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oldschoolteenflicks · 5 months

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Scanners (1981) dir. by David Cronenberg

#scanners #david cronenberg #80s #filmedit #movieedit #robert a. silverman #*#nati

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filmjunky-99 · 5 months

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n a k e d l u n c h, 1991 🎬 dir. david cronenberg 'North Africa/ Hans's Factory'

#film #naked lunch #naked lunch 1991 #david cronenberg #peter weller #Robert A. Silverman #William Lee #Hans #North Africa/ Hans's Factory

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letterboxd-loggd · 3 months

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The Brood (1979) David Cronenberg

February 4th 2024

#the brood #1979 #david cronenberg #art hindle #oliver reed #samantha eggar #cindy hinds #susan hogan #henry beckman #gary mckeehan #nuala fitzgerald #michael magee #robert a. silverman #nicholas campbell #david cronenberg's the brood

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 4 months

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#eXistenZ #Jennifer Jason Leigh #Jude Law #Ian Holm #Don McKellar #Callum Keith Rennie #Sarah Polley #Robert A. Silverman #Christopher Eccleston #Willem Dafoe #David Cronenberg #1999

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adamwatchesmovies · 9 days

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eXistenZ (1999)

David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is centered around a video game that doesn’t feel like any game we would ever play - and not because of its violent or disturbing content. This makes it a bit messy if seen as a criticism of Doom and similarly controversial games from the '90s. You'll find it more enjoyable as a snippet of a disturbing world that has nothing to do with our own, at least at a glance...

In the near-future, the most popular pastimes are virtual reality games played via biotechnological consoles that plug into bio-ports inserted into players’ spines. Antenna Research’s Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is demonstrating her latest game, "eXistenZ", to a focus group. Suddenly, the demonstration is interrupted by an assassination attempt. Going on the run with her security guard and publicist, Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they must evade the Realists, fanatics who want Allegra dead for her "crimes against reality".

Above everything else, eXistenZ is concerned with one question: “How real is too real?”. In the real world, Allegra Geller seems so wooden. She’s just been shot but she's more concerned about eXistenZ than her safety. The pod containing the only copy of the game has become damaged and she’s obsessed with getting it repaired. When we see her inside a game, she’s a completely different person. It’s like the real-world version of her is fake and vice versa. Maybe the Realists are onto something when they call this technology dangerous. You thought the entry ports in the back of people’s skulls in The Matrix were unsettling? This movie takes it on a whole other level. There’s something infinitely more disturbing about seeing Allegra manipulate the boils on a fleshy device that looks like it was surgically removed from a living being. The fact that the cords have to be lubricated before being inserted into people’s spines, can become infected and bleed when cut makes you all sorts of uneasy. Then, there’s the obvious addictive nature of these virtual reality games. It's grotesque.

In most films, it’s easy to tell the real world from the fake one. Even if you don’t have a hazy border around the edges of the screen, the second something is amiss, your guard goes up. eXistenZ begins with its weirdness at an 8. Going up to a 9 is not a big leap, which makes it difficult to discern whether the latest jaw-dropping sight is just a dream, the next level of a game or the next step in a bizarre journey. With games within games, it becomes impossible to tell virtual reality from actual reality - a fact highlighted by the very last scene. Technology this convincing is dangerous and the only people who seem to realize this are the antagonists.

This unsettling, gooey picture has a strong visual identity that makes it unforgettable. eXistenZ is so strange, so committed to its grotesque vision of the future that even if you don’t subscribe to what at first appears to be an anti-video game agenda, you get sucked into this world and are hungry for more… even if your stomach is going to feel very very queasy.

Your instinct is to say that writer/director David Cronenberg has something to say about video games but I’m not so sure. See, eXistenZ (the game, not the movie) is unlike anything in our world. There aren’t any objectives and no health bars or power-ups. People play roles in its story but it would be wrong to compare it to even the most sophisticated RPGs 1999 had to offer. Initially, you wonder why anyone would want to play it. Later, you understand the appeal: it's fake. Why live in the real world with limits when you can live in the imaginary world where anything is possible? That could easily become addictive.

