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It was terrible. It made the machines just simple evil men. Presumably the stand in for the "Patriarchy". The whole point of the original Matrix was that the machines weren't the bad guys, they weren't just Terminators. It just assassinated their entire world. And the fact that he did it knowingly, willfully, and with such blunt hate directed at his fans, was just even more revolting than The Last Jedi I think. I would have made Neo remnant code that existed only in the Matrix and have had him locked in to an imaginary life with an imaginary trinity and for some reason they needed him and needed to break him out of that.
@@geraintthatcher3076 Yes, except The Force Awakens respected its audience and didn't present itself as a joke, and call everyone who were fans jokes. They accomplished that in the next two movies.
Hollywood also loves the word rise; Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Dark Knight Rises, The Rise of Skywalker, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
We are going to make it with or without you Lana - and so Lana made sure there are no other sequels. The movie explains it’s own coming together quite well - and I love all the layers.
@@UniverseofDominion No one asked you to like it. Why would we have to be intoxicated? It's a great movie, if anyone is untoward, it's someone tagging someone else, just giving their opinion. Why do you need to tag me, to express that you don't like it. Why do I care you don't like it. Did I tag you saying it? No. I don't care your negative opinion.
There has always been an element of corporate anti-human cynicism in the matrix but usually it’s being portrayed by Smith the villain. Here it kind of seems like nobody really cares if there’s a matrix or not. Just like with Luke, if the hero doesn’t care then why should I?
@AuthenticFallacy I appreciate the attempt to try and make a point but you made too many assumptions and never really got anywhere with it. You're not even addressing my statement and you sound like someone that heard a few things and then tried to repeat them in a clever way. It didn't work.
Is not only the script, there is none of the cinematography, choreography, music, special effects, action, nothing like the original trilogy, is literally what happens when you make a Matrix sequel with half the directors.
Exactly! And the shame is that this is an opportunity to expand that. Theycl could have added new machine factions who fights with different martial arts. But yeah, this M4 is mediocre in all aspects of filmmaking.
I think a lot of it was the Matrix was Ground breaking, trying things no one had really done before (and every one copied afterwards). This one took no real risk in any aspect of story, special effects, visuals etc. I am not saying it's easy to invent new ways of doing things to the level of bullet time slow motion shots but they didn't even really try.
I said from day 1, if they don't bother doing a single scene using proper bullet time(120+ of cameras taking interconnected shots was needed) that the rest would be a lazy mess. Glad I kept my expectations low
Ok here is my Pitch for Matrix 4. For starters call it 'The Matrix: The forth Renaissance' which contains the number 4 in the title aswell as tying it to the animatrix prequals which were awesome and includes the 're-' trope from the other titles. The plot will be about the loose peace between humanity and the machines. There is no more Agents, there is Ambassadors on both sides. The movie kicks off in the matrix with with an assassination attempt on The merovingian (an A.I ambassador) and Niobe (a human Ambassador) as they meet to broker a further treaty to extend the peace. The Merovingian is killed and Niobe is injured. Cut to New Zion, the new human city which exists on the worlds surface, where hundreds of thousands of free humans live and prosper. After the assassination attempt, immediate tension between the two factions is felt as people fear the possibility of a second war. Neo exists, but hes not alive, his mind was downloaded into the matrix before he died and he lives in retirement in the Machine city program. He lives in peace amongst the machines as their savior for stopping the war aswell. He is contacted by the machine council and the human government and asked to cross over back to the matrix to find the assassin and expose the conspiracy. He declines at first. but then it is revealed that the assassin, was Trinity. What follows is an actually good story that would make a billion dollars and would make people high-five in the streets. the End
This is exactly like the Last Jedi where many youtube commenters can make genuinely far better script. The responsibility of screenwriting is exactly that most people shouldn't be able to write better than the film.
Audience: So now there’s a fourth, fourth movie, right? And you want people to watch this? Lana: don’t worry. I’m not making the same mistakes again. Audience: No, you’re making, you’re making all new ones.
the movie should have focus on the machine civil war and how humanity actually joined forces with one of the machine factions, as there are many of them after the peace agreement, the turd director and producers showed 2 short crappy scenes with Niobe amazingly saying "we never imagined we could se machines fighting one another" I wanted to know and see more that seemed way more interesting
In the pitch meeting for this movie he even comments that the machine civil war would have been an interesting story 🙂 it was probably way too much effort to actually come up with something good.
I was 16 years old when the original Matrix movie came out. I remember watching it when it came on Cinemax with my then 13 year old brother. I *LOVED* it. I thought Trinity was *SO COOL.* She was pretty, looked like a model with GREAT fashion sense, kicked @$$ along with the guys - was actually STRONGER than many of the guys there- and was also in love with the main character. I wanted to be _JUST LIKE HER._ The next day I went to Dollar Tree and bought a cheap pair of black sunglasses...the closest ones that looked like Trinity's that I could find amongst Dollar Tree's limited selection. I didn't have many dark clothes and all my jeans were baggy, but that didn't stop me from imagining myself as being like Trinity, going through the Matrix while on the lookout for that hottie Agent Smith. (Yeah, I was a WEIRD kid). The Matrix was IMPORTANT to me. Not just to me, but it shaped a GENERATION. It shaped an entire FILM INDUSTRY. So to see the MESS that it has become in this movie leaves me absolutely HEARTBROKEN. Trinity was already a bad@$$. She didn't NEED to be reconned into sharing the powers of The One. And one of the things that made me LIKE the Neo character in the first movie was that he was just a regular ordinary guy. He did not IMMEDIATELY have access to the powers of The One. He LITERALLY had to DIE before he was able to control them. Meanwhile, in this movie Trinity AUTOMATICALLY is a pro right from the get-go, with *no prior training.* This made me RESENT her. It made me roll my eyes because it felt like the writers were trying to say she would have made a better "chosen one" than Neo. I don't like things like that. I don't like that they've ruined Trinity's character and basically rendered Neo obsolete. All he did in this movie was act confused, and stand back and act "in awe" of the "greatness" of Trinity. 🙄 Trinity never did that back when Neo was The One. She NEVER worshipped him. He didn't WANT to be worshipped, so why do they have him acting like an awestruck imbecile? Why is Trinity so much more powerful than Neo? Yeah, I heard the explanation the film gave, but it makes no sense to me and contradicts what we learned in the original film. Why not just create a whole NEW cast of characters? If you wanted to make The One female, just REBOOT The Matrix and RECAST The One into a FEMALE! Don't destroy these already established characters to push your agenda! I'm SO heartbroken. 💔
It’s because the whole movie was a subversion on the matrix formula, it’s the greatest middle finger I’ve seen. Trinity didn’t “become the one” it was the bringing together of Neo and Trinity that gave them both their powers. The film outright states that Warner brothers is making a 4th matrix with or without Wachowski. The cover of wake up by rage also ties into this, it’s both the original formula while also effectively betraying your nostalgia for a property that already had an ending
@@merchant271 Absolutely. The subversion formula is a tiresome trope they used for the star wars sequels, Terminator 3 and a lot of new "re-imagined" movies. Tear down and rebuild even if the end product is garbage.
The movie mentioned the machine civil war prior to the creation of this new matrix and there was a short clip of it but the problem is they didnt flesh that out enough. This movie should have been entirely about the machine civil war and picks up with an ending where Neo and Trinity are being plugged into the new matrix so as to create a tentative peace for all sides. At that point, matrix resurrections would have made a lot more sense as 60 years passed since the civil war and now people are seeing Neo and Trinity in the matrix while being freed by machines opposed to the enslavement of mankind.
Wow that’s wild I told a coworker this morning exactly what you said word for word. Are we long lost twins ? This would have been much more interesting and sparked actual conversation about the movie.
I too thought we needed more backstory of the machine civil war but I didn't follow my logic as far as you did.. With your ideas, they could've given us a new trilogy with higher stakes and a more complete saga overall. Good stuff man. 🙏
It's actually insane how obsessed media has become with nostalgia currently. Eventhough we recently get so many reboots that "nobody asked for" we're still watching these out of curiosity, familiarity or nostalgia, which keeps the cycle going. So I'm not even sure the producers care about the critics since everyone (me included) is watching those anyways 👀
The answers are simple: 1) Hollywood is now creatively bankrupt. They drove everyone out of Hollywood except a narrow band of people that all think and act basically the same and share a single worldview - and as it happens, it's one completely ill suited to making movies people want to see and is out of touch with the rest of society. 2) They know there's a strong power to nostalgia, especially when we're living in crazy times and people are pining for "the good old days", and right now is that on steroids. One could argue that happens every generation, but even people not alive in the 90s wish it was the 90s again. Combine these two and it's why Hollywood keeps going back to that nostalgia well. THE PROBLEM is, because of (1), they keep screwing it up. They take something people loved and then they inject it with their current worldview and then wonder why people attracted to the original won't give them money. It is simply beyond their capacity for reason that...people don't share their worldview and disagree with it and that THAT is why their own modern projects generally fail.
