Written by James Cameron and directed by his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days is a cyberpunk film set just before the year 2000. Former vice-cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) sells 'SQUID' recordings on the underground circuit. Basically, these are full-sensory pieces of human memory on MiniDiscs ... Read review
James Cameron wrote the script forStrange Days, a not-so-futuristic science fiction tale ... more
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30 December 1999... Is it the end of the world or the beginning of a new one? Lenny Nero ... more
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Even darker than their purple-hued debut, the Doors' follow-up, Strange Days, closed 1967 ... more
with an ominous flourish. Highlighted mostly by short, radio- friendly tunes such as the bluesy "Love Me Two Times" and the cabaret-style "People Are Strange" and featuring a smattering of edgy recitations ("Horse Latitudes") and smoky rockers ("My Eyes Have Seen You"), the album features a centerpiece that was another ambitious extended track, "When the Music's Over". On it, Morrison railed at everything from organised religion to pollution, and his rallying cry--"We want the world, and we want it now!"--became a call to arms for the counterculture rising up around the band. --Billy Altman
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This is a unique collection of Autobiographical writings about Motherhood penned by women ... more
from Wales. Funny, shocking and tender, it covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be a mother - from getting pregnant to the empty-nest syndrome.
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A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told ... more
with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense of the absurd. The nostalgic whiff of the seventies evokes memories of loons and disco Abba and Fawlty Towers. However beneath the long hair it was really a theme park of mass paranoia. Strange Days Indeed tells the story of the decade that a young Francis Wheen walked into having pronounced he was dropping out to join the alternative society. Instead of the optimistic dreams of the sixties he found a world on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown huddled over candles waiting for the next terrorist bomb kidnapping or food shortage warning. Whether it was Nixon's demented behaviour in the White House Harold Wilson's insistence that 'they' (whoever 'they' were) were out to get him or the trial of Rupert Bear it is a story almost too fantastical to be true. With his brilliantly acute sense of the absurd Francis Wheen slices through the pungent melange of mistrust and conspiratorial fever to expose the sickly form of a decade in which nations were brought to a sclerotic halt by power cuts military coups economic anarchy and the arrival of Uri Geller. Since the Great Crash of our generation barely a week passes without some allusion to that distant decade. As we are consumed by the heady stench of our own collective meltdown there is no better guide than Francis Wheen to shine his Swiftian light on the true nature of the era that has returned to haunt us. Amidst the chaos Strange Days Indeed is an hilarious and jaw-droppingly revealing chronicle of the golden age of the paranoid style.
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Strange Days You're Lost Little Girl Love Me Two Times Unhappy Girl Horse Latitudes ... more
Moonlight Drive People Are Strange My Eyes Have Seen You I Can't See Your Face In My Mind When The Music's Over People Are Strange (False Starts & Dialogue) (Bonus Tracks) Love Me Two Times (Take 3) (Bonus Tracks)
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Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
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...by his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days is a cyberpunk film set just before the year 2000. Former vice-cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) sells 'SQUID' recordings on the underground circuit. Basically, these are full-sensory pieces of human memory on MiniDiscs that capture other people's emotional experiences, and act as a 'fix' to the people that are curious or missing something in their lives. Nero is in a state of unhappiness after breaking up ... ...millennium.
While Strange Days is incredibly cheesy and over-the-top in places, this sort of adds to its charm. Rather than expecting the viewer to cower in fear at the prospect of the world coming to an end in Y2K (well we couldn't now anyway, seen as though the millennium has passed) the film relies on action and wit to drive the plot forward. The issue of virtual reality being so real that you don’t know what reality is anymore is ... more
Written by James Cameron and directed by his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days is a cyberpunk film set just before the year 2000. Former vice-cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) sells 'SQUID' recordings on the underground circuit. Basically, these are full-sensory pieces of human memory on MiniDiscs that capture other people's emotional experiences, and act as a 'fix' to the people that are curious or missing something in their lives. Nero is in a state of unhappiness after breaking up with girlfriend Faith (Juliette Lewis) and repeatedly relives their happier (and most erotic) times together via the box of tapes in his apartment.
While strictly only choosing to deal in soft-core porn imagery, Nero soon finds himself in the possession of a snuff disc, which shows the murder of Jeriko One -a Hip-Hop artist that has been heralded as the next Messiah. Aided by his friend, Mace (Angela Bassett), Lenny attempts to stop the killer's tracks before all hell breaks lose on the streets of Los Angeles prior to the new millennium.
