Half in the Bag: The Matrix Resurrections

[@Lextorias]

My favorite part of the movie is when Neo looks directly at the camera and says "Jupiter Ascending wasn't that bad. You need to give it a second chance."

[@frankmerker630]

I think Mike was the only person on the planet who didn’t hate that movie

[@RedHeadKevin]

There were things about JA I liked. But overall it was crap. Why the HELL did they do the same plot 3 times?!

[@fiveways]

@@RedHeadKevin they had a trilogy of films written and were given the money for one movie. So instead of banking on a movie to do well and earn sequels they made a fucking nightmare of a mash up that uses the same climax twice in a 20 minute span.

[@SkokingProductions]

I was waiting for that. Never happened :(

[@gspendlove]

I was expecting that part, but what I wasn't expecting was for him to turn away and then turn back and say, "And did you see Speed Racer? Whoa!"

[@levikrause]

It's almost a crime that Rich Evans didn't fly across the screen at the end of the video

[@2good4name]

Oh that would have been amazing.

[@CoolHandLuke813]

And then the screen goes to black and you hear his laugh.

[@rabd3721]

He couldn't break free from his chronic depression enough to believe he's the One.

[@Unknownprofilegames]

We need a fan edit. This whole video sucks now that I know these hack frauds missed such a golden opportunity.

[@BrickInTheHead]

I saw the "also starring Rich Evans" at the end and wondered if I missed him hiding in a window or something

[@gregorycarlson9139]

After the first third of the film, I fully expected a Blazing Saddles type ending where the characters break the fourth wall, because the only way they can escape the matrix is by attacking the crew and ultimately the executives who want to make more Matrix movies.

[@MarkHWillson]

No no no, that'd would've been a fully amazing movie. We can't have such nice things. That would break the simulation. ;)

[@AdrianColley]

"Screw you, Mr. Anderson! I'm workin' for Mel Brooks!" _punch_ _credits and_ Brass Against I'd pay for that.

[@Thecatdrums3]

Can’t get that good with WB anymore they didn’t even let gremlins 2 go without edits or the recently justice league where they forced a reshoot to remove a character

[@sjodinable]

That would have been AMAZING

[@brahemedays2914]

Very cool

[@rowdoradge]

"So what you're saying is I'll be able to dodge bullets?" "No Neo, what I'm saying is that after watching this movie, you won't want to."

[@rowdoradge]

@@grayfox6518 Happy to oblige

[@PointsofData]

@@4Everlast I have never seen the matrix and I still feel upset by this comment Keanu Reeves was in the original Matrix, that's why he's in this one to begin with Fair point tho

[@unbabunga229]

Hahahaha that is a brilliant comment

[@zetetick395]

Hahah! Niceone! 😹_👍 - Lana Wachowski : _nosce te ipsum_ @_@

[@amsrremix2239]

LMAOO😂 I have no idea why that was so funny

[@DeadManProp]

My favourite thing about this movie is that we get a new episode of Half in the Bag.

[@michaeloftaoism]

🍻

[@JasonX1996]

What's the point, no Mr Plinkette 😔💔

[@billepperson2662]

Red Letter Media's existence is Hollywoodland's greatest gift to mankind

[@Lonequacker]

Neo winning Geoff Keighley's Game Award and then immediately trying to kill himself is the highlight of the century.

[@StevenSantanaF]

We really thinking Geoff would cameo in it when I saw the game awards trophy

[@bzenga5981]

did you see his tweet about it. fucking hilarious

[@buffoonustroglodytus4688]

I don’t get it

[@richardpwilliams33]

I was crying when that happened.

[@nikai_vil3893]

Hail to the Dorito Pope Geoff Keighley.

[@OctoberAIIOver]

Mike - "This movie was a mess, it was confusing, it was cringey, it was annoying, it was sloppy, terrible" Me - "He's gonna say he loved it" Mike - "And I loved every minute of it"

[@matthewryan6187]

Jay: sarcastic ohh my godd

[@frankmerker630]

You’re the devils son!

[@migangelmart]

Mike's opinion is always the LEAST relevant to me.

[@samuelshafik2778]

@@migangelmart Well yeah, he tends to love shit. He's into gay movies where older men get massaged by other men so what do you expect? He's notoriourly known for loving the Disney Star Wars trilogy, calling it better than the originals. So don't expect him to have a valid opinion.

[@jeremymann6069]

Yeah I’d never take a polish person seriously

[@christianm.k.3347]

I really like how The Architect has been replaced by The Analyst, commenting on how modern blockbusters aren’t made by a creator with a vision or a creative new idea (an architect) but made by cooperations, based on statistics and consumer data (analyst). The film industry has changed drastically since the first Matrix movie.

[@JW-qd3ol]

Damn, that's a good catch -- I didn't think of that.

[@ZaLewdWarudo]

*corporations

[@emile1365]

Just look at Marvel, started with Soul (Iron Man 1), ended with soullessness (Infinity War/ Endgame).

[@christianm.k.3347]

@@emile1365 I actually really disliked Infinity War at first but have since grown to like it quite a bit. Endgame is unfortunately little more than fan service stitched together to make a movie. Imo the biggest sinner in recent times is No Way Home

[@11111110]

It was made by corporations back then, too. The first Matrix was the only one where the Wachowskis were on any sort of creative leash, they got free reign over the sequels to tell their "true" vision, and they were all bad.

[@FutureDeep]

Mike is Jay's opposite, his negative. He is the result of the equation trying to balance itself out.

[@hilotakenaka]

Mike is the Yin to Jay’s Yang The Id to Jay’s Superego With Rich Evans being the normal Ego

[@graphicsgod]

@@hilotakenaka Rich is the diabetes that keeps the two grounded.

[@sgtsnokeem1139]

now I'm seeing them both in my head, kung fu stances ready to face off. Meanwhile there's Rich just watching, cat in lap.

[@Thanatos2k]

The Matrix intentionally keeps them together so they don't do any damage because they just end up sitting around talking about nothing.

[@Berengier817]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

[@timandfin]

Finally I’ll know what to think about this movie.

[@LAHegarty]

Lol/haha

[@Knightfall182]

It's the film equivalent of Rich Evans' crippling diabetus

[@droidsector]

Hahaha u OK hun? 😅

[@SuperdreadnoughtLiebe]

I like to think think they’d hate this comment

[@_AlejandroVega1]

I hated it when I saw it, one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life but now I’m pretty sure I liked it!

[@mattmir777]

I watched the original Matrix recently and I was struck by how visceral the action scenes are. It's not just the choreography, the way the camera moves is also super dynamic and exciting. Feels like recent movies can't capture that.

[@rpe7418]

It was all based on classic Kung fu and modern anime

[@TemmiePlays]

Yeah that throat chop move Neo does vs Smith Is quite possibly the best action scene attack in all history, nevermind containing such greatness to matrix alone!

[@Cuthalu]

Did the same, the fighting in IV felt less important and wasn't artistically anywhere near as good. However, even in 2 and 3 the fighting scenes tented to devolve into fighting scenes for the sake of having fighting scenes. They should've been significantly shorter in some instances. That being said, fighting in 4 was easily the worst.

