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Caught The Substance last night and probably liked it a bit less than the review. It does a lot of Verhoeven / Cronenberg / Society stuff well, but none of it is original and it’s waaaaay too long.

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Dennis Quaid also feels airlifted in from a much different film. Still, lots to like from Moore and Qualley and the movie is quite funny

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Apparently it was supposed to be Liotta, but he died before filming started. Quaid is basically "Harvey Weinstein if he were Ruby Rhod" in THE SUBSTANCE but I would've loved to see Liotta's take on the character

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Oh wow. That tracks and yeah I would’ve liked to see that too

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I thought it started Cronenberg, then moved into Carpenter, and then went full Raimi.

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