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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick, and we're back with the second of our two-part series on the 1998 sci-fi noir film, Dark City, directed by Alex Proyas, starring Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connolly, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, and Richard O'Brien.

As we discussed last time, we rarely split Weird House Cinema features into two parts,

but we ended up having a lot to say about Dark City,

particularly, I think, because of the coincidence that Rob and I both had this movie pegged

as one of our absolute favorites when we were young adults.

I know I would have put it in my top five when I was 18 years old.

But it had been a long time since either of us had revisited it.

So it's interesting to see it again now with older eyes.

Yes. Coincidence?

Or did we simply have the same memories injected in us

late one night when the city changes? Good, good question. And of course, as we said last time,

this is a spoiler-laden discussion. So if you haven't seen the movie and would like to see it

without having everything ruined, yeah, check it out first. I also want to add that in a little bit of pop culture

synchronicity as well, there's an element in Dark City that is explored in a different way

in the new Vince Gilligan series, Pluribus. No spoilers from me, especially since Joe hasn't watched

any of it yet, and there are only two episodes out.

But I'm really digging it.

So if you out there, if you have watched Dark City and you are watching Pluribus,

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