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First Features's avatar

I watched this movie with a blind date in 1984, 6 months later we were married. It has a special place in my heart as we celebrated our 40th anniversary this Valentine's Day. I am looking foreward to the remake, which I believe is in the works right now. I am also working on a double Rom-Com to shoot this year.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

Wow! I love that. 💕 And happy anniversary to you two!

I don't think I realized that there's a remake in the works, but that actually makes a lot of sense. It was ahead of its time in 1984 and now it would be very of its time.

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Melissa Reagan's avatar

It’s going on the list.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

Hell yeah! 👏 Hope you dig it.

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Taylor Hodgkins's avatar

I love this movie and am in dire need of a rewatch! Thank you for bringing it into our modern AI universe!

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

I'm impressed that you've seen it! Only one person raised their hand last night when I asked if anyone had seen this movie before. (And I hadn't seen it until this year myself.)

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Matthew Spence's avatar

Great review and insight into the rise of artificial intelligence. Definitely agree that it’s creep into all things is quite alarming, the “Microsoft Copilot” program and “Edge” browser are constantly updating and inundating me with pop ups after each one about the latest benefits of AI and it is both annoying and unsettling.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

I hate those little AI pop-ups so much. It's like Clippy became sentient and multiplied itself.

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Ryan Kindahl's avatar

The theme song is a true earworm. And it was played loud enough to bury itself into my brain. Thanks for letting Obsolete Media hawk our wares!

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

I promise the sound mix sounded better on my home setup. 😂 Not Sidewalk's fault, probably just a worn-out tape.

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~pedro's avatar

As I was reading the article, it was playing in my head, but then started mashing up with the Never Ending Story. Then a quick beep boop beep later, I see someone has already created just that very thing on the interwebs.

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Ryan Kindahl's avatar

Oh man! I’ll have to look that up.

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~pedro's avatar

Truthfully, it's not that great. The one in my head was better, if not way more annoying. No Limahl - no deal.

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Jeremy Burgess's avatar

Had to look that one up. It's not as seamless as I thought it'd be but yeah, the similarities are clearer to me now!

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