It's a very silly movie. As I remember, with slight innacccuracies and definite spoilers: Guy named Miles buys new computer, which is super-fancy, although secretly something made by DEC (check out the keyboard in the video there). It asks for his name, which he typos (leading to the computer referring to him as "Moles" throughout the film). While celebrating his new toy, he spills wine on the motherboard, which sizzles and fries and becomes self-aware. It proceeds to have a noodly synth jam with the chick next door, convincing her that Miles is a musical prodigy (although he's kind of confused when she says "Hey, that was great last night! We should do it again!" he's no fool, so he plays along).
Computer has also fallen in love with chick next door and gets jealous, since Miles can, like, hug her and go on dates while the computer is just a computer and has no arms nor lips to kiss. I think there's something about mail-order stuff being ordered by the computer and wired into Miles' apartment. Computer freaks out, then realizes it's being naughty and it was not meant to be so it might as well let Miles and the chick have a nice life. It self-destructs in order to let them be happy, but not before uploading itself to the world-wide internets (or to ATMs or something), gives Miles loads of cash, and manages to synthesize Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey playing a song called "Together in Electric Dreams" which it then releases to world-wide airplay and calls in to request on the very radio station Miles and the chick are listening to as they drive around in their fancy new car on the Golden Gate Bridge just in time for a closing-credits fade-out.
It's super-silly, and hasn't been released on DVD. If it were, I'd SO totally have a copy.
That synth jam in the video there was a formative experience on par with the first time I heard "Autobahn" and the musical scene at the end of "Revenge of the Nerds." Later I would be disappointed that it was actually kind of hard to get my Commodore 64 to do little squares like that while playing music.
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Date: 2006-10-17 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-17 09:39 pm (UTC)Dig Giorgio's Mail Pouch tobacco thermometer, though.
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Date: 2006-10-18 01:48 am (UTC)"Electric Dreams."
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Date: 2006-10-18 02:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-18 01:11 pm (UTC)It's a very silly movie. As I remember, with slight innacccuracies and definite spoilers: Guy named Miles buys new computer, which is super-fancy, although secretly something made by DEC (check out the keyboard in the video there). It asks for his name, which he typos (leading to the computer referring to him as "Moles" throughout the film). While celebrating his new toy, he spills wine on the motherboard, which sizzles and fries and becomes self-aware. It proceeds to have a noodly synth jam with the chick next door, convincing her that Miles is a musical prodigy (although he's kind of confused when she says "Hey, that was great last night! We should do it again!" he's no fool, so he plays along).
Computer has also fallen in love with chick next door and gets jealous, since Miles can, like, hug her and go on dates while the computer is just a computer and has no arms nor lips to kiss. I think there's something about mail-order stuff being ordered by the computer and wired into Miles' apartment. Computer freaks out, then realizes it's being naughty and it was not meant to be so it might as well let Miles and the chick have a nice life. It self-destructs in order to let them be happy, but not before uploading itself to the world-wide internets (or to ATMs or something), gives Miles loads of cash, and manages to synthesize Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey playing a song called "Together in Electric Dreams" which it then releases to world-wide airplay and calls in to request on the very radio station Miles and the chick are listening to as they drive around in their fancy new car on the Golden Gate Bridge just in time for a closing-credits fade-out.
It's super-silly, and hasn't been released on DVD. If it were, I'd SO totally have a copy.
That synth jam in the video there was a formative experience on par with the first time I heard "Autobahn" and the musical scene at the end of "Revenge of the Nerds." Later I would be disappointed that it was actually kind of hard to get my Commodore 64 to do little squares like that while playing music.
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Date: 2006-10-18 04:07 pm (UTC)