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The special effects might be a tad dated, I love this film about living video-tapes and technology playing with our minds. Classick

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New answers: Debbie ist rad

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree 100%. I love "Videodrome" & thibnk it is the best film it's director ever made Long live the new flesh etc etc

― Norman Phay, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

love it...tv's sucking me in...must go now...

― geoff, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best. Debbie's so good in this, how come she hasn't been good in anything else? I mean, she was alright in Hairspray in a broad John Waters sort of way, but in Videodrome she's just incredible.

― Arthur, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If there was an actual channel showing the sort of stuff they had on the 'Videodrome' channel, I'd never leave the house! Va-va-vooom!

― dave q, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah the only flaw in the theoretical/formal framework of that movie was why on earth they needed a special surreptitious signal broadcast over the normal audio/video feed in order to lure people in. Maybe it's just the benefit of hindsight but I think western television culture hast proofed that lo-fi degradation is quite compelling enough as it is (i.e. public access porn, "Cops", reality TV etc). No majick conspiracy is neccessary. I'm liking how you're staying in character dave. By the way I am at fault for not nominating your "Hong Kong Electrobutt" thread for best ever. I just read it again the other day to a friend and we couldn't even finish, tears rolling down face, etc. Va va voom!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Cronenberg is a genius, and this is one of his best films.

― Sean, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

btw, I have the original one-sheet poster and soundtrack LP.

― Sean, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

Watched last night for the first time in maybe 10 years, I had forgotten so much (esp from Dr. O'Blivion being strangled onward). Woods is so good I forgot how much I wanna slap him the last 10-15 years.

Why did I remember a tape going in Woods' belly-slot, not a gun?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

hey it wasnt a tape? that's what i remember as well.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

its both

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Funnily enough, this is on TV tonight (1.20am!)

I wld v. much like to own the Criterion DVD of this

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I played a gig once of mostly all improv. Some dude recorded it and came up to me afterward and asked me for a 'setlist' and I just wrote down my favorite lines from Videodrome.

― Milius (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

There's a really clumsy scene where Woods' hand and gun are fusing together (some nice Rick Baker sfx), and Cronenberg doesn't do anything with it but have Woods stare in horror while it's happening. Compare to similar Baker sfx of the period, American Werewolf in London, where Landis makes the scene 1000x more effective by having Naughton scream in agony, roll over, vary expressions, etc., while he's transforming, plus intercutting closeups and longer shots. He got better as he went on, and Videodrome is full of interesting ideas, but they're not very well presented.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't like it all that much, actually. It was one of those films I found disturbing without being worth it.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

the soundtrack btw, is the most fucking terrifying thing I've ever listened to.

http://postpunkjunk.com/?p=35

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

to be fair the hand/gun scene is hardly the first bit of crazy gory shit woods has witnessed by that point (vag belly, hello?!?).

also, woods' complicity in videodrome is an absolutely key point of the film - he's a sleazily cynical cheap porn hack, and it's his own grisly fascination in the extremities he sees on tape that lead him down the road as much, if not more than, any way in which he gets manipulated into it. it's the difference between hallucination & nightmare; to have had woods suddenly screaming n crying about what's going on wouldve instantly removed him from that desensitized borderline and turned the whole thing into some sort of i dunno, comeuppance morality play.

even on an aesthetic level, that vague clumsyness totally works precisely because it's just like a nasty str8 to video shocker, it fits right in no?

― rtccc (mwah), Saturday, 16 September 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

all time classic

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

A-ron OTM. It was much more effective when I was 19 and preferred delicious, perverse undercurrents and imagery to underwritten scripts.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 16 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

remake aw god wtf man

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

Criterion of this is one of the best investments I made last year, btw.

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NO

xpost that was to the remake, not the awesomeness that is videodrome btw

― ***OSCARBAITS FURIOUSLY*** (jjjusten), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

More importantly, which of today's pop stars could fill the Debbie Harry self-destructive, S&M-loving femme fatale role?

― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

This will come and go and people will forget it happened, don't worry.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

like swine flu

― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

hahahah

― shit was shocking as fuck back then (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

shit fuck shit

― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 01:42 (seventeen years ago)

plz star nicholas cage plz

― Dr. Phil, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

with or without sideburns?

― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

so bummed by this

― Bigfoot doesn't realize the Russian Spetsnaz are real (latebloomer), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

plz star nicholas cage plz

― Dr. Phil, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:43 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^
only conceivable thing that could save this

― Bigfoot doesn't realize the Russian Spetsnaz are real (latebloomer), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

Wow and I thought the idea of remaking Rollerball was fucking retarded. Someone better torch the studio during filming.

― Edward Aetheling (Viceroy), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

omg, nick cage and BEES IN HIS BELLYSLOT
Except he'd have to be all desensitized, so his new line would be something like "Oh, bees. Bees? Not the bees? Huh, bees."
Going to be awesome

― Øystein, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

>More importantly, which of today's pop stars could fill the Debbie Harry self-destructive, S&M-loving femme fatale role?

Lady GaGa ftw. Gotta say I am not feeling Cage for the lead, my money would be on Jason Statham, in the same toupee he wore for "London".

― Bill A, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:09 (seventeen years ago)

so Cronenberg and Haneke have more than one thing in common..
but could Cronenberg at least learn from Haneke's mistake?!(funny games remake that is)

― Zeno, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:11 (seventeen years ago)

Whaaat? Really strange choice for a remake. The original is so idiosynchratic and strange. Are they going to remake Eraserhead after?

― DavidM, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

Uh.

― Øystein, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 11:14 (seventeen years ago)

they made the same empty promises about ILX 3.1

― dirty south? clean it up with Orbitz (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 11:16 (seventeen years ago)

I apparently have safesearch turned off in Google. I image-searched for "bang". This calls for an emoticon :(

― Øystein, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

so Cronenberg and Haneke have more than one thing in common..

I highly doubt Cronenberg is involved in this remake - he's not mentioned in that link

― shit was shocking as fuck back then (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

total classic. fucked my head up when i was about 15. i wonder what id think of it now.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

I've enjoyed it very much every time I've seen it. Dan Selzer's post upthread has me seeking out the soundtrack now, which would never have occured to me to do before.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

this is horrible news. how will nanotechnology make the film better? so lame.

― borntohula, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

storyboard:

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/cgo/lowres/cgon188l.jpg

― original bgm, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

you can hear the soundtrack here:

http://www.amazon.com/Videodrome-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B00000AG8I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1240942904&sr=8-2

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

got the original on dvd some time ago, watch it often. love it. remake obv going to be dreadful. fin.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

so Cronenberg and Haneke have more than one thing in common..

I highly doubt Cronenberg is involved in this remake - he's not mentioned in that link

Considering he already remade it as Existenz ten years ago.

― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

so basically they're remaking the name of the movie

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

watched this for the first time last night. fucked up.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:31 (sixteen years ago)

Watched if for the first time again last month and it's so whoa.

― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:32 (sixteen years ago)

saw this for the first time last weekend, and it's pretty cool, love the conceit of living on thru video and "you're much older than my usual type" = A+ lol

― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:36 (sixteen years ago)

more films need to end inside 75 minutes imo

― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

I think Network's around that duration.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:44 (sixteen years ago)

fucking love Network too but it's 2hrs iirc

― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:45 (sixteen years ago)

no it isn't - it's an hour 45 minutes, tops.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:47 (sixteen years ago)

Videodrome was probably my favorite movie when I was 23/24.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:48 (sixteen years ago)

network is 121 minutes - i stand corrected.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

classic fucking movie imo

― pringles and loving it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

i just got network from my ilovefilm account this week.

videodrome however, ive not seen in ages, but i was amazed when i saw it as a teenager. but the scene with the gun/tv/stomach is of course totally classic.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:33 (sixteen years ago)

a friend who works as a cameraman at the local fox affiliate told me last night that when working he keeps the satellite feed tuned to supreme master tv. he's like involved in a really really dull real life videodrome!

