Review: Videodrome (1983)

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Watched in a movie theater, thanks to CinePop. 4 Euros each ticket, cheap enough to watch a Cronenberg classic.

I haven’t thought enough about this, so I will just dump a bunch of unconnected thoughts. Nothing very different from my usual posts.

  • Replace TV for Internet and it still works
  • Late night TV soft porn
  • Snuff films
  • Gore, who watches that and why?
  • James Woods is manipulated by the Media
  • Pirate radio/TV
    • Still happened in the 90s
  • Baudrillard’s Simulacra & Simulation
  • Serial Experiments Lain
  • eXistenZ
  • VTubers and Internet nicknames
    • “Soon, all of us will have special names”
  • Total Recall vibes
    • Specially the special effects, obviously enough
  • Conservatives using the exact same methods they criticize
  • Marshall McLuhan’s “The media is the message”
    • Watching in the theaters is definitely different from watching from home
  • Debbie Harry
    • She is pretty in this film, but she reminds me someone else
  • The Ring/Ringu
    • “Forbidden tape”
  • Does media make us violent?
    • Carmageddon ban in Brazil

I liked it and would (need to) watch it again.