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Finally got up the nerve to check out Cosmopolis.
David Cronenberg always makes kinda bizarre, interesting movies, but sometimes they're just on a planet I do not want to visit.
This is one of those.
Cosmopolis feels like it'd be a better graphic novel than it was a movie, with every issue being a different meeting dude takes in his limo or cafe. Robert Pattinson isn't a...compelling enough actor or presence to put a whole movie on his back. It's so stripped down, that he's gotta be damn fascinating to make this even watchable. And Cronenberg doesn't have enough visual flair, like a Fincher or Scorcese or Boyle to make a basically one-man show with cameos work. It looks like the same, bland, scene over and over, made all the worse because all Pattinson does is brood.
And this film does seem to have...something(?) to say about the class war in America. But good luck digging that out. Brooding and acting with charisma' are two opposite things. Brooding's muscle memory. It's being the boxing practice partner. It's trying not to get hit too much, and staying so far in your lane, that no one can really say you sucked. It's safe. It's anti-corny, because maybe if you ran in there and tried to push that big charisma, the cracks in your ability would show. It might seem like good acting, but that's hiding plain sight. They always said that Robert Pattinson was the one from Twilight who actually had talent. Maybe that bar ain't so high.This made me think less of him. Dude just retreated into brooding, when the film begged him to show charisma, because that was the only pulse the movie was gonna have. And he didn't. And it was strange film...like a play, and the ending was just weird.
It sucked. And it sucked completely because of Cronenberg and Pattinson.
It's pretentious trash. It looked cheap, and Pattinson was a black hole.
I think I actually regret watching it.
And I got a newfound respect for James Franco. All I could think of was how he could've at least made this into something.
What other Cronenberg films have you seen?
Early 80s Cronenberg is his prime. Videodrome. Scanners. The Fly. Not so much since then, though I remembered liking Eastern Promises.
Cosmopolis is the most pretentious crap I think I've ever seen. I hated it. I tried to like it. Nope. Didn't happen. I was just incredibly bored watching it. The visuals weren't even great.
As for Robert Pattinson, Water for Elephants?
