Yeah, "Dark City" is an overwhelming, profound, dream-state kind of fun. Or maybe fun is too light a word for what it is. I haven't seen it in a while and wanted to buy the disc.

I saw "The Matrix" for the first time a while after seeing "Dark City" and thought the two films complemented each other nicely. They're really similar thematically.

:D

Both this and the Crow have their weak points but they were infintaley cooler than the Matrix. I bet William Gibson is fucked off with the Ted Theodore Logan style his work was stolen from (Matrix - perhaps bastardised would be a better term in this case) and tainted with (Johnny Mnemonic).

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"Whoa..." :rolleyes: it was all part of the post Starship Troopers insulting sci-fi experience.

I guess the same could be said about the intro of High Tension in regard to the spoiler deal you were talking about... still doesn't take away any enjoyment from the first viewing at least.

Dark City is a great flick especially for Melissa George (she has scream queen potential stamped all over her) and Frank Gallacher's roles prooving they had cred outside of shitty soaps and made for TV flicks. One of the better recent Tech-Noir vehicles (I tried to find a pic of the night club in the O.G Terminator but couldn't hahaha :) ) and is quite possibly the last sci-fi flick in awhile that had a impact on me. Seems like that genre has crashed and burned latley which is a shame really.
But whatever the best is yet to come..... we'll just have to boldly sit thru Matrix clones for a bit.

Yes, there are a few people out there who didn't like The Matrix too much.

Whoa! No way. NO, WAY.

i really enjoyed (the 1st) Matrix ..

I never liked Dark City too much because it felt too much like an extended twilight zone episode with some Hellraiser style thrown in.


i should watch it again because i saw it at the theatre and was dissapointed. without some (perhapse unfair) comparrisons and expectations out of the way i might enjoy it more.

... one other thing .. i found the lead totally without watchability (charisma) and i couldnt buy Kiefer (who still looks 18 years old) as a mad scientist type.

i guess the casting got in my way ...

If I'm not mistaken, some of the same sets were used in the filming of both movies.

IMDb agrees!
"# Sets from this film, including rooftops, buildings and others exteriors, were reused when filming The Matrix (1999)."

Whoa! So THAT may be why, supposedly, the Brothers Wachowski got disturbed when someone suggested their film was similar to "Dark City"...not only are the themes very similar, but you see the same sets as well! That's very funny, sort of. But seriously, I enjoyed their movie quite a bit.

I like the non-monologue version. I mean, imagine Usual Suspects with a Kevin Spacey opening monologue: "Hi, I'm Keyser Soze, although I'm posing as Verbal Kent. Watch me lie right to this cop's face, he he."

You know why I like the monologue version, right? It's because--and this is no joke! I'm totally serious!--it's because I'm one of those lazy, easily-confused filmgoers that NEEDS to have complicated stories spelled out, otherwise I'll have no chance of understanding them. And even WITH the monologue, it was still kind of a brain-squeezer for me!