― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Or you'll actually watch the film and enjoy it.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
please destroy
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 September 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Also I don't think Crash was trying to be that, Alex - shocking people just isn't interesting.
― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 24 September 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
My faves:
Dead RingersThe FlyNaked LunchVideodrome
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
so are you sure that's your dad?
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, that was something. The beginning was really really frosty and weird. Interesting sort of uh.. comic timing toward the end, the audience would laugh and then sort of recoil like OMGWTF.
― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 25 September 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 25 September 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Re: Violence, the Boston Globe critic seems to get it.
David Edelstein at Slate writes an incredibly stupid review that seems to have little to do with the film and a lot to do with his own issues.
― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 25 September 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 September 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 25 September 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Sunday, 25 September 2005 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
-- dar1a g (dar1a_...), September 25th, 2005.
I enjoyed his review. His enthusiasm makes me count down the days when it opens in South Florida.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
The sudden bloody discharges are lightning-fast and deliciously satisfying—orgasmic, even. But they also leave you sickened, because Cronenberg cuts briefly—in an extra frame, like a comic book's (sorry, graphic novel's)—to men with heads shattered and faces beaten, literally, to bloody pulps. But here's the thing: Those extra frames don't sicken us morally. Even though A History of Violence is suffused with loss—[..]—the right people are always on the right end of the (righteous) violence.
No, no, no..
― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― huell howser (chaki), Monday, 26 September 2005 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Edelstein, fwiw, has been grappling with violence and vigilantism in film for a while now. See, for example, his reviews of In the Bedroom and Kill Bill. He worries about the bloodiness in History of Violence, but I never thought it was overdone. I agree with Rosenbaum, who said (in a review that apparently isn't online yet) that the shots of bloody faces don't dwell on the gore in a fetishistic way but linger on them just long enough to convey the real-life consequences of shooting someone in the head.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 October 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 October 2005 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.moviepublicity.com/image_assets/history_of_violence_DF_00511.jpg
― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 October 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Now, the score was intrusive and overwrought at the start, this was deliberate. Same for acting seemed to be v awkward and wooden in the opening scenes as well. I guess what I am saying is, do you think this stuff wasn't deliberate & therefore that is why the film wasn't good, or that regardless, even if it was meant to come across that way, it was just a bad idea that didn't work?
― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 1 October 2005 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 1 October 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 1 October 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 1 October 2005 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― huell howser (chaki), Saturday, 1 October 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Everything was so telegraphed and cliched, moments like when Maria Bello says "because we were never teenagers together" (or whatever) were so awkward and incongruous and screamed ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?
To me, this was like an Oliver Stone movie gone emo. It's like, if you're going to have a good pulp scenario, fucking work it! Don't give your movie a title like "The History of Violence" and act like it's some sort of treatise on identity and the universal human condition! Don't have stupid teenage bully revenge scenarios and boring gangsters in dark cars with SCARY eyes! John Dahl used to be really good at this kind of thing. Or yeah, make everything really stupid and overblown, make U-TURN, at least it would be fun. But instead with Cronenberg all we get is the weak, wibbly middle-ground that tries to sell itself as "complex". Ugh.
― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 October 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link