>In this film from 1999, a software developer discovers he is living in a computer simulation. A female romantic interest from the real world offers him bread crumbs to guide him out of the digital world. Cool green lasers and other "cyber" stuff, lightning flashes outside the windows. It's all there.
How the frick does this even happen, they were released two months apart. Imagine pouring your heart and soul into this dog turd and right before you release it vid related comes out
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the cia orders the types of movies they want made
I recall there being some really egregious plotholes
It's based on Simulacron-3, a novel.
World On a Wire precedes both of these movies by 25 years.
Not suggesting it ripped off the Matrix, saying what a bummer it must be, how unlucky the timing was, can't help but contrast them and the Matrix is so much better in every aspect. Like releasing some schlocky space adventure right when Star Wars came out.
>Like releasing some schlocky space adventure right when Star Wars came out.
Star Wars was a schlocky space adventure.
That's my point. You make the exact same movie right when someone else does it so much better than you. Btfo any illusions you had talent.
Flash Gordon is better than Star Wars
Oh boy, here cone the hot takes
frick off fanboy
it's going to really boggle your noggin, op, when you realize these were both preceded by picrel, and the matrix even reused sets from it
Nirvana came out a year earlier than that one. It's odd and low budget, but liked it more than any of the other movies posted here. That's just my contrarian taste though. There's also World on a Wire which is much older than any of these.
Gay movie, if you liked it you're gay and moronic.
YouTuber "The Megatron" said it is his favorite movie of all time
Metatron*
homosexualron
>duuuude Megadeth Metallica uhhhhh Slayer uhhhhh duuuude
I always thought Craig Bierko would be huge, but I guess Patrick Wilson was younger and took his roles.
There's something about his face and delivery I just can't take seriously. Every line felt like it was about to be undercut by a joke.
I know he was in scary movie 4 but I want to say that was just really good casting of a straight guy in comedy.
Probably because he sounds like Heath Ledger's joker voice.
>The matrix
>Dark City
>Thirteenth floor
>eXistenZ
Any other late 90s virtual reality i'm missing?
more on theme:
Pleasantville
For Matrix's aesthetic influence - The Crow
Also:
>The pair spent the better part of a decade writing and refining their idea before getting the go-ahead to create a 600-page shot-for-shot comic-book of the film.
The inspirations are all over the place, the brothers were nerds and consumed everything, they took from books, from comic books, from anime - a lot was from anime actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZUEaGC6xvI
Both good picks, truman show isn't a big leap to include either.
>the brothers
Please keep your bigotry on /misc/ where it belongs, quit shitting up Cinemaphile
As it happens when the Matrix released the brothers haven't had the dominatrix frick them into sissies.
Early 90's but it kinda fits.
Strange Days.
This movie got really weird when you find out suddenly the protag was a replicant all along
That was a bad movie tho, very bad pacing and extremely dumb takes.
You are moronic
>muh emotions
Now anon, you are indeed what you project.
Either you missed my joke or think I care what you have to say, moron.
So OP. Yes it could be that some Gnostic themed script was laying around or sent to multiple directors to psyop people into the 2000s or some controlled revolutionary movement but then it could also be that the 90s were such a powerful psyop that it coalesced in the same gnostic ideas in the heads of all those producers.
I personally think the first option is more likely but the second is an easier explanation that won't make people dismiss the topic.