@knifedesignnerds Star Wars was not intentional, they genuinely wanted to rebuild the franchise with new ideas. Ressurections is intentional and carefuly crafted middle finger.
I remember when the first Matrix came out. My parents went to a late night showing and I went to bed at home. At like midnight my dad comes barging into my room, starts shaking me to wake up and franticly saying, "SON WAKE UP SON I JUST SAW THIS MOVIE IT HAD ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS AND FIGHTING AND OH MY GOD IT WAS SO COOL I COULDNT WAIT TO TELL YOU AND I AM TAKING YOU TO SEE IT TOMORROW OKAY SEE YOU TOMORROW GOOD NIGHT!" We went to go see it the next day. It was an incredible experience. Core memory.
That is awesome! I was in the Navy when this and End of Days and The Phantom Menace came out. TPM specifically, I watched on opening day because my Military Instructor made a class field trip out of it: he said it was “Laser Safety Training.”
@MrAWG9When I was in naval submarine school, every Friday the entire base would march down and muster at the auditorium/theater for an all-hands training. One Friday, we all march down like normal, sit in the auditorium, filled with every single person on base basically, and the academic supervisor hops on stage and goes, "I saw Mad Max: Fury Road yesterday and it was fucking awesome so you all are gonna sit here and watch it right now." And that's how an entire base got bullied into watching Fury Road, yet nobody was upset about it 😂
@JooshMeMy dad loved movies. And I grew up during a great time for movies. I saw many modern classics like The Matrix (all 3 of them), Lord of the Rings (all of them) the prequel trilogy of Star Wars (not the best movies but amazing theater experiences), and whatnot. We basically saw everything that ever came out in theaters during the 1990s and 2000s.
I watched the Animatrix really really young because I was big on anime at the time. It really messed me up lol. I remember turning it off and be like “am I real? What does it mean to be real?!?” Like existential crisis stuff 😂
A lot of stores like Walmart banned it because Mom's were not happy about kids attempting suicide to "escape the Matrix" Basically Kids Story kept the Animatrix an underground masterpiece
I first watched it when I was very young too, around 11 years old? I was traumatised, especially by the female android who was beaten to death screaming "I'm real!", the scene where a soldier gets torn out of his Mecha suit screaming "Oh no, oh no, Oh my god!" And more. The Animatrix was AMAZING but so so so terrifying for a child.
@rufiredup90 omg… THAT scene got me traumatised too, the soldier getting pulled… even though I think this is the best movie after the original, I have see it twice always getting the chills
Very true, really cool for a time only which was into ½ or at best around 2 thirds into the first film. That feeling that nothing is real, that paranoia should have been used to pull the rug under the feet of the viewer again - instead using human brains as batteries, seriously? More power could be extracted if the food all those persons would be fed had been converted into biofuel instead. If they had to be kept like that for any plot device anyway *why the heck don't give them pedals connected to generators*?!?!? That would provide ~2 magnitudes more power than a brain. And that is what ruined my viewing on that very first time - even though I then underestimated the power of the human brain. Or was it that I considered those minds have to spend most of the energy of living their virtual lives - cannot remember which this many years later. The good thing it had on me is that it triggered me to write my own - and single novel - which also got the theme that reality not is what it appear to be, but in my case it's the virtual reality program Lucido [Chosen not just for the term lucid dreaming but also that sound a lot like 'Lucifer']which is the starting point which lead on to aliens of course - it's always aliens - well also satire on the genre on my part, but it's what happen after that which was my main point as I pull the rug under the feet of the reader no less than 5 times while leaving all clues in the text that something don't add up. So yeah, 1999 got me writing and took 3 years to finish and I blame Matrix for being such a letdown.
I was a phones salesman when that sliding Nokia was on the market, never sold one, never even had a single customer question about it. Because the fashion then was all about phones getting ultra-small, people were after the micro startac or the micronokia.
There was that magical shock and awe once Neo dipped his finger into the mirror and it climbed all over him and you followed it down his throat and then you were in the pod with him, bald and plugged in and the WHAT THE FUCK was real. It's one of those movie moments I will never forget, and I feel bad for the younger folk that such revelatory movie moments are nowadays often spoiled by the internet or even the movie's own trailer.
@jonofthehill yes before the internet spoiled everything. Even the trailer was very vague, what is the matrix? No one can fully explain what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. The mystery in the marketing really hooked people.
That is the problem with internet, they just spoil shit now even putting spoilers in thumbnails and title even months before the movie even comes out. 😔
@zogwort1522the mirror was just a description of the pod that he was in. Once the liquid went into his mouth, he woke up in the liquid and pulled the breather out.
@zogwort1522right and then he broke through. What made me realize that was world record in the animatrix. Guy ran so fast he almost ran out of the pod 😆
@zogwort1522. I think the mirror was the trace program, using the reflection to identify him so his pod could be traced irl, and like you say it going down his gullet was it hacking into him to disrupt his connection. That or it was just a cool visual idea they wanted to see on film lol. Rule of cool wins over realistic logic in the Matrix
No it is not. Please stop gaslighting people into believing it was? Maybe 1 or 2 of the animatrix shorts are good but overal it's just a sandbox of fanfiction. And like fan fiction in general not all of it is good.
@KRAFTWERK2K6 The thing is, anime has a tendency of mixing in a lot of philosophy into its story (like Ghost in the shell - anime that most people don't understand past the surface spectacle level), and that is what Animatrix was. Somewhat more mature take on the Matrix world, and in all honesty it worked. I agree, saying the Animatrix is underrated is simply not true, because if I recall right it was taken for what it was when it released: a bridge between major films (like Final flight of the Osiris) and a large lore dump for people to understand the world better. And that last part is undeniable to me and many others. With all its flaws, no other Matrix piece of art explained the world better than Animatrix. And for that, it is one of the better works with "Matrix" in its name.