[@rpe7418]

@@Cuthalu bullshit. The château scene is fucking phenomenal

[@foosbabaganoosh1]

The fighting in 4 was one of the worst aspects for me, mainly because it's what made the matrix stand out as a franchise. It just never *looked* right, which could be a factor of age but had to have been just mediocre choreography.

[@afivey]

Took Warner Bros insane budget, made it look cheap, and called them out. This is the Freddy Got Fingered sequel I never knew I wanted.

[@Kyleology]

That's one way to describe embezzlement.

[@elevationsickness8462]

@@Kyleology in the film world its called a theme

[@sharkattacker]

@@4Everlast lay off the word salad, buddy

[@PointsofData]

@@4Everlast "please stop using so much unintelligible slang" "Read a book idiot" Wat

[@Frankenstyleish]

Counterpoint. Freddy Got Fingered was a great movie and actually deserves a sequel.

[@jimfrommars2591]

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Rich Evans

[@lucaseduardoferreira9015]

Rich Evans is the disturbed or the comfortable?

[@aidangordon2713]

@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 yes

[@mattrandazzo5491]

@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 he’s disturbingly comfortable

[@teletranoats7491]

@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 get a red pill and u will find out ! sns..sns....sns...

[@Moonawrathic]

this movie did neither.

[@coolidgedollar2154]

Neil Patrick Harris looks way more like he belongs in the 2003 MTV Movie Awards parody than the real Matrix.

[@emptyblank099a]

Did the director not remember that skit, a better parody and much and actually funny.

[@stevemiller1626]

“ERGO!”

[@purpleprinc3]

"VIS A VIS!"

[@rootsraf]

This movie is that parody. Concordantly!

[@zaxmaxlax]

He doesn't age.

[@Notsram77]

Mike and Jay: "It's not as good or bad as you've heard." Also Mike and Jay: "The acting, plot, action, and special effects sucked." Mike: "I loved every minute of it! I had to go to sleep and finish it in the morning."

[@migangelmart]

No Mike, that's no how it fucking works. You overpay, you lose time and patience at the theater, you get your seat kicked by screaming kids and you get to hold your piss for three hours.

[@a22024]

@@migangelmart oh, Mike Depends on a different solution for that latter problem

[@JM-mh1pp]

Yeah, I loved it so much that I decided to finish it the next day. Said no one ever. When I started watching Two towers extended edition I was dead next day...f-ing worth it.

[@zm1055]

@@JM-mh1pp I do it all the time when I'm too tired to focus on the movie. It doesn't take a lot of brain power to remember what happens in a movie you were watching 12 hours ago

[@JM-mh1pp]

@@zm1055 I do it only when movie is kinda "meh". If I am engrossed in the narrative real life can go and f itself.

[@hotcoldman]

I love how in the Matrix, being a game developer in San Francisco is the ultimate blue pill.

[@anonemoose7777]

Just like real life, great attention to detail.

[@dudestep]

So he was tim schaffer?

[@AlmostaFlipinSkater]

@@anonemoose7777 Do you realize that Wachowski (both) is trans and red/blue pills are transgendered terms? You're using a trans term without knowing it. You're a goof.

[@DK-lz7kg]

@@AlmostaFlipinSkater that’s right but their original metaphor has be co-opted already for many years to mean otherwise. Red blue pill means something else now by the majority of people

[@fixthefernback8030]

consoomers are the ultimate blue pilled yeah

[@andysun73]

"Do you think that's air you're breathing now? ". That’s how simple and perfect the first Matrix movie was.

[@CinceTheDay]

never got it, cause at this point in the story he actually WAS breathing air again (in the real world)

[@darkl3ad3r]

@@CinceTheDay Not where they were at that moment and that's the entire point. They're re-orienting him with the Matrix as a simulation, and helping him understand that distinction so he could better control and bend the rules of it.

[@fengariii]

@James Clouse I always think that too LOL

[@8523wsxc]

Yeah of course it's air. What else would it be? What pretentious pile of shit from beginng to pathetic end.

[@mateuszkwietowicz2470]

@@CinceTheDay well... he was talking to him inside of the program, so technically it was one computer generated avatar to another in a closed, rendered environment (since they weren't exactly in a matrix, just inside of a training program). Neo was breathing air, but his kung fu slinging avatar wasn't.

[@RobertJRoman]

Jay recommends the film because it's "not satisfying" and some of it "is flat-out bad." We love Jay.

[@baconatormcpooperson8169]

'the screaming scull is literally one of the most important movies of my entire life?!?!?!?!" - me the matrix: "hold my beer" me: --------------------------------- :) _ fu(k-------yeah!!!! :)~~~~~~~~~

[@chud-dot-us-dot-gov]

@@baconatormcpooperson8169 Well said.

[@TOGYS7]

"it's supposed to be bad! it's meta!" -Susan, probably

[@dereksbooks]

I actually have a higher appreciation for Jupiter Ascending now. As bad as it was, at l least it was a genuine effort to make something great.

[@lennyztrobos8678]

@@dereksbooks Same!! It´s such an injustice that Jupiter Ascending flopped, even though it was just flat out better than the average Star War movie. It also was´nt a deliberate joke at my expense as a movie goer. I miss movies like that.

[@DicePunk]

I loved the part where Will Smith turns to the camera and says, "What is this, some kind of Matrix: Resurrections?"

[@xenophagia]

Personally, I preferred the part where Will Smith turns to the camera and says, "YAaaAAaaAaAaHhhH!". It just really elevated the entire film, IMO, and really showcased the writers mastery of that "Big Willy Style" of storytelling. I can't hide it anymore. That particular line and and the way Will delivered it with such humanity and vulnerability, whilst boldly showing off his tenor and this genuinely emotional vibrato, almost reminiscent of some kind of billygoat or sheep in heat, brought this grown man to tears. Bravo! 👏👏

[@redbigun]

Yeah, but Niobe did him dirty in that scene.

[@DicePunk]

@@redbigun this definitely happened in a parallel dimension where Keanu Reeves played Jim West in Wild Wild West.

[@1moreastronautttv]

My favourite part is where he punches an agent and says "Welcome to The Matrix!"

[@Skrewz]

Or when he struck a feminine pose and said "oh, hell naw. no he didn't. i'm the real agent Smith".

[@mjsoukup]

The entire time NPH was doing his exposition dump in bullet time I couldn’t help but think that all Neo heard was an incomprehensible chipmunk.

[@luiginastro8831]

Best comment

[@neoshenlong]

Would explain his face

[@RandomAudioExperience]

Incomprehensible Chipmunk is my favourite new band name

[@SlantCarson]

i adored mike passionately monologuing about the first matrix

[@dereksbooks]

As if we haven't all seen it 100s of times each and can recite it line by line 😏

[@niallreid7664]

I don't believe you're the real neuromancer

[@alexsilva28]

Who hasn't? Movie is a masterpiece

[@TubeEamo]

If there's one thing this film did it's make me want to watch the first one again. It's perfection.

[@marko6947]

Mike is a douche. Says he loved this one, then proceeds to talk about the original trilogy the whole video.

[@GGgarbageman]

So refreshing to have a 200th episode without it being all or even mentioning it. Congrats guys, here's to 200 more 🍻

[@Punk__pixie]

They subverted your expectations!!!!

