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The Thirteenth Floor

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Directed by Josef Rusnak

In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place. From TMDB

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The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 thriller science fiction mystery film, directed by Josef Rusnak, starring Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Gretchen Mol.

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  • TattooedHorrorGranny @tattooedgranny.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    431) The Thirteenth Floor (1999) #FrightClub on Tubi #2025FirstTimeWatch 380 #FilmSky #TheThirteenthFloor

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  • Kebohween @keboh3.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2026

    Went down a sci-fi rabbit hole and added a Jim Carrey movie I'd never seen in my last four watched. I highly recommend The Thirteenth Floor & Inception! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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  • Katherine Everitt 🧨 @katherineveritt.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    What is digital space? This is the question I'm asking for an upcoming talk at King's College. I'm wondering what Hegel would say of the digital, as an extension of spirit. In my mind, this is what the digital looks like. From the kitsch film, 'The Thirteenth Floor' (1999).

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  • Fred Andersson @homosatanis.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Revisiting one of my R.W. Fassbinder faves, the 1973 television adaption of Daniel F. Galouye’s Simulacron-3. It was later adapted into the 1999 movie The Thirteenth Floor. World on a Wire is a very German Fassbinder 70’s production, realistic noir, and kinda dreamlike in its structure.

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  • Hemingways_Shotgun @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 14, 2025

    - LA Confidential - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Chinatown - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Alien - Wrath of Khan (Director's Cut) - Moulin Rouge - Children of Men - Gattaca - The Usual Suspects - Fight Club - The Thirteenth Floor And probably a thousand more I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.

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  • hakunawazo @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 19, 2024

    This reminds me on the movie "The Thirteenth Floor". ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/97c73367-49da-4d31-8d5f-8e617b87b852.jpeg)

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  • Brain Glitches @cinemajules.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    222. A Scanner Darkly 2006 1h 40m 14A 73Metascore 7.0 (121K) Sits between : 221. The Adjustment Bureau 2011 and 223. The Thirteenth Floor 1999 on imdb category: movie/ sci-fi /80k votes or above

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  • HulkSmashBurgers @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 1, 2025

    Minority Report The Running Man (1987) Elysium Alita Battle Angel I, Robot The Matrix Both Blade Runner movies Brazil Maybe Tron? Code 46 Total Recall (1990) The Lawnmower Man The Thirteenth Floor Virtuosity

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  • swordsmanluke @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 15, 2023

    I like both movies, but I think The Matrix has a billion times more spectacle going for it. I still think about The Thirteenth Floor regularly, but I'd rather sit down and _watch_ The Matrix again for entertainment's sake.

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  • swordsmanluke @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 19, 2023

    Snatch! All-time #1! ...except for when Blade Runner is #1. Other faves that I haven't seen mentioned yet: # Heists * Baby Driver # Comedy * The Cornetto Trilogy * Oscar (Sylvester Stallone in a comedy of errors) * Evolution # Sci-Fi / Fantasy * BR:2049 * The Thirteenth Floor # Action * The Transporter * District B-13 # Horror(ish) * Cabin in the Woods * Tucker and Dale vs Evil * El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

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  • jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    decided to check out some of the casualties of The Matrix, so i'm watching "The Thirteenth Floor" (since i've already seen Christian Bale's gun-fu movie). any other scifi films that were buried by The Matrix i should check out?

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  • 💚 Nikki 💜 (⁠ノ⁠*⁠0⁠*⁠)⁠ノ 🎃 @nikkinightly.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    Tonight's movie: The Thirteenth Floor

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  • Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    I started a Fortean examination of all the 98/9 Gnostic films, with Dark City as my absolute fave. Never got to finish it, but I did do the piece on The Thirteenth Floor. I also cover the original novel and Fassbinder's TV version, World On A Wire. cunningcatvincent.com/weaponizer/w...

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  • Lunacyde @lunacyde.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    The Thirteenth Floor - I thought the movie was kinda slow with it's moments until it tied together at the end and did something semi interesting with the concept.

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  • Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    Watching THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR (1988) www.imdb.com/title/tt0094... - an obscure 80s horror film from Oz.

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  • Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2025

    After I shared this last night @acuity.design mentioned the 1997 film ‘The Thirteenth Floor’ which I've seen, and own on disc, and quite frequently mention. Of *course* I should have included it in the blog post. youtu.be/UpNSDFrlc9c?...

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  • Fright Club @frightya.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    After our leisurely #FrightClub intermission, we will be back for #TheThirteenthFloor in fifteen! Today's date is significant in that movie 🖤

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  • Ginger @gingerpimpernel.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    Watching The Thirteenth Floor. There's a scene with a character watching a bunch of TVs at once, sounds overlapping. Me: "Wait... I know that voice." Can confirm via Tony Schiavone voice that Vincent D'Onofrio watches WCW in this movie.

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  • Zacryon @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 1, 2024

    Yes. I think so. It just takes an exponential amount of energy and/or time. At some point it will stop due to energy limitations. Or will be stopped because computation time approaches infinity, even if all energy in the universe is available. Also, now I think about the movie "The Thirteenth Floor".

