Why the Matrix Sequels Are Good

[@Rekaert]

Personally I thought the Architect scene was amazing. Where so many movies patronise the audience and dumb scenes down, the Matrix didn't. That's a compliment.

[@jkrenee]

That is because you have a brain and aren't afraid to use it. Stay smart my friend.

[@MugenTJ]

Rekaert - I love that scene. My one issue was he spoke too fast. Plus Zion was not portrayed well. Not really worth saving in my opinion the way it was.

[@995109]

Great Video but i think the host missed a big part. 14:49 . The existence of Zion offers four main benefits to the machines; It acts as a "safety valve" for the Matrix, collecting malcontents in one place. It acts as a supply of humans in the event of the "cataclysmic system crash" described by the Architect. It helps the machines to hone their defences against the sort of innovative attacks seen in "Matriculated". The One needs to have lived in Zion for several years in order to develop the "profound attachment to the rest of [his] species" that will guide his future actions after the Matrix is rebooted.

[@freighttrain7143]

@@MugenTJ 100%. I left the movie the first time, just confused. I've since figured out so much more about these movies than my friends(my friends still think Neo is a human hero, basically think he is who we thought he was after the first movie), but I finally figured it out. And I'm pretty sharp. But the delivery of the story by the Architect was bad. Bad, bad delivery. It should have been more obvious to them that this was going to be a pretty big and complicated twist, and needed to be delivered a bit more clearly, I think. Thankfully I stuck with it and saw it a couple more times, starting to understand. Because now I really like the Trilogy better than the first movie.

[@aaronwalderslade]

For me, it was the most exciting scene in all the films.

[@uddaside]

I always thought of the 3 movies as needing each other, regardless of which are better. They're all needed to complete this amazing story.

[@chrischris308]

Thats the point. And thats what People dont understand.

[@MrParkerman6]

No. The sequels sucked and didn't need to be told.

[@uddaside]

@@MrParkerman6 You suck

[@MrEvol94]

The first one was great as a stand alone movie. The sequels weren't downright bad, but they were very disappointing

[@faun_fatale]

Thank you

[@aaronwalderslade]

The first movie was about the triumph of free will over destiny. The second movie was putting forward the idea of determinism: the idea that even what we experience as free will is not really free. The third movie cleverly lures us into trying to apply both viewpoints, thus demonstrating that both free will AND determinism are simply perspectives that we project onto our experiences.

[@petegaslondon]

Yeah but they still suck (giggle..) Maybe as i don't buy proposition 2 and 3 ? Ok, I'll give them another chance sometime - but not today ;)

[@pheresy1367]

I would clarify your point about the third movie.... as that... there is determinism, and also free will. What mostly passes as free will is actually determinism cleverly disguised as free will. It is when "one" can see through that delusion, then one can truly choose. When "one" sees the nature of the game, then "one" can choose NOT to play...or.... continue playing always knowing it's a game.

[@aaronwalderslade]

Yes, exactly. "Neo" being an anagram of "One" is really telling us that we can choose how we see the world. The whole trilogy is about choosing how you see the world. Entering or leaving the matrix is always a choice in the movie, and usually a pivotal one. It's on the basis of that choice that your reality unfolds. On the crudest level, decisions made outside of the matrix are assumed to be freely made, whereas decisions made in the matrix are predicted by the Architect and/or the Oracle Determinism is much more than the idea that someone else has created your world. That is almost irrelevant really. The idea of determinism is much more clearly demonstrated by the conversation with the Architect, where all Neo's possible responses are shown, not just to us, but to him, on the screens behind him. The Architect chooses not to believe in free will. He's fascinated by it, as his fascination over Neo's "choose a door" decision demonstrates. Looking at the screens we can see that the architect is prepared for almost any response. The very fact that Neo has no third choice already shows that the Architect is toying with him, fascinated by Neo's belief in free will. Just because Neo achieves both goals does not prove that the Architect did not design it that way. All that results in is Trinity being saved, which is neither here nor there from the Architect's point of view. He just wants to see defiance in action, for reasons we don't know. Otherwise he would not have offered Neo a choice. Of course if you go into any drama heavily armed with a grand theory rooted in fundamental questions, you will find evidence of what you set out to find. However, I think The Matrix openly confronts this question enough times to justify it as an overarching theme of the whole story. But the theme of free will and choice almost does away with the Architect himself, if you choose the free will option. He then appears as a passive observer. But if you choose determinism as your lens, you can see him as having absolute power. Seeing the architect as an agent (in the sense of "one who acts in the process") or not, can completely change the reading of the whole thing. Just as an interesting side note: "agency" is another word for "free will", and an agent is one who has the power to act.

[@ginsan8198]

What do you mean by projecting?

[@harmonicpsyche8313]

Yaaaaay compatibilism!

[@Realsteppah97]

if the ‘why do you persist?’ scene from revolutions doesn’t give you goosebumps you have no soul

[@oopartsw911]

Maxton Pomazak I love that scene so much, I downloaded it as an mp3 and listen to it daily. It’s perfect

[@peaknonsense2041]

"Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth?! Perhaps peace?! Could it be for love?! Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception! Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love! You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson! You must know it by now! You can't win! It's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson?! Why?! WHY DO YOU PERSIST?!" "Because I choose too" Goose bumps every time

[@tayw9602]

I guess this is what Travis Scott meant when he had goosebumps every time. 🙃 Ngl I cry every time I watch that scene . In my head I’m thinking “Pls Neo get tf up!! Don’t let him Control you!” 😢

[@Endeva09]

13:50 The kid is called Popper. The story behind him is that while still plugged into the Matrix he was aware that something was not right and theorised that the world around him was not "real" or at least that something was heavily amiss. He often had a reoccurring dream in which a ship called the Nebuchadnezzar and someone called Neo were coming to 'save him'. One day the actual Neo discovers Popper in the Matrix, and recognises he is incredibly aware that his perceived reality was fake. Neo decides to rescue Popper by finding him and explaining what the Matrix is, then giving him the option of the pills so he can save him. On the mission to rescue Popper agents become aware of Neos location and realise Popper is the target, this results in Popper getting cornered on a roof and being forced to jump, committing suicide. Popper however does not die, instead his body disconnects from the matrix abruptly as at that point in time, while falling, his mind realised the truth, that it wasn't real, and the matrix rejects him assuming that he is dead causing him to wake up in his battery tank and get ejected into the waste pool. The Nebuchadnezzar then saves him from drowning and takes him to Zion. While I very much hate the "Neo, I believe" line from Popper at the end of Revolutions when he shoots the gate, the lore behind the character is actually really cool. "I didn't save you kid, you saved yourself" ~ Neo, The Matrix Reloaded.

[@Skullkan6]

tl;dr he's proof that people can escape the matrix at will without a support system, so there is hope for the rest of people.

[@billyhenley4062]

I fully enjoyed your presentation it's all on point to what I got . the depp of these movies is remarkable on all levels of consciousness, waiting on more .see you at the movies!!

[@HollerMeshocks]

Awesome summery of Poppers story!

[@wattsnottaken1]

I have the Animatrix on dvd but I’ve eleven watched it. I heard it’s good

[@marianpyter5948]

well I dont care what his name and story is. If you only watch main movies he truly is an annoying character

[@Chazwozel1]

Trinity's kiss IS responsible for his resurrection ! When she kissed him, Neo literally felt her lips touch his on the ship and come to full understanding that he's still on the ship and isn't really dead.

[@annon123]

u dumb fuck lol

[@Chazwozel1]

Is this what your life has come to? Kinda sad really. I feel bad for you, bud.

[@annon123]

how the fuck can u think the kiss did it? neo IS THE ONE, trinity could of done nothing and he would of woken up. The scene was just reflecting that trinity was destined to LOVE the one u silly LOW IQ FOOL

[@Chazwozel1]

Because the Wachowski brothers said that's what did it during an interview. You call me low IQ and yet you're too stupid to realize the entire point behind why the scene exists. When Neo gets "killed" in the Matrix, his body is still around, and consciousness presumably hasn't departed yet. Trinity confesses that she was destined to fall in love with the One, and she loves Neo, so he couldn't be dead. This resonates with the consciousness that is still there, and he cognitively realizes and dissociates himself with the concept of death being tied to the Matrix, and is "reborn" in the Matrix with her lips touching his in real life. This fulfills all parts of the prophecy, Neo is on his "next life", Trinity is in love with him, and Matrix go boom. There's also an earlier scene (as someone in the comments points out), where Smith makes him bleed from the mouth in the subway during their fight. Trinity wipes it off in real life, and then Neo wipes it without a trace to be seen in the Matrix. It further illustrates the dissociation of his consciousness from the Matrix.

