god, how i love this stupid movie, and it's soundtrack, too. sort of my personal TOP GUN, so to speak.
cetanly the rarest LD in my collection by far, i believe, and the VHS edition isn't exactly common either.

anyway, did i mention that this movie means something to me? it's one of those forgotten early-80's U.S. box-office bombs
that my mother just so happened to have taped off CATV back in my late pre-teens, and somehow
had gotten to where i had seen it multiple times by the early 90's, despite my being ridiculously hooked
on the STAR WARS trilogy, INDY JONES' trilogy, and all of the TREK films to the point
where i must have been watching the damned things like every other week it almost seemed like.

surely some silly decade old pop-flick would have gotten buried PDQ, right?

well i just kept watching it off and on, throughout my teens in the 90's, and it continued to grow on me,
first the soundtrack, then the subtler things.

then, when i began starting to feel honestly nostalgic over it in my young adult years of the early 2000's,
i happened across an original VHS copy at a specialty used VHS/LD shop, and, despite the fact that my grandma,
who was present, thought i was mad out of my head, gladly paid around $22 for it, and i finally had a "proper" copy of my own.

years later, after finaly joining the 21st century with my own net-access, and finding that this movie has yet
to see a REGION-1 DVD and/or Blu-Ray release, i get desperate, and scout for an LD edition.

around four years back, i found one on the BAY for like $40/50shipped. Steep, at least by my grandma's standards -bless her soul-
but i had to have it, along with an original CD soundtrack release, despite having all the songs in MP3,
which, for most kids of my age today, is quite good enough thank you very much.

being an Anime nerd, and an Anime-doll collector/enthusiast with sewing skills, (one of my hobbies, besides plastic Mecha-model kits)
i was always fairly taken by the white dress that "Madeline" (Virginia Madsen) wears 3/4 into the film on her date with "Miles" (Lenny Von Dohlen)
and felt it necessary to make a roughly similar scale iteration of it for the 11in. doll i have of my favorite female Anime character "Mikuru Asahina"
who you can see in my Avatar, and standing beside my collection there above...

I LOVE that movie. Don't remember when I first saw it but I was hooked right off the bat...."moles"

Making a minature dress from a movie = my kind of hardcore =) Very nice!

Its a great movie. I do understand why you wanted the soundtrack. Human Legue's Philip Oakey, Giorgio Moroder, Jeff Lynne (ELO) and Culture Club makes an first class set up for a good soundtrack. Together in the electric dreams was also a quite big succes as a single.

We'll always be together in electric dreams...

I also Hijacking your posters and adding one similar to the one you poster, but I like the slim format:

those were indeed the days, were they not?
very few people seemed to have anything like a grasp on exactly what "Microcomputers" were. very much a novelty indeed back then...

I like the music by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder. Nice beat rhythm with the lyrics.

First time I saw the film was on VHS rental in the mid 80's, Hi-Fi stereo.

I like this extended track with a few pulse beats vibrating the seats.

Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams [Extended]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCabaPioPbM

Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE1lzqJCeJ0

The film's ending was like disconnecting the HAL9000 only it was a sadder ending.

Anyone know what the Japanese cover looks like?

Electric Dreams (1984) [G98F5540]


Its strange thou our own minds generate electric into electric dreams.

I recently bought the japanese copy. Retail price 9800 yen, thats only 100 usd, imagine how much it was in the 80s. This is how it looked:

I wouldn't know, I was born in '84 But I grew up with the 80s movies on television in the early 90s.

My dad started using computers at his company very early, orange screens anyone ? They were extremely expensive, then they had some with color screens but this was still before win 3.11, so it was only dos operated. I think they paid around 5000 usd for the computer in the early days, then they had to have a programmer design a program for another 5000-10 000 usd. Wish I could remember which year this was, have to ask him.

Funny thing is we actually still use the core of that program, but now its in win 7, but its not as smooth as the dos based program was, if we could we would have that old system back.

johan184, I think that cover needs to be updated to the database.

Digital PCM as well.

it sure does, But I didnt know if we where allowed to add pictures our self from urabanchou... My scanner is on the run at the moment.

Oh yeah and it has a watermark on the cover so you found this one of the same one you have?

Julian, I think only allows owners/members of the Laserdisc to send the pictures to him, so he can load them up.

I guess the Japanese subtitles is visible on the full screen version.

damn it all, that is so much cooler than the U.S. cover, IMHO. wish i could snag one myself...

((and of course, only the more discriminating Japanese consumer would supposedly care to have the LD recording type right there prominent on the cover, or so MGM/UA-PIONEER VIDEO had evidently assumed...))

found much higher res screencaps, back on up there.

jeez, the EURO market DVD release, from which i assume those caps originated, walks all over the LD,
theatrical aspect ratio retained and the whole nine yards, revealing things i never knew were even going on in the film!! wow!!


(( FOR EXAMPLE; her entire half of the screen here is completely absent in the PAN&SCAN U.S. LD, VHS and BETA ))

This post reminded me of a movie called Radioactive Dreams which I saw without knowing the title but catching it on late night television just after the opening credits ended. This movie has not been released on DVD because it is in legal limbo. VHS and Laserdisc releases exist.

BTW, it's a great movie!

Isnt the movie released on dvd in USA ?

Over 2 weeks since I have been on lddb.com, a little break but now I'm back! =)

AFAIK, U.S. market has yet to this day to see any edition of this movie beyond it's 1985 first-run VHS/BETA/LD release...