The Matrix (1999) - MOVIE REACTION - First Time Watching

[@JamesFarrOfficial]

Watched this in the theater in 1999 and was completely blown away. Fascinating to see a younger generation discover this film for the first time.

[@CalciumChief]

You didn't even have to watch it to know just all of it. Everyone everywhere was talking about it.

[@fxzero666]

Me too, man! Saw it three times and then countless times after... my mind was never the same...

[@autohmae]

And that camera effect was new at the time. Was really awesome.

[@drewskull5181]

Yeah I pretty much saw it without knowing anything about it in 1999 too. I was like... What did I just watch?. The line that always makes me think we are in The Matrix is about alot of things taste like chicken. Think about it 🤔

[@timgardner3681]

Same here.

[@Q69573]

@ 4:00 "WHY DID SHE RUN TO ANSWER DAT PHONE???" rofl

[@anthonyscime177]

So it wasn't really "the kiss" that brings neo back to life, it was trinitys prophecy and neos prophecy coming to fruition at the same moment. Trinity was told by the oracle that she would fall in love, and that person she loved would be the one, and if you listen to what the oracle tells neo, she tells him he's "waiting for something" to become the one... "Your next life maybe" is what the oracle says after. So he was always really meant to be killed and reborn in the matrix as the one. This movie does take a few viewings to really catch everything and understand all the subtleties

[@3Kings_Industries]

Yes but ... a real good kiss, with someone you are vehemently attracted to, can BE electric, as in full body. And, we know that some systems continue to operate after death, so it is feasible that the kiss did actually re-activate his physical body, which allowed both prophecies to actualize.

[@winchesterbear]

A prophecy is not causation. It is a prediction. The kiss brought him back.

[@mmsizzlak]

She did say either he or Morpheus would die... No one besides myself ever remarked about the Oracle's exact prophecy coming true... Most just glaze over her statements as "oh, so he's not the One... Then why did she say all that stuff?" never realizing EVERYTHING she said happened...too bad the sequels killed the mythology and made it anticlimactic instead of building on it

[@CheckersMcGavern]

@@winchesterbear Hi, Devil's Advocate here. In The Matrix, a constructed virtual world where everything and everyone is directed by lines of code... prophecies can absolutely be causation. It's actually a very interesting concept, IMO. A program creates a "prophecy" which is actually just a background process that monitors multiple variables and subtly influences them to ensure that a specific outcome is reached.

[@wisdoomoperational9965]

one thing 4th movie (bleh) took a good spin on was the ''one'' aspect.. not being him, but the union, the love itself being the ''one'' that destroys the evil.. cool spin on old trope

[@granadosvm]

I don't think Neo was revived by the power of love, but by his mind. People who have received CPR have said that after the heart stops beating, the brain continues hearing. She reminded him they have expectations of him, and realizing he was in the Matrix his mind allowed him to distinguish between the code of the matrix and reality. And the way to destroy an agent more than exploding him, can be described as destroying the code from the inside.

[@Lemon_Force]

"She reminded him they have expectations of him" "Neo you can't be dead we need you for 2 more movies" sorry lol I couldn't help but think that she whispered that.

[@SyzygyNoon]

@@Lemon_Force “…and one final movie that literally acknowledges how unnecessary it is.”

[@algladyou]

@@SyzygyNoon lol because it's the both of them

[@algladyou]

@@SyzygyNoon their connections to one another. That's love. Hehehe. There cant be love if there's no other one or connected to.

[@SyzygyNoon]

@@algladyou It’s love or the code. Or maybe they can coexist. Just gotta respect and accept.

[@Minion_of_Cthulhu]

Your reaction to this was exactly what everyone felt in the theater. I remember going into the film completely blind and being totally blown away by it since all of the marketing was essentially just the question "What is the Matrix?" I felt the exact same way you do about the Trinity thing at the end. I think it was quite heavy handed, though I can see why they did it. The Matrix sequels are also worth watching, though I feel they lack some of the philosophical depth of the first one and the overall plot can become somewhat messy. They're still fun movies with some cool visuals. You might also want to check out the film Dark City with Kiefer Sutherland which came out a year before the Matrix and has a similar concept of reality not being real, but taken in a different direction. You'll also defifinitely want to see Keanu's other major franchise John Wick. You'll see another familiar face from The Matrix in that series starting with the second film, though I won't mention who it is. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and the sequels are also worth watching if you want to see a young Keanu in a comedy.

[@shoujahatsumetsu]

Dark City is definitely a movie more people should react to.

[@wolferguy]

JASON! Are you like my long lost twin brother or something? 😎

[@MrIamabazaba]

Something to add is the VFX. No film did VFX as clean as The Matrix before. It spawned a whole new way of filming sequences, and now seeing people fly is commonplace (thanks Marvel). It was groundbreaking

[@Forgotten-Gaming]

Pop culturally the first Matrix movie was monumental. It's now up there with some of the most influential and stylish sci-fi movies ever made. When this came out people literally started changing their fashion to emulate. Trench coats, sun glasses, Nokia slide phones etc. Then on top of that you had the iconic concepts such as the 'red pill and blue pill', the slow motion 'bullet time' effects that influenced not just other movies but video games too (Max Payne for example). It's lasting impression can be seen everywhere now. The sequels didn't live up the legacy of the first unfortunately, but that was a big ask considering how ground breaking it was at the time.

