Comments on: two movies walk into a bar… http://ldopa.net/2005/10/24/two-movies-walk-into-a-bar/ in perpetual beta Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:23:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joshua http://ldopa.net/2005/10/24/two-movies-walk-into-a-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Joshua Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:27:13 +0000 http://ldopa.net/2005/10/24/two-movies-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-249 My feeling about David Cronenberg is that he starts off making a movie and says to himself, "Hey, this is a neat idea! What can I do to make it a little grosser? And... how can I avoid saying interesting things about this interesting idea?" viz.: Nightbreed: a metaphor about homosexuality and underground subcultures. A little bit about demagoguery among subcultures. The movie culminates in a bunch of guys running around with shotguns blowing things up. eXistenz: What if this was all a dream? What if the <i>dream</i> was all a dream?!?!? What if I didn't care how many times you ask that? Naked Lunch: Let's take a psychotic episode in the life of a fascinating author and make it about humpy butts! (note: I actually like Naked Lunch. I just wish it was a little more literary and a little less anally fixated.) Hellraiser: A Lovecraftian story about forbidden knowledge and sacred geometry. But wait! Let's add blood and immature sexual morality elements until you get Friday the 13th! He's often so close, yet so far. My feeling about David Cronenberg is that he starts off making a movie and says to himself, “Hey, this is a neat idea! What can I do to make it a little grosser? And… how can I avoid saying interesting things about this interesting idea?”

viz.:
Nightbreed: a metaphor about homosexuality and underground subcultures. A little bit about demagoguery among subcultures. The movie culminates in a bunch of guys running around with shotguns blowing things up.

eXistenz: What if this was all a dream? What if the dream was all a dream?!?!? What if I didn’t care how many times you ask that?

Naked Lunch: Let’s take a psychotic episode in the life of a fascinating author and make it about humpy butts! (note: I actually like Naked Lunch. I just wish it was a little more literary and a little less anally fixated.)

Hellraiser: A Lovecraftian story about forbidden knowledge and sacred geometry. But wait! Let’s add blood and immature sexual morality elements until you get Friday the 13th!

He’s often so close, yet so far.

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