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Bold of you to assume they didn’t forget

[@teskio]

They probably don’t even know:)

[@zyncra3965]

I don't even think they care enough to think of that

[@SylentVoidkeeper]

@@teskio They allude to it in the description, but subvert your expectations by talking about Mike only drinking 1 beer.

[@adamfrost8417]

RLM's complete disregard for microphone cable dressing after 200 episodes is what keeps me subscribed

[@VideoBakery]

I do a lot of interviews and nothing is worse than having to stop someone because their mic is rubbing. I always try to get away with leaving it out in the open as well.

[@aristideregnier4883]

haha wow what a moronic thing to even worry about

[@Neo-qp8iy]

I improve my english level with you guys. Thanks for clear english conversations. Also the discussions on movies are really impressive

[@luiginastro8831]

You're not fooling anybody, MR. ANDERSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

[@frankthetank2550]

Good luck bro :)

[@holycow818181]

If you're trying to learn English, maybe stay away from videos featuring Rich Evans for a little while.

[@Exisist5151]

@@holycow818181 Chable

[@youruniquehandle2]

I really enjoyed Mike waxing poetic about the first matrix movie and Jay sitting there, bored out of his mind, just saying "yeah, yep, oh yeah, uh huh".

[@PizzaguyJeff]

I'l think Mike is more of a lore and big picture guy, and Jay is more of a technical, effects kind of guy.

[@Chocolate83Bunny]

describes like half the episodes really

[@alexsilva28]

Jay is a bot confirmed

[@bentonrp]

Yeah. Not entirely unlike many an infant, Jay is either interrupting feverishly or is otherwise bored.

[@jennys1983]

@@bentonrp This is perfect.

[@Vpaid]

I love Jay repeatedly saying, "I don't care about the lore or the story," and Mike goes, "... so anyways, let me summarize the entire story!"

[@thomasmuandersontheneousul4184]

Since when was Jay a Matrix expert?

[@hanspecans]

Jay is entertained by shiny jangling keys.

[@thomasmuandersontheneousul4184]

@@hanspecans At least he's honest FOR ME MATRIX WAS AN ACTION MUBI To be fair, I read a lot of philosophy so the Matrix was made for me but even if I didn't read Descartes or Plato the idea it was all about kung fu kicks? Do they have any quotes or interviews to verify this? NAH Jay its muh opinion so its now a fact its all about the dumb action lol

[@thomasmuandersontheneousul4184]

@@hanspecans If they were Shining keys he'd like it lmao

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

@@hanspecans Only if they're being used to lure cats to their doom.

[@AdrianArmbruster]

I, for one, want to see the alternate universe where Dark City became the new-millennium pop culture defining uber-hit that gradually faded from consciousness after some increasingly incomprehensible sequels.

[@anubusx]

Love that film. Revolutions copied its ending. Dark City deserves more recognition.

[@treborkroy5280]

Dark City did in one film what Matrix took 3 films to clumsily achieve.

[@anubusx]

@@cactusmalone I have shown loads of people who didn't even know it existed.

[@TheAcad3mic]

Nah it was just good and those that know, know.

[@TheAcad3mic]

@@treborkroy5280 Nah the Matrix did its thing in one brilliant movie and then the sequels tell the same story again, but clunkily and worse.

[@jjww30]

So super-intelligent supercomputers were outsmarted by the lack of a Nest camera pointed at Trinity. You’d think after Neo escaped a second time they’d fast track that Nest install.

[@killerbee2562]

The A.I. in charge of security probably hates it's job and half asses it.

[@D0NU75]

a simple sentence can put it better "I am the most intelligent AI and i resurrected my own demise again"

[@Veged4]

@@killerbee2562 That is how we are going to find out that we managed to create A.I. when asking computer to calculate something and it answers "Don't wanna. Do it yourself."

[@killerbee2562]

@@Veged4 And the more advanced one will out source it to another AI.

[@O1OO1O1]

Google was out of stock due to Russia attacking Eurkrain

[@iamlimitless7543]

" So what are you saying? I'll be able to dodge bullets? " " No Neo in Matrix 4 you won't want to " I didn't think of this but it was funny.

[@adrianpatterson5776]

I love that Mike turns this into a Re:View of the first movie.

[@voltijuice8576]

That's what I guessed when I saw the running time first.

[@ajsouza3720]

Yeah they are *so* desperate to not talk about Resurrections.

[@Virjunior01]

The MOVIE is that already.

[@tentringer4065]

@@ajsouza3720 he said Resurrections had something magical going on about it.

[@sampage8113]

Love that Mike says “the Neo” like the prophet saying “the Sisko.” Star Trek brain.

[@ScottyKirk1]

Good call.

[@amittoibis]

Star trek reprogrammed his child brain

[@Flyhunter241]

All the Neo's in the tv screens with the Architect were not previous versions of Neo, they were all his possible reactions.

[@alecburris4225]

Thats exactly what I picked up. The TV screens represented possibilities not actualities

[@F_C...]

More specifically, they were predictions being made by architect insinuating that humans didn't have free will. Pretty sure Neo debunks it by doing something the architect did not predict.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

@@F_C... Oh, I didn't realise they were Architect predictions, but that makes a lot of sense. Especially since the one time Neo and all the screens do the same thing, its: Neo/Neos: "Bullshit!" Architect: "Denial is the most predictable of human responses." But yeah, these two made a couple of mistakes regarding the lore set out in 2 and 3, and seemed confused by some stuff that I thought was quite clear in 4, but I'm something of a super-fan so I don't hold it against them.

[@educateme8455]

Me too. I thought that was obvious . Why would anyone expect a computer to be honest?

[@phattjohnson]

Yeah just The Matrix running a few hundred simulations like chess AI's currently do!

[@MichNeudorf]

The parodying of the film executives in this was literally just The Nerd Crew. Can't believe these hack frauds got ripped off again.

[@Michael_ORourke]

VERY COOL!

[@edencantu6599]

*clapclapclapclapclap

[@rrmenton8016]

Thing I remember! *clapclapclap*

[@JCDenton3]

They broke new ground!

[@creopictures]

It's about family, and that's what's so powerful about it.

[@ProfSir1]

My favorite part was when Neo wakes up from the Matrix and says, “Guess this means I’m Resurrected.”

[@michaeloftaoism]

And then he said to Agent Smith "Resurrect this!"

[@TheBersergner]

"He finds out he's the One and he has the ability to bend the Matrix with his arms."

[@nathanmillette4047]

17:00 I love how Mike appreciates what the fanbase latched onto, and how it very much was "our starwars" for a new generation. Especially cuz hes not a huge fan himself, but he still "gets it"

[@oohhboy-funhouse]

I loved the part where Keanu blows his brains out at the corporate meeting.

[@dereksbooks]

It should have started with that scene, so that this movie could have been 1 minute long. It would have saved WB tens of millions $$$.

[@cybertruckeralpha]

@@dereksbooks 190 mil to be exact.

[@oohhboy-funhouse]

@@dereksbooks Pretty enjoyable, fun, legit self deconstruction. It's a bit janky, Pandemic perhaps? Especially now where you either get 'Product' or tone deaf I know better than you subversion boomer 'product'. Example: Free Guy was wonderful until it hit those Boomer moments and insert Disney here. There are far worse ways to use $190 million in Hollywood. Maybe Chad stole some of it for John Wick.