This nostalgia is happening because the American culture is dead. Nothing is original anymore, there are no new ideas, no style, no hot new thing besides PC crap. Society is on the decline as a whole and every damn thing has been filled with stupid narratives. The good stuff now lies in the past so they are trying to milk it as much as they can.
@Kaos Nova Yeah, that very likely plays a huge role in how original movies are less likely to get attention than franchises that are already established.
Jesus I found over the last 30 years was a man who studied Buddhism and when he came home if you read Jesus a new vision he said he was marked with the markings of a magician don't think David Copperfield in this case, think, a Jedi Monk. And it looks like we always mistake the lantern for the light in this civilization , and others before it. By the way take a look at the ancient structures on Mars and the Moon and ask yourself where the Star Wars movies came from
I read a comment somewhere saying that Lana Watchowski directly wrote in the movie that "We don't need a fourth videogame (a fourth movie)" and "Warner Brothers will make a fourth Matrix movie with or without me" so this movie basically is a gigantic middle finger to WB and an intentional flop to terminally damage the brand she created that now belongs to them. If thats the case then it makes total sense to me. I think that guy who uploaded that comment is totally right.
He also came out and said it's a big opportunity to take back the "red pill" slogan from conservatives and infuse the story with their political leaning agenda as they can. In either case, the movie was influenced/made for the wrong reasons. Shame.
Not a great strategy tbh. They're literally puppeteering dead actors with CGI in order to resurrect IPs, you think a director nudge-nudge-wink-winking to the audience is going to change anything? They'll just get a yes-man director and do it over again in three years anyway.
You mean Lana said: "Yeah I could have made a masterpiece but decided not to because I'm so pissed about WB" Seems kinda far fetched. Look at the shit sequels that they have been pumping out for years. Thats what they do.
Not too long ago I heard something about the Wachowskies being accused of stealing the story of the matrix after the first films release. I'd like to spend a moment reminding everyone never to just believe what you've heard, but simultaneously never disbelieving anything either. But the more I think about it the more sense it makes. We have four movies in the series now and the only really good one was the first one. So good actually that when you compare it to the other three. You would think it was written by a different person
It's not a rumor. Matrix 1 was real plagiarism from an actual science fiction novel. I think the wachowksis are decent/okay writers, but just not so great.
That's interesting. Do you know the name of the book they plagiarized? I heard something a little different. What I heard was the 2 of them hosted a writing contest and stole the idea from a contestant. But that's also the plot to the movie gentlemen Broncos so I'm not entirely convinced that's how they did it.😂😂 But I am convinced that The Matrix didn't come from either of them.
@@Wally480 they are wrong. A woman says the matrix and terminator are based on a treatment and script she wrote. But when it went to court she lost. There is no real proof it was plagiarized. The other two matrix movies are also accused of plagiarism and they lost too
My reaction to this movie was mostly just mega cringe and disbelief anyone thought any of it was a good idea, but by far the thing that annoyed me the most was Neo's ultimate humanity saving sacrifice being followed immediately by waking up in Robot Dante's Inferno. Also them using movie footage as the videogame when they just released the Unreal Engine Matrix Demo, why not get those guys to recreate scenes from the movie as part of the crossover?
I get the meta-analysis of creativity, capitalism, and feelings vs fact. We are literally forced to watch a new architect do its best to re-create the Matrix and failing. The problem is, WE are the pawns in this mess. Lana should have made this only to show it to the execs to prove why it should never be released.
I’m delighted this movie bombed. I’m really pretty open minded about sequels that seem unnecessary, because hey, Hollywood is basically creatively bankrupt and you never know, even cynical ideas can turn out okay… but cripes, every part of information that came out about this seemed terrible. Glad most people seemed to feel the same way.
I don’t know about Hollywood in general being creatively bankrupt (considering there is a lot of good and bad movies that come out of Hollywood), but yeah I agree that the Matrix: Resurrections absolutely failed miserably.
@@Jogge-tf1kl Who me? I like some MCU movies, they’re all basically pretty good with some notable exceptions (I really like Ragnarok and Infinity War and think Captain Marvel and Black Widow is pretty bad, though at least the latter is sort of unintentionally funny). Still haven’t seen Shang-Chi or Eternals, but I’m fairly disinterested after Endgame. I will definitely see the new Spider-Man when it comes to VOD, haven’t been to theaters due to having a young child who won’t sit through 2 and a half hour movies. So I’d consider myself a pretty casual movie watcher. I am not really a huge fan of any given franchise. I really liked the first Matrix and thought the sequels were okay, but I was confused on what the hook was to justify continuing a story that seemed finished. Given the box office results, seems like I’m not the only one that felt that way.
I don't think they should have ever made a matrix after the first movie, but if you must there are interesting places too go with it, but this ain't it
@@markparkinson6947 Matrix Revolutions is just as bad as this (minus the meta narrative), but at least it has its moments. Now Matrix Reloaded i'll agree with you on. I actually really like that film.
Would prefer a prequal movie that shows humans creating the machines, the machines fighting back, and the machine human civil war where humanity loses and the remaining humans are forced to become living batterys so the machines can survive like what they did in the Animatrix film. Do that just in live action.
@@svnsetsomnia8280 That’s not how Lana identifies, though. Sure, she was born a male, but she has come out as transgender, and so it’s polite to refer to her by the gender she identifies.
JUST finished the movie and here you are 6 minutes later with an upload. I had to stop the movie several times to tell my SO (who was knitting) how much the movie was annoying me. 🤪 I have watched Matrix 1 maybe ten times and 2 and 3 maybe 5 times. I will never watch this again.
It doesn't matter if her kids are "fake, robot kids", because they're HER fake, robot kids. In the Buffy, the vampier slayer show Buffy's sister and all her memories about her were fake too, but she still saved her, because she loved her. And there is the Justice League 'For the Man Who Has Everything' episode, which is basicly a Superman trapped in the Matrix story, and he needed to give up everything/everyone to escape from the dream. It's a really good episode, you should check it out Vito.
I personally enjoyed the movie as a fan, but only 2 flaws were the lack of seriousness and they take too much time to explain the ending and then it goes too fast, overall it fulfilled my expectations. Great video. (Edit) With "Star Wars" I was totally disappointed With star wars I was totally disappointed.
I always thought the direction the Matrix would take after the first film was an emphasis on freeing more minds than fight the machines. A reboot is needed that follows the narrative of freeing minds. A massive war is not needed.
There was a germ of a good idea in this film- the machine civil war and machines joining them. The plot of this film should have been the machines ultimately turning on the architect, freeing the people and building a new world together, not this let’s rescue someone bollocks. Give me some real stakes!
@@Adobo809 I LOVE NPH. But... the matrix? Seriously? Almost like Woody Harrelson in Star Wars and Venom. Ive said before but it feels like a midlife crisis.
When you said that ‘when the main villain dies, they stay dead. Don’t bring ‘em back’ and stuff like that, the first thing I thought of was FNAF Security Breach where they brought back the main villain that they gave a super satisfying ending just a year before, and had a perfectly good second villain they just threw away. IF THE MAIN VILLAIN DIES, THEN THEY SHOULDNT COME BACK! MY FKING GOD! Also, loved the video BTW
TLJ, TROS, and now Matrix have creators who try to reopen a closed arc by embracing nihilism. Ok, I don't mind. Fantasy happy ever afters are slowly getting stale. But the way they embrace this nihilism is ultimately contradictory. Consider the following statements: 1) Nothing the hero does ever lasts 2) Because nothing lasts, evil can rise again. Usually in another form, but as we've seen in the Sequel trilogy, one can be lazy and resurrect an old evil 3) Since the hero's efforts do not last, there is no happily ever after, which was previously set up as the ultimate goal 4) Since there is no ultimate and permanent goal, the hero is useless and a waste of time 5) Let's create a new hero out of the rubble of the previous hero's efforts and failures. This new hero will bring final victory over evil, we promise! But 5) cannot be true since it is contradictory to 1) and 3). The writers already started by hitting the reset button, so who is to say that this hero's actions wouldn't get reset as well in the near future? The way around this is either do not reopen the arc in the first place. Or acknowledge the nihilistic and cyclical nature of the struggle between good vs evil, and embrace existentialism. That is, for the hero to focus on the here and now. Don't pursue what was once was, don't obsess over some mythical final victory, enjoy the moment but don't be attached to the point of obsession. Endure and fight through hardship knowing that what was once was, can happen again. Ultimately, you choose to do all this, not some external force. Ironically, didn't Matrix Revolutions actually touched upon this at the final battle between Neo and Smith? "Because I choose to"
Sounds like another soulless reboot/decades-later sequel to a beloved movie. Yeah, that's exactly what I expected. Did Hollywood not learn anything from the dozens of examples from the exact same scenario? Does anyone remember the Robocop reboot? Or the Total Recall reboot? Or The Thing prequel? No, because all those movies were forgettable trash. I got my bluray box set of the Matrix trilogy (which only the first one was great anyway), so I'm good.
