For me, it was when they used CGI to 'enhance' the action with Neo vs. the Smiths in Reloaded. The moment he starts swinging the pole around and it became cartoonish, I can remember laughing out loud in the theater and losing all of whatever momentum I had in loving the movie series from that moment on. :(
It looked cartoonish because there were too many Smiths and Artchitect had to lower graphics, he couldn't maintain 24 FPS on ultra settings with so many agents.
I'll tell you the day The Matrix didn't die; The Animatrix... Never saw a movie continue to tell other stories/world build like that back then, and haven't really seen much since, except recently for Star Wars Visions maybe. Animatrix was solid through and through.
OMG yes. The Animatrix was nothing short of brilliant. Now that is how you do sequels and expand on the world you have created. If only the creators realized that before making this 4th one.
maybe...I actually think the bad choerography of matrix 4, in addition to the dated directorial techniques, enhance the movie's thesis. it's supposed to be kind of shitty.
The problem with Zion is that before Reloaded, we were only told of what Zion was, and we were left to our imaginations. But when Reloaded finally came out, we got to see and experience exactly what Zion was… a giant underground sh*thole. It was because of that stupid rave/mass orgy scene that I started rooting for the machines lol. As Cypher said, if I have to choose between that and the Matrix, I choose the Matrix.
Yeah, Zion was so lame & boring. I agree with you, keep it hidden & in our imaginations. WAIT!!! It could've been a Moses-esque goal that Neo was working towards, save the crew and/or deliver them to the "Promise land". Then you bring it in ag the end and let Neo see what he fought for.
I would love a follow up to this, going into the new Matrix film. Talk about what works and what doesn't, talk about where the new film tried to get back on track and where it derailed.
I think it would of been more interesting to have maybe more characters like Cipher who maybe wanted to star in the Matrix so instead of a giant mech battle we maybe had a debate
I think while not as good as the original, Reloaded was pretty good, the action sequences were insane (still waiting for something to top that highway chase scene), and it expanded the lore A LOT, suddenly The Matrix felt HUGE, and it wasnt just about humans wanting to be free, there were factions within the machines fighting for control, Smith becoming a virus, the exiles... And then the twist at the end, it works...it works really good. The problem was that they never knew what to do with it, so they just remade the same ending as in the first movie; Neo is the one, dies fighting Smith, saves the human race. However, while a generic ending, it wasnt insulting...as certain movie would prove 18 years later...
I just finished your short-film and it was awesome. I really would recommend anybody watching it with headphones on, or preferably in a surrounding theatre-like sound system. The dialogue between camera and audio really sells the whole thing (specially that last shot). Great work!
The awkward mud orgy with a drawn out awkward sex scene and the cherry on top..the matrix code vagina exploding with an orgasm scene. God damn the first film should have stayed a single film.
Back in 2003, I remember reading critics walked out of movie theathers during the rave scene. Anyway, I didnt hate the scene as much as most people did, it served a purpose; to show humans having sex and pretty much expresing love, something machines couldnt do...until Revolutions came out, and aparently not only machine can fall in love, thay can have children (?)
I would suggest that for April Fools' Day (yes, it is a long time away) that you create a "The Day ___ Died" for a movie series where the answer is laughably obvious, such a series with a first good movie followed by a terrible movie. Titles that come to mind "The Day Zoolander Died" or "The Day Dumb and Dumber Died." I'm sure that there are many more movie series to play with... but I'm sure that you get the point. Again, this just a suggestion so no pressure.
While I personally liked Reloaded, here’s how I think it could be improved: Basically redo Aliens. Here me out. Introduce the new crew (Niobe and the others), but remove Zion. That way, the world is fleshed out yet you keep the feeling of solitude. Then in Revolutions, you can add in the concept of how everything’s in a loop and nothing matters, adding extra stakes to change the outcome. After Neo dies, THEN have the survivors create Zion as a safe space. Resurrections can then focus on Neo seeing Zion for the first time as a result of his sacrifice.
The first Matrix was closer to a spy thriller. The second two were closer to straight action. Although that transition worked for the Alien movies (from horror/thriller to action for Aliens), the first was so explicitly cerebral that the second felt like it was appealing to an entirely different audience. I've been rewatching the Matrix movies this past week, and I'm coming to the idea that an ideal trilogy structure would be something like a thriller for the first movie (a la Matrix and Alien), a more straightforward action flick for the second that takes what's gained in the first and allows the protagonist(s) to really flex that, then some kind of horror film for the third as the system being fought against recognizes that these upstarts pose a genuine threat to the status quo and starts pulling out the stops to fight back, showing the protagonist(s) may not have quite realized exactly what they're getting into.
You have capitalism and communism back to front. Communism is about conforming to central authoritarianism and enforced equity, capitalism is about free reign individualism and self-determination.
This. Thank you. If you're going to talk about a film inspired by Asian culture, you need to acknowledge the difference between the tyranny of collectivism vs the freedom of individuality.
I mostly agree, except I think the futility of Neo and Smith’s battles in Reloaded and Revolutions perfectly set up the more existential, non-physical way that Neo had to defeat him once and for all.
Not quite ok with that. If Zion had been an absolute awful place to live, there would have been a lot more treators like Cypher. And let's be honest: Zion is not such a great place to live neither. Imagine spending your whole life in a (very big) bunker...
@@pw6002 it may not be aesthetically pleasing, but Reloaded takes it time to show that the community is strong, raves are plentiful and everyone is perfectly happy with their choice to red pill. And yes, there would be more Cyphers… that would have been interesting. Cypher is one of many reasons why the first matrix is brilliant and everything else is… not.
I remember the first time I watched the second movie I was convinced that Neo using his powers in the real world meant it wasn't actually the real world, but another layer of the Matrix (Young Me had latched on to the whole "humanity objected utopia so we made earth kinda shitty and then they fell for the illusion" line way too hard). Then I immediately watched the third afterwards and just left kinda confused. It might have been predictable or trite, but I think if that had been the route they were going - and maybe that Neo was the first person to 'wake up' to the actual reality/third layer, and that's how he's the actual "one" - it would at least make Zion's inclusion make a bit more sense. Of course they have a giant city that's a resistance hub. That's what the machine want them to think they have.
My thoughts exactly after seeing the second movie. I was wondering if the real world had been repaired by the machines, but the humans won't be let into it until they prove that they've lost their combative nature.
And the real reality is the machines are fragile and weak and are barely staying alive. So they MUST keep humanity "asleep" or a real Zion lile scenario would topple their crumbling robot world. The illusion they are strong and humans are weak. It would have been great to see Neo forge a truce where they could live together.
It was because Neo talked to the Architect in another server where he connected to the code of all machines and even became "the one" in the real world. The one is defined as "able to manipulate the matrix (machines)."
