The Matrix | Canadians First Time Watching | React & Review | So George works in A.I...

[@drchaos2000]

imagine seeing this movie in 1999... where there was a campaign that showed nothign of the movie but you seen posters everywhere with "what is the matrix"... and while the effects of the combat scenes are still cool today.. they were completely out of the world back then

[@vapormissile]

That was trippy. I remember. Terminator, Aliens, etc. Kids these days have no idea...

[@Cau_No]

I saw just the short trailer on TV and decided to buy an early preview ticket. I Never regretted it once. The first bullet time scene (The Trinity Kick) got applauded immediately by the whole theater audience. After half an hour when I realized what it was really about, I was hooked, and it became my second favourite movie behind "Blade Runner". (And my first favourite after I saw the sequels, showing me the first one could not be topped)

[@djVOME]

I literally saw it 12 times in like 8 different theaters.

[@pst5345]

I did that. 3 times.

[@SuzakuX]

Man, they had some sort of a raffle thing on the old website that I won for signing up for their newsletter, and a few weeks later I got a white box in the mail that had "what is the matrix?" printed on it, and inside was a pair of replica sunglasses.

[@MattyNarmis]

The symbolism blew my mind when neo "accepts cookies" from the oracle 😜

[@eddiekoleno2291]

LMAO 😂😂😂

[@altairtodescatto]

never realise it. Damn hahaha

[@NoriMori1992]

Holy shit.

[@bazzakrak]

And when the agents "bug" him during the interview

[@hydratanksamari]

25yrs later, just realizing this😮

[@ApesAmongUs]

"I would not take a pill from a strange guy in an abandoned building" I guess you were never a raver.

[@TomVCunningham]

😂😂😂

[@allisterfiend_2112]

Different generation! things sure changed after the 90's

[@mr.nobody9697]

@@allisterfiend_2112 Yeah. We`ve been in a blizzard since. (snowflakes everywhere)

[@markduncan7638]

I LOL'd at this.

[@fernandosepulveda7297]

This was fantastic!

[@msclrhd]

In the original draft, the humans were used as CPUs instead of batteries. The WB execs didn't think people would understand the original concept, so that part of the dialog was changed to something audiences could better grasp.

[@rhythmfist]

thats honestly infuriating lol

[@alejandroblanco7369]

Also it would’ve been stolen from the Hyperion and Endymion series lol that’s actually sad to know they were stealing and the execs gave the original idea lol how times change haha

[@Fricasso79]

@@alejandroblanco7369 The idea was around before Hyperion, so no.

[@wilder11]

A pity, because being used as CPUs makes WAY more sense than using them for power. Even if you eliminated solar power as a source, there's still nuclear, fossil fuels, tidal, hydro, wind and geothermal. Just to name the basics. XD I never bought into the idea that humans were needed as a power source.

[@SomeGuys31415]

@@wilder11especially since the robots would need to put more energy into keeping the people alive then they’d ever get back from our electricity.

[@JoeKhol]

I thought it was really sweet when Simone tried to convince herself that Neo and Trinity *weren't* slaughtering lots of real human beings. Tragically wrong of course, but sweet all the same.

[@Jay-ate-a-bug]

To be fair, there are no Humans within the Matrix. The people you see are Simulations of Humans who are being controlled by Humans plugged into the Matrix via sophisticated VR Hardware. Neo and Trinity were only shooting video game characters; The humans in the real world were technically killing themselves because they believed that what was happening to their simulated selves was real.

[@AykayENG]

@@Jay-ate-a-bug Whether it makes sense or not irl, The Matrix cinematic universe makes it clear that when you are plugged into the Matrix, You are in the Matrix. Your living body in the real world is waiting for your consciousness to return. If your body gets unplugged before your mind returns then you (a human) dies. If they were just killing VR game avatars then that wouldn't be the case. If I lived in that universe I would support such violence for the good cause, but it's still slaughter.

[@Jay-ate-a-bug]

@@AykayENG Using Neo as an example, Human beings are quite capable of overcoming the Mind/Body issue. When you dream of falling your mind tends to wake you up before you hit the ground. The myth is that if you actually dreamt of hitting the ground you would die, but we have no evidence to support the myth. What the Matrix Movie makes quite clear is that "Some rules can be bent, others can be broken." What I was pointing out is that the mind is powerful enough to kill you, but if you could control your mind, no dream or simulation could kill you.

[@AykayENG]

@@Jay-ate-a-bug Using Neo as an example in The Matrix is like using Jesus as an example irl. He is The One, a messianic figure due to how extraordinarily rare a person with his potential is. There is no reason to believe everyone can replicate his abilities, that's just your headcanon from what I remember. IIRC there's also no scene that suggests even Neo can survive an Unplugging, so there is also still the idea that You are In the Matrix. I'd even go further and say imo Neo didn't survive Matrix-death in the first film. He got shot in the body a lot and we see his heart was stopped for less than 2 minutes (both in The Matrix and the real world). That's not long enough for the brain to suffer damage from oxygen deprivation. When he gets up we clearly see from his POV that he has cracked the code of the Matrix. Perhaps he did this with the help of a mental surge from his near death experience (e.g. life flashing before peoples eyes, seeing bright lights etc.). In my headcanon he didn't survive Matrix-death, he just rewrote the code and fixed his body before death occured.

[@AykayENG]

@@Jay-ate-a-bug Sorry for that long post. It's one of the fun things about such films is there is a lot of ways to look at them. DCW is still right to call the lobby scene a slaughter, no matter what. The film tells us to assume the guards all died in the real world. Unless there is a deleted scene of Trinity trying to give all their real world pod-bodies her patented Sleeping Beauty Kiss resurrection technique, they massacred my boys in the guard.

[@safetynerd8976]

I first watched the matrix on a whim when Saturday afternoon plans fell through. I walked into the theater knowing nothing about what was coming my way. You cannot overestimate how mind blowing this move was for a 19 year old mind in 1999. The internet was still new. These concepts existed at the time but it was mostly from a 1960s perspective of “the future”. I have never been able to reproduced the theatrical awe of seeing this move for the first time.

[@matthewvade6553]

Just like Star Wars did for us people a decade or two older than you.

[@bjornh4664]

@@matthewvade6553 I saw Star Wars in 1978 (when it had ambled its way over the pond; release dates were a different thing back then) and The Matrix in 1999, and both movies blew my mind.

[@nickcharles1284]

As understandably awed as you were, the impact of the special effects on the movie going audience by Star Wars in 1977 were far greater.

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

Same, I was 17 when I saw matrix in 99. I know it's a bit of a corny story, but avatar 3d in imax was pretty mind-blowing to me as well. Especially because I can remember the red and blue glasses for 3d in the 80's.

