I bet this would make a cool movie
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 - 5:35pm
Whoa. (Hit up Bug me not! for a password.) Philosophy professor thinks "there's a 20 percent chance we're living in a computer simulation."
I don't know about any of you but I'm going to start looking for a giant tilde key and enter the money hack.
(And mere seconds later I finally spot this more appropriate thread. Oh well.)
Correct thread or not but this movie idea has already been done at least once....
10 pts if you can guess which one i was thinking of. I'll give you a clue: it had two beautiful women and one short guy in the starring roles
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I generated a virtual world in the toilet bowl this morning.
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I can think of at least 2 other movies beyond The Matrix and the one you mention.
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Existenz and (sort of) Total Recall spring to mind. And I'm sure there was another one which just lies on the tip of my overcaffeinated tongue.
LOL i love that movie... think i'll watch it tonight!
I was thinking of Vanilla Sky...
[edit] About Total Recall... i heard that the book it's based on is really different. Do we know in the movie whether it is all just in his mind or not?
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It's been a while since I saw the movie, but if I remember correctly, it's left hanging. From the IMDB synopsis:
13th Floor comes to mind as well.
Mr T broke the speed of light in the A-Team van because he wanted to prove that quantum physics was a bunch of Jibba Jabba.
Are Existenz and 13th Floor any good?
Vanilla Sky is a turd.
The Matrix and Total Recall are both (obviously) awesome, as is The Three Amigos.
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Those were the two I was thinking of. I liked Vanilla Sky and absolutely hated eXistenZ. 13th Floor I recall as being just okay.
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WHA-? Vanilla Sky is great.... a very depressing film (for me) but great nonetheless.
Existenz is like Marmite. I didn't mind it, but i wouldn't bother watching it twice.... it wasn't a terrible film. On a ratings scale i'd put it as "the failed Gattica"... even though Gattica is a completely different kettle of fish.
Never heard of 13th Floor. 9th gate though, liked that one.
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Actually, I was thinking of Tron.
After reading P.K.Dick too much I find being in a computer simulation one of the more boring possibilities. Palmer Eldritch's Chew-Z, anyone?
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Waitasec - we came up with a whole thread's worth of movies that actually fit the scenario described, and the OP had one in mind that doesn't?
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The Truman Show?
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Uh, that one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (or was it Voyager?) where the holodeck malfunctions?
That one rocked. It was almost as good as the original series episode where some snotty, all-powerful aliens hold the Enterprise captive and make Kirk jump through a bunch of hoops to get it back.
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Different, yes. It was just a short story in which this runty accountant-guy goes to this full virtual experience thing for the sake of having a little excitement in his life. The process just plain doesn't work on him. Disappointed, he goes home, only to start having flashbacks--turns out, he was actually some kind of super-spy on Mars, and his "real" life is the fabrication.
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The story the movie's based on is actually a Piers Anthony novel. The novel was based on the PK Dick short story "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?".
I was always kind of pissed that Piers didn't get credit in the movie, that I recall, especially considering it was a pretty good-sized movie. But, then again, I was 12 and all into Xanth when it came out, so there's that.
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Pretty much anytime you see a sci-fi movie that's "adapted" from a Philip K. Dick story (which is like half of all sci-fi movies, amiright?) it's wildly different from the original story. This is because the original story was written by a paranoid, drugged-up crazyman. But a brilliant paranoid drugged-up crazyman!
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Meh, the episode where Kirk decides to break the Prime Directive in order to achieve the greater good was better.
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I don't know what Piers Anthony novel you're talking about, but the PKD short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is what is credited for inspiring Total Recall (it's a loose interpretation).
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was the novel that was adapted into the movie Blade Runner.
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At what age did you realize he was a creepy, dirty old man and stop reading? For me I think it was around 16.
Edit: Are you sure you're not confusing the movie novelization for the original source?
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I consider it a little ill-advised to contradict someone without at least checking wikipedia.
That said, I think Quintin's got it right, that the novel is an adaptation of the movie, and not the other way around.
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Ah, that explains it. I wasn't trying to contradict, I was just curious as to what Rubb was referring to. Your link explains it... Anthony novelized the movie, not the other way around.
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I remember flipping through the novelization in the library once. Anthony also added some sections narrating the aliens establishing the terraforming factories on Mars.
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Vanilla Sky won me over (despite Tom Cruise) with no introductory credits and Radiohead to kick it off. That was sweeet....
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My mistake as well. I was writing sans Wiki, and got the wrong short story (I even knew the story, I swear! :laugh:), and the wrong order (although I could have sworn he wrote the novel prior to the movie coming out).
And I was apparently 17 when the movie came out.
In other news: I'm a moron. Film at 11.
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I guess you could say parts of Brazil, but that's more of a "I'm drugged up and being tortured out of body experience" than living in a computer simulation.
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It's somewhat common for a novelization of a movie to come out before the actual movie.
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