Movies about alternate reality

Xerces · 12-11-06, 17:24

I was just watching PI
What movies do you recall that has theories on alternate realities or secret dimensions like The Matrix, Alice in Wonderland, Dark City, 12 Monkeys, The Wizard of Oz..

of course Donnie Darko! one of my favorites

Sky Rayven · 12-11-06, 17:32

Donnie Darko of course is one of my favs tooo!! But, there was Stargate, Barbarella. If you have the SciFi channel they are showing The Lost Room mini series starting this evening. That is all about alternate realities and such.

SonOfGaia · 12-11-06, 20:10

Labyrynth is a classic... so is Drop Dead Fred...

I heard the new one The Fountain is supposed to be extremely metaphysical.

Great topic...

goatslacker · 12-11-06, 20:53

eXistenZ. i cannot rave enough about this movie! a must watch!

it has Jude Law in it. it's an indie film.

oibchip · 12-11-06, 20:54

I saw Vanilla Sky the other night..that was pretty good too.

Xerces · 12-11-06, 20:58

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Originally Posted by oibchip

I saw Vanilla Sky the other night..that was pretty good too.

I was just about to put that one in the original thread!
I always liked it and I watched it again with my gf last night. Almost made me cry :P

Lazlo · 12-11-06, 20:59

TRON

I just saw a new release that's been remastered. It's an older movie, but when tripping and watching it on a nice surround system and tv, it's fuckin sweet!
The colors and sounds in the movie are incredible. I bet the remastered one in 5.1 and HD is really bad ass.

SonOfGaia · 12-11-06, 21:02

Oohh yea... The Thirteenth Floor, kinda tapped-into-the-matrix stuff. Spirited Away the award winning anime is pretty cool and alternate-reality-ish. Sliders the TV show... The Butterfly Effect, kinda. Renegade (aka Blueberry) has some SICK ayahuasca and peyote CGI visual scenes... Maybe more later

rustyshackleford · 12-11-06, 21:46

PRIMER.. what more can I say?

that movie is amazing and puzzling... i very much so recommend it!

Xerces · 12-11-06, 21:47

Both the Thirteenth Floor and The Butterfly Effect were great movies.
I remember seeing one on Movie City a while ago, about some indians, and a guy in a cave, really fucked up in peyote or something...

I watched Buttefly Effect 2 yesterday.. Just like the first one but a diferent story with unkown actors.

TheJackal · 12-11-06, 21:53

Not a movie, but the Star Trek episode with the exact opposite evil world was kinda kewl.

I like the whole matter, anti matter stuff, and maybe we are the evil world and there is a much nicer opposite universe out there hehe.

Reminds me of an article in Scientific American that tried to explain parallel universes:

“Parallel Universes
Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations
By Max Tegmark
Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.
The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical, but that does not make your doppelgänger any less real. The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere. There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices....continued at Scientific American Digital”

The theory basically went that if there were a universe with only 4 elements (ours has a shitload), 4 things can only combine 16 ways and if there were enough matter, the 17th universe would be a copy of one of the other 16. The only difference is that we have a lot more elements, but once again, given enough matter there could be some not so exact copies of our universe, and even an exact copy. Here is to me getting laid in my other universe.

Cheers!

Jackal

SonOfGaia · 12-11-06, 22:08

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Originally Posted by Xerces

I remember seeing one on Movie City a while ago, about some indians, and a guy in a cave, really fucked up in peyote or something...

Sounds like Renegade (AKA Blueberry). Great movie, worth a rent for sure. There are about 4 or so complex CGI sequences that depict the psychedellic experience. Here is a popular video depicting one of these sequences:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...04500&q=peyote

It's cool, i havnt seen a few of these movies... i cant wait to check them out.

BuckarooBanzai · 12-11-06, 22:12

It isn't a movie, but Madeline L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" series is a real nice introduction.

Glasshopper · 12-11-06, 22:58

"No Such Thing" A Really wonderfull adult fairy tale, Not exactly alternate reality but in the lady or tiger -ish ending the sarcastic monster may have been destroyed by simply convincing it that it does not exist.

BuckarooBanzai · 12-11-06, 23:15

When dealing with the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal:

Just wrap your towel around your head. If you can't see it, it just assumes it can't see you...

