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Pump Up The Volume (1990) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-06-25 21:00:00
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2024-07
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Hi everyone! So excited to bring you this reaction today - click here to watchalong with me!

This was a movie in my Mr. Robot Inspiration Poll and while it didn't come close to winning, I am watching multiple movies from that poll anyway and this one was definitely my first choice out of the whole list. Other reactions from that poll coming soon.

Please enjoy and I'm looking forward to your comments!

Cheers,

✦ KL

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boss435

Never heard of this movie. Just watched it alongside the reaction. Really wasn’t my cup of tea but it did cover important topics that are still relevant today. Glad you liked it and seems like it means a lot to several of the peeps on here.

Tyler Foster

Given the situation with the movie's availability, I understand it, but in case this is not something you've encountered much in the 21st century with digital streams rather than discs, it's worth being aware that it's not ideal to watch movies in an altered aspect ratio. My guess is that you didn't even know this was altered -- it was an awful practice which used to be common to fit square tube television sets, and I'm glad discs that only offer the film in a visually compromised format are basically non-existent nowadays. That said, it's nice that this one is an example of "open matte" framing. There is almost always more visual information that exists on the negative beyond the edges of the frame, and an "open matte" presentation means the masking is removed to reveal that part of the frame rather than the picture being cropped on the sides to be square. (Cropping is more common when the original ratio is wider; Pump Up the Volume ought to be 1.85:1, which would almost completely fill a modern widescreen, with only very thin bars on the top and bottom.)

Tyler Foster
>>143004652

It's not nearly as dramatically complicated, but I think Hackers (1995) would make for a great watch as a counterpart to this. I seem to recall it's also on the "Mr. Robot" list, but my main feeling is that both movies are examples of teens using collective action in the name of a revolution on behalf of other people their age.