To think Saltburn was a bit shit

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I don’t watch films that often, but watched on Amazon Prime largely due to Carey Mulligan/Rosamund Pike…

It’s visually good, but felt rushed/unbelievable towards the end…

It’s just not convincing - particularly ‘Oliver’…

I agree, OP, it was bad.

Weak plot; so many scenes and lines that were cliched or hammy; just not credible in any joined together way.

The sexy/shocking scenes were gratuitous, not plot-related eg Oliver shagging the grave but we never really find out why/how he loved Felix.

I thought Emerald Fennell was smarter than that….

I really enjoyed it. It's a dark comedy, if you take it too seriously you'll be too busy picking at plot holes to enjoy it.

I thought the plot was ridiculous and Keoghan totally miscast.

No where near as good as Promising Young Woman which actually had a point to make. However, I thought it was great fun and Rosamund Pike was brilliant.

For anyone who enjoyed watching Rosamund Pike in this I would recommend ‘I care a lot’ which is a dark comedy with a serious subject.

Yeah maybe you’re right @Almostwelsh as I definitely don’t get dark humour.

It was very derivative as well - felt like an endless run of Gosford Park, Brideshead, Talented Mr Ripley with a touch of Addams Family!!

@MoonriseKingdom - great recommendation for I Care A Lot. It’s fabulous.

I thought it was great after not expecting to like it because of the mixed reviews.
Visually appealing and elements of Brideshead and Talented Mr Ripley. Conclusion felt rushed.

I've enjoyed the discussion on another thread!

Loved it until the last ten minutes.

I thought the naked dance scene at the end was the best bit - I laughed my head off.

Agree it could’ve been better written and the Felix character was pretty weak.

Also totally creeped out by Barry K. My dd was trying to describe him to me and said he looks like an evil sprite - she was right!

Yes. Completely miscast. And a good decade too old for the role.

So pretty. I loved Barry’s Dance. Exhilarating and clever to make us id on Team Oliver.

Some of the scenes (the grave shagging for example) were his idea. Apparently some of the funnier lines from Rosamund, Carey and Richard E Grant were improvised so I actually wonder how much credit the director should get.

I don’t really understand the point of it. Was he in love with Felix or did he just want to own the estate? What was wrong with Rosamund at the end and did he cause her illness? How were the police not suspicious when the family suffered multiple deaths? Especially when the mother’s breathing apparatus was ripped from her throat?

Yeah it is a bit shit.

The target audience, in my opinion, is late teens and twenties, Barry K and Jacob E are box office catnip. My favourite scene is the Liverpool discussion, Carey M amd Rosamund P and Richard E G are sublime.

Barry K is brilliant in Killing of a Sacred Deer, creepy mac creep face, I think he is the new Jack Nicholson and Christopher Walken.

I loved it. It confirmed all my Aussie dreams that all posh people in England live in grand castles and have the best parties 😁

Daft but very watchable. Some beautiful cinematography. Some great acting. Risible plot.
Barry K is so so unattractive though. People just wouldn’t have reacted to him in the way the plot suggests.

It was bloody brilliant (no pun intended, though on that note surely Venetia would've had a tampon in?! And that reminds me...where the hell did I see a scene in a film or TV show where someone pulls a used tampon out of a woman with their teeth? I know I haven't made that up).

I recall a scene in I Will Destroy You regarding periods, much more intriguing than SB scene.

I think it has a lot lacking, but not sure you get the obsession element. He wanted the sister because he wanted everything associated with the character. It was a devouring, not a desire.

I really enjoyed it! I didn't really know anything about it apart from hearing about the "shocking" sex scenes (which weren't actually that shocking really, controversial maybe). I thought Barry was fab as Oliver, I know nothing about him but he didn't seem that old to me. I thought it was going to be a gay love affair with him and Felix. And I'm glad they explained it at the end, I wouldn't have got it otherwise. But, my literally level is pretty much YA so maybe that explains it!

I watched it for 10 minutes and switched off. Not for me.

I found it massively overrated and overhyped for a film that was mostly derivative. I suppose it might be OK if you haven't seen The Talented Mr Ripley or Pasolini's Teorema or the countless other films that deal with exactly the same story.

I think it was probably aimed at teenage girls who could then have a good snigger about the actor's cock at the end.

Mark kemode the film critic describes it as a vampire movie. If you don't like vampire movies then you probably won't like this. Teenage girls do.

I didn’t love it, but did enjoy it as a campy vampire-gothic version of the Mr Ripley story

have to say (having been at Cambridge around the same time as the writer) I thought the “over the top” depictions of the students were actually bang on!

didn’t get the “explanation” in final 10 mins though? I’d watched the film, I understood that he’d done it - didn’t need my intelligence insulted with that bit!

Rosamund was the absolute dupe of a friend of mine throughout, even the things she said about the numbers at a party (I forget exactly but something like 'we'll invite 100 but you know it always ends up being closer to 200') and the quips and the mannerisms, it was uncanny. My friend did attend Oxford, and is about the same age, with children a similar age too so I'd say it struck me as very real in parts and as such I quite liked it.