In all honesty I've watched Solaris (Tarkovsky) with no subtitles and it made more sense; and I don't speak Russian.
shareDeLillo's book made sense, and was prescient in many ways. Cronenberg's script followed it closely.
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I hear you, Loud and clear.
despite being familiar with Cronenberg's previous works, I couldn't make
anything out of what I was watching, kept telling what the f is going on?
looked like an Uwe Boll piece of crap.
I think it (the script/this movie) was intended as satire but it came off as major pretentious/artsy-fartsy doo-doo/caca/baloney. No one in this movie talked like a real human being might talk! Characters spoke in vague, pseudo-profound aphorisms:
"Money has lost its narrative quality."
OH REALLY?!? Has it now?
"We need a haircut."
Golly, I hope you find one.
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Wait just a second. Are you implying that there are actually movies wherein characters do not speak like a real human being would?? Are you kidding me?? That makes me so angry!! Why would filmmakers ever conspire to bring to the screen anything that is not identical to the real world?? Are they crazy?? What a monumental waste of time for any artist to do anything but slavishly copy the way real everyday human beings act!! Damn it!! Next thing you'll be telling me--in boldface--that characters in books and theatre don't speak like a real human being would!! And that would make me so awfully, awfully sad.
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You made me ! Now that's funny.
I think it (the script/this movie) was intended as satire but it came off as major pretentious/artsy-fartsy doo-doo/caca/baloney.
No one in this movie talked like a real human being might talk!
How can you know what the script is like? You haven read the actual script. Scripts get changed while making a movie. What you see on screen is not necessarily what was written down. Max Landis, son of director John Landis and an up and coming screenwriter, said that himself. Lots of great scripts get turned into crap films and the other way around.
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