It is a clear parody of The Matrix, which premiered in 1999.
The movie is about five teens who take LSD and discover the 'truth'. They actually live in a computer, and they have to supposedly "make the decision of their lives". According to the script of The Electron Zone, a radio show hosted on Liberty City Free Radio, the movie has a character who saves everyone, a defecating robot, and a metaphor of backdoor hacking, which Bill praises. Co-host Steve says that, in his honest opinion, The Mainframe is the greatest movie of all time. The movie also raised some controversy over cyber-sexism.
HD Universe
The film also exists in the HD Universe and is mentioned by Bobby June in Bless Your Heart in GTA V, where she mentions that The Mainframe was one of Jock Cranley's several film roles before he became a politician.
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Transcript
Narrator:
The event movie of the year everyone is talking about.
Man #1:
You're just a virus! You're not real!
Woman #1:
I'm your mother, stupid!
Narrator:
A group of people that think the whole world is trapped in a computer.
Man #2:
We can't get out!
Woman #2:
Hurry, stick your hard disk inside my drive.
Man #2:
I can't! My hard disk crashed!
Woman #2:
Reboot it!
Narrator:
The Mainframe. What happens when five college students take LSD, and discover the truth.
Man #1:
AHH! Your face is a big pixel!
Narrator:
And they have to make the decision of their lives.
Woman #3:
What's it gonna be? Yes or no? One or zero?
Narrator:
The Mainframe, it's real.
Woman #3:
Oh no! The MAINFRAME!
Narrator:
Coming to theaters this Friday. Rated PS for "Pretty Stupid".
This is the second movie in the game which uses Barbara's model in a movie poster, the other being Silent But Violent.
The movie breaks the fourth wall of the gaming world, much like the soapboxers in Grand Theft Auto IV and a mechanic pedestrian in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
