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Death to Videodrome! Long Live the New Remake!

post #1 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:18am
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post #2 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:24am
Pointless.
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post #3 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:30am
Should we already assign the moniker "VINO: Videodrome In Name Only"?

Also, in a world where your average eight year-old can see "2 Girls, 1 Cup" or the Daniel Pearl murder via the web, how will this be relevant or shocking?
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post #4 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:33am
This might be the first remake I've ever actually had the energy to say "fuck this" to. Seems awfully dumb.
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post #5 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:36am
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Anyone else fearful that the nanotechnology will be responsible for the tumors? That they'll explain the shit out of everything?
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post #6 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:46am
First thing that popped in my head reading the description mentioning nanotechnology and "action thriller" was that the plan is to use the nanotechnology as the explanation for all the body morphing and we can probably expect to see shootouts between guys with body parts that can morph into various forms of firepower.
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post #7 of 27
4/27/09 at 2:53am
This isn't even in the top five Cronenberg films I could see Hollywood wanting to remake.
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post #8 of 27
4/27/09 at 3:25am
In this new version of Videodrome, Max Renn should be a studio exec on an endless search for films to remake. He stumbles upon Cronenberg's Videodrome (having never seen the film, heard of it, or even knowing who Cronenberg is. Although he had seen A History of Violence but that was because Aragorn was in it ) and he and the writers he tasks to bring the remake to the screen immediately begin receiving poorly lit videotaped warnings from anonymous nerds collectively calling themselves The Dromes and warning them not to even dare attempt it. Max and the writers begin experiencing strange and disturbing hallucinations the more they review the Cronenberg classic( haha, who am I kidding. They never watch it) as they attempt to wrestle the new modernized story into screenplay form. Soon they begin developing tumors in the shape of tumors. That's because they are just tumors. Sun poisoning. And then they die. Another exec immediately swoops in like a bird of prey to snatch up the project. "Long live the new forms of old films" he says as he licks the strange growth developing on his upper lip. Better get that looked at.
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post #9 of 27
4/27/09 at 3:30am
This is a great idea. The VIDEODROME brand name is sure to result in boffo box office. What teenage kid doesn't love VIDEODROME?
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post #10 of 27
4/27/09 at 3:31am
The name Videodrome will sell maybe ten thousand dollars worth of tickets. So why?

At least it will introduce the original to a new generation of insoucient film nerds. Some of them will watch it!
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post #11 of 27
4/27/09 at 5:25am
A few months ago I watched Videodrome at my local Drafthouse and was disappointed by the low turnout, though I was initially encouraged by the youth of the very few in attendance. As the film went on I could tell that virtually no one was feeling it, and by Videodrome's end, the deepest critical analysis to be had was: " I like Troma gore better".

I thought that was depressing, this might be slightly worse. Whatever, if Cronenberg gets paid, cool, if he doesn't, then I couldn't give a shit about this thing if I had a barrel full of it.
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post #12 of 27
4/27/09 at 7:05am
scanners gif
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post #13 of 27
4/27/09 at 8:54am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Anyone else fearful that the nanotechnology will be responsible for the tumors? That they'll explain the shit out of everything?
There won't be tumors.

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Originally Posted by Arjen Rudd View Post
The name Videodrome will sell maybe ten thousand dollars worth of tickets. So why?
Some old Canadian sitting on the rights, or Ehren "The Ring" Kruger has an easier time selling a script than your average Joe. Or Spectacular Optics is getting into the movie bidness.
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post #14 of 27
4/27/09 at 11:10am
No, No, No, No and Hell No!
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post #15 of 27
4/27/09 at 11:27am
This is probably the first remake that I can honestly say I'm actually against. My first thought also was the nanotechnology would explain the body morphing.

Although foywonder's post about multiple men firing off their flesh guns actually sounds cool to me. "Action thriller" doesn't belong anywhere near this film.

I still rememer the first time I took over my Criterion dvd to my friend's house so he could see it, and after I left, he told me the next day that it had freaked him out, and he didn't get any sleep during the night. This was only about 3 years ago too. Nice to see the movie still has the edge. This is also a guy who has seen and owns Ichi The Killer and Gozu, for added measure.

I'm sure he'll be as pissed as I am when I tell him they're remaking it.
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post #16 of 27
4/27/09 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
In this new version of Videodrome... Better get that looked at.
Brilliant.

