there was pretty minimal nudity for the women in a movie that has a lot of sexual scenes. Showing tiddies at every opportunity is so overdone, it was kind of refreshing that the nudity was predominantly men. Not because of sexual preference, but because I’m kind of sick of women’s bodies always being the ones exposed to the point of exploitation for the sake of portraying the sexual nature of a scene.
I gave up on Requiem for a Dream. I felt where it was going and realized it wasn't up for it. I feel, to this day, I made a good choice 10ish years ago.
not requiem for a dream being one of my comfort movies in high school what does that say about me Dx i watched that shit on im ipod in class i was fearless back then
Like you I just plan to get all of my content and context surrounding this movie from social media and not from actually watching the movie. This was great and I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on other movies!
Thank you! I plan to sprinkle movie reviews in sometimes! I don’t watch them as much but they’re fun to do and if I have something to say, I’ll do it. Thanks so much for watching ❤
I loved the movie, but I agree with the criticism. I feel like that last montage took away from it overall by hand-holding the audience too much. Gorgeous film, great soundtrack, and the actors did a great job IMO. I could watch two hours of Elspeth just casually saying weird shit about her life and friends. "It couldn't be about me! I've never wanted to know anything."
I saw so many people say, "Don't watch this with your parents!" I watched it with my mum. It was completely fine, it is definitely not the worst thing we’ve ever watched together. She has literally handed me books that are way darker than Saltburn could ever hope to be. I have also seen Antichrist and I would NEVER watch that with her, haha. (Also how can you say you've never seen so much dong in a film when the opening scene of Antichrist is... something) Personally, I feel like a lot of the reason why Saltburn doesn't hit quite right is because Oliver is the only one depicted as a true deviant. All the others are just eccentric, and the end felt like it was trying to bash you over the head with pity for them. If they'd all pushed the extreme, i think the story of messed up people being messed up to each other would have been a lot more interesting - an upper-class Trainspotting if you will. It's fine if Oliver appeared to have them on a pedestal at first but the presentation to the audience felt heavy-handed.
I have been watching reviews about Saltburn because I find the interpretation so different and so interesting. That being said, I don't actually plan on watching the movie lol Something about it screams rich people doing rich people things in a way that I don't find interesting. But Im fascinated by people's response to the shocking scenes 😂
I would love to know your thoughts on the director's other movie, Promising Young Woman. As for Saltburn, I think that Barry's character was not planning that far ahead when we get the flashback of him flattening the bike tire. I think his motivation was simply to get himself closer to Felix, and that the rest of his plotting occurred upon arriving at Saltburn. This could explain why some of his actions were quite sloppy, especially once he realized Felix would never be his. He was trying to manipulate the scenario to have Felix to himself, but once his lies were discovered, he had to pivot in his plan and that is when he headed in the direction he did. Definitely had some plot holes, and felt a little rushed in the second half, but overall I enjoyed it. As weirded out as people were about the grave scene, I thought it was a strangely beautiful way to capture his grief over losing the object of his obsession and not knowing how to deal with the feelings he was having in that moment. Love your channel and your reviews, both positive and ranty!! ❤❤❤
I had never heard of this movie. It took me several minutes to realize you weren’t leading into talking about a spin off book about a movie. Similar to watching your Rant Reviews, I very much enjoy never consuming the actual content and just hearing your wonderful and humorous takes on things. Great video. ❤
I watched this last night, and I basically have all the same opinions. I felt like the themes were a little too on the nose. Elspeth was also my favorite. “Times New Roman. On local stone.”
I wish they would’ve just shown us the tack in the wheel and the cut it there. We didn’t need such a heavy handed ended it was so clear he did it all but I would’ve liked it to be a little more did he didn’t he
saltburn was Okay for sure. i didn’t think it needed the plot twist piece and that’s what killed it for me. it could’ve just been about a man consumed by desire. i wanted to see more reason for why he lied (which was so interesting and the “why” wasn’t fully explored!) i do believe the red scene, the curtains closing and the dining room becoming red, is one of the greater & more memorable scenes in the film.