[@emile1365]

Should've killed everyone else first, even the crew=)

[@FlightSimulatorXATC]

My favorite part was when Neo looked around at the team and said “What are we, some kind of Suicide Squad?”

[@jeepneygang]

Mine is when he looked at the camera and said "I'm spiderman"

[@FunkBastid]

Then he looks back at himself and says, “Ya, I’m thinking we some kinda Suicide Squad.”

[@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145]

"I. Am. Inevitable Man."

[@hellofellowhumans9353]

Why did I find this to be so funny

[@bufflatino5121]

*I came to this*

[@chrisschuenke8316]

I'm so glad they talked about the horrible rage cover because as soon as the movie ended I was struck by how obviously horrible of a vocal performance it was and it fit so much into what I felt about the movie in general. It definitely felt like a conscious choice.

[@Chance57]

@jo Byrun Sounds like a good time

[@Gazmus]

I hope they talk about how utterly pointless the after credits scene was...that along with the Rage cover is a masterclass in trolling from the director. I can almost respect it.

[@chrisschuenke8316]

@@Gazmus the more I think about the movie the more I'm convinced it was made completely in spite. There was nothing in the movie that wasn't intentional: from the meta bitching, horrible action scenes, the nerfing of Neo, to the very pointed "sheeples" commentary. You did it Lana, congrats, I'm just another lower class dum dum that won't be seeing anything else you create.

[@howler9171]

@@chinaman1 It's literally the same Rage song from the end of the first movie

[@jiggystardust]

It was so bad I thought it was Wicked Wisdom, Jada Pinkett Smiths' old band covering it.

[@spazemunky]

I walked out of this movie. I was sitting there thinking…. This is soo fuckin bad I would rather just go home and pet my cat.

[@danielpauley9113]

Just as the matrix intended you should do

[@tteros5998]

When Neo meets The Architect, I never assumed that what you saw on the screens were multiple Keanu Reeves. The Architect said there's been multiple "The Ones", not multiple Keanu Reeves specifically. I always just thought the screens were simulations playing out, The Architect predicting Keanu Reeve's responses. The One I figured would effectively be a whole different person each time, just with the same ability to manipulate The Matrix.

[@Chance57]

That's the movie's dialogue and visuals sending mixed messages. Overall, a poor way to relay what should be unambiguous.

[@DemonBlanka]

Morpheus talks about the one who freed the humans, who was another One. The Architect himself talks about the cycles, everyone who reaches him in those cycles was also a One. EU stuff explains this more explicitly with what a One is and how their powers manifest but even in the movies its pretty explicit that it's a title and a power, not a person, the Matrix is all about blending mystical and science fiction concepts and this is just another example. The humans see The One as a god figure and prophet but in the machine's perception he's just a reoccurring anomaly in the matrix's programming.

[@065Tim]

I thought the architect was lying to discourage Neo.

[@PompeySomerstown]

Exactly, that's why at the end of the scene all of the predicted responses in the background do the same thing.

[@piobu5357]

That's how I read it with all the determinism and choice bs crammed down our throats in 2 & 3. the story in Resurrections regarding machines was pretty clear, too - it was seriously glossed over, though. There was peace after Matrix 3, and machines kept their word and freed the people that wanted out, but this created an energy crisis, and led to a civil war among them. Some of the factions sided with humans. New younger Morpheus wasn't a meta commentary, either - they just treated Matrix Online game, where they kill him off, as canon. Guess none of it matters, anymore, I'm only disappointed they didn't talk about the Merovingian scene in 4, though - it was so bad it didn't even work on a meta joke level. It felt like an SNL skit, or a parody.

[@Dingleberrycrunch36]

They should’ve resurrected Carlin to reprise his role as the architect

[@greatestscott6599]

CARLIN: That's gotta mean something.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

Should have been George Carlin, if that’s what you mean. He could have explained it all and told us all how stupid we are!! Oh, that was “Scary Movie 3”!

[@Marinealver]

Hello, Old White Dude. You can't have anymore of that in today's Hollywood.

[@sgtsnokeem1139]

I kept thinking the Architect was the voice of Project 2501 from the english dub of Ghost in the Shell. Sounds like him.

[@incubus3069]

It's very lonely in here.😉

[@WOLFMOTHER1257]

As soon as mike said everything he hated about it I knew he’d love it.

[@puppysect]

It's Vampire Assassin all over again.

[@percyblok6014]

2023, when you much prefer the near hour long RLM review than actually watching movies anymore.

[@educateme8455]

The movie almost did something..but as soon as Jada Smith showed up as the wise old leader, I knew it was over.

[@DoctorJammer]

Good movies are still being made but you have to sift through or look past the big franchises and reboots/remakes.

[@hayberdasher8625]

Exactly. My list of movies that I want to watch someday continues to grow, but all I ever actually watch are the aging RLM men talking about movies.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

I'm rewatching this review 8 months later... I only watched the movie once.

[@user-rc8ff9dw7o]

Loser

[@mmcg8688]

Really needed to have Mr. Plinkett flying up above his house there at the end.

[@JohnnyBananaTV]

lmao bro that would have been fucking hilarious

[@Jilktube]

When Mike was talking about Hollywood stumbling through these kinds of movies in the 90s, all I could think of was "A gigabyte of RAM should do the trick."

[@RangerMcFriendly]

What movie was that from BTW? I have seen the clip and want to see this catastrophically dumb flick.

[@rars0n]

@@RangerMcFriendly Under Siege 2

[@MadMike1]

The network is on an internet.

[@sargentocapitao9668]

sh*t I remember watching that when I had a computer with 4mb of RAM and thinking "woah 1GB of RAM!? thats... thats just crazy talk!"

[@FumblsTheSniper]

Replace words with other words, and consider computer technology has been stagnant for several years. I hate how you sell computer components in the internet.

[@PaulC-Drums]

I'm about 10 minutes into the video so I'm not sure if Mike and Jay talk about it yet, but did anyone else think that showing clips from the original trilogy in the new movie was weird because the original films look WAY better than Resurrections? Like holy mother of god those original movies look good. The lighting, the blocking, the gravity of every shot. The new movie looked like a high-budget TV series.

[@G3SM]

Yes.

[@BrandonAzzarella]

"Hey look, more clips of the movie you'd rather be watching right now"

[@wildonionchase3934]

Apparently Lana Wachowski got really into using natural lighting for this movie, shame it ended up just looking worse.

[@lukasgruber1280]

absolutely how I felt

[@uzefulidiot]

40m:20s among other moments

[@personofpinterest4281]

The best part of this review is when Mike talks about how great the first movie is

[@jw-ob1wv]

Yeah, feels like Jake doesn't appreciate it as much

[@luiginastro8831]

@@jw-ob1wv Who's Jake?

[@jw-ob1wv]

@@luiginastro8831 Oh Jay, i thought his name was Jake

[@lachlank.8270]

There is no Jake

[@danboud8135]

It's Jake and the fatman

[@silk3sm00th]

Listening to Mike try to describe not just a movie from almost 20 years ago but also the movie he apparently just watched and still getting all the things wrong is my favorite thing.

[@thesaltmerchant4564]

Wait matrix is a love story now???

[@folx2733]

@@no-xr8wv yeah this review show has been the definition of trying hard since 2013, right?

