FIRST TIME WATCHING THE MATRIX!

FIRST TIME WATCHING THE MATRIX! - Movie reaction!

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@MovieswithMary 3 жыл бұрын

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/marijchu06211 ! :)

@mistrants2745 3 жыл бұрын

Wait i gotta ask. Are you south african? Originally i thought maybe german, then Dutch but your emotional non-english reactions dont sound Dutch (im dutch) and the 'ah neee' at 23:19 sounded really south african :P.

@BramSenders 3 жыл бұрын

The new channel name fits you perfectly!

@zarquondam 3 жыл бұрын

@@mistrants2745 She's said before that she's Dutch.

@zarquondam 3 жыл бұрын

@@SaRENRampaiger I don't think the sequels are as good as the first one, but I don't hate them,

@1s23d 3 жыл бұрын

I liked the second matrix movie better than the first and third.

@the_last_centurion 3 жыл бұрын

"She oracled him good" will be the best line of this movie reaction from Mary. 😂😂

@StreetHierarchy 3 жыл бұрын

Lol "oraculated" is a great word, too.

@jamesdawson2393 3 жыл бұрын

I dunno, I thought “my balls are tingling” was a particularly memorable line lol

@Warlocke000 3 жыл бұрын

Personally, I think the "I'm a belly sleeper" when his front is full of needles was a subtle piece of pure gold.

@CaesiusX 3 жыл бұрын

What got me laughing was 24:23 _"GET UP! . . .I mean…please, get up."_ 🤣

@the_last_centurion 3 жыл бұрын

@@Warlocke000 That one made me chuckle too because I'm a belly sleeper lol.

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

And during Fellowship of the Ring, half the theatre went "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson."

@davidblauyoutube 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had seen the movie in your theater, lol.

@garykephart 3 жыл бұрын

I actually shrank back into my seat when I heard him speak in that movie. It took me a moment to understand why.

@mikemath9508 3 жыл бұрын

And then the entire elevator became sentient and started clapping

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

The MATRIX was the proper way to end the 1990’s

@clintlarvenz2570 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah in the 2010s we found out Smith was probably right...

@damien1065 3 жыл бұрын

It’s crazy because it’s the most 90s action movie of all

@zarquondam 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, the 1990s. The golden age -- after the fall of the Wall, before the fall of the Towers.

@nicktube1857 3 жыл бұрын

You haven't ate the red pill? It was a proper way to end the 2190's.

@andyb1653 3 жыл бұрын

@@nicktube1857 The funny part is that Morpheus was wrong about the date. It's more like 2699. The Matrix had been through 5 full cycles and the movies take place at the end of the 6th. A Matrix cycle (from one Anomaly to the next) is ~100 years.

@MovieswithMary 3 жыл бұрын

Do you want me to record reactions to the sequels too? :)

@jubilantjackrabbit1182 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Pannemat 3 жыл бұрын

Don't waste your time.

@dunringill1747 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, please. To all of the Matrix movies plus the Animatrix as it adds more lore and depth to the Matrix Universe.

@andrewzmorris 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't bother. The second one is only an OK film, the last one is actively bad. There are so many other great movies you could watch before that like Terminator 1/2.

@deanduke5473 3 жыл бұрын

Animatrix next, then the other two.

@callmeshaggy5166 3 жыл бұрын

There are a ton of little treats in this movie, like when they tell Neo "we don't have time for 20 questions", Neo had actually asked exactly 20 questions to that point

@wolfen26 3 жыл бұрын

Or that the number 404 as his apartment number means 'file not found' in computer langauge.

3 жыл бұрын

Good catch, I didn't know.

@vsGoliath96 3 жыл бұрын

I believe if you listen very closely when Neo is asleep at his computer, the song playing in his headphones is Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack. It's this weird trance electronic trip-hop song about losing yourself in another life and relationship. Some of the lyrics fit pretty well to the movie.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

@@vsGoliath96 That certainly fits well with the trans narrative in the film, ie. rejecting the arbitrary mores and identity laid upon you from without in favour of embracing sometimes-difficult truths and your real self.

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

The four main characters-Keanu, Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburn, and Hugo Weaving-spent about 6 months doing extensive martial arts training, so the fighting they’re doing is really them. So impressive.

@Mugthraka 3 жыл бұрын

It was one of the first movies that asked this from their actors. Nowadays its kinda the norm that actors go through weeks or months of physical preparation and martial training for a role. But before Matrix it was unthinkable, Stunt doubles where there for this right? (unless you where an Hong Kong action movie star like Jackie)

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mugthraka I saw a stuntperson reactor on KZfaq note, and I can't unsee it so you have to suffer too, that Keanu has a habit of grabbing the two support wires attached at either side of his hips when he does flips. You can see it right at the end of his flip out of the way of the subway train; he reaches up and grabs them. Sounds like one of those instinctual things that he's fought to overcome but hasn't quite managed. Pretty fair tradeoff for all the benefits of having the actors so involved in the stunts, though.

