For anyone who wants them (which, I imagine, is everyone) 4:55 The Golden Globes Nominations 10:49 The Matrix 35:18 Animatrix 51:40 The Matrix Reloaded 1:24:51 The Matrix Revolutions 1:42:08 Q&A 1:53:00 Adam's reccommendation (Buffalo '66)

Everyone has their own Star Wars. For Adam, it's The Matrix, for Ralph, it's Star Wars, and for Alex it's Madagascar. All unforgettable trilogies.

"Jab is such a violent word" American word: shot

On the machines' use of humans as an energy source making no sense: my understanding is that the Wachowskis' original script gave a different reason for the creation of The Matrix: the machines are using humans' brains for processing power as part of a distributed network. While the conscious part of your mind is doing whatever in the Matrix, another part of your brain is being used as part of a supercomputer, basically. This makes more sense because it not only does it not contradict the laws of thermodynamics, it explains why the machines need humans specifically (most complex brains in the animal kingdom) and why we need to be conscious--our brains need to be active to be useful for the machines. But the producers felt general audiences wouldn't understand a complicated plot involving parallel processing and got the Wachowskis to change the machines' motivation to something Laurence Fishburne could explain by holding a simple household object, a Duracell battery, up between two fingers.

Ralph: So would you take the red or the blue pill? Adam: I would say a six closer to a seven than five.

Adam seems like a character created by Tim Burton

I had a dream Adum sang the Neon Genesis Evangelion theme song but in English, and in his usual cringey way of tying it in with Sardonicast and woke up because it felt all too real.

0/10 podcast, did not start with the Eric Andre Morpheus song.

---QUESTION TIMESTAMPS--- 1:42:27 - What is the best special effect you've ever seen in a movie that impresses you? 1:47:27 - What are your thoughts on the golden raspberry awards? 1:49:46 - Why do you watch films you already know are bad?

We actually get to see Adum be a nostalgic fanboy for once.

An Marrige Story/ Kramer vs Kramer episode would be neat

Besides the first Matrix, I always found "The Second Renaissance" parts 1 and 2 of the Animatrix to be the most memorable and compelling part of the universe. Great story, art direction, tone, music, etc. It has really stuck with me over the years,

I personally hate the Razzies for the fact that they nominated Stanley Kubrick for worst director for The Shining. They also nominated Shelly Duval for worst actress for the same movie.

The original script for the Matrix had humans used as co-processors rather than as a power source but the studio thought audiences wouldn't accept that concept so they changed it.

The first Matrix was really good but the 2nd and 3rd feels like a dream looking back at them.

Ralph, the reason Skynet doesn't go back even further in time and prevent the human species from existing is that that would prevent IT from existing as well. It doesn't want to disrupt the sequence of events that led to its own creation; that's what the heroes try to do in T2.

My favorite effect from any movie would have to be Davy Jones and his crew from Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3. Despite being 13 years old, the motion capture and CGI still looks perfect. Not to mention the fact that every member of the crew has their own different and unique design.

what really blew my mind was when i realized "Cypther" was one of the Fertelli brothers in the movie "Goonies" i was like Neo... "whoa"

I thought Alex did like How to Train Your Dragon 3?

An animated feature from this year that was great in my opinion of I Lost My Body on Netflix. Really interesting, fairly dark French animated featured.

I just love when Adam talks about the stuff he loves. Great episode, really nice how everyone had different levels of engagement with the material and it came through in the discussion.

Klaus and Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus were good animated movies, that were on Netflix

Let me just start out saying that I love this podcast and I listen to every episode. Last night I was listen to this episode as I was falling asleep and I think I must of dreamt or imagined something rather odd. (After revisiting the episode in the morning I realized it was all a dream) so I thought the 3 of you all broke out into song. I cant remember all the lyrics, but Ralph was singing about how sardonicasts center was love and that he found Adam and Alex very attractive. And Alex chimed in with a verse about being yourself, letting your guard down and having a good time. And then Adam comes in all tender and sings about how sardonicast is his new family and that the audience is a part of that family. There was a animation to go along with the song and everything. It was a very vivid experience. I hope people notice my comment becuz this is too funny to go to waste

I used to think "yeah the acting in the Matrix is stiff" but then i thought "they were created by machines. Also there is no sunlight so there is no serotonin in their brains. Makes sense."

I adore Buffalo ‘66, can’t wait for the next episode

I Lost My Body is a French animated film this year, from the same writer as Ameile, and it was actually really good

3:23 "some people die of the flu this time of year" yea i guess you could say that

I think the themes and ideas are deeper in the sequels but the execution is the best in the 1st.

I actually watched the first Matrix a couple nights ago, completely forgetting that it was a Sardonicast recommendation

On The Matrix's idea of a computer-generated fake world being confused for reality being the first time anyone had ever done that: Dark City came out the year before and has essentially the same reveal. It also has a similar neo-noir aesthetic.

