Strong contender for best movie ever made, IMO

  • Visstix
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    8 days ago

    Yeah the original premise was using the humans as processing power, but they thought the audience would understand this better or something.

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        8 days ago

        At the time people were much less exposed to computers. Most people didn’t know what a processor was but did know what a battery was hence the chance.

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          8 days ago

          It’s fine. :) That’s quite possible. At the time a CPU holder described an under desk PC mount and the favourite pc-related buzz word was Multimedia.

          The movie plot of using people for parasitic purposes wasn’t unknown though - like in Invasion of the body snatchers. Also The Thing comes to mind.