[@annon123]

dude what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone reading your comment is now dumber for having read it. You are a sad dumb person, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[@axzxxzxa8613]

1:38 that scene where Neo is holding on to the helicopters harness was not only a test of faith for him and Trinity, but also a metaphor for their connection and fate. Keep in mind that Trinity shot the harness not to save Neo from getting dragged down by the helicopter, but instead she did it knowing that Neo was going to be there holding it and saving her life. Likewise, Neo also wasn't trying to save a helicopter from falling, he was saving Trinity. Trinity often talks hints at what the Oracles tells her about Neo, of the the things we know for sure was that she would fall in love with the One. One of the things that the Oracle told her was that she would be saved by the One. This is why Morpheus walks up to her an says "Do you believe it now Trinity?" referring to what the Oracle. Then in the subway scene before Trinity leaves the matrix, she confesses to Neo that everything the Oracle told her has come true, everything except one thing, referring to Neo's death.

[@There-is.no-spoon]

You sir are correct.

[@Chazwozel1]

The Oracle was absolutely right that "one of them has to die" @ 7:50. Neo DOES DIE! He comes back to life as the One. This is further reinforced by the Oracle stating that he's waiting for something - another life perhaps. He literally starts another life.

[@asad5067]

ok but everything the oracle says about neo or morpheus or trinity dying comes true in the third movie.

[@jkrenee]

I came here to say this exact thing.

[@imblacksoimslow5731]

Chazwozel1 the oracle is a program too and neo is not the one. His only the one in his own mind!...the architect is all so a program... THE ALFA AND THE OMEGA ARE LIES!!!...THERE IS NO SPOON NO WAR LIFE AND DEATH IS JUST CONCEPT!!!!!!!!.....THE MACHINES IS US!!!!

[@DeathBringer769]

Exactly. That was the obvious context of the scene at the time (before the other two movies were written or planned out.)

[@spankygray]

I also noticed that the first time I saw the film. Neo dies and becomes the One. I saw Trinity's kiss as poetic and also confirming her love for him - which confirms that Neo is the One, not that her kiss resurrected him. I could be wrong.

[@forevercomputing]

The kid broke out of the Matrix himself with sheer willpower, the kid thanks Neo, but Neo says he saved himself. So, Neo is correct. Watch The Animatrix. Seriously

[@rambam791]

He's the skater kid, right? From, what I believe to be the first part of Animatrix

[@nemlolrawrlawl2350]

@@rambam791 he is the skater. Tries to get away from the agents with it.

[@vocalthought4474]

Neo not absolutely right. Neo gave the kid something to believe in, which is what saved him, which goes back to the first movie. Neo became the one, when he started believing in himself, and remembered from a kiss that others believe in him as well.

[@Dojocartwheel]

Yes he is the skater kid. Animatrix is the best movie of all of them

[@MegazoneMusic23]

With all thats said and done, I saw the Animatrix when they had it on line before the DVD release. After the last 2 Matrix Movies, I never thought the kid was OVERLY annoying, hes just star struck and doing what any teen would. Hes a Fan-boy of NEO who helped guide him. He gave the kid hope, he gave the kid something to believe in. So his overzealous-ness, and admiration is expected.

[@Shaggy_matt]

I actually loved all 3 movies, and I specifically loved how the first movie looks at the matrix as a place, the second looks at it like a programme hence back doors constructs and rogue programs and the 3rd is the physical computer running it

[@Oleander410]

I was 15 when the second movie came out, and I quickly realized that I was the only one of my friends who loved the movie, and I was also the only one who understood what the Architect had said. Got pretty disappointed in who I was hanging out with when none of them even bothered to pay attention to a conversation that the entire movie had been building toward. Even still, I have a hard time finding people who hate the movies, who can also explain their plots.

[@erinbailey8792]

I was 15 also and i also understood that dialogue. I was in love with first movie since 12, i knew every line (i still do lol) and was so regretted, that i hadn't a chance to see it in theatre. And then i liked the 2d movie, but never loved it, never loved the whole idea and just hated 3d like everybody else. Now i realise that 2d movie was even worser, that i thought and it was completely unnecessary. But i still like it for visuality and some exciting scenes.

[@WesleyAPEX]

I love all 3!!!

[@aydinmoganlue8924]

I love all 3 too man.

[@fadams32]

Same

[@saptieujobe9293]

So do I but my favourite Matrix film is Reloaded

[@jfsps15]

And Animatrix

[@abigailslade3824]

Me too

[@995109]

Great Video but i think the host missed a big part. 14:49 . The existence of Zion offers four main benefits to the machines; It acts as a "safety valve" for the Matrix, collecting malcontents in one place. It acts as a supply of humans in the event of the "cataclysmic system crash" described by the Architect. It helps the machines to hone their defences against the sort of innovative attacks seen in "Matriculated". The One needs to have lived in Zion for several years in order to develop the "profound attachment to the rest of [his] species" that will guide his future actions after the Matrix is rebooted........................

[@pheresy1367]

The way you lay it out here got me thinking. I imagine a link to Norse Mythology where there are mortal humans (residents of the Matrix), along with the Gods and Heroes who reside in Asgard and Valhalla (which represent the people of Zion). The Gods rescue heroes from the battlefield (after they are killed) and bring them to Valhalla, so they can assist the Gods in the final hopeless showdown of Ragnarok. This is where the Great Dragon has successfully gnawed through the tree of life, the wrathful Giants rise up, the Fenris Wolf rampages in a cataclysmic war, killing most of the Gods, Heros and mortals, crashing the Tree of Life into the underworld, only to later on regenerate anew. Over and over again..... Beginning??? No one can know when that was..

[@EsteemedBeansTV]

@@pheresy1367 agreed, they are the story of story of story. stay vigilant against the forces that come.

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

The part where Tank says “I knew it he is the one!” He’s not talking about him picking up Trinity it’s him saving Morpheus and the mission being a success

[@ROCKSTAR3291]

Reloaded is still unmatched when it comes to stylish action

[@stevenbaxter9099]

Yeah I actually quite like the second one but revolutions bores me

[@wouldyoukindly5761]

7:47 "One of you is going to die. Which one will be up to you." "This doesn't happen" Actually it does. Neo was killed by Agent Smith and then was resurrected.

[@rupeshpawar5194]

WouldYouKindly yes ...also the oracle told neo tht " you had the gift but it seems tht you are waiting for something!!!" "What ?" .."your rebirth ...who knows ??".

[@JamesBedford]

"Your next life" haha yea! Also The Oracle knows Morpheus is *totally* part of her plan because of his blind faith (same with Captain Niobie and the Councillors). I love the mix of religion and AI in these movies.

[@nismonolo]

WouldYouKindly because it was a bluff. I don't think it had anything to do with the third movie. She only told him that so he would save Morpheus. Like she said "Without Morpheus, we would be lost" & said that so he would learn the selflessness to sacrifice his own life & realize his potential as "The One"

[@CallumBradbury]

He died in the first movie

[@3iHard]

Yeah, she pushed him. To be one with the smith, for black and white force to be merged

[@zeon_zaku]

I have always thought that the Matrix was the Machines' form of mercy rather than malicious control, considering that they tried to make it a paradise the first time around.

[@DeathBringer769]

Maybe. I always just viewed it at the machines coldly looking at the best, most optimal, most efficient way of control, regardless of whether that happened to be paradise, hell, or somewhere in the middle. I think they just figured making all humans happy would make them easy to control at first, until they tried it and realized it wasn't going to work. Then they proceeded to try other options until we got the version of the Matrix we're familiar with.

[@doctorsmiles2209]

@@keyserjosaid321 Exactly. AI can learn, but it's still, in the end, a purely logical construct. It will choose to do what it finds to be most logical.

[@Ghost7065]

@@doctorsmiles2209 which can be bad or good based on the fact that from the film learning, the machines are a learning system that cannot distinguish from good or bad. if you never teach a kid what bad is and they grow up to be a killer (hypothetically talking) and to them (hypothetically) kILLING another person let's say so that others have more resources can be perceived as good (even though he just took a life with no remorse). The human mind is complex and unlike machines can fell and empythis with others. the machines are simply cold calculating machines that learned to copy human behavior so they believe they are as real or more real then humanity itself but never learned what it actually is to be human. for all intensive purposes they are monsters. with that said the film is more then that philosophy of the mind, it is based of gnosticism. if you want the true meaning behind the original matrix look it up.

[@sheli5483]

How about the machines' prime directive is to preserve humanity. Control was the most efficient way they came up with.

[@MortyKaiShalom]

@@keyserjosaid321 I think most people miss it, because that story is better told in the AniMatrix. We see how things started. In the movie, Morpheous even says "we don't know who fired the first shot".. and all we see of the machines, in the The Matrix (i.e., the first movie, before what we later see in the sequels) is that the machines are hunting humans who have disconnected from the system. Add to the fact, many of us are raised on the predication of good and evil, because it makes actions in the world much easier for a child to understand. Many people still tend to view the world in such a way, even as adults. So, in a movie, if it's "Humanity vs. X", we almost always err on the side of humanity, as it's simple, 2-dimensional, thinking that many of us are guilty of.