When I read Neuromancer, I was shocked by how much of it was in The Matrix, to the degree that I don't think there could ever be a Neuromancer adaptation- it would be a cross between Blade Runner 2049 and The Matrix. The Neuromancer- a human AI hybrid, which is essentially Ghost In The Shell's Motoko/Puppetmaster hybrid aside, The Matrix took the concept of code running down the screen and a Matrix from the novel, as well as much of the fashion, setting and martial arts references (shurikens, ninjas etc). It was quite surreal. It was like reading a novelisation of The Matrix

World On A Wire is about someone finding out they live in a simulation. Amazing 70s film by Fassbinder that obviously inspired Blade Runner, The Matrix etc.

I would have absolutely loved to watch a 3 hour video of Adum watching the new Lion King just angrily typing away, grumbling to himself.

You guys should consider going over the Back to the Future trilogy. Personally that's my favorite trilogy, and I think it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on those movies.

THE BOIS ARE BACK IN TOWN 3: AM I REALLY DOING THIS AGAIN RELOADED

I am shocked adam was so positive. I agree completely

I probably like the sequels more than most since I wanted to see more of Neo being the one. I might just be really sold on the fight scenes alone just cause they give me so much of what I want.

They all talked about their favorite effect from any movie, but did they forget about the Skeksis dying in the Dark Crystal? They were all blown away by that effect.

19:03, actually the first movie to have that was open your eyes, directed by Alejandro Amenabar. That movie premiered in 1997, two years before the Matrix.

The plot of the 2nd movie is: neo and the gang need to find the matrix architect to shut down the matrix (something about finding the “Source” mentioned by the oracle). There’s a reveal that neo is another cog in the system of control and is the 6th ‘the One’ to come to the architect. Neo needed the key maker to get to the architect. Even though the story is told in a very convoluted way, I’m surprised you guys didn’t remember or didn’t follow what was going on

23:10 - I could be wrong, but I think the word you are looking for is Trip Hop

I believe the genre of music Adam was trying to describe in the first movie is triphop (like Portishead, Gorillaz, Massive Attack), which was very popular at the time

I recently rewatched the first Matrix as an adult and I gotta say it holds up extremely well, I was shocked. It’s a 10

Out of all the reviews of Reloaded I've seen, no one mentions how padded and overlong the story is. Remember that terrible trend of Part 1/Part 2 book adaptations where there wasn't enough material to draw from so they invented material or drew it out? The Matrix Reloaded has this problem big time. Every action scene goes on longer than needed and plenty of other scenes feel very drawn out. It's like a feature length prologue to Revolutions.

Anyone else really fuckin hyped for YMS: Lion King?

Really awesome time stamps on this one, great job guys

The part of rhe Animatrix that always sticks out in my memory is when the machines take over Washington DC and they force like the politician to sign away rights of the government/country. The robot is controlling the politicians hand as he writes. I thought that was pretty clever, like something a robot might do with their binary thought. As if a person signing something legitimizes the robot cause, when it is the underlying social contract that gives power to that signature that actually matters. Something a robot wouldn’t understand.

"Watch films that get bad reviews and wonder why they get bad reviews."-John Waters

The Matrix trilogy's boxset may made me a film buff, great special features. The first movie change my life as my fav movie.

I'm so early there's no timestamps yet, guess I have to listen to the whole thing to get to the Q&A part

Ricky Gervais is hosting the Golden Globes again this year. I’m pretty hyped

God damn it. It says that Neo has been looking for Morpheus, he knows about him, so he has some idea about the whole thing

Exactly what I needed on this beautiful Monday morning

They use humans COMBINED with a form of fusion energy, so it's not like they are just using the humans as batteries... it's more figurative than that. Also it's pretty obvious throughout the films that the matrix is basically just a method of control, subjugation and retribution of humanity on the part of the machine sentience. It's given wider context in the Animatrix that the machines only wanted freedom and a symbiotic relationship with humanity, but humans forced their hands and started the war. It's also stated in Reloaded that even if the one fails his intended task the machines are prepared to accept a certain level of survival, implying they can survive without humans if the matrix is destroyed. On the part of why the need to be in a simulation in the first place, Morpheus says it himself "the body cannot live without the mind"... without the Matrix the podborn humans would become braindead and die.

I don't care for The Matrix Reloaded, but I gotta admit that car chase sequence is one of the best car chases ever put to film.

Waiting for them to talk about Beyond, my favourite Animatrix short "yeah it was OK" *cries

Big Beat is the music genre you're thinking of

hell yeah, totally agree with Adam on The Thing. The effects are still insanely convincing

That CGI one was in front of Dreamcatcher.

