YMMV / Electric Dreams

• Awesome Music:
  • "The Duel," in which a minuet from "Anna Magdalena's Notebook" is rendered as a contest between Madeline on her cello and Edgar producing electronic music.
  • "Together In Electric Dreams" is a wonderfully done song from Giorgio Moroder and sung by the Human League's lead singer, and fitting for the last scene,. Sure, Edgar decides I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and shuts down so that Miles and Madeline can be together, but the song at the end implies he ascended instead of "died".
  • "Love Is Love" is the Award-Bait Song by Culture Club, but "The Dream" is usually considered the better song.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Edgar quickly correcting Miles on a quote is very common with web searching.
  • Edgar is the first computer emoticon user!
  • These days, people are instructed to shut their cellphones off before a theatrical production. Beepers weren't expected to start making ring tones though.
• It Was His Sled: Edgar's name isn't actually revealed until the end when he commits suicide (sorta).
• Misattributed Song:
  • No, "Together in Electric Dreams" is not from Short Circuit and was not performed by "The Human League," though it was by their lead singer.
  • The "Bach" minuet has been discovered actually to have been written by Christian Petzold.
• Narm Charm: There is a real nostalgic charm to the "Gosh-gee, the latest technology!" attitude of this film toward the (All-Too-)Personal Computer.
• Retroactive Recognition: A removal man is played by Mac McDonald, who would later be best known for playing Captain Hollister in Red Dwarf.
  • Lenny Von Dohlen, who played Miles, would later play The Cop on Red Dwarf as well.
• Tear Jerker:
  • When Edgar, about to be hit by 40,000 volts of electricity, asks Miles to hold him before he "dies."
  • Ask any computer hackers who have watched the movie to recollect that particular sequence. Chances are they'll get all misty-eyed.

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