Re: Interesting film - "The Cell"
From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 21:50:18 MDT
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>From: "Technotranscendence" <neptune@mars.superlink.net>
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: Interesting film - "The Cell"
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:25:02 -0700
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>On Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:56 PM phil osborn philosborn@hotmail.com
>wrote:
>> I had a sequential nightmare/extropian fantasy dream running all night
>long
>> the night after I saw this flick. I would wake up, go "Wow!", think about
>> it for a while, then nod off and be right back in the dream where I left
>> off.
>>
>> Not one of the all-time great movies, to be sure, but pretty much
>flawless,
>> especially in the dream-state scenes. Nice preview of some of the
>> possibilities when we get techno-telepathy - or upload.
>
>I saw it a couple of weeks ago and didn't like it. Why? I have to admit
>the effects in the dream sequences were well done, but the film was very
>predictable and, with dream sequences, you can do anything, which kind of
>makes them overindulgent.
>
>Cheers!
>
I think that a comparison between the presuppositions underlying "The Cell" and "The Matrix" as regards the uploaded and externally imposed vs. organic and internally constituted virtual environments would be an interesting exercise (which I leave for others to do).
>
>Daniel Ust
>http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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