The Wachowskis went from 'raging against the machine' to 'raging on behalf of the machine'

I just now realize that the póster was Neo warning us not to go see this movie…

"Is anyone confused by the original Matrix?" - apparently Lana Wachowski

So we're full on clown world, just having a man and a woman together is conservative propaganda.

Congrats on linking up with Critical Drinker and them last week, hopefully your channel will grow fast now.

i fell asleep watching the movie and.i just literally listened to a british chap talk and make a review about it for an hour without a problem

I watched this movie with a friend. He waited for my family to visit his so we could all watch together. We started, I got bored and started fiddling with my phone, I fell asleep, woke up and it was still going. I said I would finish it, but I’ve never prayed more for a movie to end. I became physically uncomfortable waiting for the end. And afterwards, I was swept up with a feeling of vast amounts of wasted time.

*Regurgitations* was a two+ hour therapy session for Lana Wachowski. That pretty much sums it up.

Go, Little Platoon, go... you're going up!!! I hope you give up your 9 to 5 job and live long out of KZfaq. We need people like you, man.

When Lana wrote them to say the studio made them make it I knew I was in for a bad time...

I was genuinely saddened by this film...... I could not be more disappointed if I had son who, after getting his Doctorate and finished his internship, fellowship, and placed first in everything. Then went to work at Wal-Mart as a stock boy. Who slang boxed wine as a side gig. And still lived in my basement. And could not even get a chic that's got 3 kids, over 48 years old with 6 baby daddies and 100 bodies to date him.

Lana warned warned us in the opening act, with the restaurant sign, "Anderson's: For those who like to eat shit."

In my version of the Matrix there is just one Matrix movie and three Indiana Jones movies.

Ironically, with all the cyber threats of today this technology is not antiquated at all. Using a hardline is one of the most secure ways to make a phone call.

This whole movie was like an Italian nock-off of the original Matrix that had some of the same actors

If nothing else tells you the Wachowski's are not the original creators of the Matrix the sequels should.

Suggesting that the review of Neil Patrick Harris is limited; if you've seen him in Starship Troopers or Dr Horrible, he definitely can play that role, even in How I Met your Mother he was an asshat, though still charismatic rather than menacing

My theory is they didn't want to make this. But WB eventually said they would make it with or without them. So they decided to make it as bad as possible, so no one would possibly want another trilogy.

"A good film doesn't make you consider your own arse." 😂 If I wasn't already subbed, this would have made me do it! As it was it made me choke on my drink. You are fantastic sir. 💜👏

The fact that your mum and her friends enjoyed this explains a lot to me. My wife has, since meeting me (about 12 years ago) learned to like super hero movies; she already liked SF and fantasy but has never read a comic in her life. But it's only while watching movies together that I've realised she likes them as a normie rather than a fan. She likes things that I hate and hates things that I love - usually endings to long running series. Most people don't watch SF and fantasy the way that we do and only rarely do you get a movie that has broad cross-viewer appeal, such as The Terminator.

Although I never played it, I was interested enough to look up what happened in The Matrix Online, which was the MMORPG which, if I was going to use any game as a continuity source for this, is what I would have used. Morpheus died in MxO; I can't remember how it happened exactly, but there was a long quest arc where people went looking for his body. The humans also built another version of Zion, supposedly even deeper and closer to the core than the one we saw, and the Machines found out about it and interpreted it as a hostile act, which led the Architect (the man who looked like Sigmund Freud in Reloaded) to end the Truce. In other words, there was a perfectly viable, canonical onramp available for a good story in this film. It essentially would have been about the resumption of the war, and the humans having to deal with Morpheus' death. I would not have minded if they had brought Neo back, because they could easily just fudge that his code had been spread out all over the Matrix after he exploded at the end of fighting Smith; and sure it would be complete bullshit, but you couldn't really do another film in this franchise with all three of the principles dead, and of the three, Neo's return could be the most credible, due to the idea of resurrection fitting in with Jesus' mythology, which Neo was meant to be an echo of. I could actually see a really good character arc there, where Neo wakes up in the Matrix after the reboot, and then has to go looking for someone who can tell him what has happened, and reconnect with the rebels etc. If I thought I was remotely capable of it, and if Warner Bros weren't going to either squash me like a bug or just reject it outright, I might even be tempted to try and write a script; or at least enough for a rough pitch. I think I qualified as a definite superfan of the Matrix back in the day, and I feel as though the fandom deserves a lot better than what we got here. Some closure a la Luke's appearance in the Mandalorian in SW terms, at least.

