It's remarkable how much modern science fiction owes to this:
-humanity stuck in a simulation that mirrors the present day of the film's production, fashion and all
-artificial intelligence taking over popular culture and being quickly turned into part of the wartime propaganda
-hell, the protag beats Kaneda and Katsuhiro Otomo to getting Kaneda's iconic bike on-screen
-no matter how far into the future we go, we cannot escape The Brand, and this time, it's McDonalds.
Loses half a point due to its lack of any meaningful conclusion.
I wonder if Harlan Ellison ever saw the film, I feel like his curmudgeonly heart may actually take a shine to it as a flawed but attempting progressive reach forward for science fiction.
It's remarkable how much modern science fiction owes to this:
-humanity stuck in a simulation that mirrors the present day of the film's production, fashion and all
-artificial intelligence taking over popular culture and being quickly turned into part of the wartime propaganda
-hell, the protag beats Kaneda and Katsuhiro Otomo to getting Kaneda's iconic bike on-screen
-no matter how far into the future we go, we cannot escape The Brand, and this time, it's McDonalds.
Loses half a point due to its lack of any meaningful conclusion.
I wonder if Harlan Ellison ever saw the film, I feel like his curmudgeonly heart may actually take a shine to it as a flawed but attempting progressive reach forward for science fiction.
