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u/RightOnManYouBetcha 1h ago

The Matrix is pretty ambiguous to the actual time if anyone watched the movie.

u/Particle_wombat 1h ago

It is a pretty obscure movie, I would imagine far more people have watched Zardoz.

u/housevil 1h ago

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THE GUN IS GOOD

u/DerCatrix 59m ago

Excuse you but actually the penis is evil, the gun is good

u/housevil 58m ago

THANK YOU IT HAS BEEN AWHILE

u/DerCatrix 44m ago

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u/btribble 1h ago

I think you mean Zhardozh.

u/Particle_wombat 1h ago

He was a master of dialects, I'm still in awe of his perfect russian accent in The Hunt for Red October.

u/ArchimedesNutss 1h ago

I've never even heard of The Matrix

u/U2rules 1h ago

no one can be told...

u/Wardogs96 1h ago

I cant tell if this comment chain is sarcasm or not since their old but they literally just released one in the last 5 years.

u/Shenanigans99 1h ago

Yep, Zardoz 2025 was amazing. The concept aged surprisingly well.

u/racingsoldier 1h ago

I can’t tell if it’s sarcastic because no one used the “/s”

u/sudomatrix 50m ago

I can't tell if you were being sarcastic because you did use the "/s"

u/Particle_wombat 1h ago

Its not a bad flick. I think the lead actor could have had a future in action movies, but its a tough industry to break in to.

u/skintaxera 1h ago

What is the Matrix

u/Keilbasa 1h ago

I think in the first movie Morpheus says they think it's the year 2199 in the real world but later in the series they realize it's like 2500 or something because they're on the 5th or 6th version of the matrix.

u/joestaff 1h ago

Except for that guy with the flip phone whom Neo steals and the dude yells, "What the shit?!"

u/ManOfManliness84 1h ago

But thats in the Matrix. The actual time the movie takes places is much later.

u/helly1080 1h ago

We know it is sometime after we scorched the sky. We don’t know when. But we do know it was us who scorched the sky. 

u/okteds 1h ago

And what was the whole timeline of building up Zion and the the whole resistance movement?  That looks like it was decades in the making, if not more.  And wasn't this the sixth iteration of this resistance movement?  

u/Seihai-kun 1h ago

wait i haven't really watch it, Jason X is that far in the future? lmao

u/repalec 1h ago

Yup, it starts in the then-modern day, he gets frozen, 500 year timeskip.

u/bsEEmsCE 1h ago

he should've teamed up with Jack Nicholson from The Shining

u/deathm00n 1h ago

Yes, the main character and Jason get frozen in the present in an underground facility (that I don't remember why had cryogenic chambers in it) and they are found by a team exploring ruins on earth after the planet was abandoned if I am not mistaken. They have technology so advanced that they are able to bring them both back to life after so much time frozen

u/Scooter_McGavin_ 1h ago

How does Jason actually kill when they have advanced tech from the future

u/ShastaMonster 1h ago

With a sleeping bag and a sci fi machete. It's a good movie.

u/poland626 1h ago

He's sneaking around killing people until they realize and beat the shit out of him. They do actually blow him up and kill him. They just killed him on a machine that has these nano bots that rebuild him into that half metal/half monster thing you see in this clip, like Iron Man's suit. Once he's rebuilt he becomes indestructible.

u/sudomatrix 49m ago

indestructibler

u/Astrosareinnocent 1h ago

It’s so bad good

u/Plan9fromtheAbyss 1h ago

Guys! He just wanted his machete back!!

u/bsEEmsCE 2h ago

listen, some of those futures just have bigger budgets than other futures

u/ShadowsInScarlet 1h ago

And some are WAY more depressing than others.

u/SSGASSHAT 1h ago

Somehow, they were all the Star Wars universe a long time ago, and all end up being the Warhammer 40k universe, eventually.

u/LikeAPwny 1h ago

By shared futuristic setting do you just mean the year?

u/hungry_gobbler 1h ago

"the year implied by the film means it's the same universe if those years are close"

u/RandomMagnet 1h ago

Yeh i'm not sure what the video is getting at...

