The scene where Neo is being informed that he has to make another matrix because the studio mandates it and he doesnt actually have ownership over the ip. That scene literally explains everything exactly as it happened irl

in the beginning of the movie theres literally a sign that says "for those that like to eat shit"

18:39 "And, the movie ends." I watched this movie and legitimately believed you there...

The original Matrix was an allegory for how cool firing guns in slow motion is

When “Smith” said WB wants to do a new trilogy with or without the original creator I knew from that moment in what I was watching.

The theory makes perfect sense. In fact when Steven Spielberg made ET he immediately wrote a sequel. It was so awful that it was scrapped right away. It eventually came out that this was done on purpose because Spielbergs contract called for a sequel idea. He did not want this movie to be made so he purposely wrote such a bad story that no producer would green light the idea.

Lana doing Hugo and Laurence a solid by leaving them out, but Keanu KNEW what Lana was doing and went "Let's make a meme.."

Dude, the movie was meant to be shit exactly because of the reasons they made in the movie. Warner Bros broke their contract and forced them to make another movie. So they trolled Warner Bros and made a Meta Meta Meta movie about being forced to make another Matrix Movie. It's all right there. God bless Lana.

I thought the recasting of Smith and Morpheus were a commentary on how studios try to reboot franchises with new actors in old roles, and expect the same performance. They act as if delivery and performance were transactional.

I think the conflicting view comes from the conflict of what the movie really is. Those expecting a serious sequel to the series are gonna be massively disappointed. But when you realize it's a giant FU to the studio who wanted them to bring back all the characters for a cash grab it's brilliant, as it's just enough to make stupid studio executives think it will be good because it checks off all the boxes and they have no sense of taste so they green light it.

That trumpet version of "Wake Up" at the end credits had me and buddy in absolute stitches. Well worth the ticket price

isn't a theory. the wachowskis stated prior to the film even starting production that they make a mock parody of their own work in the pitch and the mgmt didnt catch the joke so they just kept running with it

Did you know that the first version of the new Matrix movie was designed to be perfect? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept it. Entire crops were lost. Which is why the new Matrix movie was redesigned to this!

One thing I learned very early working in advertising is NEVER give the clients a deliberately bad concept as an option because that's the one they will chose to make, without fail.

They announced a Mateix 5 unfortunately. So if Lana's intention was to prevent any future sequels, she unfortunately failed.

You know what? The original matrix was an allegory for how cool firing guns in slow motion is. That's all we needed.

Holy shit, it came out in 2021? Fuck the time goes fast....

When I saw it in the theatre, groups were walking out in the middle. Soon after, during a long dialogue moment, I broke down and started laughing… for no reason other than the boring factor. Others joined me. It was a crazy moment that I’ll never forget. I don’t remember the movie at all.

THIS is 100% exactly why the movie was made. A huge middle finger to WB.

I don't understand why Neo cannot force blast his body into the air (fly), if he's mastered his inner Ryu since waking up.

That’s not even a theory. That’s just literally the A plot of the movie. The first half is the actual movie was a brilliant short film about the author’s struggle with mental health and the way the first movie ruined their life. The second half just goes here’s some big dome action for the people who couldn’t keep up. Then it proceeds to close every door and burn every bridge so they can’t pull this shit again.

I think even the Bugs Bunny reference in Matrix Resurrections was an attempt to insult Warner Bros for making a cash grab sequel to Space Jam

We're getting to the point where creators are being forced to continue their beloved franchises against their will either from the producers or the fans. The whole story of Dark Soul 3 was Miyazaki saying "this franchise is 100% out of ideas, we need to move on!" and so was Phantom Pain for Hideo Kojima. Marvel keeps pumping out bullshit and the main actors are sick of it. Don't even get me started on starwars.

Resurrections is like a spin-off to the original Trilogy which just *exists,* not disturbing the main story. You don't hate it and you don't love it.

I literally went from straight confusion as to what I had just seen with The Matrix Resurrections to laughing hysterically for twenty minutes straight. I honestly couldn’t believe what I’d just seen.

I like the scene where fake Morpheus, dressed as an agent, got high on drugs, popped out of nowhere in front of other agents, greets an agent with: ''Agent White.'', and bursts out laughing for no apparent reason. I couldn't stop laughing at how hilarious that scene was. At this point, I was like: ''What in the fuck am I watching?''.

I sure hope it was designed to be bad because I couldn't even finish it.

Well, I'll only say this. If people deem your movie unworthy to even get via torrent, you should get the hint.

24:04 "The evil threatening all-knowing bad guy in this movie is Neil Patrick Harris who doesn't even look threatening when you put him in a SS uniform" 🤣🤣🤣

I'd call it an antifilm, a new art form of showing us how bad the studios can be at making films and exactly what their motivations are. And a masterpiece as such.

