tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post3452547320814780538..comments2024-03-22T14:48:09.697-04:00Comments on Dell on Movies: Thursday Movies Picks: TechnologyDellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-48096934803524348172018-12-17T03:28:41.153-05:002018-12-17T03:28:41.153-05:00Plenty of great movies about computers have come o...Plenty of <a href="https://shania-ratna.blogspot.com/2018/12/deretan-film-indonesia-seru-yang-siap.html" rel="nofollow">great movies</a> about computers have come out since these smart machines began playing such a huge role in humans' lives. Filmmakers have created fictional, factual and documentary-style movies about artificial intelligence, gaming, hacking, online communications, programming, viruses, web sites and other subjects relating to computers. Even films about war and supernatural themes have focused on computers.Stepottigahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995352510956858015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-77318430019742833052018-10-29T00:01:01.486-04:002018-10-29T00:01:01.486-04:00It's a doozy.It's a doozy.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-64773854237855867052018-10-25T16:53:19.671-04:002018-10-25T16:53:19.671-04:00I haven't seen any of you picks.
I think I ma...I haven't seen any of you picks.<br /><br />I think I may have heard of The Day After from one of those docuseries about the top 80s things.Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-86661741242130186692018-10-22T21:14:45.358-04:002018-10-22T21:14:45.358-04:00They're even sadder? Don't know if I can h...They're even sadder? Don't know if I can handle that.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-73927506523385848622018-10-22T18:21:48.322-04:002018-10-22T18:21:48.322-04:00Kildozer! Yup that’s it...hahahahaaa...so badKildozer! Yup that’s it...hahahahaaa...so badBirgithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439720285857050428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-24593026519371135622018-10-20T21:27:11.617-04:002018-10-20T21:27:11.617-04:00Missed this post.
If you think The Day After is a...Missed this post.<br /><br />If you think The Day After is a downer, you should hunt down the British version, Threads or the other British version, The War Game.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-12199112232174892162018-10-20T18:44:25.242-04:002018-10-20T18:44:25.242-04:00I haven't even heard of Gable and Lombard. You...I haven't even heard of Gable and Lombard. You guys have me curious about how bad it is, lol. And Brolin's son really got the far better career.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-38538063960016368192018-10-19T19:36:59.419-04:002018-10-19T19:36:59.419-04:00That piece of drivel which Dell has rightly termed...That piece of drivel which Dell has rightly termed Craptacular is inventively (not) named Killdozer! And it is just as cheesy and low rent as you would imagine but happily you don't have to wonder because it's on YouTube! Here's the link: Enjoy or suffer at your leisure. :-)<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=1r3y-SRsNPI<br /><br />joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-41899648639858212102018-10-19T18:55:27.737-04:002018-10-19T18:55:27.737-04:00Yes, The Duel is a very fun movie. Haven't see...Yes, The Duel is a very fun movie. Haven't seen Dozer, but that sounds craptacular. The Day After is oppressive, to say the least, but it hovered over my childhood. Had to pick it.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-43479128124840254332018-10-19T12:43:48.797-04:002018-10-19T12:43:48.797-04:00I still have to see The Car and Christine...speaki...I still have to see The Car and Christine...speaking of cars. Have you ever seen Duel with Dennis Weaver? That is excellent and for camply crap there is Dozer-some unseen force inhabits a bulldozer and starts a killing rampage. I watched a TV show about cars and one guy wanted his car to look like The Car and he got his wish..weird. The Day After...I watched this with my dad and I might be naive but, even though nuclear fallout would kill the lot of us, I think we would still be alive and not in a Mad Max kind of way. That movie was so depressing and pessimistic, I still hear my dad yelling at the TV. I have yet to see Videodrone and might one day.Birgithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439720285857050428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-28286998170344235112018-10-19T12:29:43.030-04:002018-10-19T12:29:43.030-04:00Ughh Gable and Lombard is horrible but I like schl...Ughh Gable and Lombard is horrible but I like schlock so I have seen it since then. Brolin really wanted the career his son got. Birgithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439720285857050428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-18282129986853804472018-10-19T10:41:40.292-04:002018-10-19T10:41:40.292-04:00Ya, Tron is a very different viewing experience to...Ya, Tron is a very different viewing experience today than it was when it came out. I saw it in the theatre back in the day and it was so of the minute but like all technology everything about it has aged immeasurably. We're talking a period where IF you had a "cellular" phone it was bigger than a troop walkie-talkie that basically required a bag to carry around! I tried to watch it a while ago and felt similarly to you, my only real takeaway this time was how young Jeff Bridges was in it.<br /><br />Brolin did have that one movie high with Amityville but then it was straight back to TV. Not that that's a bad thing he's had a long successful career there but I know he was being touted as The Next Big Thing in film until G&L came out. I'm sure it was also kind of tough to watch Jill Clayburgh just slough off the disaster going directly into megahits Silver Streak, Semi-Tough, An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over one right after the other and receiving Oscar nominations for the last two while he was making junk like Steel Cowboy and High Risk.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-12170895657396776202018-10-19T09:04:26.415-04:002018-10-19T09:04:26.415-04:00I love The Car for all its nuttiness, but to think...I love The Car for all its nuttiness, but to think THAT was supposed to be his big comeback vehicle is hilarious, pun intended. To be fair, Brolin wasn't totally washed up. A couple years later, he was a major part of The Amityville Horror. <br /><br />Frankenstein, and the even better, Bride of Frankenstein are two movies I toyed with choosing before deciding not to. I love both of those.