Somehow The Matrix has returned - The Weekly Planet Podcast 

I haven't even heard the review yet, but that title made me burst into laughter.

"Private investigator Mason" is a comic i would read.

Snake Eyes, finally!!

Glorious return of Mason and his dvd sets shenanigans

Brilliant. “Somehow the Matrix has returned” is the perfect summary of what the hell matrix 4 was

I can't wait for the Don't Look Up video, James' particular brand of unhinged ranting (see the Suicide Squad Post Credits Explained video for an extreme example) is always a treat

*The new city is called IO because it’s like binary and because in the animatrix they say the first machine city is called 01 (zero one)*

Matrix 4 makes Matrix 3 look like Matrix 1

*Snake eyes* "Our apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time"

"Jake Rake: International Killing Man" now surely has to become the title of an actual movie?

The Matrix "games" that Thomas Anderson "made" are just footage from the movies, correct. But the opening footage, with new Trinity and new Morpheus/Smith is from a Modal, a program used to evolve AI. Anderson creates it to unconsciously create a new Morpheus to "find Neo" so he can be freed from this constant treadmill of a world he's trapped in. "So Deja Vu, and yet everything's wrong." "Why use old code to mirror something new?" That's why Morpheus/Smith is already suspicious of this world he's living in (cause the Modal is designed to evolve AI), and that's why they look different (cause they're new programs made from old Matrix code), and that's how Bugs and Seq are able to spot it (cause they were 'phishing', and it was familiar enough code to investigate).

Somehow, man who’s never heard of star wars™️ has returned

Italian Kevin Feige (voiced by Chriss Pratt)

We let every shitty cluster fuck of a movie off the hook with “this would have been better served as a tv show”

I'm excited for Dr. Strange and all but james is giving off major "Mephisto will be in the next episode of wondervision" vibes

Christian Bale is the Batman most likely to have a portal machine because of Nolan. Or really because I immediately thought of the Prestige

can't wait for the skit before the best of compilation.

The Mask of Zorro has a great action movie romance.

@41:31 Yuen Woo Ping is not dead as of 12/27/2021, guys.

I wish Hollywood could stop hiring Mark Wahlberg for literally anything.

What a time to be alive. We've finally gotten to Snake Eyes.

I chuckled at the title

Fiege could make a cameo as the one above all

We don't have to talk about the Matrix... we could just talk about stuff... movies... chicks who've broken our hearts... ... the Matrix...

At 38:00 maso talks about FMV game nightrap and people should look it up, it’s amazing. The theme alone is worth the rabbit hole.

Like an absolute fool, I was really expecting Snake Eyes this week. Oh well. Next week!

JJ Abrams coming to Warners is why Cavill hasn't come back as Superman

*I love how easily distracted they get. They say time to wrap up the show but a picture of a choco gets them going off. When they say it’s time to wrap up the show there’s 7 min left*

In my completely uneducated opinion it just seems like a kinda long sad metaphor about Lana Wachowski not wanting to make the matrix and being sad she’s doing it alone instead of with her sister

This pod has effected my vocabulary too. I say "DONT EVEN WORRRRRRRYYY ABOUT IT, MATE" so much at work

The agent smith/Morpheus was not the game but a modal program to evolve Morpheus program. Left the test open so someone could free him. Pretty cool stuff

I love how the snake eyes review is becoming a running joke. Keep it going.

What this movie needs is more boardroom scenes :)

I fell in love with the violet crumble while i was there in 2003 and have been grabbing them where i can in the us. They show up more not but they have always been a specially imported thing here. Finally someone told me "hey why don't you try a crunchies since they are easier to find here." I finally had one a few weeks ago and hated it. The chocolate is way too chemically and gross. Its also really nice that violet crumble is now certified gluten free.

You're quite right about Sigourney Weaver I reckon she'll never get too old.

53:13 best bit ever!

I’ve watched a lot of these podcasts now and I gotta say this one felt particularly unhinged. So yeah best one ever.

I hope you guys get around to doing Don't Look Up soon. I can't stop thinking about this movie lol

Watched it last night. I reckon another movie will clear up the confusion but if not it will be even more fun seeing headlines like "Zombie Evening blamed on new cereal" and Neo and Trinity are appearing on tv doing things like self-help which leads to self actualisation.