[@trahkrik]

I had such an unplanned Saturday Matinee mind blow one day in England. Went to an early matinee screening of Fight Club. Walked out and couldn't handle the real world. So I walked back in for later matinee showing of Sixth Since. 😳

[@henrym.1981]

"Never has answering a phone been so epic". best line I've ever heard in a reaction video, that had me dying.. 😂

[@Ander01SE]

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[@lalotz]

ok.

[@s0me0ne1se]

@@henrym.1981 Loved it!! Because I’ve always thought the same, I just love that (very) short scene with the background track!!! (Prime Audio Soup is called). I was totally sold at that point in the movie.

[@bp51082]

One of the reasons the fights look so good and the practical effects work so well, among other things, is all of the actors did and unprecedented amount of martial arts training under world renowned experts.

[@MightyDrakeC]

I saw Keanu on the Tonight Show not long after this came out. He talked about all the training he did, and the host said, "So you know kung fu?" And Keanu said, "I know movie kung fu. Not the same thing." 🙂 On top of that, he was injured during training, and was in a back brace for a while. He was there, still training, anyway. Somehow, this movie didn't really grab me the first time I saw it. I appreciated the incredible visuals, but had a little trouble with the verisimilitude. Like George, my first reaction was, "Humans make a terrible energy source." And, as a programmer, the agents not being able to teleport wherever they wanted bugged me. It's a simulation. All they have to do is change six numbers (location and orientation) and they're wherever they want to be. One more number (time) and they can be whenever they want to be. Albeit, the humans would be a problem with jumping around in time. Anyway, it grew on me, after I watched it a coupla more times. And, the visuals do stand up extremely well.

[@coadacatalin4510]

@@MightyDrakeC Agents are still bound by certain rules. If they start teleporting all over the place, someone would see it and call bullshit.

[@MightyDrakeC]

@@coadacatalin4510 Eh. A person morphing into an agent in the middle of a crowd would seem pretty jarring. And they did that during a couple of chase scenes. So, that didn't seem to constrain them much. And, if they didn't want to be seen, they could teleport around a corner. I realize that, from a cinematic perspective, the constraints are necessary, to provide opportunities for drama. But, it is a niggling verisimilitude issue, for me.

[@thikakashi]

When Neo goes to the Oracle, she says he have the gift, but he's not the one. "Maybe in another life" i think it's what she says. In the end, her prophecy comes through, since neo actually dies and Trinity brings him back to life. Another life, but now as The One. This movie and series has some amazing dialogues and hints throughout.

[@P3wP3wPanda]

The full dialogue for that scene is: Oracle: "OK, now I'm supposed to say, 'Hmm, that's interesting, but...' Then you say..." Neo: "But what?" Oracle: "But... You already know what I'm going to tell you." Neo: "I'm not the One." Oracle: "Sorry kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something." Neo: "What?" Oracle: "Your next life, maybe. Who knows? That's the way these things go."

[@fdtori]

@@PorterJustPorter you know in all the years and the times I've seen the movie and watched reactions, this is the first time I heard this one! This is briliant!

[@ded-pihto]

@@PorterJustPorter so Neo is a Browser:)

[@BoothTheGrey]

@@fdtori then you did not discuss very much with other crazy nerds ;) - the idea that the oracle would give Neo "updates" by the cookie or the candy in Reloaded... was a very common idea in discussing sites between Reloaded and Revolutions when thousand over thousand people discussed how the trilogy could end.

[@richardbuckendorf1390]

What's really "gonna bake your noodle" is watching the new movie. I have a sneaking suspicion that suggests that Neo is now part of the Matrix

[@Justice_Hammer]

24:48 Definitely a real stunt. This was shot in Sydney and my older brother watched them filming this out the window of his office at the time

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

My Uncle worked in the AON building where they filmed the rooftop bullet time scene at the time, amazing how many buildings I recognise as an Australian despite not really going to Sydney that much!

[@melissalayton213]

Love seeing Martin Place in this classic film

[@claegason2521]

“You know that road. You know where it ends”

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

​@@melissalayton213I think I recognised the actress with the white rabbit on her shoulder from Heartbreak High. An old Aussie teen drama that we got for awhile in the UK

[@melissalayton213]

@@A-small-amount-of-peas yes! Her name is Ada Nicodemou, and she was in Home & Away as well.

[@TomH2681]

25:00 "I need to show you some old Jackie Chan movies" Yes please. Pretty please.

[@1ListerofSmeg]

Also too: Yes, Please!

[@joits]

Yes, make sure its the old ones from the 80s like Police Story 1 and 2, Wheels on Meals, Project A, Drunken Master 1 and 2, Gorgeous, Armor of God, etc.

[@fxbear]

Also three: Yes yes, please!

[@michaelccozens]

With the proviso that Jackie Chan stunts are not examples of stunts done well; they're examples of Jackie's remarkable skill, luck, and utter disregard for his own well-being. I love Jackie, especially as he's the first guy to say that absolutely no-one should try to do what he does.

[@Baelzar]

Heck yes, check out Armour of God II: Operation Condor (or just Operation Condor in the USA) and please, please don't watch it dubbed.

[@servantofmelian9966]

That "Guns. Lots of guns" scene was very iconic. Actually, it still is.

[@alc4937]

“I need all the guns you have…. No, that’s too many.”

[@mattmcc72]

I love how the reason for killing all the humans in the reception (and they we're all humans) is directly explained in the scene with the woman in the red dress. But unless you we're concentrating on what Morphias said in that scene, and as he points out, not just looking at the woman in the red dress, you miss the reason they had to die. Just another example of how this movie has some of the best writing ever put on screen. It will take another couple of viewings to understand how literally everything the Oracle says plays out. But it's worth the time. :)

[@petercofrancesco9812]

At the end of the movie Neo says he is going to free everyone, but if he unplugged the millions of people in the Matrix they would wake up in the real world but would not be able to survive. The idea that AI would use humans as power source is silly, they would use nuclear power. Of course we wouldn't have this cool movie so I'm ok with it.

[@MrSilentBill]

I'm not completely on board with this. If they can literally get whatever they need from the Construct like Morpheus said, they could have used different equipment to storm the building without killing so many humans. They could have used flashbangs or tear gas or something else; maybe stun guns, tasers or tranq shots. They basically could have done the Terminator in T2, blasting a bunch of gas grenades in there, then running in with superhuman speed and KOing as many guards as possible before switching to lethal weapons. So I see it as willingly giving up a bit of integrity to have an impressive shootout scene, which is still a pretty cool scene.

