Hard to overstate its significance. We walked out of the theater doubting our very reality. There was nothing like it up until that movie. I bet I returned to see it again at least three or four times before the DVD came out. One of the greatest films ever made. There has been no movie in my lifetime that more dramatically cut cinema into a before and an after.
No kidding on being grateful - esp if you live in this country where you've just about won the lottery in terms of how much of the world works and how much more you had to work to survive at previous times in history.
There are so many things I could say about The Matrix, but you talk about the making of a film, and The Matrix Revisited is the first time I ever saw a documentary about the making of a film being a wholly separate DVD release from the film itself. Sadly I did not go to the 25th anniversary showing at the local theater that happened recently.
That's a good point. The Matrix felt like one of the first times we saw BTS of the entire process. They knew they were doing something special and documented everything.
top 5 greatest flix of all time. man, some of the major world bending changes man didn't see coming, pivotable events that only once they occured could we fathom the impact and change. the birth of the internet for most americans, just barely getting out of the dialup era, i think MOST people living in the modern world could feel that were were quickly marching into a new paradigm. dang near perfect casting and a theme that just couldn't have been timed better made for one hell of a movie. still holds strong to this day, 25 years later. thinking back in the 90's and early 2000's, looking at the "tech" in movies from 20 years before that could be a hilarious endeavor, like a johnny mnemonic!!!
I found Johnny Mnemonic hard to watch but it is partially because Ice-T was in a movie called Surviving the Game. It came out a year before Johnny Mnemonic. It is so unbelievably bad. Dialog was so stilted and awkward. The premise was bad. Scenes connected to other scenes abruptly. I entered Johnny Mnemonic with that movie in mind. For a fun tech movie… The Score has a computer guy that Robert De Niro went to for “computer stuff” and the dude is playing Quake 3 Arena. That alone and typing without the hilarious movie typing nonsense made it much more real. Famously the worst typing and computer example is Operation Swordfish. Holly Berry and John Travolta have Hugh Jackman hack the world or something and it takes a short one minute montage of screens flying around to do it.
Hard to overstate its significance. We walked out of the theater doubting our very reality. There was nothing like it up until that movie. I bet I returned to see it again at least three or four times before the DVD came out. One of the greatest films ever made.
There has been no movie in my lifetime that more dramatically cut cinema into a before and an after.
No kidding on being grateful - esp if you live in this country where you've just about won the lottery in terms of how much of the world works and how much more you had to work to survive at previous times in history.
There are so many things I could say about The Matrix, but you talk about the making of a film, and The Matrix Revisited is the first time I ever saw a documentary about the making of a film being a wholly separate DVD release from the film itself. Sadly I did not go to the 25th anniversary showing at the local theater that happened recently.
That's a good point. The Matrix felt like one of the first times we saw BTS of the entire process. They knew they were doing something special and documented everything.
top 5 greatest flix of all time. man, some of the major world bending changes man didn't see coming, pivotable events that only once they occured could we fathom the impact and change. the birth of the internet for most americans, just barely getting out of the dialup era, i think MOST people living in the modern world could feel that were were quickly marching into a new paradigm. dang near perfect casting and a theme that just couldn't have been timed better made for one hell of a movie. still holds strong to this day, 25 years later. thinking back in the 90's and early 2000's, looking at the "tech" in movies from 20 years before that could be a hilarious endeavor, like a johnny mnemonic!!!
Don't be talking trash on Johnny Mnemonic! It almost made the list! 🤪
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I found Johnny Mnemonic hard to watch but it is partially because Ice-T was in a movie called Surviving the Game. It came out a year before Johnny Mnemonic. It is so unbelievably bad. Dialog was so stilted and awkward. The premise was bad. Scenes connected to other scenes abruptly. I entered Johnny Mnemonic with that movie in mind.
For a fun tech movie… The Score has a computer guy that Robert De Niro went to for “computer stuff” and the dude is playing Quake 3 Arena. That alone and typing without the hilarious movie typing nonsense made it much more real.
Famously the worst typing and computer example is Operation Swordfish. Holly Berry and John Travolta have Hugh Jackman hack the world or something and it takes a short one minute montage of screens flying around to do it.