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Old 02-04-2004, 09:26 AM
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just saw scanners

i don't think i'd ever watched it entirely. great film, very canadian feel to it (eg. you can tell it's n. american but somehow.. european), colors were terrific. it's a monumental pity that the main character is such a hammy actor. all the other performers were quite good and he sticks out with this contrast. dubbing was a bit dodgy in spots.

the spy-like intrigue/horror sub-genre is not one that i imagine contains a lot of movies.. people might erroneously call scanners a sci-fi but i don't think so. the facial freak-out telekenesis scenes were of the highest order!
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Old 02-04-2004, 09:32 AM
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I totally agree two thumbs up for "Scanners" the music in that film is pretty good too, gives a real tense urgency to the film.
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Old 02-04-2004, 09:40 AM
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I totally agree two thumbs up for "Scanners" the music in that film is pretty good too, gives a real tense urgency to the film.
yea you're right! there's some bizarre stuff going on with fuzzy synths and insecty sounds
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Old 02-04-2004, 04:52 PM
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I'm a big Cronenberg fan. Scanners was a cool movie. :-)
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Old 02-04-2004, 05:48 PM
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Cronenberg fucking rocks Scanners and Videodrome are two of my all time favorites.
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Old 02-04-2004, 06:51 PM
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Cronenberg fucking rocks Scanners and Videodrome are two of my all time favorites.
I LOVE Videodrome. Probably my all-time favorite Cronenberg film.
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Old 02-05-2004, 02:36 AM
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Yeah Scanners is excellent. Has anyone seen the sequel though as I never bothered and was wondering if it's worth hunting down?
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Old 02-05-2004, 06:02 AM
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never seen the scanners sequel or videodrome but weirdly, my mother really liked videodrome when she caught it on hbo one night a long time ago. she was raving about the 'gun-hand in the stomach scene' the next day?
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Old 02-05-2004, 09:13 AM
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Yeah Scanners is excellent. Has anyone seen the sequel though as I never bothered and was wondering if it's worth hunting down?
There's actually a couple of sequels if I'm not mistaken. And there's Scanners Cop or some such thing, but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with Scanners or not. I can say, however, that I've seen Scanners 2... and, no, in my very humble opinion it is NOT worth hunting down.
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Old 02-06-2004, 05:11 AM
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a long time since i saw scanners, i seem to remember the fight at the end was vien popping-tastic. yeah i remember it being quite cool
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