[@morbidangel2424]

Max Payne was a great game, the 1st to matrix movies are great 3ed one not so much

[@WolfHreda]

Fun fact: Max Payne's bullet time concept actually preceded The Matrix by several months. Due to development issues and delays, The Matrix came out first, a fact which makes Max Payne's developers chuckle ruefully to this day.

[@alfreddreamerphotocomics4880]

The Matrix directors may have been influenced by the Blade movies. Blade was rocking the black trench coat, black shades, boots, etc years before the Matrix came out. However The Matrix did take the style much further, and had a lot more interesting story and ideas.

[@SyzygyNoon]

Max Payne 1 & 2 are two of my favorite games of all time. Wonderful storytelling, along with great levels and gameplay.

[@holden88]

@@WolfHreda That's nonsense. The Matrix began development in 1994 with bullet time as a concept on board from the beginning. Max Payne development started in 1996. The Max Payne 1998 trailer doesn't showcase or mention bullet time at all. The Matrix was released in 1999. After that, Max Payne was delayed for 2 more years as it was revamped to add bullet time and also several references and levels that payed homage to The Matrix. There is no theoretical concept of reality where Max Payne's bullet time concept precedes The Matrix. On the contrary, the only reason that Max Payne features bullet time at all is because it was in the The Matrix.

[@_Darth_Vader_]

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

[@JustaGaibroh]

Your reaction to Neo waking up in the matrix is the correct reaction.

[@michaeldixon3440]

A sad side note, everyone that died was innocent. Just living their simulated lives. The Agents even take over people. I mean at the end, that homeless guy got hit by the train. He was just a digital meat puppet for Agent Smith. Just a adds another layer to the movie. Great reaction

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Ikr? Most people either don't think about that or don't mention it. I always think about it during the lobby scene. Those security guards are just the avatars of some actual humans in pods somewhere and Neo and Trinity murder the living hell out of them. Yes, technically they were "antagonist's helpers" - which is why I think people don't question it - but they were *unwitting* antagonist's helpers. They were fellow prisoners in the Matrix, unaware that it even existed. In fact, from their POV, they were just security guards at work, trying to stop heavily armed people from walking into their building. Not an unreasonable motivation to be shooting at the protagonists. I guess you could write it off with some sort of "acceptable collateral damage on the way to the greater good" explanation but still... relatively super-powered Trinity and Neo basically executed them. Also, I never really thought about it until just this moment (unless they explained it away in one of the sequels and I just don't remember bc I watched them once forever ago), but what is the plan for when the AI is defeated? I mean, when they woke up Neo, his muscles were completely atrophied and his eyes didn't work. What happens when billions and billions of humans suddenly wake up and none of them have working muscles or eyeballs? What's the plan to feed all those people? It's not like you can get some farms going on Day 1, especially on the f'd up surface of the post-apocalyptic Earth...

[@beannathrach2417]

@@johnplaysgames3120 There's a comic with a story of people with horrible injuries and no idea what happened and we see them temporarily possessed by agents. The sequels do sort of deal with what happens to humans when the Machines stop fighting. [[SPOILERS: humans can continue to live connected to matrix their bodies cared for by the machines. People who want to leave the matrix and wake up will be allowed to. Nothing to clean the sky is suggested. In the sequel we see the Dock controllers are connected to a mini-Matrix. The hardware and software give humans capabilities beyond human bodies. So it's about giving humans some control over what the matrix is used for. And merging humans and machines.SPOILERS:]]

[@reactionisst]

Yup, as Morpheus explains to Neo in the Agent training program, anybody who is still plugged in to the Matrix is a potential enemy.

[@reactionisst]

@thomas anderson "They are everyone, and they are no one." It's an interesting, if not frightening thought. We are all a part of the system that we belong to, which is designed to protect itself.

[@aikighost]

@@johnplaysgames3120 One way to think of it is as another version of "The soldiers on the other side aren't the enemy, they are fellow victims. It's the politicians that caused the war are the enemy."

[@Gidono]

The Matrix is in my top 5 movies of all time. It made me open up my mind to how I percieve the world. I didn't necessarily think that we were living in a simulation but I took a step back and looked at how our world is ran by governments, how media shapes people's perspective, politics, religion etc... This movie changed my life.

[@JITKanno0]

FANTASTIC reaction, one of the best here on youtube- humour, guessing spot on of what's happening, very sincere! Almost perfect, so enjoyable!! No overkills with analyzing every aspect of the story, whining or ridiculing a la "this is not realistic" etc etc.... Everything just as much as needed, THANKS! HUGE thumbs up to you, keep this going!

[@fatboy5926]

I do love how the Oracle just casually slips it on there really quickly and skips beyond it “you’ve got the gift”

[@McPh1741]

Keanu Reeves is not only a good actor but he a great person. There’s so many stories people have shared of running into him in public and he is always so nice. He’s bought really cool gifts for the stuntman and production crews of his movies. I recommend the movie “Point Break”, “Johnny Pneumonic” and “Constantine”.