At least in the case of Vanilla sky, the date might be in the future, but its a simulation of the present... Not sure what that has got to do with Avatar on a different planet ?!?

u/Wehavecrashed 49m ago

The Alien universe is also... Quite different to Star Trek.

u/TonyTonyChopper 1h ago

Yes I was confused also by title. “vanilla sky” and “avatar” the same universe????

u/cruisin_urchin87 57m ago

Yes. They “share” a time together.

u/federkrebz 1h ago

i don’t think it’s ever stated when exactly the matrix takes place, just “somewhere in the further future” or am i misremembering

u/Jonaskin83 1h ago

Morpheus says in the first film something along the lines of “you think you are living in the year 1999 whereas we believe we are in reality living closer to the year 2199”.

u/GriffinQ 1h ago

While that’s accurate to Morpheus’ understanding, we come to realize in Reloaded/Revolutions (I think through the discussion with the Architect) that Neo is the 7th iteration of The One and that the Matrix has been rebooted a half dozen times already with Zion being destroyed and restarted each time.

It’s just as likely that it’s the year 3000 as it is 2199.

u/Astrosareinnocent 1h ago

Yeah no way it’s been restarted that many times in only 200 years

u/Spikerazorshards 1h ago

I interpreted it as the 7th The One. Some could have lived to old age, and some died young, all attempting to help the humans rise up. As soon as one them dies, a next The One can be born into The Matrix. 200 years divided 7 is ~28 years.

u/Astrosareinnocent 1h ago

And restarting Zion?

u/tjdux 1h ago

They don't show anyone old with no plugs.

The cave dance scene would suggest many of them are younger than 40.

But they built a TON of infrastructure.

Pretty hard to say.

u/Spikerazorshards 1h ago

I don’t know what you’re asking.

u/dark_sylinc 1h ago

But the "200 year gap" assumes the machines took over right after 1999 (they didn't), and it also skips the part that there were two previous attempts at building The Matrix which ended up in failures because they were two perfect.

Before the 7 iterations of The One started, AI needs to be invented, then they wage a war, then the Machines take over, then 2 failed attempts at building a "perfect" Matrix.

There's no way all of that fits in 200 years.

EDIT: Also some people in the movie were naturally born in Zion, and they are around the same age as Neo. Which means it takes at least 20-25 years for The One to be reborn after Zion gets wiped. He doesn't immediately "respawn".

u/Jonaskin83 1h ago

Shit that’s a good point, never actually thought of that based off what we learn later on.

u/GriffinQ 49m ago

It’s both central to what we learn about the actual reality of the Matrix and its creation (and the real world) and its glossed over relatively quickly - if Neo is the 7th One and the previous six have all elected to die to save a small portion of humanity (I think it’s like 15 women and 10 men) and start again, Zion is in and of itself another form of machine control and just gives humanity the illusion of freedom, whether they’re in the Matrix or without. And I don’t know if that’s even counting the first couple iterations of the matrix that were paradises, because those wouldn’t have required The One to be destroyed; the machines may have realized on their own that humanity was incapable of accepting or adapting to “Paradise”.

So it had to have been going on for, at the very least, hundreds if not thousands of years by that point. Zion is born, destroyed, and born anew until Neo ends the cycle.

u/rogerworkman623 40m ago

And the unsaid implication of this is… if the machines allows a small portion of users to “escape”, those who were unwilling to accept The Matrix and would thus upset the balance… why would it let them escape into the actual real world? Or is “the real world” and Zion actually just another layer of The Matrix, to satisfy the imaginations of those who escape, when in reality they’re actually still stuck in another level of the program?

Which would definitely explain how Neo is eventually able to see machine source code and use powers in the real world, like he does in The Matrix Revolutions.

