There are no other colas in mainstream supermarkets in the US because Coke doesn’t let them sell there
Thankfully we still have silicate pouches available
Referring to this?
I’m pretty sure I remember them using a cell phone late in the first movie(?).
I’ve got clear memories of it falling and spinning because it’s not tethered
They communicated with that phone. That they can do anywhere. They communicated through Neo’s computer, suggestion, and many other ways.
They could not extract someone plugged in from a cell phone. Had to be a landline.
Opening for the Matrix. Sitting in a packed theater. Phone rings, Trinity dashes for it, picks up the line and the truck smashes through the booth.
Theater was dead silent, everyone was in awe.
I called out damn, should have used *69 got a decent uproar of laughter.
(iykyk, iydk, *69 on a landline used to call back the last person that called you. It was all over commercials.)
Similar experience: Watching The Matrix in theatre. Neo and Agent Smith face off in the subway.
Right as the newspaper blows by, someone let out an absolutely perfect Ennio Morricone whistle from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Legitimately impressive whistling skills, great volume, perfect pitch. Got a huge laugh.
Newspaper is the urban tumbleweed
Wasn’t that supposed to be that exact call back?
Well there were three dudes in the showdown at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. But it’s definitely referencing western showdowns in general.
I also have theatre joke story.
Opening for Jurassic Park. Packed theatre too. Triceratops is sick scene where they go to look at the droppings.
This scene comes up:
My younger brother who was probably 6 or 7 yells out “That’s even bigger than mine!” and the whole theatre bursts out laughing!
Lol, kids are funny like that. I went to a museum this weekend. It was kinda boring for the kids,but the tour guide tried to include them as much as possible. At one point, this kid also made a funny comment, I can’t recall it,but it’s funny in how genuine it was.
Pet Semetary, 1989, packed theater. During the scene where the resurrected toddler is chasing Fred Gwynne with a scalpel, a baby suddenly cries out in the back of the theater. The entire audience jumped then burst out in laughter.
Who brings a baby to a Stephen King movie?
Someone who wants to freak out the audience, obviously.
That’s amazing. Our youngest could have been taken to any number of movies, if it’s dark and cold, he would sleep. Still not a good idea just in case he wakes… but he would have probably been fine.
I have a couple theater stories:
1986, The Fly. Movie starts, title sequence comes up, “The Fly”. Guy in the back of the theater lets out a huge, throaty “YEEAAHH!”. Whole theater cracks up.
1996, Independence Day opening day (July 4). Audience is totally engrossed, edge of their seats. The explosion is racing through the tunnel, the dog jumps through the door just in time, and screen goes black: “July 3”. Audience goes fucking APESHIT, the highest energy I’ve ever felt in a crowd in my life.
Watching LotR in a packed theater, get to the part where Frodo gets just speared in the back by that bigass spider. I wasn’t prepared for that fatality so I let out an involuntary mini-laugh/snort. Guy directly behind me, as loud as he can, screams “Shut the fuck up!” directly into my ear. Murmurs of agreement all around.
Dude just basically assaulted a kid who was quiet the whole rest of the movie, but OK.
Id be using the hell out of payphones if they still existed. They just seem convenient and i have too many quarters
fun fact: pay phones in australia are now free, because it was costing Telstra more to go and extract the money than they were making from phone calls. So they’re all free now.
Bitch, we talking to you through your phone’s keyboard’s predictive text and by rearranging your social media feed and you think that’s mysterious capitalism doing a magick psychic instead of, like, us.
Lmao conspiracy theorists be like:
"The PhD mathmaticians and neuroscientists will spend their entire lives on writing theses,
and then programmers and engineers will spend months to apply those and decades to improve their applications,
AND all of this effort will be used to make billionaires more money, plus some government propoganda."
Do people really believe this shit?
Bro, you think the Earth is real.
I don’t know how to relay how retarded your ass is.
We got rid of our landline because scammers kept calling me daddy. Got tired after about 6 illegitimate children popping up and asking for alimony.
maybe you shouldn’t have been such a stud in your youth
jokes on you, they’ve been a eunuch since they were 4.
pro move
There’s still a pay phone near me! Always know your exits in case of an emergency.
There’s a chain of gas stations near me that has a payphone and a map right next to the front door of every shop, just in case someone is having a real bad day.
