Surrogates [DVD]

Elon is right!

Get ready for a wild ride, folks! 'The Surrogates' is the throwback movie that's going to make you question everything you thought you knew about your friends and neighbors. Get ready to delve into a world where people use surrogates to live their lives for them. Are you sure the person you're dealing with is the real deal, or just a mere puppet controlled from afar?This film will leave you scratching your head, and maybe even doing a double-take when you see your next-door neighbor. It's a thought-provoking, laugh-out-loud ride that's not to be missed. So grab some popcorn, settle in, and brace yourself for the ride of a lifetime. You won't regret it!

If you like robot movies,you'll probably like Surrogates.But if you think this is your usual robot movie where the robots take over or destroy mankind -- Surrogates has a twist to it!In Surrogates,it's the people who control the robots!In Surrogates{which means'substitute'}man has done just that -- he has developed robots{or surrogates} to do most of the things for him!The people mostly stay at home and let their surrogates get out and do most of the things they would normally do{the surrogates are controlled by their operators from their house in a special surrogate 'chair' they lie in{and along with a head-set}let the surrogates get out and do the work}.Why get into all that traffic when you can just send your surrogate out in it? And why risk a bad day at the office when your surrogate can go FOR you? And if you have a hazardous job{like the military or police do},just send your surrogate out in your place so you don't have to take any risks!Just what mankind was looking for!But there's a fly in the ointment!Recently,someone has been destroying the surrogates,and worse than that,they are using some sort of 'secret' weapon that by-passes the surrogates fail-safes and also kills their human operators!This is when Bruce Willis{who works for the FBI}is brought in -- that is, his surrogate is brought in!Surrogates has a lot of action and good special effects in it,it also has a good plot to it.Although I've described it here so everyone can understand it,if you really want to understand the movie,you have to see it 3 or 4 times.I need to empathize this -- IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS MOVIE,YOU HAVE TO SEE IT 3 OR 4 TIMES!! If you have seen it only once,there is NO WAY you're going to understand it!That's because most of the 'people'you see in this movie are surrogates!You have to keep in mind that the actual people are back at their homes CONTROLLING the surrogates!That's what makes the movie hard to understand -- you have to keep in mind what's really going on! The movie comes at you so fast in so little time{it's only about 90 minutes long}that you really have to see it more than once.If you want to get the 'small details',you'll have to see it 3 or 4 times.I've seen reviews where people didn't like this movie -- mostly because they only saw it once.There's no way you'll understand this movie if you've only seen it once.Some have said it could have been longer or there could be more character developement.That's probably true.But because the movie is so short and it comes at you so fast,you'll need to see it more than once!The movie also has a surprise ending to it -- one that will get you to thinking! A good movie -- if you see it more than once!

I seen the preview of the movie One Day and I said I would like to watch that movie. it look like a good movie to watch. it turns out that it was a good movie.

I enjoyed this movie. There was not really any gore, not too much violence, and I don't remember God or Jesus being used as a curse word like in most movies now. So these things are pluses. This movie shows the negative side if surrogates were ever possible. It also could even show the negative side to people spending too much time in virtual reality worlds. It also shows what a corrupt corporation might do to protect its profits. Here are some thoughts and reactions I had while watching this movie (SPOILERS):-At the beginning of the movie, something to this effect was said when referring to humans, comparing them to surrogates "this is how God made you". I thought this was interesting that it was in the movie, and wondered why, especially in the beginning. Are the writers trying to tell us to be real and appreciate life?-Surrogates were referred to by media or historians as an "evolutionary significance' to human activity. I find it odd that the word evolution was used for a technological advancement and not a biological change in actual human DNA.-A media report or historian report at the beginning of the movie says that the surrogate movement pretty much eliminated crime. I find this to be unrealistic that surrogates like in this movie could nearly eliminate crime. It would probably increase crime because people would not fear being hurt. In the movie we also see those two surrogates getting ready to abuse a woman, and then the guy deactivates them to prevent the crime. So, in this world, maybe that's the only way it did reduce crime was by the total surveillance of all surrogate connections and deactivating possible connections. This puts a whole new spin to Big Brother concepts like in 1984. Also, Cantar, the inventor of surrogates does a lot of underhanded things while trying to destroy his invention. Also the lead guy in the FBI in the movie tried to get Cantar killed. So, in the end, surrogates didn't really reduce crime even in this movie it seems, despite the media claim.-In this world, would insurance be required to operate a surrogate?-This movie reminded me of the movie Wall-e where humans were hovering around on beds while staring at computer screens for most of their waking hours.-VSI advertised surrogates by saying you can "do what you want" if you get one. As if laws don't apply any longer? you can do whatever you want? This illustrates the hypocrisy of advertisements.-"relax, we're the good guys" says the guy who is able to monitor every surrogate connection on the planet (or at least in the city), but yet he didn't know about the attempt to kill cantar or the FBI guy who arrange it?

Love Bruce older movies but skipped movie as didn't like the premise. Surprisingly good.

