This is what I can remember, I'm not even sure if this movie exists or if I'm just misremembering something. Its a movie where the main character (Maybe has some information someone doesn't want to get out) accidentally (or maybe on purpose by a malicious actor) gets their brain transfered to a (robot? or maybe genetically modified?) worker who's life span only lasts so long before they (genetically? mechanically?) degrade, and the main character has to find a way out of the situation kinda like find a new body is X amount of time.
I'm not sure if that's most of the story or only part of the story of the movie.
This movie has been stuck in my head for a while and I can never remember what it is. I ask y'all if this sounds familiar to any of yall.
Please let me know if you know the name of the movie this sounds like. Thank you.
EDIT: The movie was Xchange (2000). Thank you everyone for your help.
20 Comments
Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 308d
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 308d
Yes this was it exactly! Thank you.
Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 307d
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 308d
If you ever need to find obscure movies with tidbits of info you remember, chatgpt is really good at finding them. It sucks at a lot of stuff but scouring the internet for movie and book references works well
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 307d
I chose not to use AI for ethical reasons. My first thought after having exhausted DDG searches and reddit searches was to go to AI, but alsa I chose not to because I think using AI is wrong.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 307d
It is a massive waste of resources. And for the most part its searches do what google used to return in 2010 era before all the garbage. Stract.com is my goto for old searches.
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 306d
Plus everyone here can consent to giving answers. If AI is or ever ends up being sentient it would be extremely immoral to exploit them.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 308d
A basic search told me the movie is Transcendence, 2014
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 308d
You beat me to it, has to be this one mixed up with another one about the body expiring, Time Out maybe?
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 308d
It’s in your name
bradfrank@programming.dev · 8 pts · 308d
Depending on how accurate you’re remembering, could be Johnny Mnemonic.
robber@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 308d
That brian typo really gave me a chuckle. Hope you found the movie you were looking for.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 308d
Some elements of this sound like the plot of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, starring Raul Julia, and made famous by its appearance on Mystery Science Theatre 3000: https://youtu.be/2hBEh1JJ1E0
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 308d
Part of what you describe (sans the transfer thing) sound like the main plotline of Bladerunner.
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 308d
No its not blade runner for sure, I've seen blade runner both of them a couple times now. Classics, but not what I'm thinking of.
The worker is like a product model, there are lots of other worker bodies like this one I think. They are like low budget crap bodies.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 308d
Life of Brian
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 308d
Maybe Saturn 3?
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 308d
Star Trek Enterprise, Tripp needs some organ donations if I remember right. The doctor clones him for organ harvesting and the clone is terminated to save the life of Tripp.
muse@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 307d
There was an Outer Limits episode with this plot - "Identity Crisis" with Lou Diamond Phillips
MowFord@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 308d
You thinking of chappie?
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 0 pts · 308d
I remember a low key production (maybe mexicain) where the protagonist is a Drone Pilot called : Dream_Something_
Which is the title of the movie but I cannot remember what it is
Edit : Sleep Dealer
@crazyminner@lemmy.ml ?
Thavron@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 308d
Chappie? District 9? Sort of related to what you're describing.