LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!!

[KYGOTC]

Videodrome. A picture that Ive been meaning to watch for about a year now, and just got around to it tonight. An' lemmie tell ya, I liked it ALOT, but because I really had no idea what it was about before hand, everything that happened caught me COMPLETELY by suprise and I was often left very confused.

But regardless, I enjoyed it mucho much. I mean, its JAMES WOODS!! I mean, C'MON! JAMES "The Mad Bicep" WOODS! It was WAY cool. LITTLE confusing, But toatally rad al the same. And Debbie Harry's BOOBIES!! HUZZAH!

[ghouck]

I really like that movie also, although the cigarette to the boobie was a crime (gotta keep reminding myself it was just a movie and that no boobies were harmed in the making)

[RCMerchant]

Videodrome is a classic of bizzaro cinema. Nobobody does sick cinema like early Cronenberg. Now CRASH- UGH! Too much for me-!

[GoHawks]

When I read the subject line for this post, I thought it was going to be about a remake of Flesh Gordon.  I was very relieved to find out it was not.   

[Mofo Rising]

Love this film.

It's remarkable how prescient Cronenberg was back in the early '80s. Human perception is a slippery subject at the best of times, Cronenberg was one of the first to realize what massive impact the new mass communication/new flesh paradigm would have on the world's conception of itself. Of course, the true revolution did not take place over renegade video streams. We got the internet instead.

Of course, since Cronenberg is Cronenberg, we get to see the seamy underbelly of possibility. In that, I think what is available on the internet has far surpassed the darkest of Cronenberg's expectations.

But the point remains, for quite a few people the reality of the electronic world is more real than the experience of the physical. They are of course one and the same, but previous to that point of time there were very few people who could foresee how deep that particular hole would go.

From the journals of Prof. Brian O'Blivion:
"Of course, 'O'Blivion' was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate."

How many people here post under their given name?

[Cthulhu]

It's a great film. I love all of it's weirdness.

[RCMerchant]

Love this film.

It's remarkable how prescient Cronenberg was back in the early '80s. Human perception is a slippery subject at the best of times, Cronenberg was one of the first to realize what massive impact the new mass communication/new flesh paradigm would have on the world's conception of itself. Of course, the true revolution did not take place over renegade video streams. We got the internet instead.

Of course, since Cronenberg is Cronenberg, we get to see the seamy underbelly of possibility. In that, I think what is available on the internet has far surpassed the darkest of Cronenberg's expectations.

But the point remains, for quite a few people the reality of the electronic world is more real than the experience of the physical. They are of course one and the same, but previous to that point of time there were very few people who could foresee how deep that particular hole would go.

From the journals of Prof. Brian O'Blivion:
"Of course, 'O'Blivion' was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate."

How many people here post under their given name?

My name is Ronald C. Merchant-aka RCMerchant-don't know if that means anything-