CinemaWins wins: The text changes color depending on the setting within the movie. Green for while in the matrix itself, to blue in the real world, then yellow for the kung fu scene, and red for the simulation after. Ding!

Fun fact: In the original script of this movie, the machines were using humans' nervous systems for processing power, not just harvesting body heat for energy. I love this idea and think it makes a lot more sense, so even if the executives vetoed the idea, I still headcanon that the humans have it all wrong and that's still what's really happening.

Just a random little detail about the "Lady in the red dress" scene that I always enjoyed is how Morpheus is effortlessly gliding through the crowd while Neo is constantly bumping into everyone

Fun fact: when the idea for this movie was first presented and a budget of over $60,000,000 was requested, they were rejected and given around $15,000,000 instead. All fifteen million was spent on the opening scene with Trinity, and the studio were so wowed that they gave the green light for the larger budget

One thing should be mentioned: Morpheus pulled multiple people from the Matrix thinking they were the 'One' and they all died. Cypher watched it happen over and over again and it was one of the reasons he betrayed him. It's not in the film, but in the script that Cypher said something akin to "He's been telling all of them they can fight the Agents, none of them survived. So here's my advice if you see an Agent. Run". Eventually Morpheus found Neo but the part that that he killed multiple innocent people to do that is not even mentioned.

Actually, the walk signals in Sydney where this was filmed are green! Walk signals in Australia are typically green. I never read that as a deliberate choice, I had no idea they were white in US cities.

I never put it together that agent Smith calling Neo “Mr Anderson” was deadnaming and knowing the creators this makes so much sense.

Another thing about the window washing scene that I think was intentional, is that, having that thing happening while he is being "dressed down" by his boss, is very odd. It serves to remove a lot of the sting and authority of his supervisor. Because....Neo just keeps getting distracted, and watching the squeaky cleaning wands go up and down. It's fairly comical with it's absurdist tone. It feels like something that might happen in a Monty Python skit. Where this Really Serious Thing is happening....and the janitor comes in and starts loudly vacuuming in the room. Undercutting any sense of threat or power from the speaker. To me, this feels like one of those times that "The One, could reshape the Matrix, as he saw fit." That Neo, unconsciously did this, because he was probably thinking "Man I'd rather being doing ANYTHING than listening to this asshole....." *squeak, squeak, sssquuuuueak* *Stops listening to his boss and just watches that for a bit* Then when he finally snaps back, he realizes the guy didn't even notice he wasn't paying attention, but that he was done. So he just kind of nods and is like "yes sir." Reprimand over, leave room.

Spent at least 20 years of my 31 years alive preaching how good the matrix is. Every time I see even the slightest mention of it or appreciation it brings me joy. So little things make me happy nowadays but this definitely made my year a bit better lol

I really liked the scene with Trinity where she's aiming her guns at the window she just jumped through expecting an agent and she's just willing herself to move, I thought it was such a brilliant scene showing her fear of the agents and how scared and running on instinct she is when fleeing them, brilliant way to showcase how terrifying the agents really are

“An actor with that name, screwing everyone over?” Underrated line haha

Fun fact: Everytime Neo does a backflip, he grabs the air. It’s because this was Keanu’s first time ever using wires, so he reaches and grabs them

the "there is no spoon" line gets taken less seriously these days it feels because of the many parodies and over done jokes for the movie. But the realization that its all bullshit and not real and that that means if you believe it and can harness that truth you can literally do anything. manipulate matter, dodge bullets and even conquer death. Its such a fantastic line that seems glossed over these days snd even glossed over in this video. Its so important to the fabric of the ideals in this movie. I get chills every time the kid says it.

A thing I'm sad you didn't point out: Neo's boss has the same haircut, suit style, and even pattern of speech as the agents. He is an agent of the same systems of control.

Good to know that going down Neo's throat with the mirror still gives me LITERAL CHILLS. The sound design mixed with the visuals just never fails to give me goosebumps.

There is NOTHING wrong with this film; the aesthetic, Morpheus symbolic of one of the gods of dreams, Trinity literally representing the 3 main characters and Neo of course rearranged to be ‘One’. The green hues just giving that old vintage video game vibe. Or maybe it’s the fact that it made me actually question everything and both fear yet want to visit The Matrix.

Aw yes, the first R-rated movie for millions of preteens.

For Keanu this was a major bridge point to John Wick, not nearly as important of a movie as a whole, but a very important movie for *him*. This established him as a serious actor & gave him the cred that made people realize he'd be game for extreme amounts of weapons training. This is how we got a 50+ Keanu Reeves that knows how to kill a man 50+ different ways, despite the fact that in real life he's way, way to nice to ever lay hands on someone irl.

