I could critize eXistenZ for being a gaming movie written by someone who can't actually into gaming, but that's pretty much true for all gaming movies.veris leta facies wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 2:52 pmThere's a good analysis of Videodrome on youtube. Possibly the greatest Cronenberg film, certainly vastly better than existenz, which still isn't bad either.
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Is this magic gun also a raped ghost girl?
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Moe just says that because they gravitate to his BBC like Katamari Damacy.
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Now, come to think of it, I don't think there actually isn't any better gaming movie than eXistenZ.VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:27 pmI could critize eXistenZ for being a gaming movie written by someone who can't actually into gaming, but that's pretty much true for all gaming movies.
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That's not it at all.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:00 pmI saw Videodrome a few months ago and wasn't really impressed. The effects were pretty good even by today's standards, but it was just retarded. A magic cable channel gives him a magic gun hand that he uses to assassinate people because Blondie was murdered in a snuff film we didn't even see?
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Videodrome is a television signal that induces tumors. The tumors cause hallucinations and eventually insanity or death. The company who developed this signal are engaged in some kind of societal eugenics program. Their intent is to use the signal to control or punish certain segments of the population. There's also an anti-communist element that ties into McCarthyism. Regardless, there are myriad uses for such a signal.
Max Renn is a test case. He's a prototype. They're trying out the signal on him as a first step in expanding videodrome's influence. They want to see how far the signal can take him and how controllable he'll be. A lot of the elements of the film are not actually real-they're hallucinations induced by Max's exposure to the Videodrome signal. I'm still not sure if Max ever met Blondie at all. It seems implied he didn't. Remember that anything which happened after his first exposure to videodrome is suspect. This movie doesn't have any kind of neutral perspective or omniscient narration. Max's viewpoint is all we see.
The magic gun hand doesn't exist. The magic videotape vagina slot doesn't exist either. Max is hallucinating. All he's doing in reality is putting the gun in a jacket pocket or something. Likewise when he receives orders from the videodrome group, and counter-orders from the lady who wants him to destroy videodrome. My guess is that the videodrome program induces hypnotic suggestion in addition to insanity.
I'm not sure what exactly happens at the end. The obvious answer would be Max kills himself and the ending bit with the television is a hallucination. But it's also possible that Max's insanity crosses over into a sort of alternate reality and creates its own New Flesh. Blondie at the end seems to be speaking to Max as the voice of his insanity. She probably was all along. But maybe another way of looking at her is she's the voice of Videodrome itself. Maybe Videodrome is "real" in a certain sense, and she's like an ambassador of this alien world that's too bizarre to ever understand. I think it's deliberately left unsaid if Max died or if some part of him crossed over into something else.
Max Renn is a test case. He's a prototype. They're trying out the signal on him as a first step in expanding videodrome's influence. They want to see how far the signal can take him and how controllable he'll be. A lot of the elements of the film are not actually real-they're hallucinations induced by Max's exposure to the Videodrome signal. I'm still not sure if Max ever met Blondie at all. It seems implied he didn't. Remember that anything which happened after his first exposure to videodrome is suspect. This movie doesn't have any kind of neutral perspective or omniscient narration. Max's viewpoint is all we see.
The magic gun hand doesn't exist. The magic videotape vagina slot doesn't exist either. Max is hallucinating. All he's doing in reality is putting the gun in a jacket pocket or something. Likewise when he receives orders from the videodrome group, and counter-orders from the lady who wants him to destroy videodrome. My guess is that the videodrome program induces hypnotic suggestion in addition to insanity.
I'm not sure what exactly happens at the end. The obvious answer would be Max kills himself and the ending bit with the television is a hallucination. But it's also possible that Max's insanity crosses over into a sort of alternate reality and creates its own New Flesh. Blondie at the end seems to be speaking to Max as the voice of his insanity. She probably was all along. But maybe another way of looking at her is she's the voice of Videodrome itself. Maybe Videodrome is "real" in a certain sense, and she's like an ambassador of this alien world that's too bizarre to ever understand. I think it's deliberately left unsaid if Max died or if some part of him crossed over into something else.
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So what you're saying is: A magic cable channel gives him a magic gun hand that he uses to assassinate people because Blondie was murdered in a snuff film we didn't even see?
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In (old) No Time To Die News:
https://movieweb.com/no-time-to-die-str ... -mgm-bond/
https://movieweb.com/no-time-to-die-str ... -mgm-bond/
Imaging shitting up your franchise that badly then thinking you could get nearly a billion dollars for the worst movie in the series. Supposedly it's still on track to release in April or something, but I don't see how they think they're going to get even a tenth of what it cost back with nobody going to movies. At some point they have to stream it to try and recoup some of the cost.Rumors of a streaming release for the upcoming Bond venture No Time to Die refuse to, well, die. While earlier reports claimed that MGM was looking for an eye-watering $600 million for the rights to stream the movie, with both Apple TV+ and Netflix reportedly offering bids, new reports are stating that the studio actually want upwards of $800 million for the latest 007 adventure. Unsurprisingly, there were no takers.
Amid the ongoing global circumstances and theater closures, the studio may eventually relent and look to shop the movie around for a streaming release. Ultimately though the final decision must be approved by James Bond series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, whose general thoughts on the matter were summed by an unnamed producer; "It's MGM's golden goose, but it's the Broccolis' platinum goose."
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Jennifer O'Neill is now a devout Christian herself (and is still super-hot). Always remember that slut-shaming saves souls.rabidtictac wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:04 amJust what it says. McGoohan was a very conservative, religious person and he felt that women who married more than once were whores.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:55 amWhat did Patrick McGoohan mean by this?
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Explain to us how Tetsuo got his powers again, Bennet.Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:21 amSo what you're saying is: A magic cable channel gives him a magic gun hand that he uses to assassinate people because Blondie was murdered in a snuff film we didn't even see?
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