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Mayo, if you’re yearning for something original, compelling and intellectual I highly recommend watching The Expanse sci-fi series. The books are fantastic too (and unlike GOT, the authors have completed their source material and are producers on the show). Like you, I’m so tired of lazy sequels and reboots that trash the original source material for a quick buck. Keep it coming!
Trinity's strength was that she was able to keep up with Neo and stand beside him as an equal despite having none of his powers. There were also genuine stakes whenever she got into a fight because she couldn't rely on any overpowered abilities to save her, which compensated somewhat for Neo being such a boring overpowered character in the sequels. No matter how invulnerable Neo was, he still had a genuine fear of losing Trinity that humanized him. Now both of the main Matrix characters are boring and overpowered. There are no stakes in the franchise anymore and no reason for the audience to care about anything that happens on screen.
For me such "awakening" was, believe it or not, Avengers 2. I pondered if I simply outgrew the target audience, but rewatching better action movies shifted the blame on lazy whoever in charge of action scenes was.
I know, right? Me and my friends were watching it at the cinema and one of us literally fell asleep! Me personally - it has been a very, very long time since I last wished for a movie to just fucking end already. That was 2.5 hours down the drain.
@@joestock732 dear God don't you mentioned that atrocious sequel don't you put that on me Ricky Bobby LMAO. That second boondocks saints was ass cheeks lol
@@RhysClark97 Then why didnt she fly when she jumped from a window? why did she almost got killed by an agent in Reloaded? why do agents literally says "she means nothing"? Making her another one (which doesnt even make sense) takes aways all that was cool about her in the previous movies.
@@Jose-se9pu its a different matrix, they reset the system, the architect explains this in reloaded, every matrix has an anomaly that will occur at some point or another, you don't think neo was the one from all of them, i mean ffs its even heavily implied the seraphim was a previous "one" from a previous matrix reincarnated as a program.
I liked the meta early parts much moreso than the rest of the movie. I liked that it didn't pretend to be a nostalgic cash-grab and mocked that trend instead with zero subtlety. But I expected that it would go somewhere from then. It would try to tell a story that uses how unoriginal and stale those soft reboots usually are. But it didn't, instead it veered off into being stale and unoriginal, now some people say that it's brilliant because being bored by it means the movie made its point adequately, as if it was an achievement to suck on purpose.
It reminds me of how spec ops is praised for when the game actively shits on the player for committing all kinds of war crimes that you have zero say in preventing from happening. Or I might not have gotten the game's message I dunno.
I think SO:TL was trying to put you in the shoes of a soldier who had no choice but to follow orders, and show how others had to pay the price for command decisions--that you had to carry out, lest you face court martial. Or something like that
@@shawklan27 The point of the game is that: despite Walker's actions the player is continuing to proceed further into the game. Just like a soldier, you are following orders that the game tells you so long as you keep playing. It's a meta narrative about all of the brown military shooters that were being made around the time. I won't claim it's extremely deep, but I think it's an effective critique of an industry that was becoming stale and set in it's ways at the time.
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One thing that still bugs me from the "game designer angle" an angle unexplored reminds me of your Challenge Matters video. Of how the gamers interest of discovery and mastering systems rubs up against the corporate interest of conditioned and piecemeal amusement. The conflicts of the Matrix could fit into that conflict of values nicely That couldve been a philosophical jump off point for the old freedom vs security debate.
That's a good comparison. Also: 1. They also continued series that tied up perfectly. 2. They are all the 4th movie. (I know Halloween Resurrection was 8 but only 1, 2 & H20 was in that timeline so it's the 4th story-wise)
This movie is Lana saying we, the audience, is stupid for not interpreting The Matrix like she did. Or rather what she claims it was about - I don't believe for a second they had those thoughts while directing the original. This time she made sure there was no "misinterpreting" anything, and instead hits us over the head with it repeatedly.
Yeah, I dunno why Lana thinks the audience will enjoy being portrayed as morons. I guess we're supposed to think "haha, yeah, THOSE audience members sure are dumb!" and feel smug that OUR viewing is so much smarter. It was nauseating.
This is maybe the worst read on Resurrections that I've seen yet, because it explicitly makes the point that people trying to read any specific thing into it and put any definitive meaning on it, whether through their own interpretation or trying to retroactively put it through the lens of trans filmmakers, was misguided. The first 45 minutes are a screed on the flexibility of art and intention vs. interpretation. I'm not defending the movie, because it's a mess, but this is the take of someone who didn't actually pay attention to it. Which I can't really blame you for.
@@Allen.Christian Bugs and Neo literally have a conversion in Resurrections about how the original movie was misinterpreted. _"They took your story, something that meant so much to people like me... and turned it into a video game"_ she says to Neo. That to me is Lana outright saying that it's her interpretation of the original that is correct, everything is was people adding something to it. I really wish I had paid less attention though, this movie didn't deserve it.
@@Cimlite To me that line was only a dig at the corporatization of art and includes the audience in "people like you and me." It's only a dig at WB, not at the audience at all. If we didn't get that entire sequence of Neo being horrified at people trying to say that one thing or another is the definitive meaning of The Matrix, I could see where you're getting that read.
My least favorite thing about these movies is that they destroy previous movies and series by continuing them, and I can forgive bad movies as long as they don’t ruin the series as whole, one of the reasons I forgive Ace Combat 7. But this movie absolutely annihilates the ending of the third movie, which was a great ending despite how meh the movie and the one before it was. Now that ending is destroyed, and continuing the story backstabs the world building, I can’t view previous movies the same.
I wouldn't go this far to say they ruin the past great films or games. If anything soulless sequels/reboots only make me appreciate the original/originals more. This movie though, should've never been made. Terrible fanfiction lol.
I agree Ace Combat 7 wasn't as strong at the old ones but it had and a interesting start in the beginning but fell off pretty hard other wise tho game play was soild and fun just needs a rewrite at the the end half of the game
@@Gruntvc Well it depends on the series. Star Wars for example absolutely steamrolls characters we once liked and detracts from the old movies as a result. This movie ruined the ending of the trilogy and the stakes of them as well.
The Smiths fighting Neo hand-to-hand instead of shooting him did have a motivation for the character doing that. He didn't want to kill him, he wanted to infect him and assimilate his powers.
I want to believe that Lana Wachowski made it bad on purpose so the franchise just die and no more sequels. (maybe she didn't want to do it in the first place, like Neo didn't want to make the game.)
That's how I feel to. After watching a video about the movie by Just Some Guy and hearing about the Wachowskis not wanting to making another Matrix movie and that Warner Bros since they own the IP where going to make the movie with ot without them. So, they might as well just fuck it up themselves rather than just let Warner Bros do it. They said that the Matrix ended where it did in Revolution and that was it.
@@peacemaster8117 For real it's like no one saw Jupiter Ascending and didn't notice how much of its goofy shit is just poorly done matrix shit. They were canabilizing their older work for years before Resurrections came around.
I knew it was gonna fail the moment I saw the name. Naming the movie Matrix RESURRECTIONS is like screaming "Hey guys look we made that old movie again haha go watch so we can make money." ID Software did this amazingly with Doom 2016. The game was marketed as a reboot, or a comeback of a franchise, but they just took what made the originals awesome and made it better, its almost a totally independent game. Matrix Resurrections on the other hand relies too heavily on old movies to back it up, like they couldn't make something as good as the original films. Sorry if you didn't understand me I don't really know how to explain this
Good review. I went in blind like yourself and I ended up absolutely despising the movie. I agree that the movie MENTIONED some interesting ideas (a robot civil war, alliance with human-friendly machines, etc.) but these ideas weren't integrated in a way that mattered and the movie doesn't bother to do even the basic dirty work of explaining its own premise. The "it's bad on purpose" refrain is hilarious and reminds me of the discourse around The Last Jedi, where people honestly believed Rian had made the film poorly on purpose as an attack on Disney. Hysterical.
Thank you for taking one for the team. The entire "Matrix" story should have ended at the first movie. Neo in the phone booth, talking to the machines... fade to black. Leave it there for theory, imagination, what ifs?... No "superman" crap. No obviously in it for the money crap sequels.
I think in the end, that was the point of the meta. They were trying to "take" everything "back" just because people they have disagreements with politically "stole" their ideas. That's kind of arrogant if you ask me that they think their "concepts" are that important. It's a frickin' fictional story! Triggered! LOL!
@@bolski6125 I don't think you get it at all. Have you ever caught someone out? How about undermining a sociopath? Have you experienced how a narcissist confesses? Even a regular person caught out? It's rough. It's not pretty. They tend to be blunt and extraordinarily rude. This movie is a confession. They're basically telling you the first movie was handed to them; the work of someone else was subverted. They even identify the source within the first 15 minutes, twice. Look for the most primitive Easter Egg within that time! If you need convincing -- the unpolished original stolen material is out there on a youtube channel. Look for Milton Killer's Matrix Easter Eggs. Of course it will go over the heads of almost all who watch the movie, but if you pay attention to the way The Merovigingian is portrayed and to what he says, you can get an inkling of what's going through the writer's mind. Confining the first three movies to the content of a video game is more or less open contempt for them. This is because the original was stolen; the attempt to subvert its ultimate manifestation failed. The writer feels attacked from all sides whenever The Matrix or its memes get lauded over. The movie's ending is also telling. Retconning of the "negotiation" is again the disownership of the original trilogy. But, alas, this will not suffice.