Well, dying also gets you out.
Isn’t The Matrix just an allegory about being transgender?
yes they said so in retrospect, but it wasn’t really deliberate at the time
Not the entire thing but there were some characters in there that were meant to be trans. Switch, for example, but the studios cut it.
No, there was reading material attached to the script and it was mostly metaphysical and philosophy. Not sure the watchowskis actually understood what they wrote by the end of 3, they maintained it wasn’t ALL the matrix even though that seems to be what they wrote and fits with the books they pulled inspiration from
What do you mean, there’s only 1 Matrix movie? Do you mean the Animatrix?
Fully intentional:
The Matrix films are about being transgender, the trilogy’s co-director says.
“That was the original intention but the world wasn’t quite ready,” says Lilly Wachowski, who came out as trans along with her sister Lana after the films came out.
Speaking with Them: Wachowski clarifies her previous comments, explaining that The Matrix was not intended to be a trans allegory when it was in production. While she acknowledges the movie’s strong trans themes, she says the ideas came about naturally, without intention on her or co-director Lana Wachowski’s part. Check out what Wachowski had to say below:
No, I didn’t [confirm The Matrix is a trans allegory].
Yeah, so that came from an interview I did for Disclosure. They had a bunch of Matrix questions. And the question they asked me was about Switch, who was originally written as a trans character who was male in the real world and female in the matrix. And they took that response and attached the question that everyone now references that it’s a trans allegory. And so it was slightly out of context, but I don’t sit here and put a stink up about it, because it is a trans allegory in that it was written by two closeted trans women. And so all of the things that are in it are super-duper trans. The idea of transformation, even the whole “My name is Neo, Mr. Anderson —” that idea of claiming identity, it’s undeniable.
Yeah, with all the decisions we made with that film, there’s just this burbling transness simmering below everything. So when I look back at the way that we cast those two parts, I can see how obvious it is that they’re one part in a lot of ways; that they’re two sides of the same coin. It’s not like these were conscious decisions, but more like we’re finding our way instinctively as these two closeted trans women. So all those things that your receptors are buzzing about are completely valid. When people say, “Oh, it’s a trans allegory,” it’s like, “Yeah… it is, but we weren’t like, Hey, let’s write a trans allegory.” That’s not how it started. We were like, “Hey, let’s write this action film,” and then we got our trans all over it. [laughs]
Okay weird. The BBC article reads totally different and there’s a lot of statements put into a new context.
Yeah. People often try interpret creative works in unique ways that the author didn’t intend. Doesn’t make the experience and impact on the reader/viewer any less important.
Given the watchowskis are trans, I’d say “not intentionally, but DEFINITELY subconsciously”
No, it’s fully intentional.
Landline owners, assemble!
is it an actual landline or has it been converted to a digital subscriber line, because there is a difference.
Even most landlines today just relay to a fully digitalized VoIP infrastructure. The new stuff is just way more economical to run, even if the residences still run kilometers of old copper wire, the hubs have changed to microwave antennas or satellite uplinks, as they are much cheaper to maintain.
Its a bummer because it would be excellent to have the peoples internet again just running Gemini protocol and gophernet over dial up again.
For sure ! I just have no one else to actually communicate with around here ha, not many techy people
Cheaper and a lot more flexible. If you abstract the actual call into packets sent over the internet, you can make use of routing and redundant links that are already in place, or easier to build.
The land lines got replaced by digital services in many places. A VoIP service isn’t a real landline. I couldn’t get a real land line if I wanted one.
There’s a few left.
We’ve got an old one at work that doesn’t work. Every once in a while I’ll shout “Tank I need an exit!” into it and the other old people laugh.
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Did you know the Democrats in the US are sponsoring anti-communist posts on Lemmy and Reddit in the hopes some the anticomm sentiment will bubble up and damage the momentum of progressive socially democratic candidates like Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders?
sponsoring anti-communist posts on Lemmy and Reddit
They don’t need to. Tankies already make the rest of us socialists look bad enough…
*snort*
It seems to me like the most prolific anti-communist people on Lemmy are strong supporters of those politicians.
Extremely cliché
It’s virtue signaling. Most of us don’t even get a chance to vote for those three.
