Brainstorm (1983) | Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood

Brainstorm (1983) | Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood | Brain Storm

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Brainstorm (1983)

	Brainstorm (1983) Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood Warner Home Video, 2001 average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Technology for Good or Bad

This is a movie that should be seen again by those who have seen it - and a must for those who have not as of yet.

Although this movie is about 25 years old, it still rings true and is sort of a prophecy that can be applied to all of technology and how it can be used for good or bad by the humans who invent it and those that use it.

Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louis Fletcher, and Cliff Robertson (and the other supporting actors in the film) form an amazing ensemble cast that moves the story along with much aplomb. The Federal Government, who funds the project for the corporation which Walken, Wood, Fletcher, Robertson, et. al. work for, wants to use the technology they developed for means other than entertainment (although that could have it's drawbacks too - as illustrated during one of the movie's sub-plots) - I don't want to tell the whole story here - but just consider that it is one plot that illustrates the use of technology when in the right/wrong hands - and it also touches upon what it is like when one dies (without the pain). See this movie for yourself and then ponder what it all means!!!

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Brain Storm

This is an excellent movie for anybody that has an interest in the afterlife. Christopher Walken is fantastic in this movie. He portrays a young scientist that gets caught up in an experiment using technology and the brain. I highly recommend it!

AREN'T WE CAPABLE OF MAKING THESE YET???

I watched this movie when I was a child. For some reason, it was one of those films that stuck with me into adulthood. I bought it a couple weeks ago and watched it again to see if it would still affect me. It did. The whole concept of being able to put a helmet on and ride a coaster, travel the world, or to engage in certain fantasies, is amazing. The heart attack scene is one of the best that I ever seen in movies. The question of life after death finally being revealed through the helmet is what affected me the most as a child and now as an adult. This is a very intriguing film that I am proud to add to my growing collection.

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Dark Cloud Over Troubled Production

Watching "Brainstorm" you can't help to think what might have been. Natalie Wood's untimely death in 1981 had more of an effect on the finished product than you would think. The film's release was delayed for reshoots and rewrites and it's good but it could have been better. Director Douglas Trumbull posits an intriguing idea about the possibilities of sharing another person's feelings and experiences. When in the right hands the possibilities are wonderful. When in the wrong hands the whole concept is corrupted and evil is evident. The problem I have here is Trumbull has evil represented by big corporation and big government. Cliff Robertson is fine as the face of soulless big business. Big goverment here, however, is represented by cliched non-descript baddies. The ending here, too, feels abrupt. The death experience is represented by a psychedelic lightshow that Kubrick would have rejected in the sixties. I think it's here that Wood's death probably effected the film. There's enough here to recommend, though. The film is eminently watchable and engaging. The acting on the whole is superb. Wood at least has a decent vehicle for her final film. Christopher Walken, eschewing the mannerisms that we have come to know and love, is solid as the scientist trying to protect the purity of his work. Louise Fletcher probably comes off best as Walken's chainsmoking colleague who takes the malevolent interference of her work a little to much to heart. I give "Brainstorm" a qualified recommendation because of it's ambitions despite falling short in execution.

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Ahead of the game...

Along with movies like Silent Running and Blade Runner, Brainstorm is left in a malestrom of an unknown future which only the portal view of Douglas Trumball could only set in motion. Though Blade Runner was made by an even excptional director, Ridley Scott, these two movies have been 'quietly' reveered by directors and 'ohmaged' by the other sci-fi action adventure directors that we see today. I saw this movie when I was 17 and I am now 40 and I've come to notice the almost sterile brooding nature of the film even though a death of a famous actress is associated with it which took it away for the 'what if' aspect at the time of it's release in the early 80's. I'd have to say if you took away that aspect of the finished product of the film and take it for what it is, i'd say that there could be a very HEALTHY re-make in line here and it could further bring thought to this subject which was taken off the table back when it was made.

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