[@thesaltmerchant4564]

@@no-xr8wv weve been calling them hack frauds for years

[@kiwi_arms]

@@no-xr8wv you must be new here

[@rickpgriffin]

One of the nice things about the original Matrix is that, while it's not perfect in this regard, its mechanics makes a lot of INTUITIVE sense. A lot of the previous cyberpunk films basically take networking technology and just handwave as "it's magic, it works however it needs to right now". But because there's rules and an intuition to how the Matrix works, the foreshadowing and tension works SO much better.

[@yewtewbstew547]

@@oh-not-the-bees7872 I mean, really.

[@ardesliini]

Please release part 2 of Strange Visions

[@AlexG-xl1cc]

The original is just an action version of Dark City. Literally.

[@iReaps]

Furry

[@hazyhalfmoon]

You STILL see this crap in movies today. Except now instead of computers with senseless programs being displayed, it’s 3D hologram projections. If you’ve seen Replicas you know what I mean, Keanu standing in front of a green screen waving his hands around pretending to operate a computer program and then they just add a 3D hologram in during editing. Mike and Jay made fun of this recently in another review, can’t recall which one.

[@danielmead146]

My favorite part was when neo looked at bugs and said "you people are all astronauts, on some kind of star trek".

[@Stufftough]

Bugs saying "As in Bunny" when asked about her name and then acting nothing like Bugs Bunny, would have been great to see them get in a rabbit season duck season thing with the Analyst.

[@zetetick395]

Heheh yeah, 🤣 Was that the one where Neo gets thrown off Vasquez Rock by evil robot Neo?

[@joshua3367]

I don't know why it always makes me laugh, but that look that Jay gives, where it looks like he's absolutely terrified by what Mikes saying... I don't know if that's just a normal reaction because he does it in every video but it's just hilarious the way it's edited.

[@jimbobbles2265]

Can't believe these two schlubs talking about the Matrix: Rebooted is actually the 5th Matrix film! Thanks a lot Lana

[@pointlessone3702]

Mike and Jay didn't really like The Matrix: Resurrections the movie but really liked The Matrix: Resurrections the video essay.

[@maxmalarkey1132]

This is the whole problem. The people who like the film actually just like some of the messages in the film. It’s a bad movie.

[@arrowknee7356]

@@maxmalarkey1132 Yep, there is an idea in the film that with proper fleshing out and competent writing and film making around it could have been something good. But it wasn't fleshed out and it was surrounded by incompetent film making and writing.

[@somestuff7876]

@@maxmalarkey1132 movie can be just okay. Like 6 or 7. This film is that.

[@alexsilva28]

@@somestuff7876 Movie is mediocre at best, so 5 is as high as it can go. As for how good of a Matrix movie is, that's a whole different metric and its is terrible as that

[@someguy1515]

You can like a movie for what it has to say. The statements are not independent of the movie that tells them. That's like saying that people that like the movie are really only liking the characters, or the look, or any other specific aspect of it.

[@gregschultheis]

Matrix Resurrections let’s me know that the MTV matrix spoof with Justin Timberlake and Sean William Scott was, in fact, officially part of the Matrix canon.

[@superzario1000]

what do u mean officially canon?

[@heyheyhey33351]

Ergo! Vis-a-vis! Concordantly!

[@Rebuswind]

the whole movie is like the original team is saying "if someone is going to drive this thing down to the ground, it better to be us!"

[@survivorchallenges]

@@OilFreeFeathers what? Lana Wachowski made this movie

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

​@@OilFreeFeathers They didn't get rid of the old directors, but the old directors sure got rid of something.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

@@vincenthalfprice9930 Nope. The original three were actually directed by "The Wachowski Bros." if you check the credits. No sisters directed any of those.

[@fernandosepulveda7297]

@@vincenthalfprice9930 *brother

[@system0fadowner251]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck har har you people literally have one joke. Get new content bro it's not 2016 anymore.

[@TheDeadTexan]

Having Neil Patrick Harris play Dr. Octopus was a bold choice.

[@alexsilva28]

He said he wouldn't come back if it was just for a cameo and he also wanted to do all his stunts!

[@alazkaalazka6087]

Studio Had to cut the check to get Neil. Worth it

[@dungeon-wn4gw]

I was never a superfan of Matrix, but that scene in the first one when they find out Keanu is the one and Keanu unlocks creative mode was one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a movie, it was so powerful. Edit: the argument under this comment over the creative mode analogy is some of the most spergy shit ever lmao.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

You saw Keanu's powers and felt so empowered by a movie made in Hollywood

[@unlimited-edge]

@@gsesquire3441 it’s just a comparison man don’t get mad about it

[@RFLCPTR]

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Now that's a reference I didnt expect to find here

[@blahblahgdp]

Same. It was like he had infinite blocks in minecraft and could fly. i almost cried

[@trissc6855]

And then in the second movie where you find out there's been 5 toher ones already

[@RawkL0bster]

Lawrence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving dodged a bullet with this one.

[@ljs508]

Literally and figuratively

[@guyincognito82]

True but they also dodged an easy paycheck where they probably could have gotten paid whatever they wanted.

[@polreamonn]

Must have used bullet time.

[@eglantinepapeau1582]

lol Laurence Fishburne was like , "better do John Wick than this" .

[@RegularCupOfJoe]

Well, Hugo dodged a bullet here but failed to dodge an arrow in The Hobbit films. **slide whistle**

[@SimBol1216]

I'm surprised Mike didn't bring up the Star Trek DS9 plot with the Pah-Wraiths in which Sisko imagines himself as an author on Earth in the 50s writing about himself in Deep Space Nine.

[@jclark4047]

IT'S A FAKE!

[@williambatley3411]

IT'S REAL!

[@dokols]

Far beyond the stars. My favourite ds9 episode.

[@davidkeys4284]

@@dokols so many good episodes

[@ThatBillmanGuy]

@@williambatley3411 DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!

[@gerome9874]

this episode, like the movie being discussed, just devolved into talking about how great the first matrix movie was

[@guyincognito82]

Lot's of movie conversations end up that way with that movie being such a revolutionary film.

[@mixedbagclips2511]

Evolved*

[@aw2584]

Hell yeah, it was such an impactful movie and defined a decade. What is there to say about this reboot? Its just... a movie. Kinda bad, kinda good, forgot that I watched it like an hour after doing so. The original Matrix stuck with me for like months after watching it for the first time.

[@DubDotCalm]

That “oh yeaaaah” extended freeze on mike at 9:45 is wonderful. Salute to this episodes editor.

[@dudeimgeorge]

Loved it

[@PhazerSC]

The biggest surprise of this movie was successfully convincing Keanu to shave his face and cut his hair short.

[@ElRook]

our group was legitimately shocked when he showed up shaved.

[@fvckingtest]

They spent all the money on CG to remove his beard and long hair, but learned from Zack Snyders failure in JL. Thats why the movie costs a zillion dollars but looks like an HBO max series.

[@dang476]

I legitimately thought they were re-using old footage at first.

[@raidermaxx2324]

since hair grows back, i would shave my head and beard for millions of dollars.. lol

[@WhisperingDeath]

@@raidermaxx2324 the confidence you have that all the hair will grow back convinces me you are definitely not 60 years old.

