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List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $8.99 You Save: $0.96 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Full Screen • Special Edition • NTSC In Theaters : 28 May, 1999 DVD Release : 05 October, 1999 |
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The Thirteenth Floor description Computer scientist Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) finds something extremely important. Knowing that he's marked for assassination, he leaves a message in the virtual reality world he's designed, hoping it will be found by colleague Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko). Hall is a suspect in Fuller's murder and indeed finds a bloody shirt in his house, with no recollection of what he did the night before. Hall plunges headlong into Fuller's world (a re-creation of 1937 Los Angeles) to try to unravel the slaying and is soon knee-deep in confusion and trouble. What this film lacks in character depth and plot cohesiveness it makes up for in special effects and high concept. Fans of films like Blade Runner, Dark City, eXistenZ, and even the game Sim City should find this appealing. Of course, there's the question of letting the computers do all the heavy lifting in films while the humans walk through the plot (an all-too-familiar scenario in 1999), but the re-creation of '30s Los Angeles is certainly something to see, pallid script and acting or not. The Thirteenth Floor is a stylish modern-day noir that raises questions about technology versus reality, all the while wrapped up in a murder-mystery story line. --Jerry Renshaw |
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| I have read a sampling of the reviews for this movie... but not all of them because of the constraints of time.
As I have been able to determine from my sampling thus far, no one has yet mentioned that the premise and storyline were directly lifted (hopefully with due consideration of rights) from Daniel F. Galouye's "1964" novel, Simulacron 3, of virtual reality, political intrique, and murder. While it is common that very few films follow exactly the storylines of the original literature upon which they are based, The 13th Floor does downplay the political intrique (but not the megalomania) that Galouye's original 1964 novel portrayed. When one stops to think carefully and clearly about it, considering the incredibly primitive state of computer technology in 1964, Daniel F. Galouye should be acknowledged as the visionary that he indeed was. Investigate Mr. Galouye's bibliography and you will find many interesting ideas well ahead of (or out of) their time. The movie, The 13th Floor, is a reasonably honest effort to capture the essence of Daniel F. Galouye's vision in the context of the 1960's, the decade in which it was envisioned and written. In the context of those times in which Galouye presented his vision to the world, that vision was not a worn out cliche as it has (over the decades) become. It was fresh and it was original. It was radical. It had once been remarked to me by a person who had contributed artistically to the Warner Bros. product called The Matrix that he was of the opinion that The 13th Floor was an inferior movie. To that I must respectfully respond that, whereas The 13th Floor may lack the special effects polish that The Matrix so opulently displayed, The 13th Floor does deliver a faithfulness to story and idea with regard to which The Matrix was all but bankrupt. More techno-razzle-dazzle does not necessarily make better! In fact, special effects extravaganzas often tend to bury and overwhelm the potential depth of the species of idea at the core of the literature that inspired the production. As do all movies, The 13th Floor has its faults. However, unlike The Matrix, ir does not try to hide them. The 13th Floor represents the birth of a paradigm in literature to which The Matrix is merely a pathetic pretender. Resist the media techno-orthodoxy. Place yourself psychically in the 1960's. Read the novel Simulacron 3. Watch The 13th Floor. Be a witness to history and authenticity. THEN... Make up your own mind! AND.. Have a great life!! Earth Out.... Aar Jaa Bee |
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