I agree with you, there are better movies. My first thought was the movie and book The Talented Mr. Ripley, and then I became very frustrated when Olive explains all the bad things that he did, like the person watching the movie is dumb and can figured it out. I missed some tension, some drama, something dirty. The grave scene is not outrageous or shocking, considering what some men who works in morgues had already done. I hope the new adaptation of Ripley brings us some good thriller. Well, at least the lead is Andrew Scott (All of us strangers, Fleabag), amazing actor. Saltburn is not even close to my top 10 shocking movies. I would like to add to your recommendations the movie La piel que habito (Almodóvar). Not as shocking as Lars Von Trier, but a movie to remember.
I don't think I'm as lukewarm on the movie as you, but it hasn't really sat with me either. I liked Promising Young Woman much better. I'm honestly not sure I do get Saltburn really. I've watched some videos that gave me more clarity on the through line but I guess I'm still left with this feeling of "okay but like actually to what end?" And I found Infinity Pool more of a wtf shock value experience. My first thought at the end of that movie was *why* the fuck was this movie????
Love your channel ❤ sorry i didnt watch this video sooner. I was just over hearing about this movie!! You never dissapoint. I would love to see more movie reviews.
I have such a crush on Rosamund Pike that I become biased whenever she’s in a role. Jacob Elordi is also…SO TALL. Those were my main take aways from the movie. 😅
Well done, bad accents and all! So Saltburn: Hadn't heard of it, no interest in seeing it, but just hearing you talk about it was still a damn treat. And I'm all for more weird movie reviews, do it, honey. P.S. I had to laugh when you're like "I'm 36 I've seen weird shit" I'm 48 and try as I might to avoid it in my adult life, man did I see enough weird shit in my teens and 20s. By 26 I was a new mom and was like "yeah, ok, I'm over it, thannnnkssss"
I’m from Oxford (where the university they attend is), and British, and I am so enjoying your accents/ descriptions- especially of Duncan (the butler). I also enjoyed it enough but didn’t think it was shocking, but then my reading taste probably desensitised me too. What I did really enjoy was having a movie set to examine the textbook British stereotypical ‘posh’ kind of characters- Felix and Venetia were like trademark Royal Ag students (where I studied)- so whilst the story line was obviously out there, I did enjoy the theme because it came from being set in a place which I could really envisage the people and interactions. Some British unis are quite contrasting in terms of the students backgrounds and experiences and there was definitely a visible divide between those more stereotypically privileged and not when I studied, but for the most part in reality they co-exist much more harmoniously than this film!!
I've only heard about this bc of the "questionable" scenes which without context I don't even get, but I just can't enjoy anything where the plot boils down to rich people problems lol couldn't be me hahaha also, Bill and Sookie did it on the dirt with dirt D and dirt V while I screamed at the TV "UTI!!! UTI!!" so this isn't that out there *eyeroll*
So, I enjoyed Saltburn. Loved the setting and acting and it made Mr mildly uncomfortable but the movie night I watched it at followed it up with Parasite. And you know what, I'm sorry Saltburn, but you never stood a chance. I cannot think about Saltburn without immediately thinking about how much I love Parasite.
I only felt something at the dinner scene after the first death. What does that say about me and my icks 🤣 but seriously i was just getting Talented Mr Ripley the whole time. Nice to see a retelling but it wasnt shocking or disturbing to me like Midsommar was.
I was way more disturbed by the second hand embarrassment than by any of the "disturbing" scenes. Except the vampire one, I couldn't stop thinking "poor woman doesn't know the man going down on her also puts his mouth in drains".
OMG I didn’t even think of that. That man’s mouth has been WHO KNOWS WHERE and now this?! 👀💀
when the burberry hero commercial with adam driver turning into a centaur came out i thought to myself, "i want this to be a movie." after seeing saltburn, i feel like we've all been treated to what it would be like if a perfume commercial was a movie
I think the thing is, Saltburn wasn’t advertised to the same crowd that Antichrist was. So it's not shocking to people like us who are acclimated to this sort of content.
Yeah and the goals of both films are VERY different and I get that. You’re totally right.
I loved this film. I think those who are disappointed by the lack of a message kinda missed on the fun (and the themes). This movie is just unapologetic fun, cringe, and hornyness for the bisexuals. We need more films like this!!
After filming this, I saw someone talk about how it was a retelling for the Greek myth of the Minotaur and that gave more to go on. I do love to see a queer film too, you’re right! Especially one that’s gotten so much attention. It’s absolutely important in that way, I agree.
Thank you for watching!
@@weirdobookclub YES!! They even made the minotaur statue in the center of the labyrinth to resemble the main character's physique. That connected with the wings on the angel costume (Icarus?) give the story a really cool layer of symbolism. I saw some opinions expressing that the film needed to take a stronger stance regarding capitalism/class struggle, but the Greek tragedy, queerness, and monster themes are awesome too! This stuff is revolutionary as well.
Even though I knew about the drain scene, seeing his face PRESSED against it made me dry heave at work.
I love how everyone is watching this at work. Talk about stickin it to the man 💀
Honestly, I feel like the people in this movie I most want to hear from are the maids going around cleaning up after these whack jobs. Like while Oliver was enjoying the bath water, there was a maid standing off to the side, waiting patiently, checking her watch and wondering how much longer he’s going to take.
Definitely enjoyed the movie but I also agree with everything you’re saying. Especially the fact that the level of “disturbing” was way overhyped to me. I watched it with my husband and we were both like “those were the scenes everyone was horrified by?” Without the murderous context they were just fairly normal scenes in kink. Drinking fluids? Normal. Eating someone on period? Normal. Like you I also thought the grave scene was just nothing. But me and my husband both enjoyed it mildly. It was a beautiful movie more than anything else. Rosemund Pike in her many dresses was worth it alone.
I really enjoyed this movie (even rewatched it) but I do agree with some of your criticisms. I think that it if this was a hidden gem, it would have been more enjoyable for some people. I went into it blind and had not seen the hype happen until after I watched it. I’m glad my viewing happened when it did because the overreaction would have skewed my opinion. I feel that going in with no expectations or input from others really elevated my experience.
By the way, I almost gagged in the drain scene too. I don’t give a shit about the c*mmy bath water. However, learning about biofilms in microbiology (specifically on tub drains too, lol I even had to make a model of a drain and replicate a biofilm) made that harder to watch than graphic gore for me. 😅
Edit: This may be a shit take, but I just wanted to add that I also liked how there was pretty minimal nudity for the women in a movie that has a lot of sexual scenes. Showing tiddies at every opportunity is so overdone, it was kind of refreshing that the nudity was predominantly men. Not because of sexual preference, but because I’m kind of sick of women’s bodies always being the ones exposed to the point of exploitation for the sake of portraying the sexual nature of a scene.
I gave up on Requiem for a Dream. I felt where it was going and realized it wasn't up for it. I feel, to this day, I made a good choice 10ish years ago.
I haven't watched Saltburn, but now I want to see it because of the dong. Normalize dong in movies! We show fully nude ladies. It's only fair.
I love Cruel Intentions.
It was just so bad and soul crushing.
Cruel Intentions was a favorite movie of mine for a long time.
not requiem for a dream being one of my comfort movies in high school what does that say about me Dx i watched that shit on im ipod in class i was fearless back then
Like you I just plan to get all of my content and context surrounding this movie from social media and not from actually watching the movie. This was great and I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on other movies!
Thank you! I plan to sprinkle movie reviews in sometimes! I don’t watch them as much but they’re fun to do and if I have something to say, I’ll do it. Thanks so much for watching ❤
“I don’t care how many maids are in that house” 🤣
There are not enough maids on the payroll to make that drain sanitary to eat off of. NO!
I loved the movie, but I agree with the criticism. I feel like that last montage took away from it overall by hand-holding the audience too much. Gorgeous film, great soundtrack, and the actors did a great job IMO. I could watch two hours of Elspeth just casually saying weird shit about her life and friends.
