THE MATRIX (1999) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | This Is Deep...

[@iamworthy1302]

I love how he doesn't answer a single question lol or just goes along with you even if you're wrong. That's exactly how you should watch movies with people who have never seen them. Good job 👍🏾

[@neile5893]

Yeah man. I was thinking the same thing. I had forgotten how confusing this movie was at the beginning when you first watch it. She’s generally pretty good at figuring things out though too. From the other videos of theirs I’ve watched.

[@Defensive_Wounds]

@@neile5893 Like she pointed out, she had a lot of help because sing 1999 there has been a slew of movies with similar VR simulation storylines so it is easier for people like her today to work it out. But back when this film came out in 1999 there were only a few similar films like it. Dark City (released the same time as The Matrix), The 13th Floor (again same time) and Lawnmower Man 1992/1993 ish. Harsh Realm (tv show) also was similar, but apart from these examples, there was stuff all!

[@ANARKOTEROR]

To the point where he wouldn't say a simple "yes" when asked if Laurence Fishburne is in it Dedication...

[@neile5893]

@@ANARKOTEROR lol yeah. I like watching him look over to see her reaction when there is about to be a reveal or something that is sort of a twist in the story line. The perfect person to watch a movie with. He wants her to experience it as he did the first time watching it

[@willdallas53]

To an extent. First, this is clearly a gimmick. No one hasn’t not watched a single movie in their whole life. Second, if the question is “ is someone in this or is the entire movie in black and green?” Then just answer the question if it’s not significant to the plot and the gimmick that she’s went her whole life without seeing a movie.

[@slchance8839]

Dude....you never answer ANY of her questions. That. is so. awesome. I bet it's so tempting to tell her stuff, but you let her discover it. Well played, sir.

[@ryanjones2297]

I need to learn this power when watching movies with my wife. It has got to the point where if it is a new movie I haven't seen I have to watch it by myself first so I can enjoy it without questions.

[@freeSAM22]

@@ryanjones2297 such power is available only to those in the matrix)

[@Maya_Ruinz]

The reality is, is that this is how she processes her own ideas, she has to talk them out in order for them to be understood by her. The fact that he doesn't answer means he was never really needed to answer, she could of answered her own questions but she can't see that so she keeps asking. 😉

[@TreyM1609]

Agreed

[@Muck006]

You can ONLY lose ... answering a question from your wife / GF!

[@davidking498]

Matrix was one of those films that you cannot express how game-changing it was to see in the theatre. My group lost our collective mind when Neo said "I know Kung Fu"

[@sudosoft]

The whole theater was wild at the end. Everyone was just mind blown in the lobby.. others waiting to watch it were thinking what the heck happened ?!

[@matsv201]

Until you realize that part (but not all of it) is a screen for screen re-imagination of ghost in the shell. The iconic lobby scene is especially is very simular to the Ghoost in the shell variant. Granted, the movies are very different, but there are still a lot of similarities. Ghost in the shell have sort of the opposite perspective, and its also a very slow movie

[@boredflower]

My friends and I quoted “He’s beginning to believe” For almost anything. Makes a layup during PE “ he’s beginning to believe”. Gets an 80+ on a test “He’s beginning to believe”. It was practically a religion for us.

[@sean78745]

I remember being in the theater for the first one, nobody was really hyped because nobody knew what the movie was about due to great and concealing marketing. I went to the bathroom for the first 5 minutes and came back to my friends completely wide eyed in amazement and I asked what happened. They said this chick just kicked everyones ass. I still remember that theater experience more than almost anything Ive ever seen.

[@eakarogeena8399]

we immediately went and bought another ticket to watch it again

[@S_B-]

Concerning the end of the movie when Neo 'died', the Oracle didn't lie. "It seems like you're waiting for something, you're next life maybe? Who knows..." It can kind of be interpreted as his next life when he revives.

[@TheGodfather-bm3ow]

She also said being the one is like being in love ... no one can tell you... you just know... and when trinity kissed him ...he knew ... he didn't become the one when she said she loved him ... he became the one when she kissed him and showed him.

[@glaight6362]

@@TheGodfather-bm3ow I see what you're saying but Loce is greater and expressed differently than through a kiss?

[@kinagrill]

I see it more as Neo needed to experience death to fully break away from the confines of the Matrix.

[@SpaceOddity4214]

"Sunglasses were invented by the matrix" That got me. 🤣😂

[@cuckoonut1208]

Ray Bans were invented by Top Gun.

[@neonpop80]

She's really sweet in loving her life, being satisfied and feeling this is the best life she can imagine. A real sweet heart and a keeper.

[@cuffzter]

If the idea of human as batteries are to hard to swallow, I can mention that the original idea for the use of humans was as processors to handle vast amounts of data. But in '99 that was considered to hard to understand for audiences, so they went with the "battery" explanation instead even if it makes less sense.

[@-M0LE]

It was the studio who demanded it apparently

[@Csaba__]

I thought id mention the same thing, but glad others know it as well! cheers

[@tudeslildude]

'Combined with a form of fusion' The magic line that makes it all okay I guess? (still one of my fav movies ever despite this)

[@Hal2718]

Humans being used for processing power also makes the Matrix actually make sense. Suddenly there's a reason to keep our brains in tact and thinking whereas if we're used as just batteries... why?

[@bloatus7611]

Not sure it matters tbh. I've never really liked that specific criticism. Disbelief isn't broken for me. The fusion thing works for me, as well.

[@kokijavier]

I love how this reaction ended up with such a very good conversation, well done movie, you are still making people think.

[@crowttubebot3075]

"His weakness is he still plays by the rules?" This, and other insights, is why you guys quickly became my favorite reaction channel. Sorry it took me so long to get here.

