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Ork of Fiction posted:I was hoping that "the real" was just a 2ndary illusion. Like a spillover for hyper-oppositional anomalies. Everyone who rejects the social framework gets dumped into a fake "chosen one" scenario where they spend the rest of their imaginary life jerking themselves off over how special, perfect, and powerful they are. This was my second thought and I have no idea why the machines didn't think of this.
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Because the machines are morons. They presumably could have just dug a tunnel/ditch connecting the ocean to those old sewers and have done with it but nah.
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Roylicious posted:Matrix in a matrix would have also been an awesome plot twist (that's what I thought was gonna happen when Neo was able to stop the hunter-killer robots in 'the real world'). It is impressive how the wachieskis somehow found and chose the single dumbest option in a setup with so many interesting possibilities
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I'd give you my opinion on the movie but frankly I'm at an impasse until Red Letter Media tells me exactly what opinion I should have
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Wicker Man posted:WHERE DID THE SPECIAL MAN FROM CUBE GO WHEN HE ENTERED THE LIGHT?! WHAT HAPPENED!?! they were abducted by aliens, but died on the probing table so Cube actually took place in Alien Hell. when the retard walked into the light he escaped the CIAs secret death machine and emerged in the future, obviously
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Pawn 17 posted:That movie wouldn't make sense today. Thousands of people voluntarily put their entire lives on youtube.
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Jun 2, 2016 23:58
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The dome was lowered over the city by helicopters. It's in the deleted scenes on the DVD special edition.
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glowing-fish posted:In the Matrix, why did they use people as "batteries", when they would have to use more energy to keep them alive then they could ever get from them? actually IIRC the original idea was that the machines were using a network of enslaved human brains as cheap information processing power (probably some variation of the "you only use 10% of your brain" myth) but it was the 90s and someone didn't feel like people would get it, so they changed it to the bullshit free energy fusion thing
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Matrix was about Neo's ascent into true god(ess)hood when he changes into a woman, it was all just one big metaphor for trans rights on behalf of the Wachowski sisters and it was pretty loving obvious
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the truman show failed to represent just how much of the show's fanbase would be dedicated to trading videos of him loving honestly
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:Matrix was about Neo's ascent into true god(ess)hood when he changes into a woman, it was all just one big metaphor for trans rights on behalf of the Wachowski sisters and it was pretty loving obvious was it? i was pretty drunk when i saw the third one but i dont remember neo getting long hair or anything
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John Denver Hoxha posted:the truman show failed to represent just how much of the show's fanbase would be dedicated to trading videos of him loving honestly They always panned away when he had sex so there wouldn't even have been that to draw the audience in.
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Applewhite posted:They always panned away when he had sex so there wouldn't even have been that to draw the audience in. Please, they had cameras everywhere like no enterprising person on the production staff wouldn't leak a few bootlegs to the tabloids to help fund his coke habit
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I guess it's lucky Truman didn't grow up to be a chronic masturbator or serial killer or something. Also, why were all the other buildings in town fake? Wouldn't it make more sense for the cast to live normal lives and work real jobs for the 90% of the time they weren't interacting with Truman?
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For the people complaining about the dome, make sure not to watch Synecdoche, New York. A theater director is given unlimited funds to produce a play. He creates a replica of his life, which of course requires a replica of this replica, and of course another after that. In the end, the cost of the play has plunged the country (or the whole world? I forget) into anarchy* *according to my memory of the film from like ~7 years ago
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next your gonna tell me Gremlins is fake. forget it pal, movies are a wish your heart makes and i believe in movies.