Dueling violins. Love that moment when the music stand fell and she felt that moment of dread. The sound effects added were great which added to the short. I listened with headphones on which heightened the scenes
The Matrix is more about repeat viewings and analysis. I get how that's annoying for most people. There's many themes and ideas to talk about in the trilogy, but with the final act of Reloaded, we see a theme that occurs in our own lives. That theme being what do you when what you believed so strongly turns out to not to be true? How do you find purpose after that? How do you find meaning? You have to believe that you can continue after all you believed fell apart or was never true.
It's a good idea, but the remainder of Reloaded and Revolutions never really explore it to any significant extent. Not even with Morpheus, who should be the ideal character to use for that: you get the bit where Morpheus reacts to Neo relaying what the Architect said, and then his reaction to the Neb being destroyed, but after that I don't think it comes up in Revolutions at all.
I recently re-watched the matrix movies and I can honestly say I think the franchise died when Neo talked with the architect. it’s just confusing and pulls the audience out of the movie completely.
Your film short had amazing sound design!! Well done 👍 Also: If the Matrix series died with the sequels, Resurrections just took a dump on its corpse. It's laughably terrible
It was one good film that it’s sequels never build upon in the themes or story. Just like Jurassic Park. Predator. Die Hard. Rambo. A lot of action movies And nearly all horror series.
We enjoyed the matrix 1 because it obeyed the path of the heroes journey. It was a rite of passage. The other two films showed how the sausage was made and we discovered we were vegetarian. The first follow the initiation of a Neophytes into the order of the A°A° even the interview with the Archangel ( architect) is in the film. The other two were fractals of matrix 1 but they moved too far off the well traveled path placing the viewer in an uncanny valley of unfamiliarity.
This is going to hurt since I love everything Matrix. But I have to watch this because I love your videos, too. Why do mommy and daddy have to fight?! Is it my fault? >_>' Let the pain begin... _clicks 'play'_
The latest really made me appreciate the first film so much more in retrospective, and made me come to realize that for me, what the Matrix was was a loving tribute to vast sci-fi ideas and hong kong/japanese action cinema and anime. That's why the first film and Animatrix sit so much better for me than the sequels and reboot-quel. People poo-poo on the first film all the time and calling it not original or plagiarism or this and that, but I still sense there was a genuine passion in the simplicity of that first film and Animatrix and then everything after just felt like the Wachowski's were trying to get more high minded than they should have been and something felt lost in that pursuit....
The wild thing is before the matrix 2 came out there was a fake script on the internet I can’t find anymore that was actually BETTER than the final film we got. It was actually deep and had some violence and multiple smiths hunting Neo. Dnno why we didn’t get that film and I wonder if ANYONE even knows what I’m talking about.
My feeling exactly. It was the introduction of Zion that ruined The Matrix. I never really thought why. I just knew the rave took me out of the story. A story I absolutely adored. Vibrato was very well made. Did they do their own violin stunts/playing? Loved their expressions, and their grudging competition. Oh, and I love a metronome. Reminds me of long ago practices. Maybe The Day ER Died. I know, a TV show, but I loved it, and then somewhere along the line I totally lost interest. Maybe it was too many new characters like John Stamos. Maybe it was when they’d bring back a beloved character, like Susan and Deb, and gave them nothing to do, and in Deb’s case ruined the character. Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching my short film. Glad you enjoyed it. I had some professional musicians record the music first and then I had different actors play along with the recording on set. The actors are violinists too who did a good job faking it, but they didn't play the music on set.
5:34 My favourite part of Matrix Resurrection was when Neo had a Mexican stand-off with Tuco whose gun he had emptied the night before so he could shoot Angel Eyes and ride off with all the gold leaving Tuco in a noose.
lmao I never stopped to ask why in the original trilogy the machines never built or flew anything over the clouds..? like the sun was right there? flying robotic squids but no space programs.
I met one of the stuntment/choreographer for Weaving and the other agent's. Awesome and humble dude. Also one of my friends saw a lot of filming in Redfern, Sydney. Where they used one of the Housing Commission blocks for The Oracle scene. He lived there. Saw the cast and crew a ton. One of the funniest things about the movie, to me at least, is If you look closely in the woman in the Red dress scene you can see the Commonwealth Bank logo in one shot. For a movie that tried to keep the setting and colour pallet bland, you can see this bright yellow logo.
Cave PARTY. Just one. I never got the vibe that the underground cave party was a thing they do all the time. So it didn’t bug me too much. It was Odd but not a deal breaker for me. But I get what you’re saying
Neo having powers in The Matrix is him LITERALLY rebelling against the system. Powers in the real world just makes him Superman or Jesus, it's too obvious and now the rebelling-against-the-system is kind of a confused metaphor.
This video just keeps getting better and better each second. "Oh, look. I love the Matrix," "Oh, that short film Vibrato looks interesting." "Man, I hate ads but those knifes are beautiful" "Daughter's Oscar Grouch band-aids? 10/10"
Reloaded has the best 53 minute fight scene I have ever seen in any movie. Starting with the medieval weaponry and evolving into the car chase. It was the last gasp of the franchise
Adam, your short film was amazing! As a musician, it makes me want to practice more😅. But I love the shots, editing, music, heavy atmosphere, actors. It was thoroughly entertaining and captivating!
Much agreed although Zion presented a problem it wasn’t impossible to make work in these movies. Zion was a pretty ambitious undertaking to include not just logistically production wise but from a narrative standpoint as well. The Wachchowski’s I think underestimated how much of a narrative problem including and showing Zion would be. Showing off what looks to be a perfect city in a world that’s technically apart of a robot apocalypse doesn’t exactly mix tonal or thematically. Showing a city where people have enough food, heat, air and space to live where they have the time to even have sweaty cave orgies doesn’t exactly mix where in the last movie the best food they had was soggy portage. A solution would have been to develop Zion as a city where most people are infact still poor with bearly enough food or shelter and all the resources are going to the military because the mechines are closing in on them. The one thing they do still have is community where people do help eachother out and feel a kinship to eachother. Just show us a city where people are struggling but are making it work! It would mean having to develop more of the movie in Zion as a place where the main characters are more present and going into the Matrix from that city rather than going off into their ships again to do so. This would give them the chance to interact with more of the residents within Zion and develop them as characters better so when the fight does come to Zion we the audience have had enough time to get invested. Zion is an issue that every time the sequels films move the setting to Zion the overall narrative screaches to a halt. The big highway chase in Reloaded is immediately following by a counsel meeting that completely shifts the focus away from main characters and what they just went through. All this stuff need to be better interconnected tonal, thematically and narratively.
Analysing movies and making movies (especially in hollywood) are two completely different things. Despite huge number of online reviews, YT analyses, critiques, 'how to fix' type of videos; movies are getting worse and worse. In spite of abundance of feedback from movie-goes, YT creators and professional reviewers, there is no improvement in the cinema of nowadays. There's something going on here; something that is ruining the art of filmmaking in front of our eyes. You know what it is? The culture. Culture is changing to worse and along with it, art....
