maybe you shouldn't have been such a stud in your youth

Huh?? What's the scam here?

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!

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.

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?

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.

Referring to this?

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?

It was not intentionally written as such, no.

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

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.

yes they said so in retrospect, but it wasn't really deliberate at the time

It has been ruthlessly coopted by people who want to see it that way and refuse to believe that any other interpretation could possibly exist.

I freely admit that the the fact that the writers and directors later both changed their gender makes a good case that that was an element of the story.

But, this was also a huge budget action movie produced by a mainstream Hollywood studio in 1999 when the world was far less trans-friendly than even today. There's no way they would have OK'd a movie that could only be interpreted as a trans allegory.

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.

Reread the post. They never leave the matrix through cellphones, only landlines.

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.

sponsoring anti-communist posts on Lemmy and Reddit

They don't need to. Tankies already make the rest of us socialists look bad enough...

It seems to me like the most prolific anti-communist people on Lemmy are strong supporters of those politicians.