I don't get it. what makes this movie good? its kinda boring most of the time. except for maybe the ending

I don't get it. what makes this movie good? its kinda boring most of the time. except for maybe the ending.

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Get some education first. You're not even ready to watch this, so that's a big plebness to overcome.

How am I not ready user?

Can someone explain the ending to me

I watched it twice and I still don't get it.

It's really easy

Video killed the radiostar

Let's see how well my memory serves:
>2 fags gave main character (James Wood I think) a tumor so they could control him
>Video pastor's daughter undoes it
>he kills the two bastards
>kills himself to ascend to a higher form

Long live the new flesh, faggots.

The reason(s) why people like Videodrome is because it's a weird movie that has lots of other "cultural" stuff going for it. It has some memorable special effects but it also has a lot of "theoretical" stuff going on beneath the surface that film critics love to talk about. I have a whole entire book about the theory of the movie that I found for cheap once, and I still haven't read it. Maybe I'll read it now! that book is Studies In the Horror Film: Videodrome, by Tim Lucas.

The basic appeal of Videodrome is thus that it has interesting special effects (making out with the TV, a little gore, etc) and that it plays with ideas of sex-through-media. This both anticipates the internet, and also gives pretentious people like me a good excuse to name-drop media theorists like Marshall Mcluhan and Guy Debord. There is thus a pretentious hipster appeal in Videodrome as well. For example, I personally masturabate to pornography on my large-screen television on a regular basis. This is pretty much the same thing as James Woods making out with the TV, in quiet creepy alternate reality of his hallucination(?)

It also bears mentioning that Cronenberg is famous for having directed the Fly, so it makes sense for people who dig into his work to want to check out one of the most-recent pictures before that. Classic Cronenberg.

Videodrome is also fairly well-known, yet /not/ known to the total plebs of the world. Thus it is fairly easy for hipsters to become aware of it with a minimum of cultural effort, and be rewarded by being in on the meme.

There is also the sex factor, esp. the S&M subtext. I myself once ordered and wore a "CIVIC TV" t-shirt to a private BDSM event and was complimented by an older gay man on my attire.

As for the general confusion (things don't really marry up with one another, one thing is a hallucination into the next), we have a story of an unreliable narrator/perspective, which makes things interesting.

this nigga gets it.

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan can be a life changing book. I'd personally rate McLuhan as a demi-prophet. you can actually view alot of your life thought it's lens and maintain a higher clarity of thinking than most anyone you meet, especially viz the news and shit.

But OP is part right. It does flag a bit. But that room with electrified clay wall. Brrr.

It also just struck me that it's a little Lovecraftian. If you tune in hard enough to other signals then the world you know starts to collapse and become infinitely cruel and dispassionate.

Like the guy above says. It's a classic SFX film, and a 'think piece' from a whip smart film maker.

It might well be boring / confusing here and there, but it's unsettling and hard to forget, so a great horror.

It predicted the hell hole we're at today, electing a reality tv star, generally the post-modernism of the internet.

If you got bored you're stupid and not entertaining, or understanding, the ideas being played with.

>There is thus a pretentious hipster appeal in Videodrome as well

Jack off motion

Woods' character's knowledge of "shady shit", and his associate's ability to tap into hidden signals with advanced know-how and the right equipment, is an old equivalent of the deep web, or an older version of hacking in general. And what do they find? Sure enough, some illegal-ass shit, it would appear. Yet Woods comforts Masha, "I stay away from the scary stuff!" Except clearly he doesn't.

Videodrome could also be read as a cable exec getting V& for airing/consuming the wrong product.

>the medium is the message
No... it's not. McLuhan is a penny ante philosopher who's reductionist approach to media is almost laughable. But I'll at least give him credit for being responsible for one of my favorite films

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he was reprogrammed by Bianca oblivion to destroy videodrome as revenge for killing her father
he had to kill himself as the last remaining part of videodrome

It's a film about how media consumes us instead of the other way around.

Kek. It's been so long since I've seen that movie that McLuhan's half-cocked philosophy is fresher in my memory. I think he was similar to Zizek, in that he was a trendy philosopher at the time, but became quickly dated.
>the medium is the message
Sure, don't mind the unfathomable complexity of the medium and it's codes and it's far reaching influence... it's the medium, itself. I guess it's not altogether ridiculous, but his philosophy is utterly useless today.

>Two factions are warring.

>One faction wishes to kill off 'deplorables' and creates an 'analog cancer vector' out of a cable TV signal. Kinda like Sup Forums that eventually kills everyone that visits Sup Forums.

>Others faction really 'saints' either. Better than the first at least.

>Protagonist is enslaved by first faction and made to kill his friends.

>Second faction surfaces and gives protagonist chance for revenge.

>Really don't give a shit about him but perfect opportunity to re-program 'robot' to kill rival faction leader.

>Rival leader is killed. Protagonist is then instructed to 'ascend' via suicide.

>Protagonist doesn't really 'ascend' to anything. Faction is merely having him self-destruct because he is of no further use to them and a loose end.

It took me years to finally -get- that he wasn't advancing to a higher plane of ANYTHING and was just kinda dead because he was no longer useful. This makes it a very bleak fucking ending.

I'm fairly sure they killed max to stop videodrome from ever resurfacing again
he was the one in the first place who wanted to broadcast it on his channel
it was Barry convex who wanted to use him as their assassin until he was no longer useful

Well, for starters, you're posting anime

>Long live the news flash
What did he mean by this?

name a better mic drop scene in cinema history

Who ever said it was good?

everyone with good taste

videodrome is one of the weirdest movies ive watched

Only if 'good taste' is defined to mean 'bad taste,' which is an odd way of putting things. I don't think Cronenberg has ever made a great film.

>what makes this movie good?
Debbie Harry

>I don't think Cronenberg has ever made a great film.

I don't think you've ever had a good idea in your entire fucking life you piece of shit

Kill yourself