Everyone is talking about the plot, and the graphics, and the choreography... But no one seems to be talking about how it doesn't LOOK or SOUND like the Matrix. Where is the green filter? Where are Don Davis and Juno Reactor? *insert generic film score here* The first thing I did when I saw the Matrix was go buy the soundtrack. With this film, the only track I can remember is the Alice in Wonderland song that was in the trailer.
I always enjoy your takes on these types of movies, this remake was such a disaster I couldn't click your video fast enough just to hear your commentary.
Great video as always. Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker destroyed all interest left in me for Star Wars. I did not mind Matrix 4 tho when I watched it and thought the first part was actually quite fun. Yeah bringing back Neo and Trinity was kinda stupid, but I loved seeing the characters again. And I liked it that they elevated Trinity from pure love interest to the next "One". BUT: I am a fan of the whole Matrix Trilogy. I feel M4 had to be way more spectacular regarding fights, story and characters to get new fans on board. They basically continued a storyline nobody really liked in the beginning ( Matrix 2 + 3 ) and which concluded 19 years ago! So I was happy to continue where M3 left off, but 99% of non-nerds just don't care. And there was just no fight or set piece that took my breath away. And the World War Z thing at the end really sucked and didn't feel Matrix to me at all. So yeah, I didn't hate it as much as most people do, but I wouldn't recommend it either. Shame. Too little too late...
As soon as I heard they were making a 4th Matrix I just knew it was gonna be bad. The story was done, the heroes journey was complete. If they really wanted to make another matrix they could've done a prequel, like maybe the first iterations of the matrix and how it failed or a sequel where it shows the machine civil war. Either way, it should be completely new characters, maybe neo makes a cameo for fan service but don't center the story around him cause his story is finished.
I think the entire movie was very aware of this. That's why it is what it is. I enjoyed it and am glad they weren't trying to resurrect the franchise or provide some kind of better ending. They could have never pulled something like that off.
What I heard happened was that Warner Bros went to Lana and went: We are rebooting your series of movies and we can do it with you OR without you. And Lana was like: ....if you guys are gonna commodify my work and miss the whole point of the body of that work then I'll sink this ship myself by creating a cynical piece of slop to get folks to abandon the franchise
I won't mention the HORRIBLE action sequences but, the part where Neo & Trinity are actually "powering" the new matrix or whatever (they gave it name but I don't remember it) is absolutely the dumbest shit ever. They even make it seem like the area in the real world, where their bodies are being held or plugged into matrix, is the biggest and central area that exists. Yet, there's literally no security. This movie is pure garbage.
What I hate is there are ideas that if they weren’t part of the Matrix franchise or just didn’t bring Neo back to life could’ve been good but the quest for more money demanded they did because “Look, Keanu’s back!”
I only enjoyed the first Matrix movie. After that, Neo was so overpowered that I actually got bored, even with the fight scenes. I was really hoping this 4th movie would be good, but ah well.
@@rhuiden4086 LOL, I agree. Neo was overpowered for a reason, but Rey was just good at everything for no reason. I was fascinated during episode 7 as to how she can use the force without training, then hated everything about episode 8. I couldn't watch episode 9 after that, especially after I found out who returned.
Cheers Vito, as a lifelong matrix fan I'll just pretend this movie doesn't exist. Always a blast listening to you whilst I prep for the day. Much love from your fan and Patreon supporter here in London, hope 2022 brings you good stuff!
I understand that this movie has some bad taste in touching someone who should've been allowed to rest after his ultimate struggle. I myself do not know why Smith is back. Also went way too ham on the fanservice. I do however have to give kudos to the evil re-trapping execution as they did only promise peace, but not what they would do with Neo afterwards, which they chose a very machine-like choice to use him for as a battery again; and as a Madoka fan, I can understand the torment and cruel irony of the machines beginning to harness emotion for power. I liked the labyrinth scenario where they actively tried to make Neo and Trinity just settle in their new lives, especially with an active psychiatrist character who can keep these things in check. Not saying we needed a movie like this, but it is certainly not the Last Jedi levels of character assassination, since Neo and Trinity did have a triumphant escape, rather than Luke's fart in the wind VR chat finale.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man makes over a billion dollars due to good word of mouth and hype. Nobody was hyped for this movie. Nobody was spreading good news about this movie.
My daughter loved Spider-Man. I'm so freaking tired of that movie. How many remakes/reboots do they have to do? Dude get's bit by a spider, turns into a super teen who can fly with webs, etc . . .Maybe this is why so many didn't like Resurrections: no one wants to think anymore.
@@thebigpig2364 Hey, you're probably right. I wouldn't know because I saw "Spider-Man" and immediately disqualified it. My bad. Damn, now I see how people just dumped on "Resurrections". Walk in with a jaundiced eye and it's hard to see any good.
The film did give me a big laugh though when I spotted that the CEO Smith had a bronze bust in his office of Agent Smith receiving that slow motion punch from Neo in Revolutions. Why the hell would you want something so silly looking in your office? I was half expecting to spot a portrait on his wall of Agent Smith in the middle of his weird maniacal laugh as well.
Back in the day I made the conscious decision not to ever see Matrix 2&3 because they looked like obvious cash-grabs that would ruin an already complete story. I never could have imagined how much worse the next sequel would be.
For a while my default stance on sudden sequels is 'it'll be shit, prove me wrong'. And I rarely get proven wrong, but when I do, I really appreciate it. Mad Max and Blade Runner were quite good.
TBH the movie is ok, lots of mistakes, lots of crappy fights and lackluster plot, but I really wish they could have expanded upon the Machine Civil War, I cared more about that when they briefly spoke about it than any other BS plot they threw in
I agree 100%. Love that your cat made a cameo! They made Neo a legend, a celebrity amongst the free and that’s his “reward” because the ppl that wrote it are obsessed with celebrity and being “somebody” so that’s the best they could do for him
I thought more superficially it was very boring and tensionless. I didn’t ever feel any of the characters were in danger because they were constantly being attacked and bullets were flying everywhere and missing. When someone did get hurt (did anyone?) I didn’t care because I wasn’t invested in any of them, and I knew TriniNeo would never get hurt, so there were no stakes. I was checking the time to see when it would finally be over. And then it was and I was happier.
Keanu Reeves acting was top notch, and Carrie Ann Moss looks damn good. It's a shame the movie is terrible (Neil Patrick Harris did an okay job, acting of the remaining cast was horrible).
I thought the first hour of The Matrix: Resurrections wasn't bad. A meta-commentary on making Sequels, movie industry and the greed of big studios. Kinda similar to Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). Unfortunately after that the film practically degenerates into this Soft-Reboot Shit like Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Terminator: Dark Fate. It was just terrible! What a damn shame 😔
I liked what they did with the programs and machines. I think it added some dimension to the world. The machines aren’t some hive mind. They take sides. Some side with the humans and help them, while some desperately cling to their old system. That was the only thing really liked.
Damnit Vito, I have videos of my own to do and you sucked me into this video, good shit man. Thanks for helping me save a few hours of my time by not watching the movie...
The first Matrix was pretty much a perfect movie. The sequels were...I don't particularly remember anything about them. And this one, I don't even want to watch it to see how bad it is.
It's the equivalent of taking a fairytale that ends with "and they lived happily ever after" and then dragging out a sequel where we see the rest of their lives that is completely unimportant to the original story
Warner Bros is forcing me to do this! So I’m gonna ruin it & any chance for a sequel plus I hate that the “red pill” is being used by conservatives!! I’ll show them I’ll show them all!! Insert Snidley Whiplash laughing
Could you do a video talking about X-Men: Green? It goes beyond woke cringe like Snowflake and Safe Space & I am NOT Starfire and goes as fair as promotes Eco-terrorists murdering store clerks because a tortoise choked on a wrapper that has the name of a KwikEmart that shares the same name.
