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· Year: 1983
· Director: David Cronenberg
· Writer: David Cronenberg
· Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits
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Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
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| Synopsis |
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A guy looking for new programming for his TV station comes across more than he's looking for when ne finds a pirate TV show called Videodrome.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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54
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 3.0 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 2.0 -GORE |
| 1.5 -HUMOR |
| 1.5 -SCARES |
| 2.25 -TENSION |
If I was more interested in Videodrome, I'd still be trying to figure it out. Like Cronenberg's later film, eXistenZ, Videodrome strikes me as much ado about nothing, a hallucinogenic journey that thinks it's about more than it is. I still say that if you're going to seriously screw around with characters, the audience has to understand and empathize with those characters in order for the film to be effective. James Woods plays a cypher, without much of a personality, and the plot's twists and turns weren't enough to keep me interested. Nice seeing Beta videotapes in a movie, though.
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