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Avalon
2001 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Mamoru Oshii
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?
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I love UIs from Sci-fi films.
Mamoru Oshii also made a live action film in 2001 called Avalon and in it the main character uses a terminal interface that I always thought was pretty cool. It's almost a classic monochrome terminal interface except there's no vertical scrolling when new data pushes away the old data. Old data goes backwards/behind on the z-index and blurs.
You can see it here:
https://youtu.be/m6NKhXlFU-s
Maybe the author is just figuring things out, but for many nothing in the article is new.
It walks on top of well trodden planks built by many others.
The title is misleading (there's been plenty of telling) and worse it's a lame knock off tabloid headline where the grift is to imply you're a dupe and they're helping you by giving you access "to the one thing they hat" or any headline that traffics in they v. you where they withhold vital info.
Heck watch avalon which is one of 29 million movies dealing with generational wealth.
> The striking Japanese film Avalon (2001) had players gradually becoming aware that the environment they are inside is a videogame simulation.
This film was made by Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell. It was the next film he did right after it. I loved this movie when came out. He filmed this movie in Poland and all the actors in it are Polish. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.
Avalon (2001) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267287/
There's a strange but wonderful little film called Avalon [0], directed by Mamoru Oshii of Ghost in the Shell fame, for which i will now give spoilers.
The film concerns a virtual-reality game, with scenes shot in both the real world and the game. The game world is absolutely drenched in what that article calls "intangible sludge" - everything is a murky brown, and settings are usually fairly spartan, containing little other than the player characters and enemies. The real world, on the other hand, looks naturalistic, albeit shabby, given that this is set in crapsack cyberpunk Eastern European city.
Or at least, you think it is. Until the final act of the film, when the protagonist gains access to a "Class Special A" level in the game - which is simply modern-day Warsaw, shot straight, like a documentary, and as such is crammed with life and colour. After an hour and a half of the various shades of beige in the earlier levels and the real world, your brain has recalibrated itself to that, and so this perfectly normal scene assaults you with its hyperreality. It's a trick, and a simple trick, but it's amazingly effective!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_(2001_film)
This explains Mamoru Oshii (of Ghost in the Shell anime) live action 2001 movie Avalon. Original Polish dialogues are pure nonsense, with characters introducing themselves in long monologues to their long time friends/associates, or explaining game basics to fellow pro players, every line feels google translated from Japanese script.
Avalon is a fantastic movie with an excellent soundtrack as well. A must watch if you loved Ghost in the Shell.
Avalon (2001) - live action movie by Mamoru Oshii
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267287/combined
I really liked Inception but wanted Mal to be right too. There is a similar film called Avalon which isn't half as entertaining:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267287/
However, the ending in Avalon is mind blowing and makes the film worth seeing.
still a few more (some are in the works)
* Stargate
* "startup.com" - about the formation of 'govworks.com' i wonder what these guys think about Obama.
* Takedown - 'Kevin Mitnick's story'
* Serenity
* Star Trek: the Voyage Home
* The Last Starfighter
* Johnny Mnemonic
* Short Circuit 1 & 2
* Crest of the Stars (anime)
* Fahrenheit 451
* Equilibrium
* Batman (begins, dark night, the tim burten one)
* Edward Scissor Hands
* Space Balls
* Avalon ( http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-current/avalon/#comments)
* LAIN: The Serial Experiments (anime)
* Cherry 2000
* Dune
* Ender's Shadow (in the works)
* Ender's Game (in the works)
* Diamond Age (in the works for sci-fi, 'a young girls illustrated primer')
* The Arrival
* The Terminator 1,2,3
* The Sarah Conner Chronicles
* D.A.R.Y.L
* Flight of the Navigator
* Explorers
* AI
* Batteries Not Included
* Blade Runner
* IRobot
* Appleseed (anime)
* Bubble Gum Crisis (anime)
* Ergo Proxy (anime)
* Virtuosity
* Metropolis (all of them are good)
* The Last Exile (anime)
* Cherry 2000
* Robocop (this so hold up)
* Primmer
* Probe ( the TV series, it took me 3 months to find the copies of this Issac Asimov based TV series on ABC ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe_(TV_series)
* Infest Wisely
* Logan's Run
* Planet of the Apes
* Star Trek: First Contact
* CQ ( if you get it, you'll get why this is a hacker movie , 'la resistance')
* Amelie
* 2046
* Trigun (anime)
* Escaflone (anime)
* Tank Girl
* Twelve Monkeys
* THX 1138
* Bicentennial Man
* The Philadelphia Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(film)
* Seaquest ( some episodes )
* Strange Days ( new yeas hacker style )
* Freejack