I’m someone who had always heard about Leone but I had only seen one of his films for the longest time which was Once Upon a Time in the West. Granted, an AMAZING film and it was the best Western I’ve ever seen even though never watched much Westerns back then, and it’s STILL the best Western movie imo after having seen much more. As someone who recently did a proper Leone watch through, I will say that I agree that For A Few Dollars More gets underrated. While Fistful has obvious Leone mannerisms, I honestly felt it was Few Dollars More where I could see, as someone coming from Once Upon a Time in the West, which imo is the “most Leone Leone film” (even America imo is “less Leone”, still amazing film though), it was in Few Dollars More I was like “Oh, there’s the West Leone I remember.”

Great conversation guys. I haven't seen Nosferatu or Anora and a few others yet, but here is my top 10 of 2024 (having only seen 19 movies of 2024) 1. Dune Part 2 2. Deadpool and Wolverine 🤷‍♂ 3. Furiosa 4. Terrifer 3 5. The Substance 6. A Complete Unknown 7. The First Omen 8. Alien: Romulus 9. Civil War 10. Immaculate

Sightseers is a banger and The Coffee Table is really good but very dark

Masterpiece on revisits. Carl Franklin an underrated director.

LOVE this movie. Great chat, got a sub out of me. We did a Body Double doc a while ago you may appreciate. Keep it up.

"Body Double" reminded me a lot of the Coen Bros movie "Barton Fink" because you're basically presented with scenes, images, and even music that didn't fit together. Couple that with Actor Craig Wasson's character literally stalking the attractive woman and a tall man with a pony tail and mirrored sunglasses who winds up snatching her purse on the beach and eventually murdering her and you don't know why. In a strange way I really liked this movie. Dude in the upper left. I'm loving your "Dark Side Of The Moon" Poster next to the David Bowie "Aladdin Sane" poster.

It's been years since I have seen this, but am kind of interested to watch it again now. I really hope you guys check out Once Were Warriors at some point, it is kind of adjacent to this in some respects but I think you would all really enjoy it.

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?

You ppl with your commintairies is horrible

This is a great family movie / intro to horror.. Combs is a legend love his special cushion

Great work yall take care God Bless

You won’t understand the mischief and harm until you grow wiser. Our loved ones, and humans are at war with the mischievous tools of conspiracy bringing upon inflictions. Allah must assist us to remove the evil crafts that wastes time , and decreases knowledge slowly …. Inshaallah the crafts should be ended soon.

God, I love Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America are absolutely fabulous

Masterpiece!! Thanks! ❤

And Yojimbo ripped off Dashiell Hammetts Red Harvest.....

Proposition and Ravenous are both pretty good Guy Pearce movies

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Love this movie so much

I become a fan of him back in 2015 and to this day I admire his film work

Videodrome is one of those movies which forever will stay in your mind

I love to rub my wee-wee with a potato peeler while watching your hysterical content 😂 Thanks for sharing your thoughts on a classic movie!

This was a great breakdown. Helped me put the film in perspective.

Ive been wanting to watch this for ages but its not available anywhere here :(

You should have Trevor watch it and explain.

I couldn’t stop watching PDL when I was in my 20s. It was just too good. The color, sound and themes made me realize PTA was a master.

Sorry to Bother You would be an excellent double bill with Videodrome.

Watch out! Your Wingard is showing : 'You are wrong."

Peter Mullan is great .. still really recommend Tyrannosaur if you haven't seen it yet.

Double feature for me might be "Once Were Warriors"

The Abyss is cool for a double feature I might pair it with Underwater.

Great video dude

Glad the hiatus is over .. love this movie not seen it in ages .. might introduce the kids to it. On the punk debate ... for me it's an attitude - it's about liking what you like regardless of anything or anyone else. It's about calling out bullshit and not putting up with it regardless of if it is at home, at work or out in society, not letting anyone tell you what you should be or should do. It has never been about the music or the clothes you wear - do you. Looking forward to the see what Chris makes of the Abyss. Josh , anyone mentioned you look a bit like Robert Eggers?

“The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality. And reality is less than television.” Dr. Brian Oblivion

Spaghetti westerns wouldnt have been popular without Sergio Leone.

Thank you. You saved me two hours of my life. :)

I didn´t watch any analysis of videodrome talking about ideology, which I think is at the core of the film. Videodrome was created by Brian Oblivium, a television prophet, intending to make videodrome audience hallucinate tv programs as reality (visions) and ultimately developing a new organ/tumor into their brain. Barry Convex, on the other hand, wants to use Videodrome politically to scrap videodrome's degenerate audience, he brainwashes Max debilitated mind into killing his partners and then to kill Bianca Oblivium, but she manages to reprogram Max into killing Convex and at last making Max kills himself in the promise he will be reborn in a new flesh. Curiously Bianca Oblivium continues her father's mission in a church building which functions like a doss-house where destitutes receive not food or beds but television sets to watch. The film is clearly about the war of competing institutions fighting for dominance of people's minds.

Fantastic review. This film for me was an instant favourite of mine that I rewatched several times within a year after my first viewing. I wanted to show it to all my friends and family and share the beautiful fantastical world that PTA creates in this film.

Great job Take this as a complement, for someone so young Duck You Sucker underrated GBU and OUaTitW tie OUaTiA the greatest mob movie ever sorry godfather ( I put Miller’s Crossing above The Godfather)

My copy is arriving tomorrow so looking forward to checking it out. Poor Things is great I still think Ruffalo should have won the supporting actor oscar over RDJ. See you in a month :(

Hardware is awesome, makes for a great double feature with 1994's Death Machine with Brad Dourif. And yeah, i think 2000AD sued and won. The exact story was in an issue from 10 years earlier.

I couldn't find anywhere to watch this but I vaguely remember it from back when it was released think it gave me 2000AD ABC Warrior vibes .. needs a Rob Zombie remake. Been looking to check out Lost Highway for a while now, got an excuse to get it done.

Mimic was pretty good haven't seen in in years though ... Hardware I think I've seen but gonna have to try and find it. I think I know why Clay struggles with Miike movies - its cause he's watching them on 1.5x speed.

The Host is a great film, Bong Joon-ho's work is so good .. out of unterest have you watched Yellow Door: 90s Lo Fi Film Club?

Anyone ever get around to watching 'Joe' with Pete Boyle? I watched that cause of the Tarantino book. Crazy movie... and the ending delivers from what I remember. I think I watched it on Tubi but I don't know if it's still there.

This is a cool podcast. You guys should have me on some time 😂

Idk about this one but Hardcore has been on my radar.

Ok I've added this to my back log .. give me a shout if you want some anime suggestions I'm sure I can find something you might like 👍

Thanks for the shout-out! 😂 I'm not that familiar with Tom MacDonald's work but I do think it was hilarious he made a song featuring Ben Shapiro. I love the Daily Wire , no shame. And yes Brett Cooper was actually a small time actor and is a Daily Wire host and looks like Ben and its pretty funny. She is gonna play Snow White supposedly in a new movie coming out.

So is "Dogs Don't Wear Pants" considered to be elevated filth? .. Do you guys not use "chicken" as an insult out there? I dunno if its still used here at all but was just slang for a coward.

I can't pick a favourite.