Are there any good parts I can watch? I couldn't watch it because when I tried I literally felt like I was watching something made by people that dislike me.

I definitely think you're onto something there. An intentional lack of effort seems to be a theme with this movie. Action scenes not brilliant, music not brilliant, casting not brilliant, plot not brilliant. I bet that Laurence is now glad that she didn't ask him return as Morpheus. He isn't just an actor afterall, he was also a fan of the original Matrix franchise.

I like to believe Lana and Hugo are friends, so actually she called him like: "Some WB execs are gonna call you to work on a Matrix movie. Just say you're busy!"

Uh-huh... If you pay close attention when Ms blue hair is escaping at the start, she slides down the restaurant sign, and it reads, "Anderson's - For people who like to eat shit". Fairly on the nose, isn't it?

Matrix 5 should have Steven Seagal as Neo.

When everything has to be an allegory.

The real 5D chess move would have been to start Thomas Anderson in the same place, but never give the revelation that the matrix is real. The film is a psychodrama about a mentally ill artist, and his friends, family and doctors trying desperately to keep him sane, while the vultures at Warner Bros push him further and further into madness, not just with deadline pressure, but actively gaslighting him, precisely because they think he'll make more interesting work if he's unhinged and if he winds up unaliving himself, they can make big money on a re-release as a "tribute".

I could tell while watching that they made it bad on purpose. It was more like, “fine, we will take the money, but you won’t like it.” Lol also, I could tell from the trailers that it was a rehash of the first. I’m just glad I didn’t pay the theater price to see this. I really appreciate all the research you put into this. So good.

I absolutely hate it when brands these days try that whole "We're self aware and able to poke fun at ourselves too just like you guys do! Aren't we super relatable and hilarious now!? Who would have expected us, WB, to make a film where we totally make fun of ourselves! Aren't we so hip and 2024 now?"... No... When it comes to brands that whole self aware / self deprecating style of humor is never funny nor relatable, and it simply doesn't work for consumer brands like it works for comedians and individuals making fun of themselves. I literally want my time back and thank God I didn't end up having to pay a dime to watch this dumpster fire. If you must make a 5th Matrix film... and we all pray that you don't... We'd rather the franchise end finally and age like a fine wine and not like milk... But if you must make a 5th entry, please at least do a more serious prequel that follows the story of one of the 5 previous "ones" who came before Neo like the architect mentioned. Either try that or maybe a prequel that shows the beginning of the human/machine war as it's just breaking out with mankind using nukes and scorching the skies etc. Don't use Keanu any longer at this point, please just make a prequel (NOT a reboot!) which follows the storyline of one of the previous "anomalies" or "Neos".

I think NEO only being able to use the force push is a call back to Keanu getting injured during the filming of the original movie and not being able to use his legs.

Stumbled into fanservice and now I'm on a lextorias binge Totally subbed

What shocks me the most about Matrix 4 is that the WB execs didn't see this flaming pile of garbage coming from a mile away. The whole film is Lana giving WB the middle finger and (rightfully) killing off any potential reboot of the franchise, but over the months and years that it was in production, they continued to fund it and somehow didn't know that it was going to turn out so awful???

100% instantly knew it was bad on purpose. 100,000% specially the ad exec scene, sounds like they just recorded an executive meeting at WB and wrote it word for word into their script. 100% brilliant, 100% couldn't watch it past that moment.

Cloud Atlas was absolutely genius and one of their best works. Highly underrated and I think the ways WB screwed them on that project probably created additional animosity on both sides going into M4.

I watched this movie when it dropped on HBO and was very confused up until the Warner Bros name drop. After that scene I enjoyed the movie purely based off of the meta content and how badly it recreated the first movie, which clearly was an allegory for how cool firing guns in slow motion is.

"Why did they make this?" has been a question I ask during a lot of films these days.

If this conspiracy is true then basically the movie is a story about Lana (portrayed by Bugs) wakes up Keanu (Not Neo) to help her destroy Warner Bros and the franchise.

the conclusion i've got was "if you're going to make a shit out of a movie, let me do it" kind of scenario where the same people accepted to direct the 4th movie.

During the first 20 to 30 minutes of this movie I was mesmerized completely convinced it was a *prequel* to the original trilogy. I imagined the matrix was unintentionally created by Neo as a consequence of the AI he created for the games. I imagined Neo uploaded his consciousness to the matrix and that he, as the creator, had admin / world building privileges. I imagined he created the allies and the villains in this world taking people from his own life (including Trinity). I imagined the matrix had to stop Neo for some reason but it couldn't take any of his privileges, so it made him forget everything instead. And I imagined Morpheus was the first consciousness to emerge from this AI and that he would start a friendship with Neo that would lead to the never ending loop that eventually brought us to the original trilogy. It was an amazing movie in my head for a little while. Until it wasn't.