Corporations bought up all the movie studios and corporations want to maximize profits at all cost. They don't like risks and they don't care about art. They're producing product, not art.
Film studios have always been corporations. That's not new. It takes a dedicated director / crew to make a good movie (but they need that corporation sized budget, can you imagine digging up the millions that go into a movie?). I remember when George Lucas descrived how he wanted to get the original Star Wars done without studio interference. (Too bad in future installments, it became the thing he set out to avoid). So, no, it's not that corporations have bought out studios. Cash grabs have always existed. The change in our culture going downhill is a better explanation.
Yes yes yes! The first Matrix was an absolute masterpiece and might just be my favorite film of all time! Everything after that was just mostly a mess to me. I couldn't agree more, it was better kept simplistic. Especially considering the concept was already complex enough on its own to keep everything around it simple.
I feel as though there was a missed opportunity with how smith was able to infect the mind of a person and come into the real world. A sequel to the third film could have revolved around the main AI trying to make peace with the humans, while secretly utilizing it's new ability gained from smith as a virus. Thus the machines are trying to escape the matrix themselves by inserting programs into the minds of humans. And of course Neo would be brought back and attempt to stop it.
Vibrato portrayed a young woman reaching deep inside herself to go beyond perfection, in order to protect her rightful place as first chair violin. But it showed that she had to practice at it a lot, as violin didn't come naturally to her.
I would personally see the scenes with the dance halls in Zion as a place where genuine feeling and sensation exists rather than "a paradise" at all. They existed in the matrix for most of their lives, where they had artificial feelings. As far as the mechs are concerned, they're all industrial machinery, not digital tools. I think that was the point that they were going for there. To dismiss both of those points as just poor choices (my words, not yours) seems disingenuous. Though I will admit the point about mythology following a franchise is spot on.
I understand people's gripes about the Matrix sequels and the ending of Lost because they are both so mythology driven. However, both The Matrix trilogy and Lost point to deep themes and truths that are universal. Both this movie and the show, Lost, deal with the self and sacrifice and a dozen other universal themes. If you loved Reloaded and Revolutions, you will definitely love all of Lost. But, I think Lost was easier to understand and it had far more emotion than The Matrix, but even if you didn't like Reloaded or Revolutions, you would still like Lost.
Agree with the points made in the video. But coming to comment on the epic movie at the end! Fantastic work!!! The tension and emotions so well displayed by the great acting and camera focus. Tells so much story without a single word.
That's my problem with the Marvel movies. Even as a fan who likes most of them, I am so bloody sick of the idea that every film has to be more epic than the last. Infinity War/End Game were good, but they has problems. They would have been better as one film. They push the epic escalation any further and it'll fall apart. They seem to understand this, hence the smaller, more self contained stories they've been releasing on Disney +. With mixed results, sure, but they haven't released a franchise killer, and have released some good stuff. Sometimes you need to take a step back and just make a good story. Just look at the Mandolorian vs the Disney Star Wars movies.
All works because the first Matrix takes itself serious and doesn’t retcon the Heroe’s journey nor it’s meta. It’s an anomaly, that should not work, though- because the mix of multiple genres and styles of cinema. But its core remains a classic hero’s journey. Both sequels and Matrix 4 are “post-modernist” filmmaking- that is never as good as the classical approach. The best movies are “classic” for a reason: T2, Alien, Aliens, LOTR, The Mummy, Indiana Johnes, Blade, Dark City etc.
I just love the second movie, not for it's story, just for it's over the top action. The physics are so insane that I just can't believe people came up with that.
First of all, your short was amazing. Very well done! And as for the Matrix trilogy, the first is one of the greatest action films of all time. I have seen the sequels but can't bring myself to watch them again. I've tried but can't get through them. It's rather heartbreaking. And due to the reviews on the new release, I have not seen it and don't know if I will...
After I first saw the end of reloaded I had hoped Neo somehow gained “One” powers in the real world but it was tearing him apart to use them. But then they abandoned most of that during Revolutions, so Neo didn’t physically struggle; just the stability of the Matrix. I also never saw Zion as comfort in Reloaded. More a stop-gap before human race ceases. As if there was an undercurrent of tension just to live in this dystopia and the mass party and moments of personal character reflection were venting of that tension; much like screaming into the void. To me it felt they expounded nebulously in Reloaded and that became muddled and unsure what to focus upon in Revolutions.
I feel like they needed to hold off on getting out of the Matrix until the 3rd movie or end of the 2nd. Philosophically, and imaginatively, what the real world actually was was the biggest question the movie had. By the 2nd movie youre like............oh...............sewers.
reloaded with the right edit and the removal of 90% of zion would get us near to a very good movie. revolutions is a lost cause. in saying that, it would have been far better that there were never any sequels
Eh, I disagree. I find that how the real world and the Matrix were dependant upon each other and interlinked is a good aspect of the worldbuilding. It's a fundamental aspect of it, and if anything it's not really a "moment the series died" moment but more of a "I don't like how they showed the lore" moment.
I think The Matrix died the moment Neo stopped the sentinels in the real world, that twist cornered the creators because its implications on the mythology would have changed the entire story, but they only explained it with a line of dialogue from the oracle: the one has powers in the real world, which is BS because Neo is just a tool for the machines and can only bend the rules of The Matrix although he's not the one (as MatPat explained in Film theory, the real one is Agent Smith who reshapes The Matrix accordingly to his will). Congratulations on the short film and thanx for sharing it with us!!! It looks great, Raging Bull, but with violins instead of boxing!! :)
I think that if revolutions was good if not great, the matrix would’ve been amazing. Reloaded is great but it so heavily relies on answers and payoffs TAHT should’ve happened in revolutions.
It has been so long since I watch a hate letter to the Matrix sequels, I've almost missed them. Don't get me wrong you did an excellent job intellectualizing your reason, and you are clear and you do bring your receipts. Here's the thing. You're talking about the Matrix, a literal phenomenon. There are movies and there are phenomena. For instance, Goodfellas is a movie. It's an excellent movie, but it's still a movie. When you think of Goodfellas you think of a great movie. Very intense. Very cultural. Godfather was a phenomenon. it completely changed gangster movies into mobster movies. It completely murdered the Sam Peckenpaw style G-Man against the gang movie and made about the Mafia a Family. Mafia conspiracy theories did not exist until after the Godfather. We can quote Goodfellas, Goodfather changed language. And every movie that's come along since Godfather tries to be Godfather. There you cannot talk about Godfather a just a movie. If you leave out the era it came out, it affects the pop culture zeitgeist and the people who made it, you're leaving out too much of the bigger picture. That's the flaw with Matrix sequel hate letters. You guys think it's about plot mechanics and story, character and theme. And it is. But trying to examine the Matrix and it's sequels without examining everything around it is like hating Obama because he was just a president. You're not dealing with "just a movie and its sequels." You're dealing with popular culture, the bedrock of any organized society. With the Matrix you go big or go home your you just make a hate letter to its sequels. And don't get me wrong, I did like your video essay very much. I just know where this comes from, and it has everything to do with the Wachowski sisters. The Matrix is not just a movie, you can't leave them out or flip past them as if their influence isn't important to the movie and its sequels. Especially since all subtext became text in the Matrix Ressurections.
