Looker, the movie
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Gotta remember that the movie was made in 1981. It's a sci fi and the focus is on computerized facial recognition and key card entry. Total fiction It's got nekked women in it so be careful Nate.
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Basic Premise:
A plastic surgeon gets high end TV ad models/actresses coming in for very precise (a few millimeters) surgery. While virtually undetectable to the 'naked eye', it makes them attractive at an unconcious level, so that they will make people buy stuff. Of course, that power can be used for evil as well. So when the girls start dying off, the surgeon becomes an amateur private detective and finds out what's going on. In the process, he meets Susan Dey (Partridge Family & LA Law).
Part of what the evil geniuses found while developing mind control is a way to stun people for a length of time with a specially pulsed light (the light guns).
Fairly predictable, sort of cheesy, but not all that bad.
Special effects were pretty decent for the time.
Because he's a plastic surgeon, he can afford a 928.
Susan Dey is pretty hot and takes her clothes off for a 'laser scan'. That scene is edited out when they show it on 'classic TV'. The "Charge!" Channel showed it a year or so ago. They have some pretty good old movies.
Edit to add: IMDB link:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Looker - Part 2
Not sure why the first thread about the 1985 Looker movie was deleted. It inspired me to buy a copy on Amazon. Way below Crichton's best movies, but not terrible. Albert Finney plays a plastic surgeon who drives a 928 and his car gets quite a bit of play in the movie. I was delighted to have my partner tell me she thought my 1981 was much better looking than his car. I was disappointed to see him having such a hard time outrunning a huge boat of a Lincoln Continental on roads that included straights and corners.
Reimburse me for shipping cost and you can get the Blu-Ray DVD.
Brad
Reimburse me for shipping cost and you can get the Blu-Ray DVD.
Brad
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Not sure why the first thread about the 1985 Looker movie was deleted. It inspired me to buy a copy on Amazon. Way below Crichton's best movies, but not terrible. Albert Finney plays a plastic surgeon who drives a 928 and his car gets quite a bit of play in the movie. I was delighted to have my partner tell me she thought my 1981 was much better looking than his car. I was disappointed to see him having such a hard time outrunning a huge boat of a Lincoln Continental on roads that included straights and corners.
Reimburse me for shipping cost and you can get the Blu-Ray DVD.
Brad
Reimburse me for shipping cost and you can get the Blu-Ray DVD.
Brad
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By the VIN number on the VCR box, PET says 1981.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