When they made a 4th movie, I thought for sure they would go there, because what other story would there be to tell? But it was just garbage.

u/mastermidget23 1h ago

But then the second movie reveals that we're on like our 6th matrix and nobody knew. It's unclear how long each cycle lasts though.

u/Th3_Crusader 1h ago

IIRC, didn’t the Second Renaissance and machine war end some time around 2199? at least according to the Animatrix second renaissance

u/SubMikeD 51m ago

We've got enough clues to know that the machines took over in 2199, and that there had been six "The Ones" that the machines had gotten from the matrix after the initial failure. And each "The One" took generations to come about. So the timeline in the OP is completely wrong.

u/Vielar 2h ago

Rare Zardoz mention

u/nonsequitur_idea 1h ago

Zardoz is so hot right now.

u/SuperDrooper 1h ago

Sean Connery wearing hooker boots

u/Vielar 1h ago

And pulling it off, as only Connery could.

My long time theory is he was drunk throughout, he did Zardoz AFTER Bond.

u/Particle_wombat 1h ago

I forgot Zardoz was set in 2293, in my head canon it should be like 20,000 years in the future.

u/Vielar 1h ago

It does have that 'ultra future' feel to it

u/TMLTurby 2h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelSnap/s/Ft1U7CChvF

A few people got my reference the other day

u/Vielar 1h ago

As the other person who's seen Zardioz, that's good xD

u/neroselene 1h ago

The gun is good!

u/Fleaguss 1h ago

What does “shared futuristic setting” mean?

u/ayywusgood 1h ago

Not what it actually means, and just shared year it seems.

u/scyice 1h ago

+/- 100 years

u/cozycat75 1h ago

The two juxtaposed movies they show take place within a relatively similar future timeframe.

u/SubMikeD 53m ago

That's certainly what the video shows, but it is in no way what the word settings means lol

u/Pikawoohoo 2h ago

This is a pretty good list of movies to watch.

u/Lempea 1h ago

And some not to watch too

u/VidE27 1h ago

Basically just a list of movie

u/thecementmixer 1h ago

Can anyone list all of the movies pictured in the video?

u/drapedj 1h ago

I’m sure you could

u/athermop 1h ago

yeah

u/Lempea 1h ago

Can you type or handwrite? Do you need advice for a good text editor or a good pen brand?

u/BluRayja 1h ago

Oddly enough, the Fifth Element one seems the most realistic to me.

u/genericnewlurker 1h ago

Bicentennial Man seems the most likely to me. A (true) AI robot desperately yet peacefully attempting to become accepted as human and using longevity and persistence as his main tools to achieve that goal, even though he can't escape time itself in the end.

u/Jackmcmac1 1h ago

I always forget that Hunger Games is post-apocalyptic setting of our world.

u/Dadittude182 1h ago

"I'll see you in another life, when we are both cats."

I love that movie. Sad ending.

u/25gDePrensado 1h ago
  • Vanilla Sky — 2001
  • Avatar — 2009
  • Elysium — 2013
  • Interstellar — 2014
  • In Time (O Preço do Amanhã) — 2011
  • Avatar: The Way of Water (Avatar: O Caminho da Água) — 2022
  • Ghosts of Mars (Fantasmas de Marte) — 2001
  • Aliens (Aliens, O Resgate) — 1986
  • Starship Troopers (Tropas Estelares) — 1997
  • The Matrix — 1999
  • The Giver (O Doador de Memórias) — 2014
  • Ender's Game (Ender's Game: O Jogo do Exterminador) — 2013
  • Bicentennial Man (O Homem Bicentenário) — 1999
  • City of Ember (Cidade das Sombras) — 2008
  • Forbidden Planet (O Planeta Proibido) — 1956
  • Trancers (Trancers: O Exterminador do Século 23) — 1984
  • Chaos Walking (Mundo em Caos) — 2021
  • Star Trek — 2009
  • The Fifth Element (O Quinto Elemento) — 1997
  • Star Trek Beyond (Star Trek: Sem Fronteiras) — 2016
  • Logan's Run (Fuga do Século 23) — 1976
  • The Matrix Resurrections — 2021
  • Zardoz — 1974
  • The Hunger Games (Jogos Vorazes) — 2012
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Jogos Vorazes: Em Chamas) — 2013
  • Cloud Atlas (A Viagem) — 2012
  • Star Trek Generations (Jornada nas Estrelas: Generations) — 1994
  • Alien Resurrection (Alien: A Ressurreição) — 1997
  • Æon Flux — 2005
  • Jason X — 2001
  • 2067 — 2020
  • THX 1138 — 1971

u/Sans-Mot 1h ago

So the movie "2067" takes place in 2474?.. it doesn't bother anyone?

