DA MATRIX: LET'S GET IT STARTED - YMS (Part 1)

[@EdenLippmann]

I love it when films constantly remind me of other, better films I could be watching instead; it really helps communicate the idea that I'm wasting my time.

[@jiminfested]

Did you like the third matrix movie and disliked this one?

[@bartholomewofthebotflies5960]

Bruh, that's on puropse. They're telling us watching movies is a waste of time and we should go and touch grass or something. Just like the immortal classic Yiik: A Postmodern RPG

[@OmegaTav]

@@bartholomewofthebotflies5960 Then that’s a shit message to send to the people who they need to make a profit and a living. And Yiik is just a terrible game over all

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

Bartholomew of the Botflies Going out to watch a movie is a social, more touch grass activity. They’re punishing people for going out and trying to enjoy a movie.

[@LocalAnonOnTheInternet]

@@bartholomewofthebotflies5960 LMAO Did not expect that end at all.

[@kronos1794]

Having Keanue play himself would have been well within his acting range. He's been practicing for decades.

[@thedeserthawk2093]

It's a role he was born to play!

[@JonahWho]

@@thedeserthawk2093 lol

[@alfred8936]

Ah, my favorite filmmaking technique "Hey guys, get a load of this bad thing" *does the thing*

[@SamuelCatsy]

It's so blatant and lasts the whole movie the term "lampshading" doesn't cover it, we need a new term like "circus tenting". Normally we'd call it satire but that term has been destroyed by people defending shitty films.

[@Rise65487]

​@@SamuelCatsy "sharknado is the greatest satire of all-times" "you don't get it man, it's not bad, it's *purposely* bad, it's ironic, it's "satire" " i hate when i hear this bullshit, especially because it imply "satire" is meant to be bad, which isn't the case at-all

[@Sidecutt3]

Don't you get it, you just add some meta commentary and suddenly are free from all critisism, because it's meta!

[@AndyManX1226]

"This is footage from your games." They could have easily used actual footage from one of the actual Matrix games.

[@OmegaTav]

That’s what I was thinking when I heard them say that

[@EmpressOfCatsup]

Because they were actually his memories... Adum is a dumdum.

[@maxieprimo2758]

@@EmpressOfCatsup No

[@dreamplace7469]

Realize that the matrix is 300+ years into the future. Would be strange to use ps2 graphic footage for a video game that takes place in a world far ahead of ours with more advanced tech.

[@Endocrom]

Should have used footage of Neo fighting "Police Car Man". (an actual code that slaps the model of a car over the rig of a fighting game character.)

[@jensenfilms2586]

I see you beat KZbin's copyright system, nice

[@somerandolad]

Adam's beginning to believe.

[@pass_]

the real final boss

[@sunday1409]

I always believe there are two sides to the story

[@Pincalo]

Great. Way to frack it up, Jensen. 😁

[@byel2844]

@@sunday1409 we do not fucking care

[@TheUnusualSuspect]

Oh man, that whole 'recreating The Matrix with PS1-esque video game graphics' would've been great! That's the real shame of this movie. The whole meta angle could've offered up so many creative directions, but they squandered it.

[@anthonymartensen3164]

Everything could be a disappointment if it doesn't do or live up to what we think it could or should be. It's harder to just take something for what it is, I guess.

[@OmegaTav]

I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t just use clips from the actual matrix game

[@FootEnjoyer]

@@anthonymartensen3164 ""everything is disappointing so we shouldnt criticize stuff"" ????

[@FringeSpectre]

What do you expect happens when an uncreative woman with a wild and wacky hairdo tries to make a film? This. This is what happens.

[@ElectricalSwift]

Eyyy you watch horsey boy

[@dajokahbaby1506]

This movie is the epitome of cheap, Reddit-tier self-awareness, where it points out all of its flaws/tropes in some vague attempt to be smart or to critic-proof itself, while at the same time not doing anything at all to fix those problems. I mean at the end of the day, actions do speak louder than words, and admitting that you have a problem is only the first part of rehab.

[@PasserMontanus]

2022, socially awkward dweebs still complaining about reddit.

[@six2make4]

@@PasserMontanus 2022, using dweeb like it was the 80'ies... Ok Boomer...

[@tmantonytv1166]

Oh so it’s like scream

[@tmantonytv1166]

@@six2make4 please stop

[@ashonauts]

nice pfp dude

[@christiankettlewell]

i'm just glad Lana made the film because otherwise everyone would be say "Oh if LANA had directed, then it would've been AMAZING". can't hide behind that lol

[@WreckingWood]

Some clueless person on Earth, "Why did Warner Bros hire that talentless sister instead of bringing back the Brothers?"

[@Sousabird]

@@WreckingWood do most people keep that up to date on the Wachowski's of all people?

