Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park author) directs. That is rarely a good thing.
Plot: It's the height of TV advertising and a large multi-national corporation has hit upon an idea. Why not use computers to maximise advertising, specifically, why not use them to render the perfect looking people and use them for their campaigns. To procure the best, the corporation must get a little help in the tinkering department, so they send their potential stars to a plastic surgeon (Albert Finney). Mr Finney gets a touch curious though, when his patients (all of whom have very specific lists of their flaws to correct) start to turn up dead. He investigates and discovers that the seemingly harmless corporation (headed by James Coburn) is in fact utilising a new technology called L.O.O.K.E.R (a light based suggestion device) to con the viewer into buying their stuff. Well, what's an upstanding member of the community like a plastic surgeon to do?
Plot hole; in the version I saw, the director completely fails to rationalise the murders.
Budget: $?
Budget: $?
Fun Fact: The bad guy is credited as Moustache Guy and was in fact Tom Selleck's University room mate.
Plot: It's the height of TV advertising and a large multi-national corporation has hit upon an idea. Why not use computers to maximise advertising, specifically, why not use them to render the perfect looking people and use them for their campaigns. To procure the best, the corporation must get a little help in the tinkering department, so they send their potential stars to a plastic surgeon (Albert Finney). Mr Finney gets a touch curious though, when his patients (all of whom have very specific lists of their flaws to correct) start to turn up dead. He investigates and discovers that the seemingly harmless corporation (headed by James Coburn) is in fact utilising a new technology called L.O.O.K.E.R (a light based suggestion device) to con the viewer into buying their stuff. Well, what's an upstanding member of the community like a plastic surgeon to do?
Plot hole; in the version I saw, the director completely fails to rationalise the murders.
Budget: $?
Budget: $?
Fun Fact: The bad guy is credited as Moustache Guy and was in fact Tom Selleck's University room mate.
But can one ever rationalise murder David?
ReplyDeleteyou can if it's a Crichton film. Urgh.
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