@kellymoses8566 2 жыл бұрын

And for the 4th movie, Keanu clearly did not and it shows.

@Retec 3 жыл бұрын

"Your appearance now is what we call 'residual self-image.'" Mary: "At least he's not a clown or something." I laughed so hard at this! 🤣😂🤣

@kylethomas2399 3 жыл бұрын

She said it so nonchalant but I was dying too

@dinniestones3058 3 жыл бұрын

I choked on my breakfast laughing!

@STOCKHOLM07 3 жыл бұрын

"Oh, so I just think I'm fat" -Rifftrax

@BaltimoreGunClubUK 3 жыл бұрын

“Ummm I’m a belly sleeper...” and “At least he’s not a clown or something...” are why you’re my favourite reactor on KZfaq. Applause.

@cerisambrook7692 3 жыл бұрын

First time I've seen her- and those comments made me chuckle.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

It took me a while to realize that what they were doing in that scene was using electric stimulation to build his undeveloped muscles. I suppose they must have flipped him to do his back. Wonderful world-building detail.

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

This film was the first ever to have those “bullet time” effects. It was a leap forwards in effects which was very impactful at the time.

@throwacnt7603 3 жыл бұрын

In the 3D community literally everyone, EVERYONE was searching "how to do Matrix bullet time" at the time, lol.

@3Rayfire 3 жыл бұрын

It was one of those quantum leap forward things, like ILM's visual effects for Star Wars and Star Trek, Stan Winston's morph effects in Terminator 2 and dinosaur effects for Jurassic Park, and more recently the reverse aging effects in the MCU. Bullet Time was everywhere for the next five years.

@wallsttech6881 3 жыл бұрын

Nah, Wing Commander movie with Brie Larson.

@vercoda9997 3 жыл бұрын

In cinema, yes... buuuuut I’d already seen similar effects in games before this, as well as in a couple of car commercials. The effect had a huge impact at the time (cue clones and imitators in all kinds of shows, films and ads), but it didn’t have the same impact on me. That was the same thing with Avatar - Everyone was wowed by that film’s look and design, but I just spent the film thinking “That’s a bit of Halo... that’s a bit of Panzer Dragoon...” but sure, I know it just happened that in my own case, many of these things were familiar to content I’d already seen, but back then gaming wasn’t quite as commonplace as it’s since become. Anyway, the first Matrix film was by far the best; the sequels were generally awful; unfocused, bloated cash grabs.

@SeanTube2099 3 жыл бұрын

And then you eventually saw bullet time so watered down that it was appearing in TV adverts.

@ScarlettM 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when this movie came out - the effects were amazing, nothing like it before, not at that quality. This was a groundbreaking movie.

@Mugthraka 3 жыл бұрын

even now the SFX holds out pretty darn well, with a photography that always absolutly stunning.

@fu6817 Жыл бұрын

The only movie that struck me harder than Star Wars original trilogy.

@plstne48 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny when you said "you wouldn't want to know" and "ignorance is bliss," anticipating exactly what the character that betrayed them said to Agent Smith.

@peterbabicki8252 3 жыл бұрын

It's a modern take on an old concept, going back at least a few hundred years. René Descartes, a French philosopher from 1596 wrote _"I shall think that the sky, the air, the earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external things are merely the delusions of dreams which he has devised to ensnare my judgement. I shall consider myself as not having hands or eyes, or flesh, or blood or senses, but as falsely believing that I have all these things."_ There's also the thought that the external world is always filtered through your own senses - so is anything real? Are you alone inside your own head? If you want to go down that rabbit hole, there's a lot of literature on the subject - if you don't mind giving yourself an existential panic attack.

@3Rayfire 3 жыл бұрын

All the way back to Plato's Cave.

@rikk319 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the concept is called Solipsism, and it's been around for centuries.

@unclebounce1495 3 жыл бұрын

@@rikk319 Solipsism is an interesting concept to consider for idle musings, but it holds less value than even full-blown post-modernism when held to any standard o consistent logic.

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't need to redact us an essay on the subject and it is in reality more ancient than you think… all drugs' users know this, even cave people from the dinosaur era.

@peterbabicki8252 3 жыл бұрын

@ That made me chuckle.