[@sharkdentures3247]

Yeah, it sort of conveys the tragedy of War & further conveys the Severe tragedy of how THEY have to fight Their war! (Basically, you HAVE to kill some of the innocent, in the HOPES of freeing ALL of them one day) It's sort of like fighting a war against an enemy that hides behinds civilians (as human shields) x1000. (like a thousand times WORSE) Do you let them kill you? Or do you kill the innocent to stop them? Harsh situation they set up in that story.

[@paratus04]

@@petercofrancesco9812 if I recall the studio forced the Wachowskis to change to this plot point. Originally the machines were using humans as processing power but the studio thought people wouldn’t understand it.

[@petercofrancesco9812]

@@paratus04 It's a funny plot point to talk about but it didn't bother me when watching the movie. Many things in movies don't hold up under scrutiny but if it has great story, dialog and acting it doesn't matter. Whether we are batteries or cpus the Matrix is fantastic.

[@CrippledMerc]

I got this on VHS from my aunt for my 9th birthday. I was kinda lucky because neither her nor my parents realized it was rated-r until I opened the gift and my dad read the back of the VHS. Thankfully my parents let me keep it and watched it with me for the first viewing to make sure it wasn’t too inappropriate. It instantly became my favorite movie and I wore the tape out over the following years because I watched it so often. This movie changed the trajectory of my life in ways I can’t imagine because it opened me up to all sorts of new and interesting topics to learn and read about as I grew into my teen years. It began as just a cool action movie that did stuff I had never seen before, but as I got older I started to understand the deeper implications and points that the movie was making. It’s hard to understate just how influential this movie was to me, and many others.

[@indyrevoly3060]

The Matrix was when tiny li'l me first encountered Baudrillard. I will never forget The Matrix for its role in helping me understand context and metaphor by pointing me toward Simulacra and Simulation

[@michaellloyd8325]

Did you have that super cool holographic case that was in a sleeve I swear was the coolest thing I owned as a kid haha

[@CrippledMerc]

@@michaellloyd8325 I did! I totally forgot it was like that foil/holo type finish on it until I read your comment! Man that brings back memories.

[@3dbadboy1]

In the simulation, Neo was just following the rules of the computer program: You exert yourself, you sweat. You feel you need oxygen, you breathe. Morpheus is trying to tell him that he can go past all that.

[@Bi0Dr01d]

Excellent observation. Yes, you understand the analogy... *Now, what does that analogy represent?* :) What is Morpheus trying to tell, *you,* not Neo, *You?...* What is Morpheus trying to tell The Audience?... 👍 Before you answer (rhetorically), assume the answer you're thinking about is incorrect... THEN try to find the answer...

[@Yoctopory]

I went to see this movie as a teenager in 1999 without having any idea what I was getting into. It changed me forever.

[@levvellene7246]

I love Simone's looks when told Keanu is actually a Canadian, and she doesn't know. And also George's restraint to not taunt her too much about it! :P

[@glenmcdonald375]

Simone obviously hasn't seen Toy Story 4. Lol

[@csbruce]

Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) is also Canadian.

[@moreforme74]

His father is American which makes him American. Nationality is determined by your father. But I guess the Canadian members on Wikipedia are trying to claim him.😂

[@glenmcdonald375]

@@moreforme74 as far as I know, Keanu himself has always stated that he is Canadian. If I recall correctly, he grew up in Toronto

[@moreforme74]

@@glenmcdonald375 He doesn't care for his father so I'm not surprised. However where you grew up doesn't determine your nationality. There are many Americans that grew up in Asia but are not considered Asian. In other words he didn't have to wait for a citizen status when he came to the US. He was already an American through his father.

[@seraiharper5553]

The year this movie came out, a critic in Spain referred to the lobby scene (where Neo and Trinity cause all that mayhem) as a "bullet salad". I don't think I've ever heard a metaphor that was simultaneously that incongruous and yet that precise. (In Spanish, it's _una ensalada de balas,_ which I think has a better sound.)

[@dexterdreams8521]

You two have become a favorite of mine for reactions in such a short time. Great quality and awesome personalities.

[@TheAifur]

Agree!

[@AlexanderShackles]

Couldn't agree more.

[@cuzidodgebullets6797]

Absolutely! It was the Alien reaction that got me to watch more. Her disgust for the creature was epic.

[@ZacCostilla]

Every time the characters were in the Matrix, the screen always has a green overtone, a throwback to the old monochrome computer monitors of the ‘70s and ‘80s. When they were in the ship (real life), the color shading was normal.

[@Aeroldoth3]

TRS-80 ftw!

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

Fun fact-this wasn’t included until the home video release and it was done to retroactively give the film consistency with the sequels. But in the original theatrical release the Matrix scenes weren’t green tinged.

[@littleredruri]

@@FlippytheMasterofPie That's wrong. It's just that it wasn't colour grading in the first one. They literally painted sets slightly green, put slightly green makeup on the actors, put clothes through a green wash, and a bunch of other stuff to make everything ever so slightly green, but it was in the first movie with theatrical realeases.

[@NetAndyCz]

There are like three or four versions with different tinting.

[@benjaminsmythe8967]

This film for 15 year old me was one of the most mind-blowing cinematic experiences I've ever and, likely, will ever have.

[@CharlesVanNoland]

Oh man, what a treat. It's amazing how The Matrix aging has created a whole new generation of people who haven't seen it or that don't know what it's about and watching you guys see it for the first time is like re-living watching it for the first time myself. My all time favorite movie!

[@nyceone43]

The Oracle: "Maybe you're waiting for something." Neo: "What?" The Oracle: "Who knows? Your next life maybe."

[@kharilane1340]

I didn't catch that the first time. When I did every thing became clear.

[@Ne7u]

I catch that in the first time I watched, but the Cookies one, I just learned few months ago LOL

[@dracoargentum9783]

Honestly, I'm surprised no reactor has questioned about the Oracle yet...

[@denizakarca0405]

OH SHIT I JUST NOTICED IT THANKS TO YOUR COMMENT

[@StarkRG]

@@Ne7u Cookies one?

[@digitaldroo]

Oh man. This showed up in my feed on December 27, 2023. It was interesting to hear George's take on A.I. at 11:24.

[@Baelzar]

Remember, in 1999 nobody had ever seen anything like this. 22 years later, it's all been absorbed, endlessly copied, referenced, memed....so it's not as amazing now.

[@baronnuuke7821]

The slow-mo thing was so insane, the "bullet time" was incredibly new. I remember a guy at school saying he saw something similar in a new game at the time, Max Payne. Probably was one of the first thing heavily inspired by the Matrix style

[@maurer3d]

Actually a little over a year before this movie was made, there was a movie called Dark City, which heavily influenced The Matrix (especially the sequels). It was the same basic plot but with aliens instead of an AI.