I've always loved the "Yes." from Morpheus when Neo sees the agents coming into his office. STILL makes me laugh, because it's so appropriate.

"Wait, so is this going to be a cyberpunk, noir, dystopian science fiction or a kung fu movie?" "Yes."

I love how Laurence fishburne can say the most ridiculous things and it’ll still sound badass 😂

Year 2, Week 54 of asking for Everything Great About Dead Man's Chest.

The oracle never lied. She said that * Neo had the stuff to be The One, but * Being the one requires that you know to your bones that your *are* the one (She only said this after he himself said, "I'm not The One."), and * He was waiting for something like another life. All of these are true.

First, as a 43 year old adult, I saw this movie first run in theaters and was completely blown away by it. I am also in the minority who liked the 2nd and loved the 3rd movie as well. I've seen the original Matrix over 200 times, and the entire trilogy at least 100. I've read countless essays, magazine articles, watched videos on it, talked with friends for hours... and yet you still managed to point out stuff in here that I'd never noticed before. Second, I had no clue about Nebula. I used your link and signed up for a year's access... I mean, an entire year for less than $12! I'd seen other Black Friday deals for Curiosity Stream, but getting to see extra long CinemaWins videos as part of it cinched it. Thank you!

I see what you did there with the text matching the color of the scenes. Just like the film had a green tint for the scenes inside the Matrix and blue tint for the scenes out of the Matrix.

In the scenes of the matrix, the subtitles in the video are green. But in the scenes from the real world, the subtitles are blue. The yellow and red ones are the training simulations, like the dojo.

A fun sound design thing that always jumps out to me - the squeak from Neo's hand on the interior of the pod is reminiscent of the window washers from earlier.

The "Most Guys assume I'm a guy" thing seems a lot more important in hindsight.

One little nitpick about your wins. The walk signals you mentioned that are green but usually white. Here in Australia, the walk signals are green normally and not white. Unless I am currently in the matrix

I did a double-take when I saw this in my feed, I thought you’d done the trilogy long ago! Matrix was one of the first movies that I ever got completely obsessed with, so much so that I went out of my way to stand on the same corner in Sydney where the final scene was filmed 😅

I watched this opening weekend in 1999 and definitely did not try to mind bend nonspoons. Also, this movie was so inexplicable and meta that when people asked me what the matrix was (because of the marketing campaign), the only thing I could think was, "The matrix is not something that can be explained, you have to see it for yourself." but nearly as eloquently or disturbing as Laurence Fishburn's delivery.

One of the top films of all time 💪😎

This was a movie that permanently imprinted in my mind when I first saw this movie in theaters when I was 14. A tried and true classic. And one of the best sci-fi/action movies ever made.

Unpopular opinion: I love all 4 Matrix films. They're misunderstood/underrated.

One of my favorite little touches in the office scene is how robotic the agents are. If you went to a cubicle to try to find someone, and didn't see them, your first instinct would be to look around the immediate area, but because they're inhuman programs, their first instinct is to begin scanning the office top-down, to the point that even as Neo fumbles out behind them, they don't have any notice that he's there because he's not in the part he's searching. They haven't revealed what the Matrix is yet but they're already showing how inhuman they are.

Fun fact: Trinity's fingers curling at 2:17 was done digitally. Her hands were straight before, then John Gaeta went in and curled them. Great idea by the filmmakers.

Covering the Matrix means my many many requests for a Dark City video are even more appropriate. Awesome work as always.

I always appreciate Mr. Wins putting into words how much I love some of these movies.

The fact that you point out so many awesome things in this movie made me love it all over again. Granted, it literally your job, but revisiting it and why someone likes a movie just as much as you do is always fun.

Ive seen the matrix so many times. One day my father played the movie to try a portable dvd player we had and played on another room, i immediately recognized the introduction

He’ll do the secret life of Walter Mitty before I turn 20. Hopefully

One of the neat things I love is the subtitling you've put in Green for Matrix White for Meat Space Yellow for the Kung Fu battle Red for the Tutorial area

I've seen the trilogy countless times and you're pointing out things I've never noticed before. Dman, I LOVE this channel.

The dojo scene for me is arguably much more iconic than Neo’s bullet dodging scene…I LOVED their fight and commentary throughout that entire sequence

One thing that made this movie stick in my teenage mind was how I somehow made a "full out" run home from my friends after it without once stopping, slowing down, being out of breath after or passing out until I went to bed 4hrs later (About 0.5 mile distance, nowadays I blame adrenaline & the fact I had 5mins to get home on time for supper but back then I was confused as fuck for months).

I know it has a whole month till it reaches Disney Plus, but i cant wait for EGA Encanto. Maybe you can do a 60 sec review for it, because that movie is too amazing not to be at least reviewed.

