On the Brink of the 2000s: 3 Virtual Reality Films

Copy-paste from my most recent post on the forums:

Nirvana (Italy/France - 1997) - Flatly out (if this is grammatically correct): A masterpiece. Like a big VVS alexandrite gemstone (colour changing ). One of the best movies I've ever seen. VR fans shouldn't miss it. But others should also give it a chance. Yet, I must say that this is purely a '90s film. Mind you, I'm not extravagant in using the word masterpie... See? I'm not.  10/10

The Matrix for me. I saw all three of them, but consider The Thirteenth Floor as rather mediocre and Existenz as an interesting but failed attempt to transpose a video game logic into a linear filmic narration: nice visuals but rather empty as a film. The matrix, though a rather simple kind of adaptation of Plato's cavern story, is interesting because of the originality of its adaptation, the choreography of the action scenes and its overall direction.

Ok, whatever.

Did you mean...The Thirteenth Floor (1999) ?

I voted "The 13th Floor", chiefly because it is based on the same novel ("Simulacron-3" by Daniel F. Galouye) as one of my absolutely favourite SF-movies, "Welt am Draht" ("World on a Wire") by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. I don't like "The Matrix" at all. I have never seen "eXistenZ".


Edited by BaldFriede - September 18 2021 at 07:31

I might watch them before voting, can only remember to have seen the Matrix, maybe also the 13th Floor