[@eowmob]

Yes, true. But in some make of (the matrix) movie, I heard that some crew member (camera men, art director, fx director.. I forgot) was inspired by a German movie: 'Run, Lola run'. Of course, that one is by no means comparable (I still love it).. however there are some fluent real film/animated cartoon mixings and the 'moving' camera perspective around actors is in there at points too.. which yes, can be seen as a kind of... predecessor of the matrix cinematography. If you are interested in the development of cinematographic technology, you might want to watch it.

[@riveraharper8166]

That is how entertainment business goes. Monkey see monkey do. Everyone was kungfu fighter plus doing slowmo in those days. Look at how Anakin fought Kenobi. We won't get another acrobatic jedi fight again. Even Godzilla was acrobatic in those days. :D

[@EACru2002]

@@riveraharper8166 You can see The Matrix's influence first hand in the Prequel Trilogy, because the first movie, Episode I, came out around the same time, so obviously Lucas hadn't seen it by then, and you can tell. I mean don't get me wrong, the lightsaber battle between Darth Maul and the Jedi is cool as hell. But besides a few jumps and falls here and there, the fighting is pretty grounded (acrobatically speaking). But you watch Episode 2 and the Jedi turn from samurai warriors with heightened senses to, "Oh, we're just doing superhero stuff now?" Like jumping out of moving flying cars onto another one, onto another one. That's totally the Matrix influence, whether it was a conscious decision or subconscious, you know George Lucas saw that movie, realized that he can up the dial and did so. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing necessarily. But it is interesting to note as it's rare to see a movie trilogy change the scale of its action within the trilogy itself.

[@tomcoryell321]

21:53 "That's too many guns!" The most Canadian sentence ever.

[@tru3sk1ll]

LOL

[@rawtrout007]

Canadian Keanu Reeves would have brought 20 bats instead of guns

[@pasaniusventris4113]

when i was in high school, we watched this in my mythology class to go along with our plato's allegory of the cave. it actually fits pretty well!

[@jamesleblanc7437]

I watched this movie opening “night” with my best friend at 4am (there was that much demand back then). I raved so much to my family when I finally woke up the next day that we went to the night showing (dad, brother,cousin). I saw it twice in 24 hours and is one of the fondest cinematic experiences of my life.

[@21nickik]

Love how the programmer is like 'we make shitty batteries'. Exactly, the idiot studio changed 'computers' to battery. The machines were using use as literally neural nets. That makes a lot more sense.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

In the Animatrix, the Machines were supposed to be running on Solar Power until we burned the sky (i.e. _Operation Dark Storm_ ). That means if they were originally solar-powered they didn't have the power reserves needed to buy time and make fueled powerplants. Since the humans lost the war we make the next available alternative.

[@Mugthraka]

yeah but in 99 people where not as tech savvy as we are now. So after some tests, the audience where kinda lost and din't understand what they where going for. Thats why they changed it to "BAtteries" instead of Processing Power, it was easier to understand for people.

[@RustyDust101]

@@Mugthraka Sorry, but that is pretty much completely incorrect. ESPECIALLY in 1999 people realized the limits of processing power, not when compared to today where most kids have no idea what processor is used in their console or phone.

[@mechanomics2649]

@@Ryan_Christopher That has nothing to do with what they said.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

@@mechanomics2649 I was talking to the plot point of how humans were made to become batteries instead of the neural nets as originally written. I’m okay with humans becoming part of the computational backbone needed to run The Matrix, but the Machine World would still have a Power Generation problem in that case. They didn’t have their own powerplants when the war broke out and the vanquished humans certainly weren’t going to built those for them. Have you even seen that part of the Animatrix?

[@jasarwadlow9406]

When the Oracle said Neo wasn't the one, he should've asked her to try a different sql query 🤣

[@cesarvidelac]

I'm glad you are watching this movie 😊 When I watched it in 1999 (I know I'm as old as Elrond) it was a total surprise but got totally hooked about that Eagle kick and the way it was filmed. It has a lot of computing science going on but even veiled Buddhism and neurology. But I watched this movie some years before the Lord of the Rings so to me and my generation, Lord Elrond will always be Agent Smith 😂 Great video, love you guys!

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

Funny because they started filming The Lord of The Rings Trilogy just around the same time The Matrix came out, and they had gone to cast lesser known actors to sell the characters, yet Hugo Weaving became a household name overnight from The Matrix so people were joking about Agent Smith and Elrond!

[@willsofer3679]

@@andrewburgemeister6684 I don't know. Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchet, and Liv Tyler were hardly unknown actors. They were already household names themselves by that point. Sean Astin was probably one of the most famous people in the world in the 80s, and Elijah Wood was one of the most famous people in the 90s. Liv Tyler was on the cover of every magazine back then, though just starting her acting career, and more famous for being the daughter of the lead singer of Aerosmith. Ian McKellan, John Noble, Ian Holm, and John Rhys-Davies were also somewhat well-known at this time, though more so for being stage actors. While I don't think most of them would qualify as "A-List" actors at this point in time, some of them had been before. I do agree that a decent amount of the supporting cast is made up of mostly unknown actors, though.

[@-_James_-]

The slow motion/freeze frame panning shots around a subject was a technique invented in the UK. (By a team at the BBC, I believe.) It's achieved with an array of cameras, each taking a single frame in quick succession and then stitching them together in post.

[@micamojo]

24:47 This was the first movie I worked on, the Team closed off George St in Sydney for the helicopter shots. TBH I don't think they expected to get the OK but it paid off in spades

[@Andrew-wv7qp]

When the helicopter explodes I always think of the line from Die Hard "it's gonna need a paint job and a shitload of screen doors"

[@Christof742]

"Neo has found the console command" 😁 Hilarious!

[@JRSofty]

I remember when the trailers for The Matrix came out in 1999, and me and my army buddies, all of which were avid Role Players and played Shadow Run and other Cyberpunk type games were really excited as we started to think that the movie would be a Cyberpunk world. While not exactly what we thought it would be, we were not disappointed with the film.

[@clayjohanson]

Fun fact: There was a Shadowrun story in which a character named Remy was born “inside” the Matrix - he was literally jacked in before birth and never allowed to experience the real world. This made him the best possible runner, because he never knew the constraints of the real world. It was reported back in the late 90s that this story may have been the kernel around which “The Matrix” was written.

[@VonRichtburg]

The Oracle is peak NPC: *take a cookie to start the quest*. *"cookie" has been added to your inventory*

[@rawtrout007]

It was actually an internet reference on how websites ask you to “accept cookies” and then they track you and know everything you do, just like the oracle

[@alexflores7652]

All throughout the series there great subtle clues to what Matrix is. LIke the rain dripping down the window looks just like the code you see throughout the movie. And if you ever notice there is this weird green hue in the scenes almost like when you use an old Cathode Ray Tube monitor while using a computer. You will see it everywhere.

