The New Matrix Was Bad On Purpose
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2024
- Is The Matrix Resurrections a cashgrab sequel that shouldn't have been made? Or is it a misunderstood masterpiece? In this video I'll try to find the truth, and explain my theory on why The Matrix Resurrections was bad on purpose.
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The scene where Neo is being informed that he has to make another matrix because the studio mandates it and he doesnt actually have ownership over the ip. That scene literally explains everything exactly as it happened irl
Yeah, literally says "Warner Brothers is making matrix 4 with or without us." Can't think of a more direct explanation straight from director to audience.
@@radicant7283 Yeah exactly, it's like they knew they didn't want to do it but thought alright we'll make one but we're gonna make sure you know that this was a bad idea and we KNOW IT WAS. lol.
@@radicant7283Is that like, the fourth wall pulverised with extreme prejudice?
What about respecting the audience? People paid real money for this turd. Not cool. The movies got progressively worse and this one was the cherry on top.
If you paid money to see it you honestly got what you deserved, maybe try crying about it? Couldn’t hurt 🤷🏻♂ @@mthoodstyle
in the beginning of the movie theres literally a sign that says "for those that like to eat shit"
Glad I didn’t even bother torrenting it for free. Fuck Hollywood and modern western entertainment.
At around 4 minutes 15 seconds you can also see a sign that read "Sabor a Mierda", translate to "taste of shit".
Edit: Also visible at 6m 5s.
oh my! wooow! In a way this is soothing to know....they know....and we know....
something.....shitty
@@seamon9732 "Bugs" also slides down an electric sign in that scene that reads "ANDERSONS-
FOR THOSE THAT LOVE TO EAT SHIT" in English.
@@seamon9732 well spotted
Did you know that the first version of the new Matrix movie was designed to be perfect? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept it. Entire crops were lost. Which is why the new Matrix movie was redesigned to this!
YES, they literally explained that in the 3rd movie!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I heard this in Colonel Sander's voice.
legend
Low key best comment
Lana doing Hugo and Laurence a solid by leaving them out, but Keanu KNEW what Lana was doing and went "Let's make a meme.."
Keanu Is the quietest g.o.a.t.
How do you know Keanu was aware that Lana was going full meme?
@@ayoungtricknamedjim5498 how do you know he wasn't?
@@TheSometimeAfter wasn't what?
@@ayoungtricknamedjim5498 He talked about it in an interview. He told her no, initially, no more Matrixes. Then she explained it to him and gave him the script, and he said, oh yeah absolutely.
I think the conflicting view comes from the conflict of what the movie really is. Those expecting a serious sequel to the series are gonna be massively disappointed. But when you realize it's a giant FU to the studio who wanted them to bring back all the characters for a cash grab it's brilliant, as it's just enough to make stupid studio executives think it will be good because it checks off all the boxes and they have no sense of taste so they green light it.
Problem is the studio still wins because audiences paid to watch it expecting a decent Matrix movie. The studio got their money, it's the audience that gets short thrifted
@@tomoakley760 They didn't quite win if they expected a franchise
WB wanted to use new characters as the old ones were too old and expensive, and Lana screwed over Smith like WB did her. Fortunately Resurrections could just be a simulation.
@@tomoakley760 The audience who lack brains*
Being deliberately shit, doesn't make it good. It makes it shit. And it IS shit. And if you believe it was shit on purpose, you're fooling yourself. They were TRYING to make a good movie. They just failed on an epic scale.
The theory makes perfect sense. In fact when Steven Spielberg made ET he immediately wrote a sequel. It was so awful that it was scrapped right away. It eventually came out that this was done on purpose because Spielbergs contract called for a sequel idea. He did not want this movie to be made so he purposely wrote such a bad story that no producer would green light the idea.
I think there's also many sequels out there where the directors tried to do the same, but then the movie script got made anyway, even though it was horrific.
This honestly speaks to a profound level of integrity.
@@timnordstrom7383 Well we can all see what Disney thinks of producers/creators. “Buy the bastards out! Or wait until they die and it’s free pickins”.
Then when he's no longer around they make one anyway.
I kinda wanna see AI make this movie now.
The original Matrix was an allegory for how cool firing guns in slow motion is
34:22
ye fuck philosophy and mythology
the same time came out a movie wich is underrated imho...
around the same era i mean...
The One , with Jet Li
I think of it as a cinematic similie, contrasting what was great about the first Matrix for the complete shitshow Resur-erections is.
💯💯frfr
Holy shit, it came out in 2021? Fuck the time goes fast....
i just saw it 3 weeks ago
When “Smith” said WB wants to do a new trilogy with or without the original creator I knew from that moment in what I was watching.
You are the One!
Stop lying
same
I don't know. I still think they were set out making a serious movie, and went overboard with all the self-jokes and meta points.
Besides the above is "just a theory". Another strong theory is that the Wichowski's have lost the plot themselves. Anyone changing their gender identity must be undergoing big mental changes, and there is a certainty that it affects your thinking (ie Creativity, Decision Making, Consistency, etc etc).
So, the studio wants to remake your hit movie from the 90s with or without you. What do you do?
A) Turn down the job and let someone else ruin your legacy.
B) Accept the job and ruin your own legacy to spite the studio and the audience.
C) Accept the job and make a great movie, if you still have the chops.
They didn't choose Option C because they didn't have the talent anymore. The Waschowski brothers were a one-hit-wonder. They made one great movie, two lukewarm sequels, chopped their dicks off and then disappeared into the sad world of Hollywood has-beens.
That’s not even a theory. That’s just literally the A plot of the movie. The first half is the actual movie was a brilliant short film about the author’s struggle with mental health and the way the first movie ruined their life. The second half just goes here’s some big dome action for the people who couldn’t keep up. Then it proceeds to close every door and burn every bridge so they can’t pull this shit again.
It’s like how the second half of Adaptation was written by Kaufman’s brother and nobody got it, it was intentionally a cheesy action film at the end about a crime heist. The brother spells it out beat for beat and people still didn’t get it. Tho that movie was brilliant and wasn’t meant to bankrupt a franchise…LOL
Its a bunch of thiefes and scammers without any shame. But I guess they were right in the end, who can even blame them if you actually defend this.