@KRAFTWERK2K6 Their opinion of a movie is hardly gaslighting. I see no psychological manipulation going on in their statement. Using gaslighting as a catch-all phrase has run its course. Just like every movie/tv show in the last decade having someone say: "I got this." It's lazy.
Everythings a trope in cinema if you're even being serious of that logic. Lot of movies apply similar looking narratives, but it only become Trope-ish when its only there to serve no purpose in the actual plot.
i'm from sydney (where the matrix was filmed) and watching the first matrix at the movies as a kid is still one of the best movie experiences i've ever had. people were even sitting on the stairs the cinema was PACKED
In the movie, that location is where Neo has to decide which direction he wants his life to go. For me, it’s where I decide whether to take the bus or the light rail home.
I have also been known to go to work past that fountain. Those were the days. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go drive to work. I will listen to this in my car.
@artur6912Ah☝🏾😌 this is like a Star Wars marathon consisting of only a trilogy and the Terminator franchise having only 1 movie or the Fast & Furious movies mysteriously beginning their movies with Five in the title😅😅😂
Animatrix was a mind blower for me. I never understood why the machines needed humans for their energy source. They could use farm animals, cats dogs, etc.
They said it in the movie. The human body generates all the electricity and energy they needed and they were at war with humans, two birds with one stone. You don't even need the animatrix to understand that
@emanuelmelendez4466that is exactly what I meant. That narrative is not true, according to Animatrix. The real reason is the machines want human species to survive, out of respect. And they give them a reality, called the "Matrix". But a small population will be left alone to live as normal humans, "Zion". So everything you see in the movies are the prophecies and human perspective. Not reality.
@emanuelmelendez4466 If the machines wanted unlimited electrical power they could have just tapped the hundreds of active volcanoes on the surface of the planet. Geothermal baby! Harvesting electricity from biological creatures sounds sci-fi cool but fails even in high school physics. Putting 100 units in and getting 0.5 units return.🤣
I always thought the machines used humans for their energy source out of a twisted sense of sentimentality. The machines way of keeping the creators who also tried to kill them under check without wiping them out entirely. Perhaps even a way to "truly understand" humans without them trying to wipe out the machines. The Animatrix even alluded to this. The machines studied human biology and consciousness. What's the natural progression from there? Studying human society.
I believe the comics covered this. Humans aren't used as batteries, but as biological processors. Morpheus just believes we are used as batteries, he is far from a reliable narrator.
@cafe405 my gf never watched it, so recently I showed her the first one. She liked it, so we ended it there and pretended it's a standalone. No point in ruining a good experience with bloated quasi philosophy class filled with aged CGI way past its prime.
I remember my brother and I going to see The Matrix simply because it was going to have a new Phantom Menace trailer in front of it. We had no idea that the movie we were seeing would wind up being far better than the Star Wars prequel we were hyped up about.
It's because the first Matrix is built on mass appeal and simplicity but the sequels dive deeper into the overarching world and themes. It is harder to grasp and only really makes sense if you've read a lot and are into cyberpunk and specifically technopunk. Kind of impossible to expand on the idea when a lot of the exposition from the first movie was based on lies and human ignorance. I believe that they could've done it differently to satiate the crowds. But I love the trilogy as is. Hate the fourth though. What a mess.
The original Matrix: Good dinner, new dish with just the right amount of spices. later matrix films: Too much salt, pepper and the restaurant ambiance was 5 times the cost of the food.
Spoiler for the movie: The Thirteenth Floor I remember me and a buddy seeing Revolutions in the theater and then talking about it at a diner afterwards. We were theorizing that because Neo was able to short circuit the sentinels at the end that they were actually in another matrix. We thought that all of Zion and all the people who thought they’d woken up were actually still sleeping in a back up matrix. And that the next movie would play out similarly, but the end would be them waking up again in something like a golden tinted reality. And the whole series would end with the audience wondering if they are actually free or still stuck in another matrix in an endless stream of virtual worlds. Well that obviously didn’t happen, but you know what’s pretty cool, the movie the Thirteenth Floor actually had a very similar ending to what we talked about happening lol.
The matrix was possibly the most memorable movie Ive ever seen. I couldn't tell you a single thing about the sequels except that they had really bad bad cgi, mechs, and they sucked.
@adalvideos Someone shit is writing and directing a whole new trilogy with ZERO input from either of the Wachowskis, so it very much failed at that even though that was her intention when she made it.
I saw the matrix in the theater by myself back when people didn't know the twist. It was surprising and amazing. The world truly looked different when I walked out of the theater. If people didn't know; previous to the matrix movie, I cannot remember one discussion about real life "simulation theory." Now it's almost the norm to assume we're in a simulation. Thats pretty amazing.
I was super disappointed in _The Matrix: Resurrections._ The _“special effects”_ looked worse than the special effects on the TV show *La Femme Nikita.* 😂
I didn’t see The Matrix in theaters but saw it later that summer/year on DVD… and I just smoked a blunt… 🤯. Messed me up lol. I miss those late high school days.
I honestly think Revolutions would have been a better film if the man lying opposite Neo on the table at the end of Reloaded was not that character that became a Real-World vessel for Smith in Revolutions, but was actually Cypher, revealing to the audience that he survived being burned by Tank in the original, and being taken back by the machines after he was discarded from The Nebuchadnezzar. That would have actually been interesting to see the “Side villain who had a point” make a return into the story like that.
