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Films that present an alternate REALITY

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Oh yeah, couple more animation flicks.

Paprika and Paranoia Agent are both great. Paranoia Agent is a 13 piece series.
 
Thanks for all the input!!

Here is a list of films I haven't seen and will check out as per your recommendations:

The Lathe of Heaven
Brainstorm
The Thirteenth Floor
Tron
Men In Black - i have been avoiding this one for years (Will Smith drives me bean-anas...) but if endlessness recommends it...
Ghost in the Machine
The Lawnmower Man
Ink
Spirited away
Metropia
paprika
paranoia agent
mirrormask
neverwhere
coraline
sleep dealer
ender's game - not a movie yet, and the studio has allegedly no one attached to direct, but on IMDB they list 2013 as the release date...
Welt am Draht
Welcome to Blood City
The Island
Brainscan
Cube 2

And ones I need to check out again:

Open Your Eyes
Total Recall
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie - been a long time. film school...
12 monkeys
The fountain - saw this and can't remember a THING about it...
flatliners
Primer - i had frgotten about this one. need to see it again - i was exhausted when I saw it and was unprepared for the mindfuck that followed!!
Cube


Thanks again everyone, and keep em comin'!!

JBArk
 
ahhh this is an amazing list of movies that i have to watch!!!....

was going to say spirited away.. but has already been said... how about Princess Mononoke.. i think it's by the same person who did spirited away

metropia looks stinkin awesome

"ender's game - not a movie yet, and the studio has allegedly no one attached to direct, but on IMDB they list 2013 as the release date..."
WHHAAAAT.. no way.. i've read about half of the books... and ender's game i've read a few times already... such an awesome book series
 
Hi,

godling said:
"ender's game - not a movie yet, and the studio has allegedly no one attached to direct, but on IMDB they list 2013 as the release date..."
WHHAAAAT.. no way.. i've read about half of the books... and ender's game i've read a few times already... such an awesome book series
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I would love to see 'Ender's Game' made into a movie, but I'm worried it's one of the novels which can't be presented in movie format very well. But let's hope for the best.

I see few anime recommendations here, so I'd like to add one too. In my humble opinion, Kenji Kamiyama is one of the best anime directors. 'Ghost in the Shell : Stand alone complex' TV series is the cult. Cooperated on Akira, Kiki's delivery service, Blood: the last vampire as well. But here is his later creation, the best anime of 2007: 'Guardian of the Sacred Spirit (Seirei no moribito)'
www.imdb.com

Seirei no moribito (TV Series 2007) ⭐ 8.2 | Animation, Action, Adventure

25m | TV-PG
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One of those stories which exactly fell under 'film that present an alternate reality'. Visually stunning too. Will put tears in your eyes:d Highly recommended for any anime fan. Masterpiece!
Screenshots:

Seirei no moribito (2007) | Galerie - Ze seriálu | ČSFD.cz

Seirei no moribito (2007) - seriál - 62 obrázků. Fotky, plakáty, momentky z natáčení a další obrázky.
www.csfd.cz www.csfd.cz

Here is some list for your pleasure:
Few missing, but guy has a good taste. 'Mononoke' TV show is visually tripy, if someone played 'OKAMI' on ps2 or Wii knows what I mean...

I read in CINEMA magazine that 'Cowboy Bebop' gonna be made into holywood movie next year with Keanu Reeves playing main role:d
So let's wish for the best



Regards,
 
The movie "Contact" with jodie foster shows how she goes into hyperspace through alien-planned machine, somewhat similar to DMT...
 
Yeah and it's funny how the mainstream idea for this "hyperspace experience" is to get an alien plan for multi-government gigantic machine and then fall through it to get blasted off... When we actually have DMT for the same purpose:)
 
Wave Rider said:
Might I suggest What the Bleep Do We Know? and to a lesser extent Pi
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Pi is pretty good imo, but I'd be weary of "What the bleep do we know". Apparently it's little more than a propaganda piece for a cult called Ramtha's School of Enlightenment led by "channeler" and mystic J. Z. Knight.

According to JZ, Ramtha is a 35,000 year old Babylonian God who holds the secrets to enlightenment. But Ramtha quotes the same books that JZ has read and mispronounces to same words that JZ mispronounces. Go figure. :roll:

It's worse than that though. According to Wikipedia Knight terrorizes cult members who try to leave by telling them that the "Lizard people" with get them if they abandon Ramthas protection.
 
Remember the J-lo movie (yeah i know, J-lo) "The Cell"?
Even if it's not the best movie it's amazingly shot, made by a guy who makes music videos and commercials.

It involves entering peoples dreams.

Oh yeah, he also made another surreal movie called "the fall"
 
Thanks for the post Jbark, my Matrix movie download is finishing in a few minutes and then I stumble on your post, damn my bandwith limit will take a punch :)
 
I don't know if this is an 'alternate reality' film, but "F is for Fakes" - the documentary by Orson Wells and last movie he directed is pretty amazing. A lot of it has to do with what art really is, what it means and whether it actually matters if it's a forgery or not.

Includes wonderful shots of Elmyr De Hora, the famous art forger, burning perfect replicas of Matisse, Picasso, etc. works in a fire and uses his forgeries as a jumping off point.

Also deals with War of the Worlds and the false biography written about Howard Hughes. It's in no way a true documentary, though, so don't let that keep you from watching it.

IMDB Link

Happy Watching,
Muad'dib
 
I had a film on a separate list, on my Iphone, that I was sure i copied from this thread, but a careful scan of the posts here revealed, to my surprise, that no one has recommended it!!

I have no idea how it ended up on my phone memo list, but I watched it and hey - run (don't saunter) out and rent/buy/watch this film if the topic of this thread interests you in the least, (and quite possibly even if it doesn't!):

MR NOBODY


alternate trailer

TAGLINE: "Nothing is real, everything is possible"

About time, alternate realities and the nature of existence/non-existence, there are scenes in it that could be salvia trips, ideas certainly culled from trips to "hyperspace", and a fierce originality overlaid on a complex storyline that still manages to work on an emotional level.

Blew me away. Not perfect, but I don't believe a perfect movie can be made about this topic, so this one is one of the ones that may get as close as one can...

A good chunk of it was shot in Montreal, where I live - I believe the film was a Belgium/Canada/Quebec/UK co-production.

Imagine Benjamin Button on SALVIA!

JBArk

EDIT: By the director of TOTO LE HEROS (TOTO THE HERO), for those of you who know that excellent film.
 
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