[@LukeLovesRose]

That transition f***ed up the Wachowskis brains

[@lastburning]

@@Sousabird No they don't.

[@yurifairy2969]

@@LukeLovesRose They were making shitty movies well before then. Think it's time to drop the transphobia and just accept that the Matrix was a fluke.

[@siphillis]

"Meta is easy. Meta might just be the easiest thing you can do. Actors spend their whole careers resisting the urge to look at the camera; meta just means giving in to those temptations. Meta might seems clever, as deep as an endlessly-recursive hole, but I think it's more like an infinity mirror: surprisingly easy to setup and gives the illusion of depth by just reflecting back on itself. That perceived cleverness makes meta a highly-prized gimmick, which mean if you want to min-max the effort-to-payoff ratio, there's no better way than meta."- Matthewmatosis

[@erikabloodaxe2581]

After deconstruction comes synthesis. Most people, including artists, are bad at synthesis.

[@aeroslythe6881]

That’s very well-written

[@libra_v3]

@@aeroslythe6881 so are matthew's reviews, you should watch them if you crave for more critical game reviews

[@beachwind7274]

Which video did he say this?

[@libra_v3]

@@beachwind7274 meta microvideos

[@squeeeebii-kb9xm]

My favorite part of Da Matrix: Let's Get It Started! was when Neo said "Stop! Matrix time!" and started dancing in bullet time slow-mo. Such a powerful scene

[@godabandonedthistimeline]

Tbh that sounds like a better movie

[@moocow5556]

There is SO MUCH irony in having to name this video weirdly to avoid robots from stealing your money

[@jmace2424]

The one good thing about this movie is that it forces people to recognize that Reloaded and Revolutions were actually pretty good.

[@Patterrz]

I stopped taking the movie seriously as soon as they said "Yeah WB is making us make this and they're gonna do it without us so we might as well be here I guess" in the movie

[@bleepy013]

It's WB, but yeah. It's so annoying why they thought that being meta excuses the writing still being shit.

[@fiel81]

Yeah it's basically a middle finger to the viewer

[@dexstewart862]

🎵It's what the network wants, why bother to complain?🎵

[@ooktar]

My friend and I had to pause the movie at that point cause we couldn't stop laughing. What a huge "fuck you" this movie was.

[@Flatcetera]

Honestly, to me that’s the crux of the excuse. It’s a matrix movie, so it was never gonna flop, but there’s only hoping that it’s gonna be just bad enough that the studio won’t keep picking it up again while having fun with people you’ve worked before.

[@aperturelabs8552]

Your "why he is a game dev" is waaaaayyy better than the whole actual film.

[@aleksrozum1594]

This is the best lion king review ever. Edit: I take back the sarcastic part of this comment.

[@nomukun1138]

oooooooooh no you dint

[@TheZigzagman]

Just imagine how many parts he's going to have to break that into.

[@aleksrozum1594]

@@TheZigzagman I did not consider this when I commented. My God could youtube be any worse to YMS?

[@TIsForThomas]

Lawrence fishborne was never asked to reprise his role as morphius for so reason. Guess he dodged a bullet

[@blaisetelfer8499]

Once you know that they tried to get Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving to reprise their roles, the fact that Morpheus and Agent Smith are different people but Neo and Trinity aren't becomes impossible to ignore, and no contrivance inserted into the screenplay at the last minute can explain the awkwardness away.

[@recoverymza]

Honestly I don't care if the actors change or the nunerous retcons...if at the of the day worth it, but nope, the movie Is pretty bad. The new Morpheus Is the best of the movie thouhg; it shows the actor knows the script is complete garbage and he's just having fun x)

[@blaisetelfer8499]

@@recoverymza okay, I'm glad he had fun but that doesn't change anything I said. They either should have tried harder to get Fishburne or created a new character.

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

It might have actually been better to cast different people for Neo and Trinity, in a way

[@blaisetelfer8499]

@@knowledgeanddefense1054 or not have them in this movie at all, since they died in the real world at the end of the third movie. They're clearly only here because they needed their faces for marketing purposes, because this film is a hypocritical piece of shit that is just as cynical as the movies it's pretending to skewer.

[@epicpwnerofdeath]

Laurence was never asked to be in the movie since he died in the canon online game and Hugo had a theater commitment that stopped him from joining

[@kenthefele113]

I'm really glad they kept reincorporating scenes from the previous Matrix films into this one. Otherwise, I would've forgotten I was watching another Matrix film.

