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DREAMATRON. How creative.

Another Matrix inspiration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

Honestly, it's more "Total Recall" than "The Matrix".

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I remember seeing this when I was 9 or 10, like good sci-fi it lodges in your brain and lurks there!

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here's an even earlier one;
world on a wire - a german two part movie from 1973
i watched it recently and it's pretty damn advanced for it's time
but it should have been edited down to 90 minutes or less
two full length movies edited this loose is a bit of an effort to watch

I used to love the 80's Twilight Zone episodes as a kid. There's a lot of classics.

For a genuinly creepy one look up "Grandma". Written by Stephen King. I believe the director was someone well known too.

Well it's 1985... they only had Windows 1.0 back then!

This is a shining example of an excellent concept being poorly executed.

Yeah the title is very Philip k dick too..>> ^Kreegath:

Honestly, it's more "Total Recall" than "The Matrix".

I remember an 80s Twilight Zone episode where there was a necklace that would allow you to stop and start time, and it ended with the main character stopping time a few seconds before a nuclear attack. Freaky.

I have this episode burned into my brain as it was one of a few 80s Twilight Zone episodes the my dad had taped off the tv, so I watched this, plus the one where the man slowly loses the ability to speak english (to him and us it starts seeming like everyone is using the wrong words for things), and one where a food critic does a bad review of a Chinese Restaurant and is doomed to eternally eat there when he gets a bad fortune cookie.

Yup, that's it for me and the Twilight Zone of the 80s, just those stories, burned in there!

A little peace and quiet... nicely played into my 80's imminent apocalypse terror: http://youtu.be/bjFdix6BRZk



>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I remember an 80s Twilight Zone episode where there was a necklace that would allow you to stop and start time, and it ended with the main character stopping time a few seconds before a nuclear attack. Freaky.

oh man... I remember that one. It freaked the hell out of me everytime!

I remember several other episodes i liked:



There's the one set in the future, and there's this kid who's going to be tested by the government, and he's all excited. In the end it turns out in this society, people with an IQ too high are executed to maintain society equal.

And there's also that one about the girl who gets transformed into a manequin.

And the one about this couple (i think) who get stuck in a sort of parallel time dimension where everything is put into place by blue men or something of the kind.

and there's also the classic about the box with the red button and if you press it, someone in the world dies and you get 1 million dollars (there's a recent movie made about this)

I also remember the one where a girl in the pilgrims' time and a boy in the 80's suffer from a fever and end up being able to communicate with one another

>> ^Drax:

I used to love the 80's Twilight Zone episodes as a kid. There's a lot of classics.
For a genuinly creepy one look up "Grandma". Written by Stephen King. I believe the director was someone well known too.

Here's another classic one not mentioned yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWXGg4otlg

The one where the grumpy misanthrope never has time enough to read. His wife keeps bugged him? He is in a vault when the nuclear holocaust happens. He gathers books around him, sits down to read and promptly breaks his glasses. Episode ended with him howling into the sky.

Burgess Meredith with coke bottom glasses.

>> ^bareboards2:

The one where the grumpy misanthrope never has time enough to read. His wife keeps bugged him? He is in a vault when the nuclear holocaust happens. He gathers books around him, sits down to read and promptly breaks his glasses. Episode ended with him howling into the sky.
Burgess Meredith with coke bottom glasses.


Was a great episode... although not in the 80s series, but the original.

Black and white, baby, black and white all the way!


>> ^spoco2:

>> ^bareboards2:
The one where the grumpy misanthrope never has time enough to read. His wife keeps bugged him? He is in a vault when the nuclear holocaust happens. He gathers books around him, sits down to read and promptly breaks his glasses. Episode ended with him howling into the sky.
Burgess Meredith with coke bottom glasses.

Was a great episode... although not in the 80s series, but the original.

Is it just me or does the picnic husband look and act like Ned Flanders? Particularly between 2:00 and 2:10?

Hi-diddly diddly neighbor!

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I remember an 80s Twilight Zone episode where there was a necklace that would allow you to stop and start time, and it ended with the main character stopping time a few seconds before a nuclear attack. Freaky.


Had a huge effect on me when I saw it as a kid. Myself and my brother still talk about it today.

This is the one I remember most clearly... A Matter of Minutes. The blue men were burned into my psyche.

http://youtu.be/4kquTHzXCMo

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I remember that episode with the morphing words - it made an impression on me too. I've even told my kids about it.

This one wasn't too bad for its time. Interesting that the glitches looked a lot like analog videotape errors. Different visual cues for a different time. There was a whole alternate universe in that guys matrix-stache.

>> ^spoco2:

I have this episode burned into my brain as it was one of a few 80s Twilight Zone episodes the my dad had taped off the tv, so I watched this, plus the one where the man slowly loses the ability to speak english (to him and us it starts seeming like everyone is using the wrong words for things), and one where a food critic does a bad review of a Chinese Restaurant and is doomed to eternally eat there when he gets a bad fortune cookie.
Yup, that's it for me and the Twilight Zone of the 80s, just those stories, burned in there!

Ahhh... the Ballad of Hinge Thunder!

Medical device sales man. Starts out trying to pronounce weird eletrostaticdiscombubulator machinery. Ends up almost losing his child because he can't understand anyone.

I always liked that one as it wasn't really fantasy or science fiction just a story about someone with Aphasia told from his perspective.
>> ^spoco2:

I have this episode burned into my brain as it was one of a few 80s Twilight Zone episodes the my dad had taped off the tv, so I watched this, plus the one where the man slowly loses the ability to speak english (to him and us it starts seeming like everyone is using the wrong words for things), and one where a food critic does a bad review of a Chinese Restaurant and is doomed to eternally eat there when he gets a bad fortune cookie.
Yup, that's it for me and the Twilight Zone of the 80s, just those stories, burned in there!

The Matrix never claimed to be original, though.

what a glorious mustache

>> ^Kreegath:

Honestly, it's more "Total Recall" than "The Matrix".


True, written by Philip K. Dick 19 years earlier.