And I just came back from the Berlinale, with another noteworthy addition to this genre: "Another End" https://letterboxd.com/film/another-end/
"Another End" to be released March 21, 2024:
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#22Brainscan was especially perplexing in that it played with possible, impossible, and fantasy at the same time. And the main character lived in an attic sans parental oversight with an OK Google.
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#23Is a "VR film" really about VR if it doesn't have some variant of the "If you die in here, you die in real life!" plot point?
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#24This website is fantastic
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#25This is an amazing list. I humbly request that the author do a post for AI movies.
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#26Love this post. Adding a whole bunch of things to my watch list. One thing I don't see mentioned is the TV mini series "Wild Palms". I remember watching that as it debuted on TV back in '93. Haven't seen it since though. I remember Kim Cattrall being in it and I remember VR being a big part of the plot. In looking it up I had no idea that Ryuichi Sakamoto created the music for it. Here's a trailer for it. It looks so…
And William Gibson has a small cameo as himself. I remember the show as being quite good, but I suspect it's not aged well.
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#27The blog is pure gold
I like The Thirteenth Floor. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
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#28Not VR, but I really enjoyed Devs : "The box contains us. The box contains everything. And inside the box, there's another box."
Soundtrack for that show is an incredible mix of contemporary artists and unique tracks, something to artists I hadn't heard of before. Also, Alex Garland is an amazing director people should check out his other work.
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#29> The big breakthrough work was The Lawnmower Man (1992), a conceptually absurd film where scientist Pierce Brosnan uses VR to somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius. What made The Lawnmower Man a hit was the ground-breaking computer graphic effects used to depict the virtual environment. An even sillier work was the sequel Lawnmower Man II: Beyond Cyberspace/Lawnmower Man II: Jobe’…
> which had the psychic genius trying to become a messiah in cyberspace.
And Jesus wept. For there were no more worlds to conquer.
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#30> The striking Japanese film Avalon (2001) had players gradually becoming aware that the environment they are inside is a videogame simulation. This film was made by Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell. It was the next film he did right after it. I loved this movie when came out. He filmed this movie in Poland and all the actors in it are Polish. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.
Excellent movie with an absolute brilliant score from Kenji Kawai. I love the elements of applying an anime-style (i.e. the set design and how background characters physically behave) to live action. The ending also hits hard with a kind of magical indescribable feeling I don't know how to articulate.
"Log Off" from the OST... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cAYtOPw1jc