[@coolhundred21]

"Lana was very keen for me to be a part of [The Matrix 4]. I really wanted to because I’m very, very fond of all of them. I had some initial reticence about the idea of going back to revisit The Matrix, after having already done three films, but then I read the script and got an offer to my agent. I immediately responded yes to that, and then we went into negotiation. I was doing a play, at the time, but we were working out dates and things so that I could do both. And then, Lana decided that she didn’t wanna change her dates, so I couldn’t do it. In a nutshell, that’s what happened." - Hugo Weaving i feel like lana never wanted to hugo weaving to return and was forced to ask him so she just never changed the schedule so she could use this as an excuse

[@JonahWho]

my reaction to basically everything was "oh my god we get it"

[@socks458]

Sad that what was originally a passion project, now just feels like a meta cash grab.

[@jakerobbins314]

@@Boobiejonshorts okay jon I googled “who made da matrix” and the results I got say it was someone named “The Wachowskis” but not much else. not sure where to go from there if that’s not the true and honest answer, would appreciate some guidance away from this Whichowskis you speak of

[@luiginastro8831]

@@jakerobbins314 No no, they're right. It's the Whochowskis that made The Matrix

[@DrawtoonzStudio]

@@Boobiejonshorts Are you talking about the Ghost in the Shell ripoff allegations? Because The original Matrix was indeed conceived, written, and directed by the Wachoskis.

[@lanagievski1540]

@@Boobiejonshorts You got duped

[@lanagievski1540]

@@Boobiejonshorts It has been totally disproven and there's no evidence that proves her story or timeline of events. Look into it, it's not hard to google

[@Task1000]

Once I heard Groff’s character say “MR. ANDERSON!”, I can’t help but imagine him saying, “HEY MR. WILSON!”

[@Necron1999]

I kinda respect the film for what it’s trying to do but the whole point of the film is ultimately: “We know we shouldn’t have made the film, but we had to,” and I’m like “Yeah, I know. But it still shouldn’t have been made, lol.”

[@boatcaptain6288]

They could've thought "Well if we HAVE to make it, might as well put effort into it. If you're going to do something, do it well" but I guess that's too much to ask.

[@Anselmer_]

@@boatcaptain6288 I'm glad the film sucks. If there's anything worse than 1 shitty soulless Matrix film it's a whole new franchise of shitty soulless Matrix films (a la Disney Star Wars). The studios basically made Lana rape her baby, otherwise they were gonna get some other asshole to rape it.

[@mortimerpenguin]

@@boatcaptain6288 She probably would have to make another one, if it was a really good movie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It was not about making a good movie, it was about making the last one.

[@radiofloyd2359]

@@boatcaptain6288 No, cause that would require putting in effort into something you have no passion for. It's like being an ace worker at a fucking MacDonald's for no reason.

[@dumbsville]

Off-topic but I find it EXTREMELY weird that Adam had trouble uploading this for copyright reasons. I made my Matrix video and had next-to-no issues on the copyright side of things, and yet Adam does? It's probably because I edited it to a nauseating degree, but it's still total bullshit. I swear, this platform never truly fixes the issues it had for nearly a decade at this point, if not more. Anyways, great video, Adam! Phenomenal work. Especially the PS1 point, that would've been totally badass.

[@kennan10101]

Sadly, they know that there's basically no competition when it comes to video hosting sites so they focus their energy on pleasing big corporations (e.g. removing the dislike button) rather than making the experience better for creators.

[@suprshin]

Probably because Adum would shit in the movie? Idk.

[@Greg501-]

It's less legal trouble to overpolice, then to underpolice and be unable to deal with 2000 uploads of a full movie and get sued over it... welcome to capitalism

[@toomanybrews7123]

@@Greg501- These stale ass "everything I don't like is because of capitalism" takes are beginning to get really annoying.

[@kennan10101]

@@toomanybrews7123 I mean, it is dumb to always blame it on capitalism specifically, but most of the world's problems, big and small, trace back to money. That's just a simple fact.

[@BorrowedYeti]

Adum’s idea for the movie was actually so sweet tho

[@crpalstuck2966]

So much wasted potential in this film, it's like Lana was sleepwalking through this

[@ahmeddebrov3379]

yeah it made me blush

[@dreamplace7469]

@@crpalstuck2966 I notice people cant help but to criticize this film without playing in good faith and having a go at examining it. It is incredibly layered. I plan on doing a video on it. Lana would have to be an extraordinary one of a kind human being to sleep walk and add so much detail and subtext as this movie has. Remember, if the majority have an overwhelming reactionary opinion, its probably wrong.

[@hoodedman6579]

@@dreamplace7469 "Remember, if the majority have an overwhelming reactionary opinion, its probably wrong" For one, opinions can't be "wrong", and any clear cut example you probably have against that simply is not an opinion. For two, let's just say that you meant something more correct, like stupid or awful, and that's not a whole not better, because it's also just not true; most things aren't super-divisive, the majority lean one way on most things for a reason. Master of Disguise is not a great movie just because almost everyone hated it. If it's widely hated, it's probably bad; if it's widely loved, it's probably good. That's not always the case of course, but it is more often than it's not, and that's the exact opposite of what you said.

