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Dogmeat
Jun 20, 2003


Woof!

If I'm being perfectly honest, I enjoyed Hidalgo more.

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mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.
I laughed at the last scene. It was a good scene, but it just reaked of "well that was really hosed up. I guess we'll have an awkward dinner and get back to the routine. Tonight is a school night, afterall".

A+++ would watch again.

500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Airborne Viking posted:

I laughed at the last scene. It was a good scene, but it just reaked of "well that was really hosed up. I guess we'll have an awkward dinner and get back to the routine. Tonight is a school night, afterall".

A+++ would watch again.

now watch Eastern Promises

Blood Boils
Dec 27, 2006

Its not an S, on my planet it means QUIPS
It's great, top tier comic book movie imo. Eastern promises is good, not as much fun as Violence tho

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

they are both excellent movies about crime

crime movies are the best movies

britishbornandbread
Jul 8, 2000

You'll stumble in my footsteps
History of Violence is really good but Eastern Promises is drat good.

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

EX250 Type R posted:

now watch Eastern Promises

Already did. An even better film, imho.

FaradayCage
May 2, 2010

Airborne Viking posted:

I laughed at the last scene. It was a good scene, but it just reaked of "well that was really hosed up. I guess we'll have an awkward dinner and get back to the routine. Tonight is a school night, afterall".

A+++ would watch again.

Aragorn is the violent history of our nation. The plate of food is forgiveness. The hand pushing the plate of food is acknowledgement of the history.

In a way, we all have a...history of violence.

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

The last movie to be released commercially on VHS, apparently.

John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts

mind the walrus posted:

The last movie to be released commercially on VHS, apparently.

that was actually the special edition copy that slowly destroyed your reality and turned you into a human VCR haunted by images of Blondie

500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Airborne Viking posted:

Already did. An even better film, imho.

You're a good man Airborne Viking

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald
I like most movies but I thought the acting and script for this one was notably bad. Like memorably so

Millions of Crows
Mar 31, 2010

take a look overhead
AHoV and Eastern Promises tend to linger on the results of the brutal violence they depict and I loved it. Intellectually i know Cronenberg is de-glamorizing violence by showing that after the hero character fucks up a bunch of gangsters now he's got several twitching mutilated corpses on his lawn and it's traumatizing his family, and this should be disturbing the audience but the gore hound part of me is all "Fuckin cool that guy's nose is smashed into his brain lol"

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
i always forget that this movie exists and i wanna watch it. Procured it, gonna watch after din-din. Hope it rules!!!!!!

canpakes
Jul 26, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Not much OP. I've never heard of it.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

I don't remember a lot about history of violence other than it was really violent and maria bello is really hot

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
when i saw i thought the hyper-realistic violence was very effective because it was graphic but also disgusting, rather than glorifying or gratuitous. it made violence look ugly. i think all the pearl-clutching "violence in media" people should love this movie for that reason.

John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts

Millions of Crows posted:

AHoV and Eastern Promises tend to linger on the results of the brutal violence they depict and I loved it. Intellectually i know Cronenberg is de-glamorizing violence by showing that after the hero character fucks up a bunch of gangsters now he's got several twitching mutilated corpses on his lawn and it's traumatizing his family, and this should be disturbing the audience but the gore hound part of me is all "Fuckin cool that guy's nose is smashed into his brain lol"
Yeah, Cronenberg really has a fascination with this aspect and sort of deals with it explicitly in Videodrome... it's sort of simultaneous deglamorization and also the train-wreck can't look away appeal (Really makes me think of Crash). Like even at the goriest it's such a different feeling than a gore porn movie but at the same time it's like' goddamn wow that dude got destroyed that's insane'


I've always sorta wondered if Cronenberg has like a bunch of weird fetishes, or if he just is like actually super normal and really really deep into the head game of like what makes people work or not work and like how bizarre attraction and sexuality is and really good at coming up with weird metaphors for it (the seemingly intentional awkwardness in like all of the sexual dialog in his movies has me thinking this- especially Crash and Cosmopolis)...