The Matrix was one of those movies that broke down all boundaries, I remember my country southern Baptist Grandparents going to see it and talking about it like it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen.
Exactly - I always felt he imitated Carl Sagan, right?! But apparently in interviews he stated a newsreader from way before Carl Sagan, I don't recall the name. Sounds like Sagan though
I can't believe it. Since 1999, I've been convinced that the book Neo takes the disk out of was the Bible. The last time I watched The Matrix was a month ago, and I'm sure it was the Bible. Damn, this is some kinf of simulation!
The Matrix was the first DVD I ever got in Xmas 1999 as we just got our first PC which could play DVD's from Tiny. I still own the DVD today and treasure it as it was the first one I ever owned.
In 1999 we barely had any internet so I went into The Matrix blind and it hit me like a truck. I didn’t even know about the concept of a simulation so I thought it’s a movie about aliens or superheroes or some shit 😂
John wick is a franchise in which the plot is a mere justification for the fight scenes. If you watch John Wick expecting deep plot you're doing it wrong!
John wick is a franchise in which the plot is a mere justification for the fight scenes. If you watch John Wick expecting deep plot you're doing it wrong!
Speaking about Keanu Reeves, the guy can't act... The guy that made this video about the Matrix is wrong, Reeves' wooden acting isn't a plus, the movie is great despite Keanu Reeves being a terrible actor. Just like the original Star Wars movies were great despite some awful acting and bad dialogues... Both of the Matrix and Star Wars are great because they have great, immersive world building and story arcs, some of the acting and dialogue is shit, but not shit enough to diminish the creators brilliance...
2:01 I feel like you say this about every franchise analysis. (The two I immediately remember are Pirates and Transformers). Like, yeah, of course they were surprisingly good. That's why they got sequels.
He doesn't. He connected to the Source when he went to the Architect. Since the machines power is fed from the Source, he simply overloaded them. That's the only "power" he has.
Referring to Lana as “her”….. Is the most cynically ironic part of anything to do with the matrix. A man, telling himself he’s a woman in order to placate inner demons-- and then you going along with it as if it’s completely normal Yeah, we really do live in the matrix.
The irony of The Matrix 4 is that it spits in the face of every fan who never even asked for a fourth Matrix movie in the first place. It's a cinematic abomination. If we lived in the real world, I'd ask the machines to re-insert me into the Matrix just so I could forget that piece of shit ever existed.
Clearly Matrix Resurrection was affected by "Lana" Wachowski mental state during the whole of filming. When you're known for one thing and you've just spent your personal life destroying the very essence of yourself, then of course that is going to translate into a sense of satisfaction by destroying the IP that reminds you of your past self. lol
The brothers told in innumerous interviews that the whole matrix story was supposed to be three movies. They build the whole universe and they wanted to transform in a movie...
It's absolutely nuts that you can call the finale of Revolutions depressing while praising the Animatrix. There is nothing more depressing than those 9 shorts (with the possible exception of Kid's Story). Those are not The Matrix, those are The Matrix Revolutions if humanity was wiped out. An utterly defeatist series of shorts designed to grind the viewer down. It appears the Wachowskis were attempting to instill in the audience that the was indeed "no hope", as this DVD (and Enter the Matrix, which has a similar defeatist ending) came between the two films. The Wachowskis wanted us to know that humanity was destined to lose, which makes Neo's peace so incredibly cathartic.
Wife and I saw Matrix at the $1.50 theater when we were dating in ‘99. Blown away. Up there with the greats: Aliens, Terminator, Die hard, Back to the Future… So 2 crappy sequels and 22 years later, we watched Resurrections. We both fell asleep.
@Bollibompa Dune 1&2 were really good IMO. F1 and Top gun Maverick very good but a tier below that. YMMV but my impression is Dune didn’t get culturally relevant like movies I named above. Forgot to mention OG Star Wars. Nothing much else I can think of.
Fun Fact: The John Wick team affectionately refer to the series as a love letter to the people like Buster Keaton. It's why they have pieces of old stunts in the beginning of each film. You could attribute alot to Keanu and the Matrix, but even the man himself thinks himself a small part of a grand effort. Everyone that worked on that series is at the top of their game. Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Hikroyuki Sanada, Halle Berry, Mark Dascascos, Yayan Ruhian, Cecep Rahmin, Jerome Flynn, Lance Reddick, etc. all master class stunt work.
I remember being so excited for the sequels back in the day, watching those trailer so many times… and then it was kind of a muddled mess, but still enjoyed them.
I love how the entire Matrix trilogy's plot can be summed up in one sentence: a computer gets a system critical virus, and the only way to debug is by upgrading the OS.
What movie, series, or franchise should I break down next? Let me know what you’d like to see.
Daniel Craig’s James Bond series?
The real *"woah"* of realisation is when you see that the actuality of script code is...
🔴🤷🏾♂️🔵 #followthewhiterabbit 🐰🕳 🔤🔢 🕵🏾♂️... 😎 Voilà
I’d say a good one would be ghostbusters
@Nicole_AurielThat's a good one.
Underworld franchise.
Resurrections most definitely was the most expensive act of IP sabotage ever committed.
@metaphonica it's competing with Star Wars for that title, but it sure is a close battle
@knifedesignnerds Star Wars was not intentional, they genuinely wanted to rebuild the franchise with new ideas. Ressurections is intentional and carefuly crafted middle finger.