While Strange Days is incredibly cheesy and over-the-top in places, this sort of adds to its charm. Rather than expecting the viewer to cower in fear at the prospect of the world coming to an end in Y2K (well we couldn't now anyway, seen as though the millennium has passed) the film relies on action and wit to drive the plot forward. The issue of virtual reality being so real that you don’t know what reality is anymore is such an intriguing concept, but rather than attempting to lecture us on the dangers of a technological over reliance, Strange Days does what it can to keep the audience entertained.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and the special-effects artists create a Blade Runner-type city that makes us feel like we really want to be part of the action. And Cinematographer Matthew F. Leonetti's first-person photography of the 'SQUID' recordings is, arguably, the strongest point of the film.
The characters are great: Ralph Fiennes is the insecure protagonist, Angela Bassett the kick-ass sidekick, Michael Wincott the psychopathic music producer, Juliette Lewis as very hot rock chick, and Tom Sizemore as Lenny’s best friend.
A couple of things about Strange Days irritated me: Nero's unrestrained obsession with his former girlfriend, and the overlong running time. At two hours 25 mins, the latter may not sound particularly exhausting, but the film could've been wrapped up well before it got to that point, and this was mainly due to Nero's over-emphasized obsession. I mean, we get that Nero misses his ex, but there's no need to go on about it so much.
It's an annoying feature of the film, but one that fortunately doesn't suppress the intriguing concept of seeing the world through other people's eyes. As with most films like this, it isn't about the logic of what could happen if technology gets into the wrong hands; rather, it is about humanity's limitless imagination taking us places that isn't always physically possible.
(C) Andy Carrington, 2009. [as part of andycarrington.co.uk]
Advantages: Excellent Story, Great Production Design, Fiennes' Shiny Suit and ties Disadvantages: Very very slightly too long
...and a cool gun/sword/boomerang.
Strange Days, indeed.
Kathryn Bigelow sets her particular dystopian tale around the end-of-the-world-that-wasn’t, new year’s eve 2000. It’s a world not far from our own, except that the government has developed a device to store and reply experiences as if you were there, and called it a SQUID... The black market, in the form of Lenny (Ralph Fiennes,) has picked up on this and now sells porno and ... ...his girlfriend just left him, and keeps tormenting him by singing PJ Harvey songs at the local club. Then people start to get killed, and it all starts to go horribly wrong for Lenny…
Bigelow manages to avoid the usual pitfall of this kind of work, in that the future she presents has just enough weirdness to make the movie feel futuristic, but enough realism to keep it grounded. Her first person perspective camerawork was apparently specially ...
revere 20.06.2001
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Advantages: great scifi Disadvantages: has a few harrowing scenes
Strange days is a unique crime sci-fi,it tells the story of a man who trades virtual reality chips through a device which makes you belive you are the one reliving the memory,things start to go wrong when a friend of his gets into trouble and is murdered and he recives a memory of the killing taking place.
Its a very dark film and it plays alot on the relationship between Ralphie fiennes and his ex girlfriend Juliette lewis,as he desperatley trys ... ...film is very edgy and although now its quite old it really keeps you hooked on whats going on.The film takes its time to reach its conclusion and at times has lots of different plot lines all going on at once,but bear with it,its the sort of movie you can watch repeatedly and still find something new,there are just a few bitsthat are quite harrowing though you might want to watch out for ...
daxus100 20.08.2008
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The issue with the Survivor, is that nobody you meet seems to have seen it, many rubbish it thinking that they have seen it only to later realise they have never seen it. This leads me to think that there was another movie with a similar synopsis, although I cannot find out what it is. Or maybe like with a lot of films people have intertwined two films making them as one, when selling a DVD of StrangeDays I found that the buyer had somehow merged the film with two others in their mind. I often have confused two films I saw a great deal of time ago and made them one. So this could be the case with the survivor, there certainly was only one cut of the film. Or maybe the film itself has a strange curse on it drving viewrs from it ;o) . The key reason I bring this up is ...
"...The movie is a technical tour de force....The pacing is relentless, and the editing, by Howard Smith, creates an urgency and desperation..." (Chicago Sun-Times, p.35, 13/10/1995)
"...STRANGE DAYS has a dazzling atmostphere of grunge futurism..." (Entertainment Weekly, p.49, 20/10/1995)
"...A visionary triumph....The dazzling, era-defining STRANGE DAYS stands its moral ground..." (Rolling Stone, p.156-7, 19/10/1995)
"...Breathtaking....Racing visuals thunderously reinforced by sonic closure..." (Sight and Sound, p.53-4, 01/01/1996)
"...[Fiennes is] fun to watch here..." (USA Today, p.4D, 06/10/1995)
"...A technical tour de force for director Kathryn Bigelow and her team, who dazzlingly root this future noir in a technology that allows a viewer to revisit someone else's experience....The film is a triumph..." (Variety, 04/09/1995)
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A virtual-reality pusher sells escapist clips of other people's experiences to image-addled junkies in this punishing, darkly stylish cyberpunk thriller set during the final 48 hours of 1999.
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