Another tape. This time the 80s classic Scanners. It has the feel of dawn of the 80s down pat and David Cronenberg is at his best here. While the cast is forgettable, the never, ever dull Micheal Ironside gives a great turn as the evil Scanner Darryl Revok. The Prisoner's Patrick McGoohan was almost unrecognizable to me.
The story was fun and had some great moments (the head exploding).
Connor loved the psychic story line, he is a sucker for all that.
He did mention, and this is something I have noticed as well, is that as movies get more modern the psychic power level increases. Compare the Scanners to Dark City or even the Tomorrow People TV show. He did not care for the end though and I can't blame him.
Both of us were confused about the whole "Scanning a computer" deal.
I loved this poster. Always freaked me out.
This is one of my favorite movies, even though the tenuous connection between a human nervous system and a computer is hard to swallow today (and could easily have been solved with some kind of brain interface device with electrodes). As well-known as the US poster is, I admit it never did much for me; the Italian poster is a real treat for the eyes.
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