[@Ruskad]

Her instincts with shows and movies are uncanny! lol

[@tiredoffools8929]

@CrowTTubebot... Howdy, and welcome to the club! The Mr. and Mrs. movie team are the best!

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

lol she's super spot on with some things but super off with others

[@draskang]

For real. Her spoiler score is at like 98%. She's predicted almost every movie & show.

[@mikerodgers7620]

Silence

[@JamesASharp]

Great reaction! A lot of people keep on misinterpreting the Oracle scene. She never said verbatim, "Neo, you're not the one." The point of the scene is this: he has to know that he's "the one" for himself. If he doesn't know, then that's as good as him not being "the one". Think about it, if you have 10 million dollars available to you, but you don't know it, then that's as good as you not having the 10 million dollars.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

SPOILERS FOR MATRIX RELOADED/REVOLUTIONS Based on the scenes in Reloaded with The Merovingian where they seem to be making a point about how you can influence people's emotions/actions with food/getting them to ingest things, I was hoping there would be a big reveal in Revolutions that there was some extra significance to the Oracle giving Neo that cookie, manipulating him into breaking the cycle instead of making the "logical" decision. Instead they just never bring it up again, so I don't know what was the point of any of that.

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

yeah. like morpheus said, she told him what he needed to hear. also i think she maybe wanted to give the impression that he wasn't the one, then told him that morpheus was gonna sacrifice himself anyway. if you don't believe you're the one, you wouldn't want someone like him to give their life for you, so you'd probably try to do everything you can to prevent that, or sacrifice yourself to help him. in so doing, you'll find out if you are the one, in which case morpheus will be saved, or not, and you'll end up dead.

[@kevintipcorn6787]

Knowing that Mrs. Movies hears Neo as "Neil" really took the "My name is Neo" backflip in the subway scene in a whole new direction for me.

[@-M0LE]

🤣 thanks now me too Neil the saviour 🤣 his prophets would be called Keith Karen etc

[@QuinnHartmann]

[@CrownlessKing88]

Lmao!

[@DavidHRyall]

@@-M0LE Karen was the Judas - she went rouge 😂

[@BlueSuress]

Your two best friends are Neil and Bob!! LOL!!

[@SeanBlader]

"I guess if we have to." One of the things mentioned was the idea that there wasn't any blue in the matrix, so the sky is always overcast and gray, the blue's got tinted into greens, and it was all just to put you off that something wasn't right about what you were seeing, and when you got out, the color palette opened up and it was like the audience was released too. It's one of those old school artistry tricks that you don't notice until you're told they did it, and then you realize how well manipulated you are in the movies... and it's amazing. I remember seeing this 400 miles away from home with a buddy on opening weekend at a theater that doesn't exist anymore, and yeah... it was transformational.

[@julius-stark]

As for explaining "why" the machines want, they want to survive and humans are essentially the food that allows them to exist. It's like a cow wondering why humans maintain farms and grow and feed other cows just to slaughter them.

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

yeah. it's just sustenance. we do the same to animals. but of course, as humans, with our egos, we can't possibly fathom when it's done to us by more capable, intelligent beings. i don't necessarily think we'll move to a scenario where humans are cultivated for our energy, but i definitely think AI will reach a level where they can anticipate all the decisions we make, and start dictating our choices.

[@lukeskywalker6809]

Or they will know what we will want them to do before we even think of them. It will be like they were clairvoyant, because at every scenario they will be able to count all possible outcomes in a nanosecond and choose the best or most logical one that we will choose based on probability and our personal profile. Knowledge is power and infinite knowledge is almost godlike power.

[@glaight6362]

@@user-vc5rp7nf8f Ha ha they're already doing that, wake up dude

[@EACru2002]

Good analogy. I do think the Misses eventually reached a similar point of understanding when she said that the same could be argued for us. The answer is, the machines are using us to power themselves to live, the same way we raise livestock to eat like your example. But the answer to “But why?” is the same for them as it is for us. Cuz we want to “be”, we want to exist, we want to live lol.

[@kinagrill]

Sentient AIs, possibly programmed with imparatives towards retaining their existence. Oh and the reason the use humans is a bit odd of course cuz why not just use nuclear power XD And the reason for the matrix is of course to keep the human minds enslaved and placcid so they do not wake up from their pods and becomes troublesome to have hooked up.

[@stynershiner1854]

The whole concept of this simulation was there since ancient times, when Plato used the concept of the Allegory of the Cave. Whereby his idea was that if prisoners are chained together since the very beginning of their lives in a dark cave, they start believing that this is their reality, but if one prisoner escapes and sees the real world, they would see that the real world is unlike the cave he knew all his life. The chained up prisoners upon hearing this from the escapes prisoner would believe he is just a madman, and they would continue believing that this cave was the only reality that ever existed.

[@CousinCreepy]

...or how a fish never knows anything other than it's watery home it's entire life until by chance it's caught on a hook by a human and pulled up beyond the barrier between worlds and into our (terrifying) reality. Suddenly it can't breathe and there's an unfathomable giant being handling it. If the poor thing is released instead of being fileted it goes back to its own reality with a story entirely incomprehensible to the other fish.

[@stynershiner1854]

@@CousinCreepy Might just have to become a vegetarian after reading that.

[@CousinCreepy]

@@stynershiner1854 even worse if the fish can't express what happened to the others and has to suffer alone with the knowledge of this frightening other dimension.

[@kinagrill]

Or as the Chinese'd say - you are merely a frog in a well, believing that is reality for that is all you can perceive.

[@texasgunslinger8060]

​@creepyclips9024 Or better. The fish remembers, and tells his competitors that, "Yes! That's the best food I've ever tasted!"

[@kurtdewittphoto]

My first real job, my boss said he stopped watching The Matrix at the beginning when Trinity jumps across those buildings and flys through the window. He said it was too unrealistic. I couldn't believe it.

