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Videodrome
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Binding: Video Download
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 1983
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Rating:  - Snuff, Hallucinations, & Mutations, Oh my!!!!
Rick Baker,
James Woods,
Stomach cavity caches,
Bubbling videotapes,
Bubbling, bullet-rittled bodies,
a uniquely erotic sex-scene,
man morphing with his gun,
assassintion plans,
and a guy who exists entirley on videotapes.
Bizarre doesn't begin to descibe this cinematic anomaly.
There is only one word to descirbe madness such as this.....
....Cronenberg.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Kill your television!!!!
Rating:  - humorless, yawn.
I really wanted to like Videodrome - I'm a Canadian myself and his later work is compelling. I found Videodrome boring, too self-serious, and some of the plot points inconsistent. I can't go into a lot of detail without spoiling some of it, but it involves explaining away one character as a recording when previously in the film, that character was obviously interacting in the real world.
It seems like Videodrome tries hard to make some philosophical point that doesn't really come through ... Read More
Rating:  - Videodrome - Good condition
There were no problems with the product when i recieved it, i got it right on time, and overall i was very satisfied. If i order any movies or books or whatever it may be, i will get it from this site.
Rating: - Soon, we will all have "special names"
The idea of people being brainwashed into drones just by watching television is a very serious and scary idea. Mostly because I'm in front of it a lot.
After watching this I thought that this was a very Cronenberg film. The ever-returning theme of humans integrating with machinery is very much presented here by James Woods' character blending in with his hallucinations and becoming the new technology everybody must be afraid of. The gun mutating with his arm is the obvious example of this. ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant would be an understatement
Searching for logic in a Cronenburg movie can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. You know there is a message somewhere, but it could possibly take forever to find it.
I think there are two questions this movie is asking it's viewers.
The first being; Why do people subject themselves to watching this kind of cinema and television?
And the second being ; What effect does this kind of cinema and television have on it's viewers?
In those questions themselves lies ... Read More
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