[@garethmartin6522]

That's Johnny Mnemonic, based on the William Gibson story of the same name.

[@Kaylakaze]

@@garethmartin6522 In other words, more cyberpunk.

[@garethmartin6522]

@@Kaylakaze Yes very much so. I can;t remember the film well, it's... OK. Not quite faithful to the book but keeping most of the themes.

[@Kaylakaze]

@@garethmartin6522 IIRC JM was just a fairly short short story so the movie had to make up a lot of details.

[@McPh1741]

@@garethmartin6522 Sorry, I was spelling it from memoryin the moment

[@BalokLives]

Yeah, the phone thing to exit the matrix. It made a lot more sense when this movie was released because a lot of people still had an analog modem. DSL broadband had only been released ten years prior and broadband was not yet ubiquitous. An analog modem was a device that attached to your telephone land line that allowed you to connect to the Internet. It made a squealing noise when connecting which is why many of the audio effects reflect that sound. LOL, I just realized that the first flip phone was released in 1989 about the same time as DSL, so coincidentally, mobile cell phones had not yet taken off either. It is entirely possible depending on your age that you have never encountered a land line either. It's not the power of love that brings Neo back. It was the prophecy. Her prophecy was that she would fall in love with "The One". She was in love with Neo, so she knew he couldn't be dead. He had to be "The One". Neo just needed to be told that he was "The One" in a way that he would accept so he could come back to life. The EMP device you mentioned stands for Electro Magnetic Pulse. It is a real-world device that can knock out electronics. A nuclear bomb is said to have the same effect on any electronics within a radius from ground zero. In a nuclear war, this would be a serious impediment as we would lose all electronics Including vehicles except very old ones. In the movie an EMP was detonated which destroyed the attacking robot.

[@dalinkwent202]

Mmmm…I disagree. Remember that the Oracle tells Neo ppl can’t make you The One by telling you. You just “know” you are, or realize it about yourself. Also as Morpheus says, “Your mind makes it real.” So Neo only “died” because he _believed_ that’s what was supposed to happen after getting shot. But just like his speed and strength…he needed to understand that he could, “Change whatever he wanted.” incl his own “death”. As Morpheus tells him, “You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt & disbelief.”

[@ElderonAnalas]

@@dalinkwent202 plus keeping in line with the whole "Neo is Jesus" metaphor and symbology that the whole trilogy sets as well

[@Defensive_Wounds]

Any electronics shielded in a faraday cage will still work after an EMP burst.

[@dracoargentum9783]

Personally, I appreciate the Oracle's "cookie" joke, mostly unknown because its years before downloading cookies were everywhere.

[@jerrywalters8885]

After watching the first 3 MATRIX you need to see the ANIMATRIX. It provides the backstory in several small vignettes that really break it down. From several point of views. VERY entertaining indeed

[@DaveMcIroy]

The best is Matrix 4. 😅

[@fxzero666]

It came out before the first 2 sequels and several of the vignettes tie directly into Matrix Reloaded ... definitely recommend watching Animatrix now!

[@ValentineOkarra]

No, the Animatrix must be watched before the second Matrix

[@fxzero666]

@@ValentineOkarra ^THIS x infinity

[@ShadowyFox_86]

The Animatrix REALLY makes the story more nuanced and with more grey area, rather than black and white.

[@po5283]

As others have mentioned, the kiss and his heart starting back up, isn't about fairy tales, but about the philosophical concepts of fate, predestiny and destiny! This film is overflowing with philosophical ideas, in fact one of the prerequisites for the cast, at least the main cast, was to read and study a list of books on or about philosophy to even be considered for the roles. If you continue on with the franchise, I highly recommend watching The Animatrix before jumping into the second film. The Animatrix is a collection of animated shorts, with each story being created by a different studios and artists, so each story looks and feels completely unique and demonstrates numerous different animation styles and techniques, it's really something. The other reason that I suggest watching it is, that through the various stories being shown, they not only fill in a ton of backstory and history but also sets up the events in the sequel! It's not mandatory but feel your missing out if you skip over it.

[@mudageki]

NARRATOR: No, it's crap.

[@demongorr]

It's also the best Matrix sequel by a mile

[@michaelchenault3693]

This is a super cute reaction to a movie that's almost a quarter of a century old. I saw it in the theatre right when it came out and I haven't seen anyone get this excited about it. So much fun. Great job.

[@lordofchaosinc.261]

"The world isn't real." Everyone watching this in 1999: "Yeah I knew that all along."

[@pepsiman990]

Everything the Oracle said was true. He was waiting for his next life and Trinity would fall in love with "The One". He died, Trinity confessed her love for him and brought him back. Thus his next life stated and he became The One. Also, Cypher said, If he's The One than only a miracle could save him right now. He didn't kill Tank when he thought he did, that's the miracle. If you want another AMAZING movie with Keanu Reeves, check out John Wick. You won't be sorry.

[@wolfen26]

Add 'Speed', 'Point Break' and 'The Devils Advocate' to that list too. All of them are very good movies.

