Battle of the Best Picture Nominees

Back to the future 2

Someone grab Deexan again. He's drunk.

Look. It's past midday. It's allowed.

Nick Mason of the Weekly Planet podcast often points out that the Matrix borrowed heavily from a somewhat under the radar comic (I'm brainfarting on the name), including stealing the "Mankind is a virus" speech in its entirety from it.

Compounding that with similarities with Terminator (which in turn was sued for plagiarism itself) and people constantly crying that it stole Dark City's thunder (I mean...I guess...), The Matrix was never really that original. It was probably more original in its style than anything.

Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles from 1994, about an alien race enslaving humans without their knowledge.

DuckTales comic book. The Beagle Boys go inside Scrooge McDuck’s dreams to extract the combination to his safe.

There’s also 1984’s Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw that has a similar plot. We actually discussed that movie at the old CS! when Inception came out. It was widely available on Netflix streaming.

That's the one. I can never remember that title because all I can think of is that Arthur and the Invisibles movie. It came out just before the Wachowskis went into production on Matrix, and when it came out comic readers were like "wut."

I haven't read it myself, but most seem to believe Morrison would have had a solid case for plagiarism, from what I'm told. Especially if the stolen dialogue is as exact as Mason claims, because that would have been a checkmate.

It's like that lawsuit against that Michael Bay movie The Island, from a little seen movie called The Clonus Horror, which is mostly remembered because it was turned into an MST episode. There could be an argument that the concept could have potentially been developed by two separate people and Clonus was to niche to make an impact, because there was even a Sliders episode with the same story, but if you watch the movies back to back, there are too many plot similarities to not take note of. A group of clones being grown and kept healthy on an organ harvest farm for the wealthy, where if need be they graduate and get to go to "America"/"The Island" where they are finally harvested, until clones escape and discover the truth. They're pretty much the exact same movie, except one has a bigger budget and a lot of action. Clonus won that case for a reason.

Good. It deserves to be ignored.

Please Jesus let’s get a new round.

No they didn't.

Deexan makes all these posts and doesn't even fuckin vote. The nerve.

Alien wins, advancing to the Great 8. Next battle up shortly.