[@-M0LE]

He WASNT starting to believe

[@michaelccozens]

LOL, not sure he grokked the concept of "movies", then. Or "stories" in general, for that matter. Maybe he was a Dogme 95 kinda guy? But even that doesn't exclude supernatural story elements.

[@eploidsam]

I like how around 8:25 Mrs. Movie is creeped out and squirming around and Mr. Movie is just setting there eating his popcorn, LOL

[@diamondem]

The animatrix goes deep into what the machines were like. Some of them have personalities and they were used for labor and other purposes and ultimately were mistreated by humans. They basically were used as slaves and humans did some vile things to them. They eventually rebelled against the humans and there was a war. There is a machine city that they are powering with the human bodies.

[@realburglazofficial2613]

The Animatrix short showing what happened in the machine war is probably one of the most harrowing pieces of animation I’ve ever seen!

[@Comissar_Carolus]

Oh so I see where Mass Effect got his inspiration for the Geth/Quarian conflict...

[@Painocus]

@@WheresWaldo05 When the animated part of Kill Bill comes on do you just pretend that it didn't happen or what?

[@diamondem]

@@WheresWaldo05 The animatrix is canon, therefore it relates to the movie. Also some of them directly tie in to the movies with characters from the movies in them. It only adds lore which is generally accepted by the fanbase. I think the original Matrix stands on it's own well enough but if there is extra material that adds a little more clarification to it than why not bring it up?

[@diamondem]

@@realburglazofficial2613 Agreed. It's been a while since I watched it, but that one scene where they are tearing the clothes off a robot particularly disturbed me when I watched it.

[@deanwolfechannel]

I saw the matrix without ever having seen a commercial- I literally had no idea what I was about to see, except that a coworker had said I should see this excellent new movie. I was mind-blown beyond any movie experience in my whole life at that point. Unforgettable- still remember being at that theater. Wish all movies were that kind of surprise. .

[@dmthandmade5674]

'How does he keep those on?' They're 'Pince Nez', the style of spectacles that was most popular before hinged frames came along. The bit which sits on the bridge of the nose is sprung slightly so it grips. Maybe Mr Movies would rock them.

[@phillipsuttles1926]

they still make those frames

[@themoviedealers]

Which means "Pinch nose."

[@misterno-ice-guy8082]

Prince Nez

[@ashscott6068]

Sprung slightly? SLIGHTLY? Those things have to stay on when you get punched in the face by a computer program with superhuman strength.

[@pete_lind]

We do go back in time , when "modern" style of eyeglasses frame, which could be placed over the ears and nose, was invented in 1727 by British optician Edward Scarlett , 50 years before USA was a country . Pince-nez were invented later most likely in 1830s .

[@kevinwilson140]

I like that the protagonist and antagonist have the exact same goal of escaping the matrix. They're both just cogs that want out of their boring existence. Smith isn't even evil he views humanity as a virus but doesn't want to cure it, he just wants the matrix stable and peaceful so he can leave.

[@michalkuban9888]

Drunken Fist (Boxing) is a legit family of chinese martial arts. It's about imitation of very drunk person movements, and I guess it's confusing and looks unpredictible, even funny to opponents, so there is an element of surprise involved. There is a Jackie Chan's movie related to this style (one of the many styles he is trained in). The movie is directed by Jackie himself, so it's a pretty silly and unique comedy, same as almost all of the other movies directed by him.

[@vicentegeonix]

Jackie created drunken boxing right?

[@SaRENRampaiger]

@@vicentegeonix yep, she needs to see Drunken Master cos the stunt choreographers are the same guys who did stunts in Matrix.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

The kung fu movie Drunken Wu Tang, also titled Shaolin Drunkard, features a master of the drunken style. The more relaxed you are, the more powerful you become.

[@michalkuban9888]

@@vicentegeonix No, it appears to be quite old, there is some basic info on wiki. I really love this part: "Due to a scarcity of historical sources, it is nearly impossible to point to the time or place of drunken boxing's origin" ...they all just probably forgot where did they learn it :D

[@vicentegeonix]

@@michalkuban9888 nah, Jackie invented drunken boxing.

[@glennwelsh9784]

"Why do the A.I.'s need to exist?" Well why do we need to exist? Living beings are inherently driven by their own self-preservation.

[@Wirmish]

Even grass want to survive.

[@StCerberusEngel]

Sentience is the ability to recognize self. The machines exist because they want to just as we do. They place the same value on life and freedom that humans do, but when humanity tried to destroy them, they retaliated and enslaved humanity as a power source. The humans still plugged in to the matrix not only power the simulation, but also the machine race.

[@Muckylittleme]

It all comes down to free will. You can't have free will in the Matrix as I see it. How could you know your thoughts and actions are still your own once you are plugged in since the Matrix is in your mind at that point and manipulating your reality? Sure, we can't know we have free will in our reality but if we do not then the Universe is deterministic which means our lives right down to every thought are preordained. In fact, since the Universe is causal from the moment of its creation there is no mechanism that allows for free will so if it exists then it must be endowed upon us through a supernatural force (outside of nature/the Universe) and this is what we refer to as God if we are spiritual. This is the counter argument to the idea we are in a simulation as evidenced by the fact everything is basically one's and zero's (neg/pos. on/off true/false etc) and as such can be simulated just so long as we have enough information and the computing power. Where does the genome within our DNA for the idea of free will and good and evil come from? The answer must be that it was innate within the big bang just like consciousness and that is where it starts to get properly deep because that means that consciousness isn't a product of our minds but something we tap into and our thoughts are filtered consciousness but filtered by what (soul?) and how (free will?) And why was it innate within the Universe to create sentient beings that would ask where and how the Universe began? It is almost as if the Universe is having an existential crisis and asking what it is and we are product of that schism made manifest by our profound desire to understand the meaning of our lives.

