Actors: Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside
Director: David Cronenberg
Do you like sci-fi movies? Do you like movies with lots of people writhing in agony? Do you like movies about all-powerful corporate conglomerates? Do you feel that not enough films are shot in French Canada? Do you think the best way to make an office feel more 'homey' is to put some underwatered plants in a corner? Do you think that your life lacks monochrome computer monitors? If you said yes to all of these things, run, don't walk, to your nearest local DVD rental store, remember that it went out of business, and return home to illegally download and watch Scanners.
Scanners is a good film in a tiny and unappreciated niche of movies the 'best-seen-at-13-on-a-Friday-night-when-your-parents-have-gone-to-bed'. This niche also includes The Terminator, Blade Runner, and Total Recall. Scanners, like those three movies (perhaps not Blade Runner), is very silly in a very earnest way. The goofy sincerity in Scanners is best conveyed by the lead character, who appears to have no inner monologue and expresses himself in monosyllables like an unemotional child. This acting technique would be (and often is) ultra-cheesy in other films, but it works very well here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
i met stephen lack once.
ReplyDeleteand? did you get a bloody nose?
ReplyDeletealso the music to this movie is fucking awesome and done by howard shore - not surprisingly, it's one of shore's first film scores.