act angry... get an Oscar.

DDL school of acting.

Watched Dead Snow on NF Streaming. Seen it before but it really is a very good zombie flick. Definitely recommend.



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In a similar vein, Cockneys vs Zombies is damn good fun.

Never seen Demonlover...I will check it out. I do love me some Cronenberg, tho.

Argo: Any movie where you know the outcome, but are still biting your nails as it progresses, and also has John Goodman/Alan Arkin paired up, is perfectly good in my book.

you didnt state what you thought about it!

I did like it, an extension of some of the themes in Videodrome, and it's certainly worth watching. Cronenberg brings an ickyness to virtual reality that is just right for him, but probably not for anyone else. It also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is quite good in the role as game designer, and she gives a nice performance.

I'm a big fan of the movie, and also see it as a continuation of the themes Cronenberg began with Videodrome.

I don't get all the Cronenberg love. I thought Eastern Promises was ridiculously bad (other than the super awesome bath fight scene).

I'm certainly no Cronenberg completist, never having seen Eastern Promises (and many others), but there's something distinctly horrifying in his films I have seen, a kind of, to use the word I used above, ickyness few directors venture into, and when he does it well, the effect works. And I think he does it well in The Fly, Videodrome, eXisenZ, and Crash, which I think are his best films.

Cronenberg's earlier, Canadian films are among the greatest and most original horror movies ever made. His Hollywood films and literary adaptations have had varying degrees of success, but they are almost always fascinating and unique.

I think a great starting point for understanding why he is great would be Dead Ringers. It's a perfect intersection of his earlier, independent themes with his latter, Hollywood technical brilliance.

I agree, Dom, and The Brood isn't all that bad either. Jeremy Irons is really good in creepy roles.

I liked Demonlover but thought it had some pacing and plot issues. Maybe it was just me.

no love for M butterfly or Naked Lunch... come on now.

you may want to add Crash to the Videodrome/eXistenZ effect... it is the very modern effect of outside artificial man made stimulation on the human condition.

I do think of Videodrome as the mother to eXistenZ, and any ideology from that movie of realism and on living life in this modern electronic world were nurtured, conceived and borne out of the effect of electronic media on humans as expressed in Videodrome.

The Videodrome story was WAY ahead of it's time in predicting the effect of Television(electronic media/online persona) on the way humans interact with each other by way of that electronic media. The awareness, manipulation and contouring of one's TRUE persona is central to this message. In real life, many of us are completely diametric to our online personalities... the realism and the expression of those ePersona's can and does eventually spill over to reality.

Dr. Oblivion's beautiful statement of "I refuse to appear on television... EXCEPT ON television" is really central to the idea of avatars and online persona's.

Electronic Media is and has been, the New Flesh!

Long Live the New Flesh!

the time to correct that is now... Even a movie as simple as Scanners, has a message buried deep in it's structure. David leaves these movies purposefully ambiguous so that the deeper meaning is personalized and customized to each viewer... unlike many directors that try and force feed you a very rigid ideology.

One other thing that often get's left out of DC's work are his Long term associations with two other great artists...

The GREAT designer Carol Spear who does all of DC's set design/art direction and contributes greatly to the feel and texture of Davids films, and of course the great composer Howard Shore.

I mean, take a look at this PARTIAL list of Howard Shores work

Sinatra (announced)

2013 The Spider (pre-production)

2014 The Hobbit: There and Back Again (post-production)

2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (post-production)

2013 The Wolf of Wall Street (post-production)

2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012 Cosmopolis

2011 Hugo

2011 A Dangerous Method

2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

2010 Edge of Darkness

2008/I Doubt

2007 Eastern Promises

2007 The Last Mimzy

2006 The Departed

2006 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Behind-the-Scenes (video short)

2005 Lord of the Brush (TV movie)

2005 A History of Violence

2005 La opresión (short)

2004 The Aviator

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003 Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (TV special)

2002 Gangs of New York

2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002 Spider

2002 Panic Room

2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001 The Score

2000 The Cell

2000 Esther Kahn

2000 The Yards

2000 High Fidelity

1999 Dogma

1999 Analyze This

1999 eXistenZ

1999 Gloria

1997 The Game

1997 Cop Land

1996 That Thing You Do!

1996 Striptease

1996 Crash

1996 The Truth About Cats & Dogs

1996 Before and After

1996 Looking for Richard (documentary)

1995 White Man's Burden

1995 Moonlight and Valentino

1995 Se7en

1994 Nobody's Fool

1994 Ed Wood

1994 The Client

1993 Philadelphia

1993 Mrs. Doubtfire

1993 M. Butterfly

1993 Guilty as Sin

1993 Sliver

1992 Single White Female

1992 Prelude to a Kiss

1991 Naked Lunch

1991 A Kiss Before Dying

1991 The Silence of the Lambs

1989 She-Devil

1989 An Innocent Man

1989 The Lemon Sisters

1989 Signs of Life

1988 Dead Ringers

1988 Big

1986 The Fly

1986 Fire with Fire

1985 After Hours

1984 Nothing Lasts Forever

1983 Videodrome

1981 Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (TV movie)

1981 Scanners

1979 The Brood

If you are even remotely into soundtracks... you MUST HAVE a serious Howard Shore collection/addiction, as I do!

Pretty cool - an Oscar poster with each statue personalized to the winning movie. You can go through a slide show and test yourself.

Link

Port of Call,

wow, was the script written specifically for Cage? He did an incredible job, there were some parts that weren't too good, but over all I think it was one of his best performances.

The part where he jams the rich kid and his gf was hilarious. Cage gets high with the kids gf, and then makes him watch him **** her hahaha thought it was pretty funny

Edit: I also watched Drive for the first time. I was kinda put off just from the cover/ title, the white jacket, lol driving gloves looked a little over the top and tbh, it looked like just another movie like the transporter. I didn't like the way it ended, or the music, but it wasn't bad. The first ~10 minutes was really good, prolly my favorite part of the whole movie, and the tension between the driver and the wife was great. It's worth watching.

Speaking of Cronenberg, I just watched Cosmopolis. My reaction is: huh?

Side Effects was ridiculous but good fun.

Sound City is awesome.

Watch a Movie called... The Driver

Also, I would recommend not watching it.

Don't watch Little Birds either. I suppose I should say something about the plot. It's about this girl whom, with the help of her best friend, decides to ditch home for the big city and finds trouble; which is to say everything is predictable. Then again, the performances aren't bad. It's just meh.

Zero Dark Thirty
82/100 Rather great thriller that starts uncomfortably and just gets more and more compelling

Valentines Day suggestions? We were thinking about watching Amour.

No. Watch Casablanca. (And I haven't seen Haneke's film.)