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Brainscan
1994 · Film · 96 min
Directed by John Flynn
A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.
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Any particular reason that Brainscan appears twice (at #33 and #57)?
FWIW, I haven't seen that one yet, but it's on my list of "movies to watch" and I think I'll be getting to it soon.
I think hype results in skepticism, and things can be hyped on a far larger scale now than ever before.
If I think back to my early internet days, I remember email (Eudora!!) being the most useful and exciting thing. After that I remember Yahoo and ICQ being really important for me. People were certainly excited in the 90s, but I think the hype was less around the internet in general and more around some of the things it would enable (e.g. Gateway PCs and PCTV or whatever it was called).
I remember more hype around the CD-ROM and CD-R's than I do hype about the internet. The capacity of CD-ROMs and the ability to play video reminds me of the current talk about VR/AR. What we got out of CD-ROMs was Windows 95 being easier to install and cutscenes in video games - not what happened to Edward Furlong in the "Brainscan" movie or Lawnmower man.
Compare that to blockchain or any of the current hyped technologies like Deep Learning or Big Data(3 years ago). "Thought leaders", tech and non-tech companies (small and large), journalists - everybody wants to show they are the leaders and have the answers. You then have a strong reaction of skepticism against this.
I feel old writing this post. I remember Brainscan and hoping something like that was right around the corner...ouch.
I feel the last season offers a different perspective than the others (excluding San Junipero - which is similar to the first two seasons).
The first two seasons are about a hypothetical future any person could experience (society).
The last season is from the perspective of an individual's very specific circumstances (except for San Junipero).
Society versus the individual?
I liked the ending of the first episode of Season 3 (freedom achieved), episode 2 was more horror than scifi (a la "Brainscan"), episode 3 could have been a subplot in a single episode of Mr. Robot, episode 4 was more like the first two seasons, episode 5 was some nazi-esque Verhoeven-wannabe hegemony meh, and episode 6, to me, was like episode 2, more horror scifi.
most likely, one of the comments hinted it's from the movie brainscan
Then take it few steps further with a 360 degree fish eye lense strapped to your forehead, and some sort of VR helmet display for playback. Then take the camera while skiing, mountain climbing etc., and you would essentially have a brainscanning device like in the movies Strange Days, or Brainscan.