Post credit scene too.

I couldn't even finish Resurrections. It felt intentionally bad. Maybe she did it wrong to screw over WB

James likes that there's no surprises in the Uncharted trailer because it reminds him of the song No Surprises by his favourite band, Radiohead.

Agree with the Matrix review

I'm with both Kermode and Maso... It either needed more time via a series to fully flesh out its ideas, or it needed to be a super-honed and to the point short film. Without any action. But I cant see it being greenlit without any action, and the perfunctory action seems to be part of the point, which sadly guts a lot of the fun. As Kermode said tho, the well is empty, I hope there arent any further sequels.

“You’re gonna fart so hard you’ll die.” - Best Unexpected Quote of 2021

I'll say this you clearly got the point of the movie unlike a lot of reviews I've seen. However I can't agree with you on the action, it's not the first one obviously but I thought there were some real fun action, especially compared to a lot of movies these days where every action scene is "Hero runs away, until they figure out what to do then beats the villain in one move". I also think the lack of gun action was kinda cool as a response to the movie bros who quoted "Guns, lots of guns" for years. Like especially how Neo and Trinity don't touch a single gun the entire movie. All their attacks are kung fu and the power of love. The chases I thought were all really good, but I agree probably the weakest action in the series. But that is not saying much considering how incredible the action in the other movies were, and that this was shot at the height of covid. Like compare the action or honestly any of the cinematography here to No Way Home which also was shot during covid. It's freaking night and day difference. Matrix looks SO much better.

I was super excited for this and felt very dissatisfied it was to hyped up love the show keep it up and btw if you go back I left a comment on a previous video mason called neo being a video game designer and being sad and old

The thing about superman and cavill is they probably only have a set appearance contract and don't want to fly through it.

slight typo in the timestamps for 'new unchartered trailer' with a extra full colon

This was probably answered, but they explained what happened to Morpheus in Matrix Online. That game is cannon to this story, and that's why Neo didn't ask much about this fate. This movie demanded fans knowing this and also bits from Animatrix. What a mess.

I dont think Strange is getting married in that scene. He seems to be one of the invited guests as we see some more people/crowd BEHIND him. In a typical wedding, there arent anyone behind the groom right? (I may be wrong cause I havent seen much weddings tbh). Also we dont know whether Palmer was snapped as well or not. 5 years is a long time, she must've moved on from Stephen a long time ago. Also, never trust mcu trailers ig

Oh my god... twisted Jiminy Cricket is exactly who he is

When we finally break the uncanny valley and achieve photorealistic games, I imagine it'll first look like Annie Hall from 1977.

Between this and Space Jam 2 - WB clearly has a middle management bloat issue in it's corporate structure that their writers can't stop shifting the focus of entire franchises to shine some sort of light on

As a tokusatsu fan, knowing that Mason has watched an episode of Ultraman (specifically, episode 3 of Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero, the one with Jeffrey Combs) fills me with mixed emotions Cos on one hand he watched an episode of Ultraman, but on the other, it happens to be the American-produced show that is widely considered the worst of the franchise So, big oof.

The perfect Samus in a Metroid movie would be Brie Larson. She already looks the part and she's also a huge Metroid fan already, with her having said on multiple occasions that she'd love to play Samus in a Metroid movie.

This GI Joe Origins: Snake Eyes review belongs on the Best Of … obviously

I think that they now use screens to travel and enter the matrix, like the way we use phones wwith screens and before they used phonelines. So now you can do the same and move around with screen and reflective superfices. At least that was my way to understand while watching.

I wish every bit of footage of The Matrix game was taken from Path of Neo.

How does Starlet Johansen not get a mention for Samus?

Just hit me: James Gunn directing Justice League Detroit and / or GL Corps. Calling it right meow. Or...Defenders of the Earth! Defenders!