@FlynnFromTaiga Thanks for clarifying. I didn't understand the context OP was speaking in, either.
I think Dial of Destiny is with all the extra COVID marketing
Agreed
I remember when the first Matrix came out. My parents went to a late night showing and I went to bed at home. At like midnight my dad comes barging into my room, starts shaking me to wake up and franticly saying, "SON WAKE UP SON I JUST SAW THIS MOVIE IT HAD ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS AND FIGHTING AND OH MY GOD IT WAS SO COOL I COULDNT WAIT TO TELL YOU AND I AM TAKING YOU TO SEE IT TOMORROW OKAY SEE YOU TOMORROW GOOD NIGHT!"
We went to go see it the next day. It was an incredible experience. Core memory.
Damn, what an awesome memory. Were your parents always that cool?
Morty…. Morttyyy wake up Morty buuuurrrrrppppp
That is awesome! I was in the Navy when this and End of Days and The Phantom Menace came out. TPM specifically, I watched on opening day because my Military Instructor made a class field trip out of it: he said it was “Laser Safety Training.”
@MrAWG9When I was in naval submarine school, every Friday the entire base would march down and muster at the auditorium/theater for an all-hands training. One Friday, we all march down like normal, sit in the auditorium, filled with every single person on base basically, and the academic supervisor hops on stage and goes, "I saw Mad Max: Fury Road yesterday and it was fucking awesome so you all are gonna sit here and watch it right now."
And that's how an entire base got bullied into watching Fury Road, yet nobody was upset about it 😂
@JooshMeMy dad loved movies. And I grew up during a great time for movies. I saw many modern classics like The Matrix (all 3 of them), Lord of the Rings (all of them) the prequel trilogy of Star Wars (not the best movies but amazing theater experiences), and whatnot. We basically saw everything that ever came out in theaters during the 1990s and 2000s.
I was about to end my procrastination streak but I'll see that after 40mins.
My hero
I watched the Animatrix really really young because I was big on anime at the time. It really messed me up lol. I remember turning it off and be like “am I real? What does it mean to be real?!?” Like existential crisis stuff 😂
A lot of stores like Walmart banned it because Mom's were not happy about kids attempting suicide to "escape the Matrix" Basically Kids Story kept the Animatrix an underground masterpiece
I first watched it when I was very young too, around 11 years old? I was traumatised, especially by the female android who was beaten to death screaming "I'm real!", the scene where a soldier gets torn out of his Mecha suit screaming "Oh no, oh no, Oh my god!" And more. The Animatrix was AMAZING but so so so terrifying for a child.
@arianafox365 I had a similar experience when I read Delta of Venus at 10 years old 😳
Glad I’m not the only one who experienced that as a kid haha I used to watch it over and over
@rufiredup90 omg… THAT scene got me traumatised too, the soldier getting pulled… even though I think this is the best movie after the original, I have see it twice always getting the chills
seeing the matrix at the cinema with my friends during release was one of the best memories i have
10:56 "we get scenes of characters standing in rooms wearing increasingly elaborate coats" lol
"And for a time, it was good."
I haven't seen the Animatrix in over 10 years and I still read this in her voice.
@cabrondemente1 Me as well!
Very true, really cool for a time only which was into ½ or at best around 2 thirds into the first film. That feeling that nothing is real, that paranoia should have been used to pull the rug under the feet of the viewer again - instead using human brains as batteries, seriously? More power could be extracted if the food all those persons would be fed had been converted into biofuel instead. If they had to be kept like that for any plot device anyway *why the heck don't give them pedals connected to generators*?!?!? That would provide ~2 magnitudes more power than a brain. And that is what ruined my viewing on that very first time - even though I then underestimated the power of the human brain. Or was it that I considered those minds have to spend most of the energy of living their virtual lives - cannot remember which this many years later. The good thing it had on me is that it triggered me to write my own - and single novel - which also got the theme that reality not is what it appear to be, but in my case it's the virtual reality program Lucido [Chosen not just for the term lucid dreaming but also that sound a lot like 'Lucifer']which is the starting point which lead on to aliens of course - it's always aliens - well also satire on the genre on my part, but it's what happen after that which was my main point as I pull the rug under the feet of the reader no less than 5 times while leaving all clues in the text that something don't add up. So yeah, 1999 got me writing and took 3 years to finish and I blame Matrix for being such a letdown.
[Laughs in 12/24/2004]
We all wanted those “Matrix phones” so bad lol
I was a phones salesman when that sliding Nokia was on the market, never sold one, never even had a single customer question about it.
Because the fashion then was all about phones getting ultra-small, people were after the micro startac or the micronokia.
I had one! Whichever Nokia it was...was pretty cool
I got one of those Nokia's back then, good days
@Manu-Officialdang now days it would sell so well
@kennypowers1945 I know it would haha, though old fashion sim cards are hard to come by these days...
There was that magical shock and awe once Neo dipped his finger into the mirror and it climbed all over him and you followed it down his throat and then you were in the pod with him, bald and plugged in and the WHAT THE FUCK was real. It's one of those movie moments I will never forget, and I feel bad for the younger folk that such revelatory movie moments are nowadays often spoiled by the internet or even the movie's own trailer.
@jonofthehill yes before the internet spoiled everything. Even the trailer was very vague, what is the matrix? No one can fully explain what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. The mystery in the marketing really hooked people.
That is the problem with internet, they just spoil shit now even putting spoilers in thumbnails and title even months before the movie even comes out. 😔
@zogwort1522the mirror was just a description of the pod that he was in. Once the liquid went into his mouth, he woke up in the liquid and pulled the breather out.