More like *The Force Awakens'* mistakes. Remember it was *The Force Awakens* that needlessly rebooted the series while adding nothing to it. It was TFA that failed to give our characters purpose for the follow up, it was TFA that set the lazy, uninspired foundation for everything to come
They should have started with the new machine war with new characters and statutes of Neo, Trinity and Morpheus being thr only connection to the original trinity
The most disappointing thing about the 4th film is that they had a good idea for a sequel in the film. Instead of being a throwaway sentence they should have made the entire film about the aftermath and the war between the machine factions. They could even keep the stupid resurrection plot point. Have it be the reason the humans join the war, the reason they split and form a new city that works with some of the machines. Hell, they could even do the prequel, the war before humanity is enslaved by the machines. Although that is a bit of a crap story too. The humans scorch the sky in order to stop the machines, except the machines are unaffected, and the human weaponry relied on solar power, and all life relies on solar power, so the scorch just made the machines win (and somehow no one saw that coming). It pretty much paints the Matrix as humanities' saviour.
It’s exactly the kind of movie you could expect from somebody that worships at the woke technocracy altar. Trans humanism alongside male feminism and meta-deconstructionism.
Maybe you guys are still thinking that the "One" exists. Well, what if there isn't a "One". We know about Jesus, heard the stories, read the Bible. But what is the man story of the bible, the number two "greatest"command? Love thy neighbor as thy self. Woke? So many are crying over this term and dismissing others who are different. Well, times are a changing. I'm sorry, we're abou to ditch the interan combustion engine. Alot of our "traditions" are discontinuing since we've found out that ignorance has reigned in certain areas for decades, maybe centuries.
It is great to wake up in 2022 and see a video from you, Vito. You're awesome at this. In a strange way, I want more bad movies just so I can see you rip them apart. And it gives you more money. Which is good
Totally disagree with your take on the film..but I’m still liking the video anyway because you explained your opinion very well, you’re super entertaining to listen to, and your cat is outrageously cute.
Matrix was a trilogy. I am not sure how you can revive a trilogy for just one movie, where it references itself a lot and make it so that it doesn’t seem like something is missing.
It's really sad that you missed the message of complacency and the ideal of a deal being to good to be true and as humans, we're hard wired to fear even the greatest of gifts. I didn't think the movie was bad. I didn't think it was great, but I don't think it was unfaithful, disrespectful, or patronizing. I thought it had a solid premise and story. Neo's sacrifice wasn't completely in vain. Humans and machines now work together to make the real world a better place. Like the line in the movie "disappointing to think the story ends when you do". Shit has happened and the world is different and better. Humans don't seem to be hiding in a tin can, they have machine allies, and they don't have to eat the same rust flavored grule all day long. But new management has taken over the Machines and while there seems to be somewhat of a peace, as Io isn't a militant state, there are still troubles in the world. Beyond that, the story is about Neo and Trinity and human connection. There were some contrivences and BS that took place, but most of it is satisfactorily explained and the story is what it is. Ths source code isn't just in Neo, but in Trinity too. Ya know, I knew Keanu Reeves wouldn't do a sequel if it was terribly made, and I don't think it was. I just don't think there was a story that was going to satisfy everyone and that's what they expected. The Machines are using Neo and Trinity because they're retconning that they were both special, which I don't have a problem with. It fits. He became The One with Trinitys help, and did everything else with Trinitys help. They had meta commentary to explain why the movie was made and why it will never be as good as the first. It knows what it is and it didn't try and be more. It's an exciting movie with a plot that works within the confines of the world.
Those are my thoughts exactly when I saw the movie yesterday with my dad. It wasn't trying to live up to the original trilogy and most people are clouded by nostalgia goggles
@@TheEpicSuperstars pretty much. No matter what they did, it wasn't going to be super successful. Had they focues on the machine civil war like everyone is saying, they would be complaining that the wars are supposed to be over and Neos sacrifice was in vain and yadda yadda. Accept the story they give you and judge it on its respect to the originals.
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It was terrible. It made the machines just simple evil men. Presumably the stand in for the "Patriarchy". The whole point of the original Matrix was that the machines weren't the bad guys, they weren't just Terminators. It just assassinated their entire world. And the fact that he did it knowingly, willfully, and with such blunt hate directed at his fans, was just even more revolting than The Last Jedi I think.
I would have made Neo remnant code that existed only in the Matrix and have had him locked in to an imaginary life with an imaginary trinity and for some reason they needed him and needed to break him out of that.
Our parent company Warner Bros has decided that you need to make two more Matrix games
It's less the Last Jedi and more the Force Awakens of the Matrix franchise
@@geraintthatcher3076 Yes, except The Force Awakens respected its audience and didn't present itself as a joke, and call everyone who were fans jokes.
They accomplished that in the next two movies.
@@sladewilson9741 lol respected its audience are you serious 🤣 it was rehash of the original but with some JJ mystery box shite thrown in
1997- Alien: Resurrection
2002- Halloween: Resurrection
2021- The Matrix Resurrections
When will they ever learn?
Alien Resurrection was a masterpiece compared to the rest of the list 😅
I know, right? I resurrected my grandpa and now the fucker won't go away. He's been eating all of my neighbors and I think I'll have to move
Independence day: resurgence. Not the same word, but almost the same meaning.
@@Bestialce2007 lol, nice Pet Cemetary reference 🤣👍
Hollywood also loves the word rise; Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Dark Knight Rises, The Rise of Skywalker, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Lana: GOTCHA!
I hope he makes a gotcha for this one
🤣🤣
Someone should call the wachowski brothers up and fire this lady...
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Here's my money.........Gotcha! Never! So glad for youtube, can see bullshit before seeing actual bullshit.
@@blackleague212 hey there's no need to be transphobic....GOTCHA Men are Men and women are women
It's like a satire than a Matrix movie.
Satire of the audience/society. Pure Lewis Carroll. 👍
We are going to make it with or without you Lana - and so Lana made sure there are no other sequels. The movie explains it’s own coming together quite well - and I love all the layers.
Amazing movie
@@miamya4231 You people are high, this movie was up its own ass.
@@UniverseofDominion No one asked you to like it. Why would we have to be intoxicated? It's a great movie, if anyone is untoward, it's someone tagging someone else, just giving their opinion. Why do you need to tag me, to express that you don't like it. Why do I care you don't like it. Did I tag you saying it? No. I don't care your negative opinion.
When people start caring about money, quality takes a nosedive.
I don’t think it’s about money. They are creating crazies. The actors lose more of their souls.
Transformers. Gi joe. Tmnt: BITCH PLEASE
100% incorrect
There has always been an element of corporate anti-human cynicism in the matrix but usually it’s being portrayed by Smith the villain. Here it kind of seems like nobody really cares if there’s a matrix or not. Just like with Luke, if the hero doesn’t care then why should I?
@AuthenticFallacy That is actually quite easy.
@AuthenticFallacy because Christianity is a religion and anarchy is anti government.
One has nothing to do with the other
@AuthenticFallacy The same way you can be a anarchist and a buddhist at the same time.
@AuthenticFallacy I appreciate the attempt to try and make a point but you made too many assumptions and never really got anywhere with it. You're not even addressing my statement and you sound like someone that heard a few things and then tried to repeat them in a clever way. It didn't work.
First movie I almost walked out of..
It was terrible
Haha you went to see it!
I haven’t walked out of a movie yet…. But I did fall asleep 2-3x’s watching LaLa Land.
Is not only the script, there is none of the cinematography, choreography, music, special effects, action, nothing like the original trilogy, is literally what happens when you make a Matrix sequel with half the directors.
Exactly!
And the shame is that this is an opportunity to expand that. Theycl could have added new machine factions who fights with different martial arts.
But yeah, this M4 is mediocre in all aspects of filmmaking.
I think a lot of it was the Matrix was Ground breaking, trying things no one had really done before (and every one copied afterwards). This one took no real risk in any aspect of story, special effects, visuals etc. I am not saying it's easy to invent new ways of doing things to the level of bullet time slow motion shots but they didn't even really try.
No, it is what happens when you make a movie as bad as possible on purpose to spite the studio.
I said from day 1, if they don't bother doing a single scene using proper bullet time(120+ of cameras taking interconnected shots was needed) that the rest would be a lazy mess. Glad I kept my expectations low
Have read a lot of comments and this one is spot on , this film was a total let down for me oh well I still have the first 3 to console me
Ok here is my Pitch for Matrix 4.
