Charles Deckert
12Jul11
That sucks. Why?
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serotoninronin
14Jan12
Not nearly weird enough to be interesting, and certainly not irrational enough to be anything other than conceptually hollow and hypocritical.
janveneziani
8Jan12
Talvez para quem tenha lido a obra de Burroughs fique mais fácil de acompanhar a história. Mesmo sendo fã do Cronenberg achei a história bem mal-costurada. Mas é uma bela exposição do que é uma bad-trip.
Deniz
16Nov11
This should be the best possible adaptation from the book and I loved the transitions between imaginary and real world. (I'm not sure about which one is real :)) However, it was too long that i got bored! It can be 45 minutes, it would be enough too :) Bill Lee: What do you mean, "it's a literary high"? Joan Lee: It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug.
Kaan.
15Nov11
Bukowski once wrote that he saw Burroughs drunk, crawling on the floor and yelling "They Fucked me! I sold "Naked Lunch"s rights for 500 dollars!". But I don't know if it is true... Bukowski usually seems to me like he is lying.
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Joel
9Sep11
What the. I'm first going to state that the Criterion print looks amazing. The colours are indeed very rich and it enhances the imagery very much. But this film is absolutely insane. I felt I needed to be on the right drugs to really get what was going on. I will stick with the other Cronenberg for now. What indeed.
Steve Belmont
28Jul11
I was a fan of the Cronenberg influence, not so much of the Burroughs influence. Time to dig into the Criterion supplements.
Harry Rossi
5Jul11
I'd be lying if I said I didn't have an extremely hard time watching this movie. I'd also be lying if I said I didn't love it.
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I'm Harold Smith
19Jul10
this is a pretty messed up film. I enjoyed it, but a really messed up visual interpretation of drugs and artists.
Joseph Marhee
4Jun10
It was a lot like Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka" in the respect that it was less about the texts it was adapting, and more about the author's experiences that shaped these texts, since both authors' texts where autobiographical to some small extent, Burroughs more so than Kafka, but the analogy when put to film is apparent. Having read Burroughs' work for a number of years, to say this was an adaptation would be a discredit, but also be inaccurate, but it was certainly a Burroughs story and a Cronenberg film, in best possible meaning of both descriptions. This is, by far, my favorite Cronenberg film, among many other great pictures.
Reno Nismara
11May10
if there's any filmmaker who could adapt the unfilmable naked lunch by william s. burroughs, it's david cronenberg. so, it won't be a surprise if mr. cronenberg did it masterfully. but still, the greatness of this film amazed me. oh, and when i watched this film, my mom entered the room and said, "why does it smell like cockroach here?" coincidence? maybe it's the powder bug.
