Innerspace (1987)
An adventure of incredible proportions.
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
Innerspace keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, survival, crime.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Despicable Me 2 (2013)E8/E11 · crime, technology
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)E8/E11 · survival, technology
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)E8/E11 · survival, technology
Transformers (2007)E8/E11 · survival, technology
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)E8/E11 · survival, technology
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)E8/E11 · survival, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Titan A.E. (2000)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Restart the Earth (2021)E10/E14 · rare rung · survival, technologyAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Terminator (1984)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Terminator Genisys (2015)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Pacific Rim (2013)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Land of the Lost (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