Neo coming off that broken neck in the training sequence really added to his performance of him looking stiff, rigid and green around the gills compared to Morpheus.

5:29 literally my favorite thing that makes me laugh every time i see it; Neo running past the copier

You have NO idea how long iv’e been waiting for this

13:36 . In Australia the 'WALK' signals are already green. It was the one of the lynchpins of the movie being filmed there. The dot matrix imagery of crosswalk signs is notoriously hard to edit in post production so they chose Sydney to film in so they at least wouldn't need to retouch the scenes later.

Even as a kid I knew that when they were inside the matrix the screen has a green tint. I love that detail. 9:33 how Neo’s voice goes from organic to electronic is one of my favorite little details in this classic movie. Or whatever you want to call it the sound design was awesome

Hurray! Can't wait for more!!! Would love to see you cover "Glory" with Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington!!!

13:37 Walk signals are green in Australia and specifically Sydney where this was filmed.

This movie is what got me into movies and reading and genre storytelling. I saw it in 8th grade on a small screen on a bus on a school trip and even with all of those things going against in, I loved it. This is the movie I've seen the most times and the one I'd take with me.if I could.only watch one movie for thw rest of my life. I'm so excited you're doing these and hope you do the animatrix as well.

15:41 The blind guy is one of the programs protecting The Oracle, that's why he sees Morpheus, he sees code and recognizes Morpheus'.

Was looking for this a few weeks back and was shocked you hadn't done them yet. Excited for these videos!

Hi! I love your videos. Whenever I’m excited to watch a movie but see bad reviews I just watch a video you did of that movie and it makes me even more excited to watch it!

To this day everytime I'm feeling nervous about something I remind myself "there is no spoon"

I love getting more and more references in the movie by doing daily stuff. Like doing research for a presentation on Carthage and stumbling on Nebuchadezzar and and then immidiately going Matrix! also the way you pronounced filet mignon is hilarious.

Don Davis score is one of my favorite things in the entirety of the film. The way he uses the orchestra and doesn’t rely on the common music structure of a film score. How he uses the diatonic scale in the orchestra and the choir to represent humanity’s struggle, and chromatic scales to represent the machines and agents. Every cue is so perfectly calculated! Don Davis himself mentioned how the initial idea in the score is the focus on the theme of reflection, the call and response between the french horns and the trumpets is the representation of that idea.

Ooh, I'm so excited to see you cover these movies!

Dunno how anyone else feels but check out Sideways talking about the matrix. He does a whole video about why the soundtrack is so awesome, and why someone was able to use the compete complexity of it as their doctoral dissertation

The walk symbol on the traffic lights in Australia are naturally green and not white. It makes sense they included it into the shot though 😊👌

8:55 At my sister’s wedding, having gotten married before her, I used the quote but put Marriage instead of Matrix. Even delivered it like Morpheus. Very well recieved, still one of my proudest moments.

Oh man YES. Since Ressurections got a release day I have just been waiting for your videos on the trilogy (gotta play to the algorithm somehow), and I'm so happy it's finally here. So hyped to watch. EDIT: It's goood. Heading over to Nebula to watch the rest right now

Just like with The Matrix, i'm gonna have to rewatch this like 50 times to catch and appreciate all the little details you worked into this thing. And just like with The Matrix, it's gonna be excellent every single time.

11:58 I love when you talk about each of the genres the movie is cycling through, the text at the bottom changes color with it. The text itself doesn’t change, just the color

“Green, mostly. Even the typically white walk signals.” … Our walk signals in Australia, where this was filmed, are green. I recognise that corner, even!

THANK YOU for noticing and commenting on the trans allegorical layers of the Matrix as just another good point that adds to the merit of the film. No social uprising or similar necessary, just saying things like "Huh, deadnaming Neo is trying to push him back into the Matrix." Much love and many thanks

Here I am wondering how it took so long to get this one. This is the GREAT vid I didint realise just how much I needed to see considering The Matrix is one of my favourite films

I always thought the far simpler window cleaning subtext was that it's reinforcing the running theme of people being dispassionately observed from outside.

