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Videodrome (1983).

Mental movie and in a good way. It has a lot to say about media and brainwashing but in typical Cronenberg style it’s through humans disintegrating or losing their marbles. It’s not as bad as Dr. Ian Malcolm vomiting on a sweet delicacy and metamorphosing into an insect, but it approaches it. One would always confuse the Davids Lynch and Cronenberg. They are thematically so similar, but Lynch veering more into dream territory and Cronenberg the flesh. This could have been a Lynch movie, though.

Videodrome (1983) is some experience, and I had to watch it twice to figure out what I thought was going on. It’s never boring and always … well, nuts.

And Blondie is in it but with brown hair.

Further reading:

https://www.slashfilm.com/1520335/videodrome-david-cronenberg-ending-explained/

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Salvador (1986).

Like all early and peak Oliver Stone, Salvador (1986) is an unrelenting bundle of aesthetic pizzazz and energy. The bloke made movies on Steroids back in the day, his style and signature undeniable. 

This is supreme storytelling, but if you take a mere cursory skim over the real-life events, and especially the narratives of Richard Boyle and John Hoagland, this is total bullshit. 

So, it’s an Oliver Stone movie. 

Never let facts get in the way of your politics, eh. 

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The Getaway (1994).

Remake of the Sam Peckinpah half-decent flick from 1972, more famous for its tales-from-the-set production of booze chucked between production staff and off-screen hanky-panky than the actual thrills. It’s a decent movie, but I wouldn’t recommend it to a human being with a brain.

This was almost unwatchable.

The protagonist shows his own bank-robbing wife a gun as if she had never seen one before. Michael Madsen once again displays his supreme competence by necking a bottle of beer for no reason, slurring his words (for no reason) like Orson Welles in a Paul Masson wine advertisement. 

This movie was completely without wit; the dialogue was unbearable. I watched it for James Woods. I turned this off as soon as his VIP cameo ceased.

Fucking awful.

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