― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
the last scene reminded me of something but I can't remember what.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I really get Cronenberg as a director. Though I did love Spider. There's some kind of deliberate thinness or something to his style. In my head I think it's a Canadian thing.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
but that doesn't explain Rush.
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
yes I know Egoyan is a vastly superior director; they get compared only because of their candian-ness.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
OK, so let's say it was a "genre exercise" on Cronenberg's part. Something to be appreciated for its formal aspects. Well OK, thought that's never going to make for a very satisfying thriller. It makes it neither one thing nor the other. I dunno. I'm rambling now. I just know that my friend at work thught it was appalling and I realised that I'd have a hard time defending it by any criteria I am comfortable arguing for the use of.
Ha ha - x-post with all this Canadian talk.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
This is only true until his last two movies which are just okay.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Although the bloody faces were cool.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
All my Canadian friends on ILX r gonna hate me now. but I called it, didn't I?-- @d@ml (nordicskilla@hotmail.com), April 1st, 2004.
-- @d@ml (nordi
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I think we were stoned, though.
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
and Sarah Polley is! I think. Anyway I like that movie as well.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
YOU LIKE EXISTENZ
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
If it had been eaxctly the same actors, set pieces, shots, etc then YES!
The only exceptions to this rule for me are Woody Allen and David Lynch, but I think I have a limit on how much I can watch ANY cinemtaic idea or concern recycled over and over by the same person.
I'M not arguing this for Existenz though.
Jude Law vs. James Woods!
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I've seen Fast Company. It's okay. Some interesting shots, but the plot is a joke.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
No, not at all. I was arguing the need for SOME diversity in a filmmaker's body of work. Non-specific.
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
IN WHAT FUCKED UP WORLD DOES THE FORMER TRUMP THE LATTER?
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah Calendar just kills me.
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
hardly -- kyle (akmonda...), October 4th, 2005."
Kyle, name another mainstream film that has such unrepentantly gory, generally unstylized (a'la not "Sin City") violence. I'm genuinely curious - "Irreversible" had that vicious fire-extinguisher-to-the-face scene, but I can't think of anything else that had me that truly shocked.
Also, why was Viggo's ass so shiny in the stairs scene? It seemed almost buffed and waxed. I was prepared to notify the Gaffe Squad if I caught a glimpse of Cronenberg in the reflection somewhere.
― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah the rest of the film was just a daisy-strewn waltz through the fucking park
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link