Xerces · 12-11-06, 23:42

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Originally Posted by SonOfGaia

Souds like Renegade (AKA Blueberry). Great movie, worth a rent for sure. There are about 4 or so complex CGI sequences that depict the psychedellic experience. Here is a popular video depicting one of these sequences:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...04500&q=peyote

It's cool, i havnt seen a few of these movies... i cant wait to check them out.

totally! thats the one!

PeopleCanFly · 12-11-06, 23:51

woah the google video link is hella crazy!! my only hope is that peyote trips are not really like this haha but the video is truly well made and trippy as hell !!!

SonOfGaia · 12-11-06, 23:56

Well ACTUALLY... since I brought it up... I might as well divulge some more info...

The people that made Renegade actually went and took Ayahuasca with the shamans... the people involved in designing and creating those sequences. The representions portrayed in the movie are supposed to be inspired by the actual vision quests the computer designers and movie producers took during the making of this movie. Truely a great way to do it! Talk about job perks!!

psychecentric · 12-12-06, 00:33

MirrorMask was way trippy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/

mycobri · 12-12-06, 07:42

Damn. i was looking for suggestions like this right before i went to blockbuster last night. When i got home i saw this thread.

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Originally Posted by SonOfGaia

Renegade (aka Blueberry) has some SICK ayahuasca and peyote CGI visual scenes...

yeah, i have been trying to put people on to this movie for a while. not only for the beautiful peyote, san pedros and caapi vines in the movie, but the visuals take up one third of the entire movie. i think they use a tropane alkaloid in the brew as well. enjoy.

mindovermycelia · 12-12-06, 07:58

Jacob's ladder
The Wall
Adaptation
Being John Malcovich
The Maxx
Flatliners
Nightmare on Elmstreet
Hellraiser
Jumangi
A Beautiful Mind
The Machinist

AmosMoses · 12-12-06, 08:21

Altered States was a pretty good movie.

mindovermycelia · 12-12-06, 08:29

I watched The Wall and The Maxx projected on my wall while tripping once and that was great. As far as flatliners goes, it's ok but not as good as the rest of my list above, except a few of the Nightmare on Elmstreets and Hellraisers maybe. I don't think people who have near death experiences bring back child hood nightmares into this reality so it's kind of based on bullshit. As far as Donnie Darko goes, it had a cool feel to it but I felt a little let down by the ending, it was kind of like the ending of Jacob's Ladder in that the whole movie was really what he imagined in the last few seconds of his life, or at least that's the only sense I could make of it. I was expecting a more clever wrap up at the end I guess. In Jacob's Ladder, the vision is caused by a hallucinogen the gov tested on soldiers and he was killed by his own, which is pretty damn hard to beat as far as an ending like this can go in my opinion. Even though I was trying through the whole movie to detect the plot and make sense of it in both movies, I felt much more satisfied at the end of Jacob's Ladder. Like the guy who made DD just couldn't come up with a super cool ending so he made one that leaves you guessing.

merk · 12-12-06, 09:14

The One with Jet Li was pretty cool. A good action movie that has to do with parallel universes.

SonOfGaia · 12-12-06, 09:21

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Originally Posted by merk

The One with Jet Li was pretty cool. A good action movie that has to do with parallel universes.

Indeed! I like the premis too, destroying yourself in parallel universes to suck all the energy into 1 being of yourself for the ultimate power. Great!!

BigStemz · 12-12-06, 09:37

i enjoyed the animatrix even more than and of the regular matrixes especially the one in the animatrix about the robots taking over the planet, and that place in japan where all the weird shit happend, OH MAN! i wish i found a place like that.....im gonna post another thread just because i though of something that i could put here about the burmuda triangle!

Xerces · 12-12-06, 11:49

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Originally Posted by mindovermycelia

As far as Donnie Darko goes, it had a cool feel to it but I felt a little let down by the ending, it was kind of like the ending of Jacob's Ladder in that the whole movie was really what he imagined in the last few seconds of his life, or at least that's the only sense I could make of it.

Actually its not like that, a Tangent Universe is created. it was not a dream or his imagination.

SonOfGaia · 12-12-06, 13:15

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Originally Posted by Xerces

Actually its not like that, a Tangent Universe is created. it was not a dream or his imagination.

Donnie Darko: The Philosophy of Time Travel

Great Book, PDF uploaded below!

