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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2025
A great, trippy, sci-fi movie. So glad it was released on 4k. Before now, it was a hard movie to find and was quite costly because of that.
Gargantua
Reviewed in France on January 13, 2025
Image superbe en 4k, légèrement bleutée comme souvent en UHD, qui permet de bien re-découvrir le film.Pour le son, un tout petit peu déçu car comme souvent les dialogues sont moins forts que la musique.Et quant au film, c'est un Cronenberg très sous estimé caractères sortir de Crash, le public et la critique n'ont pas compris qu'il puisse passer d'un film d'auteur à un film plus"basiqur" en apparence.Or c'est un vrai film d'auteur, un film trip, où rarement la sensation de rêves aura été aussi palpable.
Andrew Haise Code
Reviewed in Canada on July 16, 2024
Delivery was fast, product came as advertised. Thank you!!
AG
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
I write this in case anyone else doesn't have a 4K BR player but wanted to know how the standard Blu Ray works. In short, it's fantastic. This is not the "Andy Warhol's Dracula" VinSyn situation where the 4K was remastered but the Blu was shortchanged. Rather, the film looks about a trillion times better than the old DVD or iTunes streaming version, and it has all of the extras, which I have not yet dug into but which, at least in the case of the director's commentary, seem very cool.Is it worth $50? Friend, this movie is so insanely underrated and has been treated so poorly by the home video market for years (ie: a horribly mastered version put on a Mirimax "triple feature" single disc with "B Monkey"!), it's hard to imagine anyone else will ever mass produce this in a more affordable version. The movie itself marks the final masterpiece in Cronenberg's self-originated oeuvre, and resists the tides of history in terms of being dated or passe (unlike his most recent effort, the corny, out-of-step "Crimes of the Future"). So do you need this? Yes. You do. If you've seen it already and love it as I do, it's not going to disappoint you at all, despite costing much more than an off-the-books bio-port insert by a station attendant named "Gas."
Still Egg
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2024
It is known that director David Cronenberg had the idea that "media is an extension of the body" from the beginning of his breakthrough film, Videodrome. This idea is clearly expressed in this film, eXistenZ, where it appears as a biotechnology product called the "Metafresh Gamepod" and the "Gristle Gun," a gun made from the bones and cartilage of small animals and bullets made from human teeth. What makes this film more outstanding than these props in the setting is the idea of a virtual reality game in which a hole called a bioport is drilled in the spinal cord, a biocable is inserted, and the player is directly connected to a "gamepod" made from fertilized amphibian eggs. The body has truly become an extension of the media.At first glance, the protagonist of the story seems to be a genius female game designer, Allegra Geller (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh), but in fact, that is not the case. The protagonist is a young man, Ted Pykul (played by Jude Law), who is an apprentice security guard. When he throws himself into a game world he has never experienced, his adventure begins, and the story is about his safe return. He hated games because he was afraid of drilling a hole in his spinal cord, but the real game of " eXistenZ " begins when he has a bioport attached to his spinal cord. For more information, you'll have to watch the movie to enjoy.4K UHD, I'll be comparing it with the included Blu-ray, but my first impression is that the 4K version has more vibrant orange tones than the Blu-ray, which is nice. Conversely, the Blu-ray version has slightly less saturation in skin tones, giving it a subdued, almost gloomy impression. In the 4K UHD version, skin tones look more human and warm. The silver halide grain is not noticeable. If you're a fan of the film, this 4K version of eXistenZ is one you'll want to have on hand.
Daniel Vázquez Zamarripa
Reviewed in Mexico on August 17, 2023
Mundos virtuales y como podría desaparecer la línea entre ellos, se desarrolla un videojuego virtual donde prácticamente tienes todos los sentidos hasta el punto donde ya es difícil saber cualcescreal y cual no, película con un gran mensaje pero paso desapercibida por salir en tiempos cuando Matrix se estrenaba, era versión viene subtitulada al español
Vannespenne
Reviewed in Belgium on October 15, 2023
Conforme. La description envoi rapide je recommande
Aldo Storari
Reviewed in Italy on September 3, 2015
Un film ingiustamente sottovaluto di un regista che ha fatto e fa la storia del cinema.Forse il tema fantascientifico in questo film e eccessivo rispetto agli altri suoi che esploravano situazioniPiù agganciate alla nostra attualità.
Q
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2014
I am one of those people that likes some but not all, of David Cronenberg's movies. For example, I dislike M butterfly and Dead Ringers. However, my favorite movie of his is a more mainstream movie, The Dead Zone. My next favorite movie of his is this movie Existenz, which questions what is real or not real while playing games. The gaming pods in this movie are directly attached to your spinal cord. Man in the future has learned to use the flesh and bone from animals to create gaming pods that make you feel you are gaming in your mind. This is not one of Cronenberg's mainstream movies but is without question Cronenberg. For example it has his signature flesh, bone and blood images thrown right in your face. He could have left all the blood and bone out and it still would have been a great movie but Cronenberg wants to make sure we are watching one of his movies.The best part of this movie is how it truly questions what is real and not real. Everyone games in this movie, not just younger people but grandparents as well. Our future society in this movie has become pathetic in its dependence on games and game reality and strikes a much deeper and scarier cord concerning our dependence on games today, as this movie was released in 1999. About half way through the movie Jenifer Jason Lee, tells Jude Law at a deserted ski lodge that people no longer ski physically, it is done all in the mind. The only real difference in this movie and our dependence on games today is our weight problems, something Cronenberg could not foresee 1998-99.This is not an action movie or it is not full of CGI but it is a movie that requires you to sit still and watch its story unfold. I liked it better this time, 14 years later because game reality is starting to happen now. Death to the game designers we want what is real.
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