The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
One of two major motion pictures released in 1999 about a futuristic simulation whose inhabitants believe they're in the real world. The other was The Matrix (1999) released two months earlier. Though it feels 10-15 years older than The Matrix. Couldn't find the clip I had in mind so here's a trailer...
Based on the 1964 science fiction novel "Simulacron-3" by Daniel F. Galouye. This has been made before as a 3 1/2 hour TV-serial in Germany, titled "Welt am Draht" (WORLD ON A WIRE, 1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Situated in 2024 with cyberspace-time traveling back to a seedy and gorgeous-looking sci-fi neo-noir Los Angeles 1937. Quite retro-futuristic.
Also, in the dialogue between Ashton and Douglas near the end, when Ashton switched with Whitney: Ashton said: "What did you do to the world?" "Turned it off." "Then put it back!"
One of two major motion pictures released in 1999 about a futuristic simulation whose inhabitants believe they're in the real world. The other was The Matrix (1999) released two months earlier. Though it feels 10-15 years older than The Matrix. Couldn't find the clip I had in mind so here's a trailer...
Based on the 1964 science fiction novel "Simulacron-3" by Daniel F. Galouye. This has been made before as a 3 1/2 hour TV-serial in Germany, titled "Welt am Draht" (WORLD ON A WIRE, 1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Situated in 2024 with cyberspace-time traveling back to a seedy and gorgeous-looking sci-fi neo-noir Los Angeles 1937. Quite retro-futuristic.
Also, in the dialogue between Ashton and Douglas near the end, when Ashton switched with Whitney: Ashton said: "What did you do to the world?" "Turned it off." "Then put it back!"
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell