Diagonaldi Very well executed

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Dalbert Pringle Set "20 minutes into the future" - Max Headroom is a short-run, 1987, TV series that posed the possibility (as far-fetched as it sounded) of actually translating people into computer data.Yes. Today - 30 years later - That potentiality does convert into old news. But, back then - It really sparked the interest of many-a-viewer who religiously tuned into this program like total fiends.With its episodes rarely ever being shot in natural light - Max Headroom's vision of the future was, indeed, a decidedly cold and callous one where cynicism and corruption prevailed on every street corner.Injecting elements of both punk and new wave into its 1-hour episodes - This surprisingly short-lived series certainly had its fair share of good points, as well as its not-so-good points, too.

Ian Alexander Martin (IamIAM-1) Knowing that something was "highly influential" in many ways by reputation, and actually watching something and seeing bits of various things which come before and after its creation--thus revealing the things which made this possible, and then the things which this thing made possible--are two entirely different understandings of the matter.I watched a few episodes of Max Headroom when it originally aired, and thought them pretty good. After a while the novelty of 'Max' palled and I was watching more for the plot-lines. Watching it now reveals some fairly accurate and prescient computer technology, as well as some damned good media and culture criticism.There's a fair bit of a down-scaling of production values from the start of the series to the end, most notably in the number of extra characters who might be of assistance to our heroic news reporter. Of special loss was the limited involvement of "Rik" the pedi-cab operator. His seeming insouciance, coupled with a contemplative nature when faced with a dangerous challenge was fascinating; yet he disappeared after showing up only three times. Blank Reg ends up being the 'go to guy' for things both technical and comedic, and he's good, but we could have done with a bit of both characters.The episodes in the last half of the series tended to be more 'this week's issue' than the earlier ones, which tended to be more of what we would now call 'cyberpunk' but then called 'weird techno-stuff' (both are proper terms, by the way). The specificity of the attack on censorship in the episode "Lessons" seems to both looking forward in time to when those of wealth and power will control the advantages that education and its skills can provide, while also looking back to the previous autumn's episode "Deities" and the problems that must have arisen from featuring a religious leader of questionable moral fibre as a character with their own interests being placed ahead of their own teachings; including bedding the reporter (also an old flame of hers) in order to keep him busy while Max was stolen and used as a bargaining chip to prevent an exposé of the church's scam of reproduction of deceased loved ones.Throughout the episodes a constant theme is one of examination of how technology can in the wrong hands be either used to inure the public to an increasing lack of control over their own lives and thoughts (Marshall McLuhan once saying "I'm becoming increasingly less and less private, and I'd much rather be (a village) idiot" is increasingly apt every day than when he said it), or to simply allow people to be just as venal and short-sighted as they are without the technology. What was at the time a bit of a far-fetched SF, has turned out to be more of an unheeded warning than anything else. the internet was a vague notion of DAARPA's at the time, as were computer viruses and people wanting to be anonymous 'blanks' in society, yet all of this has come to be old hat to us. Even the idea of transferring someone's memory and usual response patterns into a computer are far closer to reality than fiction; Siri... I need to hide a body...

LegoMovieMan Max Headroom. What can be said about him? Ahead of his time.Just as an aside: The Max Headroom this section of IMDb refers to is the 1987 short-lived ABC series, as opposed to the original Channel 4 British 2-hour TV-movie, which aired in 1985, and was subsequently released on home video as "Max Headroom: The Original Story." Well, that was a long sentence.Now then, Max Headroom. It was a show that followed the exploits of one Edison Carter, the intrepid reporter, as he tried to uncover the shadier sides of a corporate future (20 minutes into the future, to be exact) where success is measured in ratings. From advertisements inducing epileptic (and explosive) seizures, to in vitro babies being stolen for their high intelligence, Edison covered it all for 12 actually aired episodes (14 total), before being cancelled. Of course, in doing this, Edison Carter naturally unearthed the corruption of the networks that were often partially responsible for such wrongdoing. And since Max Headroom (the show) was so spot-on in it's predictions of where television was taking society, it was seen as both a breath of fresh air for the viewers who got it, and a slap in the face for the 'real' networks, who realized "hey! They're making fun of us on this show." Perhaps the best example of this from the series is in one episode where Edison Carter, in one of his usual outbursts, asks producer Murray, "Since WHEN has news been ENTERTAINMENT??"Murray calmly looks at him and, very reasonable, replies:"...Since it was invented?"This is all fine, but I'm forgetting one important part of the show: Max himself. Max Headroom is a computer generated character based on the memories and mental functions of Edison Carter. In the SPOILER first episode, Edison SPOILER gets knocked out in an bike accident whilst trying to uncover *something*. In order for Network 23 (who was, of course, behind it all) to keep Carter's reports coming in, but keep Carter himself out of commission, they have the head of Network R&D, Bryce Lynch (who is, of course, a teenager) create a computer-generated version of Edison Carter, and feed Edison's mind into this CG creation. Of course, the CG-carter doesn't work correctly, and upon activation, begins stuttering "M-m-max Headr-r-room," 'Max Headroom' being the last words Edison saw in the parking garage before getting knocked unconscious. OK, well, I've said enough now. Max Headroom. An excellent show for all the reasons above. It'd be nice to see him make a reappearance, now that many of the show's prophesies are coming to light.

GalaxyGa Everyone seems to remember Max Headroom, the character and Coke pitchman, but a lot of people forget about the series Max was in. The other thing a lot of people forget is that Max in the TV screen was _not_ cgi; Max was pre-cgi, and Matt Frewer did incredibly good acting as Max. Besides that, Matt also was the lead in the series and did a lot of work as Edison Carter as well as Max.The series didn't last nearly long enough for me; the original title, "Twenty Minutes Into the Future" is very accurate-- technologically, stylistically, and in terms of content and post-production, "Max Headroom" was ahead of its time. It was a mid-season replacement and never found its audience; the database lists the tv-movie, the series (14 or 15 eps), and the original talk show which started the whole thing. I'm still amazed at the wisdom (or lack thereof) of television execs who can cancel a series halfway through a season. Then again, "Max Headroom" was about television, making some eerily accurate predictions (CNN, tabloid talk shows), and television execs are nothing if not chickens.Still, it would be too, too cool to see Max pop up to comment about the millennium...