[@JoshingU]

Want a new way to see this movie. Neo is the bad guy and smith is the savior. Neo makes the selfish choice of not saving humanity. Smith becomes the whole matrix and the system is force into truce because of that. Not Neo, his purpose was to reset the system of control. Allegorical message to the people, you must become like smith before the system will stop controlling you. Faceless and egoless. A wave of unity

[@juanjcv]

The oracle it was a progran that pretend to be human she just whatever she need to say to makes him believe that what neo was doing was di right.

[@johnthorsson1515]

I’ve always understood it that the kiss bringing him back worked because it helped him realize that he wasn’t actually dead. Remember, Morpheus told him that his “brain makes it real.”

[@PaulOfTarsus777]

Only 5 minutes in and already such an amazing reaction. "Why did she run to answer that phone?!" 🤣. I'm still blown away you haven't seen this til now, but I'm glad you finally did. Can't wait to finish the video. Back to work 😁🥰

[@YoureMrLebowski]

35:33 great amazing edit!! my favorite 30 seconds the use of silence/gunshot/silence was perfect, chef's kiss

[@MrMcFunkaDunk1]

God damn this film is incredible. Seeing you at the end after watching this, is literally how every person who loves this film reacted. Stella video, you will love the rest of them.

[@mathewnavarro1152]

You're so freaking cool, @LoveLaurenn. I'm totally into your "claw" or "Skynet" references along with that rad Tasmanian Devil Looney Tunes sweater; your seriously epic ink popping out those sleeves and colar. Great reaction to a classic and I'm glad I got to experience this film again with your reaction. I TOTALLY remember dressing up as Neo during the swat shootout scenes when I was like 13yrs old lol. Great stuff.

[@dljcali]

More specifically the oracle told him after “He isn’t the one” that MAYBE he is waiting for another life or something… as a way to tell him he is the one without telling him anything really. Very profound statement and way to play out the story accurately

[@samgradyfilm]

Seeing movies through a first time viewer is cool because it often kinda highlights how well crafted the screenplay is. Watching how relevant information is transmitted to the audience and whatnot. Cool channel! Keanu is so charming in this.

[@Paul-br]

Please react to the sequels. Many reactors don't because they hear that they aren't as good. The first one was groundbreaking so it's difficult for sequels to top it. They are still solid movies that round out the story well in my opinion.

[@Bambuzzsprosse]

Very unpopular opinion.

[@Cifer77]

I'll second that. If you enjoyed the first, one, you'll get at least some enjoyment out of the sequels.

[@Joshu_Y]

Agreed. They're different, maybe a bit convoluted but not bad at all. They are actually one movie in two parts (filmed back to back), a lot of people were turned off by that format. But viewed all together it's an epic sequel and fun movie to watch. On the big screen, at least.

[@uriei]

It would also be great if she could get hold on the animated series "The Animatrix", which adds the context and some world building to the franchise.

[@adaddinsane]

Agreed, definitely worth watching.

[@gaiali453]

Great classis 90's movie. I remember watching this movie in theaters and rolling my eyes at the "power of love" part but was a great movie surprise that year.

[@One.Zero.One101]

The Oracle said Trinity would fall in love with the one. So Neo has to be the one because Trinity loves him, that's why she doesn't believe he would die. I think it's a really good setup and payoff. The script for the first movie was really tight and polished.

[@juanjcv]

Neo=one sames words in a different position

[@warriorx5d]

The simplest way to understand why the "kiss" brought Neo back to life is that Trinity's prophecy was that she was going to fall in love with the chosen one, therefore, she knew he was the chosen one because she was in love with him. It's not the kiss or the fact that he's in love, much less the power of love that saved Neo, but that he was already the chosen one and that's why he couldn't be dead. Trinity knew, and just confessed at the time to make it more spectacular 😅

[@paco2012av]

Yeah, but you’re forgetting Neo was never the chosen one. It was agent Smith remember

[@fatkart7641]

7:36 - While filming, they actually dropped the phone from the top of a 65 story building. However it accidentally landed on an armored truck, went through it, shattered the manhole cover that was underneath and managed to pierce a hole through an underground bank vault. The film's prop designer later admitted he regretted using a real Nokia phone for the stunt.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

Sounds like an urban myth...

[@darthfinality]

@@bigdream_dreambig sounds like what it is. A joke. A good one too.

[@limpfordrisky6290]

Story could be true......I had a nokia phone in the 90's, those phones were solid, we didn't call them bricks for nothing lol

[@sixstanger00]

I've heard that it pierced the Earth's crust

[@tommcewan7936]

​@@sixstanger00 Legend has it the phone is still boring its way downwards to this day.

[@Purple_Buffalo]

This film came and "no-one" really went to see it the first week. There was also a sister movie that came out that same weekend that had a very similar theme called, "The Thirteenth Floor" about a computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation. It was a wierd trailer and folks got it confused with The Matrix so it had a poor opening weekend. BUT on week two, I do remember my friend suprising me in the hallway our senior year, grabbing me by the shoulders shaking me - "DUDE!!! YOU! ME! THE MATRIX! TONIGHT!" I was like, "right on". And so we sat in the back of a near empty theater with our eyeballs glued to the screen gazing into the fire of this AMAZING FILM... while our brains melted down the sides of our chair. Good times J.