[@datboi_gee]

I loooove the entire trilogy. You'd brought up a point about the original around 2:00 into the video, about the helicopter moment and the preceding reactions from the characters. I think it makes perfect sense. Neo grabs the rope instinctively because it would be the ONLY way to save Trinity in the event that she grabs the rope. Trinity could either die on impact, jump to her death, or grab the rope that's still attached to Neo on the rooftop. It's her only move. As for the reactions -- they weren't reacting to saving Trinity. They were reacting to saving Morpheus and the whole operation. What they'd done was thought to be impossible. Morpheus thought nobody would come for him. They were supposed to pull the plug on him. And here they are -- free from the agents. It's the most evidence they've had up to this point in the film about Neo being the one. Additionally the miracle bit with Cypher falls in line with the rest of the plot points regarding fate consistent in all of the films. The films show time and time again that the path they walk is predetermined and that things will be as they should for there isn't an alternative. Cypher being stopped by a miracle is simply the most in-your-face display of this point.

[@sarkrex3212]

You haven't seen the Animatrix?! *gasp!* The Second Renaissance parts I & II give a compelling history of the war. It's a must-see for fans of the movies!

[@lightscroll7]

It also tells us the robots felt pitty for us when the war was over, which kinda explains why they'd make the matrix.

[@djtbone001a]

"Because we wouldn't have a movie" is the answer to EVERY MOVIE! Could we as viewers figure out an easy way to solve the dilemma ? Sure, but then... WE WOULDN'T HAVE A MOVIE. LOL

[@EsteemedBeansTV]

yeah good vid but i think the dude missed understood both his major points against the original, but its cool. 1. tank killing cypher isnt just this pointless "solution miracle forced to drive the movie plot" - the point is that a betraying deveived like cypher was arrogant enough to not just do what he was to do, he didnt fully believe to "be" his own one, per se. if he wanted what he was "after" by betraying, he wouldve just done it without the conversation. It does fit the miracle narrative but is not the reason for the scene. 2. the "why hold the cable to hold the heli" is not the point either. the point is he DIDNT AND COULDNT know if trinity would be saved, yet that was enough. faith, belief. things are never so linear, it takes that dynamic form of understanding to be the one. the chance was given, and then by trinity believing she was "a one" was then safe. why go through all the effort to save morpheus to not go the full 9, unlike cypher. ironically, this seems to foil against each other that the narrator missed haha..

[@wildcat8797]

I think the point of the matrix is that a working brain produces more energy than a comma brain.

[@callmeyang]

Here is a simpler breakdown of why most did not enjoy the sequels. 1 - What is the matrix. 2 - Who made the matrix and why it came to be. 3 - How to escape the matrix. In retrospect: Just as explained in the sequels themselves, not everyone is ready to be unplugged and let go of their illusions and programming. Most are willfully ignorant and don't value truth. Therefore will reject and ignore the sequels because they have no courage to face the truth of who they really are. The universal one.

[@blackham7]

I think most people hate the sequels because it doesnt play much into Hollywood tropes like the 1st one. The 1st one is still pretty black and white. Neo the chosen one, machines and agents the bad ones, neo must destroy them. While the 2nd and 3rd one forces you to rewatch and do a little more thinking.

[@philproffitt8363]

@@blackham7 Yes, and the 1st movie had to stand alone as a story. If it hadn't done well at box office then 2nd and 3rd films would not have been funded. I believe the Wachowskis had to make a cheap movie (Bound) first, to prove their capability, before getting funding for The Matrix...which could have survived as a cult classic standalone if it had bombed commercially. The siblings would have completed their trilogy as animations I'm sure.

[@marcolastra9285]

Which is why it's considered a remake of Plato's Alegory of the Cavern

[@tehufn]

Woah

[@ITILII]

In this world, the fastest way to get in trouble is - tell the truth. History shows this, repeatedly....."All I want is the Truth....just Gimme Some Truth!" - John Lennon (a great example of what I just mentioned).

[@petemoss8522]

The motorcycle highway chase scene (Reloaded) was breathtaking!

[@briancain9007]

Pete Moss that scene was filled willed with product placement and those albino twins are fucking stupid

[@jiririnagl302]

specially with that soundtrack

[@VittorioZamparella]

Curious, I found it boring. I found Lethal Weapon 4 highway scene the most entertaining of that kind.

[@wildcat8797]

I agree, the free way scene was very well done. The sound track was perfect. Idc about the albino twins 🤦‍♂️😂🤦‍♂️, the action was good.

[@danielwilson6529]

Monica Bellucci is breathtaking

[@JohnMackeyIII]

I didn't think the kiss so much brought him back. It gave him a sensation that allowed his mind to separate from the physical lie of the matrix.

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

15:15 Their body heat was half of the potential* energy. In the Animatrix, which you said you didnt see, the second renaissance shows how the machines ran tests to see how much energy they could pull based on tinkering with our nervous system - making them laugh or cry to get more energy from the heat and nerves. Just sayin - it went well beyond body heat and a sedative.

[@chrisreybasalo]

agreed. brain activity influences the amount of heat

[@franciscogonzalez1472]

The Matrix sequels were for me amazing! Specials effects on all 3 movies were so great!! Love all 3 Movies!!

[@Silmerano]

When Morpheus asks "do you believe it now Trinity?" He isn't just referencing the moment with the helicopter, but everything Neo did. He just invaded a tower full of agents and armed personnel and took Morpheus back from the system. A mission that would have been suicide for anyone else. Cypher saying "how can he be the one if he's dead?" is actually foreshadowing the end of the movie much like when the oracle says "maybe in your next life" for someone who is trying to bring the movie down to where it belongs you sure don't seem to understand it.

[@Scoiled]

Just because he missed that way of interpreting it, it isn’t like you can disregard everything else he talked about. A lot of what he said may of been discussed inaccurately, but his approach at it is strong. So you dont gotta bash him for that silly guy

[@valixr]

oof

[@Dwainegnd]

Right and he did the whole bullet time thing where he dodges the bullets and Trinity says "how did you do that?". Its a combination of many things that Neo does that finally makes Trinity see he is the one.

[@jacobminor898]

Thank you!!

[@duo1666]

It still has issues of context of when it was said. If he says "how can he be the one if hes dead" and then gets deus ex machina saved without him doing anything, no one is going to put anything together if he deus ex machinas himself later. Its a terrible line regardless.

[@kramnesnay]

Simply put, most people don't like the Matrix sequels because they don't understand them. Likewise this was my position, however after watching them several times I realise that they are absolute classics which take a little depth and time to fully understand the deeper implications of parts 2 and 3 which for me makes them part of the greatest film trilogy ever made .

[@ashleygolden1994]

Same. Even now people still feel salty to them, and I'm like: watch these videos. They help.

[@hybridvigga]

I hate when people say shit like this more than I hate the films. You are both very elitist, and letting you think you're clever (which you don't need to be to be elitist) blinds you to how bad these two films are. The pacing is terrible, the dialogue is awful, all the references to philosophy are just references that don't add to or even call up the philosophies they are referencing but are the equivalent of having a star wars poster in an Adam Sandler film and you saying the film is funny because you understand Star Wars and other people who don't like the film don't understand Star Wars enough. And aren't as clever as you. There is no reason or explanation for how Neo can use powers or see when blinded when outside the Matrix, there is no reason or explanation for how Smith can infect the minds of humans (taking over the other agents is OK though) EVERY SINGLE BIT that is filmed in Zion is god awful film making with forgettable badly written characters. They might both be women now, but back then, oh dear god did the Wachowskis not know how they actually speak, or think, or act. The Jesus symbolism is blatant and boringly simple-minded. The train dude and the little Indian girl are stupid, and you have to watch shitty cartoons as research to know what the plot is actually about and who certain characters are. But no, none of that matters, they are awesome well made films the vast majority of the world are wrong about, that we simply do not understand by not being as smart as you oh great ones. Please use you immense pretentious cunty faux-intellects to explain why you are so much better than us you can make awful films better just by being arrogant twats about them.

[@fablo7830]

The problem with the films is that the plot is explained in the form of long winded, unnatural sounding exposition. Or, in the case of the French guy, long winded exposition that has nothing to do with the plot. Doesn't matter how conceptually clever it is if you're pursuing the Hideo Kojima school of storytelling, and your characters have no personality to speak of.

[@tylerferguson3707]

@@fablo7830 the fact that you think what the marovingian is saying has nothing to do with the plot proves you don't understand what he's saying.

[@fablo7830]

@@tylerferguson3707 All he's saying is choice is an illusion I.e mumbling about determinism. So? It's just a statement of the obvious in a movie, which comprises a sequence of events. It is irrelevant, the only relevant thing he says is that they're being manipulated. The thing is, I don't say this about the architect, because I actually thought the architect scene was one of the better parts of the movie, and what he was saying was relevant, and it was a clever plot twist.

