this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
88 points (97.8% liked)
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
3781 readers
1022 users here now
/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Honorary Badbitch:
@[email protected] for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
There are other antecedents to The Matrix.
There's Dark City, for one. In the Mouth of Madness did it with horror novels. There's The Truman Show, which is a similar idea with television.
You could even argue that the TV series The Prisoner is a lot like The Matrix in the idea of a 'real world' and then a simulated world that looks like the real one that the protagonist is trapped in.
The Thirteenth Floor.
Ah, Dark City. Came out not long before The Matrix and was largely overshadowed/ignored. I hold that it's a better film overall. For it's innovation and Keanu's 2nd big break brought out by The Matrix, it's a weaker story. Plus, Dark City has Riff Raff and Jennifer Connelly. No contest.
Edit: Forgot that the Matrix actually reused some of Dark City's sets for the rooftop scenes.
The Dark City director's cut improves the film immensely just by taking out the opening narration.
That always bugged me. Must have been some yokels during test screenings that complained they didn't "get it", so some suit at the studio made Kiefer Sutherland lay out the entire plot in the beginning monologue.
I used to live in L.A.
The way they do a lot of test screenings is having people standing in shopping malls (usually ones with movie theaters) offering free tickets to any takers.
Stupidest possible way to test your movie with an audience. Get the bored people with nothing better to do than accept a free ticket to a random movie.
That's how I saw The Rock's "Gridiron Gang", meandering a mall. It was a bloated mess and I hear the finished product, while trimmed, still wasn't worth it.