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  • The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.comBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    Off the top of my head: Aniara, The Thirteenth Floor, Watch the Skies, 2010, The Abyss, Algorithm, Soldier, Tony budget Gillian Anderson movie UFO, The Day The Earth Caught Fire, Strange Days, Companion, Timestalker, the first three Bodysnatchers and the Reeves Day the Earth Stood Still

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  • Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    Just watched a film called the Thirteenth Floor because I heard it was a lost classic eclipsed by The Matrix. Paid £3.49. Worth it.

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  • wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    I still haven’t watched The Thirteenth Floor, but yeah, that SF neo-noir period starting in the late 90s is one of my favorite movie eras.

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  • ManWithPez @manwithpez.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2024

    I can already tell this movie needs more Craig Bierko. What's that? Oh...The Thirteenth Floor is a DIFFERENT movie than #The13thFloor? Shit. #FrightClub

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  • 1999: The Podcast @1999thepodcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    It's October 13th (Chris Carter's birthday!) and returning guest @nitishpahwa.com joins us to talk about THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR, a weird little movie that's hard to be mad at! We also discuss musical theater, Scientology, and @josie.zone's new book about Beck! Here or wherever you podcast!

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  • K. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    Longtime BlueSky mate @zombieslippers.bsky.social makes an appearance in this #ReelRank review (bc you can embed Bsky posts on ReelRank, which you can't on #letterboxd), bc I take his point re: Dark City and #TheThirteenthFloor in relation to The Matrix & I agree! reelrank.net/r/0002mg #FilmSky 📽️

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  • Kebohween @keboh3.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    #NowWatching Josef Rusnak's The Thirteenth Floor (1999). I'm told it's The Matrix before The Matrix. #FirstWatch #FilmSky #MovieSky #SciFi

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  • Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    I feel like Dark City stumbles at the finish line by trying to have an action movie climax, but it’s a great film otherwise. I’m more partial to The Thirteenth Floor (1999), which holds more faithfully to the “sci-fi noir mystery” premise, though that’s probably the reason audiences rejected it.

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  • Ian @ianhamilton.netBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    The Thirteenth Floor. The other movie from 1999 about virtual reality. To discover the truth, go to a place you would never go.

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  • memfree @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 1, 2025

    I was crossing over from French to German stuff last week, but I'll start with the unrelated before getting to Germany. - [Z for Zachariah](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193687-z-for-zachariah) (2015): the plot is not that of book by the same name but rather seems an update on [The World, the Flesh and the Devil](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4928-the-world-the-flesh-and-the-devil), which was too cautious about race issues. In a way, this fixes that, but there's a (spoiler) detail…

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  • Hemingways_Shotgun @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 8, 2025

    The Thirteenth Floor is a truly under appreciated gem of a movie, FYI

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  • Smith @infiniteterror.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    He's arguably the brightest star in The Thirteenth Floor (sorry Bierko), and I'd also recommend The Player, Strange Days, Steal This Movie.

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  • Dace @dace09.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2024

    This Sunday at 2pm pacific, it's Dystopian Futurism Movie Time and we've only got a few Chucky movies left! - The Thirteenth Floor (1999) - Dark City (1998)* - Curse of Chucky (2013) - Equilibrium (2002) *redeemed by spends

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  • Sarah Bagley (the one in Alexandria VA) @sarahbagley.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2024

    Gran Turismo album is a personal favorite. Bring on the haters. Their song Erase and Rewind plays over the credits of this 1999 movie The Thirteenth Floor (peak 90’s movie - Gretchen Moll hahaha) and kicks ass. Someone had a good sense of humor with that choice given the plot.

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  • NotTheOnlyGamer @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 23, 2023

    I love the entire "2001" series, and I've even watched the "2010" movie. I understand where your opinions are coming from and I will not judge you for them; but I personally disagree. Then again, I'm also someone who genuinely enjoys watching Citizen Kane, so I might just have a skewed perspective. Mind you, I also enjoy the 1995 Johnny Mnemonic movie and have watched Overdrawn at the Memory Bank without MST3K - so I'm all over in terms of sci-fi. Here's my big hot take lately: of the "virtual…

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  • K. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    This whole movie is pretty aesthetically distinctive, too; hard to pick a sneaky frame, bc the whole movie looks unmistakably like The Thirteenth Floor 😆

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  • djkideye.bsky.social @djkideye.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter T The Thirteenth Floor (1999) #moviesky #filmsky

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  • gsx @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 6, 2026

    To give you another opinion. I think it's a better movie and a better adaption of Simulacron-3 than The Thirteenth Floor. The pacing is quite slow, yes. But if you're fine with the pacing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, this should be fine too. The effects are decent for a TV-Production in that time. The camera work is really good. (And imdb, letterboxd and rotten tomatos is with me in this opinion, so I'm with them 😁)

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  • 🔞Ikari Wolf🔞 🔜? @ikariwolf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    The movie "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999) warned about VR getting too real welp. I used to fear VR because of it. WHOOPS!