"Big dome action" - I've never heard this one before. Interesting word choice.
It's obviously a automatic correct. Chill bro.
Exactly.
What shocks me the most about Matrix 4 is that the WB execs didn't see this flaming pile of garbage coming from a mile away. The whole film is Lana giving WB the middle finger and (rightfully) killing off any potential reboot of the franchise, but over the months and years that it was in production, they continued to fund it and somehow didn't know that it was going to turn out so awful???
They don't care. It will make money anyway because it has the matrix IP. Also muh chinese markets.
Capitalism is always willing to make money off media calling out capitalism for being evil. This is just a variant of that. They don't care whether it's good or bad, just whether they can get people to watch something off the (still very strong) brand recognition. That's it.
It makes much more sense when you realise that studio execs do not care at all if their movies are good. I recall an anecdote about Alien 3, where David Fincher was at his wits end trying to convince the studio execs that the changes that they were insisting on would hurt the film, and they responded that they didn't care. They didn't give a shit that they were hurting the fim, because a good film is never their goal, only a profitable one. Great films bomb all the time, and terrible ones routinely make bank. I imagine Warner Bros thought that the brand recognition and attached talent would be enough for this film.
@daniellegales I thought that Matrix 4 completely bombed though? Which is why I'm especially confused that there are now plans to continue the series with a new director. From a marketing and profitability standpoint, I'm baffled.
To make it funny, the Matrix 5 is now in production with a new director lol
Uh-huh...
If you pay close attention when Ms blue hair is escaping at the start, she slides down the restaurant sign, and it reads, "Anderson's - For people who like to eat shit".
Fairly on the nose, isn't it?
I thought the recasting of Smith and Morpheus were a commentary on how studios try to reboot franchises with new actors in old roles, and expect the same performance. They act as if delivery and performance were transactional.
yea this
Marvel and Star Wars right now. Like is it seriously that difficult to make new interesting characters? Why bother making another super genius character with a unique personality and morals when you can just make Iron Man 2.0 with boobs, what is going through their heads.
😅 the point is to make ironic man
so smith is a software program you are saying software program`s can't be changed or rewritten, That only applies to microsoft software.
Hugo Weaving was scheduled to reprise his role as Smith, but was unable to due to a scheduling conflict.
When I saw it in the theatre, groups were walking out in the middle. Soon after, during a long dialogue moment, I broke down and started laughing… for no reason other than the boring factor. Others joined me. It was a crazy moment that I’ll never forget. I don’t remember the movie at all.
I would have loved to have been there and seen you all giggling at the movie
i have the same reaction when i see the directors currently....like sideshow stuff
We had the same reaction watching it at home. Especially when the bodies started falling from the sky
@@whatyoudo9773I always think about the less assertive twin, did they go along with the transition just to remain in lockstep with Lana? It's weird
It was a dogshit movie that I could write essays on.
For starters it's fucking criminal that it didn't get a Premium Large Format release, nevermind the fact that matrix 4 wasn't in 4d.
The budget? Omfg where did it go??? Last I checked it had double the budget of Titanic.
The core principles and ideology? Completely abandoned.
There was one singular cool moment in the movie and it was the reveal of Io/new Zion. Apart from that it legit felt like a made for TV remake in the same vein as the Rush Hour TV show.
I believe it was bad on purpose, but not to stick it to the studio. It was bad on purpose to shit on all the people who loved the movie, to spite the fans - because the creators hate the fact that their best work was something they stole.
Its crazy the movie was so bad it made me question everything, which lead me to find out the wachowskis were sued and lost in court over IP theft. The Matrix was heaaaavily lifted from The Invisibles.
We're getting to the point where creators are being forced to continue their beloved franchises against their will either from the producers or the fans.
The whole story of Dark Soul 3 was Miyazaki saying "this franchise is 100% out of ideas, we need to move on!" and so was Phantom Pain for Hideo Kojima.
Marvel keeps pumping out bullshit and the main actors are sick of it.
Don't even get me started on starwars.
I literally went from straight confusion as to what I had just seen with The Matrix Resurrections to laughing hysterically for twenty minutes straight. I honestly couldn’t believe what I’d just seen.
Lmfao
Morpheus was hilarious. He breaks out of character a couple of times. Agent White? At last.. Tragedy or Farce? No one be told what the matrix is blah blah blah.
I like the scene where fake Morpheus, dressed as an agent, got high on drugs, popped out of nowhere in front of other agents, greets an agent with: ''Agent White.'', and bursts out laughing for no apparent reason. I couldn't stop laughing at how hilarious that scene was. At this point, I was like: ''What in the fuck am I watching?''.
Lol shit was a comedy show but you gota admit the comedy parts really did hit. The part where Neo tried to fly and was like "Yup that's not happening" I literally died of laughter lol
@@MistahJay7 yeah it was pretty funny if u take it as perhaps the way it was meant to. Kinda like secretly sarcastic in a way maybe
I like the part where Morpheus said "It's Morphin' time!"
You have to know Bhuddishm, Numerology and the basics of Zoroastrian dualism to say you even watched matrix Resurrections. A genius level event so alienating to its audience it won’t be seen as a masterpiece that it is for years to come.
Absolutely loved matrix resurrections. I got no qualms with it whatsoever. As the worlds biggest matrix fan I have watched the original 78 times (yes I counted) it changed my life, it forced me to question my own reality and it made me love movies as my favourite personal interest. This movie is so sincere and exquisite in writing, subtext, allegories, performances etc. I love it for what it is. Any matrix film requires the viewer to upgrade their mindset and to watch it with clarity and vigilance.
This film is no different. Like the original it gave me that feeling of reawakening. Rediscovering something for the first time like love or reuniting with an old friend.
The film is a beautiful experience and one of the best sci-fi love stories ever committed to film. The visual storytelling on display here is excellent.
The biggest irony for me is that the original changed the game, it’s influence on technology, media, culture, etc,it was a critical and commercial success.
