What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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Action packed, it was non stop, Tom Hardy was great. The fights were well made. The shooting was like John Woo Style, and the blood gushing was like Kill Bill and Robocop
"How dark do you want to go?"
A line near the beginning of David Cronenberg's bleakly witty, uniquely unsettling & very personal (one senses) new film The Shrouds.
The main actor, Vincent Cassel, looks remarkably like Cronenberg himself. And the autobiographical elements are strong, as the main character (like Cronenberg) has recently lost his wife of many decades, so it's very much a work about grief, and maybe for that reason a film not for everyone.
I recently saw again The Fly, which holds up remarkably well, and I'm hoping to see again, this week, Scanners for the first time since its original release. And like those films, 'body horror' is very much to the fore in The Shrouds.
Looking back on his career its been remarkably strong and consistently so throughout. And The Shrouds features many familiar themes and character dynamics.
A line near the beginning of David Cronenberg's bleakly witty, uniquely unsettling & very personal (one senses) new film The Shrouds.
The main actor, Vincent Cassel, looks remarkably like Cronenberg himself. And the autobiographical elements are strong, as the main character (like Cronenberg) has recently lost his wife of many decades, so it's very much a work about grief, and maybe for that reason a film not for everyone.
I recently saw again The Fly, which holds up remarkably well, and I'm hoping to see again, this week, Scanners for the first time since its original release. And like those films, 'body horror' is very much to the fore in The Shrouds.
Looking back on his career its been remarkably strong and consistently so throughout. And The Shrouds features many familiar themes and character dynamics.
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I would agree with the John Woo style comparison. To say this movie was action packed would be an accurate description. But I would go further and say that in addition to the very high, John Wick-like body count, I believe this move sets the record for most shots fired on screen during a motion picture. It had to be in the thousands of rounds, although to keep count would be impossible. Virtually all of the characters in this film are armed with assault rifles, and the ones who die don't get shot 2 or 3 or even 10 times, they die in a hail of 30 or more gunshots. It's something of a masterpiece of gun violence, this film. Don't get me wrong, I am not praising the film for it. It was entertaining, on one level, but on another level it was either vastly excessive or an outrageous orgy of gun violence, depending on how you want to view it.
The Fly traumatized me as a kid so of course I became obsessed with body horror as an adult hehe. I wasn't too impressed with "Crimes of the future" and I didn't even know Cronenberg had a new film coming out.. very curious now
I'm a fan of Cronenberg. I recently saw Videodrome, and found it to be quite the trip (strange things going on, with plenty of gore near the end). I'm planning on seeing Scanners soon.
I've seen The Fly before back when it came out in the 80s (probably the best I've seen from him so far), and then I saw Dead Ringers a few years ago.
Same...I think I saw it when I was 12 or so. The gore is something else...both the arm wrestling scene and the regurgitation scenes still make me wince just thinking about them.
I saw it when I was 7 years old lol I have those scenes burned in my memory
The thing about The Fly is that it works both on the level of sheer body horror but also as a strangely moving portrayal of a disintegrating (literally) romantic relationship. As when two people grow apart irreparably ... or when one needs to take the relationship in a direction where the other can't, or doesn't want to go.
Another touchstone for The Shrouds is 1997's Crash, in that both films touch on imaginative, if highly transgressive sexual situations. Indeed, the character played by Sandrine Holt feels like she walked out of that movie. And never has a relatively mainstream movie like The Shrouds featured such an abundance of old people (50+) nudity.
But I don't want to mislead anyone. Beyond the body horror, there's little of the genre elements of well known earlier films. And overerall The Shrouds is incredibly artsy and 'funereally' paced (pun intended), even more so than his last one, including a plot involving conspiracy aspects that may feel a little misplaced.
Another touchstone for The Shrouds is 1997's Crash, in that both films touch on imaginative, if highly transgressive sexual situations. Indeed, the character played by Sandrine Holt feels like she walked out of that movie. And never has a relatively mainstream movie like The Shrouds featured such an abundance of old people (50+) nudity.
But I don't want to mislead anyone. Beyond the body horror, there's little of the genre elements of well known earlier films. And overerall The Shrouds is incredibly artsy and 'funereally' paced (pun intended), even more so than his last one, including a plot involving conspiracy aspects that may feel a little misplaced.
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