18:00 they actually talk about it when Neo meets Niobe for the first time. She actually fires (suspends?) the crew for going rogue and putting the machine/human peace at risk. It was done by a bunch of rogue fans of Neo who wanted to bring him back to reality because of his legend and past sacrifices.
I personally do not think they wanted to make a good matrix movie. It felt like a mission statement to tell us bluntly about the meta of it all, but still pass as a movie. Because it is not good, a 5th matrix movie may no longer be greenlit which is something wachowski may have wanted. This is what I hate, and it hit me. This is something Ive been saying about so many other movies, that I commend matrix 4 for actually telling me this is how even the creators feel. So, in a way. It was alright.
It was pretty obvious from the film that they did not want to make a 4th film at all and were basically forced by the studio executives. It's really less about "the meta" than it is about their work being appropriated by some terrible on-line hate groups and monetized to the core, i.e., turned into a "franchise". That whole scene with the Merovingian is just the Wachowskis getting annoyed af and explaining how everything's fucking shit nowadays. And in a way, I kinda agree. No one can make a Matrix movie that "feels" as good as the first one, it's impossible. No matter what they did it would have turned out as yet another dumpster fire of a sequel like all the Star Wars/Star Trek/MCU/DCU garbage movies that people munch on nowadays. I'm personally fine with the Wachowskis giving the finger to everyone.
It seems like you totally misunderstood the logic / events of the first act. Neo didn't willingly distill his experiences into three games - the three games are part of the lie the machines are feeding him to keep him caged. He thinks he's a normal person who's lived a normal life. The criticism "Neo wouldn't choose to represent his life this way" doesn't make any sense because he DIDN'T choose to represent his life that way, the machines chose to represent it that way to keep him confused and caged. EDIT: Regarding the swarm program and the suicide jumpers - the analyst says earlier in the movie that the population is seeded with his handlers, so I don't think those people dying cuts into the machines' power supply. All of those people are just bots, they're not real humans.
Whether it's Neo that made the games, or that the machines made the reality where the games exist and neo thinks he made them, it STILL doesn't make sense that the events were broken up into 3 neatly separately games just like we got 3 movies, which is point I'm making. It's only that way to make a meta point about the trilogy. They're still coming from his experience and his perspective. Presented in the form that we saw them as movies, which is ridiculous. As for bots, great. They put out hundreds of millions of bots to live as people. Still a dumb idea instead of using deadly agents.
The fight scenes were truly terrible. They had the "Baba Yaga" Boogeyman John Wick and that's the best they could do with $200,000,000?! Hire a great fight choreographer and stop pretending you know what you're doing. Unless of course the philosophical reason why they made the fight scenes worse on purpose was because they're "Meta Commenting" on reboots.
Regarding Trinity gaining "One" powers, we have seen that code is transferred between characters when Neo edits their code. We saw this previously with Smith. Plus, the Biological Interface Program was established to include Trinity. So, after Trinity was shot and resurrected by Neo, it's not too far fetched that she was altered.
The Matrix resurrections was terrible but I have to disagree with you about Neo's vulnerability. Every character in movies doesn't have to look vulnerable for the fight scenes to be great. Neo was vulnerable enough in the first Matrix and watching him display his God level powers in the sequels was absolutely amazing. If anything, the fight choreography and set pieces of the Matrix sequels was ground breaking. Take the Terminator as an example. The T-800 to be specific. It doesn't display a shred of vulnerability and yet it's one of the most iconic characters of all time. I'd enjoy watching Superman lift mountains and perform unimaginable feats rather than crawl around like a weakling when exposed to Kryptonite. Vulnerability doesn't equate to greater levels of interest.
Yeah I addressed that point in this video about the fight scenes. Also, I didn't say every character. I'm talking about the main character. And the t800 isn't the main character of the terminator movies. And superman DOES have the weakness, which puts his powers in better context.
I think you missed the point of him creating a game trilogy. Putting those experiences, obviously the most important to him, in such a rigorously defined narrative is part of the device used to dismiss his recollections as fantasy. Deluding him into thinking the most important moments in his life were merely plot points in a game series he made is the whole point. He didn't actually create any games. The machines are trying to suppress those memories, but they know they'll still crop up. Giving him a disjointed framework into which these moments fit makes far more sense than giving him an unbroken narrative of events as they actually occurred.
You're not expected to understand what this movie is. It's not directed at the public. It's made for a quick money grab. Surely having watched it you understand that the whole thing is merely a subverted concept right? I mean... if you wrote the original movie would you disown it in this uninspired way, reducing it to part of a video game?
@@miltonkiller707 Those first 3 sentences are probably the dumbest shit I read today. Like no shit you aint gonna understand the movie if you don't WANT to understand the movie lmfao.
@@miltonkiller707 Remember when we viewed movies as art and not lore dumps that we need to justify our head canon? We still liked and disliked things. We still thought movies were good and bad. But no adult humans pitched years-long fits and cried about their expectations being "subverted" when they didn't like something. I didn't really like this movie either. I liked things about it, but it was a mess. But I don't feel like I was personally insulted by the kind of movie they wanted to make.
@@miltonkiller707 "would you disown it in this uninspired way, reducing it to part of a video game?" - But wouldn't that just be the lie from the villains to suppress the hero? Isn't it common for many stories to "reduce" important parts of a story by those means? The villain lying to the main character to keep them from learning the truth and fighting back? Or the other way around, the good guys misleading the hero to keep them under control. Did George Lucas disown Anakin Skywalker by having Obi Wan tell Luke his father was dead?
I think the new morpheus also was a great idea on paper, the movie explains that he was created based on the two guys that chagend Neo's life, Og Morpheus and Smith, so you basically have a combination of the mentor and villain of the protagonist, that's like actually a really good idea, how could they not explore that? I really believe that Lana didnt want this movie to happen so she just ruined herself, i'll like to think that this was done bad on purpose.
3:44 Is that where South Park got the idea of Walmart being an all knowing old man that can "change form"? 4:52 The Matrix movie game also has plot details not shown in the second movie and The Matrix Online also has plot details that explain why Morpheus is replaced with someone else. 9:57 Sounds like if Kojima hired a bunch of millenials to give him ideas for his next game. 14:05 I feel like that could also be used to make commentary on how some people use social media.
I stopped watching the movie halfway and i watched the original just to clear my head . Well there goes another series in the grave . Great video Mayo .
While I liked the first half hour of the movie (for the reasons you hated it), the rest was terrible. After the Merovingian scene, I paused the movie (saw it on HBO Max) and had to take a break, that was the moment the movie completely lost me. While I think Lana deliberately made this disaster to implode the franchise so Warner couldnt exploit it anymore, I think the anwser is simplier, she just...got old. We see this with some of the dialogue (who still uses the term "MILF" in 2022? that character wasnt a young man, that character was written by an old person trying to write a young man), but the Merovingian is just...wow. I'm not a kid, I'm mid-30s, but after he finished his rant about Facebook, Wikipedia, and videogames, all I could say was "ok boomer". About the lack of people dying, dont forget that machines literally found a way to resurrect people...not only that, the "daughter" of the program who designed the "resurrection machine" is on the human side, which means that in the eventuality someone dies, they can just go and bring him back. And the movie takes place 60 years after Revolutions, so it means the machines were able to bring them back after decades of being corpses...what? And about Neo and Trinity, not only is it dumb, are you expecting me to believe no couple, in 600 years, felt in love so much as them? seriously? not to mention, Keanu and Carrie never had any chemistry, so basing your whole movie on the concept that their love is so unique that it might happen only once every millenia on the chemistry between them, wasnt a very bright idea. Also, no disrespect to any of them, but seeing people pushing 60 making out is...odd, in any movie. And this is also noticiable in the flying scene, seeing poor 54 years old Carrie-Ann Moss hanging from wires was just...sad. And about the One thing, they retconned a lot from the original trilogy, but not this! The Analyst mentions he needs Neo to reboot the Matrix because he is still the Anomaly, but if Trinity is also the One, why not just use her instead? why does she keep punching and kicking a program who cant feel pain? and if you want to make that nonsensical thing happen, have Neo doing it, he is the one who was tortured for decades by this program, why is Trinity so fixed on him, she already blew her steam by beating her husband Chad (btw, "Chad"? seriously???). You might not want to say it, but this movie was trash.
i personally thought a lot of the movie worked. the first half to me was really great but it gets bad once neo breaks out of the matrix. I understand why people don’t like the meta stuff but I’d take it any day over the really commercial and cynical nostalgia stuff that is being dumped into theaters. it’s markedly better than the new Star Wars and ghostbusters afterlife and spider man stuff in my mind because it’s basically telling the studio to fuck itself with this movie
It would have been interesting if in Matrix 4 the roles would have been flipped, as in, humans try to help maintain harmony within the matrix, while some outside force tries to dissolve it. Matrix 3 did end on a massive compromise between machines and humans, the fourth movie should have been about how humans and machines try to coexist within the matrix. Instead we got some weird deconstruction of the franchise for the sake of deconstruction, it's a shame, but I had a feeling this movie would fail more than succeed.
