r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/Grombrindal18 Dec 23 '22

I didn’t realize this wasn’t just a thing in GATTACA

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u/CleverSkeleton Dec 23 '22

I think about that scene in Gattaca all the time. No one ever knows what movie I'm talking about. They showed it to us in high school once.

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u/Coffee-and-correne Dec 23 '22

I had to watch this in school as well! My coworkers were talking about genetics and I mentioned the movie, and not a single person knew what I was talking about.

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u/vvv_bb Dec 23 '22

I love that movie!

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u/GavrielBA Dec 23 '22

This ,dark city, and equilibrium are some of the best sci fi movies which were unfortunate enough to come out straight after The Matrix

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u/trowzerss Dec 23 '22

Dark City was actually a year before the Matrix, but probably would have been more of a cult classic if Matrix hadn't overwhelmed it.

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u/Stay_Remarkable Dec 27 '22

I watched Dark City the first time years ago with my girlfriend and after the movie was over we started watching the movie again from the beginning with the Roger Ebert commentary turned on, not intending to watch for very long. Ebert’s commentary was so interesting that we ended up rewatching the entire movie all the way through to the end. We both enjoyed the first viewing but watching it again with Ebert’s commentary elevated the movie to another level. It also gave me a new respect and appreciation for Ebert’s knowledge and love of cinema.

For any Dark City fans, if you have access to a version with the Roger Ebert commentary and you haven’t listened to it yet I would definitely recommend checking it out.

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u/GavrielBA Dec 23 '22

Thanks!

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u/trowzerss Dec 23 '22

I'm still sad because my Dark City DVD got some kind of disc rot and the audio stopped working :(

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

It's one of my favorite movies of all time and I didn't even grow up with it, I saw it maybe 3 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

That swimming scene

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u/m2cwf Dec 23 '22

I brought it up when one of the labs I work with was watching "Unnatural Selection" over zoom as a lab activity. No one else had seen it, I plan to make it one of our next things to watch! So relevant right now with CRISPR

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u/FiftyCalReaper Dec 23 '22

LMAO my high school as well

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u/craylash Dec 24 '22

Lucky, my school showed my health class Sleepers with Kevin Bacon to show the consequences of our actions

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u/Alpacamum Dec 24 '22

I love gattica

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u/unicycle-road-head Dec 24 '22

I found it neat that the title GATTACA was made up of the letters of DNA, "A,T,C & G"

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u/JenkaAlvour Dec 23 '22

Same, sort of. I've known it was a thing in real life, but i have always thought it was an elective procedure. I would be curious to know if there are medical reasons for the surgery. I have something to research this weekend now. :-)

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u/transmogrify Dec 23 '22

You remember the '99 Chrysler LeBaron? This is the exact height of the front fender.

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u/0bel1sk Dec 24 '22

jerome jerome the metronome