Brainstorm (1983)
In this movie my man Michael Brace played by legend dude Christopher Walken (and really i could just stop right here because like me you might just watch it because of the guy) and his lab buddy Lillian Reynolds - whose main character thing is to smoke around 178 cigarettes - are 2 genius scientists who are working on a device that can record people’s feelings, thoughts and make a videotape of it so other dudes can experience it all, you would need to wear a special science helmet and then you can see, feel and taste what someone else saw, felt and tasted. It’s like the ultimate VR experience from the eighties (yes of course you can use it for porn, it’s not a 80s movie without a boobs scene). Of course the military had to get their nose in this project after a big breakthrough from our 2 scientists, as they see in this device a cool new fun way to torture people and that’s when things started to go nuts, specially when someone decided to record their own death.

Brainstorm aka Proyecto Brainstorm in Colombia is a science fiction movie released in 1983 directed by Douglas Trumbull and written by Bruce J. Rubin. Douglas Trumbull is a legend in the visual effect field who also directed a few movies, he’s know for his work on 2001 a space odyssey, Close encounter of the third kind or Blade Runner and this is why this movie is visually striking. Bruce J. Rubin wrote stuff like Ghost with my man Swayze, classic Deep Impact but his best work was possibly when he wrote Stuart Little 2, i mean come on a talking mouse who gets in the local soccer team, you can’t make this stuff up but he can.

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This movie is a mess but it looks great. The plot doesn’t make much sense, it doesn’t really go anywhere but yeah it looks really cool. Part of it can be explained because the main actress Natalie Wood died before the end of the filming on some sort of boat accident, supposedly after that the movie company tried to kill the movie and to cash some insurance money, the regular corporate bullshit, Doug Trumbull had the final word and decided to finish it but he also decided he had enough of those corporate sharks and decided not to direct anymore movie.

Few words about the cast, CHRISTOPHER FUCKIN WALKEN, that’s about it. But well yeah probably not his best gig, he doesn’t really look like he gives a shit but like always he looks like he could be that dude who go get some milk for the family at 10 and then proceed to shoot all his coworkers with a sawed shotgun at 11.
So yeah i wouldn’t say it’s a great movie but it looks really cool, my hombre Douggy used this cool trick i’ve never seen before where the “dream” sequences inside the device are played widescreen while the normal ones are different. That’s the thing about this movie, it could have been so much more. There could have been confusing scenes where it appears to be a normal scene but it plays out widescreen like a dream sequence so you don’t know what’s real anymore in some sort of end of Inception type deal. Also they barely tap into the potential of the device, like this short scene where Mike (Christopher Walken) can play the piano just because of a sequence recorded on the device by his wife playing the piano, some “i know kung fu” Matrix type scenario. But yeah i guess it’s easier to write about a mouse who’s playing soccer with regular size kids.

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Of course it’s hollywood so it had to end up like a classic science gone wrong and the government wants to use my shit to destroy people’s mind and guide death projectiles from a distance but i’m gonna stop them story. But anyway the concept is really interesting, they filmed this in 1981 and it just blows my mind how they could come up with all that at the time, there’s some hacking involved too, i don’t understand the technology behind it but it’s there.

When you’re playing somewhere and they didn’t get you the Tim Tam on your rider
The soundtrack is good, thanks to the work of James Horner, huge resume but if you need to remember only 1 thing remember he worked on cult classic Commando. Nothing crazy though it’s pretty classic and i’d recommend playing this movie without the sound while you’re having a couple of friends over to get rekt on your substance of choice while listening to some chaotic anthems. What makes this movie great to me is the visual effect, photography and the amazing editing from Freeman Davies (who worked on The Warriors).

I’m a sucker for very obvious product placement and coke is life and so is Ruff potato chips (feel free to send me a box of those as we don’t have it in France)


Special shout out to this dude for this impeccable acting

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