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JiveHonky posted:next your gonna tell me Gremlins is fake. forget it pal, movies are a wish your heart makes and i believe in movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byW49j2YSjE
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Applewhite posted:They built a gigantic dome over an entire island in service of the world's most boring reality TV show? The cost of such a structure would be astronomical, far beyond the realm of the supposedly lucrative merchandising afforded by the show's popularity. TRUMPS AMERICA
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:hell yeah keeps getting probated over and over by a fyad mod, i wonder what he did to earn such a fate i wonder what i have done to earn the fate of having to read you're posts
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The whole production would have gotten hella sued. Do they really think they can just keep principles on set forever? poo poo after 8 hours the day rate alone becomes staggering, let alone round the clock acting. His wife would have been a billionaire week one with SAG rates these days.
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RedMage129 posted:The whole production would have gotten hella sued. Do they really think they can just keep principles on set forever? poo poo after 8 hours the day rate alone becomes staggering, let alone round the clock acting. His wife would have been a billionaire week one with SAG rates these days. they really should recall the movie
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Applewhite posted:Like, the dome didn't spring up overnight. For a period of several years the mile-high walls of the half constructed dome would have been visible from anywhere in the town. Truman was ushered into the nurses office to receive a series of mandatory vaccinations, these rendered him a shut-in autist, once the construction was finished his autism was cured. Also didn't they build it because people were parachuting onto the island?
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RedMage129 posted:The whole production would have gotten hella sued. Do they really think they can just keep principles on set forever? poo poo after 8 hours the day rate alone becomes staggering, let alone round the clock acting. His wife would have been a billionaire week one with SAG rates these days. Since he had sex with his wife, is she technically a prostitute? Do they get away with paying her because it's being filmed for a 'performance'?
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Matrix would have been better if it turned out that everyone had been dead for a few thousand years and were just the last remnants of uploaded human consciousness tended to by the ai. Also seconding that "welcome to the real world" should have been back up matrix for special brains. Interpret special brains how you may
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Tectonis posted:Since he had sex with his wife, is she technically a prostitute? Do they get away with paying her because it's being filmed for a 'performance'? The being filmed for performance thing.
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Jun 3, 2016 03:44
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Truman show was a sequel to Funny Green Man
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I think they called it "the mask" in the US
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Isaac posted:I think they called it "the mask" in the US Speaking of the mask, do The Mask and The Truman Show count as part of Jim Carrey's "rear end in a top hat learns a magical lesson" series of films (ex: Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Leap Day Williams)? Or do they belong more to his "insufferable rear end in a top hat annoys everybody" series like Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber? Applewhite fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jun 3, 2016 |
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tomstuart posted:thats a much better plot idea than the real matrix movies They already made that movie. I think it was called "Virtual Nightmare". There was this gritty grimy reality full of "rebels" who tortured themselves to see through the illusion, but that was just another layer for non-conformist edgelords. At the deepest level, people just did it to themselves because it was convenient. I might be thinking of some other low-budget Matrix knockoff that put more thought into the plot than the actual Matrix, though. The movie was like some Z-grade made-for-TV thing and I can't even find a decent online summary.
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truman actually drowned and died when ed harris activated the storm the fake wall and the flight of exit stairs at the end was all just symbolic of truman going to heaven
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In the matrix Smith is the One. Since he's like 30 or whatever why wouldn't the dome just be a backdrop of city construction for the younger years that gives way to an actual dome with the sky backdrop when it's done.
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Isaac posted:Truman show was a sequel to Funny Green Man i like the av
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It was the 90's, and anything was possible.
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Parallax Scroll posted:i like the av Some kind person bought it for me
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The machines built the matrix with all the glitches and rouge programs n poo poo on purpose, because they still really wanted to make up with the humans.
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Ed Harris with a beret
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I don't think it's meant to be taken very literally. It's like the movie equivalent of an impressionistic painting.
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glowing-fish posted:In the Matrix, why did they use people as "batteries", when they would have to use more energy to keep them alive then they could ever get from them? And Fight Club.
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Placid Marmot posted:For the people complaining about the dome, make sure not to watch Synecdoche, New York. Whoa, this sounds like a cool idea for a movie. If this is the real plot, I need to see this.
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I liked when he got to the end of the train and Ed Harris explained how important he was, then he balked and dipped out
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