[@dreamplace7469]

@@hoodedman6579 Well if you'd like i could say it this way: opinions can be more sophisticated or less sophisticated. If I get basic plot points wrong, for example, and I criticize the movie for what I thought was a plot hole, then I am wrong by my own criteria. I see this has happened with resurrections.

[@SonicHaXD]

The reason "Hugo Weaving" not being in the movie is fking hilarious XD

[@Guitar-Dog]

What's the reason XD

[@dawey8897]

@@Guitar-Dog 13:44

[@ashleybrooke2087]

And replaced with Jonathan Groff of all people. Had Wachowski just seen Hamilton or something?

[@rustedcoin9341]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I hate so much the things that you choose to be

[@kenthefele113]

@@ashleybrooke2087 Or Mindhunter.

[@OneTopic]

i appreciate you covering this film, and i’m now headed off to part2!

[@christiankettlewell]

one video at a time lol

[@QueerComics1994]

Hey Beardo!

[@antiphon000]

@@christiankettlewell his vids seem super cancer lol

[@KoxenBols]

@@antiphon000 Typical for people leeching subs in bigger youtubers comment sections, can't grow organically by themselves. Using his sexuality as a substitute for a personality doesn't help either

[@payt00n]

@@KoxenBols love how you say this when his sexuality was not mentioned once in his comment, you do know KZbinrs are allowed to comment on yt videos too right? Also he never said anything to attract you to his channel, u did that urself bozo.

[@championoflovemanwithoutap4381]

7:20 Chad's name was chad, because the actors name is literally Chad (Stahelski)! He was the stunt double for Keanu Reeves in the original Matrix, (get it?!!!) and the Martial Arts Stunt Coordinator for the other Matrix films. He's also the director of the John Wick films staring Keanu Reeves. Joke's on you Adam this movie was really just too meta for you to comprehend :3

[@Aspi3Gam3r]

Hugo Weaving: "You know, I'd like to reprise my role as Agent Smith in Matrix Resurrections. Will May work-" Lana Wachoski: "NO, I WANNA FILM NAOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!" I don't think I've ever seen a more baffling creative decision in my entire life!

[@breakingyourlegs]

That is indeed a terrible decision. Absolutely retarded. And on top of that: When Laurence Fishburn was asked why he isn't in the fourth movie, he said that he wasn't even invited by Lana Wachowski to reprise his role as Morpheus. WTF?

[@averyeml]

Idk man, maybe after it came out they feel like they dodged a bullet. But no lie, them not being there made me have a terrifying thought in the back of my head that one/both had died and I hadn’t noticed. Because, like, HOW could someone be dumb enough to do this without them?

[@User0000000000000004]

His name is Larry.

[@IronFreakV]

@maccas more like obvious low effort copy paste spammed under every comment because it will inevitably lead to this exact reaction which is more than likely the intention

[@xANTHQNY]

@maccas They usually don't exist for very long so it's a self solving problem

[@jakek1735]

I love that shot where it pans across Neo's desk at the game company and we see a bunch of things from the previous films, and in the middle of everything there's a prosthetic hand giving the finger directly to the camera. Really sums up the central theme of the movie in a clever visual metaphor.

[@zaddyzeeseburgnutz]

A lot of your points are great, but for them it boils down to: “Too much work, not gonna happen.”

[@sebdecsebdec]

Trinity's husband being "Chad" is actually really clever - he's played by Chad Stahelski, who both directed the John Wick films but also played Reeves' stunt double in the first Matrix. It's like Trinity is married to a fake Neo, instead of the real one

[@maskooliojulio5159]

"Clever"

[@immaleaf4964]

is that something 98% of people would know though? If it's on purpose that is such an obscure thing to do, so, good?

[@EmpressOfCatsup]

@@immaleaf4964 By definition, if everyone would get it, it wouldn't be clever.

[@abigcupofwater]

Should have named him "Keano" lol

[@ATHAITEK]

really lowering the bar for "clever" now?

[@tavogerard9691]

I was so wordlessly frustrated with this film and the weirdly positive reception, thanks for this Adum. "It was bad on purpose" and "some of the ideas would have been cool if they were done differently than how they were" are such baffling reasons to call a movie good, and that's a lot of what I've seen in praise/defense of this one

[@lucamckenn5932]

Theirs meta and then there's fuck it meta. This movie is like Gremlins 2, another fuck it meta movie that is hilarious but insulting. Is it really impossible to enjoy anything from something? Are people who watch Adum such bleak pessimistic armchair critics? The answer is yes.

[@toomanybrews7123]

@@lucamckenn5932 I'm going to disagree with you there. I find Adum to be overly nitpicky and pessimistic about movies all the time, but this movie sucked ass. I sat down excited for this film and walked away feeling insulted AND bored. At least Gremlins 2 was fun and competent. Comparing the two is doing a huge disservice to Gremlins 2 imo.

