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Anyone here BESIDES me seen Videodrome

Started by ElectroSunDog, November 20, 2003, 02:17:38 PM

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ElectroSunDog

November 20, 2003, 02:17:38 PM
Anyone at all? Please?

raj

#1
November 20, 2003, 02:21:31 PM
I saw it years and years ago -- early 80s.  Mostly because Debbie Harry was in it.

I may have to get the dvd.

The Burgomaster

#2
November 20, 2003, 02:24:38 PM
Yes.  I used to have a VHS copy of the unrated version.  Actually, I might still have it in a box somewhere.

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

ElectroSunDog

#3
November 20, 2003, 02:29:58 PM
Here are some scenes not included in any released version. Personally, I don't know how this guy found 'em-maybe from a workprint?

http://www.blue-bottle.co.uk/unseen.htm

Velvet Brotha

#4
November 20, 2003, 04:05:24 PM
I vaguely remember this film. Wasn't it some kind of borderline porno graphic Horror/Sci-Fi film? I just remember some woman in a red dress trying to seduce the main character through a T.V. screen. I think there was also a scene where the Television morphs a gun and shoots someone? Let me know whether or not  this was the film. Now I'm curious...

Chopper2

#5
November 20, 2003, 04:23:47 PM
you're kidding right? i can't even count the amount of times i've seen Videodrome.

Ash

#6
November 20, 2003, 04:39:10 PM
I have never seen it but I do know of it.

Isn't it directed by Cronenberg and stars James Woods?

11

#7
November 20, 2003, 06:20:36 PM
"Isn't it directed by Cronenberg and stars James Woods?"

Yes, i've seen the rated version but never saw the unrated verion :(

Neon Noodle

#8
November 20, 2003, 10:39:37 PM

Such a wierd movie, kinda like watching a car wreck - you can't take your eyes away! Main things I remember were the tape being inserted into the stomach, and the burning of the breast with the cigarette.

Long live the new flesh!

*BANG*

____________________________________________________________
While on a journey, Chuang Tzu found an old skull, dry and parched.
With sorrow, he questioned and lamented the end of all things.
When he finished speaking, he dragged the skull over and, using it for a pillow, lay down to sleep.
In the night, the skull came to his dreams and said, 'You are a fool to rejoice in the entanglements of life.'
Chuang Tzu couldn`t believe this and asked, 'If I could return you to your life, you would want that, wouldn`t you?'
Stunned by Chuang Tzu`s foolishness, the skull replied, 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'

-From The Matrix: The Path of Neo

Mofo Rising

#9
November 21, 2003, 12:40:55 AM
I've seen it.  I'm a huge Cronenberg fan.  It seems now that what Cronenberg was talking about then can be applied to the current internet culture.  Although, I do think that the underground element of society will always be there.  Just back then it was pirate television.

Remember the bit where the television guru guy proclaims that in the future everyone will have new names for their television personas.  Anybody else here not post under their real name?

If you like this I highly recommend checking out some other Cronenberg.  I would say that he is underappreciated, but really, it's not very many people who would be attracted actually watching a Cronenberg movie.  Guy's got a creepy mind.

Also, he was in THE STUPIDS.
Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill.

Cullen

#10
November 21, 2003, 05:06:13 AM
Mofo Rising wrote:

> Remember the bit where the television guru guy proclaims that
> in the future everyone will have new names for their television
> personas.  Anybody else here not post under their real name?

There's a creepy thought.

Cullen - Super Genius, Novelist, and all in all Great Guy.

raj

#11
November 21, 2003, 09:25:12 AM
Mofo Rising wrote:

> If you like this I highly recommend checking out some other
> Cronenberg.  I would say that he is underappreciated, but
> really, it's not very many people who would be attracted
> actually watching a Cronenberg movie.  Guy's got a creepy mind.

Thanks, with a recommendation like that I'll have to check him out.   Nothing wrong with a creepy mind.

Velvet Brotha

#12
November 21, 2003, 11:42:49 AM
No, sorry... I wish I were. I remember it showing on Cinimax alot as a kid but I always fell asleep. : (

Velvet Brotha

#13
November 21, 2003, 11:47:14 AM
Ohhhh yeah... some of my favs have creepy minds. Stephen King, John Carpenter, Savini, Romero.. to name a few.

JohnL

#14
November 22, 2003, 11:12:17 AM
>I vaguely remember this film. Wasn't it some kind of borderline porno graphic

It wasn't borderline porno, although the story was about a guy who dealt with porn.

>Horror/Sci-Fi film? I just remember some woman in a red dress trying to seduce
>the main character through a T.V. screen. I think there was also a scene where
>the Television morphs a gun and shoots someone? Let me know whether or not
>this was the film. Now I'm curious...

You've got the right film, but some of the details are wrong. The woman on the TV was in there, but it was James Woods's hand that morphed into a gun. He did stick his head in the TV though.

>Remember the bit where the television guru guy proclaims that in the future
>everyone will have new names for their television personas. Anybody else here
>not post under their real name?

Here's something else to think about; Remember when the guy asks Woods what kind of a person would watch a show like Videodrome? There are now web sites which put on live S&M shows for their paying members, that make the scenes in the film look tame. Of course nobody is kidnapped and forced to participate in them, but the end result is pretty much the same.
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