{"id":6883,"date":"2025-02-15T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/are-the-underworld-movies-set-in-the-matrix\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T06:56:03","slug":"are-the-underworld-movies-set-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/are-the-underworld-movies-set-in-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Underworld movies set in The Matrix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching an &#8220;Underworld&#8221; recap video that went over all the movies, and there was some mention\/jokes about the leather pants.<\/p>\n<p>And it made me think: Someone needs to make a &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221;-style time travel movie where someone gets dressed up to fit in with the times and goes back to the late 90s\/early 2000s, and they&#8217;re like wearing leather pants and just basically dressed like they stepped out of &#8220;The Matrix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And there could be jokes where someone calls them Columbine or like the dude farts in his leather pants or&#8230; Just everything WRONG with leather pants is pointed out in the funniest way possible.<\/p>\n<p>And I think that if there&#8217;s mention of Columbine, the time traveler could point out that &#8220;No, it wasn&#8217;t about the trench coats and goth makeup, but about being raised as a Nazi.&#8221; And then when the time traveler returns back to the future, they find that they&#8217;ve completely changed the timeline with their shenanigans. And EVERYONE is wearing leather pants&#8211;like even babies and old people. Which is like, &#8220;We&#8217;re 100 years old, but we&#8217;re so fashion conscious that we&#8217;ve given up the comfort of elastic waistbands and knitted sweaters for leather pants and belly shirts.&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;s super hard changing the diaper of a baby wearing a leather onesie, but that baby looks FIRE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the time traveler is horrified and has to go back and fix the timeline like when Marty was traumatized by his mom&#8217;s boob job in &#8220;Back to the Future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think I would watch that movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching an &#8220;Underworld&#8221; recap video that went over all the movies, and there was some mention\/jokes about the leather pants. And it made me think: Someone needs to make a &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221;-style time travel movie where someone gets dressed up to fit in with the times and goes back to the&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/are-the-underworld-movies-set-in-the-matrix\/\" title=\"Are the Underworld movies set in The Matrix?\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are the Underworld movies set in The Matrix?<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1N1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":575,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/some-chatter-from-my-story-tomahawk\/","url_meta":{"origin":6883,"position":0},"title":"Some chatter from my story &#8220;Tomahawk&#8221;","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Tomahawk\" is my het novella-thing. 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