I personally liked how meta it was, I enjoyed all of the meta jokes. It was a slap in the face of the studios not the fans. Last Jedi was a slap in the face to the fans and I couldn't stand that.
I also just watched it last week. I avoid spoilers at all, just heard people didn't like it. I get why. The first half is brilliant until Neo escapes the matrix again. The tone is amazing and has a deep narrative about the real-life treadmill the systems we built got us stuck in. When they reveal the machines had a war amongst themselves and that Zion has a hardline position on machines, I had hoped that they'd introduce a political motiv with Neo(and Trinity) in between the two human cities and either one or two machine factions(with maybe two separate instances (and versions) of the Matrix to power them). Then they could have had that first meeting with the new architect in the workshop and end the movie there and make one or two more. Instead the machine conflict is 3 sentences long, we get a terribly shot rematch against the creatures from the 2nd film(this one and the train fight were shot terribly, were they perhaps shot with 60 FPS in mind? On the projector this just looked terrible) alongside a 2 minute Merowinger dialogue(a character I loved in the old movie but his appearance was just wasted for a poor attempt at nostalgia) a stupid deathstar-exhaust-style rescue mission and an upgrade to two chosen ones. Don't get me wrong, I actually liked trinity having chosen-one powers in the new version of the matrix. I just had hoped that Neo wouldn't get his full powers back, as it's a new version of the Matrix and all and they introduced the power was shared between the two of them. The fact that they both get powers seems like a stupid attempt at fan-service which destroys a big part of the story in my mind. So yeah, there was much potential and literally nothing of it was used. I am really disappointed. The WB meta dialogue made it seem like they were forced to make this move which made it even weirder, but it also got my hopes up that the ending wouldn't be rushed after setting an office-treadmill tone for 20-ish minutes. Instead of creating something new and deep as I described above as an example they just made a cheap money grab trying to leech off of nostalgia.
The idea of the powers being shared between the two of them is really good, and would have solved Reloaded's biggest problem that Neo was too powerful and his fights had no stakes. Cutting the powers in half and dividing them up lets them demonstrate Neo's mastery over the matrix while still letting him be vulnerable enough to have interesting fight scenes. It's too bad they decided to double the problem instead
31:59 To be fair, he didn't have powers until he died and was brought back. He brought her back to life in Reloaded, so she should have similar powers, at least in my autistic brain.
Matrix Resurrections should have never existed in the first place, though it can be used as a example for film writers to learn and know better also i love that you used the Cry Of Fear soundtrack (including others), COF and AOM are awesome indie horror games and i'm happy you made a video on it, and glad it's getting more recognition
I don't like the thinking that they 'ruined' something by making a new thing. The old thing is still good and perfect. For me there only exists one Matrix Movie. One Pirates of the Carabbean Movie. One Halo Trilogy, 3 Silent Hill games. etc etc. You can only ruin something by editing that thing by itself... Fallout is not ruined by new games the same with Resident Evil or God of war, the old games are still some of the best games. And they will always be, but sometimes we have to accept that there will be no good new games in these series. They are just over. At least I really have very low expectations when they announce a new halo, a new elder scrolls, a new Aliens Movie. That helps a lot. XD
I enjoyed every second of this movie. I can understand why people did not like it, you wanted to watch a Matrix movie, you got an essay on why all this is crap and we should stop asking for remakes of things that are already good. As the critic it is, the movie is brilliant. Perfect. Flawless. As a lore expansion, it is wonderful, it throws there all the good ideas for making more Matrix movies, but the movie already explained in the meta analysis why a good matrix movie can not be done anyways, and that also Matrix is not about it's lore. And that we should not trust the studios, we have to just imagine it. This movie is going to be considered a work of the smartest art in some years, once all the people disappointing for not being the action pseudo philosophical thing they wanted calms down.
@@MurriciTerceiro It is. The first part of the movie explains to you why making a 4th matrix is a bad idea. The second part shows it to you. Seriously, the first movie was the one with the important ideas. Then the two others are creative, but it is just not as good as the original. Now John Wick is not even interested in shaving to play Neo, did not want to do it. The choreographer doesn't either. The director doesn't want to. So they just shows us what we are asking for. It is this, or something worse made by a new director of the new generations... *shivers* We are so lucky we got this movie, this has meaning in itself. The alternatives, the real possible alternatives are not what we want to get. We want something amazing. We won't get it from an old franchise, let it go.
You are spot on about so much of this. The first act almost had me turn it off because of the shallow and relentless meta references. Also agreed that Disney Star Wars is a dumpster fire, most notably the sequel trilogy.
@@underthemayo yeah the one thing thats absent in matrix lore is the previous 5 version of the "One" and what exactly the systemic anomaly is. Matrix lore aside neo's journey is your typical prophized hero's journey. Question, ever heard of Dark City ?
View the movie again, but that time think of it as a fan film that is not officially canon. If viewed from that perspective, then I think the meta stuff was alright for what they were trying to do. But as a movie that is truly intended as a Matrix sequel, it was disappointing. 6/10
You pretty much nailed my issues with it. The moments I liked, I liked a lot, but there were a lot I didn’t care for. It could have been great if they focused on the new matrix and the real world. Is what it is. I didn’t hate it.
I don't agree on new star wars movies being bad. Imho people overrate original trilogy and underrate latest trilogy. I like all three tbh, but I grew up with second trilogy and that one will always be closest to me.
I agree with you in almost everything in this video. My only nitpick is that, from what I understood that hoard of zombies were bots, not humans. In certain parts they mention how the machines have been over populating the matrix with those things. My theory is that they make it so that they can be fake humans that get activated during security breaches. Although that brings alongside another set of problems, such as wasting a lot of energy and processing power simulating fake humans.
A director goes out of their way to tell u ppl that hollywood is trash and u wont get anything good until they stop doing what they are doing and u ignore that director's message. Sigh
@@andrewrogers3067 Yes, it was very obvious the movie was intentionally made to bomb. The entire thing was a slap in the face to movie executives and studios
Ah yes the altruist director, who also conveniently got paid well for a soulless film. It’s not like the director was magically forced to make a film per se.
@@ichiro_hiko I think wachowski said if anyone is going to crash this franchise it's going to be us. I didn't feel it was attacking the fans, I got the impression it was attacking movie studios
Ohh boy ... Matrix 4. When I watched it I could not shake this image in my head. The series coming back after many years, takes the most vile dump imaginable at my door steep and then has the audacity to cock on my door and ask me if I have some toilet paper to properly finish this whole God damn mess. And if I have to common sense to ask what the hell is all this, it will reply to me that this is what it learned all this years since it went radio silent. When the credits rolled I was straight up pissed.
Lana Wachowski mentioned that she wanted this movie to be made so she could bring back Neo and Trinity. That wish was fulfilled, but it came at a price.
I'm okay with Trinity also being "The One" for a number of reasons. In the first movie, Trinity is the catalyst for his awakening as the One. You can see what the Oracle tells her either as predetermination or as her being allowed to "pick" who the One is. Given that the Oracle tells Neo he's not it, it feels like Trinity is the deciding factor. Plus Agents are supposed to be so powerful only the One can defeat them, and the only person other than Neo ever to kill an agent was Trinity. That and the way that code works in those movies and the fact that there have been multiple Ones prior to Neo it isn't a stretch to say she's either got some of the code in her or some of it rubbed off when Neo reached inside her (lol) in Reloaded. Plus Carrie Anne Moss is dope as fuck so I'm willing to shrug it off
She's a bright spot in the movie imo. Still feel like they've wasted her trying to retcon her as a "One" even if her abilities make sense because as you said she already killed an Agent.
@@Jose-se9pu You're not wrong lol. While Reloaded deconstructed the idea of the One being special at all, calling their superpowered anomaly "the One" was probably a bad move if they ever wanted to have more than one of them. It still makes sense lore wise to me that Trinity has those powers, but it still sounds stupid to call two people "the One."
The Oracle tells Neo he isn't the one to get him to behave differently. "There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path." You completely misunderstood the point of that. I'm sorry but Trinity being another One doesn't make sense at all. There was nothing alluding to it in the first three films and it's clearly being put in this movie for girl power nonsense. Your reasoning is just post hoc justifications.
I was really hoping John Wick was a simulation created by the Architect as a form of penalty for disrupting the cycle of the Matrix, making him suffer through the loss of his wife, aka Trinity. The only redemption for this series is bringing the first and second renaissance to live action.
After watching this and the amazing RoboCop analysis, your niche definitely sits in movie analyses (even though I love your game videos). Please punch out more of these. Preferably, the 80s movies you grew up with. I fucking love them man. 💪👌
I don't understand your point about Neo's life not making sense being adapted into a video game. Video games also have edits and can condense information. Am I missing something?
