Dark City and 13th Floor are the greatest sci-fi movies of the 90s IMO. They give you emotional experience while telling an incredible story and also look good in visual. It looks like, that the audience is just not supporting these films that much than the high budget action flicks.
Really great film. Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt were great. The 90's had so many overlooked & underrated SCI-FI films - this one, FutureSport, The Time Shifters, Virtuosity, Tha Lawnmower Man, Alien 3, Space Truckers, Strange Days, The Arrival, Mimic, The Apocalypse (1997), Virus, RoboCop 2, Them, Body Snatchers, eXistenZ, Sphere, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Anaconda, The Shadow Men etc
I love the ending. How the world was to the new world it has become now was simply magnificent!
To have sat through the movie in such gloom & darkness in a clustered city finally see light & living color and open sea. "Im not talking about some distant childhood memory, Im talking about yesterday or last week. When have you ever seen the sun?"
You really feel like you are in John's shoes when he opened the door and be overwhelmed by such beautiful light. A perfect build up to a perfect ending.
you are all wrong! this is not a movie, this is the truth dont look for mirrors nothing is true just look only in the time, god is time and mr time is god all that you see and smell and hear, is not you but the matriz that move us, and this is what made we live
@baliboy911 they were both created at the same time, this was released in 1998 but The Matrix was released in 1999. Therefore, "the one" idea cannot possibly be from this film. When you think about it, giving the main character of the story/film tremendous power or the upper hand over most of his/her enemies, then giving that character a name like "the one" or some other bullshit is hardly a recent idea is it ?
It's very intense ! When John say to the E.T. "you were looking a the wrong place" ... he was talking about the heart because what makes us humain is love my brothers and sisters !
This is love too into the other great Alex Proyas movie, The Crow... i love this Alex !
This is 4th on my favorite movies of all time. The matrix is 2nd. But both the matrix and dark city r mythologies. This movie one has one story while the matrix had an entire fanchise. They have simarilies and differences. But this movies did have a better ending.
@ifukyouintheass, she is Jennifer Connelly of Labyrinth fame. She was one of the under rated actresses back then, way better in that role than Kate Winslet in her romantic role in Titanic.
It's amazing how many parallels to The MAtrix there are in this movie. This was more than just a science fiction film. This was artsee/fartsee, as well.
one of the few good CG movies to be released last 1,5 decade. There is a lot to see in this movie, and you will notice new things and ideas with each rewatch.
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i thought it was weird. at least for my taste. liked the matrix alot more. im guessing aliens brought them there. and there on another planet i assume, one they have the ability to rotate the planet. strange to me, especially since he controls the whole planet with his mind
It is really interesting movie, since it's also obvious the inhabitants of the strnager's dark city are either the current inhabitants or the most recent ones captured mixed with the descendants of those people who have for centures been trapped/captured in the bermuda trainge.
favorite movie of all time. you feel simultaneously sad, nostalgic and full of hope at the same time. proud to have watched this on its theatrical run, though it didn't last a week.
they were all abducted. when inspector bumstead asked dr schreber where they came from, even he answered he couldn't remember. we're meant to assume earth, but you never can tell=)
@ROYALPRIMUS I entirely agree. This is perhaps a rather obvious expansion of your point of view, but the Matrix sought to glamourize the potential for expanded violence, but this film cut much closer to the sentiment of our heart and soul in a way that machine guns and " I know Kung Fu" never could in the face of a tyrannical occupation of human life.
this must have been worked on by some of the same people who did the matrix.. the colours and lighting and props all look like they were take from this and used on the matrix!
Sets from the film Dark City (1998), including rooftops, buildings and others exteriors sets, were used in this film. The rooftops that Trinity runs across at the beginning of the film are the same ones that John Murdoch runs across in Dark City.
My god, they got some unbelievably good actors to accept roles in this little genre film. Kudos to Richard O'Brien for making the very most out of an ostensibly unsympathetic supporting role.
"There never was a Shell Beach. The only place you were that boy... Is in your own head."
TheBamftiger 4 months ago
Dark City and 13th Floor are the greatest sci-fi movies of the 90s IMO. They give you emotional experience while telling an incredible story and also look good in visual. It looks like, that the audience is just not supporting these films that much than the high budget action flicks.
jeffreydeep 8 months ago
Really great film. Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt were great. The 90's had so many overlooked & underrated SCI-FI films - this one, FutureSport, The Time Shifters, Virtuosity, Tha Lawnmower Man, Alien 3, Space Truckers, Strange Days, The Arrival, Mimic, The Apocalypse (1997), Virus, RoboCop 2, Them, Body Snatchers, eXistenZ, Sphere, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Anaconda, The Shadow Men etc
Magnolia296 8 months ago
Incredibly spoily. Methinks this should not have been uploaded, for the risk of ruining an excellent film for the many who've never seen it.
