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In Reply to: RE: I suspect the one coming out here Friday, Under the Skin, will create some new fans. posted by geoffkait on April 09, 2014 at 14:20:23

...of the Matrix added in.
Under the Skin has been pretty well panned.
This one looks promising.

Edits: 04/09/14

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85% on the Tomatometer (nt) - Jack G 09:39:23 04/10/14 (3)
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- It actually rose to 87% today. Nt - geoffkait 13:59:51 04/10/14 (2)
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  - Oops, 'twas a different Under the Skin from 1997. What are the odds? Nt - geoffkait 05:32:23 04/11/14 (0)
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  - No doubt... - mkuller 20:42:34 04/10/14 (0)
    ...something else will be rising...
Not everyone has panned it - geoffkait 06:22:41 04/10/14 (2)
"When a strange and unclassifiable beast walks into the world, the public has a tendency to split down the middle. One camp is beguiled and the other repulsed. Such is the experience of the vampiric space alien played by Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin, and so it is with the film itself. Jonathan Glazer's extraordinary piece of outsider art � the director's first feature since 2004's Birth � was greeted at Venice by an even split of cheering and boos.

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A pox on the cat-callers; they can boo themselves hoarse. Under the Skin is far and away the best picture in the competition so far: a story that plays as a kind of malarial dream, bathed in cold sweat and seeing hallucinations in every corner. Johansson proves bizarrely engrossing as the unnamed succubus, fetchingly augmented with jet-black hair and blood-red lipstick, who drives a van around Scotland in search of her prey."
- I was a tremendous fan of 'Birth'.....but is Glazer the new Kubrick? *. - Billy Wonka 07:24:23 04/10/14 (1)
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  - Oh c'mon on. Let's wait to see, at least, "The Killing," before worship. nt - tinear 16:23:19 04/10/14 (0)
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But - geoffkait 06:00:21 04/10/14 (0)
The trailer referred to the director of Skin as the new Kubrick. Besides, and more importantly, Scarlet appears naked, I understand. Guess I'll have to sit through the whole thing to find out.

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