@zogwort1522right and then he broke through. What made me realize that was world record in the animatrix. Guy ran so fast he almost ran out of the pod 😆
@zogwort1522. I think the mirror was the trace program, using the reflection to identify him so his pod could be traced irl, and like you say it going down his gullet was it hacking into him to disrupt his connection. That or it was just a cool visual idea they wanted to see on film lol. Rule of cool wins over realistic logic in the Matrix
The animatrix is criminally underrated
The Second Renaissance is brilliant but I must be among dozens of people who think Beyond is the best one.
@shan4680 Program was my favorite... I'm a sucker for Sengoku Japan, even if it's a simulation
No it is not. Please stop gaslighting people into believing it was? Maybe 1 or 2 of the animatrix shorts are good but overal it's just a sandbox of fanfiction. And like fan fiction in general not all of it is good.
@KRAFTWERK2K6 The thing is, anime has a tendency of mixing in a lot of philosophy into its story (like Ghost in the shell - anime that most people don't understand past the surface spectacle level), and that is what Animatrix was. Somewhat more mature take on the Matrix world, and in all honesty it worked. I agree, saying the Animatrix is underrated is simply not true, because if I recall right it was taken for what it was when it released: a bridge between major films (like Final flight of the Osiris) and a large lore dump for people to understand the world better. And that last part is undeniable to me and many others. With all its flaws, no other Matrix piece of art explained the world better than Animatrix. And for that, it is one of the better works with "Matrix" in its name.
@KRAFTWERK2K6 Their opinion of a movie is hardly gaslighting. I see no psychological manipulation going on in their statement. Using gaslighting as a catch-all phrase has run its course. Just like every movie/tv show in the last decade having someone say: "I got this." It's lazy.
Without Hugo Weaving this trilogy means nothing. What a brilliant actor.
I was one of the folks that created RFZ for the Matrix Online. It was a ton of fun while it lasted.
What is RFZ?
What's RFZ? I wanted to play that game but a friend of mine said it wasn't that great, so didn't bother getting it
@firehot006 Radio Free Zion.
The movies devolved in parallel with the directors' psyches.
Literally
I hear they really got into trains.
The nightclub dance scene from the 2nd movie became a boring trope, now to be seen in almost ANY movie
I’ll agree that dance/orgy scene in ‘Reloaded’ is awful, but, as a whole, the original trilogy is still a masterpiece.
Cause people love to dance and dancing is fun. Ever break it down in the middle of a club's dance floor well then u wouldn't complain about this.
@AndrewAung92 only losers dance around like a clown. I'm sitting there watching you and cringing, hard.
One of the MANY times i groaned when seeing this tripe in the theater.
Everythings a trope in cinema if you're even being serious of that logic. Lot of movies apply similar looking narratives, but it only become Trope-ish when its only there to serve no purpose in the actual plot.
There's literally a bowling ball sound effect in the Neo vs 100 Smiths fight
Matrix was the first DVD movie my family ever owned. I’ll never forget the opening dvd menu.
Holy shit it was badass
my first DVD was Saving Private Ryan.
I did rent the Matrix, but it was in VHS. Eventually bought it on DVD, and still have it. 😂
My first DVD was Doberman and only after I wrote to the director to make sure it was uncut. Coincidentally costarring Monica Bellucci.
My first, was also The Matrix
i'm from sydney (where the matrix was filmed) and watching the first matrix at the movies as a kid is still one of the best movie experiences i've ever had. people were even sitting on the stairs the cinema was PACKED
In the movie, that location is where Neo has to decide which direction he wants his life to go.
For me, it’s where I decide whether to take the bus or the light rail home.
@shan4680 😂the fountain at martin place is also iconic
I have also been known to go to work past that fountain. Those were the days.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go drive to work. I will listen to this in my car.
I forgot to add, my brother was lucky enough to see them filming the rooftop fight scene from his workplace at an adjacent building.
This!! Because it was filmed in Sydney, it felt like Sydney, where as the sequels, it felt like a generic American city
The first Matrix film is a CLASSIC
So were the directors genders...
Water is wet
💯
@noobmaster69426 this is cultural monument of cinematography like some of the first b&w films.
The ONE
I loved each Matrix movie, and of course The Animatrix, but man #4...
There is no 4.
Man, #4 makes #3 look like #2 which is still a huge step down from #1😅
@-The-Golden-God- there is also no 3 or 2. It was a cool standalone movie.
@artur6912Ah☝🏾😌 this is like a Star Wars marathon consisting of only a trilogy and the Terminator franchise having only 1 movie or the Fast & Furious movies mysteriously beginning their movies with Five in the title😅😅😂
The second Renaissance was terrifying when I was a kid. Probably one of the only piece of media that I literally could not sleep.
Yer that gave me nightmares as a kid but now im like damn this shi good
Animatrix was a mind blower for me. I never understood why the machines needed humans for their energy source. They could use farm animals, cats dogs, etc.
They said it in the movie. The human body generates all the electricity and energy they needed and they were at war with humans, two birds with one stone. You don't even need the animatrix to understand that
@emanuelmelendez4466that is exactly what I meant. That narrative is not true, according to Animatrix. The real reason is the machines want human species to survive, out of respect. And they give them a reality, called the "Matrix". But a small population will be left alone to live as normal humans, "Zion". So everything you see in the movies are the prophecies and human perspective. Not reality.