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  • topherclay @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 30, 2026

    > In 2000, The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film but lost to The Matrix. Yeah that's a pretty good sell. I'll check it out.

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  • Bat B @buckwheatmat.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Watching The Thirteenth Floor, it always throws me when the Allstate guy is in a movie

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  • dest_void_ptr @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 21, 2025

    Finished Simulacron-3. I re-watched The Thirteenth Floor recently. It's a decent sci-fi flick, but it was completely overshadowed by The Matrix on release. Interestingly, both movies draw inspiration from Simulacron-3. The Matrix is a completely different plot, of course, but The Thirteenth Floor primarily follows the book. Without giving too much away, the book centers around a virtual world populated by AI. The purpose of the simulation is to test potential marketing campaigns. The AI…

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  • Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2025

    Hidden in Plain Sight ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Henri Bergson. Image: Screenshot from The Thirteenth Floor (1999 film).

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  • Marc McKenzie @marcmck.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2024

    I only heard about it thanks to the film THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR. A few years after seeing it I read a PDF of SIMULACRON 3 and was quite impressed by it.

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  • SternOutOfCtxt @sternoutofctxt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    The Thirteenth Floor was the only movie where I bought a ticket and then they asked everyone in the theatre to leave because the projector malfunctioned… Appreciate the reminder that I should finally watch it 27 years later - thank you!

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  • Daniel Gower @sirequinox.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    This translates to "World on a Wire." In English the title is "Simulacron-3", which has been adapted as the movie "The Thirteenth Floor" and as a German TV series.

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  • Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    Oops, missed it! Always grateful for a deep dive on one of my absolute faves. Was planning a series on this, Matrix, Being John Malkovich, The Truman Show, The Thirteenth Floor (the best VR film of that time, yes over Matrix): the 'gnostic' 1998-99 film wave at the end of the Milennium.

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  • mattstechel.bsky.social @mattstechel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    You guys have seen Sour Grapes right? He's pretty great in that (tho he's definitely channeling Kramer) I also liked him more or less as the protagonist in The Thirteenth Floor. He could've made a solid everyman in detective stories if that movie had made any money.

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  • Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    I think the only movie I've seen with Gretchen Mol in it is The Thirteenth Floor

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    The (movie) The Thirteenth Floor 1080p (iTunes)(CA) C$4.99 (Mystery) (iMDB) 6.7 Cast: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub

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  • Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @indiegeniusMastodon · Mar 26, 2026

    Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieFeatures #TheThirteenthFloor #TheMatrix Thanks to ‘The Matrix,’ This Stellar 1999 Sci-Fi Movie Never Got the Attention It Deserved http://dlvr.it/TRj6Kl

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2026

    The (movie) The Thirteenth Floor 1080p (iTunes)(UK) £2.99 (Mystery) (iMDB) 6.7 Cast: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub

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  • Raydred @raydred.comBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    [ Watching the movie "The Thirteenth Floor" ] Me: *gasp* So that's why some buildings don't have a thirteenth floor!

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  • H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Hidden in Plain Sight ~~~~~~~ “The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Henri Bergson, source unknown. Image: Screenshot from The Thirteenth Floor (1999 film).

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  • Mason Brown ❌👑 @masondfw.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    The Thirteenth Floor directed by Josef Rusnak explores the dark side of simulated worlds in this ahead-of-its-time sci-fi noir gem. Released the same year as The Matrix, this film is more nuanced, mysterious and less feisty. Vincent D’Onofrio rocks his bleached hair. www.imdb.com/title/tt0139...

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  • gencyberpunkpod.bsky.social @gencyberpunkpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    Hoi there edgerunners, jack into twitch.tv/GenCyberpunkPod tonight at 6 pm CDT where we discuss the 199 film The Thirteenth Floor. See you then! #movie #cyberpunk #podcast #livestream

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  • Mixtress of Dorkness @pinballwitch.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    this movie made the same mistake as The Thirteenth Floor, in that they greatly over estimated how symapthetic we should be of "Outsider Tech Bro" protags.

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  • The Good Bad Movie Show @goodbadmovieshow.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    NEW EPISODE! Kirstie (@kirstenhoward.bsky.social) and Joe (@joewriteswords.bsky.social) hop in the virtual elevator for the other reality bending sci-fi movie from 1999, #thethirteenthfloor! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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  • R. Eerie VanBoo-kirk @sotsogm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    Bonus: No Aztecs Were Harmed In the Making of This Film: House On Haunted Hill (1959) The Rocketeer (1991) The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

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  • Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    Hidden in Plain Sight ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Henri Bergson. Image: Screenshot from The Thirteenth Floor (1999 film).

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  • B Movies And D Cups @bmoviesdcups.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    The Thirteenth Floor was not a good movie and was deservedly overshadowed by The Matrix. eXistenZ was a really good movie (with a title that just tried too hard) and deserved more recognition, but was maybe a little too weird for mainstream audiences. Iirc Vanilla Sky also had some similar themes

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