[@po5283]

Highly recommend watching the Animatrix, which is a collection of animated shorts; each created by different artist and each in it's own animated style. It provides quite a bit of history and backstory for the Matrix itself, it also introduces a couple of characters that will be in the sequels; but most importantly they set up the story and plot of the sequel Reloaded.

[@CharlesH-t9r]

I'd love to see a Paradise and Nightmare matrix live action tv series or movie

[@paulrutherford5087]

Yep highly recommended brilliant animation

[@ArchaosAngel]

"I would not take a pill from a strange guy in an abandoned building" It was the 90's... different standards

[@merchillio]

11:00 “we make terrible batteries!” You’re absolutely right. I think the original script was about the machines using the human brain for its computational power and it was changed due to executive pressure, but I’m not sure.

[@TomVCunningham]

You are correct. The machines in earlier drafts used humans as a neural network instead of fusion batteries.

[@Geth-Who]

Makes far more sense, brains can parallel-process and foreseeable computer tech can't. Certainly not Nineties-foreseeable.

[@sceptrex3942]

Yeah, as a biologist, the whole using people as batteries thing always bugged me. Even kept in an inactive state in those pods, humans would produce far less energy than it would take to keep them alive, so it would be a net loss.

[@Riddler0603]

IIRC the studio at the time was thinking that it would be too hard to understand for the average audience. The character "Switch" also was supposed to be a trans character. Man in the real world, woman in the Matrix. But I'm not sure if it was the studio that blocked this idea, or if it was just removed from the script for other reasons. The whole Matrix itself was also a "trans metaphor" according to the Wachowski's.

[@Cau_No]

We still can claim Morpheus didn't get it right because he didn't know better. They had to figure out a lot by themselves in Zion. So we cannot be sure about what they tell us either. You should watch The Animatrix before the next movies, it explains a lot more and also has short preludes to Reloaded: "Final Flight of the Osiris" and "The Kid". A few of those were published on the WWW at the time the sequels were released.

[@vanpiisu88]

I love that so many are watching Matrix trilogy now

[@Codametal]

Simone is so in love with Keanu Reeves. Her eyes sparkle and heart melts when she talks about him.

[@michaelccozens]

Is anyone not?

[@glenmcdonald375]

AND that was before she knew he was a fellow Canadian! 🍁

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

"I feel like I need to acquire an outfit like that" It's so interesting to see Simone go through what every single teenager in 1999 went through. Trenchcoats, sunglasses, and leather were all over the place at the turn of the millennium because this movie put that thought in everyone's head

[@abedrayton6398]

I love George IMMEDIATELY catching the problem with the "battery" idea. I like the hypothesis that they made the matrix to save humanity after humanity destroyed their ability to grow food by blocking out the sun.

[@RaderizDorret]

As I recall, the original idea was to use human brains for distributed computing, but it was felt that audiences wouldn't buy that angle. Hence the battery schtick.

[@KonradGaska]

Keep in mind that story is presented according to human knowledge about the Matrix and for what machines needs humans for. Not necessary they are right about it. Like at the end of Reactivation Architect reveals that there were multiple incarnations of The One and after each one Matrix was rebooted and code from anomaly assimilated. Then story repeat itself. From my perspective idea behind it is clear - machines needs humans for their own evolution sake, so they can grow and develop as well. "Battery thing" is just what humans believe is true. Of course it is open to interpretation, but there is a lots of spiritual stuff plugged into entire trylogy.

[@hurricanexanax]

Like all speculative fiction, this movie is a commentary on the real world at the time of its release in 1999. The intent was not to portray a believable possible future

[@abedrayton6398]

@@hurricanexanax Sure, but that doesn't mean we can't discuss other parts of it :)

[@KempPlays]

I like how Morpheus says the human farm energy output is supplemented with fusion power. That's like saying they get a 747 up to take-off speed by flicking an elastic band at it, and that's supplemented by the engines on the wings.

[@Jay-ate-a-bug]

The best part of the Matrix films was that they introduced the majority of the world to the concept of the Simulation Hypothesis in an entertaining and fun way.

[@TheCrazyCloon]

And gave all of the QAnon nutters some great words and phrases to steal.

[@Jay-ate-a-bug]

@@TheCrazyCloon There will always be "Nutters" of some kind or another appropriating ideas from the Media. EG look at what happened to V for Vendetta.

[@krannok]

"Humans are batteries? We'd make terrible batteries!" Yeah, that's what most people realise immediately. In the script it was about processing power, they used human brains as a computer network. The executives said that was confusing and insisted on the lame battery thing instead.

[@jamietaylor5570]

Interesting - I always thought using the humans for processing would have made more sense - it also explains why they can't "just unplug" when they're accessing The Matrix from the ship.

[@Asher8328]

And even if we did make good batteries, that still doesn't explain the need for creating a virtual reality for us to live in. You could just as easily keep everyone in a coma and it wouldn't make any difference.

[@grassygnoll3345]

@@jamietaylor5570 It's a sign of how stupid execs think everyone else is. If we don't get it, who possibly could? Is their thinking.

[@michaelccozens]

@@Asher8328 Or, better yet, simply render non-functional all the brain matter that isn't directly connected to keeping the body functioning ASAP. Would you really need much more than the brain-stem? I'm no neurologist. Expanding further on your point, why use humans at all? Use lobotomized elephants; big bodies, lots of energy conversion, very little chance of developing a technological rebellion. Or just grow undifferentiated lab meat and run off that. I think it's a sign of the quality of the Wachowskis's story-telling that we're willing to overlook such discrepancies.

[@TonyDracon]

nah

[@chrishouse5753]

I still remember seeing it in theaters in 1999 and the blown away effect of learning what it was all about. Shame the next two movies in the series couldn't recreate the same.

[@OhThatRobin]

“Humans make terrible batteries” Fun fact: the Wachowski sisters wanted it to be more like that they were using human brains for data processing but the test audiences or the studio or something in the 90’s were like: “what is that? We don’t know what that is...” and the Wachowski’s were like “fine they’re, like, idk... oh batteries. Does that help?” So you’re right and they know this as well ^^

[@TheFloorface]

yeah this is why we cant have nice things, always have to cater to the lowest common denominator.

[@aaronsandman749]

@@TheFloorface We have plenty of nice things. What you meant to say was you LOOK for things to whine and complain about to make yourself feel better, and it is an endless asinine cycle making you even more miserable, distorting your world view and forcing you into thinking EVERYTHING is awful. Must be a sad life.