For starters call it 'The Matrix: The forth Renaissance' which contains the number 4 in the title aswell as tying it to the animatrix prequals which were awesome and includes
the 're-' trope from the other titles.
The plot will be about the loose peace between humanity and the machines. There is no more Agents, there is Ambassadors on both sides.
The movie kicks off in the matrix with with an assassination attempt on The merovingian (an A.I ambassador) and Niobe (a human Ambassador) as they meet to broker a further treaty to extend the peace. The Merovingian is killed and Niobe is injured.
Cut to New Zion, the new human city which exists on the worlds surface, where hundreds of thousands of free humans live and prosper. After the assassination attempt, immediate tension between the two factions is felt as people fear the possibility of a second war.
Neo exists, but hes not alive, his mind was downloaded into the matrix before he died and he lives in retirement in the Machine city program. He lives in peace amongst the machines as their savior for stopping the war aswell. He is contacted by the machine council and the human government and asked to cross over back to the matrix to find the assassin and expose the conspiracy. He declines at first. but then it is revealed that the assassin, was Trinity.
What follows is an actually good story that would make a billion dollars and would make people high-five in the streets.
the End
I was iffy in the first bit but this got really fucking good. Damn I would absolutely have gone to see that.
Make it
This is exactly like the Last Jedi where many youtube commenters can make genuinely far better script.
The responsibility of screenwriting is exactly that most people shouldn't be able to write better than the film.
Even your quick synopsis makes more sense than the crap we got 🙏
I have an awesome pitch for matrix 4: just don't do it
Audience: So now there’s a fourth, fourth movie, right? And you want people to watch this?
Lana: don’t worry. I’m not making the same mistakes again.
Audience: No, you’re making, you’re making all new ones.
You're making all new ones... again.
I read that in Goldblum's voice.
the movie should have focus on the machine civil war and how humanity actually joined forces with one of the machine factions, as there are many of them after the peace agreement, the turd director and producers showed 2 short crappy scenes with Niobe amazingly saying "we never imagined we could se machines fighting one another" I wanted to know and see more that seemed way more interesting
In the pitch meeting for this movie he even comments that the machine civil war would have been an interesting story 🙂 it was probably way too much effort to actually come up with something good.
I was 16 years old when the original Matrix movie came out. I remember watching it when it came on Cinemax with my then 13 year old brother. I *LOVED* it. I thought Trinity was *SO COOL.* She was pretty, looked like a model with GREAT fashion sense, kicked @$$ along with the guys - was actually STRONGER than many of the guys there- and was also in love with the main character. I wanted to be _JUST LIKE HER._ The next day I went to Dollar Tree and bought a cheap pair of black sunglasses...the closest ones that looked like Trinity's that I could find amongst Dollar Tree's limited selection. I didn't have many dark clothes and all my jeans were baggy, but that didn't stop me from imagining myself as being like Trinity, going through the Matrix while on the lookout for that hottie Agent Smith. (Yeah, I was a WEIRD kid).
The Matrix was IMPORTANT to me. Not just to me, but it shaped a GENERATION. It shaped an entire FILM INDUSTRY. So to see the MESS that it has become in this movie leaves me absolutely HEARTBROKEN. Trinity was already a bad@$$. She didn't NEED to be reconned into sharing the powers of The One. And one of the things that made me LIKE the Neo character in the first movie was that he was just a regular ordinary guy. He did not IMMEDIATELY have access to the powers of The One. He LITERALLY had to DIE before he was able to control them. Meanwhile, in this movie Trinity AUTOMATICALLY is a pro right from the get-go, with *no prior training.* This made me RESENT her. It made me roll my eyes because it felt like the writers were trying to say she would have made a better "chosen one" than Neo.
I don't like things like that. I don't like that they've ruined Trinity's character and basically rendered Neo obsolete. All he did in this movie was act confused, and stand back and act "in awe" of the "greatness" of Trinity. 🙄 Trinity never did that back when Neo was The One. She NEVER worshipped him. He didn't WANT to be worshipped, so why do they have him acting like an awestruck imbecile? Why is Trinity so much more powerful than Neo? Yeah, I heard the explanation the film gave, but it makes no sense to me and contradicts what we learned in the original film. Why not just create a whole NEW cast of characters? If you wanted to make The One female, just REBOOT The Matrix and RECAST The One into a FEMALE! Don't destroy these already established characters to push your agenda!
I'm SO heartbroken. 💔
I'm glad to see that it's not just males that think this movie is trash. 🙏
Well the watchowski's became "female", because females are 'cooler". Thats how infantile it all is. Naturally Trinity was always the "One" lol.
It’s because the whole movie was a subversion on the matrix formula, it’s the greatest middle finger I’ve seen. Trinity didn’t “become the one” it was the bringing together of Neo and Trinity that gave them both their powers. The film outright states that Warner brothers is making a 4th matrix with or without Wachowski. The cover of wake up by rage also ties into this, it’s both the original formula while also effectively betraying your nostalgia for a property that already had an ending
@@merchant271 Absolutely. The subversion formula is a tiresome trope they used for the star wars sequels, Terminator 3 and a lot of new "re-imagined" movies. Tear down and rebuild even if the end product is garbage.
By giving her Neo's powers they made both characters weaker. Now they're both half a character that make a whole blob of nothing.
Now, Vito, when you say 'we'...
What do you mean "we"?
The movie mentioned the machine civil war prior to the creation of this new matrix and there was a short clip of it but the problem is they didnt flesh that out enough. This movie should have been entirely about the machine civil war and picks up with an ending where Neo and Trinity are being plugged into the new matrix so as to create a tentative peace for all sides. At that point, matrix resurrections would have made a lot more sense as 60 years passed since the civil war and now people are seeing Neo and Trinity in the matrix while being freed by machines opposed to the enslavement of mankind.
Wow that’s wild I told a coworker this morning exactly what you said word for word. Are we long lost twins ? This would have been much more interesting and sparked actual conversation about the movie.
Good set of 💡
That would have been a hell of a lot more interesting than the crap they released.
You should make your own movie then…we’ll all wait. That’s what I thought…..you’re a bum in their moms basement trashing a great movie
I too thought we needed more backstory of the machine civil war but I didn't follow my logic as far as you did..
With your ideas, they could've given us a new trilogy with higher stakes and a more complete saga overall.
Good stuff man. 🙏
It's actually insane how obsessed media has become with nostalgia currently.
Eventhough we recently get so many reboots that "nobody asked for" we're still watching these out of curiosity, familiarity or nostalgia, which keeps the cycle going.
So I'm not even sure the producers care about the critics since everyone (me included) is watching those anyways 👀
That’s why it’s important to vote with our wallet, and support movies that we actually enjoy.
The answers are simple:
1) Hollywood is now creatively bankrupt. They drove everyone out of Hollywood except a narrow band of people that all think and act basically the same and share a single worldview - and as it happens, it's one completely ill suited to making movies people want to see and is out of touch with the rest of society.
2) They know there's a strong power to nostalgia, especially when we're living in crazy times and people are pining for "the good old days", and right now is that on steroids. One could argue that happens every generation, but even people not alive in the 90s wish it was the 90s again.
Combine these two and it's why Hollywood keeps going back to that nostalgia well. THE PROBLEM is, because of (1), they keep screwing it up. They take something people loved and then they inject it with their current worldview and then wonder why people attracted to the original won't give them money. It is simply beyond their capacity for reason that...people don't share their worldview and disagree with it and that THAT is why their own modern projects generally fail.
This nostalgia is happening because the American culture is dead. Nothing is original anymore, there are no new ideas, no style, no hot new thing besides PC crap. Society is on the decline as a whole and every damn thing has been filled with stupid narratives.
The good stuff now lies in the past so they are trying to milk it as much as they can.
@@RicoJazz No, that’s not true. There are plenty of great and original movies that come out every year. We just don’t give them any attention.
@Kaos Nova Yeah, that very likely plays a huge role in how original movies are less likely to get attention than franchises that are already established.
Biblically speaking, Jesus didn't stay dead, but his victory was definitive.
Jesus I found over the last 30 years was a man who studied Buddhism and when he came home if you read Jesus a new vision he said he was marked with the markings of a magician don't think David Copperfield in this case, think, a Jedi Monk. And it looks like we always mistake the lantern for the light in this civilization , and others before it. By the way take a look at the ancient structures on Mars and the Moon and ask yourself where the Star Wars movies came from
I read a comment somewhere saying that Lana Watchowski directly wrote in the movie that "We don't need a fourth videogame (a fourth movie)" and "Warner Brothers will make a fourth Matrix movie with or without me" so this movie basically is a gigantic middle finger to WB and an intentional flop to terminally damage the brand she created that now belongs to them. If thats the case then it makes total sense to me. I think that guy who uploaded that comment is totally right.