[@OpenMawProductions]

Laurenn. If you enjoyed this I HIGHLY recommend "Constantine" from 2005. It's one of the few roles Keanu has expressed a deep desire to play again. One of my favorites.

[@Cifer77]

YES!

[@Tampahop]

Screw it. Just go straight to John Wick.

[@eazolan]

Oh hell yes

[@duncancaswah7214]

About to watch your Matrix and John Wick movie reactions back to back. Today is a good day.

[@LoveLaurenn]

I hope you enjoy Duncan! weeee

[@duncancaswah7214]

@@LoveLaurenn I greatly enjoyed both of them

[@gy7694]

It's a great film but it's really hard to experience it the same now as when it came out. The special effects, especially the slow, circling shots, were absolutely mind blowing at the time. So many action films have copied and developed the effects from the Matrix that it just doesn't have the same impact any more.

[@davidhowell7279]

So mind blowing that I walked out of the theater questioning reality for a couple of hours. Great film. Great reaction all things considered.

[@joshuawiedenbeck6944]

Also, people's understanding of how computers work is much lower now. This movie is made much better by having a basic understanding of how computer programs and hardware work with each other. Security programs, viruses, unexplained anomalies, all of it clearly represented by different characters in this series.

[@danieldickson8591]

Very few films using techniques pioneered in The Matrix have executed them with as much style and skill as the original.

[@ChrisReise]

A little behind the scenes for y'all. The marble wall in the lobby during the big shootout were actually made of styrofoam. :)

[@mannyuribe1844]

I loved your reaction to one of my all time favorite movies. It was so much fun! If you thought that was cool, imagine watching this in 1999 (I did). It was mind blowing. That 360 degree camera effect, called the Matrix effect, was the first time we had ever seen that special effect in a movie. This movie is iconic!

[@CChissel]

I think everyone misses what the oracle says, myself included when I first watched it. When she replies to him saying he isn’t the one, she says, “you’ve got the gift, but you’re waiting for something” meaning, he is the one but he’s holding himself back, he doesn’t fully believe yet.

[@awakeatnight7668]

The first time I watched The Matrix is burned into my mind. I was flipping through channels on TV one night when I was a kid, and I stopped in my tracks when I saw the interrogation scene between Neo and Smith. That scene creeped me tf out, but I couldn't help but watch the rest of the movie till the end, and it's been a favorite of mine since then. Will Smith was originally going to be Neo in The Matrix, however he passed on it so that he could do Wild Wild West... so it was hilarious and perfect when you compared the beginning of the subway fight to something out of the wild wild west lmao P.S. I would take the red pill 💯

[@ryanmussell739]

Ppl have always talk about Will. But the fight sequence would have been terrible Will can box but not Kung fu.

[@BraanFlakes08]

Yo this is the first video of yours I’m watching. Really enjoy your reaction you seem to really be able to immerse yourself in the movie it was really fun to watch

[@EACru2002]

You've gotten a few well written explanations about the whole kiss, back from the death thing from other posters. How they explain the technicalities of it all, and they're correct, showing how the film doesn't break any of its rules with that moment. That being said, thematically, emotionally, yes, you're not far off on the idea being that "love conquers all" being the message there. That's probably one of the themes about the Wachowski's that went kinda took a while for audiences to really catch on, is that at the end of the day, a lot of their films, their messages, etc, it all revolves around that concept. That love is the key to it all. Which is a love it or hate it thing (no pun intended) for some viewers. It's complicated by the fact that if you look at just the surface of their films, it's always dark, edgy, gothy, which gives the impression that it would be cynical and nihilistic. But beneath the "edgy" dressing is usually always a surprisingly hopeful, almost naively hopeful view about how love conquers all. You see this in literally almost all their films. From the Matrix and its sequels to Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending, Sense8, etc. BTW I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying this because every filmmaker has their "thing" like how Tarantino will always have long dialogue scenes and close ups of feet lol. This is just the Wachowski's "thing." This super optimistic view that the most powerful superpower of them all is love. Again, that just might not be your thing, and there's nothing wrong with that, but just trying to give a little insight about the purpose and motivation behind the message. It wasn't some last minute insertion forced in by the movie studios to have a happy ending or something. It's something that the Wachowski's deeply, deeply believe in.

[@treytilley333]

Especially in the 3rd film. The architect couldn’t calculate love in the equation of it all which is why when he chose trinity, he was unable to foresee that it was the only correct choice Neo could take and the architect thought the outcome was humanity ending all together by choosing Trinity but it wasn’t the case. I really wanted Matrix 4 to pick up from there and give us a story how Neo could once and for all rage against the machine and free humanity from its enslavement but nah fam… Wachowski grew an ego. 4 is not my canon.

[@SirBonzo]

It's so fascinating to see someone watch this for the first time. I saw this in the cinema back in 1999 and all the questions you're asking now are the same ones we all asked back then. Plus if you had the Nokia flip phone and/or the long black leather coat you were the king of cool back in 1999! Lol

[@michellepeters7066]

Please watch "The Neverending Story". (R.I.P. Wolfgang Petersen! 😔)

[@DecSteele]

Never ending story was the first film I began skipping parts because I just couldn’t watch the horse die every time 😂

[@grizzlynad]

your shouts of "The claaaw" & "He iiis the one aaah" made me smile. Glad you enjoyed this classic.