@patriknydensten1363 3 жыл бұрын

The Matrix was partially inspired by Ghost in the Shell (1995). It is an animated cyberpunk sci-fi about humans and AI. Well worth the watch and reaction.

@tarmaque 3 жыл бұрын

It absolutely was, although I would say the ideas in _Ghost in the Shell_ (Both the movie, and the manga on which it is based) are a lot more intriguing than those in _The Matrix._ The manga in particular is excellent, and so is the _GITS: Stand Alone Complex_ series that came in the early 2000s.

@StCerberusEngel 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see others recommending this. I drop it on ever Matrix video I come across.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

@@tarmaque Probably true, but I'm not sure it's a fair comparison. Matrix is meant to be far more accessible than GITS.

@vwlssnvwls3262 3 жыл бұрын

Smith's explanation of how he sees human beings as a cancer of the planet is my favorite scene in the movie. There is just something about the dialogue and delivery that is just so perfect.

@Pixelologist 3 жыл бұрын

And he makes valid points.

@youtubeistrash953 3 жыл бұрын

He makes me sympathize with the machines lol

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's also a reference to Bill Hicks, who famously called humanity "a virus with shoes".

@the.seagull.35 2 жыл бұрын

I can hear him saying "Human beingggggs are a diseeeeease"

@ricardotoussain Жыл бұрын

@@Pixelologist humans are not the problem, our programming is the problem.

@pantryraidz7609 3 жыл бұрын

Plato did it first 2369 years ago. He called it The Cave.

@caseyh8386 3 жыл бұрын

Ah fellow philosophy friend I see 😁 I believe it was after learning the allegory of the cave that our tutor had us all watch the matrix in class... It was a good day

3 жыл бұрын

Plato did publish it first, but Did he discover it? Hell no. 😉

@paulcurran4786 2 жыл бұрын

@ Nothing new under the sun 👍

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

The Oracle said, "You're next life maybe..." --- Agent kills Neo.. Neo gets another life...

@shaytal100 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I never thought about it! Cool!

@bxpolo 3 жыл бұрын

How about the Oracle ( computer program) giving Neo cookies (data)

@shaytal100 3 жыл бұрын

@@bxpolo Well I don't think the Wachowski Brothers thought about this :)

@Mugthraka 3 жыл бұрын

@@shaytal100 OH THEY DID, believe me THEY DID. Back in teh early days of the Internet, when there was NO Google or Yahoo yet, ther was a site called "The Internet ORACLE" As a user you could Ask a question,and the other users would give an answer selected by the Moderators amongst all the relevant Answers to that question. And while you where waiting for your answer, you would be asked to, yourself in turn, help with answering someone's else Question. It was a give and take, just like the Orcale in the movie does, she ask questions, collect information about a various many subjects( the other "Talents" that is in her appartement) and use that knowledge+her Immense Probability Calculation programme, to make "Oracles" and deliver "Prophecies". NOTHING in these movies where left ot chance or hasard, the Wachovsky's are Nerds, and EVERYTHING in those movies ARE from Nerd underground culture of the 80's/90's.

@shaytal100 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mugthraka Oh, I had no idea! Thx for this verbose explanation!

@roman0robert 3 жыл бұрын

Just as Neo is about to face off with Agent Smith, Mary: "There is no spooon!" : D

@jeanpaulmedellin 3 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how this movie still holds up, no wonder it’s a classic.

@timothygermann780 3 жыл бұрын

The 90s was the first generation when everybody had a computer and everyone started getting access to he internet. There were a bunch of dystopian sci movies involving the internet from"Johnny Mnemonic", "Hackers", "The 13th Floor", "Lawnmower Man", "The NET" etc.. culminating with The Matrix Series. By the time personal computing and the internet were common place, the genre kind of dies out.

@ExtremeMadnessX 2 жыл бұрын

You mean cyberpunk? I'm pretty sure that genre is still actual.

@timothygermann780 2 жыл бұрын

@@ExtremeMadnessX No its not.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

Possible; I'll have to think on it. Though I'm not sure you can say a genre "died out" when basically every modern work builds on its tenets. You could just as well claim that everything is now of that genre, to a degree.

@gatsby8870 3 жыл бұрын

"V" for Vendetta is a great choice too!

@garmisra7841 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@PaulWinkle 3 жыл бұрын

8.1 on imdb, I think it is overrated

@gatsby8870 3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulWinkle Thanks for your opinion!

@concertinamadrigals4058 3 жыл бұрын

I think that, if you see "The Matrix," you almost _have_ to see "V for Vendetta," because of their Gnostic elements, the idea of a hidden reality behind the one people know, day-to-day.