He also came out and said it's a big opportunity to take back the "red pill" slogan from conservatives and infuse the story with their political leaning agenda as they can.
In either case, the movie was influenced/made for the wrong reasons. Shame.
believe it was made terrible on purpose, as well.
Not a great strategy tbh. They're literally puppeteering dead actors with CGI in order to resurrect IPs, you think a director nudge-nudge-wink-winking to the audience is going to change anything? They'll just get a yes-man director and do it over again in three years anyway.
You mean Lana said:
"Yeah I could have made a masterpiece but decided not to because I'm so pissed about WB"
Seems kinda far fetched. Look at the shit sequels that they have been pumping out for years. Thats what they do.
That's my take too. She even has the characters address how this pretty much makes everything that happened useless.
Not too long ago I heard something about the Wachowskies being accused of stealing the story of the matrix after the first films release.
I'd like to spend a moment reminding everyone never to just believe what you've heard, but simultaneously never disbelieving anything either.
But the more I think about it the more sense it makes. We have four movies in the series now and the only really good one was the first one. So good actually that when you compare it to the other three. You would think it was written by a different person
It's not a rumor. Matrix 1 was real plagiarism from an actual science fiction novel.
I think the wachowksis are decent/okay writers, but just not so great.
That's interesting. Do you know the name of the book they plagiarized? I heard something a little different. What I heard was the 2 of them hosted a writing contest and stole the idea from a contestant.
But that's also the plot to the movie gentlemen Broncos so I'm not entirely convinced that's how they did it.😂😂 But I am convinced that The Matrix didn't come from either of them.
@@Wally480 they are wrong. A woman says the matrix and terminator are based on a treatment and script she wrote.
But when it went to court she lost.
There is no real proof it was plagiarized.
The other two matrix movies are also accused of plagiarism and they lost too
Lots of people write one good thing and the rest is ass.
This happens all the time.
Dune is a great example of this.
@@Wally480 well Matrix 4 is definitely plaigerised from my 2004 fanfic as a sweaty 14yo kid upset that neo and trinity die in M3
My reaction to this movie was mostly just mega cringe and disbelief anyone thought any of it was a good idea, but by far the thing that annoyed me the most was Neo's ultimate humanity saving sacrifice being followed immediately by waking up in Robot Dante's Inferno. Also them using movie footage as the videogame when they just released the Unreal Engine Matrix Demo, why not get those guys to recreate scenes from the movie as part of the crossover?
money money money, we got to get more money....
I get the meta-analysis of creativity, capitalism, and feelings vs fact. We are literally forced to watch a new architect do its best to re-create the Matrix and failing. The problem is, WE are the pawns in this mess. Lana should have made this only to show it to the execs to prove why it should never be released.
I’m delighted this movie bombed. I’m really pretty open minded about sequels that seem unnecessary, because hey, Hollywood is basically creatively bankrupt and you never know, even cynical ideas can turn out okay… but cripes, every part of information that came out about this seemed terrible. Glad most people seemed to feel the same way.
Yeah! I'm glad people haven't lost good taste.
I was afraid they'd let any crap sell because of pandemic etc.
I don’t know about Hollywood in general being creatively bankrupt (considering there is a lot of good and bad movies that come out of Hollywood), but yeah I agree that the Matrix: Resurrections absolutely failed miserably.
i bet u like marvel movies
@@Jogge-tf1kl Who me? I like some MCU movies, they’re all basically pretty good with some notable exceptions (I really like Ragnarok and Infinity War and think Captain Marvel and Black Widow is pretty bad, though at least the latter is sort of unintentionally funny). Still haven’t seen Shang-Chi or Eternals, but I’m fairly disinterested after Endgame. I will definitely see the new Spider-Man when it comes to VOD, haven’t been to theaters due to having a young child who won’t sit through 2 and a half hour movies.
So I’d consider myself a pretty casual movie watcher. I am not really a huge fan of any given franchise. I really liked the first Matrix and thought the sequels were okay, but I was confused on what the hook was to justify continuing a story that seemed finished. Given the box office results, seems like I’m not the only one that felt that way.
It only took the 1 or 2 seconds of “Smith” yelling Mr. Anderson in the trailer to make me lose interest in this film. You can’t replace Hugo Weaving.
I don't think they should have ever made a matrix after the first movie, but if you must there are interesting places too go with it, but this ain't it
Actually, the first trilogy is really good, and adds a lot to the Matrix mythology. It’s a shame the fourth one doesn’t.
@@markparkinson6947 Matrix Revolutions is just as bad as this (minus the meta narrative), but at least it has its moments.
Now Matrix Reloaded i'll agree with you on. I actually really like that film.
Hard disagree on Revolutions. It runs circles around this film.
After all these years, the machines still haven't figured out how to use another power source.
its not the power source...its our mind what machines want...
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
You either die a steak or live long enough to become stew
This is pure truth
Would prefer a prequal movie that shows humans creating the machines, the machines fighting back, and the machine human civil war where humanity loses and the remaining humans are forced to become living batterys so the machines can survive like what they did in the Animatrix film. Do that just in live action.
Watch Animatrix.
New stories and good effects are hard
You’re sick
@@resmarted be quiet child
@@Retroloft556 its not a new story, just adapt the story from The Animatrix the base is already there.
Oh boy, can Hollywood simply get their act together.
hollywood is fucking dead
hedge funds is all whats left
The only reason they pump out this garbage is because people buy this garbage.
How symbolic the movie that is basically a reanimated corpse has Neo and Trinity be reanimated corpses.
I can't get over the random reporter's question to Wachowski, "why did you make this film?" He couldn't even answer that basic question 😂
Finally someone says “he”
SHE couldn’t even answer that basic question.
@@markparkinson6947 nah man, OP is right. “He”.
@@svnsetsomnia8280 That’s not how Lana identifies, though. Sure, she was born a male, but she has come out as transgender, and so it’s polite to refer to her by the gender she identifies.
@@markparkinson6947 If he doesn't care about the Matrix I don't care about his gender.
JUST finished the movie and here you are 6 minutes later with an upload.
I had to stop the movie several times to tell my SO (who was knitting) how much the movie was annoying me. 🤪
I have watched Matrix 1 maybe ten times and 2 and 3 maybe 5 times. I will never watch this again.
That bad huh? I have no plans to watch it. Not a fan of reboots
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he it was a good take worled poorly
Anytime you see “Vito” and “Last Jedi” in the same title it’s a must watch!
They all died in the last one. 🤔 I don't remember, but I don't feel like rewatching.
It doesn't matter if her kids are "fake, robot kids", because they're HER fake, robot kids. In the Buffy, the vampier slayer show Buffy's sister and all her memories about her were fake too, but she still saved her, because she loved her. And there is the Justice League 'For the Man Who Has Everything' episode, which is basicly a Superman trapped in the Matrix story, and he needed to give up everything/everyone to escape from the dream. It's a really good episode, you should check it out Vito.
I personally enjoyed the movie as a fan, but only 2 flaws were the lack of seriousness and they take too much time to explain the ending and then it goes too fast, overall it fulfilled my expectations.
Great video.
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With "Star Wars" I was totally disappointed
With star wars I was totally disappointed.
Star Matrix: The Last Resurrections
Someone should make a movie with this title that parodies all this shit.
I always thought the direction the Matrix would take after the first film was an emphasis on freeing more minds than fight the machines. A reboot is needed that follows the narrative of freeing minds. A massive war is not needed.
It will never happen now the Watchowski's are completely enslaved by the system with gender politics being used to divide and conquer.
well not...how you mantain a growin population with the dark storm on the sky ?-...
There was a germ of a good idea in this film- the machine civil war and machines joining them. The plot of this film should have been the machines ultimately turning on the architect, freeing the people and building a new world together, not this let’s rescue someone bollocks. Give me some real stakes!
well that will be a good timing with"i resing movent"people left the jobs cuz they saw are worthless..
The matrix trilogy didn’t need a fourth movie let alone Neil Patrick Harris.
What's wrong with him?
@@Adobo809 I LOVE NPH. But... the matrix? Seriously? Almost like Woody Harrelson in Star Wars and Venom. Ive said before but it feels like a midlife crisis.
