Zephyrus
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I really enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes, actually. They really did a good job humanizing the chimp in that and maintaining a sense of tragedy throughout.
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Krigloch the Furious
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I watched the actual first ever planet of the apes, partly to try and see why there were so many millions of sequels. I don't think it warranted more than one, maximum. It's a good film though and better than a lot of shit in terms of the idea itself, though. I'm glad I'm not another asshole who's seen all of the post 1990 ones but not the original Charlton Heston film.
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I've seen his other 3 films, The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder. Mother and Memories of Murder are just fantastic films while The Host is 'fun' with a lochness like creature patrolling the largest river in Seoul killing people. The Host and Mother used to be on Netflix instant, and Mother is definitely worth a watch and Memories is worth a download/blind buy.
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Videodrome is all right..I like it but I can't even consider it Cronenberg's best.
It's weird. I saw it on thursday and the characters are pretty annoying and all that. It's not a bad 'hollywood' flick but I wouldn't consider it good or amazing.
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I loved Naked Lunch, The Brood, and even Eastern Promises tbh. I recommend all of these. Oh yeah and The Fly as well.
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The Brood, Dead Zone, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises are all top notch films. History and Eastern are entirely different from his earlier stuff, but the Brood and everything else in the 80s is great.
Oblivious Maximus
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Perhaps but (and this might seem far fetched to some) I've always felt that it made complete sense for him to make A History of Violence after films like eXistenZ and Spider in the way that all three deal with identify and raise the question of which reality are we witnessing in their own individual ways.
I loved it too. I know I'm repeating myself but I think its great that he can still make a film that can polarize people, even longtime fans that much.Addo_Of_Nex said:
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Its source material was also one of DeLillo's most polarizing works. Situated between The Body Artist and Falling Man, it was considered one of his more superfluous novels (lots of proposals/ideas without really saying anything).
Oblivious Maximus
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I've yet to read the book but I know after reading numerous negative reviews for the film the dialogue was almost always the number one complaint. According to Cronenberg, the majority of the dialogue was lifted from the book 99.9% verbatim and I don't really think the film could have been made with any other kind of dialogue. It just suited the characters personalities so well and that dense, clinical and precise way of speaking added to the films already odd, almost hypotonic mood.
Jimmy... Dead.
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Psychonaut
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The Raid 2 - Brutal. Longer and a deeper plot than the first but the fight scenes are fantastic.
dwellerINTHEdark
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Finally saw Near Dark. Took me long enough. Good flick made when vampires weren't everywhere you looked.
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Really need to buy this. Supposed to be even better than the first, and the first one is badass!