@tucci06 3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulWinkle Kind of underrated tbh. It's not a very well known movie.

@1nelsondj 3 жыл бұрын

This isn't the 1st movie character that could dodge bullets, the lead in the 1985 "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" could do that as well. The Wachowskis would go on to make "V for Vendetta" which stars Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith) as the protagonist V although he wears a mask throughout. I highly recommend that one. Another film from this era that used similar effects and was unfairly dismissed as a Matrix knock-off is "Equilibrium" which stars Christian Bale. It's a very good film in its own right.

@howiedavis2316 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you are the first person I have ever known who has seen Remo, and also loved it. Although Yog-sothoth, where did you get that name? from a bedpan? ( lol , hope you get that)

@botwitaprice 3 жыл бұрын

I remember "Remo Williams"; it had its moments.

@tonycardone990 3 жыл бұрын

@@howiedavis2316 Remo is a classic. Fred Ward was almost as good in that as he was in Tremors

@TheRagingwerepanda 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Chun! Choon?

@howiedavis2316 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRagingwerepanda Believe it or not ( i didn't, crazy spelling) it is Chiun , portrayed by Joel Grey, *Korean* is the most perfect creature ever to sanctify the earth with the imprint of its foot. lol

@bustedsim 3 жыл бұрын

"You got the gift kid, but it looks like you're waiting for something." "What?" "Your next life maybe, who knows?" The Oracle basically tells him the plot of the rest of the movie, including the twist ending, and yet we all missed it. There's another movie VERY much like this that came out a year before, that's not _quite_ as well done as this, or as well known, called "Dark City." It's similarly toned and mind effy.

@mikemath9508 3 жыл бұрын

Dark City was a huge disappointment and I won't watch it again

@bustedsim 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikemath9508 Fair. But "disappointment" implies expectation and unrealized desire. Rather than dislike for being what it is, instead it seems disliked for not being what it isn't? Which is a weird effing film with great set design, unsetting tone & acting giving off an otherworldly, disconnected vibe and perhaps, if one squints, a commentary on the mutability of life and those that determine it's shape and our agency in shaping it as well... or some other nonsense deep analytical art critque. It is _like_ the Matrix in many ways. But it is *not* the Matrix. Instead of being mindscrew Action Sci-fi, it is lower budget mindscrew noir sci-fi. It also has a prominent automat which makes it memorable to me, given my odd fondness for the idea. And Jennifer Conelly as well.

@mikemath9508 3 жыл бұрын

@@bustedsim Ebert gave it 4/4 so I watched it, and gave it 1/5 The ending with the battle is especially sour in my mouth and I saw it years ago

@StCerberusEngel 3 жыл бұрын

Dark City's great.

3 жыл бұрын

The whole Matrix trilogy is a marvel of meticulous predesigning.

@19nzinga 5 ай бұрын

This movie was groundbreaking for its time. The pausing the shot and then moving the camera while still paused was epic!

@RedmoonIndustries 3 жыл бұрын

NOT a spoiler: The second and third movies were filmed at the same time, and in my personal opinion they are more like one single movie.

@DeathToTheDictators 3 жыл бұрын

And not at all as good as the first film, and were more or less box office money grabs.

@lanagievski1540 3 жыл бұрын

They definitely should be watched back to back because they really do work as a single movie rather than a trilogy.

@mandalore1089 3 жыл бұрын

@@DeathToTheDictators They weren't nearly as good but they certainly weren't money grabs. The Wachowski siblings had a story they still wanted to tell but it turns out it just wasn't that good.

@Mugthraka 3 жыл бұрын

@@mandalore1089 Yes The only reproach i would do, is that the Dialogues became so much more convoluted and unneccesary "High stakes". But for the rest it is just as the first movie, there is a slight tone shift as you come closer to the Climax, but thats to be expected.

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeathToTheDictators they were “money grabs” because you didn't understand them. 😂

@cmsweitzer1 3 жыл бұрын

“Flush me J, flush me!”. For some reason I have always loved that bit from MIIB! Nice reaction Mari!

@michaelwardle7633 3 жыл бұрын

The Matrix has a lot of parallels with Dark City, which was released prior. The Matrix takes a more kung fu/action approach while Dark City leans more heavily on fantasy noir.

@Mugthraka 3 жыл бұрын

Dark City is also a Gem and under-rated movie.

3 жыл бұрын

The difference between the two is _The Matrix_ is hardcore science fiction while _Dark City_ falls in normal science fiction.

@michaelwardle7633 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure you just invented that distinction out of thin air.