― andrew m., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

beyond classic. the only movie that I won't upgrade to disc because it NEEDS to be on videotape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IxeroqZSuo

― black lightning light (herb albert), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

Videodrome was probably my favorite movie when I was 23/24.

― sarahel, Monday, November 9, 2009 7:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

only for that one split second?? cold

― goole, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

nah - for about a year and a half.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

yes, I too have found that videorome is the lion king for those in their early 20s

― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:20 (sixteen years ago)

an example: pumba

― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:21 (sixteen years ago)

nah - for about a year and a half.

...and then Good Burger came out

― fel (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

i keed

― fel (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

i keep trying to remember the line about the optical company - what it does.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

Spectacular Optical: Keeping an eye on the world

― fel (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

the line where he says - Spectacular Optical - something about their business operations in this country and then some other business "for the third world"

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

another "fave movie of my early 20s" cliche right here.

I love the criterion menus that just loop thru all of the great lines in this movie.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)

i still have this on vhs - illegally dubbed from the copy at the video store

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:58 (sixteen years ago)

memorable scenee: james woods watching softcore samurai porno

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:59 (sixteen years ago)

that sounds like the perfect format for videodrome (xpost)

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)

it was a conceptual choice

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha.

I also like james woods' co-worker that calls him "patron" the whole movie.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

"it has zomething you don't have, max... a philosophy"

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

^^ i totally quote that line all the time!

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

"eet has a philosophy!"

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

great line!

also like how james woods sticks it to pittsburgh.

found it on imdb!

Max Renn: I want you to stay away from them. Those mondo-weirdo video guys. You know, in some countries, like Argentina, making subversive video is considered a criminal act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh... WHO KNOWS?

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha:

*SPOILER*

Max Renn: [just before Harlan explodes] See you in Pittsburgh.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

greatest movie of all times

― fel (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

i'm gonna have to watch it again so i can remember that line - it doesn't appear in the imdb quotes section.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

We make inexpensive glasses for the third world and missile guidance systems for NATO.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:01 (sixteen years ago)

ahh there we go

― fel (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:02 (sixteen years ago)

xp - my hero!!!

― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

i love that tacky trade show with the renaissance dancers

― fel (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:06 (sixteen years ago)

that was pretty awesome.

― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:09 (sixteen years ago)

ps just watched this movie

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:24 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

D.C. is 69 today.

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2193-notes-from-a-videodrome-test-screening

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

thx so much for that

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

I like the card where the respondent apparently didn't know his/her gender. GUESS THE MOVIE HAD SOME IMPACT.

― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

Saw this for the first time today. Amazing.

― he talks in meths (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 14 September 2014 07:27 (eleven years ago)

As I've said elsewhere, I think the last few minutes are unnecessarily gross, but otherwise, I count it as his first great film--a step forward from The Brood and Scanners, which are very good. The guy who plays Moses, Reiner Schwarz--based on the real-life Moses Znaimer--died last week.

― clemenza, Sunday, 14 September 2014 14:18 (eleven years ago)

Also the last Cronenberg movie that was not an adaptation until "eXistenZ," which is pretty closely thematically related.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 September 2014 14:25 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03kE3stoXFk

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:58 (seven years ago)

ten months pass...

A+ comic cameo by the Caribbean-accented eyeglass salesman at Spectacular Optical (Henry Gomez)

― Josefa, Sunday, 25 August 2019 14:35 (six years ago)

Would have preferred a less abrupt ending, but still a totally outrageous film

― Josefa, Sunday, 25 August 2019 14:48 (six years ago)

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