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Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:57 am
by epilogue
Dead Zone is OUTSTANDING.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:57 am
by Dev
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Dev wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ive never seen Existenz, nor Spider. Should I watch either?
Spider is terrible. Existenz is kinda entertaining.
This was my hunch. I like the premise behind Existenz a lot.
eXistenZ is terrible. Dev loves Cosmopolis and Maps to the Stars, so he can't be trusted here.
I get why some rubes wouldnt like Cosmopolis but i cant even understand why you dont like Maps. Its almost a companion piece to spring breakers

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:58 am
by Dev
durdencommatyler wrote:Dead Zone is OUTSTANDING.
Meh

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:58 am
by LoathedVermin72
Dev wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Dev wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ive never seen Existenz, nor Spider. Should I watch either?
Spider is terrible. Existenz is kinda entertaining.
This was my hunch. I like the premise behind Existenz a lot.
eXistenZ is terrible. Dev loves Cosmopolis and Maps to the Stars, so he can't be trusted here.
I get why some rubes wouldnt like Cosmopolis but i cant even understand why you dont like Maps. Its almost a companion piece to spring breakers
How so?

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:59 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:00 am
by epilogue
I dig The Dead Zone, The Fly, Naked Lunch and eXistenZ ( the latter is my least favorite).

History of Violence is terrible.

So... I guess, overall, I like Cronenberg?

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:00 am
by LoathedVermin72
I love AHOV and Videodrome. The Fly and Dead Ringers are very good. I don't think any other Cronenberg has totally worked for me. But I still watch whatever he does because he's a compelling auteur, even if he doesn't always succeed.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:00 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:01 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:02 am
by Dev
Dead Ringers and The Fly are also tops for me

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:13 am
by LoathedVermin72
What Women Want is on TV. We've been fucked out of 10 years or prime-age Mel and I'm not happy about it.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:27 pm
by epilogue
Yeah, but you only have Mel to blame for it.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:29 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I know, but still. It's a goddamn tragedy.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 2:36 pm
by epilogue
I totally agree. The guy's a rare talent. Far FAR more interesting and with a bigger range than that Tom Cruise guy you love so much.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu September 15, 2016 3:48 pm
by bune
tragabigzanda wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:We are prolly 3/5 of the way through Maps of the Stars. What a mess. I'd abandon ship but Mrs Trag wants to finish it.
Your instinct is correct. Stop wasting your time.
omg my only hope is a power outage. This is garbage.
I felt the same way half an hour into Joy. Holy hell that is a terrible movie. I wish I could say I was biased or something against the performers but I really like all of them in other works, it's just that this one movie was a total shit show. There was no reason for this story to be told in a movie, especially dramatised like that. Ugh.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri September 16, 2016 10:39 am
by Bi_3
Anyone seen that Netflix doc "Who Took Johnny"?

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri September 16, 2016 1:43 pm
by bart
No, don't spoil it.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri September 16, 2016 1:47 pm
by bart
Cronenberg on Cronenberg is a fantastic book for anyone interested in the guy's movies, or just movies in general.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri September 16, 2016 2:16 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
dvr'd 28 Weeks Later off HBO & finally watched it. Pretty good for a sequel even if most of the action was in the second half.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri September 16, 2016 2:53 pm
by Bi_3
bart wrote:No, don't spoil it.
I haven't seen it, but have heard some good reviews.