The problem with the sequels is it forgot what made the first successful. Watching the actors actually perform the fight scenes. Having CGI Neo and Smith dropped below the first film with that alone. But it didnt stop there. Smith died. But like the problem with Stranger Things..the popularity of the character pushed them to bring him back. Stranger Things was a one season story and was suppose to be over.. But it was milked more than a tit. Strike two for forcing a return of the first movies final bad guy back..strike three was beating the audience over the head with exposition. Show dont tell. They have this amazing looking film that makes no idea seem unfilmable..yet we dont see it..its just told tocus in long winded horribly written info dumps that are ambiguous its simply pretentious. Three strikes by the second film. The same "story" that took three Matrix films to say were done better in one film one year prior. And that would be Dark City.
Um, so what surrounding context did he leave off when talking about the matrix sequals? 9/11? Wars in the middle east? Although, I don't think of the Matrix as a phenomenon, just a popular movie series. I hardly see the effects of it on life or future movies (not counting the overdone slow-mo lean back to dodge bullets parodies that were overdone for a bit)
For me it wasn't one single moment that killed The Matrix, it was more like "death by 1,000 cuts", little moments that add up to make it stink. Like most of the talking scenes, long-winded speeches, most characters' flat delivery, not adequately explaining new characters and ideas (like The Merovingian and Persephone) and that VERY silly cave rave (which mainly told me the Watchowskis might have been rave kids).
Guys, coming from six days in the future, the new Matrix is where they dig up the corpse, kill it again, and then make ironic references to the fact they are doing it so it's fine.
I see that the portrayal of Zion is problematic. But its advantages dont get stressed enough: It beuatifully shows how pivotal the ability to enjoy ecstasy, state of euphoria, pleasure and passionate love in the human nature really is. It functions as a clear contrast to the machine world. All these "tribal" features of the human nature deserve a place in the franchise.
Thank you for a very interesting and well made video. I'm glad RUclips recommended it. Most of the time on RUclips I find myself immediately agreeing with a video, or immediately disagreeing, but this is a rare in-between case. You make a clear, well stated argument about the Matrix storyline that has the ring of truth to it... but I don't think I can quite agree with you. I would have agreed with you back in 2003 when the sequels felt like a real letdown, but I've watched the series a number of times since then and come to appreciate all three films on their individual merits. The thing I like most about Reloaded is the way it subverts our expectations and changes the nature of the conflict. It isn't going to be more kung fu fighting in the Matrix (at least not entirely), since there's now the larger world of Zion to think about and a larger conflict that Neo can't win. Then Revolutions changes everything again by making the fight against Agent Smith the central conflict. I don't see how the series could have progressed without Zion, or at least some way to change the conflict from what it was at the end of the first movie, because that movie ended in an unwinnable stalemate: Neo wanted to wake people up, but doing so would end their lives because the machines could just dump the power pods and start again. The machines held all the power. They needed to expand the world of the movies and change the nature of the conflict, but I agree with you that Zion was not well developed. It couldn't be beautiful or comfortable, because that would conflict with the idea in first movie that life outside of the matrix was dirty and desperate. But they could still have developed better, more likable characters. I agree with you that the battle for Zion is mostly just a visual spectacle without narrative impact, because the characters involved meant nothing to us.
I think you cannot analyze the trilogy isolated without talking about animatrix and the games released to have a better understanding of the Matrix universe. I love all the movies and you can see memorable moments in them, but Matrix Resurrections tried the opposite way of everything we liked in this franchise.
What should I explore next in my ongoing Day ___ Died series?
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American horror story , Supernatural , Grey's Anatomy and Scandal
For me, it was when they used CGI to 'enhance' the action with Neo vs. the Smiths in Reloaded. The moment he starts swinging the pole around and it became cartoonish, I can remember laughing out loud in the theater and losing all of whatever momentum I had in loving the movie series from that moment on. :(
Yup yup yup.
The final battle in Revolutions was straight up full-blown Dragon Ball Z 😅
It looked cartoonish because there were too many Smiths and Artchitect had to lower graphics, he couldn't maintain 24 FPS on ultra settings with so many agents.
10% over the top but still one of the best scenes ever especially shmits monologe and the beginning of the fight
I'll tell you the day The Matrix didn't die; The Animatrix... Never saw a movie continue to tell other stories/world build like that back then, and haven't really seen much since, except recently for Star Wars Visions maybe. Animatrix was solid through and through.
OMG yes. The Animatrix was nothing short of brilliant. Now that is how you do sequels and expand on the world you have created. If only the creators realized that before making this 4th one.
Man Star Wars visions could’ve been so good, too bad it got disneyfied
Halo Legends be like
@@four-en-tee I was hoping someone said this.
Don’t give them all of the credit, Yuen Woo-Ping was the fight choreographer, who’s 76 now and still needed to be back for the 4th matrix.
maybe...I actually think the bad choerography of matrix 4, in addition to the dated directorial techniques, enhance the movie's thesis. it's supposed to be kind of shitty.
Agent Smith in the real world was wasted potential. It would have been great to have him feel scared and powerless when he's just another human.
The problem with Zion is that before Reloaded, we were only told of what Zion was, and we were left to our imaginations. But when Reloaded finally came out, we got to see and experience exactly what Zion was… a giant underground sh*thole. It was because of that stupid rave/mass orgy scene that I started rooting for the machines lol. As Cypher said, if I have to choose between that and the Matrix, I choose the Matrix.
Yeah, Zion was so lame & boring. I agree with you, keep it hidden & in our imaginations.
WAIT!!! It could've been a Moses-esque goal that Neo was working towards, save the crew and/or deliver them to the "Promise land". Then you bring it in ag the end and let Neo see what he fought for.
Back in 2003, I remember reading critics walked out of movie theathers during the rave scene.
Zion is the real simulation, the simulacra in the real. The dreamworld of the writers played as real in the movie, pure simulation
I haven’t watched it yet past the first 2 minutes and I already see an insane improvement in your editing skills
Hey, thanks so much. I appreciate that.
I would love a follow up to this, going into the new Matrix film. Talk about what works and what doesn't, talk about where the new film tried to get back on track and where it derailed.
Yeah come back here and let me know what you think!
Spoiler: Nothing worked, it never tried to get back on track.
Unpopular Opinion: Matrix Reloaded is my favourite Matrix film.
I think it would of been more interesting to have maybe more characters like Cipher who maybe wanted to star in the Matrix so instead of a giant mech battle we maybe had a debate
I think this I the Canon from the games.
