Name: The Spin-off Doctors: eXistenZ by Jimquisition
Duration: 2 h 3 min 42 s
Description: It's about things going in butts, basically. Also videogames, to a lesser degree.

I still think this is not a reference to "The Days of Perky Pat" short story, but rather to the "Three Stigmata" novel, as the theme of the novel is just identical to tis movie: here and there characters visit with their minds some virtual world (in the novel it's the dolls combined with a special drug) and once they enter that world even once, they find out they can never be sure if they're really back in reality.

Note that Kiri Vinokur uses the word "fatwa" in reference to the bounty on Allegra's head and the hunt for her. This is because the whole initial idea for the movie "eXistenZ" came to Cronenberg when he was doing an interview with the author Salman Rushdie who himself has a fatwa on himself for writing "The Satanic Verses". You can read the interview here: http://www.intralinea.org/monographs/zanettin/sr/cronemberg.htm

I think I read in an interview somewhere that Cronenberg never actually played any game in his life (at least priot to making "eXistenZ"). And yet he still managed to foresee David Cage and basically the modern over-cinematic video games that gave us photorealistic graphics in exchange for an illusion of choice. "eXistenZ" is hilariously far from how video games looked in 1999, but it's terrifyingly close to how they look now.

Many thanks for this Conrad, I wasn't planning on watching it first but boy I am so glad I did. Thanks.

"flesh attentiveness" is a beautiful phrase.

Uwe Boll's awfulness returns for another ill-advised dip in the BloodRayne ocean. 

This time, vampire cowboys.

The Spin-off Doctors: BloodRayne 2: Deliverance

What happens when one Nobel Prize isn't enough? 

This happens.

The Spin-off Doctors: Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life

On its own, Heavenly Sword is a fairly mediocre and badly animated CG movie. 

Contextualized, it's AMAZINGLY awful. What they managed to do while having access to the source material is an incredible testament to how badly you can screw up when you clearly don't give a damn.

The Spin-off Doctors: Heavenly Sword (2014)

This podcast was a terrible mistake and we're all very sorry.

The Spin-off Doctors: Onechanbara - Bikini Samurai Squad

Oh screw everything. Time for another mistake. 

Let's talk about a film that is definitely not a comedy like Rush Hour. All it has are those Billy Zane eyes.

The Spin-off Doctors: Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun-Li

It's about things going in butts, basically. Also videogames, to a lesser degree.

The Spin-off Doctors: eXistenZ

We actually sat through and commentated through this whole horrible trainwreck. What a treat. 

What a goddamn treat.

The Spin-off Doctors: Pixels Movie Commentary

The Spin-off Doctors: The Wizard

The Spin-off Doctors: Dead Space - Downfall

The Spin-off Doctors: Far Cry

We wipe our butts, we lose our luggage, and we lament as Brian Kuh is Brian Kuh.

The Spin-off Doctors: The King Of Kong

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