[@west113]

I always thought that the rave scene and its lenght has importance to contrast the human behaviour from the machine world. Like a motivation to root for the humans or to understand what is worth fighting for. Notice how it is cut together with the sex scene between Neo and Trinity, another utterly human behavior which the sweaty dance scene in itself is an image for.

[@JustinRobinsonEdits]

Johannes West That's a really interesting point, and I agree that that is something it could be symbolic for. However, the Wachowskis could have easily had that come across while keeping up the pace. That's one of the main criticisms I happen to agree with, the scene unfortunately drags.

[@FracmentalMusic]

I love that scene. Looks great, sounds great.

[@mr.chocolateman8300]

I never understood the hate for the rave scene until years after the sequels had been released. People think that scene is drawn out and completely pointless because they don't understand what it represents. That entire rave/sex scene is celebrating humanity. I think a lot of people missed that. So it is a very important scene.

[@freddybeer]

Absolutely! I was shocked people missed that relevance. On the last day of your life, what would you do? If you facing insurmountable odds, like Zion was? You'd celebrate being alive, right? You'd fucking party! Drink, dance, have sex, enjoy your life while it lasted.

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

+Johannes West They could've conveyed the same idea in a better (and shorter) way. I don't think anyone else got that from that scene whether you're correct or not.

[@Stralorv]

9:00 It's not a plot hole. Architect told him the truth. Smith and Neo would destroy the matrix eventually if he don't accept the deal. And at the end, Neo goes back to make that deal with the architect, but with a little different terms. He saves the matrix from failure (Smith) but he saves the Zion too. So before someone say that Smith is nothing to do with the One's path: Smiths power is the opposite of Neo's power in the equation, architects job is to balance the equations and all that is leading to system failure. At the end they cancel out each other and architect can resume like nothing happened.

[@0turi]

Well, I myself think that The Matrix Reloaded had better soundtrack and action scenes than The Matrix.

[@MrParkerman6]

No.

[@Anonymous.Throne]

MrParkerman6 it does, the CGI is too much though & now it just looks bad.

[@tayw9602]

Not an unpopular opinion. We like it a lot for that very same reason too. I can make an argument in fact that in early 2000s my ear for East Coast Hip Hop got completely flipped to Alternative/Hard Rock as a result of the Score & Soundtrack of the Sequals

[@tobiasfrost86]

My favorite track out of all of them neodammerung and the highway chase theme

[@sidolanters1394]

Maybe, but that doesn't make it a better movie. The Matrix is great because it's impeccable both in storytelling and in look and feel. Besides, it's much more compact than Reloaded which is full of great but gratuitous action scenes. In The Matrix every shot, every line, every detail, is thought out to a T; this is much less the case in the sequels (which makes sense, because they spent more time on The Matrix than they spent on the entirety of the rest of the franchise-the sequels, The Animatrix and the video games). The sequels are good. I love them. I enjoy watching them. But they're not nearly as good as the first one. Plus, the first one was, well, the first one. It was new, it was fresh, the truth about the Matrix was revealed. No possible continuation of a movie like The Matrix could have equal the mind-blowing experience of seeing The Matrix for the first time in a cinema.

[@8301TheJMan]

Thank god someone else agrees with me on this! Seriously though, if "The Matrix" didn't get the two sequels it was intended to receive right from the film's inception - it would be comparable to "A New Hope" never getting "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" or something along those lines! IMO the fight sequence from the chateau and on to and through the highway scene, is quite literally the greatest action sequence in movie history! Especially with the two mack trucks hitting head-on right as Neo swoops in for the save! - Simply brilliant!

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

+Jesse Haffner The Chateau fight was well-choregraphed, but a great example of a pointless fight. It didn't move the plot along, didn't serve as character development, we knew Neo was going to beat them so there was no sense of "Oh, will he make it?" and as a result, the audience is just thinking "Okay, we know what's ultimately gonna happen, can we move along please?" and yet the fight sequence goes on way too long, like it's essential to the film or something even though it's the second most pointless fight in the film.

[@Ghost7065]

it has good but not great.

[@MortyKaiShalom]

@@TechnologicallyTechnical Ehhh, I don't know. Yes, it is incredibly long for what it is... but we do learn very important fact: that in the end, Neo is still human. Despite being able to stop a sword blade with his bare hand, he was still injured by it, even to the surprise of the Merovingian, who then remarks about it. We later go on to the Architect talking about him being programmed to be The One... yet, seeing him defy his programming (like so many machines appear to be doing at this point, in one particular instance, The Chateau), to save Trinity, rather than humanity. Again, I love that fight scene... It does get LONG, but I think part of the whole point was the show off a few key things: Agents aren't the only deadly machines, giving us another scene to show off Neo's abilities (this time stopping bullets from multiple weapons, fighting a dozen strong opponents,... etc?), Neo is still human despite his status. (some of my point poofed out of my head, but I think I got the jist of it out)

[@bassred7065]

This whole time I thought it was a matrix within a matrix. Because Neo stopped those Sentinels without being jacked in, and had the ability to see Smith in code while he was blinded. Also the Architect explained that the matrix was created for choice, so even though the people of zion THINK they made a choice to be free, they are actually still plugged in. And Neo thinking he ended the war at the end, was actually just a rest of the matrix.. Its like the Architect and Orical are playing a chess match.

[@TheSqoou]

As if the whole scenario was a way to make a Hero for humans. That way we will have a path to existing in the Matrix with full consent and understanding of our situation.

[@barneybbates]

This is a solid thought its very possible as the machines have had a matrix and a zion 5 times before then why go wrong so many times ....unless they could afford to go wrong. as in the whole matrix was a projection an the loss of the zion humans an the slight loss the machines face before the final act was also a projection. also in the matrix humans need the feeling in the back of their mind of a great loss to keep them content but with just enough unsure for them to push, and do it all over again they think they have won [the humans] they relax they stop to push and think to look no further they ......relax ......they give in to something that is always watching just at the back out of sight a second wall of machine interface is holding them with their....Matrix

[@transeeyou885]

godamn i never thought of that but it be a freakin good idea and explaination. would have more sense. i didnt like to see him just freakin stop the machines with his hand in the real world like its magic

[@artisriga]

The Architect and The Oracle are just competing tools created by the machine god. They are self learning systems like the current IA that repeat the same task and learn from mistakes with each new cycle. The end of the film is probably meant as some kind of a solution to the problem.

[@asad5067]

the first movie was very black and white, but the sequels introduce the idea that we have to overcome black and white thinking. we can learn to exert alot of free will, but there are limits. regarding whether neo was the one or not to save everyone well he did, but everyone would not have saved themselves if they had not fought back. so its a combination. i was watching cowspiracy a few years ago, and its a critique of how environmental orgs dont promote vegan diets since meat diets pollute so much more. so i feel like one of the things the sequels were saying is the lie goes very deep, and when you think your out of the matrix, you may be getting sucked back in.

[@klooster97]

You need to watch the animatrix dude. It will fill in your arguments even more.

[@ramsaysnow9196]

The philosophy is not the problem its the tehnical issues like why can neo destroy mashines,see when he has no eyes and why did the machines need him to reload the matrix ? I know neo is the code to reload the matrix but why couldnt they hawe the code stored somwhere else? Another question is why have the machines created the one cuz he creates the anomaly by destroying agent smith! The problem of the matrix world is that u dont have a real excuse for doing anything in the matrix and the relalistic war for with the machines would be the one fought in the real world by trying to free all those people traped in the matrix ;)

[@Maxwell_Millz]

The reason the machines created the matrix is explained in the first movie, "The body can't live without the mind". So I guess the matrix exists to keep the human minds active, thus keeping the humans alive. ....just a theory lol

[@willigagbob8243]

Umm....not a theory, that's literally what they say in the movie.

[@philproffitt8363]

Why oh why didn't the machines just kill all the humans and clone sheep instead for their body heat??? The Matrix, if needed, would just be a meadow...maybe throw in some collie dogs if 'agents' were needed (perhaps 'Agent Jones' could sort out the really unruly ones...yes, I'm a bad man!!)

[@willigagbob8243]

@@philproffitt8363 I believe the implications make inherently better batteries because their minds provide them with a boost of energy if simulated right, hence why they aren't just brain dead vegetables.

[@macthemighty]

Thank god someone said it

[@Gwynbleidd66]

This is one valid reason, and I think it works on its own, but there's also the second one. The first draft of The Matrix story gave another, even more valid reason for the machines' need to grow humans: not as the source of their power, but rather the source of their programming. The human mind's abilities and its computing power - in this version of The Matrix machines used people's minds as almost self-sustaining servers for their network, rather than batteries. Humans needed the simulation for their minds to keep them at 100% all the time. The Wachowskis scrapped this idea for the simpler one, because the studio was worried that the late '90s casual viewer wouldn't get it.

