Its not just historical epics making a comeback, either.
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Now, thrillers and adventure films based around computers werent peculiar to the 1990s.
News reports spoke excitedly about VRs possible applications.
One showed a Japanese woman using virtual reality to help design her new kitchen.
It will allow you to enter computer generated artificial worlds as unlimited as the imagination itself.
Its creators foresee millions of positive uses while others fear it as a new form of mind control…
Disclosures a particularly interesting example of a 1990s thriller, since its virtual reality plot strand is so extraneous.
Hollywoods fascination with computers and virtual spaces continued throughout the 1990s, and 1995 was a bumper year.
There was the paranoid identity theft thrillerThe Net,starring Sandra Bullock.
That same year, Alex ProyasDark Citygave us a noir thriller set in a shadowy simulated metropolis.
Recently, Eurogamerpublished an articletitled, Is 2014 the year of virtual reality?.
I instinctively stopped and just looked around.
It was an organic wow moment.
Media interest in virtual reality?
A movie about a man becoming pure energy in cyberspace?
It really does feel like the early 90s again.
Once again, movies are exploring our fascinations and anxieties about technology.
Because while graphics improve and devices become faster and more efficient, our human fears never really change.
Transcendenceis out on April 18th.
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