Gotta say that I really appreciate your work man. It's really cool how you notice the little things. I find myself always clicking your videos whenever I see them pop-up. I mostly agree with your wins and I love your style of dry humor. Just good job

So happy to be watching this!!! Been waiting to see Everything Great About The Matrix!! My favorite film from 1999!! 😎😎 Can’t wait for Resurrections in December! Because of this, I gotta rewatch the trilogy 😎🙌 Thank you CinemaWins! 🎬🎥🙌

Fun video! Actually got me looking at Nebula too. But I'm gonna toss it out there: The trans narrative in a movie with a trans character by two trans creators? People who say it's not there are silly. Also, trans rights are human rights.

thank you for these videos, i missed so much and im so glad they put so much into a movie they could even be interrupted multiple ways

I absolutely love when you point out things that i missed in a movie i alread love and have seen dozens of times. Cant wait to watch part 2

So this week was EGA The Matrix? And it's also another Two-Parter! So here's a list of twelve suggestions (in no particular order) to consider the week after next week: 1) Gremlins 2) Illumination's Sing 3) Arthur Christmas 4) The Peanuts Movie 5) Elf 6) Toy Story (& its' sequels) 7) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 8) Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings (It should be out on DVD soon?) 9) The Polar Express 10) Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 Film) 11) Happy Feet 12) The Land Before Time

This is a great movie, and the directing and cinematography is truely inspired. So many missed opportunities in the sequels though. The trilogy would have been much better if it continued as sci-fi horror rather than sci fi action.

I love your work, I've watched every one of your videos. So happy you are finally doing the Matrix. Next id love to see you do V for Vendetta. I think you would truly show how amazing that movie really is. Thanks, keep up the great work! Enjoy your upcoming holidays!

Win 110: In Australia where the film was shot, the Walking Man on the pedestrian traffic light is green. That was just a happy coindicence.

Of course the Wachowski sisters are great at scene transitions. They're also amazing at other kinds of transitions too

It pains me that people in 2021 are so hateful over Trans issues, even though real world health organizations support transgender people. I look forward to watching your extended analysis on Nebula! I love this channel so much!

I’ve been waiting for this video for years now. Thank you

Thank you thank you for sharing your positivity and love of movies!!

Personally I think the blind guy who nods to Morpheus is a protection programme like Seraph. He is there to watch out for agents/the fuzz for the Oracle.

Aww dang it i really wanted you to dive deep in this trans allegory of the movie

15:00 If everything tastes like Chicken, then by definition, Chicken tastes like everything. The line "They couldn't figure out what to make Chicken taste like, so it tastes like everything" isn't him mis-using the Idiom at all.

Ok, watching this for the third time now, I just noticed the switch from green to greyish tint for the subtitles at 5:30 when mentioning the "real world" ... felt like a glitch - great work, I love it :D

As a nonbinary person, the amount of gender euphoria and serotonin that I get from seeing Switch "switch" is through the roof.

I'm surprised you are now just doing the matrix

Fun fact: I was born in 2001 so by the time I was old enough to see the movie, it was very much already a classic and no longer new (think I was 12 or 13?) But when I first heard of it and asked what it was about, my mum used the line "nobody can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself" to get me to watch it without spoilers. Worked, cos Ive been hooked ever since.

2:28 I remember as a kid thinking "was that phone call really worth dying over?" lol ignorance isn't always bliss

I remember watching The Matrix on dvd a lot as a kid, but I only enjoyed it for the surface level entertainment. As a kid, all the talk of philosophy and the real vs fake world just went right over my head, I enjoyed seeing the machines, the action sequences, etc. Revisiting it as an adult I see what I wasn't picking up and it makes me like the movie a lot more. The other two movies I remember were... okay, I have to revisit them too, but I wish they expanded more on the fact that they didn't find Neo right away, that they went through several others before him, as well as what the two sequels mean in the grand scheme of it all. Is The One an actual prophecy that will destroy the Matrix and free humanity, is it really just a computer program The Matrix came up with to give humans something to distract them, make them think they escaped when in reality they're actually in ANOTHER Matrix with no real hope of escape? I understand movies cut content for the sake of runtime, but I feel like some of the bits they cut are still super important, and leaves more questions without them.

Also, I know you typically don't do TV shows, but can you PLEASE consider doing Good Omens? Someone needs to show off that shows genius.

Still can’t believe Carrie Ann Moss broke her leg at the beginning of filming and hid it to not be recasted! 👏

In the first few minutes. Imagine Trinity as the "enemy" and its terrifying.

Wait, I've never heard filet mignon pronounced 'fill-it mig-non', I've always heard it pronounced 'fill-A min-yawn'. Is this a regional thing? Not a critique, just an honest question. Absolutely looking forward to the rest of your matrix videos.

I clicked on this video hoping you'd talk about the Trans Narrative reading of this movie and got excited when you mentioned Switch and used the Wachowskis real names. Really sad that I can't get that without paying but I get your points, which just make it worse thanks. I know that there would be a lot of transphobic comments, but to go as far as youtube itself demonetizing/suppressing? That's just, yeah..... Thanks for finding a way to get it out there at least, sad I can't hear what you have to say

I remember one of my high school media classes we used free sounds to do sound design for matrix scenes and it was SO fun.

i've seen the matrix 37 times and it STILL gets better every damn time.