@Cifer77 3 жыл бұрын

Keanu had to read "Simulacra and Simulation" to prepare for this. It's basically a 164 page discourse on philosophy. Specifically the relationships between "reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence." It's some deep shit lol

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

The book Neo hides his illegal programs in is titled "Simulacra and Simulation", while the chapter next to his hidey-hole is titled "On Nihilism". The first is by Baudrillard, the second, Nietzsche. Both works had much to say on the idea of reality and representations thereof. A "simulacra", in post-modernism, is the theoretical concept of a copy that has no original. Let that knock around your skull for a bit; it's a fun one.

@Grimfaxe 3 жыл бұрын

This is what happens if Elrond keeps the one Ring, he turns into Agent Smith!!

@kittensmakingcandles 3 жыл бұрын

I love that Luna already knew what The Matrix is.

@triple7marc 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE Hugo Weaving’s performance in this movie. It’s absolutely perfect.

@Blobby3822 3 жыл бұрын

"Get up". "That's me in the morning"! hahaha

@snuggilyd 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact. Keanu Reeves stunt double on this film later directs the Keanu Reeves movie John Wick and its sequels.

@Freejack1971 3 жыл бұрын

Back in 1999, all the hype was for Star Wars Episode I. But Matrix came out a couple of months before that and was like a revolutionary game changer.

@klyph 3 жыл бұрын

When this first came out, nobody knew about the real world/simulation twist. The ads just made the movie look like a stylized action flick. Many minds were blown.

@andyb1653 3 жыл бұрын

21 years after it came out this movie is still blowing ppl's minds. A modern classic if there's ever been one!

@beckmannm 3 жыл бұрын

I love that the costumes in the 'real' world (2199) are mostly old knitwear, which is of course something that the last bits of humanity could still produce! Making thread/yarn is one of the oldest skills. Compared to the leather and latex of the matrix!

@TenTonNuke 3 жыл бұрын

This movie had everyone talking about it with stunned expressions. This was before the internet, so people would bring it up at social gatherings and at dinner. Philosophy classes were formed to discuss the Matrix, determinism, and the nature of reality. Other movies were doing spoofs of bullet time. People still say "there is no spoon" 20 years later. You can do an entire comparison on the similarities with Buddhism and Christianity (The One resurrecting to save Zion, Trinity, Nebuchadnezzar). For a movie, it has some serious cultural impact.

@theblackestvoid 3 жыл бұрын

the term glitch in the matrix is maybe the most iconic thing to come out of it.

@duotronicnone4572 3 жыл бұрын

The internet predates this movie.

@stiimuli 3 жыл бұрын

"before the internet" Please tell me you were joking there. The internet had been getting huge for years prior to this movie. There was even a famous crash of 'dot com' businesses the same year this released.

@caseyh8386 3 жыл бұрын

The world wide Web was rolled out the year before I was born so that would be 1989 and I think email was created all the way back in the 70s. So no this film was not before the Internet... But I'm assuming you mean more along the lines of before Internet culture? Like social media etc?

@ricardotoussain Жыл бұрын

People don't realize that the Matrix actualy gives you a hint to see your own imprisonment. I don't believe for one minute that the person who wrote the book and agreed to have it filmed, hoped that people would discuss the special effects instead of contemplating the hint. The matrix is real but not litterally.

@vwlssnvwls3262 3 жыл бұрын

This movie was jaw dropping when it came out. It redefined what movies could, and would do with CGI. I think it also opened the door for more actors who wanted to do their own stunts, since these actors were actually trained to do the fighting sequences themselves.

@brian19991 3 жыл бұрын

Who could not LOVE that little furball you got there :) Absolutely adorable :)

@mikevwca6211 3 жыл бұрын

I loved when neo and agent smith face off Mari says “There is no spoon!” So mater of factly. Had a great laugh at that

@3Rayfire 3 жыл бұрын

I'll say it again, my friends and I checked the back of our heads on the way out of the theater after watching this. It was very intense.

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't find anything because you know what pill you took.

@ricardotoussain Жыл бұрын

@ and which one did you take?

@Pannemat 3 жыл бұрын

The Usual Suspects, but it's one of those "You can only see it for the first time once"- movies.

@themiIes 3 жыл бұрын

Didnt age well. Kevin Spacey movies are not too hot anymore lol

@tropicalcatdetective 3 жыл бұрын

@@themiIes It has a bit of an unfortunate double whammy in that respect, seeing as Bryan singer directed it as well...

@snuggilyd 3 жыл бұрын

I saw this movie in the theater when it came out when I was in high school. It blew my teenage mind.

@peteg475 3 жыл бұрын

The cat intently watching the opening scene is hilarious. lol

@bdrmongoose7864 3 жыл бұрын

The Matrix is a metaphor and most people seem to have choosen "ignorance is bliss".