Because neo didn't experience his life as a set of 3 movies. It's way too unbelievable of a coincidence that he would cut up the events of his life into the exact movie trilogy that we the audience saw. They only made it that way to make comments about the trilogy as a Hollywood product. It would be like a Lord of the rings character writing about what he experienced and coincidentally writing 3 large individual books about the adventures and giving them the same titles of the books the audience has read.
@@underthemayo I don't see the coincidence. The matrix movies don't exist in the fictional world this movie takes place. In that world they have a trilogy of games. We don't really know what those are like, they can't be exactly like the movies because they are games. We see a few clips from the Matrix 1 in Resurrections as being depictions of the video game. (which doesn't make a lot of sense, a 2000's game would never look that good.) So yeah that part is stupid, but I don't assume that the games are 100% exactly like the trilogy. Where would the Gameplay even fit in? But let's say that they had decided that neo was actually a movie director, and he made the Matrix Trilogy movies exactly like they are. I think that would still not count as a coincidence because it obviously wasn't by chance that things turned out that way. In that case I would see it as some sort of commentary about how the fictional world and the real world are connected somehow and there are forces conspiring to make these movies the same in both worlds.
Honestly if Lana hated so much the idea of making a new matrix she shouldn't have made it in the first place. No need to dangle her frustration to the audience's face through the story, what hutzpah.
I agree with you in most things. Reloaded fights were just a bit boring, but visually awesome, too. But the whole point of Merovingian is in the viagra cake code that he wrote to control the women. It was suppose to tell Neo that he is controlled by viagra cookies code that Oracle had written for him, and that he should not trust her, or Morpheus, or anybody for that matter, not even Architect when he eventually gets to him. Because they will either lie (Oracle), intentionally ommit the truth (again Oracle) to manipulate him, or simply will not know the whole truth (Morpheus, Oracle, and Architect, none of them knew what will happen if Neo choose Trinity instead of restarting the Matrix for the 6th time) so he should not make any choice based on a bad info that he gets from them. It is the whole piont of Merovingian. He knows that humans can be controlled by both stories and chemistry, but also by a code, because they are all cyborgs plugged in a computer after all.
That scene from Matrix Reloaded where Neo fights hordes of Agent Smith copies in the square. Agent Smith was trying to convey a point, that he'd overcome Neo no matter what. So it's understandable that he'd go unarmed.
@@underthemayo But you forgot to mention that before "Neo (...) caused him to explode" the agents rained lead on him, made him Swiss cheese, only to be surprised that he didn't die and they couldn't beat him.
Furthermore, Agents Smith is quite different from the first movie. Though the very same arrogant bastard. He is not an agent from the system, but an agent of chaos himself. A virus that spreads and take control. I mean, it's not coincidence Neo "dies" at the end of the trilogy.
@@thedonutkillermandude3668 I don't know man. If a guy magically entered my body and made me explode, I'd think twice about trying to attack him unarmed in a park. It makes Smith look stupid. It's all just to have a big spectacle fight. A script written to get from one action scene to the next.
Unfortunately we will never again get movies like the Matrix, Aliens, and Apocalypse Now. Those movies had a very raw and guriella style to them which is why they are the greats. Movies now days have less substance and feel more like cash grabs than a cohesive masterpiece. The actor and film makers put blood, sweat and tears into making those movies from script to the final cut.
Hah I thought the same thing about Neo's go-to move for the rest of the movie. Gone are the days where he actually fights things or even dodges attacks. Let's just block everything......I dubbed it, "Deus Ex Blockina". Edit: Plz...fuck...no....I live in fear of the day they fuck with Back to the Future.
I think they missed the whole point-when Warner made the call to Keanu. Trinity DIED in the third movie. I believe Neo also died , but I could go with him surviving, but he really should be dead too. This new crew shouldn’t have any knowledge of Neo’s Matrix-that one is over and they built a new one. Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving are still with us- did WB just not want to pony up? They clearly thought that the “romance” between Trinity and Neo was going to make us all gushy. I love them as actors- they ZERO heat as a ‘couple.’
Oh damn this is bad. Like I was expecting it to be bad, but I wasn't expecting the movie to actually try to be bad. They shouldn't have brought back Trinity and Neo, it set expectations way too high for what this could deliver. I personally loved the Animatrix shorts and would've loved some more exploration in that style, but set after the trilogy.
The singer of the end credit cover song got in a bit of heat when she actually pulled down her pants and peed in a guys mouth on stage. Once that cover started playing I was like....yah no, thats some "girl power" right there.....
It's when you realize the truth. What truth? That the movie is not the story. Lana Wachowski was given a choice. WB: Make another Matrix movie or we will without you. Now the movie went from a child to a monster by its own creator.
Showing footage from the first three movies and calling it a ‘video game’ is the worst possible insult to the original matrix, within another fucking Matrix film?
There was an underlying laziness to the whole thing that, when contrasted with the first film in particular, is jarring. A tiny example of this is the whole "video-game development" angle: why were the in-game cut-scenes of the Matrix games performed in live-action using real film footage and actors instead of rendered graphics? Someone who'd approached this project with genuine passion and a desire to create authenticity would not let something like this slip by. Overall, although I somewhat enjoyed the meta aspect of the early part of the film, the biggest "crime" this film commits is how it strips the Matrix mythos of its mythic grandeur. This film just feels and looks like a bare-bones TV show. So strange.
I watched the first matrix film for the first time in preparation for this film last month. I was going to watch the sequel as well, but after hearing SO much about Resurrections, I decided it’s probably best I don’t waste my time for trash.
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Give your opinion on it.
Eagerly waiting for your review
Bioshock Infinite. Play it. It does this all of this meta-commentary but better. A lot better.
Awful review. Nothing insightful, just a lot of whinging.
Mayo, if you’re yearning for something original, compelling and intellectual I highly recommend watching The Expanse sci-fi series. The books are fantastic too (and unlike GOT, the authors have completed their source material and are producers on the show).
Like you, I’m so tired of lazy sequels and reboots that trash the original source material for a quick buck.
Keep it coming!
Trinity's strength was that she was able to keep up with Neo and stand beside him as an equal despite having none of his powers. There were also genuine stakes whenever she got into a fight because she couldn't rely on any overpowered abilities to save her, which compensated somewhat for Neo being such a boring overpowered character in the sequels. No matter how invulnerable Neo was, he still had a genuine fear of losing Trinity that humanized him.
Now both of the main Matrix characters are boring and overpowered. There are no stakes in the franchise anymore and no reason for the audience to care about anything that happens on screen.
The worst part is the audience *didn't* care...
This movie was genuinely the first time ever where I slept in a movie theatre.
For me such "awakening" was, believe it or not, Avengers 2. I pondered if I simply outgrew the target audience, but rewatching better action movies shifted the blame on lazy whoever in charge of action scenes was.
I know, right? Me and my friends were watching it at the cinema and one of us literally fell asleep! Me personally - it has been a very, very long time since I last wished for a movie to just fucking end already. That was 2.5 hours down the drain.
Was the sleep you had gd tho ? Movie had my man snoring and everything LMAO 😂
Boondock Saints 2 was mine.
@@joestock732 dear God don't you mentioned that atrocious sequel don't you put that on me Ricky Bobby LMAO. That second boondocks saints was ass cheeks lol
Trinity was a bad ass precisely because she wasn't the one while also being resourceful and smart af to workaround that fact.
At the end of Reloaded she saved everyone (including Neo) with no super powers...they now ruined that moment for her.
@@Jose-se9pu ...no they didnt, that moment still exists, why does being "the one" ruin that, she still did that.
@@RhysClark97 Then why didnt she fly when she jumped from a window? why did she almost got killed by an agent in Reloaded? why do agents literally says "she means nothing"?
Making her another one (which doesnt even make sense) takes aways all that was cool about her in the previous movies.
@@Jose-se9pu its a different matrix, they reset the system, the architect explains this in reloaded, every matrix has an anomaly that will occur at some point or another, you don't think neo was the one from all of them, i mean ffs its even heavily implied the seraphim was a previous "one" from a previous matrix reincarnated as a program.
like you have successfully pointed out ZERO plotholes because theyre all answer in the second film.
I liked the meta early parts much moreso than the rest of the movie. I liked that it didn't pretend to be a nostalgic cash-grab and mocked that trend instead with zero subtlety. But I expected that it would go somewhere from then. It would try to tell a story that uses how unoriginal and stale those soft reboots usually are.
But it didn't, instead it veered off into being stale and unoriginal, now some people say that it's brilliant because being bored by it means the movie made its point adequately, as if it was an achievement to suck on purpose.
The first half hour is pretty good because of that.
It reminds me of how spec ops is praised for when the game actively shits on the player for committing all kinds of war crimes that you have zero say in preventing from happening. Or I might not have gotten the game's message I dunno.
I think SO:TL was trying to put you in the shoes of a soldier who had no choice but to follow orders, and show how others had to pay the price for command decisions--that you had to carry out, lest you face court martial. Or something like that
@@shawklan27 The point of the game is that: despite Walker's actions the player is continuing to proceed further into the game. Just like a soldier, you are following orders that the game tells you so long as you keep playing. It's a meta narrative about all of the brown military shooters that were being made around the time. I won't claim it's extremely deep, but I think it's an effective critique of an industry that was becoming stale and set in it's ways at the time.