[@toomanybrews7123]

@dcot2452 Is this meant to be sarcastic?

[@lucamckenn5932]

The amount of people who let Adam think for them is pathetic.

[@toomanybrews7123]

@@lucamckenn5932 You say that, and you aren't wrong, but there are a fair amount of defenders in this comment section who let RLM think for them. I think most people who watch breakdowns/detailed reviews of a movie before actually seeing it themselves and forming their own opinions are susceptible to this.

[@gusdario8781]

The whole "Digital Self Image" thing was just how the machines were hiding Neo for all those years, changing his appearance and how his code looked to everyone else. Then the girl with blue hair stumbled upon him and managed to recognize him for some reason.

[@ZephLovesU]

Yea and the reason she’s able to notice him n not anyone else is because she saw him in the other movie jump off the building n fly, so jus witnessing that changed her and “opened her eyes” they could’ve came up w somethin better

[@drifter402]

Because she's woke

[@bearlyhardley]

I fucking love the fact that the choice to recast Smith was so last minute that the thing that snaps him out of amnesia is SEEING A GUN

[@FerHivore]

If they’re going the meta route, it would’ve been so much more interesting if Mr. Anderson was just a part played by Keanu Reeves who is now a character in the movie. EDIT: glad the horse agrees

[@kingtut5520]

10:45 My best guess is they were trying to make the viewer feel bad for Neo by making everyone else in his world view him as a delusional hobo.

[@monsterguyx]

"It's bad on purpose" is no excuse; nobody should make a bad movie on purpose.

[@ALIEN-DUDE]

Just because someones humiliated themselves on purpose doesn't beat the fact that they have humiliated themselves.

[@lucamckenn5932]

Ever watch a Neil Breen movie? So bad they're good movies exist btw.

[@monsterguyx]

@@lucamckenn5932 True, but Neil Breen doesn't make bad movies "ironically" or to make a "statement." His movies are meant to be taken at face value, even if they are only enjoyable on an ironic level.

[@rickkcir2151]

@@lucamckenn5932 Those movies exist through sheer accident though. “So bad it’s good” movies exist because those involved, at the very least the director, think they’re making something good. So all the bad shit is genuine. Once they start ‘trying’ to be bad then it becomes forced and contrived.

[@DeepEye1994]

The only things that are "bad on purpose" but are still quality content is stuff like Black Dynamite, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Danger 5. I can tell the difference between people crafting something with cheap effects purposefully, and someone just doing a mediocre job and going "uuuhhh... Yeah, yeah, I was totally meaning that!"

[@AMbradfordfilms]

Locking Laras butler in the freezer was the peak of gaming in 98

[@OMGmyFACE]

I missed this old format of YMS video. Multi-part with the peppy music dogpiling on a bad film that deserves all the easy hater content it generates. Thank you for this one.

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Reminds me of the early 2010s. Simpler times...

[@tavogerard9691]

The only positive thing we can say about M4 and these wack copyright strikes is that they collectively pissed Adum off enough to reprise this format.

[@cookiimonst3r]

Your idea actually sounds really cool and fun to watch

[@Wesleym134]

10:13 - when he said "Mr. Anderson", I immediately heard Mr. Plinkett in my head saying, "How Embarrassing". Like as if my mind was reinforcing how bad this movie was.

[@samb8744]

Everyone needs to watch “Bound” immediately if they haven’t. That film kicks ass and shows how great a director Lana and Lily can be if they’re actually passionate about a project.

[@User0000000000000004]

His name is Larry, not Lana. Lana is a woman's name. Larry is a man.

[@imsadlol4528]

@@User0000000000000004 her name is lana.

[@askinredroads5132]

@@User0000000000000004 Lana is a woman.

[@bluidkchili]

I thought it would interesting if in this movie, the real world outside the matrix was just another level of the matrix designed to keep people from really breaking out of the matrix

[@Mrstobastoba]

Oh boy, a two parter? We in for a treat.

[@panpani5079]

I finally watched the original Matrix trilogy just so this movie can tell me how cool they were.

[@bigsad7524]

I think the purpose of neo looking young to the people in the matrix is a play on the meme that Keanu never ages. This is Lana's super meta way of saying W E L I V E I N D A M A T W I X

[@niceteal]

I've never been more excited for a movie commentary track. I need to know Lana's vision for this. I think everything you've said in this review is totally valid, but I want to hope that Lana did in fact produce a bad movie on purpose both to spite Warner and to end the series on her own terms, regardless of whether or not she is involved in future iterations. Would that make the movie "better"?... No. I suppose it would make a lot of the dialogue better but that doesn't change the fact that the worldbuilding was so dull, the action scenes look awful compared to the original and I found every single performance in "Resurrections" to be unbearable.