@balrog73 3 жыл бұрын

We should eventually discuss the sound you made immediately after he said, "My name is Neo".

@resonanttotality8322 3 жыл бұрын

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of the are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." - Morpheus (in the Agent Program while Neo and the viewers are distracted by the crowd)

@BileDuctBalderdash Жыл бұрын

When Tank says, " Mikey I think he likes it " to Neo, it's a reference to a cereal commercial

@tudeslildude 3 жыл бұрын

Most people don't really see it this way, but the best action scenes, while well shot, tend to be in films that would be great even without the action scenes themselves. The reason for this has to do with how we connect to characters and story. If we actually care about the characters in an action scene, this automatically makes the scene far more engaging then if we didn't. Since we like the characters of Trinity, Morpheus and Neo, we didn't want anything bad to happen to them. This makes scenes where they are potentially put in peril all the more intense and satisfying. Couple this with the fact we just lost half the cast in the prior scenes, and we feel real threat and exhilaration in these scenes. Ultimately, as nice as all the revolutionary and cool shots that make up the action scenes, without such a captivating plot and characters, they would be nothing but empty shells without meaning.

@botwitaprice 3 жыл бұрын

The super slow-mo shots were done from "bullet time photography"; a newly invented process.

@JamesJoyce12 3 жыл бұрын

the question about living in a matrix-like construction has been addressed in Philosophy - basically - if you can ask the question: 'am I living in a matrix?' then you can semantically prove that you are not living in a matrix.

@theblackestvoid 3 жыл бұрын

Filmmaking is the word you're looking for. The movie was visually inspired by Hong Kong cinema from the shoot em ups of John Woo and specifically the Jet Li martial arts movie Fist of Legend which has those wide angle steadicam shots they used in this film for the fight sequences, the comic books of Frank Miller with the weird angles and anime like Ghost in the Shell and Akira which is where they got the iconic bullet time from. Also 23:36 lol

@Cheepchipsable 4 ай бұрын

Yes they used "wire dancing", which is a technique of suspending the actors on wires for the air time, flying type scenes. Used in Hong Kong martial arts cinema and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

@novembermedusa 3 жыл бұрын

the cuteness of the kitty is too distracting 😍

@shainewhite2781 3 жыл бұрын

Still the best Sci-fi Action movie ever made.

@StreetHierarchy 3 жыл бұрын

*T2 has entered the chat*

@andrewzmorris 3 жыл бұрын

@@StreetHierarchy Hard to rank these things. I just put T2, Aliens, Predator and The Matrix all on about the same level and that's enough for me.

@Transformania 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewzmorris Couldn't agree more.

@theblackestvoid 3 жыл бұрын

You know what. I'm going to agree.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

@@StreetHierarchy I don't think it's really a comparison. T2 is excellent, but it's basically T1 without much of the philosophical punch (because the second one wasn't derived from Harlan Ellison, though Cameron had to be sued to acknowledge it, something he's still whining about to this day). Philosophical punch, on the other hand, is a great deal of what the Matrix does. Same applies to Aliens and Predator, though I'm not sure it's a fair evaluation for Predator, as it's less sci-fi than an action movie that gets stalked and dispatched by a slasher film. The original Terminator has a better chance, but it's slaughtered on production value. I would make a case for Fury Road, though.

@Tan-Tan666 Жыл бұрын

Definitely worth a re-watch! You'll notice more stuff, like the reason Agent Smith is waiting in the hotel room for Neo when he shoots him is because it's the same hotel from the beginning of the movie and Smith already knows where their exit phone is.

@sylviagreybe672 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this in theatre when it came out, and I was so mind blown I went back and watched it again the next day. It's fantastic!

@zarquondam 3 жыл бұрын

Carrie-Ann Moss, the actress who plays Trinity, is also in the Netflix Marvel shows.

@BarbaOlof 3 жыл бұрын

True Romance, please! An incredible film with an incredible cast.

@Yggdrasil42 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Great movie. Written by Tarantino should be enough to convince her if the cast doesn't. By the way James VS Cinema reacted to it recently.

@adriancastillo1957 2 жыл бұрын

I saw this in the theater on a whim without having ever seen a trailer. Hadn’t even heard about it. Needless to say I left the theater with my mind blown by the awesomeness I had just witnessed.

@rowdydog 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when this movie came out. No one had seen anything like it! That is what makes certain movies truly great.