A debate in an action movie? 🥱
@@willier47 I was just suggesting cause theres so much action in the movie lol
A debate about what? Revolutions is about the end of a debate. Two irreconcilable philosophies coming to blows.
I disagree with a lot of your points but you do these documentaries very well
Fair enough! Thanks for watching.
I'll probably skip Resurrection for the same reason I skipped Terminator: Dark Fate - some series need to know when to end.
I think while not as good as the original, Reloaded was pretty good, the action sequences were insane (still waiting for something to top that highway chase scene), and it expanded the lore A LOT, suddenly The Matrix felt HUGE, and it wasnt just about humans wanting to be free, there were factions within the machines fighting for control, Smith becoming a virus, the exiles...
And then the twist at the end, it works...it works really good.
The problem was that they never knew what to do with it, so they just remade the same ending as in the first movie; Neo is the one, dies fighting Smith, saves the human race.
However, while a generic ending, it wasnt insulting...as certain movie would prove 18 years later...
Captain America SUCKS😡
@@dpax2195 tf?!?
I just finished your short-film and it was awesome. I really would recommend anybody watching it with headphones on, or preferably in a surrounding theatre-like sound system. The dialogue between camera and audio really sells the whole thing (specially that last shot). Great work!
I watched it, well listened to it. Not a big fan of the violin, so.... is it supposed to evoke pain?
Thanks so much. Really glad that you enjoyed it.
I mean... I guess watch it first? It's a silent film so you're not going to get much without watching it.
@@jcdf2 Well, being a short film you're supposed to watch it.
@@16CharlyV I did.
The drunken barn dance is exactly where the Matrix died for me.
The awkward mud orgy with a drawn out awkward sex scene and the cherry on top..the matrix code vagina exploding with an orgasm scene. God damn the first film should have stayed a single film.
Back in 2003, I remember reading critics walked out of movie theathers during the rave scene.
Anyway, I didnt hate the scene as much as most people did, it served a purpose; to show humans having sex and pretty much expresing love, something machines couldnt do...until Revolutions came out, and aparently not only machine can fall in love, thay can have children (?)
@@Jose-se9pu the scene wasn’t even THAT bad, I can’t imagine walking out of a movie I paid for over that scene
@@Jose-se9pu it’s not abnormal, if a virus like Smith can learn to adapt, then programs can love and make other programs
What drunken barn dance?
I would suggest that for April Fools' Day (yes, it is a long time away) that you create a "The Day ___ Died" for a movie series where the answer is laughably obvious, such a series with a first good movie followed by a terrible movie. Titles that come to mind "The Day Zoolander Died" or "The Day Dumb and Dumber Died." I'm sure that there are many more movie series to play with... but I'm sure that you get the point. Again, this just a suggestion so no pressure.
While I personally liked Reloaded, here’s how I think it could be improved:
Basically redo Aliens.
Here me out. Introduce the new crew (Niobe and the others), but remove Zion. That way, the world is fleshed out yet you keep the feeling of solitude. Then in Revolutions, you can add in the concept of how everything’s in a loop and nothing matters, adding extra stakes to change the outcome. After Neo dies, THEN have the survivors create Zion as a safe space. Resurrections can then focus on Neo seeing Zion for the first time as a result of his sacrifice.
The first Matrix was closer to a spy thriller. The second two were closer to straight action. Although that transition worked for the Alien movies (from horror/thriller to action for Aliens), the first was so explicitly cerebral that the second felt like it was appealing to an entirely different audience.
I've been rewatching the Matrix movies this past week, and I'm coming to the idea that an ideal trilogy structure would be something like a thriller for the first movie (a la Matrix and Alien), a more straightforward action flick for the second that takes what's gained in the first and allows the protagonist(s) to really flex that, then some kind of horror film for the third as the system being fought against recognizes that these upstarts pose a genuine threat to the status quo and starts pulling out the stops to fight back, showing the protagonist(s) may not have quite realized exactly what they're getting into.
Thank you I’ve been saying this for years
You have capitalism and communism back to front. Communism is about conforming to central authoritarianism and enforced equity, capitalism is about free reign individualism and self-determination.
This.
Thank you.
If you're going to talk about a film inspired by Asian culture, you need to acknowledge the difference between the tyranny of collectivism vs the freedom of individuality.
I mostly agree, except I think the futility of Neo and Smith’s battles in Reloaded and Revolutions perfectly set up the more existential, non-physical way that Neo had to defeat him once and for all.
Your take (that making Zion a nice place to live robs the matrix of the existential conflict of freedom vs comfort) is spot on. Great observation.
Thank you!
Is Zion nice to live in? Seems to me like its a hole in the ground that they barely scrape by in.
Not quite ok with that. If Zion had been an absolute awful place to live, there would have been a lot more treators like Cypher.
And let's be honest: Zion is not such a great place to live neither. Imagine spending your whole life in a (very big) bunker...
@@pw6002 it may not be aesthetically pleasing, but Reloaded takes it time to show that the community is strong, raves are plentiful and everyone is perfectly happy with their choice to red pill. And yes, there would be more Cyphers… that would have been interesting. Cypher is one of many reasons why the first matrix is brilliant and everything else is… not.
I remember the first time I watched the second movie I was convinced that Neo using his powers in the real world meant it wasn't actually the real world, but another layer of the Matrix (Young Me had latched on to the whole "humanity objected utopia so we made earth kinda shitty and then they fell for the illusion" line way too hard). Then I immediately watched the third afterwards and just left kinda confused.
It might have been predictable or trite, but I think if that had been the route they were going - and maybe that Neo was the first person to 'wake up' to the actual reality/third layer, and that's how he's the actual "one" - it would at least make Zion's inclusion make a bit more sense. Of course they have a giant city that's a resistance hub. That's what the machine want them to think they have.
That would have been a really cool way to go. Bleak. But cool.
My thoughts exactly after seeing the second movie. I was wondering if the real world had been repaired by the machines, but the humans won't be let into it until they prove that they've lost their combative nature.
And the real reality is the machines are fragile and weak and are barely staying alive. So they MUST keep humanity "asleep" or a real Zion lile scenario would topple their crumbling robot world. The illusion they are strong and humans are weak. It would have been great to see Neo forge a truce where they could live together.
It was because Neo talked to the Architect in another server where he connected to the code of all machines and even became "the one" in the real world. The one is defined as "able to manipulate the matrix (machines)."
@@SOULFORESAKER so...The One is just a human with Bluetooth capabilities?
The day that Matrix died for me was when I watched Animatrix and realised it was the humans that caused all the problems.
Dueling violins. Love that moment when the music stand fell and she felt that moment of dread. The sound effects added were great which added to the short. I listened with headphones on which heightened the scenes
Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed it.
The Matrix is more about repeat viewings and analysis. I get how that's annoying for most people. There's many themes and ideas to talk about in the trilogy, but with the final act of Reloaded, we see a theme that occurs in our own lives. That theme being what do you when what you believed so strongly turns out to not to be true? How do you find purpose after that? How do you find meaning? You have to believe that you can continue after all you believed fell apart or was never true.