@@Leitis_Fella It was comenting on the shooters on the era and on the wars of imperialism
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One thing that still bugs me from the "game designer angle" an angle unexplored reminds me of your Challenge Matters video.
Of how the gamers interest of discovery and mastering systems rubs up against the corporate interest of conditioned and piecemeal amusement. The conflicts of the Matrix could fit into that conflict of values nicely
That couldve been a philosophical jump off point for the old freedom vs security debate.
Everytime a movie has Resurrection in the title, it will usually suck, looking at you, Alien Resurrection and Halloween Resurrection.
Cause there's a reason they died to begin with
That's a good comparison. Also:
1. They also continued series that tied up perfectly.
2. They are all the 4th movie. (I know Halloween Resurrection was 8 but only 1, 2 & H20 was in that timeline so it's the 4th story-wise)
This movie is Lana saying we, the audience, is stupid for not interpreting The Matrix like she did. Or rather what she claims it was about - I don't believe for a second they had those thoughts while directing the original.
This time she made sure there was no "misinterpreting" anything, and instead hits us over the head with it repeatedly.
Yeah, I dunno why Lana thinks the audience will enjoy being portrayed as morons. I guess we're supposed to think "haha, yeah, THOSE audience members sure are dumb!" and feel smug that OUR viewing is so much smarter. It was nauseating.
This is maybe the worst read on Resurrections that I've seen yet, because it explicitly makes the point that people trying to read any specific thing into it and put any definitive meaning on it, whether through their own interpretation or trying to retroactively put it through the lens of trans filmmakers, was misguided. The first 45 minutes are a screed on the flexibility of art and intention vs. interpretation. I'm not defending the movie, because it's a mess, but this is the take of someone who didn't actually pay attention to it. Which I can't really blame you for.
@@Allen.Christian Bugs and Neo literally have a conversion in Resurrections about how the original movie was misinterpreted. _"They took your story, something that meant so much to people like me... and turned it into a video game"_ she says to Neo.
That to me is Lana outright saying that it's her interpretation of the original that is correct, everything is was people adding something to it.
I really wish I had paid less attention though, this movie didn't deserve it.
@@Cimlite To me that line was only a dig at the corporatization of art and includes the audience in "people like you and me." It's only a dig at WB, not at the audience at all. If we didn't get that entire sequence of Neo being horrified at people trying to say that one thing or another is the definitive meaning of The Matrix, I could see where you're getting that read.
Her interpretation of the story IS correct for the simple fact she created it
My least favorite thing about these movies is that they destroy previous movies and series by continuing them, and I can forgive bad movies as long as they don’t ruin the series as whole, one of the reasons I forgive Ace Combat 7.
But this movie absolutely annihilates the ending of the third movie, which was a great ending despite how meh the movie and the one before it was. Now that ending is destroyed, and continuing the story backstabs the world building, I can’t view previous movies the same.
Couldnt agree more
Star Wars amirite
I wouldn't go this far to say they ruin the past great films or games.
If anything soulless sequels/reboots only make me appreciate the original/originals more.
This movie though, should've never been made. Terrible fanfiction lol.
I agree Ace Combat 7 wasn't as strong at the old ones but it had and a interesting start in the beginning but fell off pretty hard other wise tho game play was soild and fun just needs a rewrite at the the end half of the game
@@Gruntvc Well it depends on the series. Star Wars for example absolutely steamrolls characters we once liked and detracts from the old movies as a result. This movie ruined the ending of the trilogy and the stakes of them as well.
The Smiths fighting Neo hand-to-hand instead of shooting him did have a motivation for the character doing that. He didn't want to kill him, he wanted to infect him and assimilate his powers.
Plus what's the point in using guns when Neo can block bullets.
I want to believe that Lana Wachowski made it bad on purpose so the franchise just die and no more sequels. (maybe she didn't want to do it in the first place, like Neo didn't want to make the game.)
That's how I feel to. After watching a video about the movie by Just Some Guy and hearing about the Wachowskis not wanting to making another Matrix movie and that Warner Bros since they own the
IP where going to make the movie with ot without them. So, they might as well just fuck it up themselves rather than just let Warner Bros do it. They said that the Matrix ended where it did in Revolution and that was it.
I honestly feel like Matrix would have work as more of a TV show like they did with Animatrix. Atleast that's how I feel about it.
I don't believe Lana made it bad on purpose for one specific reason: Lana hasn't made anything GOOD on purpose since 1999.
Seems to be the most logical explanation
@@peacemaster8117 For real it's like no one saw Jupiter Ascending and didn't notice how much of its goofy shit is just poorly done matrix shit. They were canabilizing their older work for years before Resurrections came around.
Your video has zero dislikes, looks like everyone agrees with you.
they disabled the dislike count
@@j.1759 : O
So does your comment, so apparently everyone agrees that everyone agrees with Mayo.
@@j.1759 r/woosh
@@n_word_gaming Hes right tho
I knew it was gonna fail the moment I saw the name. Naming the movie Matrix RESURRECTIONS is like screaming "Hey guys look we made that old movie again haha go watch so we can make money." ID Software did this amazingly with Doom 2016. The game was marketed as a reboot, or a comeback of a franchise, but they just took what made the originals awesome and made it better, its almost a totally independent game. Matrix Resurrections on the other hand relies too heavily on old movies to back it up, like they couldn't make something as good as the original films. Sorry if you didn't understand me I don't really know how to explain this
Good review. I went in blind like yourself and I ended up absolutely despising the movie. I agree that the movie MENTIONED some interesting ideas (a robot civil war, alliance with human-friendly machines, etc.) but these ideas weren't integrated in a way that mattered and the movie doesn't bother to do even the basic dirty work of explaining its own premise. The "it's bad on purpose" refrain is hilarious and reminds me of the discourse around The Last Jedi, where people honestly believed Rian had made the film poorly on purpose as an attack on Disney. Hysterical.
Thank you for taking one for the team. The entire "Matrix" story should have ended at the first movie. Neo in the phone booth, talking to the machines... fade to black. Leave it there for theory, imagination, what ifs?... No "superman" crap. No obviously in it for the money crap sequels.
Exacly my vision of the franchise. Matrix is my favorite movie of all time, and the only one canon in my mind.
Them talking about taking back the concept of the Red Pill was one of the most hilarious to me. That pill is never going back in the bottle.
I think in the end, that was the point of the meta. They were trying to "take" everything "back" just because people they have disagreements with politically "stole" their ideas. That's kind of arrogant if you ask me that they think their "concepts" are that important. It's a frickin' fictional story! Triggered! LOL!
@@bolski6125 I don't think you get it at all. Have you ever caught someone out? How about undermining a sociopath? Have you experienced how a narcissist confesses? Even a regular person caught out? It's rough. It's not pretty. They tend to be blunt and extraordinarily rude.
This movie is a confession. They're basically telling you the first movie was handed to them; the work of someone else was subverted. They even identify the source within the first 15 minutes, twice. Look for the most primitive Easter Egg within that time!
If you need convincing -- the unpolished original stolen material is out there on a youtube channel. Look for Milton Killer's Matrix Easter Eggs.
Of course it will go over the heads of almost all who watch the movie, but if you pay attention to the way The Merovigingian is portrayed and to what he says, you can get an inkling of what's going through the writer's mind. Confining the first three movies to the content of a video game is more or less open contempt for them. This is because the original was stolen; the attempt to subvert its ultimate manifestation failed. The writer feels attacked from all sides whenever The Matrix or its memes get lauded over.
The movie's ending is also telling. Retconning of the "negotiation" is again the disownership of the original trilogy. But, alas, this will not suffice.
"reclaiming the red pill" is such a blue pill idea 😅
Given how bastardized the entire Red Pill concept is now, you've clearly missed the point.
@@bolski6125 Disagreements? Really? Have you been living under a rock? Red Pill incels are definitely more than just people they disagree with.
18:00 they actually talk about it when Neo meets Niobe for the first time. She actually fires (suspends?) the crew for going rogue and putting the machine/human peace at risk. It was done by a bunch of rogue fans of Neo who wanted to bring him back to reality because of his legend and past sacrifices.
Also Agent Smith don't use guns on Neo because he is immune to bullets
I personally do not think they wanted to make a good matrix movie. It felt like a mission statement to tell us bluntly about the meta of it all, but still pass as a movie. Because it is not good, a 5th matrix movie may no longer be greenlit which is something wachowski may have wanted. This is what I hate, and it hit me. This is something Ive been saying about so many other movies, that I commend matrix 4 for actually telling me this is how even the creators feel. So, in a way. It was alright.
It was pretty obvious from the film that they did not want to make a 4th film at all and were basically forced by the studio executives. It's really less about "the meta" than it is about their work being appropriated by some terrible on-line hate groups and monetized to the core, i.e., turned into a "franchise". That whole scene with the Merovingian is just the Wachowskis getting annoyed af and explaining how everything's fucking shit nowadays.
