for movie fanatics: a question

[RCBH928]

Ok i am trying to remember a movie i watch sometime ago

now I am pretty sure this movie was released between '95 and 2002,
but if i have to be more specific, i am guessing(yet not sure) its between '98 and 2000.

This movie is very similar to the movie "the faculty" in someway, and released around same time(or a year in difference maybe), it had some kind of alien thing going on, and there was like a hole either near the belly-button or in the lower back of your body(above the buttocks) and you if you plug something in there, i think you kind of travel through time or become an alien or something like that.

thats all I can remember of the movie, a hole that you plug something in , it supposed to be alien, and when you do I think you travel through time or you get special powers

does this ring any bells?

[lordofduct]

Was it per chance eXistenZ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/

By our crazy friend David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch, Videodrome)

Not really alien specifically... but like this weird living material virtual reality video game thing you plugged into your body and went to a weird other world. It had Jude Law which surprised me. Then again Cronenberg and his clout gets some actors to just say "well everyone has to have ONE psychotically strange film by Cronenberg under their belt or their not a real actor!"

It's similar to how "David Lynch" gets his money... what is with that!? At least Uwe Boll admits it's 'the Nazzzzi gold'

[Ack]

Should I be ashamed to admit that eXistenZ is in my Netflix queue at number 28, between Fahrenheit 451 and THX 1138?

Or should I be more ashamed that Scanners is 7, The Brood is 10, Videodrome is 11, and The Dead Zone is 15?

[Niode]

Yep that was eXistenZ.

I remember it being extremely similar to The Matrix but nowhere near as good. Perhaps I was just spoilt by The Matrix as the two films came out around the same time.

[lordofduct]

Oh no another Cronenberg fan!


I don't know what it is, for all the cheese and weirdness... his movies are like crack or something. Late night hippie crack when you know you've lost half your brain cells to a lot of beer and nachos.

[Ack]

Haha, actually I've only ever seen one of his films, so I figured I'd look them up. I've seen more David Lynch movies, and I've only watched Dune and parts of Mulholland Drive.

Who's your favorite director, Lordofduct?

[lordofduct]

favourite director? That's actually a hard question. It's similar to my favourite author, musician or anything. I don't have one. I just like a lot.

Ridley Scott
David Fincher
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cronenberg
Terry Gilliam
Darren Aronofsky
... etc

And even though I like all of them, there are films in each director's catalogue I despise. Like Gilliam's "Fear & Loathing" or Scott's "G.I. Jane".

My judgment has always been that I like specific films, or musicians, no genre or crossing. I love Skinny Puppy as Industrial, but that certainly doesn't mean I like all Industrial.

[RemyC]

Mulholland drive is a MESSED UP, crazy brain-screw of a movie. It wasnt until 3/4s of the way through it that i realized they werent going to be revealing the information that i wanted. Then out of nowhere that witch comes out at the end!
In a weird way it all made sense though.
Ive gotta watch it again.

P.S Gotta love Billie Ray Cyrus' cameo.

[RackGaki]

Why isn't THX 1138 higher on the list, Ack?


Actually, I just saw that movie for the first time a few months ago... because I put it at number 50 on my Netflix queue. Awesome movie, but the revisions George Lucas made to the cut I watched were horrible and out of place.

[Ack]

Let me put it this way. When I first set up my account back in mid-August, THX 1138 was actually at number 80...