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Anybody else out there remember this film? It's the one with the guns that could instantly hypnotize a person and they'd awaken hours later not knowing what happened.
I like it for the special effects, (read Susan Dey being scanned - Yum!), the obviously correct prediction that in the future, CGI will become indistinguishable from real, and that it was a genuinely good action flick.
This is one of those movies that played about 8 times a week on Showtime and/or HBO when I was a kid. I watched it at least a dozen times, though I don't think I've seen it in 30 years.
This is one of those movies that played about 8 times a week on Showtime and/or HBO when I was a kid. I watched it at least a dozen times, though I don't think I've seen it in 30 years.
Same here. Saw it a couple of times on HBO back in the early 80s. Completely forgot about it until now.
The plot was that the were killing models because they could just digitally re-make the image for much cheaper. With the Pong/Atari technology that was out at the time, I remember even at six years old thinking it was ridiculous.
Now we are there. Now you can go see a hologram Tupac concert in Japan. We will see new movies in our lifetime starring Marylyn Monroe and John Wayne.
Also, as a six year old I really liked the light guns, and to be blunt, all of the breasts!
But it is the prophetic nature of the film that is really interesting.
from Looker (1981) to just 19 years later: S1m0ne (2002) with no less than Al Pacino starring.
I liked this movie as it portrayed the advancement of CGI to Indistinguishable from Reality quality of imagery, but still needed a human to generate the art. (Unlike other AI movies that don't recognize how huge that extra step will be).
I do! It's actually a pretty decent sci-fi thriller. The same basic plot idea was later used in a James Cameron film from the '90s whose name I've forgotten. All I remember was that Ralph Fiennes was in it, and it's the only boring James Cameron movie I've ever seen, which is probably why I've forgotten it.
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