As a writer currently working on a fantasy novel, I found your comment about lore following story not vice versa to be very interesting. There is much ado about worldbuilding and how you must lay the foundation for your story, but the story can dictate the world as well. Quite the chicken-or-egg-first debate. 🤔 I love how much you always give me to think about! 😅

Wasn’t confused in the Matrix at all, but in Reloaded where the Architect uses 100 weird words where 10 will do I think we were all confused.

Hope your videos get recognised more mate. If I may recommend having critical drinker or mauler cameo for one of your videos not sure how you might go about that but it could gain you the attention needed for people to introduce themselves to your channel. I only found you thanks to them both but i definitely believe you deserve the same recognition.

I thought I was the only one who remembered this scene “not like this not like this”. Superb delivery too. Anyways catching up to all your videos. Fantastic job brother. Keep it going. There has to be a way to veer this activist mindset that Hollywood is delivering

Initially before this film released... I thought doing a reboot of the in universe matrix through a reboot of THE MATRIX FRANCHISE could have been a GENIUS idea... little did I know how much more dedicated to the Matrix I was as a fan than it's own creator was... it's honestly horrible that they destroyed any future hopes of this franchise because...hatred? Funnily enough... the whole "Triniy being the one" actually had foundations in the original trilogy... when Neo removed the bullet from Trinity & restarts her heart in the 2nd film, they could've VERY EASILY said he transferred some of his power to her through that action!

I went into this movie expecting nothing, and as a result I didn’t hate this movie as much as I thought I would. Did I like it? No. It’s a crappy movie that does none of what made The Matrix remarkable and popular in the first place. My affection for the franchise died as I exited the cinema after the third movie. My feeling was “well, at least it’s over with.” I still love the first Matrix and feel it should have never gotten a sequel. Did I hate this movie? No. It’s not as abysmal, insulting, and mean spirited towards its own series and fans as The Last Jedi, for example. Rather, my reaction was one of indifference stemming from the fact that I hold no great love for anything Matrix apart from the original film.

1:03:00 - WELP!! It may have taken me a whole day but I think I know who you were thinking of. During the stream I initially suggested Kende. But I think you might have been thinking of Elie Mystal. Writes for The Nation as you mentioned, and a “real piece of work” as it were. Really loving your work, keep it up!”

Thanks for the upload, it was a good listen :)

Don't ask questions, just watch and enjoy 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

It seemed like a big middle finger to WB/universal

Chord: "But NeilPatrick Harris Is Not A Villainous Actor" Me: Someone's clearly not watched the 'Harold & Kumar' movies 😂

Neil Patrick Harris can't play a villain? Someone didn't see A Series Of Unfortunate Events... Granted that's essentially a live-action cartoon, but I mean, so is this kinda

I didn’t even watch it for free while flying overseas. Thanks for your input. Good as always M

1:06:00 - It's no wonder that her review is one of the most (relatively) positive that you found, because she's also a sh-t writer who can't keep her story straight, even from one sentence to the next, so she feels a sense of kinship with whoever wrote Resurrections. First she says that internet trolls have stolen the red pill phrase (I'm not sure why it couldn't be considered a reimagining of the phrase... updated for a modern audience), but then in the very next sentence she says this theft was perpetrated by "some of the most dangerous" people in politics. It really says a lot about the fragility of her political views, and the need for complete domination. Despite the fact that 99% of businesses, media outlets, celebrities and public figures will parrot all of her talking points... she's terrified of a few "trolls" meming on a movie that came out a quarter century ago. She also thinks that having no white leaders, and all but one of those leaders being female, shows an interest in "collapsing binaries" rather than simply being an inversion of the binaries she evidently imagines to exist in the real world today. These binaries don't exist, and haven't existed for many decades, which just reinforces the point TLP made earlier in this video... these activists think they're bold, edgy and subversive. They think they're punk. They think they are red pilled, but in our present day reality they're not even blue pilled, which would somewhat let them off the hook for such stupidity... they are the machine.