And in a way, I kinda agree. No one can make a Matrix movie that "feels" as good as the first one, it's impossible. No matter what they did it would have turned out as yet another dumpster fire of a sequel like all the Star Wars/Star Trek/MCU/DCU garbage movies that people munch on nowadays. I'm personally fine with the Wachowskis giving the finger to everyone.
I was in pain over that end credits song too. Thank you for playing it again and making me feel dead inside
Dude, I know you do more videogame analysis but you are great at reviewing movies! If you keep it up I'm here for it
"I walked out for a bit to go to the bathroom"
YOU DIDN'T WATCH THE FULL MOVIE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT IT AUGHUGHGAHUGUGU
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Yep he's so thorough and detailed in his analyses I love it.
I agree fully
It seems like you totally misunderstood the logic / events of the first act. Neo didn't willingly distill his experiences into three games - the three games are part of the lie the machines are feeding him to keep him caged. He thinks he's a normal person who's lived a normal life. The criticism "Neo wouldn't choose to represent his life this way" doesn't make any sense because he DIDN'T choose to represent his life that way, the machines chose to represent it that way to keep him confused and caged.
EDIT: Regarding the swarm program and the suicide jumpers - the analyst says earlier in the movie that the population is seeded with his handlers, so I don't think those people dying cuts into the machines' power supply. All of those people are just bots, they're not real humans.
Whether it's Neo that made the games, or that the machines made the reality where the games exist and neo thinks he made them, it STILL doesn't make sense that the events were broken up into 3 neatly separately games just like we got 3 movies, which is point I'm making. It's only that way to make a meta point about the trilogy. They're still coming from his experience and his perspective. Presented in the form that we saw them as movies, which is ridiculous.
As for bots, great. They put out hundreds of millions of bots to live as people. Still a dumb idea instead of using deadly agents.
The fight scenes were truly terrible. They had the "Baba Yaga" Boogeyman John Wick and that's the best they could do with $200,000,000?! Hire a great fight choreographer and stop pretending you know what you're doing.
Unless of course the philosophical reason why they made the fight scenes worse on purpose was because they're "Meta Commenting" on reboots.
Regarding Trinity gaining "One" powers, we have seen that code is transferred between characters when Neo edits their code. We saw this previously with Smith. Plus, the Biological Interface Program was established to include Trinity. So, after Trinity was shot and resurrected by Neo, it's not too far fetched that she was altered.
Disagree. This is just a massive retcon.
Well it would be great if it was hinted that neo can do that to help out others... and maybe use that as main driving plot point in the story...
@@009_Ghostly_Systematic They do....it's the entire premise of Smith's existence in the previous films.
Gonna be honest, Neil was a real annoying analyst, it felt like he was only in this movie because he was a big fan when he was younger or something
The Matrix resurrections was terrible but I have to disagree with you about Neo's vulnerability.
Every character in movies doesn't have to look vulnerable for the fight scenes to be great. Neo was vulnerable enough in the first Matrix and watching him display his God level powers in the sequels was absolutely amazing. If anything, the fight choreography and set pieces of the Matrix sequels was ground breaking.
Take the Terminator as an example. The T-800 to be specific. It doesn't display a shred of vulnerability and yet it's one of the most iconic characters of all time. I'd enjoy watching Superman lift mountains and perform unimaginable feats rather than crawl around like a weakling when exposed to Kryptonite. Vulnerability doesn't equate to greater levels of interest.
Yeah I addressed that point in this video about the fight scenes. Also, I didn't say every character. I'm talking about the main character. And the t800 isn't the main character of the terminator movies. And superman DOES have the weakness, which puts his powers in better context.
@@underthemayo The T-800 is the most iconic character in the Terminator franchise. Whether he's a protagonist or antagonist is irrelevant.
I think you missed the point of him creating a game trilogy. Putting those experiences, obviously the most important to him, in such a rigorously defined narrative is part of the device used to dismiss his recollections as fantasy. Deluding him into thinking the most important moments in his life were merely plot points in a game series he made is the whole point. He didn't actually create any games. The machines are trying to suppress those memories, but they know they'll still crop up. Giving him a disjointed framework into which these moments fit makes far more sense than giving him an unbroken narrative of events as they actually occurred.
You're not expected to understand what this movie is. It's not directed at the public. It's made for a quick money grab. Surely having watched it you understand that the whole thing is merely a subverted concept right? I mean... if you wrote the original movie would you disown it in this uninspired way, reducing it to part of a video game?
@@miltonkiller707 Those first 3 sentences are probably the dumbest shit I read today.
Like no shit you aint gonna understand the movie if you don't WANT to understand the movie lmfao.
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@@miltonkiller707 Remember when we viewed movies as art and not lore dumps that we need to justify our head canon? We still liked and disliked things. We still thought movies were good and bad. But no adult humans pitched years-long fits and cried about their expectations being "subverted" when they didn't like something.
I didn't really like this movie either. I liked things about it, but it was a mess. But I don't feel like I was personally insulted by the kind of movie they wanted to make.
@@miltonkiller707 "would you disown it in this uninspired way, reducing it to part of a video game?" - But wouldn't that just be the lie from the villains to suppress the hero? Isn't it common for many stories to "reduce" important parts of a story by those means? The villain lying to the main character to keep them from learning the truth and fighting back?
Or the other way around, the good guys misleading the hero to keep them under control. Did George Lucas disown Anakin Skywalker by having Obi Wan tell Luke his father was dead?
Ahh yes, finally I long video from mayo. I am going to re-watch this over and over again. Just like I do with Alien isolation vid
What else can be fucked up? Godfather? Dracula? Oh boy what a world we live in
I think the new morpheus also was a great idea on paper, the movie explains that he was created based on the two guys that chagend Neo's life, Og Morpheus and Smith, so you basically have a combination of the mentor and villain of the protagonist, that's like actually a really good idea, how could they not explore that? I really believe that Lana didnt want this movie to happen so she just ruined herself, i'll like to think that this was done bad on purpose.
3:44 Is that where South Park got the idea of Walmart being an all knowing old man that can "change form"?
4:52 The Matrix movie game also has plot details not shown in the second movie and The Matrix Online also has plot details that explain why Morpheus is replaced with someone else.
9:57 Sounds like if Kojima hired a bunch of millenials to give him ideas for his next game.
14:05 I feel like that could also be used to make commentary on how some people use social media.
Goddammit I want the RoboCop retrospective. Great vid mayo 👍.
Now we have a clearer idea of why Lilly passed.
I stopped watching the movie halfway and i watched the original just to clear my head . Well there goes another series in the grave . Great video Mayo .
While I liked the first half hour of the movie (for the reasons you hated it), the rest was terrible.
After the Merovingian scene, I paused the movie (saw it on HBO Max) and had to take a break, that was the moment the movie completely lost me.
While I think Lana deliberately made this disaster to implode the franchise so Warner couldnt exploit it anymore, I think the anwser is simplier, she just...got old.
We see this with some of the dialogue (who still uses the term "MILF" in 2022? that character wasnt a young man, that character was written by an old person trying to write a young man), but the Merovingian is just...wow.
I'm not a kid, I'm mid-30s, but after he finished his rant about Facebook, Wikipedia, and videogames, all I could say was "ok boomer".
About the lack of people dying, dont forget that machines literally found a way to resurrect people...not only that, the "daughter" of the program who designed the "resurrection machine" is on the human side, which means that in the eventuality someone dies, they can just go and bring him back.
And the movie takes place 60 years after Revolutions, so it means the machines were able to bring them back after decades of being corpses...what?
And about Neo and Trinity, not only is it dumb, are you expecting me to believe no couple, in 600 years, felt in love so much as them? seriously? not to mention, Keanu and Carrie never had any chemistry, so basing your whole movie on the concept that their love is so unique that it might happen only once every millenia on the chemistry between them, wasnt a very bright idea.
Also, no disrespect to any of them, but seeing people pushing 60 making out is...odd, in any movie.
And this is also noticiable in the flying scene, seeing poor 54 years old Carrie-Ann Moss hanging from wires was just...sad.
And about the One thing, they retconned a lot from the original trilogy, but not this! The Analyst mentions he needs Neo to reboot the Matrix because he is still the Anomaly, but if Trinity is also the One, why not just use her instead? why does she keep punching and kicking a program who cant feel pain? and if you want to make that nonsensical thing happen, have Neo doing it, he is the one who was tortured for decades by this program, why is Trinity so fixed on him, she already blew her steam by beating her husband Chad (btw, "Chad"? seriously???).
You might not want to say it, but this movie was trash.
i personally thought a lot of the movie worked. the first half to me was really great but it gets bad once neo breaks out of the matrix. I understand why people don’t like the meta stuff but I’d take it any day over the really commercial and cynical nostalgia stuff that is being dumped into theaters. it’s markedly better than the new Star Wars and ghostbusters afterlife and spider man stuff in my mind because it’s basically telling the studio to fuck itself with this movie
Did you just call Matrix 2's fight boring oh my word
They are flashy but there are no stakes in them.
