The Matrix (1999) - Full Reaction
Added 2021-04-26 15:02:05 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here is my full reaction to The Matrix, I hope you enjoy!
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Great watch along! So many quotables from this great movie, but my favorite is: "There is no spoon". Works in so many situations!
Ed Sharron
2024-02-09 02:37:33 +0000 UTCI'm so glad Will turned down the role so Keanu could get it.
Duarte Dunn
2023-01-13 10:10:03 +0000 UTCI know that this movie is beloved by a lot of people, and I've given it a few chances over the years, but it just does not do it for me. The bullet-time, the techno music, the great choreography executed clumsily, and just way too much slow motion. It's a little bit too cool for school, in my opinion, where every great concept has just been recycled from a better earlier book or movie. Decided to give it another shot and watch along with you, which honestly did make me enjoy it a tad bit more, but that might be because of how passionate a watcher you are, and have less to do with my gripes about the movie. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I'm glad I watched along. Thanks for the content!
Gary Giaimo
2022-04-24 03:47:41 +0000 UTCDid you know that they initially offered the role to Will Smith, but he turned it down so it went to Keanu. And Will’s wife is in the sequels. I just saw the trailer for the new Matrix movie coming out in a few weeks and I can’t wait! It looks so good.
Tara
2021-12-10 04:39:53 +0000 UTCHi Cassie, As a new patreon member, I just watched this movie with you and it was so fun to watch it through your eyes and see you react to things that I knew were going to happen. I remember when it first came out in 1999, the first weekend box office was just alright. Then due to word of mouth, more and more people went to see it and the box office numbers kept going up and up because back then, nobody had seen anything like that from the way it was shot and all the fight choreography and the “anti-gravity” moves. Remember Trinity up in the air at the beginning with her arms out ready to kick the cop and the camera doing a 360 around her? I remember people in the theater going crazy or Neo and Morpheus hanging in the air during the fight simulation. When the building rippled when the helicopter crashed into it. People went nuts. It was so cool for 1999 and it changed the way movies were made. There was one scene at the end where Neo is fighting the agent with one hand behind his back like he was bored. I’ve recognized that sequence in other shows and movies. I look forward to watching more movies with you. Ones that I’ve already seen and ones that will be new to both of us. 😊
Tara
2021-12-07 04:47:51 +0000 UTCMy favorite part of this film is another very little recognized kind of easter egg. When Neo goes to talk to the Oracle, he has to accept a cookie before she'll talk to him. I tend to think that goes over the head of most people when they watch it.
Art of Free Speech
2021-12-05 20:45:41 +0000 UTCThe Matrix? A dumb comic movie? Okay, that's all folks, nothing more to say on this planet, humanity is canceled.
Clara V.
2021-10-06 04:38:12 +0000 UTCThey're fine honestly, the first one was just so tight, effective, perfectly rounded that the sequels feel unnecessary, bloated and convoluted. I didn't enjoy them, but I wouldn't go so far to call them garbage (though I have actually called them that before). But the spark the first movie has is definitely gone in the sequels (which is a pretty common problem when you think about it)
Clara V.
2021-10-06 04:36:04 +0000 UTCThe sequels are 5/10 movies, with a few ideas and scenes in the 7-8/10 range. They are watch-once-then-forget movies, whereas this one was an instant classic, a 9/10 and a movie I watched 6 times in the cinema and rewatch every few years.
MrSmokinDragon
2021-08-29 21:47:30 +0000 UTCMy favorite scene in this movie is the white rabbit scene. There are lots of things happening there, like the fact that he's called "my own personal Jesus Christ." But, the coolest thing about this scene isn't spoken. It's just a little minor detail with a LOT of implications. When Neo pulls down a book to get the contraband, the book he grabs is Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" which is a philosophical text (Baudrillard is a French philosopher of great respect) about the nature of reality being illusory, created within our own minds. The book that Neo grabs in the film isn't even a real book. It's a fake book, hollowed out to hold the goods. So, what we have in this scene is this: We are watching a movie, which is a fake or simulated fictional world to tell a story. In the simulated world of the film, Neo lives in a simulated world to keep mankind prisoner. In that simulated prison world, Neo grabs a book that happens to be about how the world is a simulation and...surprise of surprises...the book itself is a simulation of a book, being a stash box instead. It's a simulation of a book on simulation being grabbed by the simulation of a man in a fictional simulated world in the simulation we are watching in the form of a film, which, if Baudrillard is to be believed, is occurring in a simulation within our own minds as we create the experience of the world "out there." Baudrillard's philosophies are endcaps on that entire chain of simulation and it's just beautiful. It's a brilliantly orchestrated scene.
Kaleigh Bredlau
2021-07-11 22:00:34 +0000 UTCI don't hate them, i like them quite a bit, but i do like them FAR less than the first one.
Armchair Wizard
2021-06-08 23:34:31 +0000 UTCGreat movie. I'll never understand the hate with the 2 sequels. I loved them both. I only learned later, after i seen them, that so many people hate them. Don't listen to everybody saying don't see them. You have to find out how it all ends. :-)
Groovy Reacts
2021-05-21 21:17:28 +0000 UTCThe reason they couldn't make the matrix with bulletproof forcefields is that the machines were trying to adjust the matrix to how humans could thrive within it, to keep in control of them in order to sustain their energy supply. So rules had to be made within this simulation that even the machines themselves had to abide by. Those swat teams are still humans so they are just as normal as anyone else hence the lack of forcefields and such. hope this helps
napalm755
2021-05-01 11:34:33 +0000 UTCAlso the Matrix 2 & 3 are pretty philosophically dense so on the case you do get around to watching them take precaution!
napalm755
2021-05-01 09:35:55 +0000 UTCGreat reaction Cassie! I remember when I watched it in theater, awesome , and maybe the next two movies are not as the same , is like back to the future, the original is great, and the sequels are not as good but they are not bad at all.....if you are up to the task maybe you can watch the animatrix before, they are shorts explaining some things, and specially The Last Flight of The Osiris.....
salim alvarez
2021-04-30 00:37:54 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this in the theater on opening night, and there was a world before and a world after watching this. And the great thing was that this movie is so hard to spoil that everyone who watched it after had the exact same experience. This trilogy is basically a philosophy course in movie format. It's a pity the sequels went too deep in the weeds with the symbology and kinda forgot to tell a good story.
Skinny_Obelix
2021-04-29 03:30:09 +0000 UTCThis isn't a comic book movie. Hard to believe these days but this was an an original script not based on any existing properties.
Robjgood
2021-04-29 00:03:24 +0000 UTCI disagree. The first one is awesome but other movies aint that bad ;)
TaLy___
2021-04-28 12:51:29 +0000 UTCI rarely rewatch movies in theaters but I went back three times for this one, the third time dragging a friend. The bullet-time photography used in the style and to the degree in this film was totally new and the opening scene on the big-screen jaw-dropping for a first introduction to this new application. It made what is generally a fun action with different story idea film into a sensation in crowds, cranked it up massively. I still enjoy the movie and effects on a TV screen, but not to the amazing degree a theater screen hit with it. You could hear straight gasps and comments all over the theater during that opening Trinity jump, hold, and rotate shot.
Rumpus Parable
2021-04-28 08:54:34 +0000 UTCThis is close to a perfect movie. Groundbreaking. The other two are garbage.
Tony Gunk
2021-04-28 03:09:31 +0000 UTCI usually don't like the dumb comic movies... but yeah, this one was fun and I was just waiting for you to see him hit goku level.
Jimmie V
2021-04-27 08:41:47 +0000 UTC