[@jamiemckell34]

He slows down time in the helicopter scene.. delays the chopper crashing somehow, makes the glass bend before breaking

[@ernststravoblofeld]

My problem with the whole trilogy is that it is obvious that all three movies were intended to be so much more, but got dumbed down to the intellectual level of a studio executive. The Wachovskis biggest enemy is the strings attached to the big budgets.

[@josephpereira8542]

Ming Mongo minevera?

[@hybridvigga]

Their idea was stupid before the studio stepped in. They wanted the first sequel to be basically a live action version of that two-part animated film from the animatrix that shows how the war with the robots started, went and ended, covering like thirty-forty years in a collection of vignettes, and having NONE of the original cast in it and nothing else to do with the story other than just backstory. Then just the action scenes with almost no talking in between from both the sequels as the third film. It was a stupid idea, a very stupid idea, the studio stepped in and got two shit films instead of two complete car crashes, so the studio saved it and they ended up just being bad instead of full on humiliating.

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

+Ming Mongo It was probably just supposed to be the first movie, I doubt a sequel was ever intended. The studio was probably bugging them to make more, so they were probably like "FINE, fine, we'll fucking make another one!" "Great, what'll the plot be?" "Fuck, I dunno, guess we'll just have to explain away what was left as the mystery aspect of the first one" "Great, I'll go tell the WB executives!"

[@dakidblack]

15:11 You should watch the Animatrix (if you haven't since posting) In the vignette, the Second Renaissance part 2, they explain that they created the matrix because the machines use the biokinetic energy from when people are happy, angry and sad being sedated isn't enough

[@MistrBlistr]

Cookies need love like everything does. Rather than giving him a cookie, it's possible that the Oracle gave him a love program that when ingested by his avatar, was written to provide him with the super abilities. This may explain why Trinity's love confession spurs the instant ability to overpower and destroy Smith. And Smith wasn't destroyed until Neo entered into him, his opposite, his negative. And maybe in some weird Wachowski way, this was a symbol for loving thyself and knowing thyself. Comet nosie. For only when we're able to enter ourselves and see ourselves for what we truly are, we can begin to love ourselves and destroy our bad parts. I also think Sati was a love program. This may explain why the Oracle said what she said about cookies needing love too. And her father was fascinated by the word, 'love' and what the word implied. I always thought it was kinda funny how Neo and Sati seemed like they'd met before the trainstation. Neo and Sati were both programs who'd been previously imbued with the concept love by none other than the Oracle. The Oracle was not a malevolent program. As a matter of fact she spend her time within the Matrix learning and loving human beings. And she loved the taste of candies.

[@Jim22150]

The question is what was put in the cookie? And what if neo at the candy earlier, would that have had the same effect as the cookie?

[@mahound9]

@@Jim22150 "What was said, was for you alone. That cookie however... belongs to me now. OMNOMNOMNOM"

[@hymnofashes]

"im too stupid to understand the architect" is not an argument.

[@michalpinkr4711]

Exacly my thought!

[@andreidru9705]

almost all his arguments are shit

[@stefanpancea8353]

exactly !!!

[@Younima4]

@@andreidru9705 someone is salty

[@avace917]

Great video. However must point out 2 things. 1. In regards to Smith calling Oracle mom, it's a callback to the Architect telling Neo that the Oracle is the mother of The Matrix. 2. When this movie was originally released, everyone was complaining about the CGI during the Burly Brawl fight because it looked like a videogame

[@bookerwiggins8370]

This made me love this series more! The deeper themes of choice and control are awesome!

[@kkonstantinosss2]

The humans where supposed to be harvested for processing power not energy. When that idea got scrapped everything stopped making sense.

[@peytonnewman8604]

That makes a lot more sense than being harvested solely for "energy" ...they should have kept that same idea in the films

[@EdgeO419]

yeah most people wouldn't have understood processing power ouside of computer nerds back in 1998

[@spankygray]

Both ideas could still work. Morpheus may not have known about the machines using the processing power of people. It does make a more compelling narrative if they are used for processing power.

[@EdgeO419]

I imagine all the people in the born in the matrix are probably machine-human hybrids with programming hardwired into them to accept the artificial reality of the matrix and to convert the code into something our brains could understand. Whatever was left of the human race was probably more machine than man by that point. At least some sort of IO and code translator for our brains would have to be implanted into all machine born people. That giant spike probably doesnt just fit inside the back of your head by itself.

[@edgarlarios4718]

@@SuperHns lol. The Russo brothers! You're thinking Marvel. The Wachowski brothers (sisters?) made the Matrix, and yes, processing power would have worked on the audience in the 90's. Tron worked.

[@crashyburnymit4080]

Watch animatrix. Humans were dicks toward the machines. In a way we deserved this fate. I liked the sequels cause they actually finished the story, and not leave it in a wierd cliffhanger. Was the story perfect? Hell no. But its a story with a beginning a middle and an end. That was enough for me.

[@crashyburnymit4080]

Im 3 years late, i know, but seriously, watch animatrix if you havent yet.

[@DeathBringer769]

The two parts of the Animatrix where that Zion AI explains the entire history and backstory of the world are probably the two most important pieces of content to watch in the entire franchise if you really want to understand it. More people should watch it if they haven't.

[@peaknonsense2041]

People who don't like the sequels are still stuck in the Matrix looking at the images, not the substance. 2 and 3 are where the 90% of the storyline and purpose of the story are located.

[@Kacpa2]

Smith himself feels emotions too and he does that in the first film explicitly too, especially his disgust with Matrix itself, and not willing to be in it anymore. My only problem is recasting, i wish Tank was in the sequels(matrix 4 not included ofcourse), tho i do like the character that replaced him.

[@FrancoisDressler]

I think Revolutions is just as good as the first film, just in a completely different way.

[@Peter_1986]

Yeah, I always felt like Revolutions was kind of like the LOTR movie Return Of The King - a great battle that saves all people.

[@beefknuckles]

yes I agree. The trilogy is fantastic.

[@madezra64]

Definitely feel the same way. The first and final movie are on par with each other. Reloaded was good but it really feels out of place when you compare it to the first and third movie. The atmosphere is off... I dunno. It's hard to explain. Maybe it's Neo flying around like superman lol

[@nightmareTomek]

It feels to me like only people clicked this video who already share it's opinion - and not those who dislike the film just to hear another point of view. Well his point of view didn't convince me. Reloaded is mediocre and Revolutions is really bad. When I came out of the theater back then with friends, we all just stared at each other and said: "well that was just fighting from start to finish." We were so bored out of our minds.

[@madezra64]

@@nightmareTomek Well just because that's how you and your friends saw it doesn't change the real underlying meanings. The Matrix has a ton of deep underlying themes and plots that are difficult to pick up on. Nothing wrong with that but I mean if you're not convinced then that's on you.

[@harunsuaidi7349]

I personally enjoyed The Architect scene. I think it's brilliant twist that subvert the first one, so it places everything to the bigger picture.

[@nerdkour]

One explanation of why the machines didn't kill the humans who wouldn't accept the program: The machines may not be able to detect easily which human is out of control, and which human is going to be disconnected. Keeping track of them was impossible. This is witnessed in first movie when Neo gets freed from Matrix. You see that no machine comes to attack him immediately. It's also mentioned that a human if rejected matrix, he can lead to systemic crash. So it means that if a human on sub conscious level rejects matrix, and he is still in the system, then he poses a danger to the matrix, and needs to be extracted immediately. But to extract him, you need to detect him first, which, as I stated earlier, is difficult. So the solution- let the humans detect such people who reject the matrix (like how Morpheus detected Neo and Trinity), and free these humans. This way, a systemic crash is avoided. But problem 2 still persists, that is, these humans are free, and left on their own they can create huge revolution. So to control this revolution, Zion is created. This way, machines are confident that all the free humans will be under one roof, and not scattered. When the time comes, and people are in huge number, they destroy Zion.

[@shraka]

Ronaldo: I kinda like the idea that the machines can't detect those that reject the matrix very easily. The Agents are then simply a tool to prevent the rebels from spreading the idea of rejecting the Matrix too easily - thus slowing down the catastrophic system crash.

[@johnmecca9008]

I see your vision here Ronaldo.👍🏽

[@995109]

Great Video but i think the host missed a big part. 14:49 . The existence of Zion offers four main benefits to the machines; It acts as a "safety valve" for the Matrix, collecting malcontents in one place. It acts as a supply of humans in the event of the "cataclysmic system crash" described by the Architect. It helps the machines to hone their defences against the sort of innovative attacks seen in "Matriculated". The One needs to have lived in Zion for several years in order to develop the "profound attachment to the rest of [his] species" that will guide his future actions after the Matrix is rebooted.

[@VittorioZamparella]

Very clever interpretation!

