eXistenZ
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Movie Reviews of eXistenZ
Movie Review: This one's real trippy
Summary: 5 Stars
Alright so this movie isn't the greatest thing to come around but it definetly doesn't blow. If you read the summary you'd see that this movie is weird.Not so much the actual storyline but the odd things that happen without any real expalnation. There the gaming pods, weird slimey egg sack things that cry like babies when you touch them. The mutant repitles they talk about and show swimming in the pond casually. Which are fished out and eaten.The gun made out of body parts, the erie characters at the chinese food restuarant, the sudden impulses the characters get to jump up yell "existenz!" and pass out. Probably whoever thought up these weird parts was probably blazed,and thats how its probably ment to be watched.With so much weird stuff tho, the storyline is pretty basic,and easy to follow.With the exception of unexplained happenings.Movie Review: THIS MOVIE GOT TO ME.
Summary: 5 Stars
IN TYPICAL DAVID CRONENBERG STYLE THIS MOVIE KIND OF LEFT ME SHAKING MY HEAD WHEN I FIRST WATCHED IT.I MADE THE MISTAKE OF TRYING TO ATTACH SOME SORT OF PLOT SENSE TO IT AND IT JUST WASN'T WORKINGAFTER I REWATCHED IT ABOUT 5 TIMES I JUST KIND OF GOT INTO THE HYPNOTIC NETHERWORLD THAT MR.CRONENBERG IS FAMOUS FOR TAKING MOVIE WATCHERS TO AND AM ENJOYING IT IMMENSELY.THE MOVIE ITSELF IS THE PLOT-DAVID KEEPS MOVING YOU IN AND OUT OF VARIOUS REALITIES AND THEN AT THE END DOES ONE OF HIS FAVORITE TRICKS AND KIND OF PULLS THE MENTAL RUG OUT FROM UNDER YOU.ANYONE THAT HAS ENJOYED OTHER MOVIES OF HIS LIKE "VIDEODROME" WILL FINALLY JUST GO "OKAY DAVE YOU GOT ME AGAIN!".AS OTHER REVIEWS HAVE SAID YOU WILL PROBABLY ENJOY THIS MOVIE IF YOU LIKE DAVE CRONENBERGS PROJECTS-IF YOU DON'T THAN DON'T BOTHER TO BUY THIS ONE.Movie Review: Virtual Reality Blurs Reality
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best films of 1999. Its eerie that David Cronenberg so seamlessly meshes virtual reality with everyday life.I think that is the point of this film, which has been lost. The line between our everyday life and the world of computers, video games, entertainment and the media is seamless.
Beyond that the story line and acting performances were uniformly good. Jennifer Jason Leigh gives a very uncanny performance as one who seems totally absorbed in the game and simultaneously detached. When I left the cinema my mind was definitely focused on the film and I was totally absorbed in what I had just seen.
The soundtrack by Howard Shore is marvelous and, having purchased it, I find it very cerebral and haunting.
In short. A great film and, definitely, not part of the normal hollywood matrix.
Movie Review: Cronenberg at his most Fabulous!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has been underrated and certainly not received the acclaim it deserved.
The casting was pefect; a young Jude Law and an almost heroin-chic looking Jennifer Jason-Leigh are perfect for their roles.
As usual, cronenberg is very freudian throughout. There is a lot of sexually suggestive imagery with there ever being any actual sex. The story really sucks you in and has a great twist at the end that I amsolutely did not expect...yet the twist does not define the movie. I have watched eXistenZ since and have still enjoyed the film even though I know what is coming. Actually, watching eXistenZ again gace me the oppurtunity to spot clues that I may hav e initially missed.
I highly reccomend adding eXistenZ to youe DVD collection.
Movie Review: Dig this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved "The Matrix", but fast realized that this wasn't anything like that movie. Ok, it's about people experiencing other lives then their own, getting away from reality for a while, but how long, and what's real and what isn't? This are the main questions in this sci-fi flick. A gorie movie, typical for Cronenberg. This one is more like the earlier, better films (except for naked Lunch that I also love) that he made, and it's here he should be. A terrific movie, with a superb final, that will make for some good discussions with your friends for quite some time. More brains then "The Matrix", less action, but a "wonderful" movie. See it, that's an order!