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

I like how Jay still manages to act surprised when Mike says "I am the complete opposite actually". Mike saying that is as predictable as the sun rising by this point.

[@elmoosexd]

It's his catchprase

[@bern717]

It was new to the palate. Much like "Shark Exorcist"

[@jz1443]

The scary part of this entire video is that it's *FUCKING GUARANTEED* that Mike dressed up in the trench coat/sunglasses and spent months on bbs's arguing about matrix lore. First they start admitting they're from Illinois and now the uber nerd stuff... Rich Evans is the only real part of RLM, everything else is a simulation...

[@alexsilva28]

@@benh8657 Who could forget the disturbing cctv footage of that one Illinois mall shooting in 2002. Thank God he hasn't snapped since

[@NeoakiraIV]

@@alexsilva28 lol!! 😂

[@CaptainTitforce]

@@benh8657 isn't there an old video where Mike is shaking his butt with a garden gnome?

[@5G5SF5]

@Ben H It was both real and a hallucination at the same time.

[@Lemon_Inspector]

Mike did wear a trench coat, but it didn't have anything to do with the Matrix...

[@uziel25]

One of the best review videos I've seen from you guys. 5 stars.

[@p.2592]

"Were they playing with us all along... that Agent Smith fight" They literally had bowling pin and domino sound effects in that scene... Yes, The Matrix kept up a silly/serious tone all throughout

[@ScaryBandMonster]

They definitely have a sense of humor. Just check out "path of neo wachowski brothers" it's an intro to the final part of that game, tells you everything you need to know about them. Also "path of neo is insane" is a pretty great watch/extended example too.

[@crappymcdick]

They’re very aware, a lot of filmmakers are, it’s just that internet culture takes everything so seriously and literally.

[@bearlyhardley]

I have been saying this for YEARS, nobody I know understands the comedic value of The Matrix trilogy

[@andreja9425]

@CrappyMcDick a lot of people are dumb and don’t know what to think unless they’re told

[@vincehenriquez680]

@@ScaryBandMonster no thanks 👍

[@thenerdwithoutfear8378]

I just wanna say "Thank God Chewbacca got his medal" - so satisfying...

[@CorpusMonstrum]

Its what we all wanted from Disney’s Star Wars 9

[@volbla]

Ugh- I'm sorry, i just threw up a little in my mouth.

[@tatuira93]

I clapped

[@dogshake]

Thaaank goooddddddd

[@alanpennie8013]

@@CorpusMonstrum OMG we thought Daisy Ridley had killed him!

[@Mutch_Cooler]

The scene in matrix reloaded with the architect. The screens were not displaying all the past anomalies. They were displaying all of the possible choices that neo could make. That's what his whole speech is. He's explaining how all the other matrix's failed but when humans were given a choice they accepted the program. That's why there's all the many neos on the the screens showing all of his possible answers or statements.

[@brodude7194]

Finally someone that isn't to stupid to admire the sequels.

[@jotatsu]

The architect says movie neo is the sixth one, there are more than 6 different screens, so the screen is not the past incarnations of Neo.

[@Ko_Zilek]

@@jotatsu It's showing simulated versions of neo makeing different choices in this moment, not actual real neos make the choices. They are in a simulated universe, a small simulation, demonstration, like whats shown would be trivial for the machines.

[@beaners1234life]

And yet there was only one option Neo always chose… Saving Trinity

[@nathanadler1452]

@@brodude7194 To be fair you have to have a very high I.Q to understand The Matrix Reloaded...

[@blinkfan305]

"Remember when is the lowest form of conversation" -Tony Soprano

[@All4Tanuki]

I remember when he said that!

[@wulalion7747]

RLM missed the opportunity to do a great commentary on this movie if they would have rebooted the Half in the Bag story line starting at the repair shop. Where they could have been confused as to what is going on. Then having Rich walk in along with the other guys as marketing research guys and start to talk about how the story line has been going on for so many years that people have lost interest and that we need to stay "fresh and hip" by starting over while still acknowledging the past.

[@leightonpetty4817]

Was very sad that this was a plot-less Half in the Bag, I desperately need to know what’s happening with Plinkett’s godforsaken antibodies

[@castilater]

What's funny is that in reading this comment, I can almost picture a Nostalgia Critic video that's all ^this and no actual substance, haha. And I don't mean that as, like, an insult to you or anything, that just sounds right up Doug's alley, is all!

[@MiketheMadness]

Hope they see this

[@jukeboxfandango]

My favorite part was when the guy made of a cloud of magnetic balls made a dramatic leap across a gap, even though....he's made of like...magnetic balls. He could have just made a little line of magnets and bridged himself across with absolutely no drama.

[@Ninja1Ninja2]

or he could have been even more dramatic and turned into like a dna strand of magnetic balls

[@moscuadelendaest]

@@Ninja1Ninja2 or a slinky!

[@ThomasReichJ]

I said something like 'he can't just fly..?' and then immediately after the jump he dissolves and flies up into the vent thing. Oh.

[@BT-su1yf]

I wanted to see him form himself into a line of letters that say "Look what I can do"

[@adamsunderland0823]

The video screens at the end of reloaded were showing all of neo's possible reactions to that meeting. They weren't past versions of the one. Everything going on inside his head that moment. The matrix was only reset 6 times as far as I can tell.

[@UltimateOmegaRed]

Thank you for clearing that up.

[@WonderLure42]

Yes

[@xhonzi]

I agree. I think this is the minority opinion though. I really only see comments from people who think it's the previous one's.

[@Mr_Wallet]

I'm pretty sure it was explained outright by Goatee Exposington, but obviously that means lots of people missed it... The architect can predict everything, except humans are too "imperfect" and so they have this unpredictability (or possibly "free will") but it's not utterly random, it's constrained by their personality etc. So the screens are "I can perfectly predict your next reaction is _one_ of these screens but because of your stupid free will I don't know which one." So him going to the opposite door from the screens is that the odds of him still choosing the same door as his predecessors was arbitrarily high, but because he loved Trinity it wasn't _absolutely 100%_ and indeed he decided to take the other door. That's pretty much the only thing I retained from that entire scene except for during one screen zoom in it shows Neo being really angry and keanu is flipping the bird and cursing and that was pretty funny to me.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@UltimateOmegaRed Yep. Now I don't have to worry about Neo looking too young for his implied age.

[@fede2]

That whole self-aware ironic detachment is precisely what drove me crazy about the film. I found it so disingenuous. Just because you're aware that this is lazy cheap recycling, doesn't mean you're not doing exactly that.

[@davidstinger1134]

Yup, it's the same thing that has made Marvel movies insufferable for me. "Hey guys, look at how silly this whole situation is because we aren't capable of writing a proper, slightly serious superhero story."

[@milly-sy4bc]

Like Cuties making exploitative movies about exploitation. Defeats the purpose entirely and comes off as disgenuine

[@tbronzwaer]

I also loathe this implicit assumption that "the fans just want the Matrix 1 again". Actually, the number of fans I heard asking for a new Matrix movie of any kind whatsoever is exactly zero. Even if it were true - if that's what your fans want, and you don't want to do it, maybe don't make the freaking movie?

