David Cronenberg

[mictlan]

My favorites are the Brood, Shivers, Rabid, Crash and Existenz. Didn't like Dead Ringers, the Fly, or Dead Zone.

IMHO he's making better movies now than he ever has been. Crash and Existenz still deal with his obsessions of body modification and distortion but with very interesting plotlines as well. His earlier films were great but the plots were weaker.

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by mictlan
IMHO he's making better movies now than he ever has been. Crash and Existenz still deal with his obsessions of body modification and distortion but with very interesting plotlines as well. His earlier films were great but the plots were weaker.

I'm not a fan of his movies now. I didn't enjoy Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, or Spider at all. Existenz is his only new flick I liked. I wish he would return to his older era. He has a new flick he's working on called Painkillers. Don't know what it's about though.

I love all his flicks in between Shivers and The Fly, and Existenz. The funny thing is, the first time I saw Existenz I missed the credits and didn't know I was watching a David Cronenberg movie. I only guessed when Robert Silverman showed up. He only acts in Cronenberg movies.

[Baldi]

Well, all of his work is worth seeing. As he develops, he's getting better, imo. Spider was a brilliant, subtle film.

Favorites (and least favorites). Favorite is undoubtably Crash. I have watched it countless times and love it. Videodrome up next, and then Naked Lunch.

As for his his mainstream efforts, I find them less effective. The Fly, Dead Zone were big letdowns. Thankfully, Cronenberg went back home after those, and dug back into his roots. He's much better for it. In the scheme of things, those are his mainstream efforts. I like my Cronenberg purer.

[SamCostello]

Videodrome and Dead Ringers are my two favorite films of his, though I have a lot of fondness for a lot of his movies - Rabid, The Brood, Shivers, Naked Lunch, ExistenZ, etc.

I've been disappointed by his recent work. I really ddon't like Crash, and though I appreciated Spider, I couldn't like it as much as some of his other work.

But, Cronenberg's still young, and I'd wager we've got another 15-20 years of work from him, if not more. I'm guessing this might be a depressed mid-period in his career and that things could get pretty interesting again as he gets older.

Sam