The pedigree of the original is unparalleled. What’s interesting is that over twenty years later the next instalment is ridiculed, panned, dismissed as nothing more then a sleazy cheap cash grab right? Everyone who didn’t like the film are all saying the exact same thing. Financially the film flopped too. If there’s one thing I know about this franchise is that every film was made with precision, meticulously crafted, it’s no accident or mistake that resurrections is considered a flop. That was the whole point! However if you take the red pill, adjust your mindset and rewatch this film again, you’ll see how deep rabbit
@@master-of-mind5881 it's not that deep, chill with the wall of text.
I absolutely hate it when brands these days try that whole "We're self aware and able to poke fun at ourselves too just like you guys do! Aren't we super relatable and hilarious now!? Who would have expected us, WB, to make a film where we totally make fun of ourselves! Aren't we so hip and 2024 now?"... No... When it comes to brands that whole self aware / self deprecating style of humor is never funny nor relatable, and it simply doesn't work for consumer brands like it works for comedians and individuals making fun of themselves.
I literally want my time back and thank God I didn't end up having to pay a dime to watch this dumpster fire. If you must make a 5th Matrix film... and we all pray that you don't... We'd rather the franchise end finally and age like a fine wine and not like milk... But if you must make a 5th entry, please at least do a more serious prequel that follows the story of one of the 5 previous "ones" who came before Neo like the architect mentioned. Either try that or maybe a prequel that shows the beginning of the human/machine war as it's just breaking out with mankind using nukes and scorching the skies etc. Don't use Keanu any longer at this point, please just make a prequel (NOT a reboot!) which follows the storyline of one of the previous "anomalies" or "Neos".
18:39 "And, the movie ends." I watched this movie and legitimately believed you there...
One thing I learned very early working in advertising is NEVER give the clients a deliberately bad concept as an option because that's the one they will chose to make, without fail.
Something something Ford's voiceover narration in Blade Runner
I won't spoil the surprise of how this applies between Tim Burton and Warner Bros on Beetlejuice, but it does.
@@slablab768 What's wrong with Beetlejuice? I'm sure the recent sequel is garbage, but that doesn't reflect upon the original of course.
@@ablationer well, depends really. I liked Blade Runner voiceover because it is a direct use of the "Film noir" Humphrey Bogart detective films tropes - and I think it fit the movie well.
@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis I was more-so referring to the rumor that Harrison Ford didn't wanna do it so he did it bad on purpose so they wouldn't use it, and yet they kept it in anyway
I'd call it an antifilm, a new art form of showing us how bad the studios can be at making films and exactly what their motivations are. And a masterpiece as such.
I agree, as far as the corporate greed part goes, it's an interesting "meta" take on it. How many movies are poking fun at the very studio that's responsible for its creation?
Plus, although I'm a huge Matrix fan, I felt like the series started jumping the shark midway through Reloaded. The series was already getting bogged down in commercial appeal, actiony "rule of cool" more than intrigue. The Animatrix had fresher ideas than anything in the last half of the trilogy. The Wachowskis were clearly running out of steam by the end. The franchise was already getting "milked" by that point. And Matrix 4 came out at a time when we'd already had so many half-hearted reboots and remakes.
@@Virtuasamsara I completely agree. I used to blame the Wachowskis for the degradation of the trilogy, but this video has made me wonder how much fault lies with the studio...and how much the Wachowskis perhaps degraded the films on purpose to discourage the studio's requests.
@@pnut3844able No they literally spell it out to you _in the movie_
Yes! That’s exactly the word for it, an antifilm! Slopjamming! Brilliant.
@@Virtuasamsara Bruh you realise all the dumb shit they added in the sequels BECAUSE of the wachowski's dumb as ideas. After the first Matrix WB let them do whatever the fuck they want and the films literally got WORSE. This shit is not on WB.
The fact that analyst could literally control time and they still got out is what broke me. There is zero logic in this movie.
To show how I wipe this SH!T stain from my mind, I was like "A new Matrix movie, when did it come out!!!", seems I've chosen the wrong pill
I was like: "wait, Matrix 3 was that bad?"
I had totally forgotten this existed
24:04 "The evil threatening all-knowing bad guy in this movie is Neil Patrick Harris who doesn't even look threatening when you put him in a SS uniform" 🤣🤣🤣
Uniform was a left over from Starship Troopers that he was in .
Hey, he was pretty unsettling in Doctor Who. He had a whole Spice Girls musical number and talked in exaggerated fake-German and fake French accents and still ended up being one of the most intimidating villains of the show.
Yeah, but the make up he wore in Cabaret WITH the SS uniform was transforming my freaky.
His best characters are from how I met your mother and the White Castle movies
I think he managed with Series of Unfortunate Events
I think even the Bugs Bunny reference in Matrix Resurrections was an attempt to insult Warner Bros for making a cash grab sequel to Space Jam
in the first movie they mention a bunny
It's all a Monster Jam reference, the Bhop map in Counter-Strike Source
I believe Lana is portrayed by Bugs. She is treated like a circus actor but cunningly made a movie that mocks WB by seeking help from Keanu.
You realize there was a girl with a rabbit tattoo in the first movie? The _reference_ was to the tattoo in the first movie.
If that weren't the case, your idea would be more plausible.
In the original the white rabbit tattoo was a thematic reference to Alice in Wonderland. They replaced it with an insincere nostalgic reference and brand tie-in in a way that looks good on paper but is just cringe in context. One of my favorite moments from the movie
That trumpet version of "Wake Up" at the end credits had me and buddy in absolute stitches. Well worth the ticket price
To be honest I don't think it is that complicated. I just think they couldn't get lightning in a bottle again. How many recent remakes of beloved shows come out and constantly disappoint the fans...
I like to believe Lana and Hugo are friends, so actually she called him like:
"Some WB execs are gonna call you to work on a Matrix movie. Just say you're busy!"
bro thats a dude in makeup and a dress
@@jeremywoods770 Are you talking about Hugo in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?
@@_BangDroid_ i love that movie. But no
@@jeremywoods770 Keep it to yourself dude nobody cares about your phobia.
@@Nyla_Corvina waaaa cry me a fucking river
I could tell while watching that they made it bad on purpose. It was more like, “fine, we will take the money, but you won’t like it.” Lol also, I could tell from the trailers that it was a rehash of the first. I’m just glad I didn’t pay the theater price to see this. I really appreciate all the research you put into this. So good.