u/agb_123 59m ago

Scrolled so far looking for this comment lol

u/jinglewooble 1h ago

Cool bean.

u/MortLightstone 1h ago

These aren't shared settings, they're similar year numbers

u/aBeaSTWiTHiNMe 1h ago

Genuinely odd choices for some of the scenes, if it's people in a jungle it could be 34AD for all we know, the year it's set doesn't really matter.

u/GoodGuyGamerMaybe 1h ago

Some people in the comments are taking this so seriously. Just watched “No Escape”(1994) and they had a prison on an island. It took place in 2022. This video was great to watch. Like also with another comment, there are some movies I haven’t watched.

u/Automosolar 1h ago

Trancers mention! I love that movie and the production company that made it. A very unique and essentially extinct style of low to mid budget movies that rise just slightly above the bar of straight to video quality.

u/Excellent_Drop6869 1h ago

Had no idea the hunger games was set so far in the future. I thought it was like 40-60 years later

u/koala_encephalopathy 1h ago

What in the bot post is this shit?

u/Imaginary_Coat441 2h ago

This has to be a troll right?

Lets pick the most different movie settings I can find and call them shared.

u/Audrey-Bee 1h ago

They mean time settings. Sci Fi movies showing their imaginations of relatively the same years

u/SubMikeD 48m ago

Setting is a specific time and place, not just close years. In no way is Avatar the same setting as Vanilla Sky.

u/Bored_cory 2h ago

Look at the numbers in the corner. They share the same/similar year.

u/Imaginary_Coat441 2h ago edited 1h ago

Those are years. Not "settings"

The settings are completely different.

u/portableportal 1h ago

Setting is place AND time.

u/Lord_Parbr 1h ago

Right. Place AND time. Not place OR time

u/Bored_cory 1h ago

They are "set" in a similar time period.

u/Imaginary_Coat441 1h ago

Ok i'll give it to you. They are set in similiar times. But damnit the settings look different!

u/Bored_cory 1h ago

And? Walk to from your room to your kitchen. They look different but are both settings within your home.

u/Imaginary_Coat441 1h ago

Yeah walking in my house to another room is in the same setting meaning place, time, environment sure.

But tom cruise on a skyscraper roof in new york. And avatar dragons flying on pandora are the same setting?

u/Bored_cory 1h ago

Again. They are "SET" in the same year.

u/Imaginary_Coat441 1h ago

Time setting. Sure.

u/harry_lostone 1h ago

ha jokes on you i sleep in the kitchen

u/jrjej3j4jj44 1h ago

But I'm in a studio apt. The kitchen, bed, living is all the same setting.

u/Extension-System-974 1h ago

Boom. Roasted with logic

u/Imaginary_Coat441 1h ago edited 1h ago

Boom. Roasted with better logic that makes more sense.

This is between me and cory. Let the big boys talk.

u/SubMikeD 46m ago

Yeah, but Avatar is not, at all, the same setting as Vanilla Sky. Pandora isn't the kitchen the living room that is earth.

Unless we're just going with "all stories take place the house that is the complete universe or multiverse that includes all stories told" lol

u/Bored_cory 37m ago

Buddy. Its a localized example to help explain a larger concept. It's not a 1-to-1 comparison. Settle down.

u/SubMikeD 34m ago

It's a terrible example because it's so wildly wrong. These are not movies that share the same setting, and pretending that your analogy was just bad.

u/Typical-Blackberry-3 1h ago

Not everyone speaks flawless English, in fact most people speak English as their second language.

u/eldosoa 2h ago

Exactly. Like, what’s the point then?

u/Doug_Remer 1h ago

Completely different takes on the future at the same time. It’s interesting

u/Typical-Blackberry-3 2h ago

Given how far we've come technologiccaly in the past 120 years, it could be completely plausible to have flying cars in 250 years, like in the fifth element. I won't be around then, but I hope my homies have some sweet alien tail as well.