[@matthewkreps3352]

Nah. HUMANS make terrible batteries by the rules in the Matrix. In the real world they make excellent batteries. You just think they make terrible batteries because you are still plugged in the Matrix.

[@ellaphx]

Aaron Sandman jeez dude chill out...

[@awelch31]

@@aaronsandman749 Lol!! For real. Relax. That escalated quickly

[@Mugthraka]

THE MOVIE that changed the way we do action movies. There is a Before AND an after the Matrix when it comes to action cinema and shooting. Another movie that is inspired by Matrix is Equilibrium with Christian Bale.

[@satortenet]

Remember the Oracle gave him a "cookie"? I sense that was like a "patch, or update". So, Neo needed to reboot, and that's represented as death and resurrection, also appealing to the martyr archetype.

[@Chilipotamus]

It also explains why he could suddenly see the coding of the Matrix and had brand new powers, such as flight. But this begs the question, to what end is the Oracle interfering? Is she as benign as we are lead to believe, or does she have ulterior motives?

[@krannok]

@@Chilipotamus You've obviously not seen the second and third films.

[@datzfatz2368]

@@krannok Or he didnt want to spoil it^^

[@krannok]

@@datzfatz2368 My comment contained no spoilers for the sequels, unless you think that the fact that they exist and answer some questions counts as a spoiler.

[@datzfatz2368]

@@krannok Uh yeah thats Not what i meant. I want referring to your comment, Just Putting my assumption out there that he might play ignorant to not so so. But your Version is equally as likely

[@pgr3290]

The Matrix was an amazing movie to see in the cinema even now, it's one of those films where you can feel the audience getting excited as Neo starts to believe and fight Smith for example. It's simply too cool for school.

[@jjohnson4474]

"You have been down there Neo, you've been down that road. You know exactly where it ends." - One of my favorite lines of all time. Edit. This is one of the best reactions to The Matrix I've ever seen. You hit all the highlights and all the good parts. Fantastic editing.

[@gibosdog78]

11:19 it’s funny he said this 3 years ago and look at where we are now with AI. It’s just starting.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

This is the movie where the "choreography" part of the phrase "fight choreography" really leveled up and got a whole new meaning.

[@ToMPaSHKoV]

Thirsting for Keanu Reeves means you're a good person.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

"Come on! Stop trying to hit me and HIT ME." -- Morpheus "Do, or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

[@theradgegadgie6352]

The Oracle isn't human. She's a programme the Machines created to predict what sort of Matrix environment humans would most readily accept, after their first two tries ended in massive failure. She eventually broke her programming bonds and joined the humans.

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

"I work in AI and it's never going to take over." Are you sure? Look back through history when highly-educated people all stated matter-of-factly, "We'll never go the the moon.", "We'll never actually fly.", "Bathing washes off your natural immunities.", "Everything in the cosmos revolves around the Earth.", "The world is NOT round.", etc., etc., etc.. ;-)

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

Yeah that was a bit of a silly thing to say, go forward 50 years into the future and everything this guy knows about AI will be massively outdated. We look at the past and think 'oh they were so wrong, their ideas are so silly compared to what we know now', but not often do we imagine how we will look when we're the outdated ones in the past.

[@localroger]

"There will never be more than ten computers in the world." --John von Neumann, one of the few people credited with inventing the computer.

[@jayjitsuu]

The arrogance of man will never cease to amaze me lol

[@mrnice81]

Also what we commonly call AI nowadays is far from true intelligence. Its usually elaborate chains of simple scripts, pattern recognition and analyzing algorithms. Its like ants, really simple with a base set of rules, the ant-hive as a hive intelligence is usually what AI is at best now. But thats far from real intelligence. It misses the ability for abstraction, its a mechanism that is yet to be able to be programmed (beyond simple pattern recognition which can be in a sense abstract).

[@LeonardoG1981]

Or when Bill Gates said that no one was ever going to need more than 1024 MB of memory space on their computer/devices.

[@azimhulaimi]

I can't tell you how many back aches I had when I was young, trying to mimic the slowmo bullet dodging movement! 😂😂 One of the best sci fi movies, game changing for sure!

[@iKvetch558]

Ha...when George talked about AI, for just a split second, he looked just like Miles Dyson. 😏😋😉

[@Sovreign071]

Initially, humans were essentially going to be RAM for the Matrix. That's what Neo's job was as Thomas Anderson. It's also how awakened people are able to change the Matrix; they're PART of it! Executive meddling dumbed it down to batteries so "regular people" could understand it.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

The Matrix is one of the best things in cinema history.

[@philproffitt8363]

It's epic sci-fi. With, as you see in the Animatrix, beginnings akin to the movie 'I Robot'...I see this as a parallel alternative to The Terminator story. More plausible I guess because not resorting to time travel...well just forward/ normal speed.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

@@philproffitt8363 Super Entertaining

[@philproffitt8363]

@@coreyhendricks9490 Another movie I liked, which my girlfriend said was "like The Matrix without the wires", was 'Equilibrium'. Cool and understated.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

@@philproffitt8363 Nice

[@28-r8b]

the first matrix film is literally a work of art

[@redjakOfficial]

Yuen Woo Ping, one of the best Honk Kong choreographer at the time, did all the fight scenes. Hence the "stylised" flare to them. I didn't check, but he probably worked with Jackie Chan at some point.

[@steveprice33]

God, this movie was THE SHIT back in the day. Between this and the Kill Bill movies, it was the defining film of my middle and high school years. We were into this RELIGIOUSLY, so epic.

[@Chris-eh8mi]

"I work and develop AI and... yeah, they're not going to take over." There is a vast difference between training neural networks for visual discrimination and other narrow AI applications and AGI. One can be done by anyone with a bit of coding experience and the other... well, most of the people doing significant work have multiple PhDs (normally maths is one), a genius level intellect, a lifelong commitment to the field, and a deep interest in the nature of the mind. You'd be surprised how much ground has been made on the problem of AGI in the past decade. Look into Joscha Bach as a good example. Anyway, I'm not saying that AGIs are going to take over for sure, but it's a very real scenario that very serious people are considering as part of their research and development. We are literally playing god and creating a mind. A mind that is smarter than us. Which means it will be able to build AGI better than us, enabling a recursion loop of self-improvement. We cede control to it when we make it.

[@lovelovelove5744]

Give it time

[@_BangDroid_]

I thought that was such a flippant narrow minded remark. The AI in the movie would be the equivalent of whatever bleeding edge top secret agencies have now, projected hundreds of years in the future, with almost zero economic or political constraints. And just look today at our smart devices, we don't really own them, we can't execute what ever instructions we like. Corporations control how and what we do with them. They control the digital extensions of our minds. In a way, the enslavement has already begun.