Most films about technology age poorly but time has been kind to eXistenZ. The special effects hold up, and the ideas seem more relevant now than ever. How much time do we spend watching photos and videos of people who've made them more appealing than real life via filters or other special effects? Why have we become so much more comfortable interacting with people through apps than in person? Granted, what we’re doing isn’t gross like it is in the movie, but to someone who isn’t acclimated to it, whole evenings spent in front of glowing screens might seem as perverse as the bags of flesh the people in this film cling onto so dearly. (On DVD, May 7, 2022)

#eXistenZ #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #David Cronenberg #Jennifer Jason Leigh #Jude Law #Ian Holm #Don McKellar #Callum Keith Rennie #Sarah Polley #Robert A. Silverman #Christopher Eccleston #Willem Dafoe #1999 movies #1999 films

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badmovieihave · 1 year

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Bad movie I have Naked Lunch 1991

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therealmrpositive · 22 days

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Prom Night (1980)

In today's review, I find drama and murder clash with the most important night of a seniors life. As I attempt a #positive review of the 1980 slasher Prom Night #LeslieNielsen #JamieLeeCurtis #DebbieGreenfield #CaseyStevens #BrockSimpson #EddieBenton

Childhood can be challenging on its own, yet if you can survive the perils of youthful naïvety, you get a dose of the drama and danger that is present in your adult years. These scars, and traumas can stick with of, moulding us into the people that we are today, if we make it out that is. In 1980, as the slashers started to pick up steam, a high school in Canada dealt with a buried secret, and a…

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abs0luteb4stard · 1 year

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W A T C H E D

#THE BROOD (1979)#DAVID CRONENBERG #OLIVER REED #SAMANTHA EGGAR #Art Hindle #Nuala Fitzgerald #Henry Beckman #Susan Hogan #Cindy Hinds #Michael Magee #Robert A. Silverman #Larry Solway #Nicholas Campbell #BODY HORROR #psychological horror #watching

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nerds-yearbook · 6 months

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In 1967, a hippie named Henry Starling found the remains of spacecraft from the 29th Century that had come back through time because of a time rift. Starling copied the technology and started his own company called Chronowerx that lead to the micro computer revolution in the 1990’s. ("Future’s End", Star Trek Voyager, TV)

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mitochondriaandbunnies · 1 month

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Please watch Spenser. Spenser has everything.

Boston in the 80's!

A long-term established romantic couple who are also best friends who just actually fucking like each other and have fun together!

Hot Boston Townie who offers you baking soda to drink!

Hawk, being Hawk, asserting his superiority and laughing at Spenser smelling like a fire!

Also Hawk, avoiding eye contact and not being able to appropriately modulate his tone or facial expressions because you don't actually have to learn to mask when you're a professional gunman!

#spenser for hire #spenser #hawk #susan silverman #robert urich #avery brooks #barbara stock #my gifs #i have so much to say about hawk being autistic but that's a post for another day. i do not think he was supposed to be in the novels.#but he definitely is in the show

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camyfilms · 1 year

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SCHOOL OF ROCK 2003

God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. We are your humble servants. Please give us the power to blow people's minds with our high voltage rock. In your name, we pray. Amen.

#school of rock #2003 #jack black #joan cusack #mike white #sarah silverman #miranda cosgrove #joey gaydos jr.#kevin clark #rivkah reyes #robert tsai #maryam hassan #aleisha allen #caitlin hale #brian falduto #z infante

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filmjunky-99 · 8 months

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n a k e d l u n c h, 1991 🎬 dir. david cronenberg 'The Zone Takes Care of Its Own'

#film #naked lunch #naked lunch 1991 #david cronenberg #peter weller #julian sands #Michael Zelniker #Nicholas Campbell #Robert A. Silverman #william lee #Yves Cloquet #Hank #Martin #Hans #The Zone Takes Care of Its Own

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the-virgoperspective · 2 years

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Moon in the 2nd House

Perrie Edwards - Aries Moon

Christina Aguilera - Taurus Moon

Drew Barrymore - Cancer Moon

Ruby Rose - Cancer Moon

Julia Roberts - Leo Moon

Blake Lively - Virgo Moon

Emma Stone - Libra Moon

Nicole Kidman - Sagittarius Moon

Mitski - Capricorn Moon

Sarah Silverman - Capricorn Moon

#perrie edwards #christina aguilera #drew barrymore #ruby rose #julia roberts #blake lively #emma stone #nicole kidman #mitski #sarah silverman #moon #moon in 2nd house #astrology #zodiacs #zodiac signs #i do not own any of these images

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kenpiercemedia · 2 years

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Now Playing: 20th Century Studios "The Bob's Burgers Movie" (5/27/2022)

Now Playing: 20th Century Studios “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” (5/27/2022)

Greetings my friends and “Happy Friday” to you all. I am here for quite possibly the last time on this particular topic because today is the day that 20th Century Studios latest release “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” opens to the general public everywhere. I’ve shared some trailers and art before so just click that highlighted text with the films name so launch it on a new browser tab. Down below I’ve…

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years

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Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)

I don’t believe in bad premises, only bad executions. Weekend at Bernie’s is inherently memorable thanks to its wacky concept. Too bad it's wasted on a largely routine plot. Someone could've made this work.

