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Summary: where are the extra tracks!
Review: hey, what gives? Amazon says there should be 2 specific commentaries & an Easter egg on this DVD & the sticker on the box says "contains 2 or more commentaries" (whatever that means!), but there's only one commentary on here, by the screenplay's author, not by "Gibson, Ferrara or the cast." Does anyone know what happened here?
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Summary: Feels like yanking off a molar with thumb and forefinger.
Review: I bought this one because a) it's hard to find on video and b) the idiosyncratic Asia Argento is in it. Interesting to follow her career up to this point, a mix of strange arthouse films (New Rose Hotel, B. Monkey) and European productions (Phantom of the Opera, La Reine Margot).But New Rose Hotel was an eyesore. Abel Ferrara's continued pretenses towards some kind of metaphysical statement are beginning to annoy greatly. New Rose Hotel is just as heavy-handed, drug-clouded, boring, and pretentiously acted as any '90s Ferrara film (aside from the more accessible commercial fare The Body Snatchers and the acclaimed Bad Lieutenant). Ferrara manages to take two great actors, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento, and direct them in such a way as to eliminate both of them of any charm whatsoever. His idea of internal complexity seems to be letting Dafoe sit in the dark with a pensive expression on his face. And Christopher Walken? He's been sleepwalking all the way through the '90s, saddled with role after role where he tries to be cool and impenetrable, succeeding only in being a nuisance. The DVD's filmographies are interesting as is the "trivia game" concept, though the film itself is so incredibly uninvolving that I would hardly recommend adding this DVD to a collection.
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Summary: A study in boredom
Review: I got the impression that the screenwriter and director were *trying* to squeeze every bit of dramatic tension out of this turkey. The expected confrontations and climaxes never appear on screen. Instead, we get amateurish production values and a complete lack of momentum. Bad, bad, bad.
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Summary: Worst film I've ever seen
Review: I wish there was a category for no stars or minus stars because this rates as a - 3 stars. Don't waste your time or money on this one.
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Summary: a new tool of torture...
Review: It took me 4 separate sessions to sit through this abortion. I've read Neuromancer, so I'm not ignorant of Gibson's work. I don't care if this movie is a great adaptation of the book...that just tells me that the book must be equally as boring.
The "eroticism" is cheesy, the story meanders... it's as if noone was really interested in making this. If so, it shows.
If this had been a low budget b-movie, it might have had "so-bad-it's-good" potential. Nope.
I didn't want to even give it 1 star, really, but I'll say it's for the minor nudity & the so-so performances by Walken & Dafoe.
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Summary: a new tool of torture...
Review: It took me 4 separate sessions to sit through this abortion. I've read Neuromancer, so I'm not ignorant of Gibson's work. I don't care if this movie is a great adaptation of the book...that just tells me that the book must be equally as boring.
The "eroticism" is cheesy, the story meanders... it's as if noone was really interested in making this. If so, it shows.
If this had been a low budget b-movie, it might have had "so-bad-it's-good" potential. Nope.
I didn't want to even give it 1 star, really, but I'll say it's for the minor nudity & the so-so performances by Walken & Dafoe.
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Summary: Awful!
Review: It's hard to believe Walken and Dafoe wasted their talent on this "film" and I use the word film lightly. Half an hour into watching, I had had enough but a friend who expected better things to come compelled me to keep viewing. Not only did better things not come, the movie sunk to further depths of depravity. Not only was the plot miserable, the sound quality was awful and the lighting atrocious. In one scene due to inept lighting you can hardly see the actors because of the darkness shadowing their faces. Mood setting is one thing but obscuring the actors quite another. What a colossal disappointment.
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Summary: Pff
Review: Look, it's like this.
The story New Rose Hotel, by William Gibson is one which hilights the decay of society through peoples own self destructive impulses and that never ending bain of humanity greed. As a story, New Rose Hotel is to be honest way to short to even contemplate making a movie out of it. There's just not enough there and when I watch the movie, it shows immensely. Dafoe and Walken are 2 of my favourite actors and there performance together I found to be of good status. What this movie needed to do was give the viewer a good explanation as to the status of the society , this different world, basically an atmosphere. Instead it gives you a blurred corporate scene and then your thrown into a bar with women that can't sing and the 2 main characters forcing themselves to make out there enjoying the poor entertainment. The exchanging of information should have been more secretive and when people wispered in others ears you should have been given a zoom on that audio. Then there was the main guts of the story, with the nano technologist. This was what could have been the movies saviour, alas it was brushed over and the conversations where the main focus of the movie. This brings me to my last annoyance. The person in charge of camera directing should have been .... Instead of seeing people interacting together at important sections of the story, you got terrible close ups of single faces that were below amateur quality and destracted you from the dialogue. All in all Gibson should have written extra material for the movie and a lot more should have been spent on atmosphere to enhance the intrigue of the story, even if it meant getting more cost effective actors. ...I like to end with a positive note, and the only one I can make as far as capturing the story goes, is that the end scene that Dafoe acted out at the end was effective enough. If your like me and a fan of William Gibson and these two great actors, you may want this movie as part of your collection, but I tell you now, after your first viewing it's one that will sit and gather dust very quickly.
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Summary: A movie that could have been.
Review: Look, it's like this.
The story New Rose Hotel, by William Gibson is one which hilights the decay of society through peoples own self destructive impulses and that never ending bain of humanity greed. As a story, New Rose Hotel is to be honest way to short to even contemplate making a movie out of it. There's just not enough there and when I watch the movie, it shows immensely. Dafoe and Walken are 2 of my favourite actors and there performance together I found to be of good status. What this movie needed to do was give the viewer a good explanation as to the status of the society , this different world, basically an atmosphere. Instead it gives you a blurred corporate scene and then your thrown into a bar with women that can't sing and the 2 main characters forcing themselves to make out there enjoying the poor entertainment. The exchanging of information should have been more secretive and when people wispered in others ears you should have been given a zoom on that audio. Then there was the main guts of the story, with the nano technologist. This was what could have been the movies saviour, alas it was brushed over and the conversations where the main focus of the movie. This brings me to my last annoyance. The person in charge of camera directing should have been .... Instead of seeing people interacting together at important sections of the story, you got terrible close ups of single faces that were below amateur quality and destracted you from the dialogue. All in all Gibson should have written extra material for the movie and a lot more should have been spent on atmosphere to enhance the intrigue of the story, even if it meant getting more cost effective actors. ...I like to end with a positive note, and the only one I can make as far as capturing the story goes, is that the end scene that Dafoe acted out at the end was effective enough. If your like me and a fan of William Gibson and these two great actors, you may want this movie as part of your collection, but I tell you now, after your first viewing it's one that will sit and gather dust very quickly.
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Summary: Seven nights in this coffin, Sandii
Review: Make no mistake this is not Johnny Mnemonic or the Matrix in any way. While the story may come from Cyberpunk Guru William Gibson, there is almost no tech to be had in this film. That being said, the film is very true to the source, and it's languid and impressionistic style makes it perhaps the most literary of the works inspired by WG. The movie is slow and a lot of it is tedious, but that may be because the real story here only occurs in the final act, the whole rest of the film being the back-story. Its an interesting approach though not completely satisfying, but in a story about loss, self-doubt and paranoia, nothing really should be.
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