36:55 - I get it. Balance can only be achieved by keeping hetero love unfulfilled. And who better to deliver the message than a gay man like Neil Patrick Harris. Oh how meta. Lana you saucy girl.

Great episode sir!

Where is this arcane review? 🤨

This whole movie seems like its just a meta move complaining about the current movie industry being desperate for sequels and reboots and nostalgia bait, so they crapped out a movie doing every wrong thing knowing full well that Hollywood would gobble up a steaming pile of diarrhea with glee and gratitude. Thats the only explanation I have for the same person who did the Matrix movies, even without the other person, making a movie this fucking crap. It was on purpose.

@TheLittlePlatoon I watched this insult to not only a brilliant trilogy but also to the entire film industry. Twice!! After watching resurrections for the 2nd time I watched your review. THANK YOU!! I was confused with most of the film to the point I actually drew blood by biting my cheek trying to make sense. Both times I watched it. Asides from the suicide part ( I Don't pay any attention to news or anything like that so I am under informed in that respect.) I agree with just about everything you've said in this review. Also have to give huge Kudos for Black Panther 2 Wakandan boobaloo had me in stitches. Look forward to seeing more of your reviews

Wasn’t the analyst based off of Ben Shapiro loosely? They even used one of his tag lines. I think that would be why they got a nice guy who was non threatening to be the big bad… because looking at Shapiro or hearing him he just comes off as a right wing nice man.

good job mate

I know, it is old and a thing of the past now, but I love you

Many Thanks!

at your last comment's it also relates to Vilma people don't care about what Vilma preaches

1:10:00 Its just weird that a reviewer would go "I dont understand this movie. Is the movie maybe a mess? Nah! The movie is brilliant, Im just too dumb to understand it!" Thats about the point where you should probably fold and hand off the review to someone smarter.

The plot of this movie is so nonsensical and boring that even listening to The little platoon dunk on it can’t hold my interest for more than 10 minutes! That’s really saying something because his videos are the best!

I'll disagree on two points my solid friend. Firstly that the Matrix isn't complicated, I would have thought with your background you'd be more verse in the book that was researched in detailing the film Simulacra and Simulation. There are so many elements of philosophy and religious subtext in the Matrix that subconsciously even you are told that you have to see it again. As for the Matrix Resurrection I'd be surmised to say it captures these same points and for a fan who wanted to see another hoo-rah at it for me it hit the mark. So that was my second point of disagreement in being obviously it depends what type of fan you are of the originial Matrix to have or lack interest in the sequels. Love and admire your work throughout and good showing as always!! 😎

Watched the beginning of the movie and I'm thinking of Grandma's Boy, and that's all I can think about because it's a much better movie.

There was still a dollar or two to be squeezed from this franchise and that's all that mattered.

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35:10 Roger and Ebert and Mom

The only point to watching this is to see how much the director hates having to be here

I think the name of that marxist dude you were thinking about was cornel west.

Never commented on that but.... that is probably the only of your reviews in which you were struggling for words, were exasperatedly huffing and puffing for lack of any other expression. If a movie can render your eloquent and sharp-tongued self that speechless, it is sure to be abyssmal. And... it is. Thanks anyway for trying and yes, I think, we all shared that feeling.

....worth a watch and don't worry about it....

