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Crash (1996)
by civex in civex Blog

lost interest.

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"This is a movie about some very sick people. Their sexual turn-on is auto wrecks, and they stage them when they can't find them by chance. (And by stage, I mean cause car wrecks on purpose, not fake them.) This movie, directed by David Cronenberg, is based on a novel by J. G. Ballard. This is a disturbing film. The sex scenes approach soft core porn, as the characters paw and grope each other, and there is rampant fetishism as well. However, I was unable to care about the characters. Casting James Spader as the lead guarantees a performance of flat affect. This sometimes works (as in "sex, lies, and videotape," when he plays a weird voyeur), but when he is the main character and I can't begin to like him or feel sympathy for him, it wrecks the movie for me. The problem with the film from my point of view is that I'm never given any reason to identify with these people and to care about their drive for this particular form of fetishism. I suspect the sex aspect of the film was too d ... " [More]

Faster pussycat faster
by chrismorrell in chrismorrell Blog

loved it.

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"I meant just to review "eXistenZ" ,but "Crash" was linked and i love it too. James Spader has never been better cast,and this is pretty much a perfect "arthouse" movie. Perversion is the name of the game..sexual ,sado-masochistic,with suicidal tendencies thrown in.The "crashes" themselves are the most unglamouras and shocking ever in a fictional work.Great source material,of course,from J.G Ballard. " [More]

eXistenZ not to be confused wit ...
by chrismorrell in chrismorrell Blog

loved it.

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"David Cronenberg is a true Auteur , able to make films that will reach a wide audience nowadays...there are strong ideas, visual and emotional , very well realised here... To be a little more specific..Jennifer Jason-Liegh was,and never will be more sexy..eXistenZ sees her as a black-eyed siren,Jude Law is the vulnerable pretty one lured into the lurid gaming world ...or is he? the game characters: Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe ,Don McKellar,fall by the wayside....there is a reprise of the "Videodrome" "gunhand",the effects are squirmingly,disgustingly brilliant...there is another "videodrome" echo at the end,like "hail the new flesh!",as the whole thing is thrown back at you in a comprehensive twist,that is in turn,immediately undermined..eXsitenZ is ,quite simply, a great piece, musing on "virtual reality",game playing , layers of perception ,has an overt sexual undertow,like "Crash",and above all, its manically,darkly funny, love it love it! " [More]

Cronenberg calls Haggis a [blee ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"The hands-down quote of the day comes from David Cronenberg. The filmmaker was recently asked how he felt about Paul Haggis naming his “race relations are hard” Oscar winner Crash less than a decade after Cronenberg released his own film, about car crash fetishists, with the same title. According to IMDB, there were at least five films called Crash before Cronenbeg’s, but his, based on a J.G. Ballard book of the same name, was certainly the most well-known. And according to the New York Post, Cronenberg thinks Haggis plagiarized on purpose: I’ve told [him] that he was a [bleep]hole basically for doing that. And so have many other people. It’s very disrespectful, not only to me, but to J.G. Ballard, who wrote the book . . . I made my movie . . . in a very respectful way. Haggis just co- opted the title, and he knew what he was doing. Did he, though? Could Haggis have really thought that the titular confusion would *help* his movie? I guess there could have been a cunning plot afoot ... " [More]

Crash
by sarcastig in As cool as a Fruitstand

liked it.

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"First, the awesome news: I will soon be reviewing movies for the Dutch film website filmtotaal, and I couldn't be more thrilled. I mean, not only will I get to go to advance screenings and stuff, but, for the first time, I'll get paid (a little) for writing. Like a real journalist. I feel like Pinocchio. Hopefully I won't turn out to have been transformed into a smoking donkey.Anyway, when introducing myself on the message boards, I listed a few of my favorite directors. Among them was David Cronenberg. And well, while I can honestly say I've loved all the Cronenbergs I've seen so far, it is true that, at the time of writing, I'd only seen two: eXistenZ and A History of Violence. Luckily, these things are easy to remedy, and now I've added Crash to that list. I'm glad to report that Cronenberg is, in my eyes, now 3 " [More]

Crash
by sarcastig in As cool as a Fruitstand

liked it.

A Sick & Perverted Fetish!
by smoothjazzandmore in smoothjazzandmore Blog

lost interest.

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"When David Cronenberg first bursted on the scene with his first horror film, "Rabid" in 1977; he featured porn star Marilyn Chambers in the lead role. Fast forward 20 years later and he seems to have come full circle with this bizzare release. A couple who become involved with a group who stages famous crashes and become sexually aroused by the sheer thrill of it all. The characters have a serious fetish problem. At the end, I'm wondering "...why should I care about these people?" The film is sick & perverted and not a pleasant film to watch. Leave the kiddies at home!Don't get this film confused with the 2005 Oscar winning drama! It certainly doesn't deserve any awards! Bypass this one! " [More]

The Atrocity Exhibition
by quint in An inordinate number of peppers

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"The Atrocity ExhibitionI saw this last weekend. I'm a fan of Cronenberg's Crash and was anxious enough to see this that I bought a European DVD off eBay. Ballard is a writer who fascinates me in his approach to insanity. Insanity not as a pathological condition to be cured, but more as a situation of consciousness. A product of an evolutionary force. Cronenberg shares the same fascination of course, most particularly in films like Scanners and Videodrome. So let me share one annoying thing about trying to see a movie like this one. Jonathon Weiss did an amazing job of adapting an "unfilmable" piece of experimental fiction. He spent years working on the project. He taught himself filmmaking, set up a studio in Brooklyn and chose this text to work out his ideas. It made the film festival circuit and quietly dissappeared. Ballard himself praised the film highly. A Dutch DVD company called reel23 chose this film as their first release. A nice effort with commentary track by the directo ... " [More]

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