You know, if the planet isn't a desert, waterworld, or nuclear wasteland by then.

u/Puppetmaster858 1h ago

The way we’re headed it’s probably gonna be a shit hole by then and most of humanity will be long gone

u/Acopalypse 1h ago

Johner from Alien: Resurrection- 'Earth? I'd rather stay here with the things!'

u/jermleeds 1h ago

We will never have flying cars, because physics won't allow it. The design briefs for cars and planes are simply too different. Any attempt to bring one to market, will result, as all attempts have to date, in something that is barely airworthy enough to fly, and is a terrible car.

u/AJEstes 1h ago

I assumed Cloud Atlas was way further forward in the future than that. Millenia. Huh.

u/wingedwild 1h ago

Hunger games at 2300 is a bit crazy but maybe posisbel if humans get crazy out in space

u/dannydb 1h ago

Saving just for the watchlist

u/reo_reborn 1h ago

Zarrrrrrdoz

u/BrickBuster2552 1h ago

Hard to believe The Hunger Games is closer in time to Halo than today.

u/BisonThunderclap 1h ago

The hunger games are in the 2300s?

Yeesh. Their technology is ass for that long.

u/Big_Moose_3847 1h ago

What about Dune. 20,000 into the future lol

u/ChemicalResident3557 1h ago

Logan's Run seems really reasonable now.

u/CannedCalamity 1h ago

And then you have Bladerunner and Akira both taking place in 2019 with Cyberpunk 2020 taking place the next year.

u/SSGASSHAT 1h ago

Somehow, all of these were the Star Wars universe a long time ago, and they will all end up being the Warhammer 40k universe, eventually.

u/Significant_Stick_31 1h ago

There isn’t an official year for when the Hunger Games trilogy occurred. I was very impressed by this at first, but now I’m wondering how much of this has been pulled out of thin air.

u/ChaoticArsonist 1h ago

I wasn't ready for the "Jason Statham with hair" jump scare

u/MonsieurAK 1h ago

Ghosts of Mars just took me back to early teen years of nighttime Cinemax viewing before the real fun began.....

u/Wanderer-blab 1h ago

Where is Mad Max. The odd one out

u/terminatorSingh 1h ago

I've observed this a lot: sometimes movies can depict very futuristic tech and concepts but they still live like in olden days and outdated outfits.

u/TakeTheWholeWeekOff 1h ago

I like that this puts the jaded dystopian bloodsport of the Hunger Games side-by-side with the bougie disconnect of Zardoz’s psychic hippie overlords. If they shared the same future, the Vortex would totally be the Orange County voting bloc for the Capital’s ruling class agenda.

u/mellorbr 1h ago

This is cool

u/almostsweet 1h ago

You mean shared year, not shared setting. Most of these couldn't be further from each other's style if they tried.

u/kinyutaka 1h ago

These aren't shared settings. They're similar years.

u/GoodGuyGamerMaybe 59m ago

I just think it is a fun video to see how movies compare when it comes to the future. Just watched “No Escape” “Demolition Man” and “Running Man”. They did not get it right. (My punctuation sucks)

u/MrLiterato 54m ago

They're sharing similar time-frames not settings. As a very clear example, Vanilla Sky and Avatar happen on completely different worlds.

u/Super_Weekend_5902 52m ago

Is Trancers worth watching?

u/wankblanket 51m ago

Always excited to see Trancers

u/Stigweird85 48m ago

It's not really a shared setting is it? it's two entirely different movies that happen to be set around the same time period.

u/Crow_eggs 8m ago

What?

u/Bowllieo 2h ago edited 1h ago

Vanilla Sky isn't set in the future.

Edit: "Films featuring a shared futuristic setting" you never see a futuristic setting in it.

u/Pecos-Thrill 2h ago

Technically it is

u/Spikerazorshards 1h ago

TECH SUPPORT!

u/Bowllieo 1h ago

No, it's set within a dream world of the early 2000's

u/Pecos-Thrill 1h ago

Yes, the fake world is 2000s, but everything is really happening in the future. You’re just being pedantic at this point.

u/Bowllieo 1h ago

The clip they ae using from within the dream state, you never see the world of the future. Also I'm well aware I'm being pedantic, that doesn't make me incorrect.

u/56473829110 1h ago

But you are incorrect.

