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Electric Dreams

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All fans of this movie do me a favor. Vote for this review. I ask this not for me, but for the movie. Here is something I have noticed with other reviews I have done. If there are alot of reviews written and several receive lots of votes, the movie follows on DVD. I saw this with "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "The Enemy Below", and "Shoot to Kill" to name a few. Get your friends to vote too. I assure your if we arouse enough interest at this review page we will see results. Amazon notices and pressures the studios. Lets make this happen! It is starting to work. Any time they ask for your e-mail address to be notified when it is released on DVD, things are definitely happening. You people are making it happen!!! Well several of us have contacted MGM, Ted Turner, and Sony to no avail, but you can bet we aren't giving up.

Plot: An architect named Miles buys a computer to help him design a new brick to withstand earthquakes. When he spills champagne in it, it comes to life. Miles falls in love with a cello playing neighbor, and the computer becomes jealous and starts to make his life hell on Earth. The computer is quite dated in this movie since it was made about twenty-five years ago. It is still a blast to watch, and the music is excellent. I'm surprised they haven't done a remake of this one.

As of February 24th, 2011 this is still not available in Region 1 format. If you have a region free DVD player you can get a copy of it on DVD Electric Dreams [Region 2]. The soundtrack Electric Dreams - Soundtrack is available on CD and I love it.

I always liked this movie and had to get a copy of it on VHS, even though the price was set for video stores. I still really enjoy this movie. Only in the '80s could they make a movie about a computer that falls in love with it's owner's girlfriend. The music and the atosphere really 'click' in this movie. It has a new wave feel to it, and the plot seems to flow nicely. It would be nice to see this movie released on DVD because it was originally filmed in cinemascope, but the video is formatted in full screen, so some things look cut-off. Other than this, I am glad that I was able to find the VHS version of this movie still available.

This is an absolutely delightful comedy that never found an audience and was yeasrs ahead of its time in its portrayal of the relationship between a computer and its owner. It cries out for release on DVD!!!

This is your classic love-triangle romantic-comedy. Boy meets Girl. Boy falls in love with Girl. Boy buys Computer. Girl falls in love with Computer? Ok, well maybe it's not exactly the 'usual formula', but this was a movie way ahead of it's time, and yet still classic enough to make you long for the 80's again.

Long before Morpheus told Neo about A.I., this plucky little computer named Edgar, sprang a mind of his own, and wound up nearly overtaking a poor loser's girl away from him. Sure it's not world domination, but then again would it be as funny if instead of the computer calling Dr. Ruth for 'relationship help', it tried to 'play a game' called Global Thermonuclear War?

He's the basic premise. Guy winds up getting suckered, by a rather enterprising saleswoman, into buying a computer that can do everything. And by everything I'm talking it can control all of your appliances, lights, doorlocks, etc. And this was a computer from 1984. No not Orwell's story, but released in theaters in '84, when I could only play 'Pong' on my Atari. Anyways, the guy winds up spilling wine on his new computer, while it's connected by modem to his Boss's mainframe. This apparently has been the secret to A.I., because before you know it, the computer has a mind of it's own and is learning exponentially. (Perhaps this is why we've always been taught to keep food and drink away from our little 'electronic friends'?) While our would-be Hero learns about his computer's newfound abilities, a beautiful cellist, that's a classical bass for those not in the know, moves in upstairs. As the 'Girl Upstairs' is practicing for her job with the Philharmonic Orchestra, our highly-intelligent little CPU overhears her tune and winds up mimicing, and then 'dueling' her musically. Of course she believes it's actually 'The Guy Downstairs' playing, not a 'Learning Computer'. Go figure, huh? So needless to say the poor-shlub tries to use the computer's supergenius-virtuoso ability, to impress the girl. Unforunately for him, the computer doesn't just have brains, but feelings as well, and one of them happens to be jealousy. See the computer finds that he loves the girl and believes that she must really love him, since it is his music that impressed her to begin with. Well needless to say this leads to comedic hillarity as the computer, who acts, not to mention talks, much like a spoiled 12-year-old who's denied something he really wants, battles it out with his 'owner'. And I don't mean in the usual HAL 9000 or 'Joshua' from WarGames fashion. But rather in a way that may just have inspired many a modern-day Hacker and Indentity Thief. I won't spoil how it all turns out, but this movie with the tagline 'A Computer Fairy Tale', is much better than anything the Brother's Grimm ever came up with.

There's only ONE drawback. The movie ISN'T on DVD! This is a must have in any 80's Freak's, Romantic Tear-jerker's, Comedy Nut's, or even Computer Geek's movie library. And how can you complete your collection if it's not even for sale? I think it's High Time that the film's owners dusted this classic off and placed it on disc so that we can show the younger generation, we knew quite a bit about a computer's capabalities 'back in the day'. Or maybe we might get lucky and fool 'em into thinking that our 'electronic toys' were better than their's are!

This is an excellent, light romantic comedy and Virginia Madsen's second movie (the first being "Class" in 1983). It is loosely based on an idea (unacknowledged in the credits) first developed by Kurt Vonnegut in a short story called "EPICAC."

The story concerns an introverted young architect named Miles, who accidentally imbues his PC with artificial intelligence by downloading an enormous amount of data into it and subsequently spilling champaigne on the motherboard (okay, stop groaning, it's a comic fantasy). Miles is on his way to befriending his serendipitously made acquaintance when he meets his pretty neighbor Madeline (Madsen), the cellist, who lives upstairs.

Unfortunately for Miles, while he is working up the courage to pursue Madeline, Edgar, the computer, has heard her playing music and has also become smitten with her, and the sparks begin to fly in an all's-fair-in-love-and-war, every man/machine for himself/itself classic romatic triangle with a twist.

This is a very funny movie which taps tentatively into the larger question of what makes us human. It's one of those overlooked classics of light entertainment. After seeing 62 other reviews of this movie here, I begin to wonder what the rights holders are thinking -- 80$?, NO DVD? What's wrong with you people -- are you allergic to money? Wake up and smell the greenbacks! Get this thing on DVD, and for a reasonable price and I'm sure that lots of people will snap it up!...

This movie first interested me because Bud Cort was the voice of "Edgar" (the computer). I thought it was going to be a somewhat cheesy movie but it wasn't at all! This movie has actually became one of my favorite movies. I don't understand why it's not on DVD. This movie made me laugh and cry. Needs to be released on DVD!!!!

It's funny how some things stick with you your whole life, while most things you experience don't. This is one of those movies that touch the soul. I saw this movie over 20 years ago and have not forgotten how good it is.

I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it. Even though it was a love triangle involving a computer I felt for edgar. I've been waiting for ages for this to come on DVD as it is one of my favorite movies. I hope the sudio will release it soon cause there are a lot of us here waiting to see it.

What's the holdup? Is it because it has a Virgin label on it? Why is this movie not on DVD? I don't normally write about anything, but I must for this one. This movie has a great soundtrack, great song, "Together in Electric Dreams," and San Francisco cinematography. Plus, Virginia Madsen's on it.

I just love it when the music clicks with a film. Electric dreams has an incredible soundtrack featuring the great synthesized sound of ELO ( big fan of ELO since Xanadu), beautiful love ballads by the popular 80's band Culture Club and other great feel good music. After watching this movie on cable over a dozen of times, I rushed out and bought the soundtrack. This movie also introduced me to the lovely and talented Virginia Madison. I don't see what the studios are waiting for she just received a nominee for supporting actress in "Sideways". THis is definately a computer cult classic and
A true Gem which I am waiting for its release on DVD (wideformat). Come on, you can do it. RAH! RAH! RAH! 80's!!