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The original, a commentary on the growing saturation of new media, starred James Woods as the head of Civic TV Channel 83 who makes his station relevant by programming "Videodrome," a series that depicts torture and murder, transfixing viewers.
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Of course, back then, in 1983, there
was new media saturation to satirize.
Such primeval things as pirate cable and UHF stations existed back then. I'd wager that today, Channel 83, "The Channel You Take to Bed With You", has since been bought out for a CW affiliate.
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When the project was first announced, it was said that the tale will be modernized, focusing on nanotechnology and play out as a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.
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Okay, now they're just clueless. Not just Total Recall sentimental-clueless, we're up in Rollerball-clueless territory:
We're not supposed to know whether the "New Flesh conspiracy" was real or not--Like most 80's Cronenberg, we could've been watching Woods' psychotic-delusional breakdown and thinking there twarn't no REAL abdominally-insertable VHS-tapes going on.
(And since when was
anything Cronenberg directed ever "large-scale"?)