Kinda helps explain a bit about it. It definately takes a couple times watching and a couple times reading over stuff to grasp it all... GREAT movie...

Xerces · 12-12-06, 13:36

The Philosophy of Time Travel

XxXSheVampXxX · 12-13-06, 12:03

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a good movie for nerds like me. No one else likes it though but whatever. I LIKE IT!

Xerces · 12-13-06, 12:33

I liked it. Kind of sad though.

Mindzpore · 12-13-06, 12:33

Hey, I dont know but I think that movies like "pretty woman", "dirty dancing", "die hard", "gone with the wind". Hell, most of the follywood-produced brainwash are all depictions of some pretty bizzare alternate realities, at least alternate to the one I live in.

spacecake · 12-13-06, 12:49

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Originally Posted by Xerces

I was just about to put that one in the original thread!
I always liked it and I watched it again with my gf last night. Almost made me cry :P

''vanilla sky''The original (Frensh / chinees?) version,is the best..like a bad trip !

spacecake · 12-13-06, 12:52

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Originally Posted by goatslacker

eXistenZ. i cannot rave enough about this movie! a must watch!

it has Jude Law in it. it's an indie film.

Yeah,this is great movie..litlle scary too !

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12-11-06, 17:24	#1 (permalink)
Xerces Market Restricted Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 610	Movies about alternate reality I was just watching PI What movies do you recall that has theories on alternate realities or secret dimensions like The Matrix, Alice in Wonderland, Dark City, 12 Monkeys, The Wizard of Oz.. of course Donnie Darko! one of my favorites

12-11-06, 17:32	#2 (permalink)
Sky Rayven Mycotopiate Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 652	Donnie Darko of course is one of my favs tooo!! But, there was Stargate, Barbarella. If you have the SciFi channel they are showing The Lost Room mini series starting this evening. That is all about alternate realities and such. __________________ The Goddess is alive and she ate my mushrooms! ;)

12-11-06, 20:54	#5 (permalink)
oibchip Space Lord Modulator Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 5,015	I saw Vanilla Sky the other night..that was pretty good too. __________________ Please standby while I find a decent quote for my sig

12-11-06, 20:59	#7 (permalink)
Lazlo old hand Join Date: Mar 1970 Posts: 7,034	TRON I just saw a new release that's been remastered. It's an older movie, but when tripping and watching it on a nice surround system and tv, it's fuckin sweet! The colors and sounds in the movie are incredible. I bet the remastered one in 5.1 and HD is really bad ass. __________________ How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your MEAT?

12-11-06, 20:10	#3 (permalink)
SonOfGaia Mycophage Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 147	Labyrynth is a classic... so is Drop Dead Fred... I heard the new one The Fountain is supposed to be extremely metaphysical. Great topic...

12-11-06, 20:53	#4 (permalink)
goatslacker Mycophiliac Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 7	eXistenZ. i cannot rave enough about this movie! a must watch! it has Jude Law in it. it's an indie film.

12-11-06, 21:02	#8 (permalink)
SonOfGaia Mycophage Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 147	Oohh yea... The Thirteenth Floor, kinda tapped-into-the-matrix stuff. Spirited Away the award winning anime is pretty cool and alternate-reality-ish. Sliders the TV show... The Butterfly Effect, kinda. Renegade (aka Blueberry) has some SICK ayahuasca and peyote CGI visual scenes... Maybe more later

12-11-06, 21:46	#9 (permalink)
rustyshackleford Mycophiliac Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 66	PRIMER.. what more can I say? that movie is amazing and puzzling... i very much so recommend it! __________________ - Rusty

12-11-06, 21:47	#10 (permalink)
Xerces Market Restricted Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 610	Both the Thirteenth Floor and The Butterfly Effect were great movies. I remember seeing one on Movie City a while ago, about some indians, and a guy in a cave, really fucked up in peyote or something... I watched Buttefly Effect 2 yesterday.. Just like the first one but a diferent story with unkown actors.

