grim_tales

I can't believe I've only just seen this! I thought it was very good. My thoughts

Videodrome: 4/5

Disturbing, wierd and hard to watch at times and rather a mind-fuck also, but still a very good film.
I found the ending wierd/ambiguous:

jfoobar

Heh, I'll never forget the first time I watched this film. What more can you say but "Cronenberg."

It has been a long time since I have seen it so I cannot comment on the ending.

I just re-watched Scanners for the first time in several years the other night. Now there is a film crying for a bigger-budget (and better-acted) remake.

Strafe

Now watch Naked Lunch and tell me which one was weirder.

Gizmo

Videodrome freaked me out.

LiquidSky

inri222

Death to Videodrome!!!
Long live the new flesh!!!

mndtrp

When my girlfriend moved in, she started working her way through my movies. She told me she was going to watch this one while I was at work, and I received a phone call from her, asking what the hell it was all about. She was a little leery of movies she hadn't heard of after that, and I still haven't had the chance to show her Naked Lunch.

Joe Molotov

Me too. The first time I saw it, I was like "Holy crap, I'm never watching that again!" Then a couple of months later, I was like "Man...I really want to see Videodrome again."

I don't know if you can ever really "get" Videodrome, as in actually understand every single thing that happens, but it does make more sense on repeated viewings. One of the things that I didn't really fully grasp on my first viewing, but that comes through on repeated viewings is that Videodrome is basically a Sci-Fi take on 60 & 70's paranoid thrillers, like The Parallax View or The Manchurian Candidate. It's so surreal though, that it's easy to get lost by some of the more bizarre imagery. I haven't seen it in a while though, so I don't really remember what my take on the ending was. I remember basically what happens, but I'd need to see it in context again.

inri222

Review/Analysis

http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/fi...ction=film_rev

MasteroDisaster

Congratulations; your brain has just been melted. Welcome to the club.

grip

Disturbing, wierd and hard to read at times and rather a mind-fuck also, but still a very good article.

grim_tales

Was that making fun of my post?

SterlingBen

Hope you watched the uncut version, if not it gets even better.

True_Story1011

what else could you say about Cronenbergs early work other than.... Wha?! Lets watch that again!

grim_tales

Hi, I'm afraid I didnt see the uncut version, I saw the R2 UK version which I didnt know was cut

Kudama

My most WTF moment was ...
What. The. Fuck. ?.

My only explanation is that from the moment

I loved this movie from the very get go. I remember wishing I could do up my room with red, electrified clay.

speedy1961

Scanners IS being remade.

RichC2

I just finished watching this for the first time (Comcast On Demand's Free Selection actually had a few interesting titles for once, and City of Lost Children in HD (!)), it was great seeing James Woods and Deborah Harry in their respective roles.

What freaks me out, is this movie actually applies just as well in current times as I'm sure it did back in the 80s. It's easily one of the strangest movies I've ever seen (And I've seen a lot of weird ass movie.) and am glad it's held in a relatively high regard in "cult terms" haha. Can certainly understand all the comments on how eXistenZ is a "Remake for modern times" but jesus, Videodrome makes eXistenZ look mainstream.

Great stuff. Can't help but wonder if Shinya Tsukamoto is a huge fan, as his flicks seem to borrow a lot of common threads (Tetsuo I & II, Snake of June).

Why So Blu?

Necro bump! We may have the Criterion Collection Bluray for Videodrome but for those in L.A. The Cinefamily will be screening a 35mm print June 6th. It's a midnight one night only show. I've got my couch reserved!

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/heav...tes-videodrome

hanshotfirst1138

You seriously are allotted too much good luck, you must donate some to us .

Supermallet

Videodrome is the best William S. Burroughs homage ever made.

Shannon Nutt

Are you like me - when your significant other sees a movie that you enjoy, but she hates or doesn't understand, she wonders what the hell is wrong with you - and then starts making comments as if YOU were the one that wrote and directed the film?

Giles

why, oh why??

stvn1974

Videodrome, Naked Lunch and Lynch's Eraserhead make for a great triple feature.

hanshotfirst1138

Your brain might be so scrambled afterwards that you'd be unable to speak. I went to a double-bill of Voice of the Moon and Eraserhead. My brain was so scrambled by Fellini that I skipped the Lynch because it was late at night and I wanted to get some sleep. I still regret it.