[@bazzakrak]

And now in 2024, I wonder if he still feels the same :)

[@thelokiway4478]

When I saw this in the cinema I watched it in and I remember walking out of the theater just joking with my friend saying, "Whoa, is this real?!?". This movie seriously changed movies, I still compare other I see in the theater, especially new concepts, to The Matrix. And there is a Matrix 4 coming out this year, so it is definitely required to see the original Matrix movies before seeing that one. Great reaction channel you two have got here!

[@zerefcifer]

And you still don't get the metaphors. :) The agent was talking about how humans reject a perfect world, and your comment was like, "What, a '99 world?" ... :)

[@reflectionist]

I'm very impressed at how on top of this plot you are! When I was younger, this movie was always one of the movies you had to watch two or three times before youcould understand what was going on, but you guys were picking up on things before the movie even got TO it. That's crazy.

[@sabalos]

Love the condescending chuckle at the idea of 1999 being 'the peak of human civilisation'. Do you think the world has been on an upward trajectory for the last 20 years?

[@gregwillson7952]

Depends on what sort of person you are

[@joits]

The movie was released in 1999, but the movie doesn't specifically say its set in 1999.

[@michaelccozens]

@@joits Not that year specifically, but definitely in that era. The movie does specifically say that it's closer to 2199 but nobody actually knows the year, but I get that we're discussing the setting of the Matrix itself, not the outside world.

[@michaelccozens]

@@gregwillson7952 Well, if you're the sort that's at all connected to reality, there's really only one answer. I don't like to be a pessimist, but I'm not getting a lot else to work with these days. For example, we just found out that the Chair of the Joint Chiefs committed treason to avoid a potential nuclear war with China in the lame-duck days of 45, and while that's great, the fact that there's now a precedent for the American military to usurp civilian control of its forces is very much not. Historically, the ringing of that particular bell means democracy's already dead, and just hasn't realized it yet. I could go on, more or less indefinitely. Things aren't super.

[@zeke4994]

@@michaelccozens And even more interesting, we find out later that its the 6th version of the Matrix, and Zion has been "reset" each time. So it's actually closer to 2699 rather than 2199 :D

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

When I saw this in the theater, I had no idea what it was about. When I saw Trinity, looking so pale in that skintight catsuit, effortlessly take out four cops, even running on the wall, I thought it was a vampire flick like Underworld. 180° wrong! 😲

[@kevinwilson140]

People would make terrible batteries, in the original version the people were processors. But it was the nineties and people didn't understand how computers worked and wouldn't recognize a computer processor, but a Duracell batteries that's relatable.

[@stefanforrer2573]

and yet, people today know even less about how a computer works.....

[@michaelccozens]

They would have recognized it fine. This is 1999 we're talking about; everybody knew what a processor was, even if only in concept. Hell, a processor was a central plot-point in T2, and nobody seemed to have any confusion about that.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@michaelccozens I suspect this was a case of an uneducated or uninformed studio executive not understanding, and so assuming that _everyone_ would not understand.

[@krannok]

How long ago do you think the 90s was? Or when do you think the computer was invented? Kids learned about computers in school in the 60s. In 1999 we watched this film and had exactly the same reaction as George; "Batteries? That's stupid."

[@sntxrrr]

This was the first Hollywood movie where normal American actors were trained by some of the best people from the Hong Kong kung fu movie scene. It helped reshape how fights were done in Hollywood which eventually lead to movies like John Wick. The Wachowski's were big fans of Hong Kong kung fu and action flicks and Japanese anime. The action choreography in the Matrix was done by Woo-Ping Yuen who also worked on the fight scenes in classics as 'Fist of Legend', 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and 'Ip Man' 3 & 4.

[@tbirdguy1]

"They aren't going to take over..." Famous last words of every scientist ever. I don't know if AI will ever truly be a threat or friend, but we do know that at the pace of thier development, truly thinking machines are not too far off. What happens after that is truly anyone's guess.

[@Justice_Hammer]

The impetuousness of youth...

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

Once an AI is created that is the equal of a human, they can take over their own development and create a new AI more advanced than themselves, then that AI can do the same thing, then that AI, etc. Lets just hope they have empathy. If you've read the Culture novels by Iain M Banks, that's the future of humanity that honestly makes the most sense to me.

[@mrnice81]

Also what we commonly call AI nowadays is far from true intelligence. Its usually elaborate chains of simple scripts, pattern recognition and analyzing algorithms. Its like ants, really simple with a base set of rules, the ant-hive as a hive intelligence is usually what AI is at best now. But thats far from real intelligence. It misses the ability for abstraction, its a mechanism that is yet to be able to be programmed (beyond simple pattern recognition which can be in a sense abstract).

[@Noycey64]

Stephen Hawking said it will happen eventually.

[@joshuashelton6355]

The original script was human were used to create the network. One of the directors changed it to battery because they didn't think the audience would understand the network idea.

[@gabyy21laverde]

This movie is so amazing! Lana and Lilly literally created new tech to record the movie. Is one of my favourite movies and to this day I find new things whenever I watch it again 😂 great reaction!

[@StudioMod]

Just had to point out their delusional cross dressing fate. It shows their loss of intelligence which would also explain why the sequels are terribad. They're just out of their damned minds lmao. The New Matrix was absolutely absurdly bad.

[@MainlyHuman]

@@StudioMod the first Matrix film has a very strong message about identity and not letting the system tell you who you are. If you think you can insult other people for having the courage to live their authentic lives then you either missed the point of the movie entirely or lack the awareness to see where you fall in relation to its symbolism. It is agent Smith who deadnames Neo until the end, if you find yourself parroting his lines then you are a part of the system, not the solution. Trans women are women. I hope that you will be more respectful in the future.

[@AndresPrez]

@@MainlyHuman Relax....... they can do whatever they want. But they're not real women. We can accommodate. But let's not live in mass delusion. (YK.... like in the matrix)

[@MainlyHuman]

@@AndresPrez I love it when people tell me to call down while the point of my previous comment goes sailing right over their head, don't you? The matrix is a trans narrative, I don't think that's up for debate. Using it to try to make an anti-trans point doesn't make sense.

[@AndresPrez]

@@MainlyHuman Reality is reality regardless of your perception. That's the idea of the matrix.... there is a reality and there is a false reality. The filmmakers have their perception of reality.....(which is false. They chose the delusion in real life) That doesn't mean you can't accommodate.... but that doesn't mean you have to believe something false either. Calm down.

[@johnwinter9399]

watching this on dvd in 1999 was like living in the future, having a menu and being able to skip to any scene instantly was like magic, such a massive jump from vhs

[@brucefale6132]

What I find hilarious about reactors is they always ask questions that they will eventually get the answers to. I mean movies pretty much explain themselves in the end....it's what they do.

