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Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by deadbabe » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:05 PM UTC

TMWNN wrote: post #23

Is 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?

This could be possible if some twisted dev mods a VR headset with an API to explode and kill a person if they die, then hosts some kind of squid games type tournament.

Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by parkaboy » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

I don't know if it really counts--though maybe so if Strange Days makes it on the list--Cypher (2002) with Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu is a pretty fun ride filled with corporate espionage intrigue.

Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:36 PM UTC

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Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by static_void_ » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:38 PM UTC

sirnicolaz wrote: post #24

This website is fantastic

When the website looks like this you know the takes will be hot (thoughtful and erudite). Probably the last website standing in the webring.

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Post by static_void_ » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

Strange Days is sooo good.

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Post by interludead » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

I am fascinated by the film The Matrix. The film's depiction of a virtual reality world was groundbreaking at the time, and it has had a lasting impact on the way we think about technology and its potential.

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Post by wkat4242 » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:47 PM UTC

The thirteenth floor was also pretty ok though clearly a low budget effort. Plot wise it was a little in between the matrix and Inception, sans the action.

Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by stavros » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

ravetcofx wrote: post #28

arethuza wrote: post #4

Not 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.

Have you seen Men? Don't.

Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by ravetcofx » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #38

ravetcofx wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Have you seen Men? Don't.

I have and I love it it's a very disturbingly weird movie. I'm still trying to fit it in my brain with how Alex Garland makes every movie about a technology and I'm trying to think if that's what he was going for there as well in an abstract way.

Re: Films about virtual reality

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Post by stavros » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

ravetcofx wrote: post #39

stavros wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen Men? Don't.

I have and I love it it's a very disturbingly weird movie. I'm still trying to fit it in my brain with how Alex Garland makes every movie about a technology and I'm trying to think if that's what he was going for there as well in an abstract way.

It's so disturbingly weird, I can't unsee the end :(