<br /><br />I've never seen Demon Seed, and to be honest, I'm not a big fan of Tron. Part of the reason it doesn't work for me is because I only saw it for the first time around 25 years after its initial release. The once-revolutionary visuals had become terribly dated and all I was left with was a weird, poorly executed story. Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-78494274089832156712018-10-19T08:50:53.940-04:002018-10-19T08:50:53.940-04:00I almost went with Christine and Maximum Overdrive...I almost went with Christine and Maximum Overdrive for a little theme within a theme action, but chickened out. Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-30214968095632269612018-10-19T08:49:40.923-04:002018-10-19T08:49:40.923-04:00Yes! They do know everything...EVERYTHING about us...Yes! They do know everything...EVERYTHING about us! And none of us can truly give them up.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-59544854996429554142018-10-19T08:45:25.140-04:002018-10-19T08:45:25.140-04:00The Car is a glorious mess while The Day After is ...The Car is a glorious mess while The Day After is a total downer. As far as I'm concerned Videodrome is Cronenberg's best by a wide margin.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-11957807852189386572018-10-18T11:31:44.488-04:002018-10-18T11:31:44.488-04:00THE CAR!!!! What a piece of Limburger cheese that ...THE CAR!!!! What a piece of Limburger cheese that is! But fun in it's low-budget nonsensical way. I remember when it came out, it was James Brolin's attempt to salvage his big screen career after the high profile fiasco of Gable & Lombard which he made while he was co-starring on Marcus Welby, M.D. the year before. It was supposed to have made megastars out of Jill Clayburgh and he but it was such a sorry fictitious mess all it ended up doing was insulting the memories of two truly great stars, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, and laying an enormous egg at the box office. That The Car was the best he was being offered after says alot about just how badly it wrecked his chances. <br /><br />I haven't seen Videodrome in so long I barely recall any of it but it fits well.<br /><br />The Day After is a sobering, terribly, terribly sad document. Brilliantly acted but so soul suckingly depressing, I've only watched it the once as well. <br /><br />I thought this would be harder to come up with three than it happily turned out to be. My three just popped right into my head, it's been the easy week of October so far.<br /><br />Frankenstein (1931)-Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) of whom it might be generously said has a screw or two loose attempts with the latest technology to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the dead in his laboratory deep within the walls of his remote castle. Assisted by the loyal, deformed Fritz (Dwight Frye), he succeeds in bringing his monster (Boris Karloff) to life in florid fashion. However, trouble is brewing when the confused and traumatized monster escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Iconic and seminal film impressively director by James Whale, with a touching performance by Karloff, set the standard for all horror movies to follow.<br /><br />Demon Seed (1977)-Susan Harris (Julie Christie) and her husband Dr. Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) a renowned scientist live in a home he has modified to be run by voice-activated computers. Dr. Harris has also developed Proteus IV, an extremely advanced and autonomous artificial intelligence program. When Harris becomes disturbed by Proteus’s demands to be let "out of this box". Harris switches off the communications link but Proteus restarts itself, constructs a robot takes control of the house and traps Susan inside. Object: impregnate Susan to assume human form. Strange, unsettling sci-fi based on a Dean Koontz novel is strengthened by having a talent like Julie Christie in the lead.<br /><br />Tron (1982)-Young computer engineer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) discovers that his work is being stolen by one of his company’s executives-Ed Dillinger (David Warner). He attempts to hack the system but something goes awry and Flynn is transported into the digital world, facing off against Dillinger's computerized likeness, Sark, and the imposing Master Control Program. Aided by Tron (Bruce Boxleitner) and Yori (Cindy Morgan), Flynn fights a technological battle for control. Though the graphics are wildly dated now they were cutting edge when this was released.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-5540198433583682562018-10-18T10:27:29.300-04:002018-10-18T10:27:29.300-04:00I'm hating myself so much for not thinking of ...I'm hating myself so much for not thinking of Videodrome. That film is so brilliant! I haven't seen the others but I picked a movie with a car too, Christine. Sonia Cercahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07313734872038610058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-61555154993289832532018-10-18T10:16:23.170-04:002018-10-18T10:16:23.170-04:00I haven't seen your other picks but we match o...I haven't seen your other picks but we match on Videodrome! What you mentioned about our phones. I think Black Mirror put it best: "These things absorb who we are. They know everything about us." Freaky, but I can't give mine up. Brittani Burnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07975067259283007280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-72179138509915029382018-10-18T00:58:09.284-04:002018-10-18T00:58:09.284-04:00I've always wanted to see The Car as I first h...I've always wanted to see <i>The Car</i> as I first heard about from Guillermo del Toro when he did that opening credits sequence for an episode of <i>The Simpsons</i>. I've never seen <i>The Day After</i> but I heard it was a total jerk-off of a film for its time. <i>Videodrome</i> is of course a classic though I often wonder which film of Cronenberg's is the best as I went on a theme within a theme for my pick.thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.com