[@morketthedarkspirit285]

This movie it's still amazing even today! The story and the shots are awesome and Keanu and all actors from the movie were brilliant! ❤

[@davidr1050]

Joe Pantoliano plays "Cypher" -- He's been in quite a few films over the years.. But you've seen him as Frances Fratelli in "The Goonies"... --- He lives in Hoboken NJ last I checked and is actually a nice guy in real life.

[@markcarpenter6020]

Fun fact:. Our reality being a simulation is in fact a genuine theory in quantum mechanics. It explains a lot of the wierd crap like quantum tunneling, etc. The idea is quantum tunneling happens because the speed of the particle exceeds the refresh rate of the simulation. Also if you liked this movie it was inspired and took a lot from Japanese cyberpunk anime of the 80s and 90s. (Battle Angel, ghost in the shell, etc So you might like those anime/Manga. On fact I highly recommend ghost in the shell; stand alone complex

[@ShadowyFox_86]

Oh Ghost In the Shell. Probably THE anime that most influenced my life.

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@ShadowyFox_86 it asks a heck of a lot of interesting questions.

[@dracoargentum9783]

I also recommend Ghost in the Shell

[@StudioMod]

It's also based on the philosophy by Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, which is actually shown in the film. The chapter on Nihilism is cut out, representing the fact that there is no freedom in the world.

[@Penfold101]

Then I hope the real me isn't as fat as the simulation me, and god damn it why do I picture myself this way.

[@PS10N]

As a Matrix "superfan," it was an absolute joy to watch you experience the original movie for the first time. Your reactions were genuine and intelligent, and to see someone "get it" for the first time, was delightful. Thank you for making this reaction video, and I hope you go on to watch The Animatrix, Reloaded, Revolutions, and Resurrections, and maybe even get to play Enter The Matrix (which parallels Reloaded and fills in so much more of the story and information for that movie) and Path of Neo, which lets you kick some Agent butt all over the simulation. Thanks again, and welcome to the world of The Matrix.

[@Patriiiiick]

Oooh, i'd love to watch this with someone who's never seen it before. Well done for going in completely blind! Makes this all the much better. Look forward to you seeing more Keanu films! Definitely do Bill & Ted and Point Break for some early Keanu goodness. Also, Speed is still one of the best action movies ever.

[@Patriiiiick]

12:50 That's the best 'My body is shook' reaction i've seen.

[@SkullAngel002]

5:10 - It wasn't a CD. It's an old audio format called MiniDisc by Sony and they advocated it as the next evolution after CD's. You definitely have to check out the rest of the Matrix trilogy.

[@Joshu_Y]

This is definitely one of the top-ten groundbreaking, mindblowing, genre re-defining films of all time. So much good, and the sequels get a bad rap but they're honestly pretty good, too, it's just that nothing is as mindblowing as the original. Great reaction, it mirrors the enthusiasm i felt seeing in the theater for the first time, going into it completely blind and seeing that is a perfect action sci-fi cinema experience.... the late 90's were pretty good for that. Somehow the "love conquers all" bit felt more natural back then, it didn't exactly age well I guess. But other than that weak point it's a solid script.

[@3Kings_Industries]

Also, another fun cyberpunk Keanu film .... Johnny Mnemonic. And for a little extra fun, look up the teaser trailer for STRANGE DAYS. The film was alright, I enjoy it, but the trailer was Mind Blowing!!!

[@martinbraun1211]

Please watch STAR TREK! 🖖

[@cteal2018]

The amount of philosophy that this move pulls from is insane...Aristotle, Plato, Descartes(I think therfore I am), the obvious Jesus metaphor with the resurrection, Buddhism (there is no spoon). Free will vs. Pre-determination. The idea that guards in a prison are trapped just as much as the inmates. This was the early push that placed the "simulation theory" into pop culture (again going back to Plato's allegory of the cave....it isn't a new concept). The amount of papers I graded that used "The Matrix" in the late 90's and early 2000's was enormous....this movie is truly a classic

[@ShadowArtist]

Neo didn't "magically come back to life", Neo felt Trinity's kiss, and knew he wasn't really dead. . . his heart started beating again when his brain registered "oh this is only a dream"

[@fredericklidman1976]

Finally! I’ve been waiting for you to watch this. And it was awesome! Great vid, LoveLaurenn! ✨👌✨🔥❤️

[@LoveLaurenn]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it Frederick! Thank you for watching weeee🥰

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Laurenn, a great reaction. You should watch the next Matrix film: 'The Matrix, Reloaded', at the very least as it fills out the story well and helps to put it all in context.

[@danieldigangi399]

Don't believe people telling you the sequels are bad, to me the 3rd movie is the best, I encourage you to watch them and make up your own mind, also the animatrix is one of the best things I ever watched, gives the story a lot of layers

[@levenkay4468]

Another movie in kind of the same "Your reality is not what you think" vein is "Dark City", released a year before The Matrix. I didn't like it quite as much myself, but it does have quite a few staunch fans.

