I was 15 when I first saw this. The best part of seeing it again was its portrayal of computers, especially all those wide greenbar printouts we were still using in 1980. And if a supercomputer were to design its own voice, I hope it would not choose such a gawd-awful mechanical sound. Hal’s voice was soo much better.

The strangest thing about this movie is not only its quaint take on sex.  Weirder, I remember an elaborate scene that is gone or imagined or from another movie.

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) – IMDb

An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own.

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) – IMDb

Salt is in the genre of the Bourne series, although it is not quite as good as the worst of those (the last). The opening violence is just a taste, although the most personal; I lost count of the killed. Hard to recommend, even to a Jolie fan.

Salt (2010) – IMDb

A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.

Salt (2010) – IMDb

I’m a day or three late with this, but I’m posting it for the links, in particular. I highly recommend the Fox series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was a very worthy addition to the story, and which evolved in interesting ways over two or so seasons. (It is pretty grim for TV.) I’ll tell you the ending because it isn’t a spoiler, in that the series doesn’t depend on this surprise: teen-aged John Connor ends up in a future where John Connor is unknown. I would have liked to see that storyline extended.

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According to the (what I can only assume) is the official Terminator wiki page:

April 19, 2011. At 20:11 Skynet goes online.
As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800[1] destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved to two days after activation on April 21, 2011.[2]

When this happens, this happens within the movie Terminator 2. …

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I was interested in the futuristic vampire flick, Daybreakers, in part for the premise, in part for the appearance of Ethan Hawke. I made the mistake of watching this during dinner. Yet, I did not turn if off when one character spewed chunky vomit on another. However, a few minutes later, when a character exploded and threw gallons of blood all over the set, I did turn this off and remove it from my queue. And, reluctantly, return to my steak dinner.

BTW, the poster shows the rip-off of the Matrix, only instead of aliens storing humans for energy, vampires store humans for blood.

Daybreakers (2009) – IMDb

Be aware this is NOT a comedy. It has funny moments and quirky characters. It was entertaining.

Because this was filmed in Albuquerque, we spent part of the film trying to identify locations.

Sunshine Cleaning (2008) – IMDb