It's a good idea, but the remainder of Reloaded and Revolutions never really explore it to any significant extent. Not even with Morpheus, who should be the ideal character to use for that: you get the bit where Morpheus reacts to Neo relaying what the Architect said, and then his reaction to the Neb being destroyed, but after that I don't think it comes up in Revolutions at all.
Is there going to be a follow up essay on ressurrections cuz ...oooo boy
I recently re-watched the matrix movies and I can honestly say I think the franchise died when Neo talked with the architect. it’s just confusing and pulls the audience out of the movie completely.
Your film short had amazing sound design!! Well done 👍
Also: If the Matrix series died with the sequels, Resurrections just took a dump on its corpse. It's laughably terrible
Thanks for watching my short film. Glad you dug it.
Even “Resurrections” couldn’t revive it.
It was one good film that it’s sequels never build upon in the themes or story. Just like Jurassic Park. Predator. Die Hard. Rambo. A lot of action movies And nearly all horror series.
Since when was the matrix a beloved franchise? Seems to me it was a beloved movie with some hated sequels
Haha YEP
I love all 3 movies and think the story is satisfying. Fight me
We enjoyed the matrix 1 because it obeyed the path of the heroes journey. It was a rite of passage. The other two films showed how the sausage was made and we discovered we were vegetarian. The first follow the initiation of a Neophytes into the order of the A°A° even the interview with the Archangel ( architect) is in the film. The other two were fractals of matrix 1 but they moved too far off the well traveled path placing the viewer in an uncanny valley of unfamiliarity.
This is going to hurt since I love everything Matrix. But I have to watch this because I love your videos, too.
Why do mommy and daddy have to fight?! Is it my fault? >_>'
Let the pain begin... _clicks 'play'_
Haha. I hope my thoughts didn't hurt too badly!
The latest really made me appreciate the first film so much more in retrospective, and made me come to realize that for me, what the Matrix was was a loving tribute to vast sci-fi ideas and hong kong/japanese action cinema and anime. That's why the first film and Animatrix sit so much better for me than the sequels and reboot-quel. People poo-poo on the first film all the time and calling it not original or plagiarism or this and that, but I still sense there was a genuine passion in the simplicity of that first film and Animatrix and then everything after just felt like the Wachowski's were trying to get more high minded than they should have been and something felt lost in that pursuit....
In my opinion, the Matrix died when the Fourth was greenlit
The Matrix Reloaded was great. Revolutions should’ve been cut down to a hour and made Reloaded a three hour movie
The wild thing is before the matrix 2 came out there was a fake script on the internet I can’t find anymore that was actually BETTER than the final film we got. It was actually deep and had some violence and multiple smiths hunting Neo.
Dnno why we didn’t get that film and I wonder if ANYONE even knows what I’m talking about.
My feeling exactly. It was the introduction of Zion that ruined The Matrix. I never really thought why. I just knew the rave took me out of the story. A story I absolutely adored. Vibrato was very well made. Did they do their own violin stunts/playing? Loved their expressions, and their grudging competition. Oh, and I love a metronome. Reminds me of long ago practices. Maybe The Day ER Died. I know, a TV show, but I loved it, and then somewhere along the line I totally lost interest. Maybe it was too many new characters like John Stamos. Maybe it was when they’d bring back a beloved character, like Susan and Deb, and gave them nothing to do, and in Deb’s case ruined the character. Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching my short film. Glad you enjoyed it. I had some professional musicians record the music first and then I had different actors play along with the recording on set. The actors are violinists too who did a good job faking it, but they didn't play the music on set.
5:34 My favourite part of Matrix Resurrection was when Neo had a Mexican stand-off with Tuco whose gun he had emptied the night before so he could shoot Angel Eyes and ride off with all the gold leaving Tuco in a noose.
lmao I never stopped to ask why in the original trilogy the machines never built or flew anything over the clouds..? like the sun was right there? flying robotic squids but no space programs.
The first movie was a complete story , it didn't need sequels
I met one of the stuntment/choreographer for Weaving and the other agent's. Awesome and humble dude.
Also one of my friends saw a lot of filming in Redfern, Sydney. Where they used one of the Housing Commission blocks for The Oracle scene. He lived there. Saw the cast and crew a ton.
One of the funniest things about the movie, to me at least, is If you look closely in the woman in the Red dress scene you can see the Commonwealth Bank logo in one shot. For a movie that tried to keep the setting and colour pallet bland, you can see this bright yellow logo.
Cave PARTY. Just one. I never got the vibe that the underground cave party was a thing they do all the time. So it didn’t bug me too much. It was Odd but not a deal breaker for me. But I get what you’re saying
Neo having powers in The Matrix is him LITERALLY rebelling against the system. Powers in the real world just makes him Superman or Jesus, it's too obvious and now the rebelling-against-the-system is kind of a confused metaphor.
This video just keeps getting better and better each second.
"Oh, look. I love the Matrix,"
"Oh, that short film Vibrato looks interesting."
"Man, I hate ads but those knifes are beautiful"
"Daughter's Oscar Grouch band-aids? 10/10"
:) !!! Hope you enjoyed the entire video.
Reloaded has the best 53 minute fight scene I have ever seen in any movie. Starting with the medieval weaponry and evolving into the car chase. It was the last gasp of the franchise
He lost me when he called zion a paradise. Living in zion is a life of constant struggles.
Adam, your short film was amazing! As a musician, it makes me want to practice more😅. But I love the shots, editing, music, heavy atmosphere, actors. It was thoroughly entertaining and captivating!
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you checking it out and sharing some kind words.
Much agreed although Zion presented a problem it wasn’t impossible to make work in these movies. Zion was a pretty ambitious undertaking to include not just logistically production wise but from a narrative standpoint as well. The Wachchowski’s I think underestimated how much of a narrative problem including and showing Zion would be. Showing off what looks to be a perfect city in a world that’s technically apart of a robot apocalypse doesn’t exactly mix tonal or thematically. Showing a city where people have enough food, heat, air and space to live where they have the time to even have sweaty cave orgies doesn’t exactly mix where in the last movie the best food they had was soggy portage.
A solution would have been to develop Zion as a city where most people are infact still poor with bearly enough food or shelter and all the resources are going to the military because the mechines are closing in on them. The one thing they do still have is community where people do help eachother out and feel a kinship to eachother. Just show us a city where people are struggling but are making it work! It would mean having to develop more of the movie in Zion as a place where the main characters are more present and going into the Matrix from that city rather than going off into their ships again to do so. This would give them the chance to interact with more of the residents within Zion and develop them as characters better so when the fight does come to Zion we the audience have had enough time to get invested.