It would have been interesting if in Matrix 4 the roles would have been flipped, as in, humans try to help maintain harmony within the matrix, while some outside force tries to dissolve it. Matrix 3 did end on a massive compromise between machines and humans, the fourth movie should have been about how humans and machines try to coexist within the matrix. Instead we got some weird deconstruction of the franchise for the sake of deconstruction, it's a shame, but I had a feeling this movie would fail more than succeed.
I personally liked how meta it was, I enjoyed all of the meta jokes. It was a slap in the face of the studios not the fans. Last Jedi was a slap in the face to the fans and I couldn't stand that.
I also just watched it last week. I avoid spoilers at all, just heard people didn't like it. I get why. The first half is brilliant until Neo escapes the matrix again. The tone is amazing and has a deep narrative about the real-life treadmill the systems we built got us stuck in.
When they reveal the machines had a war amongst themselves and that Zion has a hardline position on machines, I had hoped that they'd introduce a political motiv with Neo(and Trinity) in between the two human cities and either one or two machine factions(with maybe two separate instances (and versions) of the Matrix to power them). Then they could have had that first meeting with the new architect in the workshop and end the movie there and make one or two more.
Instead the machine conflict is 3 sentences long, we get a terribly shot rematch against the creatures from the 2nd film(this one and the train fight were shot terribly, were they perhaps shot with 60 FPS in mind? On the projector this just looked terrible) alongside a 2 minute Merowinger dialogue(a character I loved in the old movie but his appearance was just wasted for a poor attempt at nostalgia) a stupid deathstar-exhaust-style rescue mission and an upgrade to two chosen ones. Don't get me wrong, I actually liked trinity having chosen-one powers in the new version of the matrix. I just had hoped that Neo wouldn't get his full powers back, as it's a new version of the Matrix and all and they introduced the power was shared between the two of them. The fact that they both get powers seems like a stupid attempt at fan-service which destroys a big part of the story in my mind.
So yeah, there was much potential and literally nothing of it was used. I am really disappointed. The WB meta dialogue made it seem like they were forced to make this move which made it even weirder, but it also got my hopes up that the ending wouldn't be rushed after setting an office-treadmill tone for 20-ish minutes. Instead of creating something new and deep as I described above as an example they just made a cheap money grab trying to leech off of nostalgia.
The idea of the powers being shared between the two of them is really good, and would have solved Reloaded's biggest problem that Neo was too powerful and his fights had no stakes. Cutting the powers in half and dividing them up lets them demonstrate Neo's mastery over the matrix while still letting him be vulnerable enough to have interesting fight scenes. It's too bad they decided to double the problem instead
31:59 To be fair, he didn't have powers until he died and was brought back. He brought her back to life in Reloaded, so she should have similar powers, at least in my autistic brain.
Matrix Resurrections should have never existed in the first place, though it can be used as a example for film writers to learn and know better
also i love that you used the Cry Of Fear soundtrack (including others), COF and AOM are awesome indie horror games and i'm happy you made a video on it, and glad it's getting more recognition
Now I want mayo to review some of the marvel movies lol. Most people probably know how mediocre they are but I wanna know what mayo thinks of them.
I don't like the thinking that they 'ruined' something by making a new thing. The old thing is still good and perfect. For me there only exists one Matrix Movie. One Pirates of the Carabbean Movie. One Halo Trilogy, 3 Silent Hill games. etc etc.
You can only ruin something by editing that thing by itself...
Fallout is not ruined by new games the same with Resident Evil or God of war, the old games are still some of the best games. And they will always be, but sometimes we have to accept that there will be no good new games in these series. They are just over.
At least I really have very low expectations when they announce a new halo, a new elder scrolls, a new Aliens Movie. That helps a lot. XD
If you're into giger atmosphere keep an eye for SCORN (game) October 2022
@@thewanderingartists looks good - will keep an eye on it - thanks
@@ZZNESSA77 channel name is Ebb software, too bad I can't post the trailer link it gets auto-deleted.
@@thewanderingartists I checked it on steam.
@@ZZNESSA77 so do you like it ? :)))
I enjoyed every second of this movie.
I can understand why people did not like it, you wanted to watch a Matrix movie, you got an essay on why all this is crap and we should stop asking for remakes of things that are already good.
As the critic it is, the movie is brilliant. Perfect. Flawless.
As a lore expansion, it is wonderful, it throws there all the good ideas for making more Matrix movies, but the movie already explained in the meta analysis why a good matrix movie can not be done anyways, and that also Matrix is not about it's lore. And that we should not trust the studios, we have to just imagine it.
This movie is going to be considered a work of the smartest art in some years, once all the people disappointing for not being the action pseudo philosophical thing they wanted calms down.
so the movie not being well made is it's strongest features?
@@MurriciTerceiro It is. The first part of the movie explains to you why making a 4th matrix is a bad idea.
The second part shows it to you.
Seriously, the first movie was the one with the important ideas. Then the two others are creative, but it is just not as good as the original. Now John Wick is not even interested in shaving to play Neo, did not want to do it. The choreographer doesn't either. The director doesn't want to.
So they just shows us what we are asking for. It is this, or something worse made by a new director of the new generations... *shivers*
We are so lucky we got this movie, this has meaning in itself. The alternatives, the real possible alternatives are not what we want to get. We want something amazing. We won't get it from an old franchise, let it go.
@@IuliusPsicofactum nice, i got you now, thanks.
no, seriously, no irony here, thanks
@@MurriciTerceiro Thank you too.
You are spot on about so much of this. The first act almost had me turn it off because of the shallow and relentless meta references. Also agreed that Disney Star Wars is a dumpster fire, most notably the sequel trilogy.
You know your movie is in Hot Water when your main star starts criticizing it.
Remember matrix reloaded, Trinity got the anomaly code when neo resurrected her.
Wow I guess he can just go around sticking his hands in whoever he wants and make them superman just like him!
@@underthemayo yeah the one thing thats absent in matrix lore is the previous 5 version of the "One" and what exactly the systemic anomaly is.
Matrix lore aside neo's journey is your typical prophized hero's journey.
Question, ever heard of Dark City ?
Of course he does. First Agent Smith, second Trinity.
I witnessed Matrix become a marvel movie. Sad.
View the movie again, but that time think of it as a fan film that is not officially canon.
If viewed from that perspective, then I think the meta stuff was alright for what they were trying to do.
But as a movie that is truly intended as a Matrix sequel, it was disappointing.
6/10
This was an extremely well put-together video Mayo, thank you.
You pretty much nailed my issues with it. The moments I liked, I liked a lot, but there were a lot I didn’t care for. It could have been great if they focused on the new matrix and the real world. Is what it is. I didn’t hate it.
I don't agree on new star wars movies being bad. Imho people overrate original trilogy and underrate latest trilogy. I like all three tbh, but I grew up with second trilogy and that one will always be closest to me.
I just noticed that the background music is from The Ascent. Fitting.
This was a really great and thorough review. I'd be interested in seeing more movie reviews by you.
I agree with you in almost everything in this video. My only nitpick is that, from what I understood that hoard of zombies were bots, not humans. In certain parts they mention how the machines have been over populating the matrix with those things. My theory is that they make it so that they can be fake humans that get activated during security breaches.
Although that brings alongside another set of problems, such as wasting a lot of energy and processing power simulating fake humans.
A director goes out of their way to tell u ppl that hollywood is trash and u wont get anything good until they stop doing what they are doing and u ignore that director's message. Sigh
You’re saying the movie is purposefully bad?
@@andrewrogers3067 Yes, it was very obvious the movie was intentionally made to bomb. The entire thing was a slap in the face to movie executives and studios
@@andrewrogers3067 Yes this movie has no reason to exist. This is a reboot one that is inferior garbage compared to the originals
Ah yes the altruist director, who also conveniently got paid well for a soulless film. It’s not like the director was magically forced to make a film per se.
@@ichiro_hiko I think wachowski said if anyone is going to crash this franchise it's going to be us. I didn't feel it was attacking the fans, I got the impression it was attacking movie studios
The title and the thesis describe exactly how i felt about the movie.
Ohh boy ... Matrix 4.
When I watched it I could not shake this image in my head.
The series coming back after many years, takes the most vile dump imaginable at my door steep and then has the audacity to cock on my door and ask me if I have some toilet paper to properly finish this whole God damn mess. And if I have to common sense to ask what the hell is all this, it will reply to me that this is what it learned all this years since it went radio silent.
When the credits rolled I was straight up pissed.
Lana Wachowski mentioned that she wanted this movie to be made so she could bring back Neo and Trinity. That wish was fulfilled, but it came at a price.
Of course, it came by a huge price Larry couldn't see himself
I'm okay with Trinity also being "The One" for a number of reasons. In the first movie, Trinity is the catalyst for his awakening as the One. You can see what the Oracle tells her either as predetermination or as her being allowed to "pick" who the One is. Given that the Oracle tells Neo he's not it, it feels like Trinity is the deciding factor. Plus Agents are supposed to be so powerful only the One can defeat them, and the only person other than Neo ever to kill an agent was Trinity. That and the way that code works in those movies and the fact that there have been multiple Ones prior to Neo it isn't a stretch to say she's either got some of the code in her or some of it rubbed off when Neo reached inside her (lol) in Reloaded. Plus Carrie Anne Moss is dope as fuck so I'm willing to shrug it off
You cant have two Ones, I mean, you can only have one...One!