@emanuelmelendez4466 If the machines wanted unlimited electrical power they could have just tapped the hundreds of active volcanoes on the surface of the planet. Geothermal baby! Harvesting electricity from biological creatures sounds sci-fi cool but fails even in high school physics. Putting 100 units in and getting 0.5 units return.🤣
I always thought the machines used humans for their energy source out of a twisted sense of sentimentality. The machines way of keeping the creators who also tried to kill them under check without wiping them out entirely. Perhaps even a way to "truly understand" humans without them trying to wipe out the machines. The Animatrix even alluded to this. The machines studied human biology and consciousness. What's the natural progression from there? Studying human society.
I believe the comics covered this.
Humans aren't used as batteries, but as biological processors.
Morpheus just believes we are used as batteries, he is far from a reliable narrator.
Watched the 1st film something close to 100 times. The 2nd one twice. The third 1 once. Thats the quality of these films.
@cafe405 my gf never watched it, so recently I showed her the first one. She liked it, so we ended it there and pretended it's a standalone. No point in ruining a good experience with bloated quasi philosophy class filled with aged CGI way past its prime.
it's amazing, the fact i was sitting in the worst seat at IMAX (front row, far left) to see Matrix 2 was the least of my problems.
I remember my brother and I going to see The Matrix simply because it was going to have a new Phantom Menace trailer in front of it.
We had no idea that the movie we were seeing would wind up being far better than the Star Wars prequel we were hyped up about.
Did the Wachowskis say that the Burly Brawl looked rubbish because the bandwidth of the Matrix couldn’t handle the fight?
The wachowski brothers should have stopped at 1
But the Path of Neo videogame was a good laugh
27:02 that's a bold statement considering almost no one saw the animatrix, which is absolutely tragic.
The Neo / Army of Smiths fight scene quite literally looks like a Sora generated fight scene lmao
Yup, it's hilarious how the effects in the first one aged better because CGI was used to enhance the practical effects, not replace them.
I'll never forget that feeling walking out of the theater after watching The Matrix. I bought a DVD player and the movie when it came out.
Imagine if Trinity never rode the Ducati down the motorway backwards.
It’s hard to believe they wrote that first movie considering everything that came after.
It's because the first Matrix is built on mass appeal and simplicity but the sequels dive deeper into the overarching world and themes. It is harder to grasp and only really makes sense if you've read a lot and are into cyberpunk and specifically technopunk. Kind of impossible to expand on the idea when a lot of the exposition from the first movie was based on lies and human ignorance. I believe that they could've done it differently to satiate the crowds. But I love the trilogy as is.
Hate the fourth though. What a mess.
Actually, Plato wrote it. The Matrix is based on the "allegory of the cave"
@Mr.FlapjackPresents-df6vwYes I’m aware of the allegory I’m referring strictly to the script and movie the Wachowski siblings directed
The original Matrix: Good dinner, new dish with just the right amount of spices.
later matrix films: Too much salt, pepper and the restaurant ambiance was 5 times the cost of the food.
Just like soundtracks. Matrix 1-great, 2-ok, 3-trash.
Spoiler for the movie:
The Thirteenth Floor
I remember me and a buddy seeing Revolutions in the theater and then talking about it at a diner afterwards. We were theorizing that because Neo was able to short circuit the sentinels at the end that they were actually in another matrix. We thought that all of Zion and all the people who thought they’d woken up were actually still sleeping in a back up matrix. And that the next movie would play out similarly, but the end would be them waking up again in something like a golden tinted reality. And the whole series would end with the audience wondering if they are actually free or still stuck in another matrix in an endless stream of virtual worlds. Well that obviously didn’t happen, but you know what’s pretty cool, the movie the Thirteenth Floor actually had a very similar ending to what we talked about happening lol.
I'd argue 13th Floor had a better script. Had an Inception-esque twist at the end. A simulation within a simulation
I remember after watching the first Matrix movie as kid everyone went crazy after seeing it. It was all we were talking about at school.
I was in college and it’s all we talked about too 😂
The only benefit of having a brain injury, is that you can discover the matrix again for the first time.
The matrix was possibly the most memorable movie Ive ever seen. I couldn't tell you a single thing about the sequels except that they had really bad bad cgi, mechs, and they sucked.
The stairwell fight in Reloaded is my favourite action scene, possibly from any film, but definitely from any Matrix film.
18:15 bro became emperor paul atreides from dune messiah 😂
There's something really wrong with those two brothers.
@MiaogisTeas and now sisters
I'm looking forward to Buck Angel's book about it, it was his ex-wife who was the dominatrix they enjoyed the company of. Super intriguing stuff.
Huge fan of the original. Was too young to see the 1999 release in theaters, but once we got the DVD, it never left the player.
18:55
Your description is why I STILL REFUSE TO SEE THE FOURTH BLAH FEST CALLED A MOVIE.
You’d be better off just forgetting it exists
I tried for 10 min couldn't take it jumped to the final
You should. It's a great self sabotage piece to ensure a 5th movie wouldn't happen! If you watch it with this concept in mind it's pure genius!
@adalvideos Someone shit is writing and directing a whole new trilogy with ZERO input from either of the Wachowskis, so it very much failed at that even though that was her intention when she made it.
I saw the matrix in the theater by myself back when people didn't know the twist.
It was surprising and amazing.
The world truly looked different when I walked out of the theater.
If people didn't know; previous to the matrix movie, I cannot remember one discussion about real life "simulation theory."
Now it's almost the norm to assume we're in a simulation.
Thats pretty amazing.