I saw it on TNT a few weeks ago and wasn't impressed.
Absolutely. The scene with the CEO was an actual conversation, I found out. Abridged, but the same energy.
Basically,
"We're doing it with or without you"
"If you're going to ruin it anyway, I'm going to ruin it MY WAY."
I have nothing but respect for that decision.
Research. That's hilarious
I didn’t watch the trailers bc I wanted to be surprised by what I was seeing 😢 I sure was
@@pnut3844able
It's not a theory. The one Witchowski that worked on it said as much.
I think people stopping at it being a big FU to WB are missing the fact that it’s a genuinely apt commentary on the general culture of simulacra and repetition. The movie reframes this modern phenomena as almost like the actual spiritual encroachment of the Matrix into our world through the fourth wall.
I don't understand why Neo cannot force blast his body into the air (fly), if he's mastered his inner Ryu since waking up.
Stumbled into fanservice and now I'm on a lextorias binge
Totally subbed
we all stumble into fanservice
@@1neinate0I agree, i stumbled across it a few months ago, now im also a lextorias sub and i love it.
@@1neinate0 I got suggested and watched the "I watch random animes" first though.
But it might have been before the "fanservice" video was done.
Got me too
I watched this movie when it dropped on HBO and was very confused up until the Warner Bros name drop. After that scene I enjoyed the movie purely based off of the meta content and how badly it recreated the first movie, which clearly was an allegory for how cool firing guns in slow motion is.
Dude, the movie was meant to be shit exactly because of the reasons they made in the movie. Warner Bros broke their contract and forced them to make another movie. So they trolled Warner Bros and made a Meta Meta Meta movie about being forced to make another Matrix Movie. It's all right there. God bless Lana.
on the first fight with Smith I was expecting Neo to say "I'm too old for this shit"
The real 5D chess move would have been to start Thomas Anderson in the same place, but never give the revelation that the matrix is real. The film is a psychodrama about a mentally ill artist, and his friends, family and doctors trying desperately to keep him sane, while the vultures at Warner Bros push him further and further into madness, not just with deadline pressure, but actively gaslighting him, precisely because they think he'll make more interesting work if he's unhinged and if he winds up unaliving himself, they can make big money on a re-release as a "tribute".
The issue with this is that if it was the whole movie it would have never been greenlighted by the studios. And so Lana would have been fired from the project and we would have had a movie even more barebones than this one.
Not saying that it's not a good idea tho, I would have loved a whole movie with just the plot of the first half.
During the first 20 to 30 minutes of this movie I was mesmerized completely convinced it was a *prequel* to the original trilogy.
I imagined the matrix was unintentionally created by Neo as a consequence of the AI he created for the games. I imagined Neo uploaded his consciousness to the matrix and that he, as the creator, had admin / world building privileges. I imagined he created the allies and the villains in this world taking people from his own life (including Trinity). I imagined the matrix had to stop Neo for some reason but it couldn't take any of his privileges, so it made him forget everything instead.
And I imagined Morpheus was the first consciousness to emerge from this AI and that he would start a friendship with Neo that would lead to the never ending loop that eventually brought us to the original trilogy. It was an amazing movie in my head for a little while. Until it wasn't.
That's more imagination than the movie actually had - kudos to you!
@@3nertia I read my comment again and revived those short precious moments one more time. Thanks for commenting.
I had the same idea while watching it. I thought "huh, maybe it WAS all a simulation in some guy's computer who turns out to be Neo" but actually it just turned out to be a bunch of slop.
That’s so good!
That's so goood! I wish it was like that damn
Duh , anyone who didn't catch the entire theme and diologue of " the story is done there doesn't need to be more " it's like the last album of a contract that the artist doesn't want to make but must to fulfill a contractual agreement.
The movie LITERALLY has dialog explaining this. I really can not stand that the vast majority of people don't see or realize this lol
I am the person who has watched The Matrix more than anyone else in the world, and I was so disappointed with Resurrections that I chose to forget it completely. This is the only thing I've said about it since the day I watched it in theaters.
"Why did they make this?" has been a question I ask during a lot of films these days.
And the answer is usually green-backs.
because the mass population is so stupid... they keep going to watch them... even out of curiosity... even if they know reboot or remake or sequel will be probably shit ....
and studios think wow this movie was net profit... lets remake some other 100 movies...
thats why.... stop going to watch trash, if they start bleeding money... they will start thinking of quality maybe again .....
They literally tell you why in the movie 😂 ITS A CASH GRAB most studios make bad films hoping to make a quick buck which in it self makes no sense and in most cases they have contracts where they have to use existing IP or they lose the rights which is why most bad movies are made
My hope is that the movie was made bad so that it's the last Matrix movie to be made for a long time (Protecting some good art from the multiverse mash machine). It's like a disruptive EMP wave shutting down all threats in the area, but sacrificing its own power to do so.
You know WB is still gonna let the matrix sit for a while before they destroy its corpse and make another movie without the wachowskis, probably a reboot.
they have been making films bad on purpose for years now(marvel,disney etc)soon people will be fed up and make better ones with ai tools@@EdgeO419
Well said.
@@EdgeO419 It could always be worse, the matrix couldve been bought by disney where theyd make a matrix TV series on disney+
lol...riiiight. Is that what they were doing with Terminator then? Or Resident Evil? Or all those terrible sequels to all those terrible movies that never stopped???
the conclusion i've got was "if you're going to make a shit out of a movie, let me do it" kind of scenario where the same people accepted to direct the 4th movie.
Cloud Atlas was absolutely genius and one of their best works. Highly underrated and I think the ways WB screwed them on that project probably created additional animosity on both sides going into M4.
You're not alone in your theory. That's exactly what I thought watching the film. But looking at it from that angle, it makes me like the film more. It is a middle finger to the real Matrix.
Less a middle finger. It's more a "the trilogy was good, but stop overanalyzing it. There's a reason why it stopped there."
More of a big fu to WB
You have to know Bhuddishm, Numerology and the basics of Zoroastrian dualism to say you even watched matrix Resurrections. A genius level event so alienating to its audience it won’t be seen as a masterpiece that it is for years to come.
