Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-03 (Saturday)

On Sun, 4 May 2025 11:00:52 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 5/4/2025 10:23 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

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Demon Seed (Fawesome) 1977 movie starring Fritz Weaver as a computer
scientist who as the movie opens is putting the finishing touches on a
new supercomputer buried deep underground that will make human decision
making obsolete.  Then it got smart, a new order of intelligence.  The
people in charge panicked and tried to pull the plug.  Unfortunately,
not before the computer decided it wanted to impregnate a woman (Julie
Christie).  "You like games?  So do I."

 

I think I only saw this once on TV about 30 years ago.  Xfinity gave me
a list of streaming options.  I first tried to stream this on XumoPLay,
but it was in the wrong aspect ratio.  I then selected Fawesome and it
showed it in the proper 2.40:1 aspect ratio.  So this would be my first
time getting to see it in the proper aspect ratio.

 
Somehow, somebody convinced Julie Christie to star in body horror pr0n.
 
I've read the Dean R. Koontz novel. The changes they made were Proteus
used a hypnotic voice to control the human mind, and an "off screen"
portion of the novel in which Susan was tortured over an entire weekend
as Proteus mapped her entire nervous system by looking for then repeatedly
stimulated her pain receptors.
 

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The movie was a bit clumsy with this.  There's a scene where the
computer is inserting probes into her head to control her, but then
after that scene they pretty much just drop it.
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I think this was the first time I heard of a reference to fiber optics.
 
Robert VAughn was the voice of Proteus.
 

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I did *not* know that!

Ah, I didn't know it since I'm not sure if or when I saw it, but
listening to this trailer it was quite obvious the moment he talked
who was doing the voice. His being such a distinctive voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6O1NRs-YuU

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