[@richardsteiner8992]

Just don''t react to Lost. LOLOL

[@helloasa9296]

When you watch movies. You don't think? Turn off your brain completely? For example. In Lord of the Rings. When we first time Strider (Aragorn). I questioned in my mind. Is He friend or foe? I know the movie will explain it. But still, i thought about it. You never felt that way before the movie revealed stuff?

[@DementedDistraction]

Saw this movie in the theater when I was 16, and it's one that I will always remember how I felt seeing it in the theater - definitely an iconic movie for me. Though pertaining to Smith's speech and 1999 being the peak of human society, honestly...given the state of society today, I'll take 1999 anytime, lol.

[@ginkamikaze2]

My dude, you're saying A.I. could never rule us, but you forget that 50 years ago computers were the size of a room and they could only do VERY BASIC processing, now they are in your pocket and the processing power would boggle the mind in the 70s... those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...

[@wild_lee_coyote]

Interesting Keanu fact, he had neck surgery to fuse two vertebrae in his neck while doing the 4 months of Kung Fu training. He was cleared just as filming started. All of the fighting scenes were filmed with the actors and not stuntmen. It massively raised the bar for action movies and special effects.

[@vascobroma8907]

The story is deeply philosophical, and plays with some questions of ethics. In the lobby shootout scene, those guards are real people plugged into the Matrix (unknowingly). From their perspective, they're just doing their job trying to stop two terrorists from breaking into the building. The building has some sort of significance in the Matrix (hence it being guarded by the military) unrelated to what the agents are doing. The agents just chose it as a location for holding Morpheus so they could take advantage of the security. Unfortunately, Neo and Trinity have to treat the guards as enemies. They don't have the time, and it's too risky, to try to free everyone they come across (remember what Morpheus told Neo about not freeing minds once they reach a certain age - imagine if a bunch of people were ripped out of this dream world unwillingly and found themselves in a reality they couldn't cope with... they'd retaliate with violence), and since the agents can move from one host to another plugged into the Matrix, "everyone still plugged in is potentially an agent" - Morpheus. They're unfortunate casualties of war. So are Neo and Trinity heroes or anti-heroes? Are the agents really the good guys? It all depends on your perspective on the war being fought. The human race is enslaved. But, they're enslaved unknowingly. What's more ethical? Freedom at whatever cost? Or the bliss of ignorance, even if means your whole life is a lie?

[@benjaminroe311ify]

Awesome 👌

[@Sgt-Gravy]

Incredible! You both were asking amazing questions & were guessing what happens next! Great review!

[@Pandaemoni]

I like the part where Neo accepts cookies from Oracle. Also, he did need to die because as the guy at the start of the movie said that Neo is the "Savior"...and "my own personal Jesus Christ." There are a lot of references to Jesus in this film if you look for them.

[@DementisXYZ]

I'm so glad I found this channel. I do hope you guys get to the other 3 movies eventually.

[@Anubis7169]

I saw this movie the year it came out when I was 8. It was, and still is, one of the best and most badass movies ever made.

[@chrisbovington9607]

More than two decades after seeing this movie for the first time, it is hard to remember just how many questions we all had to ask, how many conversations it took to figure it all out, and how many dead ends we had to explore just so we could discard them. The world created through this film was like a giant pyramid of related concepts, and so many of them were either new or framed in a new way. We had to gradually untangle it all just to get a handle on which parts were foundational and which dependent. Books were written on this! So it was fun to watch you start that journey and it reminded me. Thanks for that. I strongly recommend looking deeper into the first movie before watching the sequels.

[@IndieFilmmaker82]

George saying A.I. isn't going to take over... A year later and A.I. is a whole lot scarier 😂

[@TimoRutanen]

100 years ago we didn't even have computers. Who knows what we will have in only 100 years from now.

[@falxonPSN]

​@@TimoRutanen I mean, it's funny, but we will never have true "hard AI" in our lifetimes, and likely never at all. All the machine learning stuff that you see today is just a statistical model, nothing more. We're not even in the infancy of computers being able to do a single independent action.

[@TimoRutanen]

@@falxonPSN I agree with you that we're not close, but you shouldn't say never. If you brought a person from 500 years ago to the present day, he'd think we're all practically wizards here.

[@falxonPSN]

@@TimoRutanen true, but when it comes to replicating true concsiousness, which we don't even understand yet, I stand by what I said. There are some strong indications that quantum phenomena are at play, which if true, would mean replicating actual thinking processes would be at least a hundred years out, even assuming quadratic technology growth.

[@TimoRutanen]

@@falxonPSN Well, like you said we don't know yet. Shouldn't assume we'll never find out, though. Science moves rather quickly sometimes.

[@jamesaitchison9478]

Guys, you've no idea the impact this movie had in 1999, it was AMAZING!! I'm so glad i got to live through that era as a young adult, the advertising was impeccable. What is the Matrix? It captured peoples curiosity instantly, and the trailer sealed the deal. It boggles my mind that people still haven't saw The Matrix just because of the sheer impact it made on society as a whole. For about 5 years after it's release every movie ever referenced The Matrix, it was crazy. Great video 👍

[@Ostsol]

Laurence Fishburne was amazing in this. The very epitome of cool.

[@anathardayaldar]

I remember the 'making of' To get those "bullet time" shots is the ringed the entire stage with dozens of cameras and synched them to take the pic simultaneously.

[@noraa1991]

If you want a somewhat "prequel" watch "the animatrix" it's actually a good film and underrated imo

[@BKPrice]

"Oh, hey, Elrond." The exact reverse of our first experience watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[@doktor_ghul]

So...now, are you two going to do the next two MATRIX films in a weekend, so poor Simone can be absolutely blown away and confused at the same time?

[@ronniestanley75]

My wife and I saw this on the big screen and it was epic! Even the end when Neo flies up and Rage Against the Machine kicks in!! Holy crap that was Great!

[@superknibs]

This really is one of those generational "before and after" movies, that changed the DNA of special effects for the whole industry. And that's not to take away from the outstanding story and ideas presented. I personally saw this movie 4 times in theatres when it came out. Anytime a friend mentioned they hadn't seen it yet, it was another excuse to watch it again.

[@Tijuanabill]

They used some pretty cool still cameras to film those pause and spin scenes. They would like up like 100 cameras set to go off in a sequence.

[@sammybrown4680]

That AI comment he made. Yeah about that 😂

[@ryanroff3976]

I have to say it’s refreshing to see people say “That’s Elrond!” while watching The Matrix instead of seeing people say “That’s Agent Smith!” while watching TLOTR.