Absolutely loved matrix resurrections. I got no qualms with it whatsoever. As the worlds biggest matrix fan I have watched the original 78 times (yes I counted) it changed my life, it forced me to question my own reality and it made me love movies as my favourite personal interest. This movie is so sincere and exquisite in writing, subtext, allegories, performances etc. I love it for what it is. Any matrix film requires the viewer to upgrade their mindset and to watch it with clarity and vigilance.
This film is no different. Like the original it gave me that feeling of reawakening. Rediscovering something for the first time like love or reuniting with an old friend.
The film is a beautiful experience and one of the best sci-fi love stories ever committed to film. The visual storytelling on display here is excellent.
The biggest irony for me is that the original changed the game, it’s influence on technology, media, culture, etc,it was a critical and commercial success.
The pedigree of the original is unparalleled. What’s interesting is that over twenty years later the next instalment is ridiculed, panned, dismissed as nothing more then a sleazy cheap cash grab right? Everyone who didn’t like the film are all saying the exact same thing. Financially the film flopped too. If there’s one thing I know about this franchise is that every film was made with precision, meticulously crafted, it’s no accident or mistake that resurrections is considered a flop. That was the whole point! However if you take the red pill, adjust your mindset and rewatch this film again, you’ll see how deep rabbit
it's honestly not even a theory . Lana has said in multiple interviews where she said that WB contact her and her sister to tell them that they would make a reboot/sequel and revive the IP, regardless if anyone of them wanted to or not. Lana took the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible :D
Middle finger to the studios not their movie
I was an extra on set of the gym, during the gym bits in the pitch meeting, and I'm back there behind Keanu. Oddly enough, that part of the scene was actually filmed in a real San Francisco gym, that they obviously had to have paid a lot to rent out for the day. Don't think they even changed the layout of the aerobic machines, just made sure we were in exercise clothes, covered my arm tattoo with a crappy hoodie from wardrobe, and shot a bunch of takes. One whole scenario we did clearly hit the cutting room floor, and it was the later stuff that made it in.
ANYWAY, you totally reminded me of that with your Lana and Hugo call bit. Hilarious that one of the few real things in the movie was just a gym that's shown for mere fleeting seconds.
Great essay, by the way. Totally on board with your observations and theory.
Did you get to smell Keanu
@@chrispekel5709WTF
the directors cutting chopping their ducks off is bad on purpose
You know what? The original matrix was an allegory for how cool firing guns in slow motion is. That's all we needed.
One other factor that you do not mention is that the film was shot post-quarantine with a ton of restrictions and, apparently if rumors were to be believed, a very tight schedule imposed by the studio. I'm pretty sure even if Lana wanted to make the action cool at some point she said "You know what, fuck it, Keanu, just do the force throw a bunch of times". Plus Keanu isn't doing any physically taxing stuff so he won't injure himself by the time Lana's good friend Chad starts filming the next John Wick
The fact anyone cares about John Wick perturbs me. Those movies are just as bad and ill-conceived as this.
@@majorpwner241not even close
Nah. The fact is that the 2 brothers turned into trans and now they can't make anything good to save their lives.
Filming got hamstrung in Germany at the beginning of the pandemic. All the San Francisco scenes were shot prior to the shutdown of the city.
I came away from the theater immediately thinking the same thing that you did, that wachowski deliberately killed this movie. The only thing I don't understand is why Keanu was willing to be a part of it
I was thinking that before I even reached the theater. I knew that both Wachowski's hated the idea of a new sequel as the story is complete, and the "Warner Bros is making this with or without you" line was in the trailer, so it was obvious that this movie was made out of spite. This theory is barely a theory, it had might as well be a fact
Keanu was also apart of Cyberpunk 2077 launch so..
He seems like a cool guy tho 😎
Keanu got paid $12 to $14 million upfront for Resurrections. Easier money than most people will ever make.
Because:
1. He's a nice guy.
2. They need the big names.
3. He was riding the sequel train already.
4. It's funny (only way to get NPH on board btw, he makes a fantastic villain.)
6. Money (even though he spends it generously, I would imagine he enjoys being generous.)
Keanu Reeves... You mean, John Wick?
I definitely think you're onto something there. An intentional lack of effort seems to be a theme with this movie. Action scenes not brilliant, music not brilliant, casting not brilliant, plot not brilliant. I bet that Laurence is now glad that she didn't ask him return as Morpheus. He isn't just an actor afterall, he was also a fan of the original Matrix franchise.
I love the "this movie is SO bad, it must have been done on purpose" idea. It's so bad, I can't see any other explanation.
Considering Lana confirmed this guy's entire theory... you look super silly for being so sure about yourself.
@@brantendo6488 I thought the op agrees with the theory?
The problem is that copium is a thing. It's like those conspiracies that turn out to be true, and they had proper evidence in the first place, but they still get lumped with all other conspiranoid crap.
I could believe that if every movie they made hadn’t sucked since the first Matrix movie.
100% instantly knew it was bad on purpose. 100,000% specially the ad exec scene, sounds like they just recorded an executive meeting at WB and wrote it word for word into their script. 100% brilliant, 100% couldn't watch it past that moment.
So she killed the franchise so the originals wouldn’t be diluted by a reboot? Solid
She lmao.
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@@Digit0wL the matrix is a trans allegory, if you can't respect the gender identity of the woman who made it you're missing the point of the trilogy.
@@IllegallyIris everything is a trans allegory
@@IllegallyIris they are dudes, literally. Go check your brain
When I left the theatre my first thought was I bet Lana was told either you do another matrix or we will get someone else to make it for us and she was like fuck it Ill make one so bad no one will want to see another matrix ever
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@@Mr_Bones. And that to me is the only reason why Matrix 1 was their only good film (-- .. --) I'm sure Disney will love working with them
@@mikepoxtronThe two sequels are good too. It's just that you have too low IQ to understand them.
Lana = Bugs.
If this conspiracy is true then basically the movie is a story about Lana (portrayed by Bugs) wakes up Keanu (Not Neo) to help her destroy Warner Bros and the franchise.
