Interesteg What makes it different from others?

GazerRise Fantastic!

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Predrag The film doesn't make sense, it's ridiculous, but it does have a good soundtrack, one of the most recognizable songs from the 80's and it can't help but make you laugh, even if the majority of this laughter comes from discussing what the hell is going on with whoever you're watching it with. Only in the 80's could they make a movie about a computer that falls in love with it's owner's girlfriend. Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) is an architect/bachelor who is always late for work. A colleague suggests Miles buys a personal organizer to help him run his life more smoothly but instead the sales assistant at the store sells Miles a computer that can do all the latest technology. The computer develops a personality called Edgar and he and Miles become best friend's. Meanwhile, a celloist/girl called Madeline (Virginia Madsen) moves into the upstairs apartment and she and Miles end up dating. Miles spends less time at home with Edgar but also enlists him to help win Madeline's affection's. During the course of this Edgar himself falls in love with Madeline and a love triangle ensues with many funny and emotional consequence's.This is a fantastic movie that's very well acted by it's star's and has an amazing soundtrack which if you don't have already you should order asap! The instrumental love song "Madeline's theme" by Giorgio Moroder is incredibly emotional and wonderful. This film is more than twenty five years old but it will never be out of date. A little bit funny, a little bit sad, and some fantastic music. It won't have you rolling round the aisles with laughter but it is a wonderful family movie.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

wayfinder8 When viewing this film one must remember it was made in 1984. Starring Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen and a computer... it is barely palatable rainy-Saturday-afternoon fare. Its primary plus is that it was Virginia Madsen's first movie and she came across well as the central romantic interest.We can't judge this movie by today's standards. With Jurassic Park still nine years away, CGI at that time was in very primitive stages. The computer used a CRT screen and telephone modem. That gives the viewer a hint of the era. As such, the movie has fairly advanced concepts: speech recognition, artificial intelligence, computer data exchange (the World Wide Net was still some time in the future)... so in those aspects the movie was "interesting".While I can't say this movie was a "stinker" (there are certainly far worse movies out there)... it is a yawner. The somewhat predictable plot as well as the "any old ending will do" wrap-up makes this an hour and a half of time to spend cleaning one's house instead. Parents would want to be cautioned about a singular and brief repetitive line of offensive language as the computer is learning to "speak"-- as well as increased cursing near the end of the movie.Bottom line there is better fare to watch. Aside from the historical aspect (Madisen's first real role and the concept of computers in 1984)... this is one that can be skipped with no loss. The character drama was cliché and over-the-top, the script juvenile, the music seemingly thrown in just to promote the songs and sell the soundtrack (common for the 80s)... and the story not all that entertaining. Not family fare... and not really all that appealing to adults either, this flick is a "watch it once" movie-- if you must. I doubt many will watch it a second time.

Jerghal 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).

Blueghost They don't make 'em like this anymore. Watching a restored version of this film on DVD put a smile on my face. It's a warm science fiction romance about an electronic prodigy with the sensibilities of a child come to life.Miles is the proverbial introvert who has a relatively good job, and is smitten by an arrival of the opposite sex in his building. But at the same time Miles, being a paper and pencil architect, is wondering how he can get his life organized. He goes for the obvious option of seeking a left brained solution. In other words; a computer.But the logic circuits of keyboard, monitor and printer cannot compare to the ultimate solution of a second mind in the form of a the fairer sex. Miles discovers the thing that a computer can not give him, and Edgar, his computer, discovers what he cannot have and has always misunderstood about human feelings.It's a simple film with lots of cinematic trickery to make it appear bigger than it actually is. It's a film about heart and mind, and about which wins out over the other. It's a classic tale of the mind finding the heart, and the heart finding peace of mind with another soul.One of the appealing things is seeing various exteriors shot locally, including a local radio personality whom I used to listen to on KMEL, the Blue Angels, Palace of Fine Arts and a number of other places. The music is of course classic 80's fare, and the primitive electronic tones highlight's the time and themeIt's a delightful warm-hearted film that I waited many years to see again in its full widescreen glory, and relive some younger days when things were a little more innocent, and a little more lively. When computers needed dialup modems, electronic music had just come into its own, and video games were still using cartridges (note the Activision cartridges for the Atari 2600 behind Miles when he purchases his computer, Edgar).Well, I waited well over 20 years to see it, and I'm glad I did. It's the kind of simple and loving film that I would be proud to shoot for the rest of my life. It has heart, it has warmth, it is a segment of 1980s San Francisco Bay Area that puts a smile on this viewers face. It is electronic romance San Francisco 1980's style.Please watch it and enjoy, but try not to be too judgmental.