Great intro guys!

i lost my body is a pretty good animated movie on netflix

Imagine talking about The Matrix trilogy, and never really mention the subtext. How Neo in the first in The One, but he's just an anomaly within the programming and because of humanity ability to have choice (and hope). Hope being the thing that brought Zee to fight (to have a chance to reunite with Link), The Kid choosing to fight (because he believes in Neo and saving The Hammer). Instead of Neo making the utilitarian choice and to reset the system and reset Zion, he chooses to save Trinity "dooming" humanity, but filled with hope to change.

23:11 I think the genre they're talking about is called drum & Bass. I don't really know exactly but I've heard the name being used before.

24:50 "Shut Up", it's the little things yms do that crack me up

My morning just got better.

I just got the notification for this video, how are these comments days old?

"Were there any good animated movies this year?" Promare was really good, if you guys never heard of it.

So we’ve gone from having full timestamps to having partial timestamps to no timestamps

Been waiting for this for awhile

Jab Jab JABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB....... Youre dead. Thank you guys.. i needed this. I just want to say how much I appreciate your time and dedication you all put in to this.I really enjoy each up load and it helps me so much with my anxiety listening to you talk about things.. its soothing esp at this time of year when my worries are sky high.... Thank you for all the hard work you have done this year.

Ralph: Went to film school and acts like a big shot film critic Also Ralph: Has never heard of Buffalo '66

The twist in Ender's Game is so dark, I love it.

Adam - It's Space Rock, one of my favourite bands Monster Magnet was on that soundtrack

Guys dont forget to put timestamps next time for each topic in the video

The original concept for The Matrix was actually to the have the robots use the humans’ brains as a neural network. But when Lilly and Lana presented this idea to the studio, they rejected it because they feared an audience that had only recently been introduced to computers would have trouble understanding the concept. So it was changed to batteries to make it more digestible for moviegoers

I remember seeing the Animatrix late at night as a kid and it scared the shit out of me.

Buffalo ‘66 ! Yes! Thanks for choosing it Adum. I hope you guys love it :D

It's funny listening to Adam talk about shit he's actually really biased and nostalgic for like the sequels and The Lion King

The Wachowskis have it in them to be GODS of schlock. I think the Matrix sort of threw a curveball in that regard

I really like The animatrix. Very good animated short films.

THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH ADUM!!!!!! WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOREVEEEERRRRR

I’m sad that only Alex has seen Klaus. I wonder what Ralph and Adam would think of it.

Poor adum, the one defender here.

I feel so bad because the scene where Neo meets Col. Sanders is basically indecipherable on the first viewing or any viewing after without subtitles, but it's also pivotal to understanding Reloaded's goals and understanding what the hell it is everyone's trying to do in Revolutions. It isn't just that all this has happened before, it's that the resistance, the One, the prophecy - all of it is part of the Machine's design, their way of keeping control. Resistance is inevitable, so instead of letting it destroy them, the Machines calculated a solution - one that allows the conflict to stop and start infinitely. Reloaded is well aware of the problem that Neo is basically Superman, and that's why it ends by telling Neo to go fuck himself, that even though he can punch shit real good, it's not actually securing humanity's freedom. That's also why Revolutions is about finding another way - the _fight_ isn't going to end well, and so Neo sets off to set things right with a giant baby face made of robosquids. It all makes sense when you really think about it. It only took me...4 viewings? And a lot of fan explanations? Great trilogy.

The special effects that blow me away, to this day, is pretty much everything in the first Jurassic Park movie. I saw it in the theater when I was a kid, and it blew my mind! It's hard to explain to younger people just how revolutionary those effects were at the time. No one had ever seen ANYTHING like it!

In the first matrix movie i didnt have much of a problem with the CG. Most of the time i felt it kind of fit, seeing how the matrix itself was basically a fucking video game Idk it didnt decrease the quality for me

I seem to remember there being a bullet time scene in Buffalo 66 as well.

We didn’t deserve the time stamps (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

The terror in resonance fan art >>>>>

"Guff", for anyone who's wondering, is originally a danish thing and describes the white fluffy stuff inside certain chocolate sweets, popular in Denmark and Germany. It is literal filler.

Ricky Gervais is hosting golden globes again this year!

If it makes Alex feel any better, I've heard "guff" used here in California, just not by anyone under 60.

My affection for the second matrix movie can be summed up by: Morpheus has a sword.

The genre that Adum might be thinking of is maybe Drum and Bass? That is pretty common in the Matrix. Also a lot of alt rock.

"I'm totally fine with needles" - Adum

How to train your dragon 3 was great.

I wanna know YMS' opinion on 'I Lost My Body'. An acclaimed animated film from this year (French - On Netflix). As for other animated films, maybe 'Weathering With You' will be good?

More like best one on the list

I love all the matrix movies, fight me.

You could sing the Bunny Ears Podcast intro one of these days. Macaulay would be a great guest I think as well.