EARLY ACCESS: ALTERED STATES (1980) | First Time Watching | MOVIE REACTION
Added 2022-06-04 19:00:03 +0000 UTCMonkey Man's Here! Thanks to Markus for the Special Request, we both check out the weird Sci-Fi Classic Altered States (1980). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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You mentioned the only people you recognized...one of the scientist guys was also in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he was the mapmaker who was shown as a translator at first.
Wenona Bellmore
2022-06-05 18:48:04 +0000 UTCIt might have been the director's intent, just a hippie trip, but the book it was based on was based on the life of this man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly Once a respected scientist, he invented the isolation tank (among other contributions to science still in use today) and did extensive research into the whole taking-psychedelics-while-in-an-isolation-tank thing, and claims to have had experiences that make "Altered States" appear more like a documentary than just entertainment. He was eventually abandoned by the serious scientific community (for good reason) but his life makes for an interesting Wikipedia page to peruse.
Thomas Yanez
2022-06-05 17:06:54 +0000 UTC