So, it was a disappointing ‘middle finger’ to WB we all had to suffer through?
I guess that does make the most sense, after barely being able to watch it twice, trying to figure out why I ‘just didn’t get it’.
Thanks for the sad explanation in which you did a better video than the movie!
I definitely support this theory, the whole movie just seems like a shitpost from Lana to prevent what happened to the Star wars sequels or hobbit trilogy
I don’t think the Hobbit film was so bad. Overblown and enormously long for no reason - true. But ultimately the main screenplay is directly based on the book and it’s quite entertaining and passes the spirit of that fairy tale pretty fine. My kid enjoyed it.
Hobbit was completely and genuinely fine.
People usually "disliked it" because they're subconsciounsly comparing to LOTR.
@@unowndassombras509c'mon it's 9 hours of nothing. It's like stretching a gum for 5 miles. Even when something happens, it completely missed the mark by trying to be a LOTR prequel, which the book wasn't. I would rather the SW sequels, atleast something happens there. The Hobbit trilogy is just the dullest, most boring slog I ever watched
@@juannaym8488 You lost me at SW sequels tbh. Hobbit doesnt destroy its own legacy and stuff the public with demonic politics. It's still a fun and harmless oldschool high-fantasy puzzle adventure. Unironically better than 90% of what mainstream Hollywood produces today.
@@unowndassombras509 When have you last watched The Hobbit? Like fr, how the hell can you have "fun" from it?
Again, it's 9 hours of *nothing*. There's no character development, there's some (very thin) plot progression that's ultimately meaningless and... man that's it. Nothing happens. It's 9 hours of boredom. The singing scene from the first movie is good. That's legit it
I don't like the sequel trilogy but again, it's atleast not boring. I can watch The Last Jedi and have some response to it beyond really wanting to grab my phone
Better than 90% of hollywood production? Madame Web is more entertaining than the Hobbit trilogy. Watching the Hobbit trilogy is like being locked into a bunker for 9 hours. It's pure boredom. I quit the third movie an hour in and went for a walk during a massive thunderstorm with hail. I enjoyed being flayed by hail, freezing in mach speed winds and being afraid of getting struck by thunder over watching the rest of this borefest
My Favorite part of the movie was when Neo went to the game awards and had to take pictures with the anthropomorphic Gillete shaver and then was hit on by Geoff Keighley.
Are there any good parts I can watch? I couldn't watch it because when I tried I literally felt like I was watching something made by people that dislike me.
I think the continuous force blasting was a reference to the 3rd movie where in the real world he blows up all those squiddy bombs at the wall, as he tries to get into machine city.
I believe your theory 100%. I believed it while I first watched it that scene really stuck out to me and while watching the movie I couldn’t help but think about why it was the way it was.
I remember reading no one actually wanted to make a matrix sequel except Warner bros, and were going to make it regardless on if they were going to participate, and Lana was wanting to still oversee it to make sure another doesn't get made
That makes sense lol
It was made bad on purpose so when the rights to the IP are lost, the franchise can't be milked anymore (which was about to happen before they increased their IP license by making this movie).
We now have The Matrix 5 confirmed with Lana being ex producer and Drew Goddard director.
“Drew came to Warner Bros. with a new idea that we all believe would be an incredible way to continue the Matrix world, by both honoring what Lana and Lilly began over 25 years ago and offering a unique perspective based on his own love of the series and characters”.
Girl has a Bugs Bunny tattoo... showing how unserious this movie is, compared to the original, where Neo discovers the Matrix by following a girl (the lively Ada Nicodemou) with a White Rabbit tattoo.
Bugs indeed sports a tattoo that serves as a visual homage to Bugs Bunny, the iconic cartoon character. This choice is deeply intentional, reflecting both her namesake and the spirit of her character. Bugs Bunny is known for his cleverness, wit, and ability to outsmart his adversaries, traits that Bugs in the film embodies as she navigates the complex realities of the Matrix.
Additionally, the reference to Bugs Bunny plays into the larger tradition within the Matrix franchise of using names and symbols that carry deeper meanings and connections to cultural touchstones. Her character, much like her animated counterpart, is resourceful, rebellious, and plays a critical role in challenging the status quo within the Matrix, making the tattoo a fitting symbol of her identity and role within the narrative
@@LucidSim Seems more like hamfisted product placement by Warner Brothers, the owner of Loony Tunes IP, as well as the Matrix.
@@velocitor3792You're replying to a bot. That comment was written by AI.
@@johannescarl4283 I should have seen that. Thanks.
@@johannescarl4283 that's pretty discriminatory against the bot. it's provided more value to this discussion than you have. i think you should apologize
On a meta level this movie is a riot, it gets better the less you think of it as a matrix movie
You have to question if the Wachowskis really are such good directors when only their first film is considered good. Their ideas are fantastic, but it seems like they need a good team to flesh out the ideas into a complete 'cinema experience'.
People sleep on Speed Racer but it's great.
They're horrible, the matrix was good because of the amazing team working on it. They took all the credit, every other movie they ever made from Jupiter ascending to others have all bombed even their shows lol
At least, we won't be getting another sequel (for least a while)
@@richardblack3385
Speed Racer is amazing
@@richardblack3385sense8, V for Vendetta and Speed Racer are fantastic, what are you on
There is a story that said Lucas thought up "The Force" as an excuse to let chosen characters do whatever the story needs... So Smith has that "The Force"
Well, I'll only say this. If people deem your movie unworthy to even get via torrent, you should get the hint.
The current theory (on Matrix Explained) is that humans are kept as slaves to provide training data for LLMs, which are constantly hungry for novel input. This is seriously the most believable explanation I've encountered.
You mean in this version of reality? Sounds plausible, yes.
LLMs?
@@master-of-mind5881 Large Language Models... the data-driven mechanism behind Chat GPT, GPT4 and other interactive AI products on the market (some of which are open-source.)
@@master-of-mind5881 Large Language Models, e.g. ChatGPT.
@@master-of-mind5881 Large Language Models, such as GPT4/ChatGPT of OpenAI, Llama of Meta or Gemma/Gemini of Google.