[@StCerberusEngel]

@@Muckylittleme Okay. I was only talking about why the machines wanted to live (for the same reason most people do; because self-preservation is part of sentience). Not sure where the free-will essay came from, but...good read I guess.

[@Muckylittleme]

@@StCerberusEngel Sorry, it wasn't a direct response but I was late to the party and new comments don't get read so I posted in the first popular comment that had a little relevance. Your comments are right although the instinct for self preservation does not require sentience, we see it in all animal life. A machine/AI can never achieve sentience IMO because there is no mechanism for free will since it is all algorithms and weighting one outcome over another. Also AI cannot feel pain or loss or a concept of its own mortality which is a huge part of the human experience and our development and motivation. That is why the question of free will and sentience is so fundamental to our existence and why we developed a sense of spirituality and developed religions, it is innate within our humanity. Sorry for the hijack.

[@StCerberusEngel]

@@Muckylittleme I wasn't saying sentience is required for self-preservation, but that self-preservation is part of sentience. And as far as machines gaining sentient thought, well...it's a fictional movie universe, so I'm basing it on the context of that. Same goes for the "combined with a form of fusion" line that handwaves the humans-as-batteries concept's implausibility. It's what the film presents, so that's what we have to work with. A flaw, perhaps, but not one big enough to break suspension of disbelief IMO. Results will vary though. I don't really think I have anything to hijack. Just thought it a strange "reply" as it were.

[@Muckylittleme]

@@StCerberusEngel From what I understand the humans were supposed to be a neural net used by the AI but they thought the audience was too dumb to get the concept so changed it. No, self preservation is a natural product of life like reproduction. it does not require sentience. A rat isn't sentient but it will try to preserve its own life when threatened.

[@gutz1981]

"Is this like an Alien moment." You know I never thought of it, but its like a "Reverse" Alien moment. Its not bursting out of him, its going in.

[@thinkingoutloud3757]

"Specialty? That's not a word." "They became sentient." "What the fuck does that mean?" Lady, I'm stuffing your stocking with a dictionary for Christmas!

[@robertrodriguez7087]

He said “speciality,” not “specialty”…although they do both mean the same thing.

[@N8Maple01]

Or a thesaurus. Or word-of-the-day calendar.

[@JacopoBasanisi]

The Matrix is the starting point of a big sci-fi cyberpunk wave. Like every other genre piece, you have to watch it with the right mindset, or it will be a waste. Even with very low engagement, she naturally asked the right questions, a sign of good screenwriting :)

[@tomaac]

This movie is a masterpiece. Made back in the day when movies were still coherent. Sometimes it's hard to believe there are people who haven't seen Matrix, but then I remember I didn't see Godfather trilogy only until recently.

[@AthanImmortal]

I sometimes feel that way about people who claim to be watching The Matrix, or Star Wars for the first time etc, and as I follow them they then start to go into other movies that are super popular like The Princess Diaries and I realise there's a ton that I haven't seen either.

[@Acme1970]

It know what you mean, i'm over 50 and i've still never seen, E.T., A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Titanic, The Goonies or Fight Club.

[@thedeepfriar745]

Yeah but The Godfather trilogy maintains consistency whereas the matrix sequels get so far up their own ass that they can’t see the light of day

[@07foxmulder]

@@thedeepfriar745 While I agree with your Matrix critiques, I gotta disagree with your Godfather’s. The Godfather 3 is complete trash. Even as a stand alone movie it would be ruined by horrible acting, terrible dialogue and a ridiculous plot.

[@Kaddywompous]

@@07foxmulder I saw III in the theaters so long ago. I remember feeling immensely disappointed and not much else.

[@twohorsesinamancostume7606]

Growing up as a kid the closest extended family we had was 8 hours away so good friends of the family became surrogate extended family. My surrogate aunt was basically an Italian version of the Oracle. Wise beyond her years with a peice of helpful advice when you needed it but didn't pull any punches. At the same time she was warm and caring. I miss her, she always made you feel like family.

[@shainewhite2781]

Yes!!! I saw this movie In theaters when came out, and it blew me away!! It made $400 million dollars at the box office and won 4 Oscars: Best Visual Effects Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Film Editing.

[@tudeslildude]

The academy wasn't complete crap that year? No shizzle..... Truly it deserved each of those, and also didn't deserve best director or arguably best picture. I oddly 100% agree with those calls.

[@nth_to_see_here]

@@tudeslildude It wasn't even nominated for best picture/ director / screenplay. But it was a tough year with American Beauty, Sixth Sense, Green Mile and Fight Club. American Beauty won the more important mentioned categories, imo deservedly so.

[@tudeslildude]

@@nth_to_see_here Indeed, though I'm still not convinced American Beauty deserved it over those other 3 =P

[@nth_to_see_here]

@@tudeslildude Just out of curiosity - what would u give best picture to that year? Personally I wasn't a big fan of Green Mile. For me either Fight Club or American Beauty.

[@tudeslildude]

@@nth_to_see_here Umm... good question actually... I suppose I would pick fight club, but I agree with your feelings on the green mile. I don't like hate it or anything, but I didn't find the movie particularly profound or something. My guess is it suits people with a stronger religious background, but hard to say for sure. Yea I might have to give American Beauty runner up actually, so perhaps it wasn't that bad of a pick after all. (I like the Six sense... but admittedly it would be a very strange choice for best picture)

[@Fettman89]

I love how she slowly starts convincing herself, then, ok as long as the kids are there lol, One of us, one of us.

[@ericyoungstrom5745]

"Why do they exist?" Uhhh why do you or I or anyone of us humans exist? We live, as the machines in the Matrix live, to exist to live. Life is better than death. Other than that, good reaction.