"It couldn't be about me! I've never wanted to know anything."
I agree! I would totally watch her just read or talk about anything she wants to.
Our thoughts were IDENTICAL. This is so validating lmao
I saw so many people say, "Don't watch this with your parents!" I watched it with my mum. It was completely fine, it is definitely not the worst thing we’ve ever watched together. She has literally handed me books that are way darker than Saltburn could ever hope to be. I have also seen Antichrist and I would NEVER watch that with her, haha. (Also how can you say you've never seen so much dong in a film when the opening scene of Antichrist is... something)
Personally, I feel like a lot of the reason why Saltburn doesn't hit quite right is because Oliver is the only one depicted as a true deviant. All the others are just eccentric, and the end felt like it was trying to bash you over the head with pity for them. If they'd all pushed the extreme, i think the story of messed up people being messed up to each other would have been a lot more interesting - an upper-class Trainspotting if you will. It's fine if Oliver appeared to have them on a pedestal at first but the presentation to the audience felt heavy-handed.
I have been watching reviews about Saltburn because I find the interpretation so different and so interesting. That being said, I don't actually plan on watching the movie lol Something about it screams rich people doing rich people things in a way that I don't find interesting. But Im fascinated by people's response to the shocking scenes 😂
I would love to know your thoughts on the director's other movie, Promising Young Woman. As for Saltburn, I think that Barry's character was not planning that far ahead when we get the flashback of him flattening the bike tire. I think his motivation was simply to get himself closer to Felix, and that the rest of his plotting occurred upon arriving at Saltburn. This could explain why some of his actions were quite sloppy, especially once he realized Felix would never be his. He was trying to manipulate the scenario to have Felix to himself, but once his lies were discovered, he had to pivot in his plan and that is when he headed in the direction he did. Definitely had some plot holes, and felt a little rushed in the second half, but overall I enjoyed it. As weirded out as people were about the grave scene, I thought it was a strangely beautiful way to capture his grief over losing the object of his obsession and not knowing how to deal with the feelings he was having in that moment. Love your channel and your reviews, both positive and ranty!! ❤❤❤
I had never heard of this movie. It took me several minutes to realize you weren’t leading into talking about a spin off book about a movie.
Similar to watching your Rant Reviews, I very much enjoy never consuming the actual content and just hearing your wonderful and humorous takes on things.
Great video. ❤
I watched this last night, and I basically have all the same opinions. I felt like the themes were a little too on the nose. Elspeth was also my favorite. “Times New Roman. On local stone.”
I wish they would’ve just shown us the tack in the wheel and the cut it there. We didn’t need such a heavy handed ended it was so clear he did it all but I would’ve liked it to be a little more did he didn’t he
saltburn was Okay for sure. i didn’t think it needed the plot twist piece and that’s what killed it for me. it could’ve just been about a man consumed by desire. i wanted to see more reason for why he lied (which was so interesting and the “why” wasn’t fully explored!)
i do believe the red scene, the curtains closing and the dining room becoming red, is one of the greater & more memorable scenes in the film.
I agree with you, there are better movies. My first thought was the movie and book The Talented Mr. Ripley, and then I became very frustrated when Olive explains all the bad things that he did, like the person watching the movie is dumb and can figured it out. I missed some tension, some drama, something dirty. The grave scene is not outrageous or shocking, considering what some men who works in morgues had already done. I hope the new adaptation of Ripley brings us some good thriller. Well, at least the lead is Andrew Scott (All of us strangers, Fleabag), amazing actor. Saltburn is not even close to my top 10 shocking movies. I would like to add to your recommendations the movie La piel que habito (Almodóvar). Not as shocking as Lars Von Trier, but a movie to remember.
Ooh I’ll definitely look it up! My husband said Talented Mr Ripley too when I asked him about shocking movies he’s seen. LOVE Andrew Scott
Antonio Bandeiras truly creep me out in this Almodovar movie and Andrew Scott is just a beautiful human being @@weirdobookclub
@@weirdobookclubthe original mr ripley is soso good and absolutely worth a watch
This was another movie experience where by the end of it, I was like so what was the point though?
