possibly. I can't stand Jim Carry, His sister still drives a bus where he grew up. Spoke to her many a time. Never mentioned him. Her son was in a work place accident. Such a nice person.
I was thinking of Russell Crow's character in Virtuosity, who crossed over into the real world. Fun flick. Also, in the other direction, there was Jeff Fahey's character in Lawnmower Man.
So funny you said this! The other day, someone asked me what Max Headroom was and I told them it was a character that would've been on Adult Swim, had it existed back then. Hah hah
@@CyanoTex it’s still cheaper to hire an actor. 3d animation is expensive, at least when done originally in europe/usa instead of hiring underpaid workers. (It being cheap is just a common myth)
@@user-10021 Motion capture avatars like V tuber's use would be a good option. In a weird way, Max WAS the world's 1st V tuber (unless you count some of the virtual bands that came before like Alvin and the chipmunks or the Archies)
And of course, he could write for all sorts of voices: Sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, sopranos, altos, you name it!
The eighties was a perfect culmination of technology and creativity along with excess and availability. The future seemed so bright that we all had to wear shades lol
Love that last part. Good explanation of the culture and public perception of the future at the time in the west. Didn’t exactly pan out people in the way they expected, but technology sure is in an interesting state now. And the world 😹 I would kill for a lil 80s optimism
Max Headroom (Matt Frewer) wasn't in Back To The Future. They did copy the style. You might know him better from movies like, *The Stand*, as The Trash Can Man.
Saw this fella on a station in Chicago in ‘87. Called someone a frickin’ liberal. Felt out of character. Oh, then he mooned the camera and someone spanked him.
Marcelo Marquez, careful who you call an idiot, Max Headroom was not generated by an computer at all but was portrayed by actor Matt Frewer who was wearing prosthetics made from latex and other materials.
Well I suppose you are the "dense" one here as the original observation from user bmo was that 'he' (yes 'HE') wasnt computer generated. Essentially what this means is that despite the fact this show won an award for all computer generated graphics Max Headroom himself wasnt computer generated, nothing more and nothing less. Thank you for your redundant remark, perhaps you want to reflect on yourself now.
You are entirely correct and the other 2 people don't know how to read because they would see that OP referred to the actor as not being computer animated. The background is obviously computer animated.
+sundance81677 Max Headroom's popularity predates the popularity of both those actors. Matt Frewer played Max Headroom as a glitchy robotic Ted Baxter, a fictional newscaster on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Well this was suppose to be a depiction of our future in some way they perfectly depicted my view of most of the "Viral" RU-vid videos back when RU-vid was early except Fred was way more annoying
OMG, that was EXACTLY what I was thinking about today after watching Matt's usual video glitch. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cYdpOjletnc.html
Some things in life happened in only one decade. So when Max comes to mind, naturally so do the 80's. LIke the rest of the decades of the 20th century the '80s will never be repeated again.
i remember seeing max for the first time when i was like 8 years old or so (1988) when i walked in on my mother and her friends sitting on the couch, passing around a j, and laughing their a$$es of... been a fan of this guy ever since!
When I found that the director of the Super mario movie were the creator of Max Headroom, I thought that suddenly King Koopa apperance made a lot more sense
Because we used to have a better sense of funny back then. More complicated jokes and all that jazz. Finger it's like this, "we get it, but the kids don't".
Either you find the glitchy speech effects and stuff creepy, or you came here from the Max Headroom incident and can't jack the memory out of your skull.
I'm here from Back to the Future Easter eggs... And now that I'm saying this for the first time I realized that Eminem actually bit off of this guy... LOL Eminem bit off of Max Headroom bits.... LMFAO
Yep everything was great back then. This is when the digital age was beginning. VCR, CD's, Sony Walkman, Boom Boxes, etc. were all getting to be affordable. Max is but a small example of the things that came out that decade.Music, Movies, Cars, Women, all of it was great and that's why we love it.I'm 56 now and still find myself going back there thanks to the magic of YT, PC, DROID, in which they too came out of the 80's
My daughter showed me a video for "Ad Infinitum", for the character Spamton. I immediately thought about Max, and had to shiw her. Literally 40 years later and Max is still having an effect. Spamton is what happens when Max becomes Rap God.
In the show he was a normal dude who got accidently intertwined with technology. I remember someone chasing the dude and somehow he was electrically absorbed becoming part of the system. Like his consciousness got meshed with technology. It was a great feat of marketing because even though it never lasted that long it is still remembered pretty clearly since
Avid "Max" fan back in the day. This was compulsive viewing back when I was growing up. Great music on this show as well. No wonder some of us 80's kids are just wacked out!.
Celtics fan #MambaOut RIP A True Legend well the "Rap God" video does come up when you simply search "max headroom" 🤣🤣🤷🏼♂️ also, Eminem was born in 1972 and Max Headroom was on TV from 1987-1988 so Marshall would have been growing up watching it when it first came out, guess people forget the internet and texting didn't used to be as widespread as it is today
Is it crazy to anyone else, that, in the 80s, they still had a pretty clear idea of Artificial Intelligence? Like, the traits put on Max Hedroom are the same ones someone making a fictional ai in 2022 would perscribe. Glitchy, uncanny traits - exactly what we know *real* poor AI has. IN 1985!
Manning Bartlett haha wow, amazing. I remember paying £270 for a 512k ram upgrade and I thought that was bad. On the bright side it was still way more RAM than the Apollo space mission had to play with. Gotta love technology :-)
carpii Indeed. That was in 1987 and the drive was the size of a laser printer. They were storing land surveys built in some CAD software that I forget the name of. In 1990 I bought a 40MB hard drive and 3MB of additional RAM for my Mac Plus and paid US$1000, and I couldn't believe what a bargain it was.
