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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

This is Rob Lamb, and, ooh, today's episode is one that originally aired 411, 2025.

Yeah, we're talking about virtuosity, starring Academy Award-winning actors

Dinsel Washington and Russell Crow. It is a great example of 90s Cyber Slop. But man,

these guys are a lot of fun in it, and it's a pretty wild film. So without further ado,

let's jump right in.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.

This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick. And today we are going to be covering the 1995 action sci-fi thriller, Virtuosity, a movie that you will probably remember, even if you haven't seen it, because in 1995, you could not help but be exposed to the trailer where

Russell Crow struts through a future mall in a baggy purple suit. And the tune is the Bee Gees

Staying Alive. It was like one of the most iconic uses of a needle drop in a trailer from the 90s.

That's right. That's right. And this one, as we'll discuss, does have quite a needle drop score.

It also has an original score as well, but a lot of needle drops in here. It really, really sets

the tone for the mid-90s looking to late 90s feel. Yeah. So I want to briefly tell a story

of the roundabout way we came to feature this movie today.

So next week is going to be our 200th episode of Weird House Cinema. I think we still haven't

picked the movie for next week, but that makes today the 199th episode. And Rob, when you and I were

batting ideas around, you mentioned the possibility of doing a movie set in the year 1999 for the 199th episode.

I think that was a stroke of genius.

And folks, there are a lot of dope movies set in 99, usually made in the 80s or 90s, imagining 1999 as a terrible

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