Menno's Mind

[SilverShoes]

I saw this on TV just recently. I guess it's about 13 years old (it had a 1996 copyright date), but I'd never heard of it. It's about a scheme by a politician in the future to plant subliminal messages in virtual reality programming to influence voters.

It's a pretty cool movie, with an excellent all star B movie cast, including:

Michael "Worf" Dorn
Robert Picardo
Corbin Bernsen
Robert Vaughan (!!!)
Phil Proctor (of Firesign Theatre)
Mark McClure (who played Jimmy Olsen in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies)
Bruce Campbell (of Evil Dead fame, also played Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep, etc)

And the music was done by Christopher Franke of Tangerine Dream fame)

Like I said, it was a pretty good movie, dunno if it's out on DVD, but it's worth checking out if you get a chance.

[yarstruly]

Virtual Reality...That's a term you don't hear much anymore....Guess it wasn't the wave of the future after all?

[SilverShoes]

Virtual Reality...That's a term you don't hear much anymore....Guess it wasn't the wave of the future after all?

I hadn't thought about it, but yeah, you're right. I guess we can file that one away with the automated home that was supposed to do all the housework for us, jetpacks, rocket cars, and those Pan Am flights to the Moon that Kubrick promised us. All of them things that we were supposed to have "in the future", but none of them ever quite panned out, did they?

Geez, the 21st century sure has turned out to be a wash out hasn't it? The best thing about it so far is that we finally got a new Magma studio album, and I finally got to see Nektar, Steve Hillage Band, and a few other bands I never thought I'd get to see.

PS: the jetpacks actually do exist, one was used in Thunderball, but the problem is the fuel only lasts about 5 minutes, which is long enough to allow you to travel a few miles, but you basically have to be a jet pilot to fly the thing without killing yourself.

[heartofthesunrise]

I saw this on TV just recently. I guess it's about 13 years old (it had a 1996 copyright date), but I'd never heard of it. It's about a scheme by a politician in the future to plant subliminal messages in virtual reality programming to influence voters.

It's a pretty cool movie, with an excellent all star B movie cast, including:

Michael "Worf" Dorn
Robert Picardo
Corbin Bernsen
Robert Vaughan (!!!)
Phil Proctor (of Firesign Theatre)
Mark McClure (who played Jimmy Olsen in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies)
Bruce Campbell (of Evil Dead fame, also played Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep, etc)

And the music was done by Christopher Franke of Tangerine Dream fame)
Like I said, it was a pretty good movie, dunno if it's out on DVD, but it's worth checking out if you get a chance.

Wasn't Billy (Rocketeer, 4400) Campbell in that, too? I do remember seeing this. Wasn't bad for Sci-fi Channel, at the time. Now they've turned into 'creature of the week' dreck. Their Saturday night movies are soooo bad.

[SilverShoes]

Wasn't Billy (Rocketeer, 4400) Campbell in that, too? I do remember seeing this. Wasn't bad for Sci-fi Channel, at the time. Now they've turned into 'creature of the week' dreck. Their Saturday night movies are soooo bad.

Yeah, even for "B-movies" they're not very good.

We first got the Sci-Fi Channel back around 97, and for the first four or five years we had it, I watched it religiously...lots of good old shows like Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, The Bionic Woman, and Night Gallery. And they showed good B-movies, as well as lots of old made for TV pictures.

Their original shows they had on around 2001-2002 were great too: Farscape, The Invisible Man, etc were lots of fun, and I really dug watching the short film show Exposure.

But after about 2003 or 2004, that all went away. Now there's next to nothing worth watching on there, other than Doctor Who. I dug Eureka, but was always unnerved by the pro wrestling promos that came on afterwards.

Nowadays about the only decent thing they have on regularly are Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns.