Subj : Re: Terminal Entry Movie
To   : hyjinx
From : DustCouncil
Date : Tue Jun 29 2021 16:12:00

 hy> Around about 1986/87 a real cheesy B-Movie that claimed it 'took off
 hy> where Wargames left off', called Terminal Entry. I saw about 5 minutes
 hy> of it when I was a kid then my mom made me switch it off because it had
 hy> boobies in it or something ;)

I collect these -- movies about computers.  Terminal Entry is a real stinker.
Terminal Entry is almost one of those movies that worked towards an 80s
cheese aesthetic; like they were trying to make the movie they made, rather
than tried to make something good and failed.

One movie in my collection that people rarely talk about is the
Commodore-heavy Hide and Seek, a Canadian made-for-TV movie loosely based on
the novel The Adolescence of P-1. Early in the movie, the protagonist orders
a pizza via modem.

There are also some great shots of a nuclear power plant being run by
Commodore 64s.  In fact, aside from a portable TTY (like, a portable paper
TTY one of the characters uses to dial in from a diner!), every computer in
the movie is a Commodore of some sort.

There's also a PET network at school through which the AI speaks to the
protagonist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjByXo8JVc0

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