Tron. And on... and on...

Tron was on in the IFI as part of the current Jeff Bridges season - I hadn't seen it before - to my eternal shame - it is basically my ideal film. Jeff Bridges (young, dreamy) plays Flynn - a computer programming genius who got shanghaied by The Man (who stole all his rad computer game ideas) and wants to hack into The System to find the evidence. Unfortunately The System has other ideas and zaps Flynn into a computer gaming world where anthropomorphised computer programmes are pitted against each other gladiator stylee and Flynn and his friend Tron have to save the day. It is completely ridiculous and the graphics are amazing - particularly considering it was made in 1982. Definitely worth a look - especially as they are making a sequel called Tron Legacy due out in December and you want to be able to follow the plot, right?

Check out the trailer in all its 80s glory:


P.S The IFI is also playing The Big Lebowski at 2pm on Sunday 28th February. The Dude abides.

1980s game show 'Star Quality' scares bejaysis out of me.

Star Quality was an English 80s game/talent (ahem) show hosted by Gyles Brandreth (remember him? you will) and an Amazonian named Beverly. They only made 6 episodes and you can see why - although there is a pretty outstanding Thriller impression about 4 mins into it:



I saw that video on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Brooker is hilarious -and not just for co-writing Nathan Barley (http://www.trashbat.co.ck/) with Chris Morris. Although any excuse to post it - Embedding is disabled but check out Nathan Barley's Sex Rap- you could learn a few sweet moves. And some kindly youtube user collected all the episodes of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe in a playlist for you to peruse if you so desire. Not a bad way to spend a couple of hours if you get snowed in. Or really lazy.

It's a monumental good thing

And if that wasn't 80s enough for you - here is the original video for the song playing as backing music above- it's by Devo and it's called That's Good ( Ain't it true it's a monumental good thing)



Devo - That's Good - ( YSI)