amazing.
like how the international trailer has more sex...but also more "techno" music.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 April 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
So I guess the "Dead Ringers" series is really going forward, huh?
With opening credits just like The Patty Duke Show, I assume.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
"Gynos . . . Identical gynos . . ."
― nickn, Friday, 15 April 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
It looks like one of his more extreme gothic retro-future body horror films. I know I will have to watch it but this stuff makes me feel bad
― Dan S, Friday, 15 April 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veBhrS9Dkmk
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 16 May 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
so great
― dan selzer, Monday, 16 May 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
It looks like one of his more extreme gothic retro-future body horror films. I know I will have to watch it but this stuff makes me feel bad― Dan S, Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:20 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dan S, Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:20 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
I know just while watching it I was worried whether my tetanus booster was up to date.
So wait, Lamarck was right?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 4 June 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
tomorrow!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 June 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
Second-tier Cronenberg, but what a treat to watch a film interrogating what constitutes sexual pleasure and why we would want to munch on plastic.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
this made me lol
This guy is up to NO GOOD pic.twitter.com/taAe0SNhSq— Patrick Fisackerly (@fisackerly) June 5, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
Hey that's me! (Not really, but I shouldn't be surprised I couldn't meet a single guy even if I offered a finder's fee.)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 6 June 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
just rewatched the trailer and that's probably enough for me
I'm glad he's revisiting the early material, but...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
this is top tier croneyboney for me, though admittedly i have seen only the wrong cronenberg films. haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since i got out of the theater last night. transhumanism through art surgery and consuming microplastics. my favorite movie of the year so far
the scenes where you get a glimpse of the wholemicrocosm of surgical artists (a surgical arts scene lol) were so funny. the whole movie was so funny
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
Second-tier for me -- the movie sorta just stops -- but like you I haven't stopped thinking about it, maybe his best recent techno-queer film.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
lol sorry -- I forgot I responded on Monday.
wasn't the Ear Guy dance sequence hot as fuck?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
So is Cronenberg the first director to use the same title twice for a film that is neither a sequel nor a remake?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
I'd say Mati Diop's Atlantiques (documentary short) and Atlantics (fiction feature) have the same name but ymmv.
― WmC, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
oh also this movie confirmed for me that kristen stewart as an actor is chaotic good jared leto and personally i'm a fan, glad she got to be a strange little weirdo in this film
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
She's hilarious.
Viggo 4ever. So happy he's part of Cronenberg's world.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
Have you seen Underwater? It rules (think Hellboy crossed with The Abyss) and she's great in it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
I really get irrationally angry anytime people make Twilight jokes about her or Patterson as both have emerged as solid actors.
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
I need to see this. Underwater is good fun. Stewart is incredible in Personal Shopper.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
She's been good to excellent for a decade.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:30 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i have not watched this movie bc tj miller is in it and no movie no matter how great it is otherwise can survive the presence of tj miller
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
this movie is like what if the art crime cyberpunk thing happening in the background of bowie's outside were actually cool and worth thinking about
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
i can't tell if my takes on this movie are bad or not but it had a profound effect on me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
ha -- I wrote down "Damien Hirst" but couldn't figure out how he fit.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
even tho k stew gives the best performance my favorite minor characters were the lesbian drill assassins who had a sensual lust for/were operating on behalf of(?) the tech modulating viggo's body
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
I like the idea of the Bowie character in the album playing Detective Cope...and Stewart as Algeria Touchshriek.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
I am Ramona A. Stone.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
i finally got my butt to the theater tonight, and then read this afterward:
https://www.artforum.com/print/202206/amy-taubin-talks-with-david-cronenberg-about-crimes-of-the-future-88615
this pull quote from that interview is a good one: “At what point can you no longer claim to be a person or a human? This question is certainly in the film.” —David Cronenberg
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIfKwL43Cg
― Maresn3st, Friday, 10 June 2022 10:53 (two years ago) link
^Gets a little graphic in places.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 10 June 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
Opens here in a few days...Not hopeful after seeing the trailer last night. The body-horror stuff--precisely what most people love about Cronenberg--is my least favourite part of his films, why The Dead Zone remains my favourite. Maybe even more ominous, though, for me, is something I use as a running joke for directors whose every pronouncement is treated like the word of god: "From the mind of David Lynch," "From the mind of Stanley Kubrick," etc. Sure enough, "From the mind of David Cronenberg" in the trailer and on the poster.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
i think it's about the funniest and most idea-rich movie you'd get from the mind of any of those dudes
but yes it's also got a makeout scene with an incision
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
also the direct-to-video industrial sci-fi look of it is like the wallpaper/screensaver of my mind lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
anyway i finally saw crash this week and it was instantly my favorite movie
I had to avert my eyes a few times during the trailer, not a good sign. (Unaware that the film I was there to see, Men, would have its own share of body-horror towards the end.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
I have a friend who fainted during the similar scene in Crash.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
licking a fresh tattoo way worse than french kissing internal organs for me, for whatever reason
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
Rewatched Crash again and it really is up there with my favorites of his or anyone's.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
is it weird that i found crash pretty hot? or did i just reveal something about my psychosexual profile
i mean like a lot of his work it's hot and repellant at the same time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
i was also delighted to see elias koteas, my favorite canadian character actor, giving the best performance i've ever seen
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
It is definitely weird that you found Crash hot.
Kidding (kinda), of course. What do you think of Ebert's take on it as a pornographic film about behaviour that no one could possibly find erotic? I always liked that read--or at the very least, it was the only substantial take I had read when I saw the film way back when, and it did help me get into what the film was doing.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
xpost he's never topping Casey Jones in TMNT for me
That was a crime, you purse-grabbing pukes! and here is the penalty!
― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
Arquette with the crutches is the most obvious thing I can remember but I still haven't seen any groups into car crashes and things like that. I thought the finger in the back of the head in Existenz was a great weird fetishy image.
Really looking forward to this film, I didn't think he'd ever return to this kind of imagery/subject. I wonder if younger directors (including his son) and artists inspired by him made him want to do it again?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
was also delighted to see elias koteas, my favorite canadian character actor, giving the best performance i've ever seen
My feelings about the film aside, I'm hoping you meant the best Elias Koteas performance you've ever seen here.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
I think Ballard's droll line that he 'didn't get an erection once while writing Crash' and 'would have considered it a failure' if he had is pretty definitive about the erotic nature of both the novel and the film.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
i think i disagree that that suggests anything definitive about the film
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link