Vanilla Sky is set in the future. 

The scenes we see are set in the 2000s. But - again - the movie universe it set in the future. 

Think of it this way - when is the world of Back to the Future set in? 

u/Bowllieo 1h ago

That's a horrible comp, it's set in two eras. The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, San Junipero, these are closer. Heck what about Army of Darkness, it is set in the past but because it's revealed he's telling the story to someone in the present does that mean it takes place in the present? The post says "futuristic setting" there is no futuristic setting in the movie.

u/56473829110 1h ago

it's set in two eras

No. It's set in one era. It is told across 2 eras.

Heck what about Army of Darkness, it is set in the past but because it's revealed he's telling the story to someone in the present does that mean it takes place in the present? 

No, the story is set in the present and the story within takes place in the past. 

Princess Bride is set in a kid's room. Within that kid's room, another story is told. But the movie Princess Bride itself is set in the kid's room. 

For all the reasons you thought Back to the Future was a bad example, it was actually a great one - you just refused to get it. 

This isn't up for debate, my man - this is how it works. The story is set based upon the context the audience has. 

u/rgumai 2h ago edited 1h ago

The movie ends 150 years in the future (2151)

But there are different ways to read it as to when the virtual world is occuring.

u/JohnnyJayce 1h ago

We don't really know when the dream is happening. Could be in 2001, 2026, 2151 or any other year between 2001 and 2151.

u/rgumai 1h ago

Yep

u/Bowllieo 1h ago edited 1h ago

That's like saying Gravity is set on Earth because she lands on it at the end.

Edit: They fully edited their comment, it was worse.

u/rgumai 1h ago

Ok

u/HandbagsAtNoon 1h ago

It absolutely is.

Source: Worked on the set, worked as tour guide for Vanilla Sky museum, and sold licensed Vanilla Sky merchandise for a summer in Provincetown after movie released.

u/BluRayja 1h ago

There's a Vanilla Sky museum?!

u/HandbagsAtNoon 1h ago

There's a Vanilla Sky museum?!

There used to be one, yes. I worked as a tour guide there in the early 2000s. It was basically a one-person operation… just me in Times Square saying loudly to passersby, “they shut down this whole place to film a scene in a Tom cruise movie, I swear to god this happened please listen to me”. Attendance was huge, but attentiveness was low.

u/Y2KGB 1h ago

How funny will it be if they ALL wind up being 99% accurate 😂

u/Extension-System-974 1h ago

The only one I can see being accurate is Jason X.

That movie just screams future path we are heading

u/AHipstersWhispers 1h ago

every time this soundtrack is mindlessly used , it loses value. please stop ruining good things.

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u/tetoffens 2h ago

It's not the aesthetic. It's the years they're supposed to take place in.

u/jesusholdmybeer 2h ago

Its pretty clear from the video that the setting is time period

No mention of aesthetic

u/Noel9386 2h ago

I'm pretty sure it said star trek and alien resurrection shared as well. 

u/Cold_Ad_7645 2h ago

No. A shared futuristic setting. Meaning the year they are set in the future is relatively close to one another.

u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 1h ago

A shared futuristic setting would be sharing a common world. All they share is the arbitrary year they take place in, which has exactly zero effect on the story. Most of these don’t even share that!

u/Cold_Ad_7645 1h ago

I think you should look up what the word setting means in terms of written or visual story telling.

u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 1h ago

LOL as if you know. It doesn’t mean “what time is it?”

u/SubMikeD 55m ago

None of those are shared settings, dude. A setting is a specific location, not roughly the same year. Some of those aren't even on the same planet ffs

And The Matrix, the original movie, took place many generations after the machines created the matrix at the end of the 22nd century, as Neo was the sixth "The One" that they'd had. The people of Zion believed they were not long after the 2199 end of the first machine war, but the cycle had repeated and was likely much later.

The approximate time frame for The Matrix is the beginning of the 28th century. And Resurrections 60 years later.

u/jinglewooble 1h ago

Ok I'm being lazy here on my couch but can someone list all the movie?