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A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Miles Harding (Lenny von Dohlen) is a San Francisco architect working on an earthquake-proof brick. He buys a computer and connects it to his home. He downloads everything and spills champagne onto the computer. Madeline Robistat (Virginia Madsen) moves in upstairs. The computer becomes fascinated with her cello playing and joins in. Madeline thinks it's Miles playing. They start dating with the computer creating music for Madeline and Miles taking the credit. That is until the computer revolt.This was movie computing. It's absolutely silly but it's probably one of the most romantic computer movies. It's 80's-tastic. It takes bits from Cyrano de Bergerac and gives it an alternate ending. It's got the synthpoppy Video and quite a few fun songs. It's got the lovely Virginia Madsen and nerd-hunky Lenny von Dohlen. It's completely silly but charming nonetheless.

Electric DreamsComputers make great lovers because they don't care if you text during sex.Mind you, the self-aware hardware in this romantic-comedy probably would have a problem.With hopes of designing an earthquake proof structure, architect Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) purchases a computer to help in the process.But when an alcoholic beverage is spilt over its circuit board, the passive processor gains a playful personality, Edgar (Bud Cort).One day, Edgar makes a musical connection with Miles' neighbour Madeline (Virginia Madsen), who assumes that it is Miles she is communing with.Over time, however, Edgar begins to resent Miles' relationship with Madeline and electronically sabotages his financial and personal well-being.Pondering the pitfalls of online dating before it even existed, this silicon nod to Cyrano de Bergerac is a sly and sadistic snapshot of our soon-to-be society.Incidentally, computers don't mind it if you break-up with them via a text.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

A guy rivals with his beige 286 PC over a woman...Hollywood and computers...sigh. It begins when this guy buys this PC, connects it to his boss' mainframe over a 9600bps telephone line and in 2 seconds downloads well uh... everything. This causes the computer to smoke (there was no memory full error in those days apparently) so then he pours champagne over his keyboard which magically gushes into his computers case behind it and somehow fuses the circuits into an AI! Well thanks for the tip, we'll tell our scientists right away, that'll save 'em decades of R&D. To continue: all he needs to do next is connect all of his electrical appliances (blender, TV, radio, door lock) with their electrical plugs into the computer (what ports are those?) and this gives the PC control over all them. It doesn't take long before the computer learns to think, speak, compose music, make poetry - well heck it makes mankind look like a bunch of amateur hacks. Next step: love. Not being content having accomplished human evolution in a day or two the beige evildoer wants the girl this guy has an eye on for himself. The poor schmuck gets terrorized by it but even then he can't bring himself to pull the power plug of the PC (which erases the memory - so does turning of the screen in most films) or that of his demonic appliances. In the end (spoiler) the competitive box comes to it's senses and blows itself up (again by telephone line over which it now manages to pull 40000 volts) as an act of love although the schmuck was going to smash it with an axe if it didn't. Guess the computer was the better man after all. The End. So was it a good film: short answer is no. There is the likable 80s music yes, but as you can tell by my short synopsis the film is utterly ridiculous. Main actor Lenny von Dohlen has no charisma or acting talent and neither has his daft androgynous computer. Virginia Madsen is the only likable one in the whole film, but that can't save it. I'm not sorry I've seen it but there are waaay better 80s movies out there (start with Ferris Bueller's Day Off if you haven't seen any of them).

I went to see this film on at the time of it's original theatrical release in the UK. I quite enjoyed it - It was light and fluffy and the story and music was nicely uplifting. And they showed the video that was issued to promote the Moroder/Oakey title song.Then I saw the reviews. It was being received as one the worst films ever made. Every film critic in the business seemed to jump on the bandwagon shouting "Me too ! Me too! - This film was crap".Well I have seen a lot of turkeys in my time and this wasn't one of them. I recently watched it again and found that it was cute, and a nice reminder of what the 80's was like for some.