That's what we were supposed to notice, right?

To be fair there's lots of cheesy fun when viewing this movie 50 years later: Lockwood's Mustang and all the other beautiful rides. The Strip at night. That long shot of the desert when Lockwood is scouting. Jack Palance and Lee J. Cobb simply being in the movie. The Skype-like devices the characters use to call each other. Horrible dubbing. The prototype of the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle popularized in Stripes. The man-made sand dunes that bring the EM-50 to a complete halt instead of just driving around them on the perfectly flat desert. The punch cards when Elke is doing data entry. And the magnetic tape storage. Did I mention Elke's rack?

I actually enjoyed the '60s music. Reminded me of my childhood when elevators played Muzak.

But by far my favorite part is the way the actors ''die.'' They throw themselves into dying fits like we did as kids when we played with toy guns.

Not a great film by any stretch. But plenty of cheese to fill a couple of hours.