It wasn't as WTF as Infinity Pool though.
also I hope people are giving enough attention to
SPOILER
"Are you gonna behave?"
"No."
"Are you gonna behave?"
"...no?"
I was honestly here for that.
I don't think I'm as lukewarm on the movie as you, but it hasn't really sat with me either. I liked Promising Young Woman much better.
I'm honestly not sure I do get Saltburn really. I've watched some videos that gave me more clarity on the through line but I guess I'm still left with this feeling of "okay but like actually to what end?"
And I found Infinity Pool more of a wtf shock value experience. My first thought at the end of that movie was *why* the fuck was this movie????
Yeah I saw a recap video of Infinity Pool and that sounded wild.
@@Cakelynn6 it was an adventure to say the least.
I do want to watch Infinity Pool and Promising Young Woman now so that’s something!
Love your channel ❤ sorry i didnt watch this video sooner. I was just over hearing about this movie!! You never dissapoint. I would love to see more movie reviews.
Understandable! it is literally everywhere 🩷
❤@@weirdobookclub
I have such a crush on Rosamund Pike that I become biased whenever she’s in a role. Jacob Elordi is also…SO TALL. Those were my main take aways from the movie. 😅
Maybe that’s my thing too. I did love Rosamund in this but maybe… I’d love her in anything 🤣
I've watched it twice now. I think it is this generation's version of The Talented Mr. Ripley
Well done, bad accents and all! So Saltburn: Hadn't heard of it, no interest in seeing it, but just hearing you talk about it was still a damn treat. And I'm all for more weird movie reviews, do it, honey.
P.S. I had to laugh when you're like "I'm 36 I've seen weird shit" I'm 48 and try as I might to avoid it in my adult life, man did I see enough weird shit in my teens and 20s. By 26 I was a new mom and was like "yeah, ok, I'm over it, thannnnkssss"
What did you think, if you've seen it, of A Thousand Years of Longing? I think it's the new moulin rouge
I’m from Oxford (where the university they attend is), and British, and I am so enjoying your accents/ descriptions- especially of Duncan (the butler). I also enjoyed it enough but didn’t think it was shocking, but then my reading taste probably desensitised me too. What I did really enjoy was having a movie set to examine the textbook British stereotypical ‘posh’ kind of characters- Felix and Venetia were like trademark Royal Ag students (where I studied)- so whilst the story line was obviously out there, I did enjoy the theme because it came from being set in a place which I could really envisage the people and interactions.
Some British unis are quite contrasting in terms of the students backgrounds and experiences and there was definitely a visible divide between those more stereotypically privileged and not when I studied, but for the most part in reality they co-exist much more harmoniously than this film!!
I've only heard about this bc of the "questionable" scenes which without context I don't even get, but I just can't enjoy anything where the plot boils down to rich people problems lol couldn't be me hahaha also, Bill and Sookie did it on the dirt with dirt D and dirt V while I screamed at the TV "UTI!!! UTI!!" so this isn't that out there *eyeroll*
So, I enjoyed Saltburn. Loved the setting and acting and it made Mr mildly uncomfortable but the movie night I watched it at followed it up with Parasite. And you know what, I'm sorry Saltburn, but you never stood a chance. I cannot think about Saltburn without immediately thinking about how much I love Parasite.
I only felt something at the dinner scene after the first death. What does that say about me and my icks 🤣 but seriously i was just getting Talented Mr Ripley the whole time. Nice to see a retelling but it wasnt shocking or disturbing to me like Midsommar was.
I had the exact same response to the bath scene. I'm not worried about the body fluids, but what kind of depraved person puts their mouth on a drain
I loved it
Don't know how I never heard of this and all of a sudden people are doing reviews of it all over my feed 😂
Now I have to watch this just to see that rich kid get offed.
I’m ashamed of the fact that the bathroom drain scene was kind of hot 👀
filthy boy lmao
"only okay" is generous imo. That 'film' was a load of entitled, elitist bs.