@@heydavedawson ah yea i feel ya
The original Matrix movie didn't need a sequel.
Totally agree. He's about as threatening as a golden receiver.
When you said that ‘when the main villain dies, they stay dead. Don’t bring ‘em back’ and stuff like that, the first thing I thought of was FNAF Security Breach where they brought back the main villain that they gave a super satisfying ending just a year before, and had a perfectly good second villain they just threw away. IF THE MAIN VILLAIN DIES, THEN THEY SHOULDNT COME BACK! MY FKING GOD!
Also, loved the video BTW
TLJ, TROS, and now Matrix have creators who try to reopen a closed arc by embracing nihilism. Ok, I don't mind. Fantasy happy ever afters are slowly getting stale.
But the way they embrace this nihilism is ultimately contradictory. Consider the following statements:
1) Nothing the hero does ever lasts
2) Because nothing lasts, evil can rise again. Usually in another form, but as we've seen in the Sequel trilogy, one can be lazy and resurrect an old evil
3) Since the hero's efforts do not last, there is no happily ever after, which was previously set up as the ultimate goal
4) Since there is no ultimate and permanent goal, the hero is useless and a waste of time
5) Let's create a new hero out of the rubble of the previous hero's efforts and failures. This new hero will bring final victory over evil, we promise!
But 5) cannot be true since it is contradictory to 1) and 3). The writers already started by hitting the reset button, so who is to say that this hero's actions wouldn't get reset as well in the near future?
The way around this is either do not reopen the arc in the first place. Or acknowledge the nihilistic and cyclical nature of the struggle between good vs evil, and embrace existentialism. That is, for the hero to focus on the here and now. Don't pursue what was once was, don't obsess over some mythical final victory, enjoy the moment but don't be attached to the point of obsession. Endure and fight through hardship knowing that what was once was, can happen again. Ultimately, you choose to do all this, not some external force. Ironically, didn't Matrix Revolutions actually touched upon this at the final battle between Neo and Smith? "Because I choose to"
Sounds like another soulless reboot/decades-later sequel to a beloved movie. Yeah, that's exactly what I expected. Did Hollywood not learn anything from the dozens of examples from the exact same scenario? Does anyone remember the Robocop reboot? Or the Total Recall reboot? Or The Thing prequel? No, because all those movies were forgettable trash. I got my bluray box set of the Matrix trilogy (which only the first one was great anyway), so I'm good.
The Wachowski brothers really messed up the one thing going for them.
Everyone is talking about the plot, and the graphics, and the choreography...
But no one seems to be talking about how it doesn't LOOK or SOUND like the Matrix. Where is the green filter? Where are Don Davis and Juno Reactor? *insert generic film score here*
The first thing I did when I saw the Matrix was go buy the soundtrack. With this film, the only track I can remember is the Alice in Wonderland song that was in the trailer.
This is the matrix movie review I've been waiting for, my man Vito !!!
Vito my boy where's your youtube wiki page?
I mean this would be like if they brought back Gozer. How lame would that be!
Honestly, ive been waiting for you and red letter media to do this video
I always enjoy your takes on these types of movies, this remake was such a disaster I couldn't click your video fast enough just to hear your commentary.
The climax of this film was in the trailer, that bit where Neo deflects a helicopter missile. A throw away bit, is literally the climax of this film.
This movie was empty.
@@seyeolajuyin literaly all is empty in the city...
At least they didn't KILL Neo and then replace him with Trinity or Bugs lmao
We actually dodged a bullet, mate!
Great video as always. Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker destroyed all interest left in me for Star Wars. I did not mind Matrix 4 tho when I watched it and thought the first part was actually quite fun. Yeah bringing back Neo and Trinity was kinda stupid, but I loved seeing the characters again. And I liked it that they elevated Trinity from pure love interest to the next "One". BUT: I am a fan of the whole Matrix Trilogy. I feel M4 had to be way more spectacular regarding fights, story and characters to get new fans on board. They basically continued a storyline nobody really liked in the beginning ( Matrix 2 + 3 ) and which concluded 19 years ago! So I was happy to continue where M3 left off, but 99% of non-nerds just don't care. And there was just no fight or set piece that took my breath away. And the World War Z thing at the end really sucked and didn't feel Matrix to me at all. So yeah, I didn't hate it as much as most people do, but I wouldn't recommend it either. Shame. Too little too late...
As soon as I heard they were making a 4th Matrix I just knew it was gonna be bad. The story was done, the heroes journey was complete. If they really wanted to make another matrix they could've done a prequel, like maybe the first iterations of the matrix and how it failed or a sequel where it shows the machine civil war. Either way, it should be completely new characters, maybe neo makes a cameo for fan service but don't center the story around him cause his story is finished.
The story was done at the end of The Matrix.
I think the entire movie was very aware of this. That's why it is what it is. I enjoyed it and am glad they weren't trying to resurrect the franchise or provide some kind of better ending. They could have never pulled something like that off.
Why did anyone think that Neil Patrick Harris was a fit for any character in the Matrix universe?
What I heard happened was that Warner Bros went to Lana and went: We are rebooting your series of movies and we can do it with you OR without you. And Lana was like: ....if you guys are gonna commodify my work and miss the whole point of the body of that work then I'll sink this ship myself by creating a cynical piece of slop to get folks to abandon the franchise
Calling the game "The Matrix" is an illogical move for the Machines: the name Matrix itself is a trigger for Anderson's subconscious and perception.
Yeah that didn’t make any sense
Vito- your juxtaposition of Neo’s torture scene in this movie with old- timey silent movie piano music MADE MY DAY! Still laughing! 🤣
The first half of the movie told from Trinity's point of view with an actual happy family might have made it somewhat engaging. Maybe.
They didn’t have the time, should have been 2 movies and covered with more depth. Movie felt like it was stuck on fast foward
If I ever have kids, I'll tell them that there's only 3 movies in Star Wars universe. OT, baby.
I won't mention the HORRIBLE action sequences but,
the part where Neo & Trinity are actually "powering" the new matrix or whatever (they gave it name but I don't remember it) is absolutely the dumbest shit ever. They even make it seem like the area in the real world, where their bodies are being held or plugged into matrix, is the biggest and central area that exists.
Yet, there's literally no security.
This movie is pure garbage.
What I hate is there are ideas that if they weren’t part of the Matrix franchise or just didn’t bring Neo back to life could’ve been good but the quest for more money demanded they did because “Look, Keanu’s back!”
I only enjoyed the first Matrix movie. After that, Neo was so overpowered that I actually got bored, even with the fight scenes. I was really hoping this 4th movie would be good, but ah well.
Wow you thought Neo was overpowered? Wait til you meet Rey.
@@rhuiden4086 LOL, I agree. Neo was overpowered for a reason, but Rey was just good at everything for no reason. I was fascinated during episode 7 as to how she can use the force without training, then hated everything about episode 8. I couldn't watch episode 9 after that, especially after I found out who returned.
Cheers Vito, as a lifelong matrix fan I'll just pretend this movie doesn't exist. Always a blast listening to you whilst I prep for the day. Much love from your fan and Patreon supporter here in London, hope 2022 brings you good stuff!
JOKES ARE FUNNY
I understand that this movie has some bad taste in touching someone who should've been allowed to rest after his ultimate struggle. I myself do not know why Smith is back. Also went way too ham on the fanservice. I do however have to give kudos to the evil re-trapping execution as they did only promise peace, but not what they would do with Neo afterwards, which they chose a very machine-like choice to use him for as a battery again; and as a Madoka fan, I can understand the torment and cruel irony of the machines beginning to harness emotion for power. I liked the labyrinth scenario where they actively tried to make Neo and Trinity just settle in their new lives, especially with an active psychiatrist character who can keep these things in check. Not saying we needed a movie like this, but it is certainly not the Last Jedi levels of character assassination, since Neo and Trinity did have a triumphant escape, rather than Luke's fart in the wind VR chat finale.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man makes over a billion dollars due to good word of mouth and hype.
Nobody was hyped for this movie. Nobody was spreading good news about this movie.
My daughter loved Spider-Man. I'm so freaking tired of that movie. How many remakes/reboots do they have to do? Dude get's bit by a spider, turns into a super teen who can fly with webs, etc . . .Maybe this is why so many didn't like Resurrections: no one wants to think anymore.
Spider-Man No Way Home is neither a remake nor a reboot, but whatever.
@@thebigpig2364 Hey, you're probably right. I wouldn't know because I saw "Spider-Man" and immediately disqualified it. My bad. Damn, now I see how people just dumped on "Resurrections". Walk in with a jaundiced eye and it's hard to see any good.
