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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:39:56 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Vidocq (2001) is the 1st major feature film that was shot entirely on HD digital video. A French film directed by special effects guru Pitof (Catwoman) & designed by Marc Caro (The City of Lost Children,) it is a fascinating blend of fantasy horror and visual excess. It is also not very good.
   One of my all time guilty pleasures. This is its only US release - a single layer DVD that surprisingly includes an English dub:

   https://archive.org/details/vidocq-us-dvd

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:44:30 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     I wanted to put this up during the spooky season, but the Internet Archive was in read-only mode then.
     The MKV is just a direct stream copy of video, audio (English & French) & subtitle (English & Spanish) tracks, no re-encoding. Grab that if you don't want to deal with an ISO.

   • Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛ (gamrok@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:48:56 UTC Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛

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     @dosnostalgic It's been a long time since I've seen it! The film was front-page news in France at the time.

     I have to see this movie again sometime!

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:57:55 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Kaito

     @kai Ok, Vidocq is *much* both more fun and more crazy than Battlefield Earth.

   • Kaito (kai@ajin.la)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:57:56 UTC Kaito

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     @dosnostalgic the first thing that came to mind is Battlefield Earth 😅

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:59:21 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛

     @Gamrok I watch it almost every year, even though I don't think it's that great of a movie. 😅

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:31:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Seriously though, this movie is freaking CRAZY. Watch it.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:36:28 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Biason::Julio::new();

     @juliobiason Yeah, the music video is on the DVD. I actually owned Apocalyptica's Cult album back in the day.

   • Biason::Julio::new(); (juliobiason@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:36:29 UTC Biason::Julio::new();

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     @dosnostalgic At some point, the trailer had Apocalyptica as the base song:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuXjJyTuOAY

     (That's what drove me into Apocalyptica and this video.)

   • Mercedes-Nutz (even_more_damned_muteki@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 18:23:17 UTC Mercedes-Nutz

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     @dosnostalgic if someone other than you had shown me this and said "you know this is secretly one of the favorite movies of the death generator guy" I would have believed them 100%

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 18:28:27 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Mercedes-Nutz

     @even_more_damned_muteKi But... I'm not the death generator guy. 👀

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 18:28:38 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Mercedes-Nutz

     @even_more_damned_muteKi wait... what?

   • Mercedes-Nutz (even_more_damned_muteki@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 18:54:24 UTC Mercedes-Nutz

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     @dosnostalgic oh fuck i got you and foone mixed up

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 19:59:29 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Oh, and I forgot the most fun bit: Vidocq was actually a real person. You probably haven't heard of him unless you were French. Reading his Wikipedia page is like reading an adventure novel. Crazy shit.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq

   • edo999 (edo999@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 22:39:13 UTC edo999

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     @dosnostalgic I saw the filming of one scene in Bordeaux when I was living there.
     I was at uni, waking around with my brother and a friend. We saw a group of people, stopped and realised they were filming a movie.
     I later recognised the scene when I saw it at the theatre.