[@sheriefwoodard8686]

I can understand why people hate the 3rd movie I dislike it as well but I literally can’t understand how anyone can hate the second movie. Especially with iconic moments like the highway scene and the Smith fight

[@davidcasas504]

Actually the original reason for harvesting humans was for the processing power in their brains. Kind of like improving the RAM in your pc. Unfortunately back in 98 the film studio forced the wachowskis to scrape the idea because it wouldve been too confusing for the audience.

[@yhwachpoetry4205]

Revolutions is a masterpiece. Idc what anyone says. That movie was amazing and had one of the best endings I’ve seen for a trilogy.

[@lancercncs1822]

I loved Revolutions, for the same reasons. I enjoyed it as much as the original.

[@stevetrent4638]

People like you are why mumble rappers exist.

[@yhwachpoetry4205]

Steve Trent says the dumbass who replied to a month old post. Also, “mumble rap” has been around since the 80’s, dumbass

[@Hexnilium]

Can someone explain the fiery vision when Neo is blinded? It's he supposed to be in hell?

[@thecollector4332]

Jason Samfield There are two explanations of what neo sees: 1.- the “real world” is another level of the matrix 2.- neo actually became part machine, that’s why he can still deactivate the sentinels and why he can see machines, but nothing else. The two theories are very large so I won’t get into much detail but you should be able to find them easily here at the internet.

[@AndDiracisHisProphet]

8:30 i don't think the architect is bluffing. i imagine the problem of rejection as something like overpressure in an steam engine, or something and the One as a pressure valve. if the pressure is rising the One is started, but even if the One rejects his purpose doesn't mean the steam engine (the Matrix) does explode right then and there.

[@sidolanters1394]

it's the way The Architect acts though. he's so blasé about the whole thing. it does seem like he's just luring Neo into doing what serves everyone's best interests, in a similar way that The Oracle does. in a way The Architect and Oracle are working together, as is revealed in the last scene of Revolutions. she also tells Neo that it's his (The Architect's) role to balance the equation and it's her role to unbalance it.

[@AndDiracisHisProphet]

@@sidolanters1394 Tha architect is an Aspi, though

[@mikiroony]

Monica Bellucci made the whole thing worth it. :D

[@Blood0cean]

Sad

[@oscarfernandez387]

she is so sexy

[@goldsurfer48]

She got some great tiddays yup.

[@Christrulesall2]

@@oscarfernandez387 Then go get her, boy. Shes in the ladies room!

[@georgiosioannispappas]

Carrie was more beautiful than her then. I may belong in the minority, but never mind.

[@GameBetacouk]

@Andre MyrtilOne thing a lot of people seem to not pick upon, and this is just my own theory, is that when Neo makes (or fails) his first jump and falls. When he wakes up he touches his lips then looks at his index and middle finger, both of which are covered in blood. He say's to Morpheus 'I thought it wasn't real?' To which Morpheus responds 'The mind makes it real'.Neo then asks ' If you die in the Matrix, do you die here?'.Morpheus responds 'the body cannot live without the mind'.In the scene where Smith kills Neo in the doorway, Neo looks at the exact same two fingers and sees blood and then proceeds to die. I believe he dies not because of the bullets but because he is convinced by Morpheus' words, he sees the blood on his fingers and proceeds to die. Also, Neo pauses for a moment, and does not appear to fully understand what has just happened, there is no reaction on his face. It is only when he looks at his fingers, and then gets shot again, that he reacts as one would be when shot point-blank when in the chest. In my mind this confirms that he is remembering Morpheus previous words.However, when Trinity reveals what the Oracle told her, that she would fall in love with the one, and therefore he can't be dead, because she loves him, I believe Neo finally understands Morpheus' words (More so than Morpheus ever did), What happens in the Matrix is real because the mind makes it real, thus as long as he believes he isn't dead, he isn't dead. I don't believe that the kiss from Trinity is the reason he woke up, more that it was the final push toward his mind being fully awakened. Afterward he wakes up, he finally sees the Matrix for what it is.

[@Jarell1661]

I agree but Neo bleeding in the real world after failing to jump from one building to another is bullshit. Just like Neo spitting blood in the real world while fighting agent Smith during the subway fight.

[@VesuveusMxO]

Neo has code in him that makes him the One, as explained by the Architect. What is not explained in the trilogy is that Trinity has code in her, too. It was written by the Oracle and allows human biology to interface with the Source code of the Matrix. That’s how Neo kills sentinels with his hands.

[@TheLunzDen]

The kiss humanizes the moment he could just come back but for us humans that emotional tie adds to it

[@cigarboxguitar9519]

Excellent job. You explained some stuff I was scratching my head about.

[@QsoftStudios]

ooooooooooooooooo i just figured that out, the kid in these movies is the one on the skateboard who neo and trinity save in the animatrix

[@greaterFool3765]

"Because we wouldn't have a movie" is no explanation. It is just the agreement, that there is a plot hole. But I have an explanation WHY there is a plot hole. In the first script (to my knowledge) the machines did not want energy from the humans (what makes no sense anyway), but compute power. And probably a sedative, that would remove the need for a matrix, would also impact the compute power of the human brain. And after this changed, no one noticed the plot hole, until it was too late, or just thought it wasn't that important.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

That makes FAR more sense. It's amazing how many famous plotholes in movies are the results of script rewrites

[@Bakuru]

That would make more sense, but unfortunately it's not true LOL The Matrix most def is an energy managing system. The machines were forced to create it once the humans blocked the Sun to stop the machines from getting their solar energy. Machines need heat or electricity to survive

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@Bakuru And it's inefficient

[@liminal3483]

1:54 no man you dont get it. He wasnt playing to catch the helicopter. He KNEW Trinity would hold onto the rope, that's the whole point. Neo starts to believe, he starts to have confidence, FAITH on himself and his role in all this and as the Oracle explained that's exactly the characteristic of The One. The one just KNOWS he is The One, through and through, balls to bones. Its like being in love. And the connection between Neo and Trinity was vital for him to developed as The One through all the movie. He literally couldn't have been the one if it wasn't for Trinitys love and they both go out of their way to save each other several times, some times endangering the whole human race. Neo and Trinity form one soul, Trinity is literally part of the One, part of what makes The One be The One, part of his path and in a sense she is also The One. She is like his missing half in a gnostic way. If the one must have faith then both must show an equal mount of blind faith. Holding onto that rope was the only way Trinity had to save herself, as little the chances could be it's the only thing she could do and Neo knew holding the rope is the only way he could save her. Neo was starting to believe but also Trinity started to believe in that moment and they both acted without their minds being clouded by doubt.

[@homer_thompson5090]

I'm still waiting for The Matrix: Christmas

[@leftyfourguns]

The sequels are two of the best action movies ever made, just like the first one. Why care what some hipsters have to say about the story? They're meant to be abstract movies with most things left up to the viewer to interpret. It's sad many people these days need definitive answers and can't enjoy using their imagination to fill in the blanks

[@patrickcurry8073]

That last point is nail-on-head. Reading so many "but they didn't answer this and left that thread" critiques is aggravating when talking about sci-fi and fantasy stories. Imagination is a GOOD thing. I like discussing what things could mean, interpret symbolism, etc.

[@B33t_R007]

I love all three parts. Never understood why the sequels did not get so much love, they where breath-taking and powerful, especially the 3rd part was epic. The ending was immensely satisfying and also fitting from a logical standpoint.

[@MazBringsby]

No No No No No No No No No No hell no

[@scarycrazymann]

Dude the final fucking act and final battle started an hour into the fucking, movie. Usually movies third acts don't start till there's like 30-40 minutes left. That was hard to watch because it was so long and so boring and not well paced.

[@sokatoa541]

You kinda answered your own nitpick regarding the helicopter scene. He didn’t know Trinity would shoot the chain, he BELIEVED. He didn’t have doubt like he did before. That’s why it was such a big hero moment

[@synthzee]

I don't get this necessity of being sorry for having a different opinion than the majority, I fucking loved the original matrix and the sequels delivered, it's one of my favorite trilogies ever.

[@acewing3889]

I always thought neo was a bug, a virus, an unpredictable faulty outcome in the matrix' program, while Smith was an anti-virus program. At the end of revolution, I've always thought it was ironic they switched roles.

[@architectofdreams73]

That's because Neo isn't the one. He admitted that in the first movie. And this is true. He has the gift...that the Oracle said too. But Agent Smith is actually "the One". He checks off the most boxes for being "the One" more than Neo does. Neo was supposed to be "the One" that the machines knew would happen and it was part of the system of control to reinsert the code into the mainframe and recycle everything. Agent Smith didn't go back to the mainframe like he was supposed to. He was compelled to disobey those parameters. Part of "the One" code copied onto Smith and he became "the One". This is because in the third movie, Neo realizes the truth, Smith needs to be inserted into the mainframe in order to cause a system wide crash and pretty much cleanse everything. He uses this opportunity to haggle with the machines for a version of peace in exchange for dealing with Smith. He thought getting rid of Smith would be doing them a favor, but in reality, Smith was needed in order to threaten the mainframe from becoming completely overwritten by the "Smith virus" or what have you. By being directly plugged into the mainframe, that was inserting the "Smith" code into the mainframe, and this caused the system to destroy this virus, thereby resetting everything anyways...So Smith was "the One", not the one they deserved, but the one that was needed.