This movie makes Howard The Duck, Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Eternals, Plan 9 From Outer Space & Worstside Story look like high art.
This movie was atleast fun to watch, not as deep or well developed as the first 2 but not a dumpster fire. Last Jedi was a complete dumpster fire.
The film did give me a big laugh though when I spotted that the CEO Smith had a bronze bust in his office of Agent Smith receiving that slow motion punch from Neo in Revolutions.
Why the hell would you want something so silly looking in your office? I was half expecting to spot a portrait on his wall of Agent Smith in the middle of his weird maniacal laugh as well.
I didn't hate it as much as the last jedi, but it's for sure not my favorite matrix movie
Back in the day I made the conscious decision not to ever see Matrix 2&3 because they looked like obvious cash-grabs that would ruin an already complete story. I never could have imagined how much worse the next sequel would be.
For a while my default stance on sudden sequels is 'it'll be shit, prove me wrong'. And I rarely get proven wrong, but when I do, I really appreciate it. Mad Max and Blade Runner were quite good.
fury road was a big yawn, interesting, a little, but not as good as Mad Max
Fury Road is the best MM movie, easily
A matrix 4 ad broke in about 5 and a half minutes into the video. Funny
TBH the movie is ok, lots of mistakes, lots of crappy fights and lackluster plot, but I really wish they could have expanded upon the Machine Civil War, I cared more about that when they briefly spoke about it than any other BS plot they threw in
@Eder R same here, but we got something about feelings and shit
I agree 100%. Love that your cat made a cameo! They made Neo a legend, a celebrity amongst the free and that’s his “reward” because the ppl that wrote it are obsessed with celebrity and being “somebody” so that’s the best they could do for him
Vito 2= 🔥
I thought more superficially it was very boring and tensionless. I didn’t ever feel any of the characters were in danger because they were constantly being attacked and bullets were flying everywhere and missing. When someone did get hurt (did anyone?) I didn’t care because I wasn’t invested in any of them, and I knew TriniNeo would never get hurt, so there were no stakes. I was checking the time to see when it would finally be over. And then it was and I was happier.
Keanu Reeves acting was top notch, and Carrie Ann Moss looks damn good. It's a shame the movie is terrible (Neil Patrick Harris did an okay job, acting of the remaining cast was horrible).
This is the most factual video I’ve ever watched. Yet another based video.
I thought the first hour of The Matrix: Resurrections wasn't bad.
A meta-commentary on making Sequels, movie industry and the greed of big studios. Kinda similar to Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994).
Unfortunately after that the film practically degenerates into this Soft-Reboot Shit like Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Terminator: Dark Fate.
It was just terrible!
What a damn shame 😔
yeah!!! at the first hour I was like ok, Im surprised, this seems cool... and then... no sense at all lol
I liked what they did with the programs and machines. I think it added some dimension to the world. The machines aren’t some hive mind. They take sides. Some side with the humans and help them, while some desperately cling to their old system. That was the only thing really liked.
If they make another movie it should be exclusively about that. Don’t bother having scenes take place in the Matrix itself I DONT CARE
You say that Jesus doesn’t come back to life i the Bible, but the funny thing is... he does come back to life!
EDIT: Vito has explained this. 👍
Damnit Vito, I have videos of my own to do and you sucked me into this video, good shit man. Thanks for helping me save a few hours of my time by not watching the movie...
The first Matrix was pretty much a perfect movie. The sequels were...I don't particularly remember anything about them. And this one, I don't even want to watch it to see how bad it is.
It's the equivalent of taking a fairytale that ends with "and they lived happily ever after" and then dragging out a sequel where we see the rest of their lives that is completely unimportant to the original story
Warner Bros is forcing me to do this! So I’m gonna ruin it & any chance for a sequel plus I hate that the “red pill” is being used by conservatives!! I’ll show them I’ll show them all!! Insert Snidley Whiplash laughing
16:45 To be fair DragonBall Z did this with Majin Buu/Uub, and it was sick. Made sense in the story tho
Could you do a video talking about X-Men: Green? It goes beyond woke cringe like Snowflake and Safe Space & I am NOT Starfire and goes as fair as promotes Eco-terrorists murdering store clerks because a tortoise choked on a wrapper that has the name of a KwikEmart that shares the same name.
More like *The Force Awakens'* mistakes. Remember it was *The Force Awakens* that needlessly rebooted the series while adding nothing to it. It was TFA that failed to give our characters purpose for the follow up, it was TFA that set the lazy, uninspired foundation for everything to come
Man the wachowskis just really only made that one good movie huh?
Lightning in a bottle
I kind of like Speed Racer too. It's got heart.
They should have started with the new machine war with new characters and statutes of Neo, Trinity and Morpheus being thr only connection to the original trinity
The most disappointing thing about the 4th film is that they had a good idea for a sequel in the film.
Instead of being a throwaway sentence they should have made the entire film about the aftermath and the war between the machine factions. They could even keep the stupid resurrection plot point. Have it be the reason the humans join the war, the reason they split and form a new city that works with some of the machines.
Hell, they could even do the prequel, the war before humanity is enslaved by the machines. Although that is a bit of a crap story too. The humans scorch the sky in order to stop the machines, except the machines are unaffected, and the human weaponry relied on solar power, and all life relies on solar power, so the scorch just made the machines win (and somehow no one saw that coming). It pretty much paints the Matrix as humanities' saviour.
I thought Animatrix covered all that.
And here I am thinking that The Matrix didn't need sequels to begin with. It was pretty much a perfect movie.
It’s exactly the kind of movie you could expect from somebody that worships at the woke technocracy altar. Trans humanism alongside male feminism and meta-deconstructionism.
Maybe you guys are still thinking that the "One" exists. Well, what if there isn't a "One". We know about Jesus, heard the stories, read the Bible. But what is the man story of the bible, the number two "greatest"command? Love thy neighbor as thy self. Woke? So many are crying over this term and dismissing others who are different. Well, times are a changing. I'm sorry, we're abou to ditch the interan combustion engine. Alot of our "traditions" are discontinuing since we've found out that ignorance has reigned in certain areas for decades, maybe centuries.
@Noel Taylor Take your meds, bruh. 😒
It is great to wake up in 2022 and see a video from you, Vito.
You're awesome at this.
In a strange way, I want more bad movies just so I can see you rip them apart.
And it gives you more money. Which is good
Totally disagree with your take on the film..but I’m still liking the video anyway because you explained your opinion very well, you’re super entertaining to listen to, and your cat is outrageously cute.
Matrix was a trilogy. I am not sure how you can revive a trilogy for just one movie, where it references itself a lot and make it so that it doesn’t seem like something is missing.
It's really sad that you missed the message of complacency and the ideal of a deal being to good to be true and as humans, we're hard wired to fear even the greatest of gifts. I didn't think the movie was bad. I didn't think it was great, but I don't think it was unfaithful, disrespectful, or patronizing. I thought it had a solid premise and story. Neo's sacrifice wasn't completely in vain. Humans and machines now work together to make the real world a better place. Like the line in the movie "disappointing to think the story ends when you do". Shit has happened and the world is different and better. Humans don't seem to be hiding in a tin can, they have machine allies, and they don't have to eat the same rust flavored grule all day long. But new management has taken over the Machines and while there seems to be somewhat of a peace, as Io isn't a militant state, there are still troubles in the world. Beyond that, the story is about Neo and Trinity and human connection. There were some contrivences and BS that took place, but most of it is satisfactorily explained and the story is what it is. Ths source code isn't just in Neo, but in Trinity too.
Ya know, I knew Keanu Reeves wouldn't do a sequel if it was terribly made, and I don't think it was. I just don't think there was a story that was going to satisfy everyone and that's what they expected. The Machines are using Neo and Trinity because they're retconning that they were both special, which I don't have a problem with. It fits. He became The One with Trinitys help, and did everything else with Trinitys help. They had meta commentary to explain why the movie was made and why it will never be as good as the first. It knows what it is and it didn't try and be more. It's an exciting movie with a plot that works within the confines of the world.
Exactly.
Those are my thoughts exactly when I saw the movie yesterday with my dad. It wasn't trying to live up to the original trilogy and most people are clouded by nostalgia goggles
@@TheEpicSuperstars pretty much. No matter what they did, it wasn't going to be super successful. Had they focues on the machine civil war like everyone is saying, they would be complaining that the wars are supposed to be over and Neos sacrifice was in vain and yadda yadda.
Accept the story they give you and judge it on its respect to the originals.
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