With EXISTENZ, I feel like the next technological progression was already explored by Cronenberg. THE RING gets away with still using analog (old tech is creepy), so I don't have a problem with that per se, but nanotechnology? It's got some cool potential, but why bother using the VIDEODROME name at all?
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post #17 of 27
4/27/09 at 12:47pm
Damn... I love this movie. I guess I really don't care if they remake it, though. It'll just make some people who haven't seen the original curious to see it... then the battle is won.

I gotta say, I love Cronenburg, but does it make me an uber-puss that I just can't watch The Fly, anymore? I love it, and I've seen it numerous times, but I just can't handle how gross it is. It's just so fucking gross. He's the only filmmaker that does it to me, too.... Naked Lunch, Videodrome, Existenz, The Fly... they all have these parts that just turn my stomach.
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post #18 of 27
4/27/09 at 1:09pm
Really, really stupid. I hope they call it something different. I'd hate there to be a point where I have to say "I love Videodrome...no, the first one."
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post #19 of 27
4/27/09 at 4:23pm
Audiences get what they want, and if I know anything I know that people are clamoring for a Videodrome remake.
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post #20 of 27
4/27/09 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
No, No, No, No and Hell No!
I'd also like to add, 'NoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO!'

Maybe the existenz (geddit?) of this film will in fact cause brain tumours in those that watch it, like an actual factual Videodrome signal. That's the only reason i can see this being worthwhile - to give James Woods a reason to run amok with his gun-hand, trying to destroy all the copies.
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post #21 of 27
4/27/09 at 5:00pm


"How can it be the same movie if they’ve changed my character from a tightly-wound convenience store clerk to a jittery Eskimo firefighter? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Well, actually that’s a pretty good explanation."

Wasnt able to find an image of Woods cleaning the oven, but the above one kinda works. It sure express my sentiments about this whole thing.
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post #22 of 27
4/27/09 at 10:40pm
Haha.

"Boom, I'm outta here, I'm a dot."
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post #23 of 27
4/27/09 at 11:12pm
the cronenberg movie that hollywood needs to remake is NAKED LUNCH. they can just show a CGI anus squirting runny shit at the screen for 90 minutes
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post #24 of 27
4/28/09 at 10:04pm
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Originally Posted by foywonder View Post
First thing that popped in my head reading the description mentioning nanotechnology and "action thriller" was that the plan is to use the nanotechnology as the explanation for all the body morphing and we can probably expect to see shootouts between guys with body parts that can morph into various forms of firepower.
Righto. It almost sounds as if they'd rather be remaking eXistenZ than this. Anyway, if they want to remake Cronenberg, then move forward with Scanners and leave most (if not all) of the others alone. Scanners, while I love the original, is the only film of his that I can think of that could actually be improved upon if they found the right visionary to redo it.
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post #25 of 27
4/28/09 at 10:15pm
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
In this new version of Videodrome, Max Renn should be a studio exec on an endless search for films to remake. He stumbles upon Cronenberg's Videodrome (having never seen the film, heard of it, or even knowing who Cronenberg is. Although he had seen A History of Violence but that was because Aragorn was in it ) and he and the writers he tasks to bring the remake to the screen immediately begin receiving poorly lit videotaped warnings from anonymous nerds collectively calling themselves The Dromes and warning them not to even dare attempt it. Max and the writers begin experiencing strange and disturbing hallucinations the more they review the Cronenberg classic( haha, who am I kidding. They never watch it) as they attempt to wrestle the new modernized story into screenplay form. Soon they begin developing tumors in the shape of tumors. That's because they are just tumors. Sun poisoning. And then they die. Another exec immediately swoops in like a bird of prey to snatch up the project. "Long live the new forms of old films" he says as he licks the strange growth developing on his upper lip. Better get that looked at.
I would seriously buy this DVD.
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post #26 of 27
4/29/09 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by S.D. Bob Plissken View Post
Righto. It almost sounds as if they'd rather be remaking eXistenZ than this. Anyway, if they want to remake Cronenberg, then move forward with Scanners and leave most (if not all) of the others alone. Scanners, while I love the original, is the only film of his that I can think of that could actually be improved upon if they found the right visionary to redo it.
Maybe they can just do an homage flick instead of a remake of any one particular flick. Take all the glorious Cronenberg-isms from his various body horror flicks and create some new stew, ala Marshall's DOOMSDAY.
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post #27 of 27
4/30/09 at 4:13am
They're getting the guy who wrote fucking Blood and Chocolate?

I am filled with RAGE!!!
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