12-11-06, 21:53	#11 (permalink)
TheJackal Cunning Linguist Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 684	Not a movie, but the Star Trek episode with the exact opposite evil world was kinda kewl. I like the whole matter, anti matter stuff, and maybe we are the evil world and there is a much nicer opposite universe out there hehe. Reminds me of an article in Scientific American that tried to explain parallel universes: “Parallel Universes Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations By Max Tegmark Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on. The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical, but that does not make your doppelgänger any less real. The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere. There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices....continued at Scientific American Digital” The theory basically went that if there were a universe with only 4 elements (ours has a shitload), 4 things can only combine 16 ways and if there were enough matter, the 17th universe would be a copy of one of the other 16. The only difference is that we have a lot more elements, but once again, given enough matter there could be some not so exact copies of our universe, and even an exact copy. Here is to me getting laid in my other universe. Cheers! Jackal

12-11-06, 22:12	#13 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,243	It isn't a movie, but Madeline L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" series is a real nice introduction. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

12-11-06, 23:15	#15 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,243	When dealing with the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal: Just wrap your towel around your head. If you can't see it, it just assumes it can't see you... __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

12-11-06, 23:56	#18 (permalink)
SonOfGaia Mycophage Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 147	Well ACTUALLY... since I brought it up... I might as well divulge some more info... The people that made Renegade actually went and took Ayahuasca with the shamans... the people involved in designing and creating those sequences. The representions portrayed in the movie are supposed to be inspired by the actual vision quests the computer designers and movie producers took during the making of this movie. Truely a great way to do it! Talk about job perks!!

12-12-06, 00:33	#19 (permalink)
psychecentric Mycophiliac Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 53	MirrorMask was way trippy. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/ __________________ Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. -Montaigne

12-12-06, 07:58	#21 (permalink)
mindovermycelia Mycotopiate Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 493	Jacob's ladder The Wall Adaptation Being John Malcovich The Maxx Flatliners Nightmare on Elmstreet Hellraiser Jumangi A Beautiful Mind The Machinist __________________ do unto others as you would have them do unto you

12-12-06, 08:21	#22 (permalink)
AmosMoses Mycophiliac Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 34	Altered States was a pretty good movie.

12-12-06, 08:29	#23 (permalink)
mindovermycelia Mycotopiate Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 493	I watched The Wall and The Maxx projected on my wall while tripping once and that was great. As far as flatliners goes, it's ok but not as good as the rest of my list above, except a few of the Nightmare on Elmstreets and Hellraisers maybe. I don't think people who have near death experiences bring back child hood nightmares into this reality so it's kind of based on bullshit. As far as Donnie Darko goes, it had a cool feel to it but I felt a little let down by the ending, it was kind of like the ending of Jacob's Ladder in that the whole movie was really what he imagined in the last few seconds of his life, or at least that's the only sense I could make of it. I was expecting a more clever wrap up at the end I guess. In Jacob's Ladder, the vision is caused by a hallucinogen the gov tested on soldiers and he was killed by his own, which is pretty damn hard to beat as far as an ending like this can go in my opinion. Even though I was trying through the whole movie to detect the plot and make sense of it in both movies, I felt much more satisfied at the end of Jacob's Ladder. Like the guy who made DD just couldn't come up with a super cool ending so he made one that leaves you guessing. __________________ do unto others as you would have them do unto you

12-12-06, 09:14	#24 (permalink)
merk Mycophiliac Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 56	The One with Jet Li was pretty cool. A good action movie that has to do with parallel universes. __________________ Just go with it

12-12-06, 09:37	#26 (permalink)
BigStemz prophet of peace Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 599	i enjoyed the animatrix even more than and of the regular matrixes especially the one in the animatrix about the robots taking over the planet, and that place in japan where all the weird shit happend, OH MAN! i wish i found a place like that.....im gonna post another thread just because i though of something that i could put here about the burmuda triangle! __________________ oooommmmhhhH

12-13-06, 12:03	#30 (permalink)
XxXSheVampXxX Mycophiliac Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 10	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a good movie for nerds like me. No one else likes it though but whatever. I LIKE IT! __________________ Boioioioing!!!

12-13-06, 12:33	#31 (permalink)
Xerces Market Restricted Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 610	I liked it. Kind of sad though.

12-13-06, 12:33	#32 (permalink)
Mindzpore Mycophiliac Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 27	alternate to my reality Hey, I dont know but I think that movies like "pretty woman", "dirty dancing", "die hard", "gone with the wind". Hell, most of the follywood-produced brainwash are all depictions of some pretty bizzare alternate realities, at least alternate to the one I live in. __________________ "If you think something is foolproof, you just haven't met proper fools"