Dark City

h.p. Love · June 09, 2005, 01:45:13 PM

I forgot who mentioned this in the Conspiracy Movie thread, but thanks. I rewatched Dark City and I picked up on a lot more this time around. I've moved it onto my favorite sci-fi list.

Things I had forgotten or picked up on this time:
the Hellraiser asthetic
what a great noir it is
biblical references
aliens in the government /religious prophecy theories
mind control stuff
science and tech leading to control
and I still don't care for Jennifer Connely (she always seems emotionally vacant to me.)

For sure it's a really well-done movie. Intelligent and doesn't drag.

Mr_Vindictive · June 09, 2005, 02:14:53 PM

Dark City is by far one of my favorite SF flicks of the 90s and of all time. The city is breathtaking as are many of the special effects except for the final battle.

This film was also the first to start my love affair with Jennifer Connelly.

h.p. Love · June 09, 2005, 02:38:31 PM

Skaboi wrote:

> This film was also the first to start my love affair with
> Jennifer Connelly.
>

Bah! ;P

She's all yours.

Fearless Freep · June 09, 2005, 03:40:19 PM

This film was also the first to start my love affair with Jennifer Connelly.

Not "Labyrinth"?

h.p. Love · June 09, 2005, 04:18:43 PM

I should have kept my big mouth shut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LH-C · June 09, 2005, 06:32:39 PM

h.p. love said - <> <>

Woah...Really? I didn't see either of those things at all....I guess I'll have to go back and watch it again.

BeyondTheGrave · June 09, 2005, 07:03:11 PM

I rented months ago from Netflick. It was pretty good.

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Susan · June 09, 2005, 09:54:06 PM

if it wasn't for those singing puppets labyrinth might have been halfway decent. But when david bowie gets up in his spandex singing "you remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power. what power? the power of voodhoo. Who do? you do! What? remind me of the babe"

ok i know it was something cary grant sung in some old movie but for the love of all that is good and holy, dancing puppets scare me

Fearless Freep · June 09, 2005, 10:35:37 PM

Susan, that was one of my favorite parts (although for a muppet/youth movie..the spandex was a bit much)

h.p. Love · June 10, 2005, 06:45:33 AM

I only have a few seconds right now, but here are the main ones I got:

at the end our hero creates the oceans, sun, etc.

he is different from all men and has powers in the real and spiritual/alien world

he has the oldest memories. I got that compared to everyone else, he has the most knowledge about things. He knows more about the nature of men (meaning the alien world, etc.). He alone is engaged in battle where no other man is. Most are oblivious.

oh yeah, I also thought Kiefer Sutherland's character was sort of like the devil, in the end he is just itching to hook up with the hero and rule the city. Watch when he says "what are you going to do now?" with a sneaky grin on his face. Watch how disappointed he looks when the hero says he's going to make things better.The hero does not go that route.

Kiefer also has that limp, like he had "fallen" or something. He was struggling to do the right thing for a while but still had desires for power. He also doesn't die, which I take to mean that he'll probably spread those desires into the freed city.

hwoo, I'm tired.

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Mr_Vindictive · June 10, 2005, 07:23:00 AM

Arrrrrrgh. Labryinth.......One of my wife's favorites, and one of my least.

Yaddo 42 · June 10, 2005, 08:41:37 AM

I always liked this one, despite the visible strings on Keifer (you know the scene). Managed to be very much in the vein of Phillip K. Dick even though it's not based on his work.

Fearless Freep · June 10, 2005, 10:09:22 AM

I thought the most despairing part of the whole movie is that, in the end, even though the good guys won, they're still stuck on a tiny city floating in space with no memories and no real way to get out

dean · June 10, 2005, 10:20:03 AM

>>>>>Managed to be very much in the vein of Phillip K. Dick even though it's not based on his work.

Which is funny since Proyas went on to direct I Robot.

I loved this film, and loved the fact that we got to have it as part of our Myth and Media cinema studies course. Great creepiness factor, and how can you not love the whole Noir-ness of it all?!

For those not playing at home, there is alot of Plato's cave about it as well, for those who know what I am talking about.

Yaddo 42 · June 10, 2005, 10:20:22 AM

I think that's one of the reasons that I liked it, they didn't solve everything and restore their lives when it was over. While they had a shot to live a better life now the outcome was not certain. They were going to have to do the best they could, no free trip through the "happy ending machine" for these characters.