I don't think I've seen a Cronenberg film other than eXistenZ, which I loved.
The Fly.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
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Gandalfe - Oct 04, 2005 5:55:18 pm PDT #7718 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Strega - Oct 04, 2005 6:53:17 pm PDT #7719 of 10002
Rabid!
P.M. Marc - Oct 04, 2005 7:10:29 pm PDT #7720 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dead Ringers!
Which I still think was Jeremy Irons' best work.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 04, 2005 7:28:14 pm PDT #7721 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The Brood!
Lee - Oct 04, 2005 7:29:52 pm PDT #7722 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Dead Ringers!
Which I still think was Jeremy Irons' best work.
Oh, hell, yes!
P.M. Marc - Oct 04, 2005 7:49:03 pm PDT #7723 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Oh, hell, yes!
At some point, my brain was *certain* that they really were two separate people...
...and I was watching the thing *because* of Jeremy Irons.
Lee - Oct 04, 2005 8:03:14 pm PDT #7724 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yep. I was impressed that I could tell which twin he was playing very quickly in the movie, but just blown away when I realized I could tell he was one twin pretending to be the other twin.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 05, 2005 3:54:58 am PDT #7725 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That theme is fascinating to me.
SPIDER, VIDEODROME, NAKED LUNCH, and even THE DEAD ZONE all pretty much map directly to it from a very subjective POV (along with eXistenZ).
CRASH, M. BUTTERFLY and DEAD RINGERS map to it more indirectly, and from a much more omniscient POV.
His other films (especially the first four) are more about mind/body issues, and lotsa mutations (not that you don't get mutations in some of the others).
While he's talked about being influenced by Burroughs and Nabakov, he's also mentioned Philip K. Dick, and that influence really shows.
Kathy A - Oct 05, 2005 7:43:35 am PDT #7726 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that The Dead Zone is the only Cronenberg film I've seen in its entirety (I've always managed to stumble across Dead Ringers on TV about an hour or so into it, and I never stick around because I'm not following the story).
Volans - Oct 05, 2005 7:52:22 am PDT #7727 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I'm lame; I never realized that The Dead Zone and M. Butterfly were Cronenburg.
Of course, it's a good day when I don't confuse Cronenburg and Lynch. I think that comes from seeing Eraserhead and Videodrome at the same time.