When low-level employees Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) discover some unusual financial discrepancies at their job, they bring it to the attention of CEO Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser). He’s pleased by their work and invites them to spend the weekend at his Hamptons island beach house. They don’t know he’s the one embezzling money and that he’s inviting them over to be killed. When the mob assassin Vito (Louis Giambalvo) kills Bernie instead, the two best friends have to keep all of his guests in the dark to keep the party going the whole weekend.

The premise is preposterous, but that doesn’t matter. If I can buy a fable in which an elderly black man helps a self-destructive nymphomaniac get her life back in order by chaining her to a radiator, I can believe anything. You’d happily ask for more dead body-related shenanigans if the jokes hit consistently. The film's best scenes have Larry tying strings to Bernie’s corpse and wheeling him around as if he’s still alive and kicking. Unfortunately, we spend a lot of time with Richard as he tries to impress his crush, Gwen (Catherine Mary Stewart). Who cares of this wet noodle can muster up the courage to talk to a girl? We came here for Bernie!

I suppose the romantic subplot is to prevent the single joke from overstaying its welcome. Well. If everyone knew the dead body thing couldn't fill out a whole movie, why make a movie out of it? Make it a subplot in a bigger, crazier story. Then writer Robert Klane might not have resorted to a girlfriend of Bernie’s having sex with his corpse and not noticing anything is amiss. It's more than impossible. It's embarrassing.

Weekend at Bernie’s has a neat gimmick that keeps you intrigued even through the scenes of cringe and desperation. Or maybe you're like me, and watching this so you can get to the sequel: Weekend at Bernie’s II. Considering Bernie is very dead by the time the credits roll, a follow-up sounds like a mathematical impossibility. My curiosity must be satisfied...

I assumed Weekend at Bernie's would be good because I knew of the second one. I know they make sequels to bad movies often but I imagined all of these wild things it would contain. I pictured this "once in a lifetime" kind of comedy that worked despite its nuttiness. Just like Air Bud, this left me disappointed. It’s largely generic, with a love plot that’s a waste of time and utterly forgettable lead characters who are not the least bit believable as friends. All Weekend at Bernie's has to offer are a few memorable jokes in an otherwise forgettable movie. (Televised version, March 15, 2018)

#weekend at bernie's #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Ted Kotcheff #Robert Klane #Andrew McCarthy #Jonathan Silverman #Catherine Mary Stewart #Terry Kiser #1989 movies #1989 films

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msclaritea · 8 days

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David Harewood Says White Actors Should Be Able To "Black Up"

I really don't get how Britain is able to function with THIS.much stupidity in its midst. This is the same bootlicking race-baiter that also warranted an article after saying that Disney should introduce a Slavery storyline into the fictional Little Mermaid JUST BECAUSE she was played by a black woman.

Black people were unfortunately part of European history. They were even a part of Royalty. But now it seems as though british film AND Hollywood are deliberately going overboard with swapping white people for black people in an excessive fashion JUST so they could then start introducing White people, playing black people.... basically going back to Blackface, a perennial favorite of Ashkenazi actors.

And FYI, when I confronted the duplicitous David Harewood about the mermaid/slavery crap, a WHOLE shitload of British BLM aka Black Lives Matter trolls came after me. He's a piece of shite and so is RADA for appointing such ignorance. He was given that position to spew this nonsense. Just shite.

Jake Kanter

April 23, 2024 6:24AM PDT

#Homeland’ Star David Harewood Makes Case For White Actors Being Able To “Black Up” For Roles: “The Name Of The Game Is Acting”#Actually No #The name of the game with British Lavender Mafia Hollywood Gay Mafia and Marxist Black Lives Matter is nonstop Race Baiting #The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts should be ASHAMED of itself gor hiring such a cheap little Race Baiter #The Elites In An Effort To Secretly Bring Back Blackface Send Out Legions of Bought and Bossed Black Mouthpieces #Hollywood and British Film are attempting to bring back blackface #Just as soon as they finish getting the public pissed off by race swapping traditional characters #The hope is to push boacks out of acting all together #Ashkenazis Love To Fo Blackface #Gard ro break a habit after over 600 years #Jimmy Kimmel #Robert Downey Jr #Sarah Silverman #David Hardwood Is Linked To Marxist Black Lives Matter in Britain #British Lavender Mafia #Hollywood Gay Mafia #BBC #RADA #Sky News #King Charles #Little Mermaid #Slavery #Doctor Who #If Rightwingers don't like Racw Swapping Why do RW News keep giving these people a platform?

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