I was super disappointed in _The Matrix: Resurrections._ The _“special effects”_ looked worse than the special effects on the TV show *La Femme Nikita.* 😂
with the exception of the 1000 smith fight scene, everything you criticized about reloaded actually made it sound good 😂
Clips of the Matrix 4 give me ptsd.😂
Two decades of hype. My cousin and I have not even spoken of it since.
You know whats fucked up?
I shoot MASSIVE ROPES of piss whenever I watch this movie.
@KirkShiloh we don't talk about matrix 4
@danielsackett-v1q that was exactly the point Lana wanted! That's why Matrix 4 is awesome
@adalvideos Truth is Andy & Larry Wachowski are men that don’t have the balls to make good movies anymore.
I didn’t see The Matrix in theaters but saw it later that summer/year on DVD… and I just smoked a blunt… 🤯. Messed me up lol. I miss those late high school days.
4:30 Morpheus never wore a hat.
17:29 that wouldn't matter. You saw what happened in the animatrix.
Killin off Morpheus in a video game was kinda lame lol
Matrix was the first Hollywood movie that I watched... It was a good experience and Matrix was a excellent representative of modern western cinema...
I couldn’t tell you the first movie I saw in theatres, I will say I saw the phantom menace when it came out. I was 5 years old back then.
The first Matrix is the only one for me. The dojo fight was reminiscent of a Bruce Lee movie.
11:24 honestly i can forgive this scene a bit for it being older tech. But then the bowling pin noise really takes me out of it.
Lmao😂😂 that!!!
Reloaded is quite an M Night Shyamalan movie when I think about it
I watched my older bro play Enter The Matrix so much, what a throwback
I had it for the GameCube and then Xbox.
Was it any good? I heard bad reviews from a friend so didn't bother getting it, despite being a huge Matrix fan.
@firehot006for the times back then as a kid, yeah it was cool 😂
I honestly think Revolutions would have been a better film if the man lying opposite Neo on the table at the end of Reloaded was not that character that became a Real-World vessel for Smith in Revolutions, but was actually Cypher, revealing to the audience that he survived being burned by Tank in the original, and being taken back by the machines after he was discarded from The Nebuchadnezzar.
That would have actually been interesting to see the “Side villain who had a point” make a return into the story like that.
17:00 I WILL TAKE NO GEOFF DARROW SLANDER
The Matrix was one of those movies that broke down all boundaries, I remember my country southern Baptist Grandparents going to see it and talking about it like it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen.
Weaving's use of Carl Sagan's vocal cadence is still outstanding.
@TheMountainDemon I was looking for this comment. Not too many people picked up on that.
Exactly - I always felt he imitated Carl Sagan, right?! But apparently in interviews he stated a newsreader from way before Carl Sagan, I don't recall the name. Sounds like Sagan though
Exactly!!
Hugo was always my favorite part of the movie. he pulls off the villain role perfectly
Worked at the movie theater when Fight Club and The Matrix came out.. saw them both at least 30+ times lol.. Awesome high school job!!
I can't believe it. Since 1999, I've been convinced that the book Neo takes the disk out of was the Bible. The last time I watched The Matrix was a month ago, and I'm sure it was the Bible. Damn, this is some kinf of simulation!
The Matrix was the first DVD I ever got in Xmas 1999 as we just got our first PC which could play DVD's from Tiny. I still own the DVD today and treasure it as it was the first one I ever owned.
36:09 Ha! The old him again. Get it?
@kevinb2389 Lana is a man. Not a she
@kevinb2389 😂😂😂
In 1999 we barely had any internet so I went into The Matrix blind and it hit me like a truck. I didn’t even know about the concept of a simulation so I thought it’s a movie about aliens or superheroes or some shit 😂
Speaking about Keanu Reeves. John Wick also should've been one standalone film.
But it got three sequels that made up for the matrix sequels
John wick is a franchise in which the plot is a mere justification for the fight scenes. If you watch John Wick expecting deep plot you're doing it wrong!
John wick is a franchise in which the plot is a mere justification for the fight scenes. If you watch John Wick expecting deep plot you're doing it wrong!
Speaking about Keanu Reeves, the guy can't act... The guy that made this video about the Matrix is wrong, Reeves' wooden acting isn't a plus, the movie is great despite Keanu Reeves being a terrible actor. Just like the original Star Wars movies were great despite some awful acting and bad dialogues... Both of the Matrix and Star Wars are great because they have great, immersive world building and story arcs, some of the acting and dialogue is shit, but not shit enough to diminish the creators brilliance...
I disagree about the matrix, I love all 3 matrix movies along with animatrix. 😊
still remember 16 year old me, leaving the cinema after watching reloaded, i just sat on a bench in a park for 2 hours digesting what i have seen
2:01 I feel like you say this about every franchise analysis. (The two I immediately remember are Pirates and Transformers).
Like, yeah, of course they were surprisingly good. That's why they got sequels.
Huh, thought this was me.
The Wachowskis reportedly approached Hideo Kojima in 1999 to develop a Matrix video game. 28:10
But... How does Neo have powers in the real world?? Still don't understand that.
He doesn't. He connected to the Source when he went to the Architect. Since the machines power is fed from the Source, he simply overloaded them. That's the only "power" he has.
I am impressed with your video.
Will rewatch these again.
Referring to Lana as “her”…..
Is the most cynically ironic part of anything to do with the matrix.
A man, telling himself he’s a woman in order to placate inner demons-- and then you going along with it as if it’s completely normal
Yeah, we really do live in the matrix.
Precisely
The irony of The Matrix 4 is that it spits in the face of every fan who never even asked for a fourth Matrix movie in the first place. It's a cinematic abomination. If we lived in the real world, I'd ask the machines to re-insert me into the Matrix just so I could forget that piece of shit ever existed.