@77niko09 3 жыл бұрын

I don´t know is it important, but i have to mention that you can tell when in matrix or in real world by the colour of the world; matrix is greenish tint and world is blueish. Also when in matrix you can see that code dropping effect in many places, like rain in backround or raindrops on car window. I have to mention these, because i haven´t seen anyone else mention it before in any another comments or any another reactvideos.

@tropicalcatdetective 3 жыл бұрын

The last film introduces the colour of gold/yellow as representing the soul as well. The philosophers' commentary on the old Matrix DVDs explained the colour theory behind the film grading as being green = mind, blue = body, and yellow = spirit. I gained a bit more appreciation for and insight into what the Wachowskis were doing with their sequels after listening to that commentary, even though I still find they did a much more efficient job with the original movie in both direction and storytelling.

@wackyvorlon 3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing in the theatre. When they’re shooting up that lobby I was frozen in awe.

@tarmaque 3 жыл бұрын

Right? I went to see it one nigh, went again the next day, then had to wait until the weekend to take my wife to see it (she worked swing shift and I worked days.)

@wackyvorlon 3 жыл бұрын

@@tarmaque myself and a lot of my friends did the same thing. Some people I knew saw it five times in the theatre.

@concertinamadrigals4058 3 жыл бұрын

The kitten is just beautiful... Watch any film you like, and Luna will develop her own fan-base alongside yours.

@joepike1972 3 жыл бұрын

There is a nine part animation called Animatrix 2003. That gives parts and pieces of the world of The Matrix as back story components. I suppose you would want to watch it after the trilogy as I guess it deals with all three movies. The one story I remember from it, apart from a CGI version of Neo and Morpheus Kong Fu fight, was how the robots first rose up and revolted against the humans. Another very well done movie involving difficult subjects involving robotics/artificial intelligence is the 2001 movie A.I.

@robertstutesman7764 3 жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard when you added in that clip about being flushed.

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

"No one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself" -Morpheus

@whade62000 3 жыл бұрын

"It's a virtual reality. There, I was able to tell you in only 2 words." - Me

@luiscaetano6184 3 жыл бұрын

@@whade62000 in 4, but okay

@rodgomez4424 3 жыл бұрын

I think the crime genre has some true gems. In KZfaq you can find To live and Die in LA (1985). Even if you don't find it is still worth checking out.

@ReadersOfTheApocalypse 3 жыл бұрын

The idea wasn't new back then, but the cinematography was something we've never experienced before. e.g. Dark City (1998) and especially The Thirteenth Floor (1999) - a remake of Welt am Draht (1973) - had similar concepts.

@21gunsalute79 3 жыл бұрын

Queens English we had never

@21gunsalute79 3 жыл бұрын

Jk fam

@ReadersOfTheApocalypse 3 жыл бұрын

@@21gunsalute79 No Queen's English here... only Swabian English.

@PrimeCircuit 2 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe there is someone who hasn't seen Matrix yet.

@heyzooz 3 жыл бұрын

Am I the only person who paused to ready the cats reply to "Do know what the Matrix is?" I saw this in high school (Class of 2000) Talk about mind blowing. I've questioned everything ever sense

@trayolphia5756 3 жыл бұрын

5:02 since the design was so drastically different from the cartoon, he also leant his voice to the character of MEGATRON in the MICHAEL bay transformers movies

@lorettabes4553 3 жыл бұрын

I love how invested you got

@foggydavestfrank 3 жыл бұрын

Saw this in a theater in San Francisco on its first night with no idea what it was... needless to say, it just blew me away! Thanks for reacting to it :)

@seanobrien798 3 жыл бұрын

The concept of the Matrix is not too different from Plato's Allegory Of The Cave in his Socratic dialogue The Republic

@jaystarr6571 2 жыл бұрын

9:00 Morpheus To The Cat: _"It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."_

@Cyberautist 2 жыл бұрын

About minute 25:41. Yes you have seen such movie before. Its called "The Truman Show": A guy living in simulated world kept by the "Agents of this simulation" in it. Then he realized that it is not real. Then he try to escape it and is guided by someone who knows that he is "The One" and all that around him is just a simulation; then this guiding person is abducted by the Agents and he tries to found this abducted person; then found out that he really is the "Chosen One" right from the beginning of the simulation - by seeing the behind the curtain of the simulation. Then he leaves the simulation with last greetings to the "makers of the simulation". Sounds equally like "The Matrix" and "The Truman Show".

@pexxos1 3 жыл бұрын

Favorite commentary quote: "She oracled him good..."