[@User0000000000000004]

His name is Larry, not Lana.

[@niceteal]

@@User0000000000000004 imagine being triggered by someone's name 🤣😵‍💫🥴

[@svenrawandreloaded]

dude the whole "it's a game now" thing drove me up the wall

[@joshwondra9821]

Seeing this in theaters I was initially kind of excited, because very rarely does a movie just blatantly say “fuck you specifically, person who financed this” while also calling its viewers AND its creators idiots, while acknowledging that everyone is trapped in a loop of almighty commerce. I looked forward to a full length film of them just taking the piss. But they were cowards and didn’t commit to the bit. And then the middle was just mediocre and confusing and made me sad at the state of the franchise. And the ending was genuinely upsetting, because they wasted an ACTUALLY REALLY COOL sci-fi premise. Far future Earth, after the wars, after the Matrix, humans and machines no longer divided along lines of organic and metallic, but on lines of ideology, of “do we like this new world, or do we want to keep fighting and return to the old ways and try to win?” That would have been an awesome sequel. But they didn’t commit to either of their good ideas and chose to make something lame

[@Locanth]

Thank you Adum for making these videos, I felt like I was taking crazy pills for disliking this movie and you have given me more tools to better articulate why.

[@nicolasbecerra999]

As a fan of the three Matrix films, I have to say your on to something here.

[@robinvik1]

I felt the entire movie was building to the idea of red pilling Smith. I was actually shocked when that didn't happen and Smith just went away for no reason.

[@spagett2069]

The idea of replaying the scenes in the style of late 90's video game cutscenes is an awesome idea.

[@f1gn3wton]

Remember folks, pointing out your bad writing does not make good writing. Being able to imagine a better script does not make your script good.

[@Regulith]

you have no idea how relieved I was to hear that I do not, in fact, have some sort of severe facial blindness and that they just recast smith but kept cutting from him to footage of hugo weaving in the original

[@williamprescott3375]

This had me in stitches man. Really funny and bang on 😂

[@mekaylanicolai54]

I watched this before seeing any of the matrix films, and all I could think about was how good the flashback scenes looked and immediately went home to watch the first one 😂

[@jacoballen9591]

I think it’s a bad sign when a movie in an action franchise known for its experimental camera work and CGI has boring camera work and bad CGI.

[@Sams.Videos]

I didn't liked the overall movie on my first watch. But there were still parts that I definitely found very well made, that worked and were interesting. After my second watch, I could better place and understand what the filmmaker was trying to accomplish. I did understood that it was a small movie, I mean on the level of conflict. It's a love story about two old relics who died and got the chance to come back and find each other again. After my third watch I literally had tears at the ending when Neo and Trinity run to each other in slo-mo with the music building up and grab each other's hands. The Matrix Resurrections is basically a retelling of the story of Orpheus who goes to the underworld in order to bring back his deceased loved one Eurydice. As heaving lost my mother at a young age, I completely understood what Lana Wachowski was going for in this movie when she said the death of her parents was the jumping board of inspiration for this film. People who are saying this movie is woke trash are completely missing the point. For example, Bugs was a fun character. There was no disrespect towards Neo from her part or arrogance in general whatsoever. Neither was that the case for the rest of the characters. If they handled Luke Skywalker the same way in The Last Jedi, it would have been a better film. I'm all for subverting expectations when done right. The Matrix Resurrections, being a masterpiece, succeeds where The Last jedi fails. P.S.: The Matrix Resurrections made me even appreciate Reloaded and Revolutions more.

[@vcamv2354]

If people are calling this move "The last Jedi of Matrix" then it's very accurate: The worst written movie of a franchise which should've ended after the first 3 movies but was rebirth for no reason years after it concluded perfectly

[@al112v4]

I kinda see the comparison but it ends there. Rian Johnson is a much more competent creator than them at this point, damn, watched TLJ enough times to realize the movie's intentions and so far this Matrix sequel completely failed, no surprise. And I’m not even a RJ/TLJ fanboy, people not liking his movies or the movie is completely fine btw, it’s also funny seeing people who probably hated TLJ unironically enjoying this one, fascinating.

[@magneto44]

the Last Jedi is actually good 🤷‍♂️

[@vcamv2354]

@@magneto44 You might like the movie, you might enjoy it and have fun with it, but The Last Jedi is OBJECTIVELY bad! It is not good, no mather how many people like it. It is a fact that movie is terribly written and a bad movie. It's a pretty movie, but a very, very bad written and directed one

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

@@vcamv2354 Popcorn munchers don't know the difference. It a movie looks good or makes them feel good, the movie is good.

[@bloocheeseformaboi881]

@@magneto44 It is passable. Like, just enough to not be considered "bad" for me. Rise of Skywalker is truly the worst sequel, hardly any effort was put into the storytelling, even compared to the first two sequels.

