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post #251 of 260
5/13/12 at 2:03pm

I love strange days....very prescient when it comes to our digital addictions.

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post #252 of 260
5/13/12 at 8:48pm
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I love strange days....very prescient when it comes to our digital addictions.


Speaking of Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor is another cyberpunk movie that just came and went.

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post #253 of 260
5/13/12 at 9:06pm

Speaking of movies with Jennifer Connelly standing at the end of a pier, Dark City.

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post #254 of 260
5/13/12 at 9:19pm
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STRANGE DAYS = "Intriguing Meh"


"Intriguing Rapey Meh"

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post #255 of 260
5/13/12 at 9:30pm
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Speaking of movies with Jennifer Connelly standing at the end of a pier, Dark City.

... or CREEPERS. I don't know how it did overseas (as PHENOMENA), but it didn't make dime one in the U.S.

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post #256 of 260
5/14/12 at 3:05am

Creepers/Phenomena is a gory horror movie. Was it ever supposed to be a "hit" as such? God bless her, but Jennifer Connolly has never really been a box office giant.

 

Strange Days has all of JC's usual scripting/characterisation issues - so it should have been a hit (Snark LOL) but the subject matter in Bigelow's hands becomes a weird mix of cyberpunk through the prism of mainstream bleaugh and creepy arthouse provocations. And remember that Cyberpunk didn't work in cinema til The Matrix - it pretty much hasn't worked since either, until Inception came along.

 

 

"REQUIEM FOR A DREAM should have received Oscar attention."

 

Well, Ellen Burstyn got nominated and her part of the movie was head and shoulders above the other stuff - so they were paying attention. Showing a person being completely destroyed by an obsession with a shitty TV show was incredible, but it made the rest of the movie seem banal by comparison. Unfortunately the only thing people really remember is the double-headed dildo. Black Swan seems to have been informed by that lesson to an extent - both the non-drug scene form of addiction and the girl-on-girl thing.

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post #257 of 260
5/14/12 at 3:33pm
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 And remember that Cyberpunk didn't work in cinema til The Matrix - it pretty much hasn't worked since either, until Inception came along.

 

 

I think calling Inception "cyberpunk" is a bit of a stretch. 

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post #258 of 260
5/14/12 at 5:01pm
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I think calling Inception "cyberpunk" is a bit of a stretch. 

 

I'd go so far as to call it completely incorrect.

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post #259 of 260
5/14/12 at 5:04pm
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Creepers/Phenomena is a gory horror movie. Was it ever supposed to be a "hit" as such? God bless her, but Jennifer Connolly has never really been a box office giant.

 

Strange Days has all of JC's usual scripting/characterisation issues - so it should have been a hit (Snark LOL) but the subject matter in Bigelow's hands becomes a weird mix of cyberpunk through the prism of mainstream bleaugh and creepy arthouse provocations. And remember that Cyberpunk didn't work in cinema til The Matrix - it pretty much hasn't worked since either, until Inception came along.

 

 

"REQUIEM FOR A DREAM should have received Oscar attention."

 

Well, Ellen Burstyn got nominated and her part of the movie was head and shoulders above the other stuff - so they were paying attention. Showing a person being completely destroyed by an obsession with a shitty TV show was incredible, but it made the rest of the movie seem banal by comparison. Unfortunately the only thing people really remember is the double-headed dildo. Black Swan seems to have been informed by that lesson to an extent - both the non-drug scene form of addiction and the girl-on-girl thing.

asstoassguy.jpg

 

Ass to ass! I think there's a fansite dedicated to this guy.

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post #260 of 260
5/14/12 at 5:04pm

Neither cyber, nor punk.  If anything it's... dreamprep?

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