"All Things: David Cronenberg"

**adgy-san** · August 16th, 2012, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by orpheus

I like ExistenZ, but wouldn't blame anyone for not liking it.

Same here.

**orpheus** · August 16th, 2012, 09:46 AM

I couldn't read last night, haha, so I decided to read Cosmopolis, which is my first DeLillo novel. I liked the prose and the overall feel of the novel, but I don't know if I thought that it had enough of a payoff. Said novel really isn't considered to be the author's best.

So, um, yeah, I am skeptical about the film. It seems like it will be interesting, maybe to me, at least, lol, but in the this is so awesome kind of way. :/ Who knows?

I'll say this, Cronie is certainly following his muse for better or worse.

**orpheus** · August 16th, 2012, 09:46 AM

I couldn't read last night, haha, so I decided to read Cosmopolis, which is my first DeLillo novel. I liked the prose and the overall feel of the novel, but I don't know if I thought that it had enough of a payoff. Said novel really isn't considered to be the author's best.

So, um, yeah, I am skeptical about the film. It seems like it will be interesting, maybe to me, at least, lol, but not in the this is so awesome kind of way. :/ Who knows?

I'll say this, Cronie is certainly following his muse for better or worse.

**jerseydevil** · August 16th, 2012, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by adgy-san

David Cronenberg Sees Superhero Movies as “Mostly Boring;” Can Superhero Films Ever Mature As Horror Once Did? | /Film

Sounds like someone has joined the 'old ****s whose **** don't stink' club. Shame on him. Mind yer business(see there folks...I actually came to the defense of Christopher Nolan. Don't get used to it).

**orpheus** · August 16th, 2012, 07:38 PM

You know what Superhero movies could use more of? Exploding heads!!

**orpheus** · August 17th, 2012, 06:22 PM

From Fangoria...

COSMOPOLIS is most assuredly a film that audiences with only passing exposure to Cronenberg may reject. But like A DANGEROUS METHOD, which on the surface played like Merchant Ivory with a sex drive, it is simply another tale of the folly of man, the idiocy of society and the illusion of the norm. Its character breakdown is perhaps less slimy, but no less profound than that of Seth Brundle’s or Max Renn’s, maybe even more so because it relies on the mind and the word over the prosthetic and gory. In other words, this is vintage David Cronenberg, but an even more sophisticated, refined version.

"COSMOPOLIS" (Film Review)