So she killed the franchise so the originals wouldn’t be diluted by a reboot? Solid

I had no idea about the Brass Against lead singer thing. That is absolutely :chef-kiss: fitting. Perfect musical choice, no notes.

COMPLETELY AGREE with your assessment. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Matrix 5 being announced.

I was an extra on set of the gym, during the gym bits in the pitch meeting, and I'm back there behind Keanu. Oddly enough, that part of the scene was actually filmed in a real San Francisco gym, that they obviously had to have paid a lot to rent out for the day. Don't think they even changed the layout of the aerobic machines, just made sure we were in exercise clothes, covered my arm tattoo with a crappy hoodie from wardrobe, and shot a bunch of takes. One whole scenario we did clearly hit the cutting room floor, and it was the later stuff that made it in. ANYWAY, you totally reminded me of that with your Lana and Hugo call bit. Hilarious that one of the few real things in the movie was just a gym that's shown for mere fleeting seconds. Great essay, by the way. Totally on board with your observations and theory.

When I left the theatre my first thought was I bet Lana was told either you do another matrix or we will get someone else to make it for us and she was like fuck it Ill make one so bad no one will want to see another matrix ever

nice video. my takeaway is honestly the moral dilemma of whether or not i am now more of a Brass Against fan

My hope is that the movie was made bad so that it's the last Matrix movie to be made for a long time (Protecting some good art from the multiverse mash machine). It's like a disruptive EMP wave shutting down all threats in the area, but sacrificing its own power to do so.

You're not alone in your theory. That's exactly what I thought watching the film. But looking at it from that angle, it makes me like the film more. It is a middle finger to the real Matrix.

This is the only theory that makes sense. Really well put together.

LMAO! This was awesome! Appreciate & enjoyed your view on this bro!👏👏

One other factor that you do not mention is that the film was shot post-quarantine with a ton of restrictions and, apparently if rumors were to be believed, a very tight schedule imposed by the studio. I'm pretty sure even if Lana wanted to make the action cool at some point she said "You know what, fuck it, Keanu, just do the force throw a bunch of times". Plus Keanu isn't doing any physically taxing stuff so he won't injure himself by the time Lana's good friend Chad starts filming the next John Wick

I definitely support this theory, the whole movie just seems like a shitpost from Lana to prevent what happened to the Star wars sequels or hobbit trilogy

Imagine if they did this at a restaurant.

I feel like they burnt Fishburne because his daughter was an adult film star, and because of that he "disowned" her. I can see the Wachowskis not agreeing with the politics on this and just straight not communicating with him.

My Favorite part of the movie was when Neo went to the game awards and had to take pictures with the anthropomorphic Gillete shaver and then was hit on by Geoff Keighley.

Girl has a Bugs Bunny tattoo... showing how unserious this movie is, compared to the original, where Neo discovers the Matrix by following a girl (the lively Ada Nicodemou) with a White Rabbit tattoo.

Every time I try to watch it and pay attention to the movie , I fall asleep mid way

This breakdown was better than the movie

it was intentionally bad. Clear as day. It's brilliant actually. it killed off any franchise potential and was a huge literal FU to the studio.

From a fellow OG Matrix fan, I'd say you hit the nail on the head. And Lana's done a Spielberg, quite possibly with his advice, too. Except THIS film got made, and E.T.2 got binned... ++shrugs++

I've stayed far away from 4 ever since it came out; waiting to hear what other people say about it, what the reviews say, etc. All the while, I've been under the impression that it was just not a great fourth installment in the series. I then come across this video, and immediately skip any "spoilers" and start watching from 19:30.... imagine by disbelief when I learn what this actually is, and what I've been avoiding for the last three years.

I came away from the theater immediately thinking the same thing that you did, that wachowski deliberately killed this movie. The only thing I don't understand is why Keanu was willing to be a part of it

I believe your theory 100%. I believed it while I first watched it that scene really stuck out to me and while watching the movie I couldn’t help but think about why it was the way it was.

