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This movie made me sick.

posted 12 years ago by standrkm
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It's like watching Hannibal Lector feed a man his own brain matter or cut his face with glass. It's so bland and dark and gray and stale. Like the beginning of joe vs the volcano, just makes you wanna puke. This isn't the body parts or play misty for me or american psycho kind of interesting and thrilling drama. It's
just boring and bland and weird. Not the eraser head weird, but the puppet master meets perfume kinda weird and only half as good.

"the day I tried to live, I learned that I was alive"
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[–] funkypoacher 11 years ago

Wrong.

'Scientists get funky about having their research poached' - Byers

[–] PreachCaleb 11 years ago

Nah. This is one of his tamer movies.

Not at all bland. Jeremy Irons gives not one, but two great performances. The special effects were revolutionary. And the relationship between the two brothers is touching and sweet at times.

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[–] clockworkorange13 9 years ago

bland is absolutely not a word i would use to describe dead ringers

[–] Mathias001 9 years ago

I liked this movie. It had, IMO, one of the best performances from Jeremy Irons. The man can do anything from sympathetic to psychotic. I think this movie would have failed if he wasn't cast in it.

He was perfect as Rodrigo Borgia in The Borgias. I was shocked when Showtime cancelled that series.

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[–] clocksnmirrors-932-761321 9 years ago

Yes. Bland. Exactly that.

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[–] spookyrat1 7 years ago

I'm not a great fan of the film either OP, but this IS David Cronenberg all over and Jeremy Irons does give an absolutely brilliant performance.🐭

[–] Drooch (5333) 2 years ago

Retarded take. This is an excellent film by a great director featuring Jeremy Irons at the top of his game. The problem is that your attention span doesn’t allow you to enjoy deep character studies, even when they include fucked up Cronenbergian shit like gynaecological instruments designed for mutant vaginas, a gross-out dream sequence and impressive special effects.