@williamozier918 3 жыл бұрын

This movie does two things that are so brilliant I cant actually think of any other movie that has done them this well, and they are: 1) Every single "special effect" is actually part of the story and moves the plot forward, the fact that things are sped up, or slowed down, or zoomed in, or a different color, are all actual plot elements not just spectacle to look cool. I cant think of many movies that have done that. 2) Every single individual moveent of every action sequence is also a part of the plot and not just cool moves for spectacle. Many movies have done that, but rarely as well and as consistently as this.

@seannovack3834 3 жыл бұрын

Saw this one on Opening Night, knowing virtually nothing about it. Walked out of the theater with my friends and everyone else who had just seen it looking around at the world like..."Um...is it real???" Awesome movie!

@alistairrobinson3865 Жыл бұрын

this moved the game on in so many ways when it came out, such a great film.

@finneasclarke7624 3 жыл бұрын

Please react to Arrival (2016)! It's one of the best science fiction movies!

@albusdumbledore4497 3 жыл бұрын

Yess plzz!!

@kashishmathukiya8091 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that's a great movie! The genius of Denis Villeneuve.

@fabianmonge6765 3 жыл бұрын

Super Yess!!

@takigan 3 жыл бұрын

The ideas used in the Matrix that seem cool or "original" weren't really original ideas. The idea of connecting your brain to a machine so that you can dream a reality of your choosing was explored in Laurence Manning's 1933 novel "The Man Who Awoke". The ideas of linking the mind and nervous system to a virtual cyberspace world as well as storing consciousness in a computer were explored in William Gibson's 1984 novel 'Neuromancer', and the concept of a mind-machine network interface where brains access other brains through a computer network was explored in Masamune Shiro's 1989 manga 'Ghost in the Shell'. So while the Matrix wasn't the first form of media to involve projecting consciousness into virtual worlds, as far I know it was the first film to suggest the idea that our very reality itself might actually be a mass computerized simulation and introduce it to mainstream thought.

@djVOME 3 жыл бұрын

I saw it 12 times in the theatre. 9 different. It's my 3rd favorite movie of all. True Romance being my favorite.

@WarriorVeldoren 3 жыл бұрын

You should check out the movie that expands the world building of the Matrix world called, "The Animatrix."

@ididthisonpulpous6526 3 жыл бұрын

Not directly related to this movie, but I caught part of your livestream earlier and thought I would mention that given your interest in crime and estate planning you really should check out Knives Out. An amazing movie and it has some sweet crossover with your real life interests. Great reaction as usual!

@PavanKumar-fy6fq 3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't resist myself from watching/staring at the cat during the whole intro. 😺

@MST3Killa 3 жыл бұрын

They were thinking about AI and the 'what if' aspects of it since the 1950's when computers started coming along.

@wendyheatherwood 3 жыл бұрын

Isaac Asimov was publishing his robot stories all the way back in the 1940s and had at least one story that had them effectively taking over the world, though in a much more subtle way, by 1950.

@Cheepchipsable 4 ай бұрын

@@wendyheatherwoodAn old movie called Colossus about a computer that takes over the world.

@davidanderson1639 3 жыл бұрын

The scene between Neo & Cypher was originally much longer & further explained why Cypher had become disillusioned with Morpheus. There had been several others before Neo, that Morpheus had prophesied as being ‘The One’....all of which had died when faced with Agents. I also suggest you watch Second Renaissance Pt1&2 which fleshes out the fall of humanity & the rise of the machines; which I’d happily see turned into a full length film.

@zarquondam 3 жыл бұрын

"No one else can tell you whether you're the One. Oh, by the way, you're not the One. Wink wink."

@okeefe757 3 жыл бұрын

I love how you talk about 1999 as back then. Lol. I was 23-24 when this came out. I am old I guess.

@Blandina11 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, some of those people doing reaction vids talk like a 1999 movie is an old black and white silent movie From 1930. 😊🤣 But I guess that's ok, Thx for your vids Mary, and cheers 👍

@user-vc5rp7nf8f 2 жыл бұрын

my fav sci-fi movie. a lot of themes that are worth reading about that make you think about the world

@iwillroam 3 жыл бұрын

Holy smokes, I need to dust off the old DVD. I hadn't remembered how deeply this movie helped send a shockwave throughout... just with the hindsight of 20 years, this film was something like the herald of a seismic shift in society... it's really exciting to get that hindsight!... thank you for the rewatch through a first timer's eyes!

@YouHaventSeenMeRight 3 жыл бұрын

The Matrix pulls from many sources, but the visuals are inspired a lot by Anime, in particular Ghost in the Shell (and possibly others, but then I'm not that deeply steeped in Anime knowledge).

@user-vc5rp7nf8f 2 жыл бұрын

Neo getting shot 19 times Mari: (cursing in dutch) lol