Kafka and Naked Lunch

Or maybe a better term than overrated would be overexposed. There.

Why does everyone flip their shit when someone calls something "overrated"? I'm not criticizing the work itself, I'm not saying I don't like it (I love the movie). But it is overrated. I base this on my limited vantage point, of course, from hearing people call this their favorite more than any other movie. From it…

Steven Soderbergh's ugly bald head can suck my dick
Sex, Lies and Videotape was a good movie, but really? The Palme d'Or? For that? James Spader deserved his award, but come on, really?

This novella was excellent. Stephen King is really good as three things, horror, thriller, and characters. All I noticed about Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption was that it was inferior to the movie (but even the movie was overrated). A lot of people I know consider The Body to be tripe but all the characters…

In Utero rocks

Add Spider and Crash, and now Cosmopolis to that list of unfilmables. The man single-handedly made me rethink the concept of unfilmable. Cronenberg could film himself buying groceries and picking up chinese take-out and it would be riveting.

Ahh, MassHysteria, you are clearly a Cronenberg n00b. The man has not made a single movie longer than two hours. I think Dead Ringers was just a couple of minutes shy of the 2 hour mark though.

I wonder how the Oriental types view the grading system on AV Club? I mean, don't Chinese kids get a beatdown if they get an A-? They're probably disowned if they get a B+. Or maybe they're punished with chinese whisper torture-never being able to know the truth about anything ever.

Ah fuck, here goes. Sleeping sucks.

And go ahead, bring the cancerAIDS revolution on me, bitches

I'm not even going to bother reading the entire goddamned thread at this hour and I really don't give a flying fuck if anyone else said this earlier, but the first thing that came to mind was Starship Troopers. And it better not be like the movie (book good).

Wait, wait. Wait a minute. What the hell was I thinking? Nightbreed is not a good movie; it's one hook/saving grace is David effin Cronenberg as a serial killer. Better file Nightbreed under I Watched This On Purpose or something of the like. Clive Barker's a hack.

And TomWaits, what the fuck was that? I agree with what you're saying, but for fuck's sake, this is an internet message board, not your fucking dissertation. Jesus Christ, a little more clarity in your writing would be nice. Are you trying to repel criticism by scaring people away with your big words? You have nothing…

@Piuvodku Not Logged In: I'm a little late to the party here, but hey, that's what rocks about the Club.

And yeah Tom Waits, I would argue that Nightbreed doesn't count as a bad movie, as Cronenberg didn't direct. At best, it would be a demerit from his acting oeuvre. But he's a serious director, not an actor. It's not like he was chasing an Oscar in his role as Nightbreed. It was just a fun little horror movie and if…

Since we're passionately discussing David Cronenberg, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned (or maybe they have and I haven't read thoroughly) Nightbreed. Not directed by Cronenberg, but in that movie he plays a creepy psychiatrist/something else (spoiler!).

cue Final Countdown…

OK I will dive back in. I agree with an earlier poster, that I liked the books less as they became darker (and more bloated). I loved the first 3, and can see myself revisiting them. It just seems as though there's so much lazy, and especially last-minute exposition (sort of like a reverse deux-ex-machina, all of a…

After I turned 12, I realized Harry Potter really fucking sucks. I read the 6th and 7th book out of a sense of duty, after having wasted all the time on the older ones as a youngun.