Xopher: For some reason I thought I'd occasionally poked my head in here and there over the years, but apparently I'm mistaken.
As far as the silent films that are better than Dark City: it pretty openly plunders from almost everything Fritz Lang ever directed, most notably Metropolis (which, come to think of it, is noticeably absent from this list), as well as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
It's not so much that I don't think the Wachowskis didn't rip off DC for The Matrix as I find the irony of talking about how DC was ripped off kind of painful in light of the films Proyas obviously plagiarizes. (There's one particular scene in DC that's almost identical to Metropolis, save for the shoot-for-the-edit cutting style [in which no shot lasts more than five seconds] and even worse acting.)
What's with all the Dark City love? Srsly! As an armchair film scholar I'm disappointed that a film which clearly rips off several better silent films -- and throws in some truly horrendous acting and editing, to boot -- gets such love from people who should know better. (And the fact that people think the Wachowski Brothers ripped it off make me laugh and laugh.)
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