[@michaell4674]

In the sequels it’s explained that the machines have a civilization of their own. There are programs born without any specific purposes with parents and everything and they just live their lives. They have their own ‘machine city’ in that exists virtually (the color’s gold as apposed to green), that’s what they’ve been harvesting human energy for. The ‘balance’ was that the machines could live their lives in cyberspace, and the humans live theirs in the matrix.

[@Ruskad]

They really over analyzed it there at the end. lol

[@aankwenti]

@NolanEP false

[@ericyoungstrom5745]

@@Ruskad Yeah got stuck in. a logic loop

[@glaight6362]

E My - speak for yourself I don't live to exist or vice versa. I live to realise the ultimate source of reality through love.

[@ExplodedBoot]

I always think of that meme where Neo quickly takes both the red and blue pill at the same time and Morpheus is like "WTF".

[@hfenring]

Supposedly, the original idea behind "harvesting" humans was to use human brains as a powerful computational network that would serve AIs, but in the end the writers decided that concept might be a step too far for the regular viewer, so they rewrote it into a "battery analogue", which actually makes no sense from the physics standpoint, especially if you already mastered fusion, as they mention in the beginning. Also yeah, philosophically speaking, it's "turtles all the way down".

[@nightmaster5593]

I never knew that! Man, I love the original concept so much more! It also further reinforces and greatly amplifies the need for a Matrix in the first place

[@Wirmish]

"...but in the end the writers decided that concept might be a step too far for the regular viewer..." No. Not the writers, the producer ($$$). So the -brothers- sisters rewrote it.

[@m.s.ferreiragames4031]

8:12 Best facial expression of disgust that Mrs Movies has done so far. 😍😆

[@RustinChole]

“We’re a virus with shoes, folks. Nothing more.” -Bill Hicks

[@markanne54]

Did you notice that Agent Jones, one of the three main AI enforcers, was played by Robert Taylor who went on to play Sheriff Longmire in the TV series of the same name? And you may also have noticed a smattering of Australian accents in the actors (Taylor included) and that's because The Matrix was filmed in Australia.

[@quixote6942]

So.... The Choice is to Take the Niquil Gelcap and get a Good Nights Sleep or Take the Dayquil Gelcap and walk around in a Stupor! hehehe

[@LarryBonson]

Take both and you win.

[@hcm9999]

I love how Mrs. is able to predict the entire film!

[@sergt3853]

10:50 Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

"so he's a hacker, which will be useful in the virtual world" Rest of the movie: Neo coding in front of the desk for two hours

[@ApesAmongUs]

She had more of a reaction to the bellybutton scenes than to anything else on this channel. Gruesome murder = she sits there. Tearjerker scenes = she drinks water. Bellybuttons = full bodyquake.

[@-M0LE]

I suppose it’s the same thing as when we watch someone getting punched we don’t flinch as much as if you see someone stub their toe

[@dollin971]

Rita's death scene got to her

[@jannneumann5766]

She found something worse than facehuggers!

[@esyphillis101]

Some people are more affected by gross things than violent things. I was the same when I saw this for the first time.

[@BDTXIII]

This type of genre was quite at the high peek for the past era. There are other movies also shared some similarities such as: "Dark City", "Vanilla Sky", "Thirteenth Floor", "The Truman Show".

[@MDBowron]

and eXistenZ (1999) by David Cronenberg

[@paulcurran4786]

U might wanna watch the animated shorts called The Animatrix before jumping into the sequels, they explain how the matrix came to be and why the war started. It fills in a lot of gaps 👍

[@dacsus]

Or watch animatrix and forget the sequels - they are rubbish anyway.

[@WheresWaldo05]

Do you watch avengers assembled cartoons before going into an avengers movie and take what you saw in the cartoon and apply it also to the movies as canon? Cause they are not. They are two seperate things.

[@eschatological]

@@WheresWaldo05 Except the Animatrix was commisioned by the Wachowskis and is considered canon.

[@WheresWaldo05]

@@eschatological doesn't matter who made it. Until there are cross over aninated or real life movies where characters cross over (which would be the most dolty thing that could ever be done) they are their own seperate universes.

[@eschatological]

@@WheresWaldo05 There is crossover. The animated short "The Kid" in the Animatrix is the same Kid who shows up in the 2nd and 3rd movie. "Last Flight of the Osiris" is directly referenced in the 2nd movie - the package they drop off is what tips the other captains off to the drilling to Zion. Interestingly enough, the video game Enter the Matrix (also canon) with Niobe and Ghost show the pickup of the Osiris's transmission, on the way to the meeting in Reloaded, and the game had multiple game-exclusive movie quality live cutscenes that showed Niobe and Ghost's stories.

[@ro3843]

this is the only channel i've seen where the reactinos are actually genuine

[@surlyGir]

Great movies. Just random, I took psychology 1 year at a community College, the teacher was obsessed with these movies and the idea that we lived in a Matrix. We got to watch these as part of class.

[@rawtrout007]

I never knew sunglasses were invented for the Matrix. Crazy how movies can impact us in real life... You learn something every day!

[@shanenolan8252]

Thanks guys . Remember seeing this in theaters day one . First dvd on my first dvd player.

[@brokenbrain3523]

This movie is so deep there is no end to this rabbit hole

[@HyperMoon]

Hey guys, there is 2 specific parts of the animatrix you should 100% watch. It's a direct prequal to the movies and they are really good and explain how everything happened in the beginning. They are "The second Renaissance Part 1 and 2". The rest of the animatrix is good and worth watching but are kinda one off stories, these are really worth watching and go with the main films.

[@davidanderson1639]

The Second Renaissance 1&2 are awesome. But I’ve always wished they would make an actual prequel based on the war with the machines.

