Eternal Return: Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998) / The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 1999)

Shut it down! Shut it down forever!

Back in 1998, I thought that Roger Ebert and I were the only two people in the world who loved Dark City. 

Dark City was director Alex Proyas’ follow-up to The Crow, and, as you would expect, it is truly, elaborately Goth, full of blood and shadow and full-length leather frock coats. This was its chief appeal to Teen Jude, who placed it next to Event Hor…