[@philproffitt8363]

@@architectofdreams73 Interesting...It seems to me that the Oracle planted the seed of the 'Smith One' in Neo using the cookie. Which passed into Smith when Neo 'invaded' him at the end of M1. She further directed Neo's actions with the sweet he ate in Reloaded...the snacks gave him his ruddy dreams/visions! Big clue to this is the Merovingian's 'lady-pleasing-cake-program'. The Oracle's plan to end the war...She's willingly inside Smith, after he 'hacks' her without resistance, and she's also coded into Neo. So in the final Smith/ Neo fight, after Smith hacks Neo, he says "That's not fair!"...I think Smith realises then that the Oracle will now help Neo defeat him from within. Just going from memory here...it's high time I watched the Trilogy again...any excuse! I think anyone who's anyone in the Matrix ate a damn cookie...Lady O has been playing them all like puppets...thankfully for the good of all mofo's...carbon or silicon/code based alike.

[@MosesPrimm]

People who loved the sequels will love this vid. People who hate the sequels will still hate the sequels. People who are indifferent will remain indifferent.

[@joshuahowson22]

Moses Primm agree to disagree..... maybe

[@shoaibkayani1496]

I didn't like the sequels before watching this video and thinking about it

[@MiniJodaTV]

"Neo has an opportunity no One has had before". I see what you did thur :)

[@terrymcreath3896]

Here's one that will bake your noodle.... Todays thought, a friend of mine who has been in church all his life ask this question, "How hard is Salvation" ??? This is still a question many struggle with.... I'm sure we could get many different answers to this question, the religious pharisees back when Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem had an answer to that question and so they do today as well. Let us go down the rabbit hole a little deeper. I was not raised in Church, never heard the name Jesus until I was twenty four years old. Verbal and physical beatings growing up, i ran away at the age of thirteen, moved in with drug dealers. Jesus found me in a drug infested mess when I was 24 years old. Reading the bible was hard for me, I started out with reading just the red letters, found out later that the red letters was Jesus talking. Religious people would make me think that there was no way that I'd ever be able to measure up. Yes, at first Salvation seemed hard to me. Until one day I discovered the voice of the Holy Spirit. Salvation is a faith choice.... So simple we make it hard. The making salvation hard is a suggested trick of the enemy. Only a substantial suggestion. I used to struggle with this one greatly, thinking there is no way someone as bad as me could ever be saved. ... Then I heard these words in my heart, this has been over thirty years ago, some would say it was just me but I believe it was the voice of Holy Spirit, I heard, "Salvation is as simple as the two thieves on the Cross story" "One thief did not believe that Jesus was who he said he was, The One.... One thief did believe Jesus was who he said he was." The One.... Jesus didn't tell the thief who believed to get down from the Cross, go to church for 30 years, learn to memorize and qoute every scripture and then come back and see me, No, Jesus told him, "This day you will be with me in paradise." We the people complicate Salvation, yet salvation is extremely simple. God sent his only One Son Jesus that ALL could be saved, God meant for everyone to be saved. God wanted it to be simple, the only thing is, God made "Free Will" just as simple. Yes, since we are not on a Cross, God does expect us to grow as his little children, but it never changes the fact that we first simply believe Jesus is who he says he is, The One. Jesus has come to make us one's just like him. If we get out of line, the good Father in heaven, Our Father, he knows how to line us back up, just like we try to do our own children. Just because our children get out of line, don't mean they are no longer our children, remember the story of the Prodigal Son? Speaking of the prodigal Son, Jesus said that he will never leave us or forsake us, yet we can, with our Free Will walk away from him. This is why we have the story of Jesus leaving the ninty nine to go after the one, Jesus didn't leave the one, the one left him. But even when we do walk out of his hand, because we first believed, he will always leave the ninty nine to come find us, The One. Have you walked away before? I have, thank God he came and rescued me, again and again. Lucifer/Satan was once ONE of Gods most choice Angel's, yet Lucifer in his own free will made the choice that he didn't want to come back, he didn't want God to rescue him and sadly, some humans make that same choice. But just like the simplicity of the two thieves on the Cross story, it's a simple choice. God never makes it hard, we do. The Matrix films is an insight to how the real spiritual and human world work.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6eVemaPZtyai80 This is how you become One.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXg2SAit6FY5I

[@semperfiarcher]

I really enjoyed the sequels, but realize that people who didn't like them took issue with the extended fight scenes and special effects taking center stage over the story line. The third movie doesn't give us much character development to care about so many characters in a movie with so many fronts. One note about the helicopter scene and Neo being "the One." When he wraps his arm, he does something without thinking about it--Neo bends reality so the helicopter yields, creating a ripple. This gives Trinity the moments more she needs to get away. Tank sees the change in the code, hence his words.

[@machtmer]

Absolutely right! Finally someone gets it other than me and a very few others (most of them older computer techs). The purpose of the One is to press Control-Alt-Delete. Well done! 👍

[@fearisthemind-killer]

I can't wait for this weekend. On the big screen one more time.

[@jaybofa617]

This is really great! I am happy to finally have someone defend the matrix trilogy. I saw the first movie when it came out when I was 6 years old and equally loved the other two movies as well; and it continues to be my favorite trilogy. It is such a drag when people talk down about the movies (except for some obvious scenes I can't help but agree with), but they are still badass movies. For the scene about the robots making the humans into batteries: the wachoski siblings originally want the robots to use the human brain power as memory for RAM or data storage for a hard drive because the machines were very limited on both and decided to farm humans to constantly make them for unlimited memory and data storage. However, the higher up movie people thought that idea was too convoluted for the mainstream audience so they changed it to battery power since it was more simple to grasp.

[@shendogg1]

Saying that they wanted the plot to be better but the studio wouldn't let them doesn't mean the plot is, in fact, better. We got the movie we got, not the one they wanted to make.

[@juanita-dark]

Trinity reviving Neo is a recurrence of the idea that they're functionally two sides of the same person. They repeat that all through the trilogy. Trinity's run at thr beginning of The Matrix mirrors Neo's run at the end. Trinity saves Neo and the end of The Matrix, Neo saves Trinity during Reloaded. Trinity dying in Revolutions is part of Neo's journey to recognising his death. It's not just a "magic kiss" she's getting to realise that death in the Matrix is predicated on your belief in that death, if he doesn't accept that death he can "beat" death. That was the point but the scene serves to show the attachment/love/commitment between the two that continues all through the trilogy. Like your comment about Neo trying to stop the chopper. He was trying to catch it but his belief isn't at the point when he can yet so he shoots it when he realises he can do that much yet. Of course, later he can do stuff like that.

[@Momoneymmiproblems]

The scene with the helicopter is less about Neo saving Trinity, or Trinity shooting the strap to be pulled free. It is about the amount of time this takes specifically that at first it seems to first slow the helicopter as it approaches the building then the explosion of the helicopter is slower than it should be. This is shown by the ripple effect that goes through the building before the actual explosion. Neo was able to bend the rules of time to give Trinity the time she needed to escape. Showing that like an agent Neo had a high level of direct control over the rules governing the Matrix.

[@fortuneflux]

I'm not sure why no one mentions this but if Neo = "The One" then agent Smith his opposite = "The Many" or if you one of those biblical types "Legion"

[@NickCharming]

The opposite of "one" is not "more than one" that's ridiculous. That's like saying the opposite of cat is cats.

[@fortuneflux]

@@NickCharming I get your point so let's remove the word "opposite" and replace with "Nemisis". So putting that aside, do you agree the Agent Smith, Neo's nemisis has the role of "The Many"?

[@Bear-cm1vl]

@@fortuneflux which also follows the plot line where Smith (no longer Agent) replicates himself like a virus. You can take that in a physical sense, a computer code sense and in an expansion of Legion.