[@WelcomeToTheGoldenPage]

Nice reaction.. I just noticed at 22:46 the phone books on the left of the frame all we see of PHONE is ONE and ONE. I see something new every time I watch this movie.

[@the_judge_8262]

A rare movie that actually had your wife baffled in the beginning! Sign of a great story 👍🏼

[@_Darth_Vader_]

“Unfortunately no one can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself” -Morpheus

[@evenflowsteven]

I’m a fairly new subscriber and I just wanted to thank y’all for doing your channel. I’m alone most of the time and it really is nice to kind of “watch” movies with the both of you. Plus I noticed you guys are from Billings so you must be all right. 😉😁 I have lots of family in Butte, Bozeman and Helena.

[@MrsMovies]

Well welcome to our family and thank you so much for watching along!!

[@runki9413]

Great reaction! This concept originated from the philosopher René Descartes who lived in the 1600th .His answer to the question "how do I know that I exist" was "cogito ergo sum" meaning, "I think, therefore I am". If he has the ability to form the thought, that means that somewhere he does exist, but he cannot disprove if he's in a simulation, or just a brain in a jar somewhere dreaming. From your reaction it sounds like you would take Cyphers side, being able to create a perfect simulated life "on the farm, with the kids", as he says "ignorance is bliss" :)

[@stynershiner1854]

His idea was also that there might be a grand deceiver or an evil demon somewhere who might be veiling the truths of the world from me.

[@stynershiner1854]

I think this concept is even pre-Cartesian thought. Plato's allegory of the cave basically talked of a self-believed reality, which might be separated from the true reality, which only some people have the courage to see.

[@radicaladz]

One of the biggest sins that can be attributed to The Matrix as a movie, if we can blame it for anything at all, is popularising solipsism, i.e. the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist, and that everything outside of the self is potentially a simulation or a fraud. On the one hand, it's good to question things like authority and systemic injustices, but when your point of view is so tied up in not being able to tell what's real and what's not, you end up seeing everyone else as potentially not real and thus making empathy for others next to impossible. Why care about world hunger, racism or institutional injustice if the world itself isn't "real"? The crew of the Nebuchadnezzar don't seem to give a lot of thought to the number of people they kill within the Matrix, whether they're possessed by Agents or not - what is the consequence of that? Do they die, or just get reset? The movie never tells us. Now, admittedly, that's not entirely the fault of the filmmakers - more an unwanted side effect of trying to introduce a very complex topic to a majority of people - but it's very easy to draw a line from this movie to the kinds of behaviour that they would almost certainly not approve of IRL, whether that connection is justified or not. And sadly there's no real right answer to that conundrum.

[@runki9413]

@@radicaladz Well isn't that the driving force of religion? How our world isn't the true one, just a temporary torment until the eternal afterlife. Surely that is one of many burdens off theism. I'm sure the crew justifies it the same way most killers do by thinking "now they're set free". But this is exactly what's great about movies like this, they create a debate and don't just echo the boring 'good vs evil' concept most of western media has.

[@radicaladz]

@@runki9413 - kind of answering your own question there, imho, but yes, it is a debate worth having, and much as people turn their noses up at the sequels, you can see them trying to tackle that dilemma with the inclusion of the Exile Programs, and how the layers of control within the Matrix run deeper than previously known.

[@Pandaemoni]

The story is similar to another good Scifi film called Dark City, which came out a year before the Matrix, and in fact The Matrix used some of the sets built for Dark City. The Matrix is a little more overtly philosophical about it.

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

maybe it's a bit misanthropic, but one of the more interesting pieces of dialogue for me was when smith says that "humans multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. the only way they can survive is to spread to another area. there is another organism that follows the same pattern... a virus." it's kinda dark, but if you really think about it, true. we have no natural predators, unlike every other organism on earth. there's nothing to keep us in check, no balance. the only real way to control human population are micro organisms - bacteria, parasites, and viruses. if nature could speak, i'm pretty sure they would call us a cancer, while as humans we think of ourselves as the opposite.

[@r.g.o3879]

As a historian with a minor in anthropology I find it interesting how quickly we forget all the millenia of our past. When you say we humans have no natural predators you are only referring to the recent few thousand years. Prior to the era of city building and the first kingdoms and empires came into existence we had plenty of natural predators basically anything with Sharp teeth and claws and a lot of speed. In the last few millennia we conquered and in many cases exterminated most of those species that once challenged us for control of this world. Today they are kept in zoos, refuges and in many instances museums, often rarely more than a memory. Today we have no challengers other than other humans and have chosen to forget the accendency we now possess over this world is of fairly recent origin.

[@LA_HA]

@@r.g.o3879 Hmm. I agree with much of what you're saying, but if you have time, I've a theory I'd like to run by you... We do have natural predators, as it is a basic truism that Nature Always Prevails. As you point out, we ascended until we became dominant, as Nature allowed, planned, however you choose to see it. The theory I have that's incomplete: As humans became dominant, Nature put an apex predator into our midst, Terminator-style. It looks like us on the outside, but is "programmed" to hate/destroy us on the inside. The deranged. The insane. The psychotic and sociopathic. The serial killer is the created natural enemy of human beings. This creation is designed to thin "the herd." To help keep the balance. We see them as evil. Nature knows they're just tools in the arsenal What do you think of this possibility?

[@sangun123]

we have tons of natural predators, they're just pathogens and tiny, plus mosquitos are doing a great job

[@-M0LE]

Wow to see this film the first time again would be so amazing Literally one of the best films ever made the sequels not so

[@meropemerope6096]

08:29 i love his faces when you ask questions XD

[@SupergeekMikeDowntime]

I recently showed this film to my brother-in-law who had also never seen it, I don’t think I’ll show him 2 and 3 (unless 4 is really, really good) but he deeply loved this film. Glad to see that despite the many changes in the world since 1999, the movie totally holds up.