This is a review of the 2010 Region B & C Blu-ray from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. This short film runs here in 1080p HD, and DTS 5.1 HD, in a good-looking presentation, with excellent sound and masses of bonus features.In the mid 2000s, American comic book writer Robert Vendetti wrote a 5 issue mini-series for the comic and graphic novel publishers ‘Top Shelf Productions’. Called ‘The Surrogates’, the rights were bought by Disney in March 2007. As it was adapted into a screenplay, Jonathan Mostow was chosen to direct. Mostow, a Harvard graduate, had worked previously on ‘The Game’(1997) and then directed ‘U-571’(2000) and the terrifying and reasonably successful ‘Terminator 3’(2003). He also worked on Sci-Fi projects for TV.The plot here bears a certain family resemblance to other Hollywood Sci-Fi movies on a similar theme ~ the widespread existence of humanoid or Human-resembling androids. The Terminator series with its super-strong human-like machines; ‘Westworld’(1973) where human-looking androids are designed to interactively entertain; ‘Robocop’(1987) and its sequels with ‘androidised’ humans engineered to fight crime, are just some examples. In every instance, the androids are supposed to serve, but can prove to be a mixed blessing ~ or none at all!Here too. Android ‘surrogates’ can be purchased. Designed to represent an idealised version of the owner (‘operator’), their function is to go out into the world and live the life of their operator, including the less palatable bits like work and commuting, but also the pleasurable aspects like socialising and partying. The operator, linked in from the comfort and safety of their home, experiences everything. But in the event of danger or calamity, they are cocooned and protected. And because the surrogate is stronger, fitter, faster, with infinite energy, their operators are able to do, and experience, ‘more’ than any ordinary human.The results, in terms of reduced crime, accidents and antisocial behaviour, is a major incentive for this world-changing technology to be embraced, encouraged, facilitated, by the authorities. But the human population has become a zombie race, housebound, terrified of actually emerging into the light in person. Genuine human interaction has become almost extinct. And whilst the resulting sensory gratification and personal security has become addictive, the film asks quite profound questions about the cost to humanity and to individuals.In the end, this is a clever little film. Very seductively, it pretends to be a busy action ‘flick’, with that King of fast-paced action movies, Bruce Willis, appearing as a determined street cop and also his surrogate (with a mop of hair). But underneath the pace, jokes, gun play and resultant splatter, the film is busy asking us tricky questions. Willis provides his usual totally reliable performance, and award-winning British actress Rosamund Pike is very touching as his wife, Maggie. James Cromwell chews the scenery effectively, as the Scientist-turned-Luddite, Dr. Lionel Canter.An appealing mixture of thrills, spills ~ and ideas.

Surrogates comes from a time when Bruce Willis still seemed to care about the movies he made. The movie centres on a technology which would be more than useful in the lockdown world we live now with the the Covid-19 virus. In the near future world of Surrogates, the majority of the population stay in their homes and let their surrogate self go out into the world.As Sci-fi is often a projection of the present into the future, one important theme is the possible separation of our online identity from our real identity. This is particularly true of the avatars and images we choose to represent us when we go online.It follows that the movie is also a commentary on body image and the modern obsession with the perfect, youth body and the pressure that people are under to conform to those standards. At a philosophical level the movie hints at the mind/body relationship which was explored to great success in The Matrix. I think some of these themes would stand up to a tv series treatment.

Although I've always found it too reminiscent of 'I, Robot' (I think largely because of the role played by James Cromwell which to me always echoed his role in the film) 'Surrogates' is still a breezy sci-fi thriller.Set in a not too distant future when humans use robot surrogates to interact with each other whilst they themselves often remain indoors, an investigation into the supposedly impossible deaths of human users of surrogates whilst online sends Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell (underused) down the path of discovering something which could change the world.It doesn't outstay it's welcome, it has good visual effects and although the film never really explores many of the themes touched on by the plot, preferring to keep to its fast pace, there are some interesting things in it. The extras are light though, that's the only gripe.

An intriguing premise underpins this film - that the entire world (well 95% of the population) has an android 'surrogate' living their life: Sleeker, prettier, more efficient and far more agile (they can run up walls), they enable their users to remain at home, locked into their avatar and slowly losing touch with the real world themselves.There is some stunning action, a decent performance from Bruce Willis as a weary cop, and a neon-like ambience that is reminiscent of the work of Ridley Scott; indeed the whole movie has Blade Runner undertones, and was clearly inspired by Scott's masterpiece.

This film reminds me a lot of i robot. With human beings using their surrogate selves to go out in public whilst keeping their human bodies safe inside closed doors. You have a view on a race of perfectly appearing athletic people in a high speed world. No damage that is incurred by a surrogate can be transfered to its human operator whilst the operators experience all the pleasure risk free. Risk free that is until two surrogates are destroyed with their operators dying with them. A good film showing a future with a agraphobic human race hiding away from physical contact with the world. Perfection on the outside with a neurotic core.