Zion is an issue that every time the sequels films move the setting to Zion the overall narrative screaches to a halt. The big highway chase in Reloaded is immediately following by a counsel meeting that completely shifts the focus away from main characters and what they just went through. All this stuff need to be better interconnected tonal, thematically and narratively.
Analysing movies and making movies (especially in hollywood) are two completely different things. Despite huge number of online reviews, YT analyses, critiques, 'how to fix' type of videos; movies are getting worse and worse. In spite of abundance of feedback from movie-goes, YT creators and professional reviewers, there is no improvement in the cinema of nowadays.
There's something going on here; something that is ruining the art of filmmaking in front of our eyes. You know what it is? The culture.
Culture is changing to worse and along with it, art....
Corporations bought up all the movie studios and corporations want to maximize profits at all cost. They don't like risks and they don't care about art. They're producing product, not art.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm I agree
Film studios have always been corporations. That's not new. It takes a dedicated director / crew to make a good movie (but they need that corporation sized budget, can you imagine digging up the millions that go into a movie?).
I remember when George Lucas descrived how he wanted to get the original Star Wars done without studio interference. (Too bad in future installments, it became the thing he set out to avoid).
So, no, it's not that corporations have bought out studios. Cash grabs have always existed. The change in our culture going downhill is a better explanation.
Gladly first Matrix perfectly works as a standalone movie.
Yes yes yes!
The first Matrix was an absolute masterpiece and might just be my favorite film of all time! Everything after that was just mostly a mess to me. I couldn't agree more, it was better kept simplistic. Especially considering the concept was already complex enough on its own to keep everything around it simple.
I feel as though there was a missed opportunity with how smith was able to infect the mind of a person and come into the real world. A sequel to the third film could have revolved around the main AI trying to make peace with the humans, while secretly utilizing it's new ability gained from smith as a virus. Thus the machines are trying to escape the matrix themselves by inserting programs into the minds of humans. And of course Neo would be brought back and attempt to stop it.
The Matrix died in 2003 when *Reloaded* was released.... Every other Sequel was Just another Nail in the coffin.
Vibrato portrayed a young woman reaching deep inside herself to go beyond perfection, in order to protect her rightful place as first chair violin. But it showed that she had to practice at it a lot, as violin didn't come naturally to her.
Thanks for watching the short film!
I would personally see the scenes with the dance halls in Zion as a place where genuine feeling and sensation exists rather than "a paradise" at all. They existed in the matrix for most of their lives, where they had artificial feelings.
As far as the mechs are concerned, they're all industrial machinery, not digital tools. I think that was the point that they were going for there. To dismiss both of those points as just poor choices (my words, not yours) seems disingenuous.
Though I will admit the point about mythology following a franchise is spot on.
I understand people's gripes about the Matrix sequels and the ending of Lost because they are both so mythology driven. However, both The Matrix trilogy and Lost point to deep themes and truths that are universal. Both this movie and the show, Lost, deal with the self and sacrifice and a dozen other universal themes. If you loved Reloaded and Revolutions, you will definitely love all of Lost. But, I think Lost was easier to understand and it had far more emotion than The Matrix, but even if you didn't like Reloaded or Revolutions, you would still like Lost.
It only works if Zion also exists within the Matrix, albeit unbeknownst to its inhabitants
HOLY SHIT!!! WHAT A SHORT!!! FOR SOMEONE HOW IS WORKING ON HIS BLACK AND WHITE FEATURE... THIS IS WHAT I NEED IT!
Thank you!! So glad you enjoyed it. And best of luck with your b&w film!
Agree with the points made in the video.
But coming to comment on the epic movie at the end! Fantastic work!!! The tension and emotions so well displayed by the great acting and camera focus. Tells so much story without a single word.
That's my problem with the Marvel movies. Even as a fan who likes most of them, I am so bloody sick of the idea that every film has to be more epic than the last. Infinity War/End Game were good, but they has problems. They would have been better as one film. They push the epic escalation any further and it'll fall apart. They seem to understand this, hence the smaller, more self contained stories they've been releasing on Disney +. With mixed results, sure, but they haven't released a franchise killer, and have released some good stuff. Sometimes you need to take a step back and just make a good story. Just look at the Mandolorian vs the Disney Star Wars movies.
The Wachowskis are one-hit wonders.
All works because the first Matrix takes itself serious and doesn’t retcon the Heroe’s journey nor it’s meta. It’s an anomaly, that should not work, though- because the mix of multiple genres and styles of cinema. But its core remains a classic hero’s journey.
Both sequels and Matrix 4 are “post-modernist” filmmaking- that is never as good as the classical approach. The best movies are “classic” for a reason: T2, Alien, Aliens, LOTR, The Mummy, Indiana Johnes, Blade, Dark City etc.
I would say The Matrix died with The Matrix Resurrections...fate it seems, is not without a sense of irony
The Wachowskis bought into their own delusions wholesale. The product suffers if the creator loses their way.
Is it really a beloved franchise though? I mean, a lot of people love Marrix 1. But 2 and 3? Not so much.
Your film is beautifully shot! Love the sound design.
There is only one Matrix movie.
I just love the second movie, not for it's story, just for it's over the top action. The physics are so insane that I just can't believe people came up with that.
Always worth the time :) thanks for another awesome retrospective!
Thanks so much!
I officially hate the violin now lmao!!
First of all, your short was amazing. Very well done!
And as for the Matrix trilogy, the first is one of the greatest action films of all time. I have seen the sequels but can't bring myself to watch them again. I've tried but can't get through them. It's rather heartbreaking. And due to the reviews on the new release, I have not seen it and don't know if I will...
Shout out to William Gibson. Johnny Pneumonic is a great short story. The movie is like a lesson in why “artists” can’t just decide to be directors.
I want... ROOM SERVICE!!!
After I first saw the end of reloaded I had hoped Neo somehow gained “One” powers in the real world but it was tearing him apart to use them. But then they abandoned most of that during Revolutions, so Neo didn’t physically struggle; just the stability of the Matrix.
I also never saw Zion as comfort in Reloaded. More a stop-gap before human race ceases. As if there was an undercurrent of tension just to live in this dystopia and the mass party and moments of personal character reflection were venting of that tension; much like screaming into the void.
To me it felt they expounded nebulously in Reloaded and that became muddled and unsure what to focus upon in Revolutions.
I feel like they needed to hold off on getting out of the Matrix until the 3rd movie or end of the 2nd. Philosophically, and imaginatively, what the real world actually was was the biggest question the movie had. By the 2nd movie youre like............oh...............sewers.
reloaded with the right edit and the removal of 90% of zion would get us near to a very good movie. revolutions is a lost cause. in saying that, it would have been far better that there were never any sequels
Eh, I disagree. I find that how the real world and the Matrix were dependant upon each other and interlinked is a good aspect of the worldbuilding. It's a fundamental aspect of it, and if anything it's not really a "moment the series died" moment but more of a "I don't like how they showed the lore" moment.