[@johnward6722]

I like how Adam makes up a better idea for a matrix film simply out of frustration, the movie within a movie idea. I would actually want to see that film.

[@10s3r1]

i love how keanu looks exactly the same as how he looks irl

[@MorpheusVids]

Good post.

[@iamnotthatguy7166]

Your videos have actually gotten more entertaining and funnier which is pretty unusual for youtubers like you who have been on the site for a very long time

[@lunyrobot]

having this split into two parts feels very old school yms

[@JoMiHoppe]

Very glad to see you calling out the tongue in cheek meta bulletin as not clever. This whole movie reminded me that not only should I rewatch the original matrix but I should also rewatch 22 jumpt street where they actually pulled that style off.

[@ILLREVIEWANYTHING]

FMV (Full Motion Video) video games were rather common in 1999, as they were easier to produce and were considered more immersive at the time than their 3D counterpart. It's actually extremely plausible that a video game in 1999 would have real actors and even have the guy who made the video game as one of the (if not the main) actor. It was EXTREMELY common.

[@Impeccablelane]

Yeah that's what I assumed it was in the film actually one of those kind.

[@herbagemeerkat5698]

If that were the case, then the resolution of the clips should be very low and the clips very pixelated since those CD, cartridges or whatever had little memory; but the clips look quite high resolution.

[@ILLREVIEWANYTHING]

@@herbagemeerkat5698 the game obviously set a new market standard and stood out amongst it's contemporaries. It's not too much of a stretch to say the game might have had amazing graphics for the time.

[@retardedfishfrogs1]

@@herbagemeerkat5698 it's the cash-in modern remaster

[@StEvEn420BrUlE]

@@herbagemeerkat5698 the matrix is fake. 1999 in the matrix could look however the machines want it to, it's not real

[@aphrabehn8646]

Insant thumbs up for mentioning Wes Craven's New Nightmare, that movie was way ahead of it's time and deserves way more attention.

[@About641Ninjas]

Watched it once sober and was underwhelmed, watched it high the second time and I feel it was made to be watched in that format.

[@jameseglavin4]

The characters being in firefights from mere feet away but no one ever hits anything was easily the best part

[@mastermarkus5307]

I'm really confused by Lana still being a director because I feel like she hasn't made a good movie in like 20 years...?

[@gooieglopp]

hasn't stopped m night shyamalan

[@WarlockX4]

@@gooieglopp good point...

[@OmegaTav]

@@gooieglopp his movies are at least stupidly entertaining and will on the rear occasion make something good. Either on purpose or accident

[@magmahotdesigns]

Hey man, Speed Racer came out in 2008

[@shawklan27]

@@gooieglopp exactly

[@BlueSkullFish]

I like to imagine Neo’s Matrix games were like those shooters in arcades where they just play clips from movies, then you shoot some vaguely related enemies

[@WreckingWood]

Surprised they didn't cast Halley Berry and have her say "Time for the REMIX!!"

[@maskooliojulio5159]

Her playing one on one basketball with Neo would have been a great scene.

[@kaykutcher2103]

@@maskooliojulio5159 And getting whatever the Razzie equivalent in video game awards is.

[@synonem]

Multiple ~10 min parts make me feel nostalgic. I just wish it was the same quality. I used to think editing was the problem but now I can’t pinpoint it.

[@TruckeeDoggo]

The whole “they made it bad on purpose” argument is bogus. They spent $190 million making this movie, more then double the budget of the original (adjusted for inflation). Resurrections was bad because the director was checked out and others involved were no talent hacks not up to the task

[@radiofloyd2359]

It's a better argument for the bad on purpose crowd, if Lana made WB spend 190 million dollars for the movie. If the intention was to make something so bad that Warner Bros would let the Matrix franchise die, she would want to make them waste as much money as possible.

[@yourmum69_420]

@@radiofloyd2359 you mean he?

[@radiofloyd2359]

@@yourmum69_420 You're not original.

[@yourmum69_420]

@@radiofloyd2359 ok?

[@donnylurch4207]

I would recommend Jessie Gender's video on this movie. She doesn't excuse the technically bad parts, but highlights the deeply personal subtext to do with Lana Wichowski's transition and being the co-creator of The Matrix. How well the message was conveyed is absolutely up for debate, but I think it's helpful to read the movie with that knowledge to get a better grasp of what she was at least going for.

[@The_ScapeGoat]

Yea political propaganda is endemic. People like you who want more of it are zombies.

[@optimascrime5235]

Some of the ideas the YMS had for this movie sounds so cool😎

[@bodybagism1]

11:25 I feel like you put more thought into that little rant than the directors put into the entirety of this movie

[@hamfranky]

I like the two parts, it feels nostalgic.

