If everybody could stop Facebooking and blogging about “Videodrome” (1983), that’d be just fine.
I will never understand this movie. It has been described as “postmodern,” and that is a word I cannot understand, despite looking it up and having friends explain it to me. (Seriously. And that somehow makes the intellectual emasculation I feel by “Videodrome” even worse.)
I still insist that this “classic” is unpleasant and incomprehensible. The following is all that I can glean:
1) There are televisions. The televisions are bad.
2) People join a cult or something.
3) James Woods loses his everlovin’ MIND, and starts shouting … political tirades? He … wants to start a revolution? But whose side is he on? IS HE FOR OR AGAINST THE TELEVISIONS?
4) This movie makes VHS tapes more disturbing than, say … the “VHS” horror movies.
5) Debbie Harry is in there somewhere. Debbie, what’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? Sing me “Rapture,” Debbie.
6) That girl WAS Debbie Harry, right?
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 
LOL. This is all exactly what I love about it.
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I’ve never seen it. I know one that I will be blasted for not liking is Blade Runner. It’s just not a mater piece to me. Maybe if I;d seen it in it’s historical context – eg when it first came out – I’d find it ground breaking and original and deep and all those other things, but as it stands now it’s just a bit ho hum and murky to me.
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Blaspheme! Joleene, say it isn’t so 😦
I must admit, though I have read some Philip K. Dick, I never did read ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’, the story that ‘Blade Runner’ was based upon.
I did, however, read the short story ‘Minority Report’. You might remember the film with Tom Cruise.
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WHAT HERESY IS THIS?!!? 😉
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Reblogged this on Readsalot and commented:
Oh Eric, I thought you were quite good in that film. I especially loved how you grew an alien gun out of your arm 🙂
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