Great Movie but.... | Dark City: A Novel (Dark City) | Frank Lauria (Adapter), Lem Dobbs, ... ...

Fantastic Movie Gets Amazing Director's Cut and AAA HiDef Presentation | Dark City: A Novel (Dark City) | Frank Lauria (Adapter), Lem Dobbs, ...

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	• Dark City: A Novel (Dark City) Frank Lauria (Adapter), Lem Dobbs, ... St. Martin's Press, 1997 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 490 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wonderful

The movie was released in 1998 under the title of Dark City, starring Rufus Sewell as a man who awoke one morning in a bathtub with no recollection of his past, or why there was a brutally murdered prostitute in his hotel room. All the evidence that he can compile from the situation points to him as the culprit of the ghastly crime. Once dressed he receives a call from an individual named Dr. Daniel Schreber who tells him "they are coming for you" and that he must flee the hotel as soon as possible. Heeding the doctor's advice he flees his hotel room, clutching to a piece of paper which reads Shell Beach and a suitcase full of clothes. He leaves in good time, because soon strange, pale, black clad individuals who all wear identical attire make their way to the hotel room he'd just left moments ago.
From here the chase is on as these strange figures, which later identify themselves as Strangers begin to pursue Murdoch. The Strangers appear to posses supernatural abilities, and one by the name of Mister Hand has taken a keen interest in the capture of the confused John Murdoch. Also Murdoch's "wife" (or at least the one he believes to be his wife) appears and tries to find out what's come over her husband and what could possibly being going on. Unknown to her and the rest of the city's human inhabitant's things are worse, and more complicated than they could ever imagine.
Murdoch goes from place to place asking where you find Shell Beach, and everyone says they've been there but can't quite remember how to get there. Everything comes together as he begins to realize that this city never sees the light of day, and that the Strangers are invaders, who create and control the city without any human suspicion, until now. When Murdoch acquires the Stranger's ability of tuning he knows he must free the people from the dying alien race's cruel, soul related experiments.
What Proyas does, that I find truly unique portraying the Strangers as an alien race conducting cruel and immoral experiments on humans, yet they aren't evil. Unlike the similar in concept Agents from The Matrix series, the Strangers are more than simple "bad guys" encountered by the hero of the story. Instead they are a desperate race, seeking their own salvation, not meaning to cause any harm, but they need to in order to survive.
Their race, a hive-minded parasitic life form, is starting to die out and extinction seems to loom over them. The only way they can find salvation is by finding what makes the human soul work, so they can replicate it on themselves and thus save their entire race from extinction.
When John kills the leader of the hive you can't help but feel sorry for the remaining Strangers, because they're going to slowly die out, surrounded by the free humans in the sun filled city that Murdoch creates at the death of the Strangers' leader. It is such a great cruelty that these beings, who only wanted to save their race from total extinction, must now die out surrounded by smiling, happy faces, never learning the secrets to the soul and thus shall never find their race's salvation.
The result of Proyas' hard word was one of the best sci-fi films of the 1990s, a masterful display of the timeless art of film noir and one of the most thought provoking films of the last twenty-five years. Even Stanley Kubrick probably would have applauded the mystery of Proyas' setting and story. When producers first saw the film however they thought it made too little sense, saying the audience should be able to fully understand the film after a single viewing, going as far as to tell Proyas to shoot additional scenes to explain the plot. Proyas denied this request by saying, "Isn't it the purpose of a film to challenge the audience's thoughts and ideas?" Even though he wouldn't shoot any explanation scenes New Line eventually convinced him to insert a monologue at the opening of the film that would explain the story to the audience. Proyas didn't like this at all, because it spoiled the mystery of the film, but he still reluctantly inserted the monologue.
The producers were right, and Dark City's provoking ideas such as life being an illusion, and mankind being controlled through false memories wasn't appealing to mainstream movie goers, but that was never Proyas' intention with Dark City. It was a box office flop, only making $27,200,000. This was primarily due to its advertising campaign, which gave many people the idea that it was supposed to be a simple horror film. Dark City was never able to draw in its target audience during its theatrical run. It wouldn't hit its target audience until after it had been released on VHS and DVD.
Even with the poor box office performance Dark City still received a large percentage of positive reviews from critics who acknowledged its imagination and art design, winning the Saturn Award for "Best Science Fiction of the Year." America's most renowned film critic, Roger Ebert probably provided the highest praise for the film, titling Dark City the best film of 1998.

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Great Movie but....

I really enjoyed this movie. The story was different and if you like the supernatural then you should enjoy this movie. They do speak in whispers through out the movie so you might have to turn up the sound. But otherwise the sound quality is good. My only really problem is the digital copy. If you have a Mac you can't download the digital copy of the movie. Also the digital copy is in standard definition. Ok this is one of those movies that is a cult type movie with its cult following but Guys in the studio distribution center stop being so cheap. If you are to make a Blu Ray out of the movie at least do it right and make this digital copy useful for everyone and in the same definition as the movie purchased (In Wide Screen). You are charging at least $18.00 for this movies purchasing price depending where you get it. That should always be part of the purchase and you wonder why people download movie by pirating, be a little more giving and more people would buy more. I do remind you that this movie was already released to dvd before so you are just milking it.

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Fantastic Movie Gets Amazing Director's Cut and AAA HiDef Presentation

Dark City has always been in my top five favorite movies ever since I saw it in the theater. Between the theater, VHS, and DVD, I have probably seen this movie 25-30 times. Now, with the release of the Director's Cut on Blu-Ray, I am sure I will be watching it many more times.

The D.C. has many new pieces that add to the puzzle of the storyline. Also, the removal of the intro voice over is a welcomed change. Top that off with a crisp HD transfer, with deep blacks and vivid colors, and you've got a real masterpiece here.

I cannot recommend this enough. Dark City is one of those movies that nobody seems to have heard of, but whenever I have forced somebody to watch, they ALWAYS love it.

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The Director's cut...

Try to spot the changes.. I needed to listen to the commentary for that one. Also, great movie only greater on the Blu!

John Murdoch is accused of murder and believed to be mentally disturbed, but he is the only salvation from the violent killings that are happening, as long as he can remain alive. Original. Movie tie-in."