CRONENBERG SUPREMACY BATTLE

NO NAKED LUNCH, NUKE ILX

do not understand Cronenberg luv. The Fly was OK, I think I liked Naked Lunch, but Videodrome, eXistenZ, Spider, AHOV are all bad. I need to try out some of his early movies.

Oh I meant to include NAKED LUNCH; I must've cut it out when deleting the million foreign language titles listed. IS THERE anyway a mod could plug it in there?

you forgot M Butterfly too

i went with teh fly

Aw jesus fuck I suck.

http://singingfool.com/photos/237/009987_23.jpg

Dead Ringers.

Scanners

Fast Company? what the hell is that?

Cronenberg is my hero, even when he's making movies I don't really want to watch - I like smart, engaging, genre auteur types

A History Of Violence was so very shitty.

Fast Company is a totally great, silly movie about '70s racing cars! It's a complete outlier.

I haven't seen any movies he made after Dead Ringers, including Naked Lunch.

eXistenZ vote is me. TOMBOT LOVES IRREDEEMABLE TRASHY NONSENSE

eXistenZ is cool.

See Naked Lunch next, Abbott. RoboCop = Bill Lee, Roy Scheider = Benway!

No way. HISTORY OF VIOLENCE WAS THE BEST. Don't do it buddy.

Naked Lunch is something that I really only started to dig after repeated viewings but it is indeed great great great. may be helpful if you've read the book/know a bit about Burroughs

anyway I gotta go with Videodrome, his most quotable

Reading the book didn't do much for me.

long live the new fleshlight

yeah I went with Videodrome under the circumstances.

Videodrome all the way. Dead Ringers is next. then Crash, then Spider.

Fast Company is about drag-racing. Not particularly good.

I just thought it was funny bcz Cronenberg drag-racing wtf. He is really into racecars.

So is G. Lucas, koinky-dink?

I've read the Wheeliam S. Barrows, too. I can't imagine a...cohesive?...movie of Naked Lunch, but I couldn't imagine one of American Psycho before I saw that, so.

well it's more burroughs biopic by way of batshit naked lunch logic

Does he teach a boy to poop on command like in the book?

Naked Lunch is for real my vote.

It's a film about the book rather than a film of it.

Don't remember poop sorry.

its not really a film of the book, its more like a film about the writing of the book, using the imagery of the book (if that makes sense)

(I voted Scanners for being the coolest poster in the world when I was 13 and for spawning its own genre.)

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haha no it's pretty tame as far as that stuff but there's a bug with a talking asshole and there's mugwump jism

it's less a film about the book or of the book but a film about the writing of the book or of writing the book using the imagery of the book

it's about killing your wife and everyone who looks like her

it's not so much a film about the book or of the book or about the writing of the book but a film about reading the book while thinking about how a film of the book would look using the imagery of the book

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eXistenZ for me too followed by A History of Violence and Naked Lunch.

As much as I love his classic stuff, A History of Violence trumps all.

videodrome. always and forever.

AHOV was such a turd.

I liked it. I think the only one I didn't enjoy all that much is Spider, but I still have the DVD for some reason so I guess I should give it another shot.

doubtful it'll be more interesting the second time by.

Oh, I've watched it at least two or three times. Cronenberg is one of my faves, which is why I bought it sight unseen and it has stuck in my craw that I couldn't get into it.

thank god i'm not the only person who disliked ahov

but it has Aragorn killing dudes bare handed

DEATH TO ILXDROME LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

"Papers, please. What is the purpose of your visit, and what is your profession?"
"I write reports. I'm a writer, and I intend to write reports on life
in ILXia for the citizens of the U.S.A."
"Do you have any proof of what you say? How do we know
you are really a writer?"
"Well, I have a writing device."
"That's not good enough. Show us."
"Show you?"
"Write something."
"Write something?"
"Yes. Write something."
"Joan... Joan..."
"What is it, Bill? Are we there yet?"
"Almost, Joan. But I guess it's about time
for our William Tell routine."
"Sure, Bill."

*Bill shoots Joan*

"Welcome to ILXia."

Existenz was kinda bad. I heard for a while that he was doing an adaptation of "London Fields" and then I didn't hear it anymore. That would be a fantastic thing.

Oh, and "Crash" is awesome

i like every cronenberg movie, in different ways
dude's excellent crazy yet calm/cool and i like him a lot
which is pos also why i like david lynch so much, though lynch is not so calm

it's weird how lynch and cronenberg are so often compared, considering how vastly different their films are..is it because they both make unconventional movies and are named david?

They're both pretty heavily influenced by Surrealism.

Their films are COMPLETELY different, if for no other reason than Cronenberg's are watchable. ;P

Also way more low-budget looking/nerdical feeling...I doubt Lynch would ever do something like SCANNERS or even a PKD adaptation at all.

THE BROOD
http://www.clubdesmonstres.com/brood.jpg

dead ringers

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Missed these results somehow. Videodrome rightly dominating with Naked Lunch MIA.

Videodrome = good ideas, middling execution

i think i voted for dead ringers? existenz is great though

Videodrome = good ideas, middling execution

story of his life until what, the fly? but what ideas! they make the films worth watching.

I voted for crash

teh fly/eXistenZ/videodrome trifecta for me, impossible to choose between them

he's one of those guys i'm a sucker for; even his crappiest stuff i find things to like about

I really can not ever know what people saw in History of Violence.

the creepiness and awkwardness - waht else???

I hated it. Shocking that nobody voted for Spider! I would have.

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the violence

Actually I liked Dead Ringers too. But then Existenz was TERRIBLE. I don't understand David Cronenberg.

For Spider as his best movie? Seriously?

Yes, Spider is my favourite probably.

Or maybe Shivers, that's another decent one.

well hey I still have it...it's an out of print DVD already, too. (though 59 Used & new from $2.00 on amazon so nothing to brag about)

Spider that is, haven't seen Shivers I don't think

I can't really remember if I voted for The Fly or The Brood here.

i haven't seen the brood but the fly definitely "worked" best of the ones i've seen (i do have a possibly unhealthy affection for movies that don't "work" though)

I know that I voted for The Brood, so there was only one other person. If no one else comes forward, it had to be you!

I love how all his movies sort've exude Canadianness, even the newer ones! The Brood and Scanners are the most Canadiany ones of his I've seen.

I assume all the earlier movies are even more so.

Viggo is in his new one (September), also Naomi Watts.

toss-up between videodrome the fly and dead ringers. i voted videodrome because for me that's the quintessential Cronenberg.