Electric Dreams (1984)

[justinmh05 1968]

This is a movie which is based on the premise of a love triangle between a man, a woman and a computer.

 

A computer that gains sentience by being splashed with champagne!!

 

Also, it's one of Jim Rash's favorites so maybe he can be the guest.

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dreams_(film)

 

[seanotron 2307]

I love this movie, if for no other reason than it gave us the titular song by Giorgio Moroder & Phillip Oakey.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gyPjIxpDe4

[wyldride 285]

Awesome movie with an amazing soundtrack. Jeff Lynne, Phillip Oakey, Culture Club, Heaven 17 and ...

 

The Duet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in_ZVmckrmU

 

A preposterous premise, sure, but worth the end result.

[PhillipMedoc 648]

I just loved back in the days when people believed computers were basically magic. So many movies operated under the premise that a computer was totally capable of doing something it absolutely is not able to do.

[daveB from Oakland 364]

 

This is a movie which is based on the premise of a love triangle between a man, a woman and a computer.

 

A computer that gains sentience by being splashed with champagne!!

 

 

Sounds like one of those pieces of science fiction where EVERY SINGLE THING IT PREDICTED HAS COME TRUE!!!!

[daveB from Oakland 364]

Doesn't seem to be available on netflix, but there's several YouTube links to the complete movie, including this one:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJtvNuHQU-w

[jarrycanada 2483]

I just loved back in the days when people believed computers were basically magic. So many movies operated under the premise that a computer was totally capable of doing something it absolutely is not able to do.

 

My favorite is the still promised blade runner photoshop software that can zoom into a photo to the point of ridiculousness. still to this day every crime show has this software yet I've never seen it.

[M-Rae 0]

I watched this a lot when I was a kid. I just decided to get all nostalgic and give it a redo. WOW... not great. hahaha From the opening credits until what came up after the ending credits, all I could think of was 'this movie needs to be on HDTGM!'.