Jakkaroo 1 year ago
turn down your contrast, eh
AlcoholLevel 1 year ago
John: Allow me?
Anna: Oh, Thank you (as she hands over the luggage.)
CrispinFlora 1 year ago
I love the ending. How the world was to the new world it has become now was simply magnificent!
To have sat through the movie in such gloom & darkness in a clustered city finally see light & living color and open sea. "Im not talking about some distant childhood memory, Im talking about yesterday or last week. When have you ever seen the sun?"
You really feel like you are in John's shoes when he opened the door and be overwhelmed by such beautiful light. A perfect build up to a perfect ending.
AspergianMind 1 year ago
man vs man, man vs animal, or man vs the world... they are all common themes in storytelling. and well now, man vs food.
sun818 1 year ago
man vs man, man vs animal, or man vs the world... they are all common themes in storytelling.
sun818 1 year ago
Everything about this movie, the acting, the music, the art, is fantabulous. The ending is still tearjerking for me; the music gets me every time.
CH3BURASHKA 1 year ago
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Aeonian199 1 year ago
you are all wrong! this is not a movie, this is the truth dont look for mirrors nothing is true just look only in the time, god is time and mr time is god all that you see and smell and hear, is not you but the matriz that move us, and this is what made we live
virgilio1art 1 year ago
Interesting that Alex Proyas the director does not make more movies. All of his fims are excellent. He makes a few per decade.
Knowing with Nicholas Cage was well done. And yes the Matrix got "the one" idea from this for sure.
Best part of this is the message of what makes us "human."
baliboy911 1 year ago
@baliboy911 they were both created at the same time, this was released in 1998 but The Matrix was released in 1999. Therefore, "the one" idea cannot possibly be from this film. When you think about it, giving the main character of the story/film tremendous power or the upper hand over most of his/her enemies, then giving that character a name like "the one" or some other bullshit is hardly a recent idea is it ?
mattyonline2 1 year ago
It's very intense ! When John say to the E.T. "you were looking a the wrong place" ... he was talking about the heart because what makes us humain is love my brothers and sisters !
This is love too into the other great Alex Proyas movie, The Crow... i love this Alex !
mikemikori 1 year ago
simply the most under-rated movie of all times. soundtrack likewise.
cult classic. i know now where matrix got its story...
TheLucianemil 1 year ago
That's pretty happy and all, but how in the fuck are they supposed to get off of that big rock in the middle of space?
animehater1 1 year ago
@animehater1 "I can make this world anything I want it to be, so long as I concentrate hard enough" (Earth as well)
photonlust 1 year ago
@animehater1 They can't.
morningstomper123 1 year ago
This is 4th on my favorite movies of all time. The matrix is 2nd. But both the matrix and dark city r mythologies. This movie one has one story while the matrix had an entire fanchise. They have simarilies and differences. But this movies did have a better ending.
joynerkt 2 years ago 3
it's beautiful
nobodyoverhere 2 years ago 5
brilliant movie. Definitely one of my favorite sci fi movies ever
Yo1010001 2 years ago 8
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Yo1010001 2 years ago
The outside wall look like a building in '8MM'.
Sawrattan 2 years ago
That scene of the girl on the pier is also in requiem for a dream. It also has the same girl actor. Ever notice that? Kinda trippy....
ifukyouintheass 2 years ago 8
@ifukyouintheass, she is Jennifer Connelly of Labyrinth fame. She was one of the under rated actresses back then, way better in that role than Kate Winslet in her romantic role in Titanic.
