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inri222 03-25-12 07:41 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt (Post 11166184)
But I don't think we should discount what he's been up to since eXistenZ. His movies with Viggo Mortensen are some of the best of his career.
Most definitely. Let us not also forget 'Spider' in which Ralph Fiennes turns in a hell of a performance. I sure as hell would like to see Fiennes do another film with Cronenberg. I would also like to see Cronenberg do another film with Jeremy Irons.

Osiris3657 03-25-12 10:37 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
very interesting trailer, I'm up for it.

slowcloud 03-26-12 05:13 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt (Post 11166184)
I think the trailer looks batshit insane and I mean that in an awesome way. I'm very excited about this one. But I don't think we should discount what he's been up to since eXistenZ. His movies with Viggo Mortensen are some of the best of his career.
I agree. He's a consistently great director. It just seems to be a nice return to earlier form.

Why So Blu? 03-26-12 01:56 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
I always thought Cronenberg should have concluded his "trilogy" of biomechanical-mindfuck flicks. Videodrome and eXistenZ followed by..... I hope he gets to it at some point. At least he's been busy the last few years working consistently.

slowcloud 03-26-12 02:20 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Originally Posted by Why So Blu? (Post 11167203)
I always thought Cronenberg should have concluded his "trilogy" of biomechanical-mindfuck flicks. Videodrome and eXistenZ followed by..... I hope he gets to it at some point. At least he's been busy the last few years working consistently.
Crash might be considered number 2. Still, I don't think Cronenberg ever had an official trilogy planned, unless you know something I don't? I think he is just interested in flesh and technology in general.

Why So Blu? 03-26-12 02:22 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Originally Posted by slowcloud (Post 11167240)
Crash might be considered number 2. Still, I don't think Cronenberg ever had an official trilogy planned, unless you know something I don't? I think he is just interested in flesh and technology in general.
I don't.

Crash didn't have the biomechanical-stuff, though. I don't count that one at all as part of the "trilogy."

I remember the teeth for bullets that used to freak me out in eXistenZ.

Throwing Copper 03-30-12 01:58 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
This looks awesome.

Dr. Mantle 03-31-12 12:38 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Woo Hoo!!

I'm a huge Cronenberg fan (as you can tell) and this is the first time I've heard of Cosmopolis. Very nice to see him get back to the body horror of his '83 to '99 stretch.

Kind of surprised that he has another film coming out so soon after the last one. Usually he takes 2-3 years between films.

Thrush 04-19-12 02:56 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
International Trailer.


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Dan 04-19-12 03:08 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Can't wait!

islandclaws 04-19-12 05:16 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Utterly fantastic. I will def be seeing this in theaters.

Solid Snake 04-19-12 08:29 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
wow. Kind of feels like Cronenberg went G. Noe a bit here and there.

PopcornTreeCt 04-19-12 09:01 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Pretty awesome.

inri222 04-19-12 10:33 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
http://cosmopolisfilm.com/

Solid Snake 04-22-12 07:57 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
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Solid Snake 05-03-12 08:35 PM
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Solid Snake 05-20-12 11:06 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
What's Cronenberg using as his camera on this film? There's a certain look to it...and I like it. Kind of cold and...off in a way. I dunno. But I really dig the interior and night shots he's got here. Looks digital over film. Could be wrong though.

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Solid Snake 05-25-12 03:44 PM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
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Dan 06-11-12 01:33 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
I saw this on Saturday afternoon.
I really wanted to like it... I really did... but man... what a bore.
Cronenberg's worst, in my opinion. It starts out really bad, and slowly gets tolerable, at best.

I may give it a second chance when it hits Netflix someday, but it was pretty disappointing. It would have been better as a stage play, not a Cronenberg film.

Hazel Motes 06-11-12 02:06 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
yeah I've heard almost unanimously bad things about this film. I'm not sure if I'll see it in theaters or not now.

DonnachaOne 06-11-12 02:10 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
That's sad to hear, SomethingMore. Are you normally a fan of Cronenberg?

Dan 06-11-12 02:37 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Originally Posted by DonnachaOne (Post 11267314)
That's sad to hear, SomethingMore. Are you normally a fan of Cronenberg?
Oh yes. I haven't seen everything he's done, but I loved Naked Lunch, eXistenZ, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, and hell... I even loved Spider. I enjoyed Crash, The Fly, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, and Dead Ringers. A Dangerous Method wasn't my cup of tea, but I appreciated it.

But this... just didn't do anything for me. Maybe my expectations were too high, but right from the get-go, it felt as if most of the actors were reading their lines for the first or second time. The green-screening in the limo was poorly done (unless that was intentional?). There are a handful of brief moments of violence and two of those moments later in the film deliver, but one near the beginning is just painfully bad.

Spoiler:
An important person is being interviewed on a TV show when someone suddenly comes up behind them and stabs them in the eye with a knife. This is set up in the movie as live TV, not some action/drama sort of thing. The camera stays on them the whole time, but you can see that the attacker doesn't even touch the victim with the knife. Their stabbing motions are completely ridiculous. It's hard to explain, but it's not at all the quality of violence or gore that you see in Cronenberg's other films. Even the scenes later in the film are more in line with what you would see in a Cronenberg flick, although still very brief.

DonnachaOne 06-11-12 02:46 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
Hmm. I can see what you mean. Cronenberg's had some falseness in his work before where the effects just weren't far enough along, but these days it's very unusual for him to half-ass something. He's so deliberate. Maybe it is intentional, but I guess I'll have to wait and see myself, with substantially less anticipation.

Solid Snake 06-11-12 10:52 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
I'm sure it's supposed to off.

Solid Snake 06-13-12 11:19 AM
re: Cosmopolis (2012, D: Cronenberg) S: Robert Pattinson
 
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