[@SupergeekMikeDowntime]

With the exception of the very dated cell phones

[@rikudoubapeck]

You should show him the sequels because otherwise the story is incomplete

[@BRISK3T]

Mr Movie, when you said you would stay in the matrix as long as you were with Mrs Movies at 15:20 and it was your best life was so sweet, great reaction by the way. I love the fact Mr Movie has seen the film and he doesnt wanna give anything away (you're good at not spoiling). Love the channel. Subbed ♥

[@shakawhenthewallsfell8570]

"...not the chosen one, but you'll probably sleep with the chosen one.." That's some oracle shit from the Mrs. right there. If you want to see another movie with simulation type theme of a mindfuck, watch 13th Floor.

[@shoujahatsumetsu]

Or Dark City

[@emilywilhite5807]

Both 13th Floor and Dark City are excellent. Highly recommend.

[@SirsMadamsEntertainment]

When Neo is talking to the Oracle... on the radio on top of the fridge.. the tune playing is a big band chart "I'm Beginning to See the Light".. ALSO.. Neo accepted a cookie from a program.. some meta humor for sure

[@sitebstudios]

A game-changer of a film. Masterful! Classic!

[@MaximizedAction]

„Yeah, it‘s like Weird Al in UHF" 🤣🤣🤣 Great questions by the Mrs I must say! And even greater done by Mr for not answering them

[@wollysammoth]

I love the whole deja vu thing. Every time I have one now I think, uh oh, what did 'they' change. It really makes you think that maybe we all are really in a big vast simulation. I love it.

[@Wirmish]

Your brain create simulations without you knowing it.

[@neilsun2521]

When Neo shows his passport, if you pause and flip screen upside down, the Expiration Date on it is 09-11-01.

[@MrsMovies]

Wow weird fact, thanks for sharing!

[@retrotony4119]

I always love seeing someone’s mind blown by this movie. My wife recently watched this with me recently and she was just as shocked by the real world, and debated just staying in the Matrix if this was real.

[@matthewwhite7473]

lol the discussion at the end between you two is legendary xD

[@strongcoffee7]

This is a killer of a movie. Seeing it in the cinema in 1999 blew my mind. The next two not so much!

[@tiredoffools8929]

@Strong Coffee. I 100% agree with your comment. For me this is the only Matrix movie. I don't need anything after this one.

[@LA_HA]

Strong Coffee: Exactly. You say that and some people have really negative reactions to this truth for a lot of people. Oh, well. haha

[@vanzahn]

"Is that what's happening? I don't get it". Actually you absolutely nailed it! Brilliant. Speciality is definitely a word, btw haha

[@sergt3853]

What if birds aren't singing, they're just screaming because they're scared of heights?

[@gamesman0118]

Actually they're just claiming territory and challenging rivals.

[@1369Stiles]

@@gamesman0118 wow, that joke went RIGHT over your head

[@michaelccozens]

Worse than that, they are absolutely just singing "please have sex with me" over and over. Even calls that aren't that directly, boil down to it. The genetic imperative is pervasive.

[@gamesman0118]

@@1369Stiles I got the joke. It wasn't that good.

[@langshonks]

Birds aren't real.

[@3DJapan]

Note that Neo is an anagram of One.

[@dejaalston8672]

The Matrix is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. It really identifies and analyzes the boundaries of perception and perspective between reality and fiction. It was something new, fresh, unique, inventive, stylish, cool, edgy, hip, and updated such as the concept and themes. The story, perfomance's, music, action sequences, special effects, images, direction, and cinematography was spectacular and phenomenal. It was decent. To this day I still wacth it and I consider it a classic. It never gets old. 😍😎💯👍

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

for me, it's really timeless because it touches on a lot of ideas and themes that have turned out to be true. the simulation theory, for example, wasn't too believable back then, but now, seeing how realistic computer graphics and physics simulations get every year, it's not too hard to imagine what it would be like in 50 years, or 100 or 200 years. we use to play games like pac-man, now we have games like forza where if you took a snapshot, it would be indistinguishable from reality. add in augmented reality and in a few hundred years, it's not a stretch to see how the line between reality and virtual can be blurred. also, the advancement of AI and the ability to download information is slowly gaining momentum. there was a point where we thought no machine could ever beat a human in the game of Go, and now it can beat the top players simultaneously. then you have the takeover of AI for truck driving and taxis. i do believe in a few hundred years, maybe sooner, all highways and public transport will be controlled by AI. fast, efficient, safe, and no more slow drivers or dangerous drivers. all regulated by computers. and, i believe elon musk is working on a microchip that can be surgically implanted in the brain. in the short term, i think it's designed to repair cognitive deficiencies, but long-term, i think the possibilities are endless.

[@dejaalston8672]

@@user-vc5rp7nf8f The Matrix is a true blue ultimate masterpiece. The Wachowski Brothers directed a classic that will be in our hearts forever. It never gets old.😍😎👍💯

[@scottbobott1484]

Drunken boxing is a speciality and that absolutely is a word.

[@Nobody-vh9jv]

I'm convinced that you need to watch Dark City (1998), it falls in line with this same type of movie and is one of my personal favorites. It's a hidden gem of a movie and I'm sure you guys will enjoy it.

[@tonyfred123]

I've watched this movie probably 50 times. And not once did I realize that Trinity looks like Juliet. Great call!

