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"Or the 90s the weird ennui of end of history manifesting in angst and derealization, eventually culminating in the 1999 Fight Club/American Beauty/Matrix "break free from the Matrix" thesis."
"But there's another theme that was in three separate big movies in a span less than a year 1998-1999 and which I can't think of notable examples before or since: * Dark City (1998) * Truman show (1998) * The Matrix (1999). All three are about how the world is illusory, incomplete, set up by some mal"
"If Terminator 2, the Matrix, Rocky, or even the Lord of the Rings films came out today I guarantee they'd force a lot more humor in it than those films have originally, which isn't much."
"You know, like *The Chosen One* from the matrix movies? These are both educated people, very strange turn."
"'Yeah, the matrix is my favorite' I've never seen it. Tell me, daddy."
"Are there any movies that have come out in the past decade that have been that significant? To the point where it has a spiritual resonance on everybody? Like a 2010s/2020s Toy Story equivalent? Or Matrix equivalent?"
"The movie was such a cheap copy of itself that it proves Baudillard right"
"Like the gay outfits, edgy try hard stuff, music, self serious atmosphere. everything in my brain tells me I should think all of this is extremely gay but no, it's so fucking rad and it works, if there was even a hint of irony the movie would fall flat."
"I don't think any actor has played the captain of a spaceship (or whatever you'd call the vessel in the Matrix) more than him."
"Why should The Matrix have to 'hold up' to someone in 2022, as if the goal is to measure up to- what, Black Atom or Don't Call Me Darling?"
"The action movies had real effects, with less cheesy CGI. The stupid tropes, funny jokes, and good one liners think of rush hour, think of the matrix."
"It may have ran slow, less intuitive, but it was cooler hands down. The Matrix, Cyber-babe pink fuzzy computer type shit, etc."
"Gen X: Creators of Reddit atheism (Dawkins-style anti-religion, distinct from Boomer spiritual atheism or Space Race atheism). Their media was openly nihilistic and hostile toward optimism—Fight Club, The Matrix, The Simpsons, South Park, Office Space, Seinfeld, Nirvana, Pulp Fiction."
"* The Matrix (1999)
All three are about how the world is illusory, incomplete, set up by some malevolent entity playing dolls with you and the only way to escape is to WAKE UP."
"The Matrix and Inception were the first movies in the last 10 years that made me really think."
"It may have ran slow, less intuitive, but it was cooler hands down. The Matrix, Cyber-babe pink fuzzy computer type shit, etc."
"GiTS also was an inspiration for The Matrix and sometimes its fun to watch older stuff and be able to draw a line between which work influenced what."