[@lfroggyl]

Great reaction to my favorite movie of all time! You are awesome @LoveLaurenn ! i hope you watch the rest of the trilogy you might like it. The first one is the masterpiece though!

[@SamuelAnt]

You and your responses to this movie, are so cute, priceless. Thank you, you made my morning.

[@richardcramer1604]

BTW the glasses that Morpheus wears is pince-nez a style of glasses: popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (the same time monocles were popular), that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from French pincer, "to pinch", and nez, "nose". Note Teddy Roosevelt wore pince-nez glasses.

[@mercurioslevin1877]

The worse part is that if you watch the 2nd Renaissance part 1 and 2 (a short animated tale of what lead up it all) you know it isnt a Skynet situation. also Neo goes from NPC to Main Character then Main Character with cheat codes turn on to finally becoming the source code itself!

[@craigOneB]

I remember seeing this in the theaters by myself when it came out. Blew me away. I then rewatched it 2 more times in 2 days, lol.

[@allovett6246]

9:49 Great Googly Moogly! I thought I was the only one who said that!

[@xtomvideo]

Trinity's emotional connection to Neo likely pre-dated them actually meeting as the oracle told her something about them and she was likely monitoring him in the Matrix with Morpheus etc. before he was released from it. So he was kinda clueless but she was already emotionally invested.

[@joeno-say5504]

Great reaction! Looking forward to your next one! Also saw in one of your other reactions that you're a gamer. It's older, but have you played the Bioshock series? I think you would enjoy the atmosphere of it.

[@Palmieres]

What really blew me away in this reaction was your observation on CRT monitors. Cathode Ray Tubes and vacuum tubes are a pivotal step in the history of computers - not as monitors, but as actual computational devices that perform actions on a processing level. They are connected by their use as the predecessors of transistors, without which you wouldn't have printed circuits. When you think about these devices in terms of their engineering, the evolution of computational tech is both incredibly impressive and yet unsurprising. It all still works on the same principles, and flat screens are not such a marvelous thing in the end. They're just lighter and more compact versions of the same process (gas, phosphor and electricity).

[@bigboyross8812]

You've got to remember this came out 23Yrs ago, I watched this in 1999 and it changed cinema and film forever!

[@schnaiderpolynice9690]

I’m watching your reaction and you understood the movie as you watched it. I’ve been watching this movie since I was about 10 when it came out and I finally understood it last year at the age of 32.

[@b.s.bobbyshaw]

He wasn’t brought back by the kiss, that was just a scene to reveal Trinity’s Oracle reveal. In that moment, Thomas Anderson was killed and Neo was fully born. He in that moment became a full component of the Matrix, hence why it all immediately made sense to him and he could fully control himself within the system now.

[@Crease36]

Red pill for me. I would always prefer a sharp truth than a comforting lie.

[@royleggitt3307]

That's hysterical, everything that happened, Trinity's love is the bridge too far

[@Rudromukherjeenerv]

The kiss didn't bring him back to life, he was already the one! He could not be killed in the Matrix, the kiss was affirmation of Trinity's prophesy! Thus cementing his belief in the fact that he was the one! The bullets didn't kill him, because he can rewrite the

[@DraconX3]

A novel concept that is often overlooked in the movie lore about Humans use by the machines is That they are not directly being used for energy, but infact as a easily renewable energy source in order to power actual Fusion reactors. A science we today IRL are working on now to figure out. As creating a fusion reaction is pretty well written down. The issue is being able to generate more energy than it takes to operate, as creating that fusion reaction takes a large amount of energy. Either via lasers, magnetic fields, or whatever else.

[@jaredragland4707]

I bought a dvd player later that year (yes, when digital media were a new idea) so I could see this movie at home, because I had been overseas when it was in theatres.

[@klyph]

When this movie first came out, nobody knew about the reality/simulation twist. The marketing just made it look like a stylized action movie. We all had pretty much the same reaction you did when Keanu wakes up in the pod.

[@joeeyaura]

yeah i remember the trailer had the jump scene with morpheous saying free your mind and neo, saying whoa. that was about all the supernatrual kind of stuff they showed

[@henryspiers8578]

Ever looked up at the blue sky on clear day for more than a few seconds.... It starts looking like the old-school crt television sets

[@tonyrandall4364]

Wasn't weird enough she never saw The Matrix but never saw a movie with Keanu Reeves? Never saw in theatre, picked up on VHS. Saw the sequels in cinema. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ineptgamer3814]

One of my two favourite films of all time. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the cool video...!

[@jbscotchman]

I watched this 7 times in the theatre. It was ground breaking on so many levels.

[@pasta9368]

If your interested after this you should check out the animatrix. It’s more of a compilation of stories but they tell the story of the creation of the matrix and more.

[@jaumepp1975]

The Matrix (1) is one of the best movies ever thought of and made. It's not only a great action movie, but, more important, it's full of references to occultism, esotericism, occidental and oriental philosophy, physics, philosophy of the mind, etcetera. A true masterpiece.

