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Virtual Nightmare (2000)
Nice, but I remember something better (not The Matrix!)
I saw this picture and enjoyed it, but I kept comparing it to the SF book I read in the 60's by Raymond Z. Galun(The Eden Cycle). It seemed to be flat compared to that book, but then any movie(especially a made for TV one) is that way. I thought they did a good job of telling the story and keeping our interest with minimal special effects. I agree with a previous comment that the movie was cut short and that the ending should have been more developed, but put that down to being a made-for-TV movie. This is not the most extreme use virtual reality in SF. There was a trilogy I read relatively about a man in the year 30,000 or so where many things were virtual, everyone knew it and liked it that way because it added color and beauty with little effort. People thought of it as customizing everyday reality and did other things like it such as creating virtual friends, copying real ones and traveling through telepresence. They had computers smarter than people, no aging, immortality, but no FTL travel.