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The Cell
2000 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Tarsem Singh
A psychotherapist journeys inside the mind of a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
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There's a movie based on Stephen K. King's work whose ending depicts a similar scenario. I believe it's called Cell.
The Cell is also vaguely related: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209958/
...but if it's no longer restricted to the visual cortex and they can extract the kind of horrific imagery as in the movie, I don't really want to see it.
Virtual Reality promises have been around since the 1990s and probably before that.
Lawnmower Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/) and The Cell (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209958/) showed us how amazing it could be and how it was going to change our lives.
Someday soon we are also supposed to get flying cars.
Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen:
Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated.
Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it.
The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies.
The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never understood why people like this movie. It's basically one guy telling a predictable and boring story. One of the most overrated movies ever. (I mean overrated in subjective sense obviously.)
Traffic – One of the best movies about drugs and organized crime.
Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie. The Cell is another movie where people enter someone else's dreams and even though it has only 6.2 on IMDB, I think I enjoyed it more. The depictions of the dreams were definitely more creative and looked more dreamy.
Of the top of my head I would recommend these:
* Something from David Lynch – Lost Highway, Blue Velvet or Mullholland Drive.
* Requiem for Dream
* Evil (2003)
* Sin City
* Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever.
* Elite squad – another great action movie, very realistic, borderline documentary.