Mainly for the CGI used at the time, but since the CGI has dated so badly and the premise is just so stupid (up there with the fallacy of "we only use 10% of our brains") then I'm embarrassed to have even KNOWN this movie exists.
I can believe it! It's awesome when viewed from a certain angle.
Also, this is actually a rare case where I love the use of CGI – (I tend to be one of those who find CGI nearly always looks absolutely terrible, automatically cheapens, and is one of the leading causes, for many reasons, of the current stagnation of greatness in mainstream filmmaking) – because it accurately depicts a virtual world rather than trying and inevitably failing to convince us of things in the real world.
Also, though the literal 10% fallacy is bogus, there is truth in that the potential of the human brain and mind is vaster than its current normal functionality, and from a looser perspective, I find it emotionally resonates intensely with a certain inherent human esoteric knowledge of our future evolution and ultimate transcendence. 👍
And it's fun and dumb!
I have rewatched it tonight. While the effects are definitelly dated and the take on VR seems silly even compared to current primitive VR like Oculus, i think the plot remains to be rather solid and the acting is done well.
Yes, the dorman areas of the brain was silly, but it thats a premise a lot of fantasies take.
Oculus Rift? Primitive? You think Oculus Rift, in the 21st Century, is PRIMITIVE???
Have a look at this and be shocked, Strazdas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dji9YiPZ4AM
Oclus rift is absolutely a primitive version of virtual reality. The video you included shows that we in fact now have moved forward much at all other than increasing the resolution.
Its like pointing out that 8bit 2D graphics went to 16 bit and its somehow high achievement just because there was no simulation environments that we can achieve now.
VR will come out of its infancy state when we can make a reliable mindlash. In case you are not aware, that means a VR that gets its input and returns feedback directly to your brain, avoiding imperfect interfaces and bad controls.
"premise is just so stupid"
The premise itself is not that stupid - a great story COULD be told about someone gaining power/intelligence/etc. without having the backbone, maturity, spiritual wisdom, etc. to handle it correctly and responsibly, power could make someone immature enough MAD! This actually happens in a Dr. Strange comic from decades ago, and it's great.
A LOT of great stuff could be done with the premise, if handled correctly. Are you sure it's the PREMISE that's stupid here..?
" up there with the fallacy of "we only use 10% of our brains""
When did it become fashionable to vomit this lie all over the place as a show that you are 'with science' and 'intelligent' and all that?
It's not a fallacy, you are just not understanding it correctly.
People are definitely not using their full potential. It doesn't have to be taken LITERALLY, as in 10 physical percent of the physical brain (the actual brain is non-physical anyway, as is pretty much everything that's real - we are spirits living in multi-dimensional, layered bodies and the physical side is the least important of them all, but we need it to be able to exist in a physical world).
You can think of it as your soul, mind, brain, etc. having a lot of locked, latent and unleashed potential that people aren't yet allowed to access, because they are still spiritually immature and young.
The ten per cent does not refer to physical matter, it's more of 'access to potential' - it's like a bodybuilder has more access to the full potential of their body's muscle structure than some fat slob that barely uses their muscles. Brain power, like muscles, atrophies, if it's not used or utilized. You can take this as a metaphor of people's mental laziness, if you want.
In ANY case, when you look around, do you really see human beings that are utilizing 100% of their 'brain power' and potential? Brains can do amazing things if their power is completely and properly harnessed, and most people don't do that.
Your kind of attitude is basically rationalizing and excusing the 'status quo of stupidity and non-cultivation' that most people have fallen into. It's basically worshipping the complacency of the useful idiot, the lazy slob that doesn't BOTHER to understand the world around them, because they have bread in the cupboard and beer in the fridge, or shoes and handbags in their bedroom.
We should always be striving to become better human beings, to elevate ourselves from the mud of mediocrity and stupidity, to reach for the stars and endeavour to become angels of the Universe so we can better serve the Hand that Created us.
But instead, we fall into these popularized lies so we don't have to do anything. 'People are already perfect, everyone uses 100% of their brain, case closed, now where's my twinkie and beer while I watch some buff dudes kick some artificially skinned, non-round object that's called a ball inbetween some poles and get all excited about it'.
The 10% never refers to the physical side, hinting that there's 90% of completely unused area of the physical brain where signals can't be detected, OBVIOUSLY.
It refers to the 'human potential', 'brain power' that you can cultivate, and also to the 'hidden latent potential' that we aren't yet allowed to unleash. An enlightened, old-soul Adept (I have to use capital letter for respect) certainly utilizes more of their 'brain potential' than regular people on this planet, maybe even 90%. We all have a long way to go before we are allowed to handle the full power of what a brain can do with proper, enlightened, high-level spiritual energy.
There are such thing as 'spiritual abilities', both lower and higher. Animals utilize lower-level telepathy, for example, they can see right through you. You can't lie to a dog, because dog instinctually experiences whether you are serious or not. If someone kidnaps the dogs owner as a prank, and the owner is in on it, the dog won't react to the fake screams for help..
..no matter how convincing they are, no matter how good of an actor the owner is.
When video cameras were left to observe a dog left home alone, they proved that the MOMENT the owner made the decision to head back, the dog immediately reacted, and went to the door to wait.
This is not even debatable, it's a fact.
A dog's brain is simple enough for an animal to utilize it probably close to hundred per cent. A human's more complex brain is meant for multiple levels of spirituality and true humanity, which means there's always going to be 'locked, latent potential' that you can't have access to. No matter how you utilize every molecule of the physical side of your brain, you are still not accessing all that the brain can do and be, because it's locked out and hidden. Brain has so much room for human growth - a highly cultivated and evolved spirit can utilize a brain much more effectively than a lowly, animal-like brute. Even if it's the same, exact brain, the higher being gets SO much more out of it, they can do telekinesis as an everyday, mundane thing with the brain power.
The animalistic brute can maybe count 1+1 correctly on a good day with that same brain.
So please learn already, the 'you only use 10% of your brain potential' is not to be taken LITERALLY and PHYSICALLY - you can use every molecule of your physical brain without reaching 20% of your brain's potential. If you only knew what brains can do in the right hands (so to say), you wouldn't blindly vomit this overly-used lie.
It's not a fallacy, get that through your thick skull into your brain, and maybe you can start utilizing 12% of your brain power..
I would have to agree with the original (deleted author) of the first post in this discussion.
It has an aspect of "so bad it's good" going for it a bit. I still like the movie despite its big flaws. Like, why are they in a carnival/fair ride machine and how is that supposed to help them navigate in virtual reality? Lol
Also the nonsense crap in the CGI scenes,
Why did Job turn evil when he was seemingly pretty genuinely good natured at the start? Are we supposed to believe that making someone smarter can also turn them evil?? I don't get it but, I suppose the movie needs a plot
I caught this on TV recently for the the first time in years. It wasn't great (and Brosnan was not a good actor back then).
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