I think The Matrix died the moment Neo stopped the sentinels in the real world, that twist cornered the creators because its implications on the mythology would have changed the entire story, but they only explained it with a line of dialogue from the oracle: the one has powers in the real world, which is BS because Neo is just a tool for the machines and can only bend the rules of The Matrix although he's not the one (as MatPat explained in Film theory, the real one is Agent Smith who reshapes The Matrix accordingly to his will). Congratulations on the short film and thanx for sharing it with us!!! It looks great, Raging Bull, but with violins instead of boxing!! :)
Thanks so much! The Raging Bull boxing matches were a huge influence into my film. Nice catch!
I think that if revolutions was good if not great, the matrix would’ve been amazing. Reloaded is great but it so heavily relies on answers and payoffs TAHT should’ve happened in revolutions.
It has been so long since I watch a hate letter to the Matrix sequels, I've almost missed them. Don't get me wrong you did an excellent job intellectualizing your reason, and you are clear and you do bring your receipts. Here's the thing. You're talking about the Matrix, a literal phenomenon. There are movies and there are phenomena. For instance, Goodfellas is a movie. It's an excellent movie, but it's still a movie. When you think of Goodfellas you think of a great movie. Very intense. Very cultural. Godfather was a phenomenon. it completely changed gangster movies into mobster movies. It completely murdered the Sam Peckenpaw style G-Man against the gang movie and made about the Mafia a Family. Mafia conspiracy theories did not exist until after the Godfather. We can quote Goodfellas, Goodfather changed language. And every movie that's come along since Godfather tries to be Godfather. There you cannot talk about Godfather a just a movie. If you leave out the era it came out, it affects the pop culture zeitgeist and the people who made it, you're leaving out too much of the bigger picture. That's the flaw with Matrix sequel hate letters. You guys think it's about plot mechanics and story, character and theme. And it is. But trying to examine the Matrix and it's sequels without examining everything around it is like hating Obama because he was just a president. You're not dealing with "just a movie and its sequels." You're dealing with popular culture, the bedrock of any organized society. With the Matrix you go big or go home your you just make a hate letter to its sequels. And don't get me wrong, I did like your video essay very much. I just know where this comes from, and it has everything to do with the Wachowski sisters. The Matrix is not just a movie, you can't leave them out or flip past them as if their influence isn't important to the movie and its sequels. Especially since all subtext became text in the Matrix Ressurections.
The problem with the sequels is it forgot what made the first successful. Watching the actors actually perform the fight scenes. Having CGI Neo and Smith dropped below the first film with that alone. But it didnt stop there. Smith died. But like the problem with Stranger Things..the popularity of the character pushed them to bring him back. Stranger Things was a one season story and was suppose to be over.. But it was milked more than a tit. Strike two for forcing a return of the first movies final bad guy back..strike three was beating the audience over the head with exposition. Show dont tell. They have this amazing looking film that makes no idea seem unfilmable..yet we dont see it..its just told tocus in long winded horribly written info dumps that are ambiguous its simply pretentious. Three strikes by the second film. The same "story" that took three Matrix films to say were done better in one film one year prior. And that would be Dark City.
Um, so what surrounding context did he leave off when talking about the matrix sequals? 9/11? Wars in the middle east?
Although, I don't think of the Matrix as a phenomenon, just a popular movie series. I hardly see the effects of it on life or future movies (not counting the overdone slow-mo lean back to dodge bullets parodies that were overdone for a bit)
@Jabberwockybird there is a whole community of people who calls them self red pills because of this movie.
21:50 Was the day that the review died and the concerto "film" begins
For me it wasn't one single moment that killed The Matrix, it was more like "death by 1,000 cuts", little moments that add up to make it stink. Like most of the talking scenes, long-winded speeches, most characters' flat delivery, not adequately explaining new characters and ideas (like The Merovingian and Persephone) and that VERY silly cave rave (which mainly told me the Watchowskis might have been rave kids).
Resurrections was so bad i can't believe it...
Fantastic analysis and very insightful! I learned a thing or two. Thanks for making this video.
Guys, coming from six days in the future, the new Matrix is where they dig up the corpse, kill it again, and then make ironic references to the fact they are doing it so it's fine.
The sequels just feel like they got budget and decided to go 'bigger' and 'better' not much thought into them though
Nice Essay and Short to boot. Marry Christmas.
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you!
Obviously I came here to watch a video about the matrix, but I ended up sticking around for the short film and it was actually really good!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
The Day The Matrix Died : When Keanus appear with is long hair in the trailer
Wait... is John Wick named John Wick... because of John Wu?!
*Mind Blown*
Immediately following the credits of the first movie
I think the Wachowski's level of creativity was directly tied to their levels of testosterone.
I see that the portrayal of Zion is problematic. But its advantages dont get stressed enough: It beuatifully shows how pivotal the ability to enjoy ecstasy, state of euphoria, pleasure and passionate love in the human nature really is. It functions as a clear contrast to the machine world. All these "tribal" features of the human nature deserve a place in the franchise.
I wanted to give two likes.
One for the commentary and one for Vibrato.
Thank you for a very interesting and well made video. I'm glad RUclips recommended it.
Most of the time on RUclips I find myself immediately agreeing with a video, or immediately disagreeing, but this is a rare in-between case. You make a clear, well stated argument about the Matrix storyline that has the ring of truth to it... but I don't think I can quite agree with you. I would have agreed with you back in 2003 when the sequels felt like a real letdown, but I've watched the series a number of times since then and come to appreciate all three films on their individual merits.
The thing I like most about Reloaded is the way it subverts our expectations and changes the nature of the conflict. It isn't going to be more kung fu fighting in the Matrix (at least not entirely), since there's now the larger world of Zion to think about and a larger conflict that Neo can't win. Then Revolutions changes everything again by making the fight against Agent Smith the central conflict.
I don't see how the series could have progressed without Zion, or at least some way to change the conflict from what it was at the end of the first movie, because that movie ended in an unwinnable stalemate: Neo wanted to wake people up, but doing so would end their lives because the machines could just dump the power pods and start again. The machines held all the power.
They needed to expand the world of the movies and change the nature of the conflict, but I agree with you that Zion was not well developed. It couldn't be beautiful or comfortable, because that would conflict with the idea in first movie that life outside of the matrix was dirty and desperate. But they could still have developed better, more likable characters. I agree with you that the battle for Zion is mostly just a visual spectacle without narrative impact, because the characters involved meant nothing to us.
I think you cannot analyze the trilogy isolated without talking about animatrix and the games released to have a better understanding of the Matrix universe. I love all the movies and you can see memorable moments in them, but Matrix Resurrections tried the opposite way of everything we liked in this franchise.
I didn't even watch the Matrix 2 because I thought it pretty much ended at the end of the 1st film. Its not a story you can add a sequel to.
I love the elk! Great video keep the series going
Thank you!! :)
Welp so much for being hyped about the new movie.