56LC 2 years ago
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totally noticed that. she's real good at standin on piers.
paigeygrey 1 year ago
It's amazing how many parallels to The MAtrix there are in this movie. This was more than just a science fiction film. This was artsee/fartsee, as well.
jscottupton 2 years ago
dark city > the matrix
boxcuttermarshel 2 years ago 4
this endind is so moving...
kept me remembering my old days, when i was still 11 or 12, watching HBO... this movie was one of those you know...
guess i have even dreamt about it...and it was nice
prankstarew 2 years ago 7
i love the part where he breaks out of the thing they are holding him in, and he's all like 'sup now bitches'
mattfca 2 years ago 8
one of the few good CG movies to be released last 1,5 decade. There is a lot to see in this movie, and you will notice new things and ideas with each rewatch.
goodflo911 2 years ago 3
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i thought it was weird. at least for my taste. liked the matrix alot more. im guessing aliens brought them there. and there on another planet i assume, one they have the ability to rotate the planet. strange to me, especially since he controls the whole planet with his mind
risingfall4 2 years ago
GREAT movie.
greeneyedsteamengine 3 years ago
is that bit with connelly by the sea not EXACTLY the same as the bit by her by the sea in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM at coney island???
floydthebum 3 years ago
YES! i was just looking for both to show someone. And I see that you are with me on that. It's crazy that it's Connelly in both.
TheQuadShow 2 years ago
connelly also appears at the end of a peer in her 2003 film "House of Sand and Fog." She just can't stay off those peers can she?
ripleyARC 2 years ago 3
It is really interesting movie, since it's also obvious the inhabitants of the strnager's dark city are either the current inhabitants or the most recent ones captured mixed with the descendants of those people who have for centures been trapped/captured in the bermuda trainge.
JohnWolf20 3 years ago
favorite movie of all time. you feel simultaneously sad, nostalgic and full of hope at the same time. proud to have watched this on its theatrical run, though it didn't last a week.
burnikshrapnel 3 years ago 16
could i ask a question: where all the population always there or on earth? do they ever return to their actual planet?
AcheKah 3 years ago
they were all abducted. when inspector bumstead asked dr schreber where they came from, even he answered he couldn't remember. we're meant to assume earth, but you never can tell=)
burnikshrapnel 2 years ago
You say they brought us here. From where?
I'm sorry. I don't remember. None of us remember that... what we once were... what we might have been...somewhere else.
JLeo777 2 years ago 4
I love you Anna . . .
namrengav 3 years ago
beautiful
prankstarew 3 years ago 2
great scene
neohubris 3 years ago 2
I love this seen, and the movie. It shows,to me at least, a triumph of the human spirit. One of the best sc-fi movies ever made.
crazysif 3 years ago 12
The final scene (On the pier) is almost exactly the same as the scene in Requiem for a dream, same actress too
cjsereni 3 years ago
the matrix doesnt compare to this. This movie really touches the subject of what makes us human,and that is the heart/soul, not the body
metroid101 3 years ago 43
Aaahhh, such a beautiful young, baby faced Connely....
TheRagingBeaverCo 3 years ago 5
this is is a beautiful film...the matrix is not better...dark city never got the recognition it deserved.
ROYALPRIMUS 3 years ago 52
@ROYALPRIMUS I entirely agree. This is perhaps a rather obvious expansion of your point of view, but the Matrix sought to glamourize the potential for expanded violence, but this film cut much closer to the sentiment of our heart and soul in a way that machine guns and " I know Kung Fu" never could in the face of a tyrannical occupation of human life.
care1281 6 months ago
DARK CITY VS THE MATRIX
neohubris 3 years ago
The ending is so nostalgic.
IamAlwaysRight 3 years ago 3
jennifer connelly over carrie anne moss anyday
christjay69 3 years ago 12
Word.
coolbreeze922 3 years ago 5
film itself is a bit slow, but seriously love this segment. qualitarianism......music is tops as well
neogeo12345 3 years ago
this must have been worked on by some of the same people who did the matrix.. the colours and lighting and props all look like they were take from this and used on the matrix!
jcowle86 3 years ago 2
That, and it's philosophical symbolism seems to be along the same lines as the matrix as well. Great movies, both of them.
Rokudaimeuzumaki 3 years ago
Found this on the Matrix IMDB site
Sets from the film Dark City (1998), including rooftops, buildings and others exteriors sets, were used in this film. The rooftops that Trinity runs across at the beginning of the film are the same ones that John Murdoch runs across in Dark City.
BiznessMan 3 years ago 4
My god, they got some unbelievably good actors to accept roles in this little genre film. Kudos to Richard O'Brien for making the very most out of an ostensibly unsympathetic supporting role.
RODERICKMOLASAR 4 years ago 10
Could you upload teh final fight part.
Thanks
aioria1208 4 years ago
The ending is a beautiful scene from a great movie.
EscapeSociety 4 years ago 11
absolutely love this scene, when you see the sun rising over the newly added ocean its breathtaking and awe inspiring
VtheArcher 4 years ago 13