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Rosemary's Baby is my fav horror movie and in my Top 10.

I recommend everybody reads “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man” by McLuhan. It’s a difficult book but also really fun and mind bending. It makes sense he was originally a Joyce scholar. He is very playful and trippy in his language. He once said his philosophy isn’t a comprehensive and concise set of theories, but more an attitude and approach of constant probing and exploration. He leads by example in that he encourages incessant seeking rather than settling on and arguing for a closed and complete worldview. Although he didn’t like psychedelics, there is something very akin to what those substances do in his writing, which I hope doesn’t cheapen his work to say. Nice video!

It's simple, actually. It's a movie of sometimes things are not meant to be, even if you are childhood friends. This movie broke my heart for both of them.

The theater is dying because the cost of a drink.

I, weirdly, on accident have three Tarkovsky films. Solaris, Stalker and Mirror. I recommend them all because he is an amazing creator of films.

Yes it was . First viewing I thought it was a mess storytelling wise . 2nd viewing . I saw the intricacies of how it was put together. Ingenious and yes way ahead of its time.

I love Arthur so much in this movie. Arthur’s main pain point is that he doesn’t feel like he is strong enough to fully understand Nora, and her experience as a Korean. And as much as he might not like what is happening, he leans into the experience, especially through the scene in the bar, where he willingly takes the backseat in order to understand Nora, Hae Sung, and their childhood/Korean selves. The scene where he puts her arm around her as their walking up the stairs together is so beautiful, he’s a man on the cross, embodying what love is really about, understanding, comprise and sacrifice, not childish admiration. I started the film wanting Nora do Hae to make it out, in the middle, feeling like Arthur was a bit of a cuck, to in the end, realising he was the most grounded and emotionally healthy of all the characters. Such amazing performances in this. Cinematography was off the chain too.

One of the best films I've seen in a while.

I saw this movie in the 80's late at night as a teen. I'd come home from closing the McD's I worked at, took a look at cable TV and stumbled into "Videodrome". I was so hooked.

I appreciate your take on this movie! Very thought provoking, thank you. 😊 I wanted to watch this movie because of the color choices, cartoon-ish desert setting, and the lead actor being a photographer in the atomic era. Never did I expect this to be a movie about subtly navigating grief, uncertainty and facades. It was deeply inspiring to my inner creative. This was my first Wes Anderson film, I'm so excited about experiencing his other films! Thanks to the comments section, I think watching Budapest Hotel is next on the list! 😊🎉

I heard about this movie kinda through a rabbithole, first through the Nine Inch Nails song The New Flesh, then hearing the names a reference to the quote "long live the new flesh" from this movie

I just finished watching this movie and immediately looked up on youtube to see if there are any analysis videos of the movie and this popped up. The more the film went on the more I realized that finding an exact meaning would completely take me out of it, so I just ended up trying to experience rather than look into an objective meaning to the movie, and I wholeheartedly believe that that's the best approach to this movie. Turn off your brain for the next two hours and just experience it all

I bought the movie in dvd i watched and was light and deep in the same time with double meaning from stage to reality etc etc

I like your idea. For me though, there is a lot of evidence that points toward this film exploring Freud's concept of Afterwardsness, the concept that the experience of trauma comes from revisiting trauma, and the initial moment of trauma is not the moment we experience trauma. Augie experiences the passing of his wife, the initial moment of trauma, and fully understands his trauma upon revisiting it, in this case, when he has a conversation with her in a dream as told by Margot Robbie explaining her cut scene from the play. When the actor playing Augie asks Schubert Green "am I doing him right?" Shubert says, "you didn't just become Augie, he became you." The actor's constant search for meaning in the play is representative of how humans process trauma. Always trying to make sense of it. Theme of the film is what the actors all chant toward the end of the film, "you cant wake up if you don't fall asleep," or plainly, "you can't experience life fully, until you revisit and understand your trauma." The confusingness of the film structure begs viewers to rewatch the film. Our initial watch is a metaphor for our initial trauma. Our rewatch of the film is our return to trauma.There's a lot of Freud concepts here as well. Augies two most vulnerable lines in the play are seemingly cut from the play, and delivered off stage, the first to Conrad when the actor recites his monologue "your mother would have got the alien to tell her the secrets of the universe." The second time in the dream where he repeats "i figured you would have gotten the alien to to tell you the secrets of the universe." there are more repeated dialogue between the scenes, like his comment about woodrow growing out of being shy, but even in the rest of the play, "my pictures always come out." This is similar to Freud's concept of dream-work, and Augie's repeating of real world dialogue in his dream is evidence of two major processes in Freud's dream-work, condesnation and displacement. Just food for thought.