Love the Animatrix!
Really good video mate
Clearly Matrix Resurrection was affected by "Lana" Wachowski mental state during the whole of filming.
When you're known for one thing and you've just spent your personal life destroying the very essence of yourself, then of course that is going to translate into a sense of satisfaction by destroying the IP that reminds you of your past self. lol
Which is so sad bro, it’s even sadder that the commentator actually liked that trash
The Animatrix was so creatively goated. I loved it! 😊
The matrix resurrections never happened. 🤫
Matrix 4 is the 2nd best Matrix. The beginning and the end are better than what 2 and 3 offer throughout.
@pokermitten9795have you taken a blow to the head?
@pokermitten9795 What?!!
@pokermitten9795 different strokes for different folks. Some people enjoy the smell of dirty diapers. Have at it
@skill14Well said.
This video gave me such closure. Great job, thank you.
The brothers told in innumerous interviews that the whole matrix story was supposed to be three movies. They build the whole universe and they wanted to transform in a movie...
Fair enough, but it's such a cool universe, they should have allowed other people to expand on it, with them having some oversite. IMO.
"She" .... I want the 90s back.
It's absolutely nuts that you can call the finale of Revolutions depressing while praising the Animatrix. There is nothing more depressing than those 9 shorts (with the possible exception of Kid's Story). Those are not The Matrix, those are The Matrix Revolutions if humanity was wiped out. An utterly defeatist series of shorts designed to grind the viewer down.
It appears the Wachowskis were attempting to instill in the audience that the was indeed "no hope", as this DVD (and Enter the Matrix, which has a similar defeatist ending) came between the two films. The Wachowskis wanted us to know that humanity was destined to lose, which makes Neo's peace so incredibly cathartic.
Wife and I saw Matrix at the $1.50 theater when we were dating in ‘99. Blown away. Up there with the greats: Aliens, Terminator, Die hard, Back to the Future… So 2 crappy sequels and 22 years later, we watched Resurrections. We both fell asleep.
Name a good movie from the 20s.
@Bollibompa Some of those Buster Keaton ones were pretty good, I liked the keystone cops....
....oh, not that 20's.
@Bollibompa Dune 1&2 were really good IMO. F1 and Top gun Maverick very good but a tier below that. YMMV but my impression is Dune didn’t get culturally relevant like movies I named above. Forgot to mention OG Star Wars. Nothing much else I can think of.
@Bollibompadang the sequels were amazing, I preferred them over the the original. But man resurrections was AWFUL. Easily worst movie I’ve ever seen
Great video and thank you for calling out the brilliance of the second renaissance part 2.
Am I the only person who loves the zion fight with the robos
No, it’s awesome
It was a bit much.
I fell asleep during that scene in the theater.
It was numbingly stupid, paint by numbers garbage.
Yes, you are.
11:30. They literally used a bowling ball hitting the pins sound when neo throws an agent smith into a massive group of smiths.
Even then I groaned
I love the original trilogy and some of the back half of Resurrections.
Resurrections overall is horrific though.
"There is no spoone" -The Matricks
I find the Martix to be even more peak than normal cuz it's legit part of the reason why John Wick exists today and that shit is PEAK
Constantine is very Wick, too.
Fun Fact: The John Wick team affectionately refer to the series as a love letter to the people like Buster Keaton. It's why they have pieces of old stunts in the beginning of each film.
You could attribute alot to Keanu and the Matrix, but even the man himself thinks himself a small part of a grand effort. Everyone that worked on that series is at the top of their game. Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Hikroyuki Sanada, Halle Berry, Mark Dascascos, Yayan Ruhian, Cecep Rahmin, Jerome Flynn, Lance Reddick, etc. all master class stunt work.
@RecluseBootsy What's an alot ?
John Wick: Boring movie made just for the effect. Like ressurections.
This video is as good as the fourth movie.
I remember being so excited for the sequels back in the day, watching those trailer so many times… and then it was kind of a muddled mess, but still enjoyed them.
A well written movie script about the 'scorching the sun' arc and all that lore we didn't get onscreen would've been peak cinema
The original Matrix film was the very definition of lightning in a bottle. It is a shame that we just don't know how to leave great things alone.
Brilliant video. Thanks.
Thank you bro great video I never knew about Animatrix
Only Japanese artists could do Animatrix the way it is. Very impressive.
The Matrix is such an amazing film, timeless yet of its time... but man, did the Wachowskis fail on every level in the sequels.
I like your retrospects it balances pitfalls with positives. Even in weak entries
I love how the entire Matrix trilogy's plot can be summed up in one sentence: a computer gets a system critical virus, and the only way to debug is by upgrading the OS.
But IS there a Spoon or not? :O
@KRAFTWERK2K6my spoon is too big.
@jrsindone yeah that's not a summed up plot. Just a very dismissive and reductionist statement.
@emanuelmelendez4466 you are the virus.
That highway chase was just incredible. One of the best scenes in movie history. Plus, Juno Reactor in the background was just... chef's kiss.
Just like Robocop, the Matrix never needed a sequel
Robocop 2 is fun but I understand your point and mostly agree.
domestinger8805yup- the beauty of headcannon
Yes, it did. And it got two great ones
@paulsoldner9500 where are they? Must have missed them when I was watching the trainwrecks called "reloaded" and "revelation".
@Mike96Mason yeah robocop 2 is kino
I remember the build up for the super bowl commercial for reloaded. People were hyped.