[@Eamonshort1]

Exactly, it's what few films out there get, (the jump street movies understand this is well) you have that as a foundation but to be actually be good you have to do a whole heap of building on-top

[@jacobl2222]

Yeah, like I can appreciate the critique they're making, but the self-awareness and the meta commentary by itself isn't enough to make the movie good. The writing and the plot and the action still has to hook me.

[@15389]

"We are gonna get Bryan Singer and he´s gonna make Matrix with a bunch of little boys in it" god i choked laughing there

[@pekinobo]

you choked? so, the internet rumors are true that brian singer was in your......... house.....

[@vituperation]

They'll recast Neo with Kevin Spacey and Trinity will be a prepubescent choir boy.

[@Bale4Bond]

I bet you didn't.

[@TheBrewjo]

The moral of the story: Even big scary robot world respects Right To Repair!

[@DerekJones]

This is an underrated comment.

[@TaylorIserman]

Imagine if Louis Rossmann walks out at the end to deliver a monologue.

[@mciancia]

@@TaylorIserman Holding Clinton.

[@VinniePaul91]

I just hope this self-aware thing that this movie does doesn't become a trope everywhere like it has in disney/pixar animated movies. That gets old real fast.

[@snakedogman]

I hope they double down on it some more, just to hasten the complete implosion of the current Hollywood system.

[@turnthonkee]

It already is a trope, I think Jurassic World started the winking ironic hipster crap. I could be completely wrong though, bc all the Marvel movies have tried a bit of it

[@mattjindrak]

It's cute when Deadpool does it. It's annoyed as fuck when everyone does, especially distant sequels

[@berban]

When do they do it in Pixar movies?

[@Jamarkus_Delvonte]

I just hope they add more shaky cam in all the action scenes for future movies. I was scared that it was phasing out.

[@thecuriousgamingwarlock5026]

My favourite part of this movie is the part when Neo punches the alien and carries it to area 51 to meet Data

[@dennismiller2630]

There were multiple “ones” but not multiple neos. The many neos on tvs was the architect predicting what neo would say. Because every other “one” became a link in the chain and chose to enter the source code resetting the matrix. Neo then chose to save trinity instead and seemingly doomed both man and machine. Using free will to eventually save humanity and the machines since neo realized some of the programs have feelings like love and deserve to live.

[@1blackone]

This. SO fucking this. I'm so surprised whenever I see people mis-interpret that scene that there were "hundreds of Anderson Neo's before and these are all recordings". It's the same reason that at the start of the scene only a few of the screens were mirroring his words /actions/movements, but by the end, they were in sync: all variability of responses to input has been funneled into one possibility because he's CHOSEN his path.

[@tylerdurden5303]

If memory serves, there had already been 5 previous interations of Matrix - ergo, 5 previous "The Ones" - before Neo. The function of "The One" after meeting the architect was to return to the source, select 12(?) people to save from the Matrix, and create a new Zion. However, what made Neo different from the previous 5 was that he was in love with Trinity.

[@ComradeTiki]

@@tylerdurden5303 Wait that's reminiscent of an abrahamic religion - since when has Zion been analogous to religion?!

[@c0dead]

How embarrassing

[@CptChandler]

Thanks, Dennis Miller

[@JCDenton3]

My favorite aspect of this film is it hates its own existence as much as I did, those first 30 minutes I was convinced they would just break the fourth wall completely

[@Jose-se9pu]

Lana/fans/critics: "this movie shouldnt exist"

[@clongshanks5206]

Aren’t most movies like that now? Reboots full of self-hatred

[@HellecticMojo]

@@73685 to get paid and to bury the project forever

[@Jose-se9pu]

@@73685 I think they just wanted to implode the IP, make such a bomb that would kill the franchise forever...what I cant even begin to understand is how a studio give $200M to someone who clearly wants to do that"

[@JCDenton3]

@@73685 If we get enough of them like this, it might be the only way to stop these incessant soft-reboots - at least for a decade or so. If so, I'll take it.

[@colinfrederick2603]

This movie was the perfect accompaniment to the adult coloring book my mother bought me for Christmas.

[@kkownzor]

Dont tell the Wachowskis you have that, they might hate you

[@stevenbenson9976]

Your mom got your an adult colouring book? Weird... My mom would never get me an x rated colouring book

[@TransRoofKorean]

@@stevenbenson9976

[@JM-mh1pp]

@@stevenbenson9976 adult coloring book is not a book with sexual images or anything, it is literally color book for adults- much more difficult with interesting paterns etc.

[@luckyduckydrivingschool3615]

that's really meta

[@hughcaldwell1034]

I did like the use of bullet time as a literal prison. Felt like a great response to everyone who wanted the same thing again - to revolutionise gaming, again! It was like Lana saying "You want bullet time? Fine! Here's what it's like being trapped by your best ideas."

[@DumasMoran]

The loss of Yuen woo Ping, or any fight choreographer really, is really the death knell of this film, on a surface-level. Lana was throwing wheel kicks at the studios for a lot of this film, so maybe that's the 2021 eqivalent of watching Neo own a bunch of npc's.

[@fiddledotgoth]

Ooh, underrated comment hiding in the long grass; glad I kept scrolling...

[@somechinesedude5466]

Coreographer can be replaced by younger 1, the problem would be actor age & did the producer attempt to find out coreographer Indonesian martial artist are famous nowadays & "cheap(?)" Chinese are not exactly lacking either, especially if you look at what is beyond their city & what's in their boonies Japanese might be rough

[@silkychan6099]

@@somechinesedude5466 depends on what the filmmakers requirements. If u wanted ballet like wuxia fighting, got to find the people who are the best at the budget u have, regardless of the choreographer nationality or race.

[@couchpotato3197]

Lmao I bet the next movie is going to be about Neo and Trinity's kid so they have a young guy or girl to do action. I mean if one actually happens

[@shalashaska5851]

If you go to the matrix subreddit it was an intentional choice (just like everything else that is terrible in the film) for the fights to be god awful. That place is in such denial.

[@asdfreii]

“In the middle of the movie, Niobe talks about the machines having war with each other, and that would have been a more interesting movie than what we got”

[@samshapira8295]

I would honestly just watch a movie about the premise set up in the first act. A game designer who is struggling to distinguish his own games from reality sounds like a really cool concept.

[@SnMGameDungeon]

Do you think this started as a script for that, and was later changed into a Matrix sequel? Sort of like the "Simon Says" screenplay that was later made into Diehard 3?

[@jonasvanmaldeghem688]

You would like books by Philip K Dick

[@maxhaughton1964]

You'd probably like Bandersnatch (the black mirror special)

[@SpragginsDesigns]

Should have made both. I would have watched both. I sincerely thought it would show the Matrix was fake all along, but I loved it either way.

[@kallemort]

Plot of Alan Wake lol

[@davidthorson2036]

The "actual story reason" Neo and Trinity were revived was because the machines were struggling for energy after the end of Revolutions and The Analyst realized Neo and Trinity's connection produced a ton of energy. He mentions that he broke productivity records during one of the many exposition scenes.

[@triplew0lf718]

We're going to reach the point soon where Jay will give his opinion on a movie, Mike will say "I'm the opposite" and then proceed to repeat word for word what Jay said.

[@dereksbooks]

Why did Mike recap the original movie? We've all seen it 100 times each. 🤔

[@necosupr]

The most subversive thing about the movie is having Mike like it all along.

