Sci-Fi Surrogates

[superintelligentone]

Surrogates - a Sci-Fi movie starring Bruce Willis.

The story is about a utopian society where most people chose to live their lives through androids acting as their surrogate selves.

Originally intended to help handicapped people experience what their bodies can't and then the military to have their troops safely away from actual combat, everyone now uses the technology because they can life through ideal surrogate selves instead of their mundane selves.

The people stay safe at home in their cyber-link chairs seeing, hearing, and feeling things that their robot is experiencing. Until one day safeguards fail.

 

[squimaspet]

Excuse the double post, but I saw the trailer before Terminator yesterday and wanted to share....I was really excited because I've really been curious to see how the world of surrogates worked and I think the whole movie/premise looks pretty amazing.

This great video, thank you for sharing them. I will return to post the video on this forum and you'll find them great.

 

[leelondon]

Has anyone seen it? For the release on DVD, they've made an online game where you can make your perfect woman or man - it's called Surrodates at http://www.surro-date.com
Enter your preferences for eye and hair colour along with your interests and it will generate your Surrodate. All of which are fit. Definitely worth it for the eye candy.

This is what it came up with for me:

 

[astonwest]

Saw the trailer for this in a few movies I've seen lately. Looks like a good one I'll want to watch. Hope it doesn't disappoint.

I did end up seeing this one, and really enjoyed it. I notice that it comes out this coming Tuesday on DVD...may have to pick it up.

 

[LeRolls]

I need to rent this movie. I like Jonathan Mostow as a director most of the time and the idea seems cool.

 

[mr kite]

I watched this last week
It was like A.I. meets I Robot
I did get through it , but I didn`t think that is a film that will sit on my large shelf of Dvd`s I wouldn`t reconmmend it to anyone .
I thought even Bruce didn`t seem interested .

 

[LeRolls]

I watched this last week
It was like A.I. meets I Robot
I did get through it , but I didn`t think that is a film that will sit on my large shelf of Dvd`s I wouldn`t reconmmend it to anyone .
I thought even Bruce didn`t seem interested .

I'd actually have to agree. Just didn't grab me the way I was hoping it would.

 

[Tim]

The ending was good for once! and when I say that, I mean that quite a few films I've watched recently had unsatisfactory endings that just didn't seem natural. Like Daybreakers. Since this film is now about on DVD people will start to watch it that didn't go to the cinema first time round and they'll see what I mean.

Providing of course they didn't change the ending of course for the DVD

 

[dol123]

This movie is about average. Its not so much interesting movie..

 

[Anthony G Williams]

Film: Surrogates (2009)


The time is the near future, when the availability of surrogates has transformed the world. These are lifelike androids which are directly controlled by their owners via radio links which have complete sensory feedback, so that the owners can experience life as if they were there in person while remaining safely "plugged in" in their homes. This has led to the mass use of surrogates in everyday life. They can be made to look younger and more attractive than their owners (or indeed, completely different from them), and allow their owners to vicariously experience all sorts of dangerous activities which they would never attempt in person. The small percentage of humans who refuse to use surrogates (derisively known as "meatbags" by the others) live in "Dread Reservations" scattered about the country.

Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is an FBI agent who via his surrogate (Trevor Donovan, made up to look like a younger and hairier version of Willis) investigates the destruction of two surrogates and discovers that whatever weapon did the damage also killed their owners - something which was supposed to be impossible. Aided by his partner Agent Peters (Radha Mitchell) he tracks the killer and the weapon to a Dread Reservation, but complications ensue as the FBI has no jurisdiction there and the Reservation leader, known as The Prophet (Ving Rhames), is preaching revolution. The plot goes through a whole series of twists and turns before the dramatic finale, as Agent Greer becomes uncertain who is on which side, whether the surrogates are always being controlled by their owners (and if not, by whom?) and what the murders are really all about.

Surrogates is an intriguing and exciting film, a good blend of reasonably realistic science-fictional extrapolation with a high-tension mystery, seasoned with a well-judged quantity of the obligatory chases and crashes. There are some thoughful insights into the effect of surrogacy on everyday life; in the relationship between Greer and his wife (Rosamund Pike) who refuses to meet him except in her surrogate form, and in the uneasiness and vulnerability Greer feels in "meatbag" form when he tries to move among the physically perfect, fast-moving surrogates. It held my attention throughout, and is one of the better SF films I've seen recently. Recommended.

(This entry is cross-posted from my science-fiction & fantasy blog.)

 

[derpyroo]

I really liked Surrogates, it was nothing like I had seen before, it made me think would I use a surrogate, and how you could lose real interaction.

 

[astonwest]

Enjoyed the movie...myself, I'd prefer having clones of myself so they could go to work for me, and I could get some writing done on the side.

 

[BudBrewster]

I was very impressed by this movie. Great concept. Fans of the novel disliked it because of changes in the plot. But since I hadn't read it, I watched it without any preconceived ideas.

I didn't realize until I read the post above that the "young" Bruce Willis was another actor in clever make-up. I thought it might be a combination of make-up and CGI.