Wordiezett So much average

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Bologna Jones Celibated with friends last night so we got out the camcorder and made fun of another movie. We chose this one. It was hilarious. Anytime you get to talk like Roscoe P. Coletrain has got to be fun. Here's a shout out to Hippie, Shampoo, Bald Black Dave and Silent but deadly Scot. We've been making fun of movies for years. . Gerald McRaney is in this too but he looks so young and nothing like he did on Simon & Simon, Major Dad or Deadwood. It's a weird weird movie. Boom Mike makes an appearance too. See if you can spot him. The story is very dull. I wouldn't watch it unless you wanted a laugh. There are lots of huge computers w screens that show nothing. Room to make fun of Tandy computers and comparing today's iPod to room sized computers.

bkoganbing After watching The Brain Machine in stages because I was fighting fatigue to complete this movie I'm still not sure of what I saw. Four people James Best, Ann Latham, Gerad McRaney, and Marcus Grapes all of whom have no close family volunteer to be paid lab rats for an experimental mind control machine. Two firm prerequisites for these people, no close family and they have to tell the absolute truth in that closed environment that they live in now.Somebody should have told them to watch The Forbidden Planet and how those far superior Krells couldn't deal with monsters from the ID. My guess is that this top secret experiment was to develop some kind of ultimate interrogation machine. That's why so many sinister forces seem bent on achieving success with the experiment, however success is to be measured. The Brain Machine isn't really clear on what's going on.The whole thing will leave you bored and confused.

wes-connors "Four people with distinctly different backgrounds all volunteer for an experiment involving mind-altering and manipulation. The volunteers all gather at a secret laboratory and are subject to a series of procedures that border on torture, including shock therapy and psychological torture. The final portion of the procedure involves the test subjects (being) exposed to an experimental device that alters the participants' minds through the exposure of their innermost fears and darkest secrets." "As it seems to be with such experimental testing, something goes wrong with the procedure and the test subjects and scientists suffer the horrible results," according to the grammatically corrected DVD sleeve synopsis."The Brain Machine" aka "Gray Matter" looks so incompetent, it could be that nobody thought it was worth improving on a rough cut. It definitely receives an extra-awful star for the laughable "walls closing in" ending, and wrongheaded performances. Among some lesser-known players, "immortal" Gerald McRaney (as Willard "Willie" West) deadpans, "Kill me before I'll die!" and, wigged-out James Best (as Emory Neill) plays a molesting man-of-the-cloth. Ah, but, they are young...** The Brain Machine (1977) Joy N. Houck Jr. ~ Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney, James Best, Barbara Burgess

jonathan-577 "Grey Matter" AKA "The Brain Machine" but the video people thought better of that; the screen says 1972 but IMDb says 1977; it's that kind of movie. The government has some kind of overriding interest in this 'brain machine' project that has drafted four people - who turn out to be, roughly, a philosopher, a horny priest, a crackpot veteran and a patriot who got an abortion - to sit in a shrinking room with a computer that can read their horrendous secret thoughts. In the end the government takes over the lab by force and everybody dies. Here is a movie that is incompetent in every important way; MY s*** has better production values than this. It held my interest, though, just to see what exactly these exploitation filmmakers thought they were doing, dabbling in four-guys-in-a-room character drama. The answer: a tract about how science is inferior to God. Thanks a lot. It's like opening a Kinder egg and getting your 30th goddam jigsaw puzzle. The priest is played by James "Roscoe P. Coltrane" Best, the philosopher by Gerald "the Republican Simon" McRaney. Also featuring very, very, very long establishing and transition shots in great quantity, this moves almost as slow as the Liberal convention.