Low-budget made-for-TV philosophical dystopian cyberpunkery with some truly incredible '80s early computer graphics plastered all over, and a frankly incomprehensible plot that hurts to try and figure out.
Raul Julia stars as Aram Fingal, a lowly drone working for your average evil dystopian corporation, Novicorp — whose headquarters looks like (and probably was shot in) an abandoned mall. Aram Fingal likes to "scroll up cinemas" on the job, which is to say he likes to spend his credits watching Casablanca instead of working doing... whatever the hell he does. The company overseer catches Fingal and sends him to be doppel'd — a process that rehabilitates wrongdoers by turning them into... animals, in a virtual world to run amok. Why? Fuck you, that's why! From there something happens and he ends up in a virtual Casablanca world where Raul Julia gets to do his best Humphrey Bogart impression. I guess he's also trying to take down Novicorp at the same time. I don't know. I really don't know.
Doesn't matter though, the MST3K episode of this incredible, and that is the only reason to sit through Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. If I get to sit down with my ol' pals Crow and Tom Servo, then it can't be that a bad movie. This may be an uber-illogical sci-fi tech-noir made on a budget of maybe $13, but it's got a distinctly grainy washed out digital New Wave-esque visual style that for some reason reminds me a whole lot of James Ferraro. Can't exactly pinpoint what project of his this reminds me of — maybe Far Side Virtual or his work in Bodyguard — but there's something going on here. Oh yeah I know! I'm going insane! Okay bye this movie kinda fucking sucks.
Low-budget made-for-TV philosophical dystopian cyberpunkery with some truly incredible '80s early computer graphics plastered all over, and a frankly incomprehensible plot that hurts to try and figure out.
Raul Julia stars as Aram Fingal, a lowly drone working for your average evil dystopian corporation, Novicorp — whose headquarters looks like (and probably was shot in) an abandoned mall. Aram Fingal likes to "scroll up cinemas" on the job, which is to say he likes to spend his credits watching Casablanca instead of working doing... whatever the hell he does. The company overseer catches Fingal and sends him to be doppel'd — a process that rehabilitates wrongdoers by turning them into... animals, in a virtual world to run amok. Why? Fuck you, that's why! From there something happens and he ends up in a virtual Casablanca world where Raul Julia gets to do his best Humphrey Bogart impression. I guess he's also trying to take down Novicorp at the same time. I don't know. I really don't know.
Doesn't matter though, the MST3K episode of this incredible, and that is the only reason to sit through Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. If I get to sit down with my ol' pals Crow and Tom Servo, then it can't be that a bad movie. This may be an uber-illogical sci-fi tech-noir made on a budget of maybe $13, but it's got a distinctly grainy washed out digital New Wave-esque visual style that for some reason reminds me a whole lot of James Ferraro. Can't exactly pinpoint what project of his this reminds me of — maybe Far Side Virtual or his work in Bodyguard — but there's something going on here. Oh yeah I know! I'm going insane! Okay bye this movie kinda fucking sucks.
