Reality Matrix

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Reality Matrix

1daard23
Edited: Sep 29, 2025, 7:52 pm

The reality is...everyone is getting too old for the new Matrix movie.

2TorMented
Sep 29, 2025, 8:18 pm

Treamat Helityrix?

3absurdeist
Sep 29, 2025, 8:39 pm

"...and I'm freeeeeee, free fall-inggggg"

4GSSex-noob
Sep 29, 2025, 11:02 pm

Keanu is ageless.

These guys look like the cheap streaming or basic cable version. Starring men you vaguely remember as perennial guest stars of episodic TV, but you have to look them up on IMDB every time. What used to be referred to as "Hey, it's That Guy".

If gravity reasserts itself to Earth normal or higher, I don't fancy the chances of the collection of middle-aged men landing without injury. Oldest guy's got a pretty good glare, though.

5Hammy_JLK
Sep 30, 2025, 3:40 pm

>4 GSSex-noob: Good point about the characters on the front. The two lower ones look like knockoffs of Lee Majors (on the left) because of the tinted sunglasses and John Candy before he got too large.

6GSSex-noob
Oct 1, 2025, 5:52 pm

>5 Hammy_JLK: I agree with the Candy ID. Left guy appears to be trying for Tom Selleck, but missing. Not enough mustache. He's the one you got when you couldn't afford Lee or Tom.

ISFDB says this cover (which is wraparound) is on the first and only printing of the US and Canadian editions in 1986.

I really can see this turning up on one of the 35-channel cable packages of 1986, as a TV movie. Perhaps the artist watched a lot of TV. I recall having a book that had photos of Hey, It's That Guys (and Gals) from the pre-internet days.

The older top man was a second lead/partner/sidekick in an early 70s drama series and then did guest spots, TV movies, and ads.

7NomadUK
Oct 2, 2025, 9:01 pm

What most people don’t realise is that D B Cooper had two accomplices.

8GSSex-noob
Oct 3, 2025, 5:33 pm