Dear David: Shut up.

[The Curmudgeon]

The Brood. Scanners. Shivers. Rabid. I got nuttin' but love for David Cronenberg, but he's turned a few heads with his latest comments. He described a certain horror film as "not great" and the director didn't actually understand horror.

The film? Oh, y'know, this one.



So what many consider to be the greatest example of horror ever depicted in cinema is, actually, the work of someone who "didn't know what they were doing." Here's the link;

blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/david-cronenberg-says-stanley-kubrick-didnt-understand-horror-and-that-the-shining-is-not-a-great-film-20131104

Uh, yeah.

[trashcanman]

Cronie is a fucking nut and his films have never scared me. Cronenberg is too often obsessed with sex and biology as something terrifying and I'm sorry, but he's wrong to me. Try watching Crash. Great central metaphor an concept, but talk about not knowing what you're doing. He's artistic minded and intelligent enough in his way, but he's a chihuahua yapping at the heels of a cinema mastiff on this point. Kubrick the perfect filmmaker in that he had undeniable artistic integrity, an eye for iconic imagery that clicks with the masses, and he was insanely flexible. I don't think any other filmmaker has combined those traits as strongly.

[Ben]

Every Kubrick film I have ever watched has made me feel like someone put my brain in a vise, and usually the first thing out of my mouth after the movie is over is "...What the fuck?" That said, the man had a way with film. I always spend the better portion of a week contemplating what I just saw, trying hopelessly to figure out what everything meant. You know watching a Kubrick film that every detail is deliberate; nothing is accidental or just "happens" to be there. I actually like some of Cronenberg's movies too, but he's gotta come up with a better argument next time he attempts to discredit a legend. A dead legend, at that. A dead legend who is pretty much universally respected. It just makes no sense.

[trashcanman]

Seriously. I mean we're talking about a man who made films for almost 50 years and not a single one of them that I've seen wasn't a great, memorable, and unique experience. And there are very few I haven't seen. Only Kurosawa comes close to that level of cinema cred. Cronenberg is an interesting filmmaker and very unique as well, but come on. Sonic Youth can never be on the level of Led Zeppelin.