I thought I had Soylent Green figured out. Had knew the punchline long before I actually sat down and watched the movie. It was 70s level, so it was both good and bad as far as a movie itself, reminded me a lot of Colossus The Forbin Project in its feel. The forecasting of a environmentally desolate future also felt prophetic. Then a bit after seeing it I ran across someone reviewing it, and they pointed out that the biggest shock isn't the end...the end is bad, but it is only a higher level of what has been the real horror throughout the whole movie. Complacency. And that is why we are in Soylent Green today, it's all around us. And like all these other classics, we haven't learned anything.

It was beaten by a year by Dark City.

I saw both Dark City and The Matrix, in the theaters, when they were released. I liked both, and I have talked up Dark City for years to people who only saw the Matrix.

Recently rewatched Dark City. It is nowhere near as good as the matrix. It's still very cool, but it's confusing and janky as hell and that's not part of the charm.

If you're reading this and you haven't seen it, you should! It's fun and you'll see some cool shit. But don't expect it to be better than Matrix.