just finished the movie 2 mins ago
yes great acting and the novel was great..
but i yawned like million times through the movie..
i mean.. a short film would've been nice..
6.9 ! .. i think the movie is so over rated ..
and for those who thinks this is a great movie , you should watch movies like Oldboy and Mulholland Drive and then tell me your opinion about this
It's interesting you should say that, because I just watched Mulholland Drive for the first time last night, and then Spider for the first time this morning. I didn't think it was boring though. I was pretty attached to it all the way through to the end.
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Wow, Mulholland Drive and Oldboy are such avant-garde, underground films, I can't believe you've heard of them too! Seriously, I've seen both of those movies a few times and they're all right (though, in my opinion Mulholland Drive is somewhat overrated though not nearly as much as Lost Highway). Actually, I take that back, Oldboy is more than all right, in my opinion, but I feel Spider is also, especially upon repeated viewings.
I just watched Spider last night and found the cinematography and directing to be beautiful enough (in its own way) to keep me entertained. Add to that the atmosphere and wonderful acting and one of the most singularly unique (and in my opinion, successful) attempts at forcing the audience into a subjective look through the eyes of a severely damaged, mentally ill (schizophrenic) man. After you realize how distorted his memory actually is, you begin to understand that his recollection of his earlier, "happier" childhood is wrong as well. It'd be a mistake to think that the "incident" is what led to his condition and that's when the wondrous onion of the premise comes fully into view. From my understanding of Lynch's work (and again, I could be completely wrong here), Cronenberg beats him at his own game here, handily.
Some of Lynch's films hint at this frame of mind, and while I'm not going to pretend to completely comprehend them, I feel they're a bit more objective and open to interpretation. Also, in my opinion, a little over an hour and thirty minutes is a fairly standard (i.e. short) film. I could've lived with (and preferred) another thirty minutes, though I guess it's fine the way it is. This movie has nothing in common with Oldboy, so I'm not sure what basis you're making that recommendation on.
I thought it was boring too.
Mulholland Drive didn't make a lot of sense to me, but it was a lot more engaging than this, I thought.
This was too slow and unengaging.
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Mulholland Drive's popular interpretation make it one of my favorites, and I've watched it a good 12 times at least now. I recommend reading up on it and watching it again.
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I just finished watching it and thought it was superb and not boring at all. I was completely hooked and gripped by it. It drew me right in.
And yes I've seen Old Boy and Mulholland Drive. I own both and would call Mulholland Drive as one my favourite if not my absolute favourite films.
I usually love his films but I thought that this was dull as dishwater. Well made - yup, well acted - yup but it was just so boring.
shareI can understand why this movie could be thought boring. But to others it's absolutely riveting, with genius performances and subtly brilliant translation of an "unfilmable novel" that manages to put garrulous unreliable-narrator storytelling into entirely visual terms. I think it's DC's best alongside perhaps "Shivers," "The Brood," "Dead Ringers" and "Eastern Promises."
sharewhy are you comparing Oldboy to Spider? You might as well say The Seventh Seal isn`t as good as Star Wars because of the distinct lack of Jedi knights in Bergmans film. Oldboy is a great film, for sure - and Mulholland Dr. just gets better with each viewing, but what have they got to do with Spider?
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Yes, I don't really see the point of these comparisons. For what its worth I think Spider is rather more grounded than Mulholland Drive. It has a straightforwardly defined protagonist with whom you make your journey through the film and presents to me the more satisfying film experience.
shareI prefer Mulholland Drive to Spider but I very much understand your perspective here.
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I confess, I fast-forwarded this in chunks of all sizes.
As to Mulholland Drive, I thought it was two hours of dream sequences and then in the last half-hour we see what really happened, no?
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Never had issues with slow-paced films. Moreover I believe that there is no such thing as boring, slow-paced yes, but not all dislike slow films, only those who are used to flicks, films that are made to entertain, whatever the story or genre is, I call them anything but films. I've seen Oldboy and Mulholland Drive and I can't say that they would belittle Spider in any way, and vice versa, - there are far more slow-paced films than Spider, but not any less good because of that. Again, if the issue is the pace, then who told us that films should attract us with what is happening on the screen at the moment, rather than with its atmosphere build-up throughout the whole film. If it's not your cup-o-tea, then fine, but that's it. By expressing your boredom with anything, you simply show your impatience with it, brought by the inability to connect with the artist, which might happen for many reasons.
shareYeah ... ya know.... I tried to see the artsy fartsy angle on this ahhh "Movie", that the critics were creaming their jeans about...
...but, I dunno.... I guess I'd have to watch it again to see any resemblance of that, and I WILL NOT be watching it again. Sorry ... life's too short to waste another 90 or so minutes re-watching a mediocre flick that should have been a 30 min. twilight zone episode.
Bottom line? This so called movie was stupid and it sucked. 3/10
My God !! It's full of stars....share
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