[@phillipwatson9906]

Another fantastic video ,seeing you realise who John is was the closest anyone would get to seeing it for the first time watch again, thank you so much AAA+ X10 😊

[@tk72231968]

Laurenn, your reactions on this one had me cracking up 🤣. I must have watched this movie about 10 times when it was released and in the theater...I had a friend who worked part at the multi-plex and I got in for free half the time though. What really bakes my noodle, is that in a way, we are putting ourselves into the matrix already.....between cell phones, TV, VR, and other means of 'escape'. Great movie to react with and good job Laurenn!! 👍👍

[@LoveLaurenn]

I'm so glad you enjoyed my reaction! My mind was blown away by this movie it was freaking EPIC!🤩

[@ricardotoussain]

If you really want something to bake your noodle then try thinking of the Matrix as not a program for your computer but for your brain, that it is the programming you receive from birth. Do not take the movie litterally. Our civilization is based on one system of control based on another, you too have to go to the source.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

35:22 🤣 "IS he going to make it? I feel he's NOT going to make it..." great inflection

[@KayeAL4real]

Enjoyed your reaction...your enthusiasm was palpable!

[@chrism7395]

My first permanent job in 1999 was as a cinema usher in a multiplex that opened with The Matrix as its first film, 1999 was an incredible year for film.

[@dennytaylor1005]

First time watching your channel. Great reaction. You follow and catch on fast ... and you facial reactions are fantastic!

[@ninjabearpress2574]

Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith had my favorite line in the movie, "No Lieutenant your men are already dead."

[@pelgervampireduck]

When this came out it was bigger than the MCU, it wsa a worldwide sensation, a cultural event, everybody went to see it four or five times at the theater, lots of people sarted to dress in the cool outfits like the characters in the movie, the story was amazing and the special effects too. Now it can be all done with CGI and the effects are not surprising, but in 1999 it was done with camera tricks and everybody was like "HOLY SHIT!!! HOW DID THE DO THAT?!!!", like the scene in the beginning when you see trinity kinda suspended in the air and the camera turns around her. That kind of things were invented for this movie, they had to set up like 200 cameras around the characters so the cameras filmed "a circle" and they edited together the footage to create the effect. It was insane, it wasn't just computer graphics. This movie was so revolutionary in so many ways, and looked cool doing it. Also it made mainstream and got into the pop culture the idea of "what if reality is not real???". The idea existed before, but this made everybody think about it and "how would we know? if we couldn't wake up from a dream we could end believing the dream is reality", also the red pill and blue pill thing became iconic. I can see you were very excited about it, now imagine seeing this in 1999 when there was nothing like it.

[@mikecaetano]

Keanu Reeves first film of note was "River's Edge", a 1986 American crime drama starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper, in which a group of confused teenagers confront the reality of murder. Keanu and Ione Skye share an emotionally touching scene together in a park, if I recall correctly. Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper teamed up again in the 1994 action thriller "Speed", which was also the breakthrough film for Sandra Bullock. But before that he played the wayward favored son in Gus Van Sant's 1991 film "My Own Private Idaho" opposite River Phoenix. The comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" really kicked things off for him in 1989. He also played the son of the devil in "The Devil's Advocate" from 1997, opposite Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron. And in line with "The Matrix", there was the 1995 cyberpunk film "Johnny Mnemonic" in which he plays a courier caught up in the schemes of forces beyond his control. All that was long before John Wick. PS. The actor Laurence Fishburne, aka Morpheus, started acting in films when he was 14. He lied about his age to land his a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now, starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando among a cast including Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, and Harrison Ford. In the time before the internet Apocalypse Now was often listed among the top ten films ever made. Today it sits at #55 on the IMDB chart.

[@CharlyT2000]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but the movie uses a subtle trick to tell your mind, even if only at a subconscious level, that something is different about the world you're observing. When the movie begins, everything is shown through a green filter. This has the effect of making everything seem somewhat "off". In fact, this filtering is intentional. Anytime you are watching something happening in the Matrix, the filmmakers use the green filter as a subtle cue to help differentiate between the Matrix and the real world.

[@magustobias8827]

Probably someone else mentioned it, but crazy fact: the actress who played Trinity, Carrie-Anne Moss, finished the lobby shootout scene with a broken ankle (namely, the flip).

[@csrhymer]

Fun fact - the rooftop wrap around shot is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the movie scene that used the most cameras ... each frame of what our brains tell us is a video sequence ... each frame was a still shot from an individual camera that was removed in post production.

[@donaldjohnson1148]

The concepts the Wachowski's are playing with in the series are really deep, What is choice (free will) and What is real (control).

[@ferdnerkel]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 it was a dream? That made my belly button hurt.🤣🤣🤣🤣 Me (smirking). The wachowski Brothers really did the sneaky here and you ain't seen nothin' yet. Bwahahahaha

[@Malmern]

24:20 One might even say that Morpheus' glasses are a bit on the nose.

[@fUnNyBuSiNeSz]

Hi Lauren! Love these reaction videos! 👍🏼

[@naughtiousmaximus2687]

Remembering just the complete mind trip the first Matrix movie was and watching your reaction and thinking, "yeah my smile was that big". I had to subscribe and I really can not wait to see your reaction for the second and third movies.