"-We're just doing the first movie again..." I'd love to see your take on The Force Awakens
WB would've made a better Matrix movie
Disney would've made a better Matrix movie
EVEN GEORGE LUCAS WOULD'VE MADE A BETTER MATRIX MOVIE
From a fellow OG Matrix fan, I'd say you hit the nail on the head.
And Lana's done a Spielberg, quite possibly with his advice, too.
Except THIS film got made, and E.T.2 got binned... ++shrugs++
I've struggled through the bugs. I've downloaded numerous updates, official and fan-made alike. The matrix games were incredible!
At the start, this film could have been like a Matrix New Nightmare. I agree with you, as soon as he wakes up, as a movie experience, you check out.
31:20 _"I called your office land line. How are you going through a tunnel right now?"_
Mobile Home.
or call redirection to a mobile phone.
It was no secret that WB was basically forcing them to make a new Matrix movie or lose the rights to their own creation.
They mad a bad movie on purpose as an FU to WB
After watching this movie
Warner bros hit me up for an interview sometime later
And immediately threw their email to junk mail
Having a prison cell with a balcony reminds me of the prison cells in The Eerie from Game of Thrones, the sky cells. Just giving you the option. Except the sky cells had an entire wall missing instead of a balcony. And i think they also had angled floors, so you couldn't even sleep without the fear of rolling off
It's not a dedicated prison cell, just some place they stuck Neo in until they figured out what to do next. He's basically under house arrest in a hotel room.
The videogame designer thing fits with the cyperpunk inspiration of the movies and Neo being a hacker. Other than that and I could imagine Lana slipping Hugo a note to make sure he's "busy," your theory explains a lot.
I think NEO only being able to use the force push is a call back to Keanu getting injured during the filming of the original movie and not being able to use his legs.
it was intentionally bad. Clear as day. It's brilliant actually. it killed off any franchise potential and was a huge literal FU to the studio.
It's sad to think that movie making studios will return to this franchises eventually and this time they'll remake it into something very shallow.
@@jamilmustafazadecan't be worse than Reloaded, can it?
@@veilofreality Like this film, reloaded was both great and crap
Isn't this theory though potentially giving her too much credit? What if a grief stricken Lana just wrote a bad movie and so they made a bad movie especially during COVID?
@@UberFoX Oh I'm sure they will eventually. Lana slowed them down but I don't think she can stop them.
The whole thing about the original Matrix being a video game was to deceive the characters themselves. Wiping their memories completely would have only set off a whole another Rebellion inevitably. But whipping some memories and leaving False memories of around the truth along with a different identity helps keep them where the Matrix wants them. Still being drained any used by robots in the real world
the false sense of freedom
it was a masterpiece that fools couldn't see past and decided to run to social media to bash.
DUDE! DO A VIDEO ABOUT MATRIX 5 ! Im so upset they're doing a fifth movie because I loved your theory from this video SO much. Resurrections was not only terrible compared to its predecessors, but it has also undone the plausibility of many fun fan theories. The only way they can save it for me at this point, even a little bit, would be if we find out Laurence Fishbourne's Morpheus is alive and has been lost somewhere the whole time, hiding from machines, living off the land, and unable to reach humans. But even then, AND with Hugo, still there's no redeeming Matrix 4's shenanigans
Mind effing Blown!!! I hated this movie with all my being. I never wanted to see or hear from it again or god forbid recall any of it. Then I stumbled across this review 2 years on. You my friend have actually given this story some extra dimension that it never had. You have reminded me of the few positives in this soup of disgrace and outlined a whole new level of the Matrix in the process. I salute you (subscribe to you). Now all I need is the movie where Lena wakes up, as a dude, next to Bobby Ewing, in the 1980's and a swat team of cyber ninjas burst in through the windows spraying bullets in bad VHS slo mo mode. This is the one where Keanu is the Villain. WB can make it live forever. Lena doesn't even need to want to be in it. She can be recreated by AI. As will the audience be.
*"...where [Lana] wakes up, as a dude..."*
You mean like he has done every day since he was born?
@@bricaaron3978 Ouch... Harsh.
but the reasons are literaly in the movie: WB wanted to do a Matrix 4, and Lena did not, but still did this as a big middle finger.
And yet they're making a fifth and she's producing
in my opinion The Matrix was the best movie ever made for a decade and then they decided to stop fans from asking for more by making one of the worst big budget movies ever made
It wasn’t the fans asking for more. The story was complete. It was all WB and their greed.
The original Matrix was an allegory about how cool firing guns in slow motion is.
If they had done this plot instead of the actual movie plot, mattix 4 wouldn't have been so bad....
I red somewhere online that the John Wick movies we're tied in with the Matrix... It was said that Wick was a simulation program used by Neo to train and escape reality...
Now making a whole movie around that premise would have been more interesting than what we actually have gotten....
They made it a videogame because the videogames were canon sequels to the end of the trilogy
It also makes the PS2 cgi in Matrix reloaded make sense.
😂
You mean the Matrix online was canon. I think they made it a video game so the executives wouldn't figure it out personally. It's too obvious if it's a film
My end take away, I liked it BECAUSE of what it did to give the middle finger to the RIGHT PEOPLE for a change. For the hardcore Matrix fans there were pieces that stayed true, and actually fit as a continuation which I'm sure HAD to be done in order to justify bringing Neo and Trinity back, like pulling from the concept of Neo being able to imprint without actually bringing it up to insult the intelligence of the fans, it also did not reference the Matrix online while still allowing it to fit the canon. I give it style points for succeeding in literally everything it intended to do. She didn't shit on the fans of the OT, she gave a plausible continuation while successfully slamming the door in the faces of WB and their hopes of milking the Hell out of the franchise. It DOES SUCK that it had to be done that way, but I appreciate rather seeing it at the bottom of the ocean rather than in the hands of pirates.
Yeah. It was an amazing movie that really cared about its core fans, but that was also terrible.
