Round of 64 (Tier 2): Videodrome vs. Come and See

Round one is here. 61 years of film with 3 convenient ties. What film will come out on top?

For this round, we start with:

VIDEODROME, David Cronenberg's all-too-timely story about the ways that media controls us.

Against...

COME AND SEE, a haunting tale about the horrors of World War II. While Americans are used to the much happier endings of Western Front films, the Eastern Front is about the Soviet Union sacrificing a literal tens of millions of people against an enemy that seemed to be unstoppable. While Nazis in Paris is a powerful symbol, our protagonist watches as he loses literally everything, even his humanity.

The winner will move on to the next round. The full bracket is attached below.

 

Come and See

 

I love Videodrome but Come and See is an easy choice. One of the most impactful first watches I've ever had.

 

abstaining

 

abstaining on this one as well.

 

Cow. Ards.

 

i’m not voting for films i haven’t seen, like a fool

 

both brutal in their own ways, but videodrome takes this for me. I need to watch the restoration of come and see eventually but I just cant bring myself to watch it again

 

Come and See is hands down one of the greatest war movies ever made. Brutal but poignant.

 

Same, I had to take a couple small breaks watching it for the first time because of how harrowing it is.

 

With 59 percent of the vote, Come and See will face Pulp Fiction in the Round of 32.