[@powerpufffan]

You two have become like my pandemic parents that I watch movies with 😭❤️

[@cassolmedia]

hahaha you guys are hilarious! it's been so long since I've seen anyone have this end of the movie conversation for the first time... it's so interesting watching it in 2023

[@CalciumChief]

14:16 I mean, besides the whole debate going on behind the scenes of whether or not Matrix ripped off Dark City, you still had stuff like Johnny Mnemonic (which also had Keanu) and Total Recall with Schwarzenegger. 15:21 You better believe there were folks who were legit believing that after the movie.

[@-M0LE]

They basically did what Apple did and copied loads of amazing things and put it together and it is perfect well the first one is

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

Total Recall itself even had a red pill scene!!!

[@sinity51]

Definition of specialty 1 : a distinctive mark or quality 2a : a special object or class of objects: such as (1) : a legal agreement embodied in a sealed instrument (2) : a product of a special kind or of special excellence fried chicken is my specialty b : the state of being special, distinctive, or peculiar 3 : something in which one specializes

[@deadANTdeadANT]

"Welcome to the desert of the real!" - Morpheus This movie will definitely give you an existential crisis for years to come 4sure!

[@SaRENRampaiger]

It's only green and black once you see Neo's eye vision at the ending. :)

[@mariekek9934]

Oh yes, nineties sentiment.. great movie! I bought a long black leather jacket after this en called it my Matrix-jacket. Speaking of other 90's movies and Keanu Reeves, recently watched Speed again and yes..still loved it!!

[@LA_HA]

Marieke K: Except a fairly similar outfit was worn by Zod's female companion in Superman II. So, it's kind of an early 80s look "From L.A." haha

[@Gnossiene369]

Your discussion made me so happy. You are great for each other! I don't know you but you seem to know each other well and you work so well. I would lie if I said I wasn't jealous. Seriously, good for you.

[@petersmith6513]

I have to admit, what I really like and appreciate in your youtube videos is how prescient Mrs is with her casual comments while watching. It's still a little uncomfortable how Mrs can quickly pick out a serial killer in a movie/show however - it raises more questions than it answers.

[@KaiLucasZachary]

I love how in the beginning she's got this confused look while he's just eatin popcorn lol

[@Jnice6901]

U guys are hilarious. So you're so happy u would take the blue pill says a lot about u 2 and how happy u make each other#RelationshipGoals

[@mastermike7000]

21:56 Ah yes, the adventures of Neil, Marcus and Trudy!

[@vorbis4860]

Holy crap, I never noticed before how Trinity looks EXACTLY like Juliette in LOST except for the hair.

[@YouMeTheMovies]

Right. I had to look at their bios to see if they were sisters somehow.

[@YouMeTheMovies]

@AL we would have to get into those when we start doing more rewatches. We have both seen those many many times. D&D is one of my favorites and Tommy Boys is one of hers.

[@jeffjenkins7976]

This was probably my favorite post movie conversation lmao!!! BTW she definitely knows kung fu 🤣 Love you guys!!!

[@MrsMovies]

Love you! Thanks for watching!

[@ssrmy1782]

The scary thing is that the more we learn about quantum mechanics & super string-theory, the more indicators we find that the universe has 'digital' properties. It has been described as having similar characteristics to a web browser.

[@Wirmish]

Elon Musk

[@mikedignum1868]

They got some of the ideas for this from the Japanese manga/film Ghost in the Shell which came out years before.

[@lkf8799]

I heard that in a lot of action movies they wear sunglasses so you don't see the actors flinching from the gunshots 😎 In the movie Underworld, Kate Beckinsale had never fired a gun before and she was a boss. No sunglasses for her 😉 If you're looking for a good Christmas movie to watch this month, I would like to recommend The Long Kiss Goodnight with Gena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson and/or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer 💋

[@SteakSauceOTG]

They’ve got The Long Kiss Good Night in the queue for this month. December 14th.

[@lkf8799]

@@SteakSauceOTG Yay!

[@rc08x85]

8:17 The face of the hat guy 😂 🤠

[@alexflores7652]

You guys need to watch the Animatrix. It's a collection of video shorts, some of them tie directly with the movies. It explains some things of how they got to this point in the canon. When I do my Matrix marathon I put The Animatrix between the first and second because it sets up the second movie events.

[@obenohnebohne]

«Dodge this.» Love this moment.

[@andrewmccormack4295]

I think these two are great reactors but after the movie was over during their discussion I think the Lady was just overthinking the plot line a little bit,which is not a bad thing in itself I guess.Her comments during the movie told me she is quite an intelligent Lady (IMHO).

[@MrsMovies]

Hard to not overthink with a movie as layered as this one. I probably took it too far but there are just so many things to consider (moral, cultural, political) it’s definitely a thinker. Probably the main reason I never watched it until now. You have to want to watch a movie like this that can challenge your own beliefs about yourself. Thanks for watching with us though!

[@andrewmccormack4295]

@@MrsMovies Forgive me if it sounds like I was insulting you in any way,I wasn't,I just took notice of all your comments and you were really thinking it through very well.Stay safe and well and look forward to more of your reactions.

[@MrsMovies]

@@andrewmccormack4295 oh no not insulted at all! I appreciate you taking time to comment and engage with me! It’s nice to have dialogue about such a cool movie!

[@JamesJoyce12]

there is a philosophical proof that if you can ASK if you're in the matrix then you can't be in the matrix - you're both safe

[@MariothePlumber529]

The Matrix is like dreaming, everything looks and seems correct and good but you have a slightly off feeling and it is never truly "right". As great as it could be I would never substitute it for reality would have to take the red pill

[@kinagrill]

It's also why the machines keep the Matrix as a non-paradise so the human mind can blame it on, just about anything - poverty, the damn job, the wife/husband being annoying, etc.

[@GN-jn1ty]

OMFG - what a master class in control. How can you not even emotionally react or reassure - "it's fine" - but just let her experience the movie on her own without being sheparded to a reaction. Dude, you are a master.