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

-first 69'er in a major motion picture

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
I really liked the back and forth between Viggo and William Hurt. Was that classic "Cronenberg unease/suspense" dialogue that I like so much.

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen
I loved Viggo Mortensen ever since his turn as Lucifer in The Prophecy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmcCBEyEj0

client
Aug 19, 2010

ruddiger posted:

If Cronenberg didn't direct Videodrome, this would be his best movie.

qft. the guy getting his mouth/throat shot off in a history of violence is an all time great makeup job

https://youtu.be/LtYg1xz1A00?t=160

its so loving gross lmao

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Airborne Viking posted:

I laughed at the last scene. It was a good scene, but it just reaked of "well that was really hosed up. I guess we'll have an awkward dinner and get back to the routine. Tonight is a school night, afterall".

A+++ would watch again.

Yeah the what the whole point since even though all bad dudes got wiped out his family now knows he's a also bad dude.

Also movie gets extra points for Viggo rear end goodness

BIG PUFFY NIPS
Mar 7, 2007

College Slice

John Denver Hoxha posted:

I've always sorta wondered if Cronenberg has like a bunch of weird fetishes, or if he just is like actually super normal and really really deep into the head game of like what makes people work or not work and like how bizarre attraction and sexuality is and really good at coming up with weird metaphors for it (the seemingly intentional awkwardness in like all of the sexual dialog in his movies has me thinking this- especially Crash and Cosmopolis)...

speaking of weird fetishes anyone seen Dead Ringers, his one about the gynecologist twins? ive never been able to find it

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

Did you know that "The Vigg" as I like to call him, lives in New England and only does movies he wants to do because he invested wisely? He spends a lot of time driving around alone and thinking deep poo poo about life and death.

Heard about it on NPR a while ago. He's a bit weird but interesting. He chain smokes american spirits when his kids are not in the car.

a whole buncha crows
May 8, 2003

WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO TO HATE, WE HATE OURSELVES.-SA USER NATION (AKA ME!)

Wendigee posted:

Did you know that "The Vigg" as I like to call him, lives in New England and only does movies he wants to do because he invested wisely? He spends a lot of time driving around alone and thinking deep poo poo about life and death.

Heard about it on NPR a while ago. He's a bit weird but interesting. He chain smokes american spirits when his kids are not in the car.

what else did they say cos he sounds cool

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Sonofsilversign posted:

speaking of weird fetishes anyone seen Dead Ringers, his one about the gynecologist twins? ive never been able to find it

It's not your typical over the top gore/sex/body horror stuff, but it's got this really . . . dread like? Tension to it. Also Jeremy Irons is really, really good in both roles.

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!


I liked Ed Harris in this movie

us vs also us
Jul 8, 2007

Hello! I hope you are having a nice day!
hi op, just wondering is this a good thread for voicing my racist and sexist opinions?

John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts
Yeah, I liked him too Joeyy

Just rewatched it. Such a great movie. I thought the ending where he just stumbled in like wrecked from driving across the country and failed wire garrot marks around his throat and hand and his son just sorta like casually passed the meatloaf after a slight pause while his wife (who was totally ride or die through it all+ bae... I love Cronenberg's female characters)

FaradayCage
May 2, 2010
Wait didn't this movie have a scene where Joey dreams about dead Ed Harris with his ribs and smoke coming out of his chest and he's talking to him?

I could have sworn that was a scene in the movie but I just rewatched and it never happened.

What movie am I thinking of? Please help I'm going crazy here.

EDIT: Okay it was a deleted scene that I must have seen when I was watching the DVD extras ages ago.

I hope Netflix starts adding DVD extras to their streaming stuff. Those were the poo poo.

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Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
It had an extremely narrow focus for a documentary about such a broad topic, impo.

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