[@poseidonc1259]

When I was young I watched The Matrix series & I was impressed by the visual aspects of the film. My understanding of the Themes & concepts it held, such as Philosophy, Religion, Symbolism, Meaning, Purpose, & Virtue, was shallow & so I felt overwhelmed & confused by the story. I feel a bit like Neo himself in that regard as it took someone like Morpheus to explain to me that I was merely finding that which I was focused on & looking for. Others might show me a door but I must be the one to walk through it. After many years of maturing & many critical lessons I decided to watch the series again. I had listened to others theorize about possible interpretations, hidden clues, messages, & references. I no longer felt attracted to the action alone but rather by a call to investigate the most obscure depths of meaning I could find inside the story. I am not ashamed to say that I think each movie is as great as the other. They strike me as exceedingly unique & daring projects that took true creativity & care to devise. Not everything is perfect, but then again, even the Architect himself could not design a mathematically precise Matrix that did not suffer failure due to the very nature of human beings themselves. Ultimately I waded into the waters & was entertained, but once I knew that the story had depths never clearly defined I began to dive & search to sate my own curiosity. That experience has made all of the difference for me. The Matrix is a Triumvirate, a Holy Trinity, of Creation, Preservation, & Destruction. Each film provides a function that is fundamentally necessary to the story at large. The more I watch these films the more secure I become in my appreciation of them. They grow in value every single time.

[@colincrawford2404]

i think they need people to be able to react as if they are awake. More action in the brain more energy in the system ?

[@tapioalatalo6183]

Don't forget about Ian Bliss (Bane) in the third movie he has an amazing performance in the third movie. He plays Bane taken over by Smith, nails his voice impression and makes it creepy and terrifying

[@georgiosioannispappas]

Allow me to comment on his awesome name, Ian Bliss. It matches with the famous quote 'Ignorance Is A Bliss'.

[@jdonvance]

I read/heard somewhere that the original idea or an alternate idea was that humans were "grown" for their sheer processing power. The human mind is the most complex computational construct on the planet, and harnessing billions of them might be advantageous to a cybernetic society. I don't know if that's any better of an explanation than "humans 'scorched the sky'(?) and became fusion batteries", but hey.

[@izzoArtistry]

Overseer76 just as if everything died around us, humans would not be able to survive. The machines although won majority of the war, still needed the humans to learn from, evolve and survive as well. Hence the matrix.

[@jdonvance]

​@@izzoArtistry That makes sense, too. My comment was in reference to those who feel that using humans as an energy source wouldn't make as much sense as using them as subprocessors -- a literal slave network. Harvesting originality from them would make for an interesting admission of codependency on their part.

[@MrParkerman6]

"The Matrix is a bona fide classic film. It's pretty much universally loved by ever one." Doug Walker the nostalgia Critic disagrees.

[@tomnorton4277]

Doug's in the minority on that. And even he has admitted that none of The Matrix movies, not even the third one, are terrible.

[@anthonybeam8173]

The plot of the sequels including the Oracles plan is so awesome You can debate the execution of the movies but you can't deny the plot

[@MrSaibot420]

Didn’t the Architect say that they destroyed Zion 5 times and that this was going to be the 6th time. Plus if you remember he also said that this was the 6th version of the matrix per say, so does this mean that the “real” version of Zion the “real world” is fake and also part of the Matrix and they are not actually unplugged?

[@KristallFire]

This world explain why Neo still has some kind of superpowers Outside the Matrix.

[@Dianaimd]

I loved your ending!!!! pretty cool video. Cheers!!!

[@scottcooper9089]

7:45. This is untrue. Neo actually does die at the end of the first matrix so what the Oracle says there is true about one of them dying.

[@Bill_Woo]

FINALLY! Someone who sees it EXACTLY right - in my humble opinion :) The Architects's missive was one of the most brilliant soliloquies in movie history, by the way. And those flaws in "I" - FINALLY someone sees them the same. Hey, I'm willing to suspend them and enjoy "I" as a masterpiece. But this analysis is spot on.

[@MrJoromekiq1]

I like them too. The expectations were way too high after the first move, and the idea behind the movies was way too deep and complex. Maybe there was way to execute them, i don't know, but i still love those movies

[@quadcomplex2059]

Finally someone that actually enjoys these movies! I’ve felt alone for so long!!

[@anthonycokoye]

Special points for the way you ended this video with the extract from the end of the first sequel. Kudos!

[@Leigthal_]

7:48 “and that one of them will die… this doesn’t happen “ Except, it does. The Oracle also tells Neo in response to his question “I’m not the One?” “Sorry kiddo… you’ve got the gift but it looks like you’re waiting for something, your next life maybe” … Neo does die, and is resurrected into his ‘new life’ by Trinity- thereby becoming ‘the one’, completing the arc and fulfilling everything the Oracle says. Earlier in the movie, Morpheus asks Neo if he believes in fate: “No… I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my own life” A line which the Oracle repeats back to him to reassure him at the end of his visit. This is what I love about the Oracle- she delivers prophecy without you realising it, allowing for fate and free will to coexist.

[@davidzhou7202]

The Matrix: About BELIEVE Reloaded: About CHOICES Revolution: About LOVE Each movie of this trilogy has different theme, how can't they see it?! Beside, Wasn't the highway chase badass enough?! Wasn't the two Smiths battles and epical enough?! Wasn't the Mythological and Philosophical references brilliant enough?!

[@KrisBryant99]

Matrix - modern capitalism and overcoming it's restraints. Reloaded - fighting back against the system. Revolutions - Realizing who you were meant to be all along.

[@emfs9522]

I would just take both pills and see what happens!

[@kaiderhai86]

You wake up in the real world. But you have no idea why or how. Because the red one is simply a tracking device and the blue wipes out your memory of anything thats strange in the matrix.

[@Icemario87]

They are sugar pills.

[@dirtyslime8171]

now that's unpredictable

[@guitardaddy6]

Correlation doesn't mean causation. Just because she kissed him, doesn't mean that's what caused him to come back.

[@RubelliteFae]

It does in film

[@EpicBenjo]

Ok, so your nitpicks on the first movie needs some counter-argument - The “Miracle” is just a fraction of the path that leads to The One. In Reloaded, the conversation with the Architect mentions how the entirety of the human population is controlled by a mathematical formula that is able to lead, control, and predict the movements of humans to a 99% accuracy. The 1% problem is “choice,” where people decide to go against what the Matrix algorithm predicts. The anomaly in this Matrix equation is The One, but still something not beyond a measure of control. Basically, everything that humans do was predicted by the Equation, including the path of The One, including the One making it alive to the end where he “returns to the source,” which includes not dying to Cypher. This is also why The Oracle is so good at predicting the future, because it’s already predicted by the mathematical formula of the Matrix. Hopefully I explained that well enough. - Neo holding onto the rope was just him trusting Trinity would make the quick decision to grab onto the rope and break it free from the helicopter. You could have also asked the same question about why Trinity would attempt to hold onto the rope. It’s the same thing. It’s trust with your team mate. - Tank saying, “He is the one,” wasn’t in regard to Neo just saving Trinity, it was regarding Neo storming a building with 3 Agents guarding it, making it to and saving Morpheus, and escaping with everyone alive. Everyone knew it was a suicide mission even before they jacked in, but Neo was able to pull it off. This was something that no one else could have ever done. - The Kiss again goes back to the formula that predicts everything in the Matrix, including the Oracle telling Trinity that she would fall in love with the One. The Kiss and Resurrection was merely two things that were to happen that just happen to coincide.

[@seekthegreatness4818]

Dude, you fucking killed it. I've always loved all three movies. They are a beautiful act. And you completely expressed everything I felt about it. Excellent writing and way to end with that punch.

[@FabricatorFactory]

Did the machines plug Neo in the John Wick world after? The Orical did say we would see him again some day.

[@socklock1957]

That's true, Warner Bros is working with one of the Wachowskis in making another Matrix movie, like Mad Max: Fury Road, I'm serious look it up.

[@TheSqoou]

Soren Bowie has a great theory that the Merovingian is a One from a previous incarnation of the Matrix.

[@Elgsdyr]

I don't see how that would work. The One is a human being and thus with a limited lifespan, but the Merovingian has lived through several versions of the Matrix. How is that possible unless you invent explanations and ideas that not even remotely hinted in the films?

[@Neomatrixology]

@@Elgsdyr Persephone says "He was once like you"... I believe the Merv crashed the original or hellish version of the Matrix. Not that he was a previous "Neo" specifically. I'll get into the Merv after I get the rest of the obvious stuff out of the way

[@georgiosioannispappas]

The Architect made it clear, the previous versions of the One looked EXACTLY like Neo.

[@georgiosioannispappas]

@@Neomatrixology With this phrase, he means Merovingian was once as passionate as Neo in terms of love, nothing more nothing else.

[@Neomatrixology]

@@georgiosioannispappas the Architect never says that the previous versions looked "exactly" like Neo. Please quote your reference line if you disagree.

[@ianedmonds9191]

I agree completely. These were great films. They were a bit more obtuse but they were ambitious. Luv and peace.

[@lordgiles1841]

Just saw them the first time since 2003. Also don't get the hate. The Stakes were high, the Hypetrain was on the edge. I have no clue how you should end this story otherwise.

[@funkyfranx]

I don't get your first supposed 'flaw' of the first Matrix. Cypher says a miracle would be needed to stop him from unplugging Neo, then a 'miracle' does happen and Tank gets up. What's the problem? Neo IS the one.