Everything you said about the Batman's character.Arc has been done in batman nineteen eighty nine

So is a movie about current time. Got it. Is trash then.

Thanks for this

I saw this the year it was released. Bought the VHS, then the DVD. I know the script, and I watch it at least once every two weeks to this day. Obsessed? Oh yeah.

This is one of the most prophetic films I've ever seen. It's basically "MKUltra the movie," and in a world where you have societies being essentially programed en masse by the media/intelligence agencies, you can essentially see these things happen IRL. Sounds schizo I know, but in the wake up Trump's multiple assassination attempts, by supposedly "lone wolf" type people with scrubbed digital footprints, I can't help but wonder if these lonely young men were programed like Max was in this film.

It was a copied movie

It's tragic listening to you speak out loud. Dead lifeless voice in perfect sync with empty, meaningless words. This shit might as well be AI

There Will Be Blood is just a far better and more focused film set in a similar time.

This movie would have benefitted from having a bit more of a focus on a few things rather than just going all over the place and for the runtime to be shorter.

This is a great movie, but definitely in not Scorsese’s top 10.

Man here i am looking for a videodrome review to show my friends and this guy just goes off on a tangent

Artsy fartsy crap.

Enemy over Prisoners? You’re smoking crack, brother. Enemy is Villenueve’s worst film outside of his first three.

I’m a die hard Keaton & Tim Burton fan, but this was by far the most “Batman-Esq” movie.

One of my absolute favorite movies, it doesn't matter at what "technological era" ur watching it, the message is still relevant. The media are not gonna stop brainwashing us and the p0rn & violence addiction is still gonna be a thing.

@Truest Picture , The sound bite you used at 3:39 was not Wes, it was a troll. I hope that you know that. That fact that you used it to convey your message makes you a hack. Please do better.

Great video. This movie blew me away and immediately became my favorite movie, so I'm glad to see it get some love. I actually found it more existential poignant from a more cosmic wilderness perspective. I get what you mean by AI and the death of certain art, but I think it also gets at scarier points of human insignificance in the vast cosmic sphere of the unknown. We have no idea what the purpose is or if we're "doing him right." Or another way to put it: "I need a breath of fresh air." "Okay but you won't find it."

I am partial to Batfleck, but he was playing an older Frank Miller style Batman, and never got the chance to have a movie that focused on the character this closely. Pattinson is genius in his portrayal, and Matt Reeves hit a lot of the beats that the other Bat franchises lacked. My only criticism is we don't see how he got to this point, we obviously know the catalyst of his trauma, but how did this Batman get inspired to create the persona, what was his training, did he leave Gotham for years to learn how to do what he does like in the comics or has he just been a recluse the whole time? All we get is an offhand comment from Alfred saying that he taught him how to fight, which makes me think of the terrible Earth One Batman comic. None of that is a criticism on Pattinson, however, he nailed what the role was intended to be and is totally spooky as Batman.

Dude's a friggin schizophrenic it's friggin obvious

Ben Affleck’s iteration of Batman was also very good and largely misunderstood. ScreenCrush articulates that beautifully in this video th-cam.com/video/FgtAAviuxwk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2xHBYZy6Q90V7FIu

I'm not sure if Marshall McLuhan would have been horrified or fascinated by the internet.

My takeaway from this great review - you don't need money or resources, you just need a great idea. Slacker is pure, unadulterated cinema and a true cult classic. Best watched stoned.

