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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1249
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790.0. "Ghost in the Machine" by BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY (Trouble with a capital 'T') Fri Mar 24 1995 13:45

    
    	Karen Allen and a supporting cast of unknowns.
    
    	Not to be confused with THE "Ghost" that everyone is familiar
    	with, this one's about "The Address Book Killer" who becomes
    	a permanent part of the info superhighway when a power surge
    	occurs during an MRI after he had a car accident.  Sounds sim-
    	ilar to "Shocker", doesn't it?
    
    	Now he's imbedded into the network and is going after Karen
    	Allen and her kid.
    
    	I fell asleep, so I only saw the 1st 1/2 hour or so [it was
    	early morning when I started to watch it a few days ago on
    	cable, and I was laying in bed and tired], so I have no idea
    	how it ended.
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790.1in the machine...NEMAIL::CARROLLJEven a clown knows when to strikeFri Mar 24 1995 13:5216
    
    You're confused, Sean - you're talking about *Ghost in the Machine* a
    fairly decent b-grade with decent computer effects.  I'll put the
    ending after a spoiler :
    
    
    
    They end up blowing apart the serial killer's physical presence, which
    looks like a bunch of colored floating marbles ala Lawnmower Man using
    a really big magnet, after a typical b-grade chase-ohno the heroine's
    in danger-damn I dropped my weapon-gee we're safe-argh no we're not-the
    bad guy's back-bang he's explosively dead-type finale.
    
    			Hope this helps :-)
    
    				- Jimbo
790.2BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTYTrouble with a capital 'T'Fri Mar 24 1995 14:117
    
    	Well, I saw the title come up and it didn't say "in the Machine",
    	but I believe you.
    
    	And I read your spoiler, which doesn't contain too many surprises
    	that would ruin the movie.  8^)
790.3Topic title changed by moderatorKOLFAX::WIEGLEBHorses are fine, so are booksFri Mar 24 1995 16:250
790.4[moderator action]HUMOR::EPPESI'm not making this up, you knowFri Mar 31 1995 20:084
The burgeoning rathole about duplicate movie titles has been moved to its
own topic, #798.  Please continue discussion of "Ghost in the Machine" here.

-- Nina
790.5REGENT::POWERSMon Jun 05 1995 11:0112
>    fairly decent b-grade with decent computer effects.  

No, not even decent for "B-grade." 
And I won't dispute that the special effects were state-of-the-art, 
but they also weren't very imaginative.

Good premise at the start about how he gets INTO the machine, horrid
premise about how he works while he's there.
Ultra cliche.
Waste of time.

- tom]