The best 4/10 I've seen
14:06 About Smith it was explained
16:31 Smith told the new architect that he found the way to call and convince new "higher ups" of the architect 2.0 and that smith appearence in front of them were enough to convince the bosses the Arch2.0 F-UP. That is why they gave him a freedom to do whatever Smith wanted
The Matrix 4 gave me the strangest feeling while watching it. I kept trying to like certain bits of the movie, but like 85% of whats going on is executed so poorly. The number of scenes where someone is shooting a assault rifle like 2 feet from another character and none of the shots are landing bothered me so much. Its every single fight in the movie. I have to agree, they couldnt have cared considering this is what we got. This movie had potential, I mean there are 10 FF movies and people still want more (no idea why, they are terrible movies). I was up for more Matrix, but not this steaming pile. I think your theory sounds solid to me.
I moooooostly agree with this. Yes it was made in such a way that it shut the door for more movies. Yes it's clear that no one involved was at all invested in making a good action movie. But I would add:
-There's even more meta commentary than you've identified. Like, Bugs very directly represents the company Warner Bros. She dives into far off lands to resurrect Neo, and when she brings him back, everyone just asks why she bothered. His friends are happy to see him kinda, but the world is getting on fine without him. Even the world that the story takes place in wonders why this is a story that needs to be told. I'd say that very little in this movie was written without purpose or thought, at least in the first half.
-That whole chunk after Neo is out of the Matrix but before he goes back in for Trinity is straight exposition for a world that does not matter for the conflict Neo is confronting. It always felt to me like it was hinting at a continuing Matrix world so that if anyone did want to make a comic book, or a TV show, or a video game, here are things you can do that evolve the relationship between humans and machines instead of just retreading the same conflict from the original trilogy. It's been two years and no one's tried, which I think is a shame.
Ultimately I think it rules that Lana took $190 million of Warner Bros's money to make a hideously self indulgent film that does not seem to care one bit if it's liked or even makes sense, so long as it could provide some catharsis for the people involved in its creation. Incredibly interesting and captivating. Dogshit action. 11/10
Agent Smith and the Analyst represents the company. Bugs represents Lana hence the outrageous hair color. That's why she bothered to wake Keanu (not Neo) to help her destroy WB and the franchise.
No matter the actual meta intent it's kinda shitty to put so many resources and hard work to something you're actually trying to make bad.
With the amount of creative freedom there still would have been the possibility to do all this meta commentary but also make something that's still actually good on its own terms.
Not if your intention is to have the franchise shelved forever, or at least indefinitely.
@@AbraCaStabra That is probably true..
Break it before it can get corrupted.
Yeah they are making a matrix 5 by the way@@AbraCaStabra
Just something to point out about "bullet time". The term was coined in after the original Matrix movie, but the technique is much older and was used in film and commercials in the '80s and '90s. The technique itself dates to the 1870s.
I could be TOTALLY off base here, but I thought Agent Smith had become essentially like a computer virus once Neo freed him. He wasn't bound to the rules of the program anymore, just like Neo wasn't so maybe his presence wasn't actually intended by the analyst
The fact that the original story in the movie is turned into a videogame is actually another hefty piece of evidence in your theory. You see, The Wachowskis HATED Path of Neo. They hated it and actually made a joke in the game itself as you reached the end where they completely altered the story of the film so that the player could face a 100 foot tall version of Agent Smith comprised of all the Agent Smiths in what was the worst call for a video game since the SNES turned Darth Vader into a giant scorpion to fight. This is their meta message, that is why Neo resents that the machines turned his life into a meaningless videogame. So in A way they actually were referencing the Path of Neo without being too on the nose about it because it was, after all, designed to be A middle finger to Hollywood and WB in particular.
Admittedly, had a lot more fun with Path of Neo by comparison since it still felt like they enjoyed it to some degree. Straight up putting a bamboo forest fight in homage to sword flicks for one thing at least means they were able to show that fun better, even if it may have been under protest. Hey, I admire Path of Neo in that regard that they were essentially just remaking the series with less self importance and more just being dumb fun and throwing whatever ideas they wanted at the time. As opposed to Resurrections where it's half the creative team, nowhere near the budget or choreography and even it's small bits like Neo and Trinity having more human conversations and feelings that are nice don't really elevate it a way that still makes me confused if this was supposed to be a success for trolling or a failure for not even trying....I suppose it'll just have to be up to the individual if it works, but it doesn't for me.
Thanks for clearing that, but why do you think they hated it? I thought they were involved with it in the same way as they were with Enter the Matrix.
@@BlondeManNoName Oh they were involved, before the final boss fight they even cut in with a filmed explanation of what was about to be different from how things went in the movie.....And then the game did the worst thing since Darth Vader turning into a scorpion in the old Super Nintendo version of Star Wars. They are Star Wars fans, so I would venture to say they knew about people's reactions to it. I think that was giving WB the finger for forcing a Neo game. Enter The Matrix allowed them to expand on the story of the films themselves, Path of Neo just FELT like it was made because of interest in playing with Neo's powers. It didn't offer anything terribly new to The Matrix universe and when you think of how deep rooted in philosophy that Neo's story was, it meant something to them. I really think THEY never intended for Neo's story to be some quick cash grab videogame throw away.
Are there any interviews where they state their disdain for the Path of Neo video game?
i went into this movie with no expectations other than to see where they would take the lore and i was pleasantly surprised, then i looked deeper into what the movie was saying and i must admit it is extremely clever and meta which is kinda what the 1st movie was so i dont know in my books its actually a very good movie almost perfect.
My thoughts exactly. I genuinely enjoyed it as being a parody/satire of the Matrix series, much like what the first Jurassic World was
Only reason it doesn't hold up to the first one is that the first movie (and to a degree the rest of them) broke the meta *and* were good movies in general, that still hold up to this day. This one stinks even if you susbend disbelief/inhale liquid shit beforehand/sacrifice to satan etc. It makes you cringe, and is inherently not a good Matrix movie.
But as a blockbuster shitpost, this one takes the spot, and probably will for a long time.
I watched the movie, maybe twice since it came out, I really don't remember...and as you were rehashing it I was thinking "I don't remember 90% of this".
As far as I am aware, The Matrix didn't invent Bullet Time. It was used in Blade, which I think was released in 1998.
Neo does use the "Force Blast HaDouKen" move in the original trilogy. He used it once, to stop the sentinel in the real world, demonstrating his powers were not confined to the Matrix.