I think this abomination is a "sequel" to the old PS2 game, a movie-version done very differently. It even could be like this abomination is a simulation inside a game to phase-shift into a movie-phase, a simulation inside the Matrix, like it's own Hollyweird. All the same shenanigans-worldbuilding & gobbledygook-storytelling, but THAT could've kinda explained the different style/tone & strange connectivity as a sequel, even though it's not quite a sequel. To be fair, I like the Anime-mentality, but it's done in such a bad & cheap way, this abomination has no right to even exist. Though a competently done continuation, with, let's say Neo & Trinity as agent-programs, with some old memories, as the machines thank you to the humans, with them both acting as the independent police-force, with humans & machines as equals, fighting a new threat (maybe the alien-invasion from that old comic), would've made sense.

and that moment with your mother and her friends didn't get you to click to what is being done? Oh boy...sometimes I think that people are just willingly refusing to address something obvious because it's too scary otherwise.

I bugged and thought he said Morbius

You might need to watch it again. The OG Matrix trilogy was an allegorical tale about an omnipresent control system, but the newest one is quite literally showing you all the different ways which the actual control system limits the world we inhabit. The majority of people I’ve seen complaining about it are people who are addicted to the various means of control which are highlighted in the film.

made no sense ur right

One of the worst crimes of this film, relative to the originals, was the way they completely destroyed The Merovingian, who was _potentially_ one of the most interesting characters to bring forward (it was never going to be Neo or Trinity, for obvious reasons). But...regarding the Wachowskis' politics, the people-jumping-out-of-buildings thing was explicitly explained in the original film - in the woman-in-the-red-dress sequence, Morpheus explains that everybody who isn't unplugged is a threat and their lives are of no consequence relative to the mission. Or, to put it another way, if you're not one of us then your life doesn't matter.

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My favorite part of the movie was realizing Martha Jones is still hot.

Approach with some trepidation. I haven't heard any good things about this movie.

The thing about a queer woman being physically powerful in this is it's the matrix. She can do that

You sound SO MUCH like a younger, sexier, funnier Douglas Murray (which is himself great)

Sounds awful. I'll give it a miss.

It's astounding to me that all the prattle I hear about politics this politics that yet NOBODY even seems to know what it is !? Politics is never precisely defined yet you constantly hear people talking about & mentioning it but to me politics is theater/entertainment for people to get caught up in & occupy themselves with & it's meaningless at the end of the day , & the status quo will go on .

I think you are stuck in the matrix

Id like to see a video about "Inception," as ive never thought anyone would say its as bad as you seem to think... or says the opposite, frankly. Anyway... The "sequel trilogy" absolutely killed the OT by making Luke's story MEANINGLESS. I'm really surprised youd say that it didn't kill the OT, but rather, ignored it. They shat on EVERY character from the OT that brought them the fanbase they preyed upon and when Rey stole the Skywalker name, it became clear that not only did the sequels kill the OT, but even worse, appropriated, replaced, and raped the OT to death in a ditch. Fortunately, my determination of what is and isn't canon can NEVER be bought for 4 billion dollars. I don't mean to sound nasty, so please don't read any animosity into this comment. 😄

It was so boring. I fell asleep multiple times.

Sorry, but this is unwatchable. Your videos are often spectacular and being a critic, I’m hoping you can take some because having you describe a hard to describe film when you can’t remember what happened and when is just painful to sit through. I hope you avoid this scattershot approach in the future. You don’t need a full script, just a list of bullet points, just anything to lend some structure to an already messy foundation that is this film.

As soon as i saw the blue haired boy/girl/whatever, i knew it was over. Woke nonsense aside, its an AWFUL movie that was only barely watchable because... nostalgia and Keanu and Carrie trying to do a job worthy of a much better movie. Just another beloved IP sacrified to the perpetually offended cancer that has taken over "entertainment."

Haha this film was SO garbage it made me upset

Pretty much everything Neil Patrick Harris is in is trash

Have you watched “tales from the loop” ? Me and my bf were pleasantly surprised at their hopeful messaging combined with the retro-future vibes

I watched this movie with a friend. He waited for my family to visit his so we could all watch together. We started, I got bored and started fiddling with my phone, I fell asleep, woke up and it was still going. I said I would finish it, but I’ve never prayed more for a movie to end. I became physically uncomfortable waiting for the end. And afterwards, I was swept up with a feeling of vast amounts of wasted time.