Films that time forgot.

Let's hope this frequent blogging when I'm bored at school and should be writing papers on the "devotional nature of cinema" doesn't go too far...

The other day I was browsing around the old cable-box, looking for sustenence that only networks such as TBS, TNT, or USA network could provide. I came across this movie, a film so convincing and powerful in its argument of the international conspiracy of super-spies that America never again looked at video game consoles as simply entertaining methods of spending a Sunday afternoon. No, no, after this film, Americans were tearing apart every system and game in order to find the hidden codes that the American government was hiding from spies...in children's video games.

These archival photos should help the reader understand the hysteria of looting that was facing America in 1984:

























So what caused all of this fear and rioting in 1984 and that also was able to hold my attention for more than five minutes? Three words:

CLOAK. AND. DAGGER.

Yes, that's the right. That loveable can-do movie with lots of Oscar-upside starring Henry Thomas from E.T. as an imaginative boy who makes up super-spies to help him battle villians from a video game which may or may not be real.

And guess what? The non-existent super-spy is actually his father! Only it's the metaphorical representation of what his father is supposed to be! Oh, the hard-hitting relevance!

Definetly a must-see for any fans of bad 80's movies. (clearly the golden era, led by numerous Chuck-Norris attempts and the Patrick Swayze legend, "Red Dawn")

Nothing beats a chubby, bearded, video-gaming playing William Forsythe, too.