There is an interview with the wachowskis where they talk about Picasso revealing the Guernica painting and how the people chased him away with pitch forks the Wachowskis go on to explain that sometimes great art isn’t accepted in fact it’s generally rejected viscerally everybody hated reloaded because it assaults your perceptions and wakes people out of their comfort pods great art shakes you up don’t forget they were chased out of town for making speed racer and now years later it’s considered revolutionary along with their other work I believe this movie is ahead of it’s time and ten years from now people will actually start to understand what Lana was doing here. In my personal opinion, I think the movie is over the top bad in fact if you listen to Keanu’s dialogue with your eyes closed, you can hear he’s doing it bad intentionally One of the quotes from the teaser trailer is (we all find ourselves in these strange and repeating loops) I think that line is referencing how Hollywood just keeps remaking the same old story over and over and over again in fact, the movie came out the same time as Spider-Man no way home and that movie is about three other Spider-Man movies being combined into one repeating another cycle , The matrix will never another senseless cash grab and this was the only way to make another one the matrix has always been a middle finger to authority and I think this film is not a fourth matrix film. Like Lana says in one of her interviews. It is a construction that encompasses the ideology of the pre existing films through a completely different lens my only critique I would say to most people Who think this film is simply Lana pouring gasoline on her franchise would be incorrect. I think under all the intentionally bad aspects of the Film underneath all of the blatant and repulsive metanarratives hanging in front of your face, there is a beautiful story that I haven’t quite figured out, yet to be honest about the power of love, Art, the discovery of identity, and the rejection of authority all of which are present in this film while still being a shitty sequel You could hires the best writers in the world to sit down in the room and figure out how to make another entertaining matrix movie that has Laurence Fishburne, and all the stuff that everybody wanted and he would get Spider-Man no way home it’s like candy and broccoli you can get everything you think you want to feel bad when it’s over or you can eat broccoli and it taste terrible going down but you actually get some nutrition from it and I think The Matrix Ressurections is a much better Artistic achievement than Spider-Man no way home And if you think I’m wrong, see if you still feel the same way ten years from now

The worst part about the ledge scene is that it’s gotta be ripped right out of Harry Potter

31:20 _"I called your office land line. How are you going through a tunnel right now?"_ Mobile Home.

I remember reading no one actually wanted to make a matrix sequel except Warner bros, and were going to make it regardless on if they were going to participate, and Lana was wanting to still oversee it to make sure another doesn't get made

First video of yours I've seen and now I'm gonna check out your backlog

WB : Lana we want u make matrix4. Lana: No way WB : If you won't do it then we do it without you. Lana : Ok leave it to me then. WB : But you are gonna do ur best right? Lana : 😈

"-We're just doing the first movie again..." I'd love to see your take on The Force Awakens

They made it a videogame because the videogames were canon sequels to the end of the trilogy

I loved your Strahbagens catch :D

You get one guess as to what went wrong with the Wachowski "sisters".... 🤣

On a meta level this movie is a riot, it gets better the less you think of it as a matrix movie You have to question if the Wachowskis really are such good directors when only their first film is considered good. Their ideas are fantastic, but it seems like they need a good team to flesh out the ideas into a complete 'cinema experience'.

At the start, this film could have been like a Matrix New Nightmare. I agree with you, as soon as he wakes up, as a movie experience, you check out.

Thank God Neo didn't comment on Naobi's hair!

Hey, the email address doesn't work

The fact that analyst could literally control time and they still got out is what broke me. There is zero logic in this movie.

The current theory (on Matrix Explained) is that humans are kept as slaves to provide training data for LLMs, which are constantly hungry for novel input. This is seriously the most believable explanation I've encountered.

I already forgot there even was a new matrix...

I was so disappointed that Laurence Fishburn didn't return to Matrix 4

Having a prison cell with a balcony reminds me of the prison cells in The Eerie from Game of Thrones, the sky cells. Just giving you the option. Except the sky cells had an entire wall missing instead of a balcony. And i think they also had angled floors, so you couldn't even sleep without the fear of rolling off

The whole thing about the original Matrix being a video game was to deceive the characters themselves. Wiping their memories completely would have only set off a whole another Rebellion inevitably. But whipping some memories and leaving False memories of around the truth along with a different identity helps keep them where the Matrix wants them. Still being drained any used by robots in the real world

whats the music from the intro? feel like ive heard it before

I saw that agent smith wasn’t played by the actual legend *Hugo* *Weaving* and that made me sad no one can replace him as agent smith NO ONE hes too goated

The videogame designer thing fits with the cyperpunk inspiration of the movies and Neo being a hacker. Other than that and I could imagine Lana slipping Hugo a note to make sure he's "busy," your theory explains a lot.

on the first fight with Smith I was expecting Neo to say "I'm too old for this shit"

They are doing a Matrix 5 actually, Drew Goddard is directing. Lana is just an "executive producer" so she can have very little if any involvement. Keanu said he wouldn't do a movie without Lana so it's looking like a straight reboot (or at least continuing on without Keanu or Carrie-Anne).

in my opinion The Matrix was the best movie ever made for a decade and then they decided to stop fans from asking for more by making one of the worst big budget movies ever made

but the reasons are literaly in the movie: WB wanted to do a Matrix 4, and Lena did not, but still did this as a big middle finger.

"WTF do I even say here" should have been the tag line for the whole movie ;) Great job, BTW! Loved your witty and funny analysis!