[KneelBeforeZod]

Everyone should see "Dark City" to see where the W. brothers got the idea for the matrix. Much better movie too but as one reviewer said, you'll enjoy it more if you DON'T listen to the 10 seconds or so of setup in the voice over by Kifer Sutherland at the very begining of the movie

[pupdog]

Everyone should see "Dark City" to see where the W. brothers got the idea for the matrix.

As much as I agree with you that Dark City is also a phenomenal movie, that's not where the brothers got their idea. Dark City was in production at the same time The Matrix was. In fact, The Wachowskis had approached studio execs about their film years prior. The only reason it didn't get produced earlier is that they were rookies, and no studio exec on the planet was going to shell out $60M to them, no matter how good their story was. So they threw together the movie "Bound", proved themselves, and only then got the necessary budget.

Both movies I think will always be in my collection.

[Yardstick]

I thoroughly enjoyed Dark City. Why would it have been better to skip Sutherland's voice over? I'm trying to remember what he said and why it may have taken away from the movie, but I'm drawing a blank.