Cronen be Canadian?! Or should I say, Cronadian

sort of like how AI is making us into "videodrome"

I say let's give him some more film until we get too excited. But boy, he is killing so far! I really want to see Victor Freeze with this Batman!

The Achilles heel of 'Videodrome' is that it is based on a fallacious premise: "Body is reality". Also, ideas like 'Television is the retina of the mind's eye', are not only fallacious, but laughable. During the 80's, we watched these types of films out of curiosity, but we were not gullible enough to believe they were anything more than irrational trash: that's a new 21st century joke on young audiences and critics, who seek out art, where there is only mystification and outrage on show. If Cronenberg were a genius, he would produce a film on 'the human condition' (which is an immaterial mental abstraction) without punctuating it with electric (sex and violent) shocks. If corporeal substance was the sum total of 'reality' - as Cronenberg preaches in Videodrome, then cats, dogs and grasshoppers, would be engrossed by Cronenberg's movies. Can that be demonstrated? Cronenberg's premise, that 'the artist has NO responsibility' is entirely false. Why should other citizens and professions have responsibility, but not the artist? Cronenberg is implying that he is the Supreme Being: above all natural and positive law. Howard Stern made the same claim: "I have no responsibility". A democratic form of government does not imply that artists must have absolute licence and does not absolve any citizen from looking after their neighbour's imagination and psyche. Self-censorship is normal for any artist - it's a crucial part of the shaping of the initial raw material that is honed into the final product. He is implying that any artist who self-censors is not a true artist - what insufferable pretentiousness and pride? Existentialism has no moral code, so we cannot look to it as the source of a 'New Humanitarianism'. Anyone who knows the history of the shower scene from 'Psycho', will acknowledge that even before it reached the MPAA, it was a painstaking and elaborate exercise in self-censorship, on the part of Hitchcock, to avoid exploiting the lead actress' figure, and the audience through titillation. If Cronenberg were a genius, he would produce a film on 'the human condition' (which is an immaterial mental abstraction) without punctuating it with electric shocks. The censors in my country have done enormous good through censorship (a legitimate function of any body, responsible for the public good). Cronenberg assumes that Censorship Boards are comprised of philistines. More often than not, they will be infinitely more well versed in film, literacy, aesthetics, philosophy and art history than anyone hiding their concupiscence in - the "underground". "Underground" has always been a euphemism for anti-art. A democratic form of government does not imply that artists must have absolute licence. A democratic government does not absolve any citizen from looking after their neighbour's imagination and psyche.

every background character was a couple

Any review that says..."a love letter to...." Is automatically stopped by me when those words are tritely read. Media publicist catch phrases.

I never paid attention to Wes Anderson nor his work, but after watching Asteroid City, I'm really admire him now.

Can somene give me the instagram idea of the person who did this video? I mean, this is one of the best review videos I've ever seen, the sound mix, the narration. Truly amazing!

Not the best batman movie, but he is the best batman. I still got the dark knight and dark knight rises above this movie

As a film-a-holic who barely has time to watch films because of nursing school, I was extremely upset by this movie. I understand there is meaning behind it, but why make a film that a majority of people will not understand. I, personally, thought this movie was extremely boring, and lacked character. I find it hard for those who believe this film was something of a masterpiece. It felt like talking to an individual that has no character. I started doing my maternal health homework than being glued to my laptop, because this film did not have anything to bring to the table. This felt like brain rot to me. I am so upset. Never will watch a Wes Andie film again. This is abstract film-making. Just like abstract art. It's just there, and you can decide if you like it. Where are the 90s directors when you need them.

1. Prisoners (A) 2. Sicario (A-) 3. Blade Runner 2049 (B+) 4. Arrival (B) 5. Dune Part 1 (B) 6. Dune Part 2 (B-) 7. Enemy (D)

tbh the more i watch The Batman the higher Pattinson rises on my Batman actors tier-list, might as well admit he's my favorite Batman by this point

3:40 That might be fake. Or real I don'T know.

I need one more movie to nail it down.