Mine was Eastern Promises, what about you?
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friendly_poison — 11 years ago(November 23, 2014 09:07 PM)
A History of Violence, although I wasn't actively aware of Cronenberg at the time. After I delved deeper into the mythos behind him, it was The Fly
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ma_marcil — 11 years ago(December 17, 2014 03:50 PM)
Probably The Dead Zone, or The Fly, both of which I saw with my dad as a l2000ate child-teenager. I started exploring Cronenberg after that, seeing Scanners afterwards and Videodrome.
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HuGoL1101 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 10:11 PM)
My first Cronenberg movie is The Fly OR Scanners. Both films have marked my cinematic childhood. Later, in the 97-98, when I went deeper into cinema and start considering the directors and realized that I liked 2 movies from same director, Cronenberg, I decided to consciently watch Crash first because my Dad wanted to bring me to theater to watch it but could not because I did not have the age! He insisted because it did not work. Anyway, we watched Bad Moon instead.
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dColo — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 03:05 PM)
Can't remember my second. In any case, I think The Fly's the perfect starting point if you're just getting into his work, purely Cronenbergian but with a mainstream appeal you don't see in something like Videodrome (though that's still my favourite of his)
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deRider84 — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 01:27 PM)
Probably The Fly too. Then The Brood. I stole a vhs copy of the latter from some market. I don't really know why. Probably to impress a girlfriend with my daring. I didn't even know who the director was, and the tape only would have cost me like 5 bucks. Anyway, I really liked the movie. One of the creepiest I'd ever seen. Made me a confirmed Cronenberg fan.
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franzkabuki — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 05:06 PM)
"I stole a VHS copy/-/"
Gee, what intellectual interests lol. Me, I used to focus my shoplifting on the more immediately satisfying objects - like beer, wine or smoked chicken legs.
We're not just violent alcoholics, you know, but also well, I never lifted anything when sober (once I did an idiotic thing, pocketed an apricote when hung over and got caught. F-cking moron). And rarely when alone. One night, me and my friend brought out 4 bottles of the rather expensive Georgian Kinzhmarauli wine holidays and salad days and days of mouldy mayonnaise
Bus rides are cool. However, today is not really the day when I'd fancy boarding an aircraft. On this medicine, it's too palpable, too real anyway - the thought that there still always is the possibility I'll be cashing the wrong check sitting on that one flight in a million, in ten million Lufthansa last had a casualty 21 years ago if I recall correctly (IF it counts as a Lufthansa flight, strictly speaking).
Thanks for bothering with the cricket manual btw. Musta taken forever to type out well, I'll do my best to apply the limited brainpower. Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow.
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deRider84 — 11 years ago(March 25, 2015 01:36 AM)
The first thing I ever stole (other than some money from my parents here and there) was an Ultimate Spiderman comic book on my last day in America. It looked so good that I just had to have it, and it was some fancy edition I had no chance of paying for with my meagre allowance. It gave me quite a kick. In Australia, I used to steal chocolates and books quite a bit as a teen. Lots of chocolates from a supermarket and Stephen King novels from the book shops. Oh yeah, once I tried to steal a mango from a fruit shop just for the hell of it but got caught. That was pretty scary. This Arab dude took me to a store room and held me there for like half an ho7ecur while discussing my fate with another guy in some exotic language. Then they just let me go. Anyway, re: The Brood, it looked like something we might enjoy watching, so I just swiped it from this big table they had all the VHS tapes on. I'm sure lots of people saw me too. My girlfriend said it was pathetically obvious, but no one said anything. Luckily, I grew out of my shoplifting phase soon after. Now I only steal movies online
The trip was just a 6 and a half hour bus ride from Split to Sarajevo. No flights this time. It was nicely scenic. Makes me realise it's a region of quite breathtaking views that I've always taken for granted. As for flying, you have to start realising that nothing will ever happen to any flight you're on. You're simply not that lucky. I flew Lufthansa this time within Europe (London - Munich, Munich - Sarajevo). Pretty sure it wasn't Germanwings, though I think they do operate flights to Sarajevo I quite like those short-haul flights. Anything but the torture of an Australia-Europe trip. Those things are despicable, not because of any fear I might crash, but because they're never-ending and grossly uncomfortable. I'll really have to get some Valium or something for the return trip
The manual didn't take that long at all actually. It's ultimately a pretty simple game, so it was surprisingly straightforward, plus I had a bit of dead time between getting ready and my bus leaving. Also, editing it gave me something to do on the bus. I'm getting pretty good at using my phone to post things.