[@irmavalencia2236]

Two words: SHARK.EXORCIST.

[@Marinealver]

Made by the Wotashki Brothers. NOT ANYMORE

[@SnakeHoundMachine]

The entire time I watched this movie I was thinking "I'm going to enjoy the half in the bag about this more than the actual film"

[@dogboy0912]

Should've pitched the loudener to Hollywood.

[@joshallen4848]

I believe all of the Neos on the TV screens were representations of all the possible reactions the Architect predicted Neo might have in response to what he was being told. I presume all of the past "Ones" were different individuals in every sense, having no direct connection to one another. It's implied that the cycle of the Prime Program (Neo) and resetting of the Matrix has been going on for centuries, being that the Architect says this will have been the sixth time they've done it.. So when you see the desolation and ruins of the real world, you're seeing what the Earth hundreds and hundreds of years after the war between the humans and machines ended... And while I'm not entirely sure of this, I think it's implied somewhere within the lore (but not in movies) that it's actually even further into the future than people like Morpheus think. And that's because he's not aware of all the other cycles of the destruction of Zion and resetting of the Matrix.

[@AngronTheRadAngel]

I don't think this Matrix Christmas Special was as good as The Simpsons made it sound.

[@MightyMurloc]

I've got a strong feeling that the only reason it wasn't called Matrix: Reboot, is because Jay and Silent Bob did it not too long ago.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

Seeing the middle finger this was to Warner Bros., that would've been an even better title because of that.

[@LN997-i8x]

I completely forgot that film even happened. I couldn't even tell you if I saw it or not.

[@MightyMurloc]

@@Tekbike More Randell is always a good thing, I'm a rare defender of Clerks 2 so I'll be interested to see the direction they take, that said I haven't seen most of Smith's latest work, so can't attest to his quality as a director recently.

[@linkinparkrulz2275]

Reboot is kind of a stupid title for an action movie. There was also a kid's show called reboot.

[@DocZo0b]

@@linkinparkrulz2275 How about a Matrix and Reboot crossover? Huh, Warner Bros.?

[@voltijuice8576]

Finally - the sequel to _V-World Matrix_ I have been lusting over for all of these years!

[@lilbits1053]

The scene with the Architect where there are dozens of Neos isn't demonstrating previous iterations of the One, it's basically the Architect showing the list of Neos probable reactions from calculations based on Neos life and the previous 5 ones. He's basically flexing that he can predict anything and nothing Neo can do will surprise him.

[@bradydavis5791]

Ok. So we all knew this. 😭🤣

[@lilbits1053]

@@bradydavis5791 I can’t tell if you’re doing a thing, so I’m just gonna point out that every single interpretation I’ve ever heard of this scene has been ‘Hundreds of previous Ones who look exactly like Neo.” They literally say this in this video which is why I brought it up at all?…

[@KingOfMadCows]

On one hand, Lana Wachowski got WB to give her $150 million to make a movie where she shits on WB for a full 30 minutes. On the other hand, WB got Lana Wachowski to make the generic sequel that they wanted under the guise of allowing her to shit on WB. Also, the scenes with executives and developers pitching ideas to Neo definitely happened in real life. The guy who kept talking about bullet time was basically Joel Silver.

[@robbywilliamson4152]

Both of them are transgender.

[@gino8381]

@@horacegentleman3296 They are both trans women, back then they still identified as men

[@0sael0]

@@horacegentleman3296 correct

[@guillermoelnino]

*him 😘

[@quintessenceSL]

Kinda annoyed some are portraying it as some high artistic statement; the tortured artiste lamenting how it has all gone awry. Lana getting $150 mill to make a *good* movie where she shits on WB for 30 minutes might have been different (or even subverted the whole thing and done it with action figures, refusing to back down). But this is just cashing the checks while claiming to be above it all.

[@MeatPillow1]

The Animatrix was a good anthology that had great ideas they could use to fill out the matrix universe

[@cyberpimp29]

So much better than this shit movie

[@couchpotato3197]

I heard that the origin story of the machines in the Animatrix were supposed to be one of the 2 sequel movies. 1 would have been just sequel and another the animatrix prequel. I loved the animatrix it introduced me to studio 4 degrees and I loved their movies and one of the guys went on to do more outside of that company like the new devilman

[@065Tim]

The noir episode on the train was cool.

[@GoToBedSheeva]

We needed a new story with new people badly. We got TLJ

[@SamuelCatsy]

The Second Renaissance established that the machines didn't just pull a skynet out of nowhere so they're not completely irredeemable. A post-revolutions sequel could've focused on the tenuous peace Neo won but no fuck that let's make wink wink nod nod to how much of a pointless crash grab this sequel is even though we could've made something cool.

[@NRWFISHER]

The best part of the original Matrix film was been taken on the journey with Neo of learning what the matrix is. You can only do that once and for this reason any sequel will never hit the same in my opinion!

[@nixonagnewreviews7206]

Yeah this movie was flatter than Trinity's chest.

[@snatcherofpeachs]

One of the more interesting parts. The least interesting part is definitely being stuck in a post-apocalyptic future where everything looks the same and nothing fun can ever happen.

[@agentcarbunkle]

@@snatcherofpeachs pretty sure we are all in the matrix then

[@rpe7418]

@@nixonagnewreviews7206 I thought she got implants they look way bigger

[@PraxesArdenn]

@@rpe7418 Yeah she's 57 now, and props to her, she looks good for that age, but is still clearly old and has definitely had work done to help slow the clock.

[@supermarioworldE]

I appreciate that they cover the entire series as well as the new film given they surprisingly never got into the matrix films on this channel.

[@MitchKarajohn]

The screens in the architect room, in Reloaded, are not previous "Neo". It's all the possible ways he can choose to react to what he's being told. Previous "Neo" were other individuals, not him

[@jamesg871]

Yeah I thought this was common sense but some people still don't get it.

[@desepticon4]

@@jamesg871 It's confusing because they shouldn't look like him then.

[@MitchKarajohn]

@@desepticon4 ..who shouldn't look like who?

[@desepticon4]

@@MitchKarajohn Why do they look identical if they are different people? It's confusing.

[@MitchKarajohn]

@@desepticon4 who is the different people? The Keanu Reeves on the screens? That's not different people, that's all his possible reactions. If you are talking about previous ones/Neo you don't ever get to see them, the movie does not show them

[@wasoha]

I didn’t know someone could misunderstand the reloaded architect scene as bad as mike did. Must have been the early stages of dementia

[@nathr94]

You think Mike is still in the early stages?

[@wasoha]

@@nathr94 In 2003 maybe, obviously things have progressed further over the course of 19 years.

[@Saddler1944]

Eh I can understand I saw the 2nd matrix movie in theaters 19 years ago and it was so bad I just wrote it off and never re-watched it until this move came out. Back in 2003 that architect scene was jarring and made little sense to me. Watching it a 2nd time being more of an adult now it makes sense but bad movies have a way of getting worse in your memories.

[@Espedals]

@Wasoha Same here. Always thought the architect scene was one of the best and most gratifying to watch. Then again, I am very likely alone on this planet in having given all four Matrix movies either 9/10 or 10/10. I can't help myself, I just find them incredibly entertaining.

[@andyduhh4278]

@@Saddler1944 matrix 2 wasn’t a bad movie…