Also, it retcons the previous movies, were agents literally said "she means nothing"
She's a bright spot in the movie imo. Still feel like they've wasted her trying to retcon her as a "One" even if her abilities make sense because as you said she already killed an Agent.
@@Jose-se9pu You're not wrong lol. While Reloaded deconstructed the idea of the One being special at all, calling their superpowered anomaly "the One" was probably a bad move if they ever wanted to have more than one of them. It still makes sense lore wise to me that Trinity has those powers, but it still sounds stupid to call two people "the One."
The Oracle tells Neo he isn't the one to get him to behave differently. "There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path."
You completely misunderstood the point of that.
I'm sorry but Trinity being another One doesn't make sense at all. There was nothing alluding to it in the first three films and it's clearly being put in this movie for girl power nonsense. Your reasoning is just post hoc justifications.
Ma-Rey SuuuuUUUUuuuue
You just reminded me that whenever the conversations about kick ass women in movies comes up i never hear Trinity’s name come up. EVER
Get woke, go broke. Feel bad for Keanu.
I was really hoping John Wick was a simulation created by the Architect as a form of penalty for disrupting the cycle of the Matrix, making him suffer through the loss of his wife, aka Trinity. The only redemption for this series is bringing the first and second renaissance to live action.
After watching this and the amazing RoboCop analysis, your niche definitely sits in movie analyses (even though I love your game videos). Please punch out more of these. Preferably, the 80s movies you grew up with. I fucking love them man. 💪👌
I don't understand your point about Neo's life not making sense being adapted into a video game. Video games also have edits and can condense information. Am I missing something?
Because neo didn't experience his life as a set of 3 movies. It's way too unbelievable of a coincidence that he would cut up the events of his life into the exact movie trilogy that we the audience saw. They only made it that way to make comments about the trilogy as a Hollywood product.
It would be like a Lord of the rings character writing about what he experienced and coincidentally writing 3 large individual books about the adventures and giving them the same titles of the books the audience has read.
@@underthemayo
I don't see the coincidence. The matrix movies don't exist in the fictional world this movie takes place. In that world they have a trilogy of games. We don't really know what those are like, they can't be exactly like the movies because they are games. We see a few clips from the Matrix 1 in Resurrections as being depictions of the video game. (which doesn't make a lot of sense, a 2000's game would never look that good.) So yeah that part is stupid, but I don't assume that the games are 100% exactly like the trilogy. Where would the Gameplay even fit in?
But let's say that they had decided that neo was actually a movie director, and he made the Matrix Trilogy movies exactly like they are. I think that would still not count as a coincidence because it obviously wasn't by chance that things turned out that way. In that case I would see it as some sort of commentary about how the fictional world and the real world are connected somehow and there are forces conspiring to make these movies the same in both worlds.
Honestly if Lana hated so much the idea of making a new matrix she shouldn't have made it in the first place. No need to dangle her frustration to the audience's face through the story, what hutzpah.
I agree with you in most things. Reloaded fights were just a bit boring, but visually awesome, too. But the whole point of Merovingian is in the viagra cake code that he wrote to control the women. It was suppose to tell Neo that he is controlled by viagra cookies code that Oracle had written for him, and that he should not trust her, or Morpheus, or anybody for that matter, not even Architect when he eventually gets to him. Because they will either lie (Oracle), intentionally ommit the truth (again Oracle) to manipulate him, or simply will not know the whole truth (Morpheus, Oracle, and Architect, none of them knew what will happen if Neo choose Trinity instead of restarting the Matrix for the 6th time) so he should not make any choice based on a bad info that he gets from them. It is the whole piont of Merovingian. He knows that humans can be controlled by both stories and chemistry, but also by a code, because they are all cyborgs plugged in a computer after all.
That scene from Matrix Reloaded where Neo fights hordes of Agent Smith copies in the square.
Agent Smith was trying to convey a point, that he'd overcome Neo no matter what.
So it's understandable that he'd go unarmed.
The last time the two faced off, Neo literally entered his body and caused him to explode from the inside. I'd bring guns at least.
@@underthemayo But you forgot to mention that before "Neo (...) caused him to explode" the agents rained lead on him, made him Swiss cheese, only to be surprised that he didn't die and they couldn't beat him.
Furthermore, Agents Smith is quite different from the first movie. Though the very same arrogant bastard. He is not an agent from the system, but an agent of chaos himself. A virus that spreads and take control.
I mean, it's not coincidence Neo "dies" at the end of the trilogy.
@@thedonutkillermandude3668 I don't know man. If a guy magically entered my body and made me explode, I'd think twice about trying to attack him unarmed in a park. It makes Smith look stupid. It's all just to have a big spectacle fight. A script written to get from one action scene to the next.
Being reminded what happened to Terminator really cuts deep
The tone was wrong, it also looked really cheap. Didn’t it? I didn’t even finish it.
Unfortunately we will never again get movies like the Matrix, Aliens, and Apocalypse Now. Those movies had a very raw and guriella style to them which is why they are the greats. Movies now days have less substance and feel more like cash grabs than a cohesive masterpiece. The actor and film makers put blood, sweat and tears into making those movies from script to the final cut.
Hah I thought the same thing about Neo's go-to move for the rest of the movie. Gone are the days where he actually fights things or even dodges attacks. Let's just block everything......I dubbed it, "Deus Ex Blockina".
Edit: Plz...fuck...no....I live in fear of the day they fuck with Back to the Future.
The Matrix Resurrections was pure useless trash. There was no part of it that I liked. What a waste of money, and my time.
When you make mayo say that something is cringe. You know you fucked up
I don't believe I've used the word in a video before.
I think they missed the whole point-when Warner made the call to Keanu. Trinity DIED in the third movie. I believe Neo also died , but I could go with him surviving, but he really should be dead too.
This new crew shouldn’t have any knowledge of Neo’s Matrix-that one is over and they built a new one. Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving are still with us- did WB just not want to pony up?
They clearly thought that the “romance” between Trinity and Neo was going to make us all gushy. I love them as actors- they ZERO heat as a ‘couple.’
Great video Mayo, been catching up on your previous video and you really a good critique reviewer
Plz do a vid on why you hate the Prometheus sequels!!! You always casually mention that they suck but they are rlly good imo??
I briefly touch on the biggest reasons in the end of my Aliens Fireteama video
when i heared the song in the end, i was laughing so hard, because it sounded like a comedian in clowndress sang it... it sure wasnt meant seriously
Oh damn this is bad. Like I was expecting it to be bad, but I wasn't expecting the movie to actually try to be bad. They shouldn't have brought back Trinity and Neo, it set expectations way too high for what this could deliver. I personally loved the Animatrix shorts and would've loved some more exploration in that style, but set after the trilogy.
The singer of the end credit cover song got in a bit of heat when she actually pulled down her pants and peed in a guys mouth on stage. Once that cover started playing I was like....yah no, thats some "girl power" right there.....
It's when you realize the truth. What truth?
That the movie is not the story.
Lana Wachowski was given a choice. WB: Make another Matrix movie or we will without you.
Now the movie went from a child to a monster by its own creator.
Showing footage from the first three movies and calling it a ‘video game’ is the worst possible insult to the original matrix, within another fucking Matrix film?
Keanu tied to cyberpunk themed media is cursed. Pretty sure even Johnny Mnemonic flopped too. This is the 3rd Strike lol.
The Matrix works when you turn your brain *ON*
Resurrections works when you turn your brain *OFF*
I remember Trinity saying something like: "I played your game" and was imagining how funny it would be if she followed with "It fucking sucks!"
I'm digging the move into pop culture stuff, mayo! Subd for the doom content and had no idea this was where its going
There was an underlying laziness to the whole thing that, when contrasted with the first film in particular, is jarring. A tiny example of this is the whole "video-game development" angle: why were the in-game cut-scenes of the Matrix games performed in live-action using real film footage and actors instead of rendered graphics? Someone who'd approached this project with genuine passion and a desire to create authenticity would not let something like this slip by.
Overall, although I somewhat enjoyed the meta aspect of the early part of the film, the biggest "crime" this film commits is how it strips the Matrix mythos of its mythic grandeur. This film just feels and looks like a bare-bones TV show. So strange.
Weird, I really enjoyed this film & I usually hate anything new.
For me the whole movie felt like a 3h long trailer
This reminds me of the The Critical Drinker's "How Not to Critique Movies" essay on how themes have become a mask for broken storytelling.
finally, was wondering when you would make a video on this
That one guy that says first
I watched the first matrix film for the first time in preparation for this film last month. I was going to watch the sequel as well, but after hearing SO much about Resurrections, I decided it’s probably best I don’t waste my time for trash.
Oh.... I Love this guy. HAPPY VALENTINES (new sub)
You think Neo should have had more guns in this movie? Guns like from Doom Eternal?
You got me!
I haven't watched any movies since endgame I'm glad I save my time 😂
Can’t believe Keanu signed on for this he must have known it was gonna be crap