Mega Man 8 Cutscenes [1996] & Revolution: A Demonstration of the Video Toaster [1992] & The Secret Rulers of the World: The Satanic Shadowy Elite? [2001]

We started the evening with a video of cutscenes from the Mega Man 8 video game, which was full of bad acting with strange accents. 

Next we had Revolution: A Demonstration of the Video Toaster, an instructional video about video editing computer software. What makes this video worth watching is that it's presented as a dialogue between two people: one who knows about the video toaster and is trying to seduce you by explaining its capabilities, and another who is there to ask questions and occasionally tell jokes with some light seduction. Even the music under the video has a softcore porn sound to it until the guitar solo credits and even then there's a definite music-video-beach-sex-scene sound. It's the strangest foreplay we've ever seen. After the credits there's just a series of scenes over music to show all the features without sexy commentary.

Spoon Rating: 8

Then we watched part 4 of a documentary series called The Secret Rulers of the World, which was called "The Satanic Shadowy Elite?" Yes, the question mark is part of the title. It ended up being about Bohemian Grove and starring a 26-year-old (but 40-looking) Alex Jones, who wants to discover the secret cult sacrifices the wealthy and influential are doing during the gathering. Burning rituals with pageantry are real but Alex Jones specifically wants to prove they are Satanists who are sacrificing children in the rituals. Turns out he was always an insane conspiracy theorist. He interviews a guy on how to infiltrate and is saddened to learn he just needs to dress preppy and walk in so he goes shopping and practices his preppy talk. And yet, they don't have a cover story until the drive over. 

Either way, he gets in and films the ceremony. Although no one is killed, Jones insists that they are symbolically killing someone so it's just as bad. The film maker is clearly trying to get Jones and his associate to realize they are making stuff up but doesn't succeed. He does interview a woman who lives nearby and has researched the Grove and is just concerned about how they're a detriment to the environment. He also interviews a guy who went who basically says it's nothing and that the only crime is taking it seriously instead of viewing it like a frat of rich men. The most interesting detail from the film maker was how he said that the more time he spent around Jones, the more he felt himself buying into conspiracies. Take note.

While seeing a young Alex Jones was a good, funny time, you would get the same effect from any Alex Jones clip.

Spoon Rating: 4

Have a video toaster.