[@MistyDusker]

As a kid I grew up with someone who LOVED the Matrix movies. I thought the movies looked bland with characters who never acted human and pontificate constantly. Now that this movie came out I want to rewatch the first film. I think there's a hidden art to remakes, reboots, prequels, sequels that causes people like me to rewatch or watch films I never cared about before and grow an appreciation for. It's like I grew a new spite ritual towards Hollywood's unoriginality and regurgitation methods.

[@TeamIzlude]

It's telling that Hugo Weaving chose some theatre production over appearing in this trash fire.

[@mourad505]

If you know the uncensored version of that Black-Eyed Peas song then you'll have a greater appreciation for Adum calling this film "Let's Get it Started".

[@darkdaveywavey]

“It’s not an artistic choice” is my new go to insult

[@lanceflair9864]

YT didn't recommend your video to me again, even though I watch every video. I only found this because I searched for your channel. What a great system.

[@funnybone6149]

11:07 Here’s a question, if Neo looks like an old dude, why does Tiffany not look like a old woman? Why does Tiffany look like a slightly older Trinity, just as much Thomas looks like a slightly older Neo

[@AndrewMarone]

The digital self image stuff has symbolic meaning sure but it also clearly has a purpose to the plot. It’s the whole reason why Neo isn’t able to be found despite making a game called the matrix. Seeing through it is also why new girl had her mind freed. It’s also a fun twist because it makes Trinities shock at no one seeing her similarities to the character suddenly make sense.

[@NoFeckingNamesLeft]

Why Neo *isn't able to be found, I assume you meant. They say this outright in the film, that the machines were able to hide him for so long by shuffling his self image.

[@vengertheforceofinconvenie7377]

With the “mr anderson” yell, while watching I thought it was actually a good portrayal of an annoying tech bro guy trying to act out the matrix, but the fact that the character actually is agent smith kind of undermines that aspect

[@NoFeckingNamesLeft]

he's not straight-forwardly the same agent smith

[@KingOhmni]

Imagine if they showed footage from the Enter The Matrix PS2 videogame. Now that would be meta.

[@kildogery]

Wow, I just finished watching the first 20 odd minutes, just as I took a phonecall. Now I think I'll watch this instead. Is looking like a 90s TV movie part of the aesthetic. It's much more meta than I feared.

[@vingram100]

This channel keeps me sane because I really like this movie based on nostalgia but it's not something I'd argue over. I really just like the callout about the matrix being copied by pop culture, Warner Brothers making the sequel anyway and Trinity is alive.

[@unmessable12]

"Who is this for!?" It's for Lana Wachowski. She did this for herself. She didn't wanna make another Matrix movie and she mostly did it in a way that'd be cathartic and cool to her and only her.

[@Mr_Bones.]

Him* In going to assume you don’t know that Lana’s really name is Larry and he is suffering from a mental disorder that makes them believe they are, with absolutely zero effort or surgery, a women after being a born a biological man. He is sick and will most likely harm themselves if not properly treated. I do not want that to happen. I want Larry to be happy as the man they were born. That being said, this movie still sucked. I don’t care what the director’s sex is, this movie was a low effort cash grab.

[@galleryofrogues]

That’s dumb. That’s a dumb reason to make a movie.

[@unmessable12]

@@galleryofrogues eh in my opinion there’s no dumb reasons to make a movie. There are dumb reasons to charge money for it tho lol

[@yourmum69_420]

*He did this for himself. He didn't wanna make (it) and HE mostly did it... to Him and only Him.

[@babylfsh]

@@yourmum69_420 If you're intolerant of LGBT people. I don't understand why you'd watch Adam lol

[@duckboyguru6164]

wow adam, you changed your whole room setup, so cool!

[@mcblaggart8565]

10:12 I heard about this moment, but I had no idea. That was so much worse than I expected. That on its own is a damning stamp of failure. That was like a knife in the gut. Nothing about that delivery was right.

[@jdxawe]

7:18 Fun fact: Chad is played by Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick movies. This is just a guess, but that’s probably why the character is named Chad.

[@MindlessShowCase]

You did it ♡

[@danielstephen1260]

It was during this video that I realised Neo and Trinity meeting at the cafe was even worse than I first thought, Trinity and her family would have seen some old homeless looking man hit on Trinity not Keanu, which makes her wanting to see him/speak with him later alone to tell him she never wanted her family is even weirder.

[@loslobos786]

No no no the people who liked the Matrix 4 do have illegitimate opinions, you don't need to apologize for that.

[@shoebox6741]

love when i didnt even know he made a full yms video 2 years ago about the matrix right after i watched the trilogy for the first time

[@joedatius]

imagine making a movie so incompetently that the entire fanbase has to go onto such copium to say it was all on purpose.

[@Winningthewormoff]

screaming Mr Anderson takes away from how imposing Smith was, he was calm and it made him scary