What is this alternative reality where Poirot has a gun?? He is extremely non physical. In Death on the Nile though the murderer has to do their murder at that time and they believe they can fool Poirot. There is this whole theme of doom and inevitability in the book. I like the original book it has a very strong character conflict, a love triangle, in the heart of it and I wonder if the movie is going to acknowlege or use the commentary on class and racism which many adaptations ignore (they are interesting and I feel like an adaptation could do much more with how the plot plays with prejudice)

I love the thought of Matrix Res 2 tackling the media and politicians of the world whereby those characters mirror our reality, while the free world begins to respond to the uncertainty within the Matrix and bringin dual challenges to Neo and Trinity meaning instead of laoding kung fu, they load up leadership programmes, spiritual programmes and the like. If its less action and more clear and eye opening communication tying it all to our day to day... would somehow elevate it all. But am self amused dork with this stuff

agree about the action scenes but I think it was definitely intentional you'd have recognized the other fighters if you watched Sense8-- it's just the cast of Sense8 Regarding Samus: Brienne of Tarth actress, Emily Blunt, Mackenzie Davis, or Brie Larson would be perfect

Yeah wooo hooo mid week episode let me fire up snake eyes again.

I rate this 5 out of 5 yank

I loved Resurrections it felt so Matrix.

NOOOO! Shuma-Gorath is traditionally green! You’re pressing the wrong button selecting him if he is pink. That is Shuma-Gorath in the trailer, I swear on my life.

Are we sure that that's the SAME evil Doctor Strange from What If? Because he doesn't look anything like him and THAT evil Doctor Strange turned good at the end of What If, so.

The secret wars marvel is planning is probably based on the one from 2015 where doctor DOOM becomes the god emperor of everything or whatever, bc there was a lot of multiverse things in that

Perfect title

Just plain some Freebird on my guitar. Just chords, first time. Been a lazy practioner lately. This podcast is where I rest.

A few days ago a DID system sent you guys a letter. Just wanted to say that set of people inspired me to ask you guys as a fellow DID system if we can be the official plural person of the podcast. BOOM GOT EM! 💥

They always talk about Boxing Day but never Unboxing Day

The problem with the Matrix and a big part of why the message people are taking away from this is so polarized is that it uses allegory, a rhetorical device that isn't very well suited to film and just comes off as "bad satire". I really enjoyed the movie and got a lot out of it specifically because I don't know squat about cinematography but have 2 English degrees, so I watch movies from a dialog focused perspective. In allegory, you're trying to make everything a stand in for a concept or an idea and the expectation is that the "reader" is going to draw on personal experience and context to morph your characters into the things they represent. It's a lot to ask even with the written word forcing you to create mental pictures, but a baffling choice for visual media. It's complex and hard to explain without going into a lot of foundational stuff, but I'll try. As one example, Trinity often acts as a stand in for woman who have traditionally masculine interests. While this works as just her character (we learn that she like working on motorbikes) you're expected to view her actions and statement in the greater context. The line "that's for using kids" has absolutely nothing to do with the new Smith using Trinity's actual kids to try and stop her, but is commentary on how the idea that you're worthless if you don't have children is used to force women to suppress their masculinity. That whole conversation is completely different, nuanced, and extremely well written when apply that type of allegorical thinking to everything being said by all 3 of them ... but that's almost easier to do if you just close your eyes and ignore all the visual elements reminding you that these are real people you've built a connection with over 4 movies. If we were reading the dialog as a short story in a 3rd year English class, I think the almost universal opinion would be that it is absolutely brilliant. But we're not ... we are listening to that dialog as part of a movie franchise that built it's reputation on incredible visuals and action. I tend to side with the idea that you should never judge something based on how it didn't live up to your expectations, but this a really extreme case. It's asking more of it's audience then I think it has any right to, and in that way it's hard to see it as anything other then a failed experiment, even given the fact that I personally really enjoyed it.

👍👍

Maybe it's because I discovered them recently, but James doesn't strike me as that "slowly going crazy" style RU-vidr. But to be fair I'm used to Red Letter Media and Bill Burr's podcast so James just pales in comparison.

Matrix is the most spoon fed movie sequel potentially ever

i hate every costume or clothing within the matrix (io soldiers), because it seems so basic compared to the leather and latex outfits in previous movies. Minus neo of course because he wears the same sort of clothing in the matrix in the previous movies.

I like the Matrix

Resurrections is a great statement on the audience being an idiot. Does that make a film anyone wants? Probably not, but I loved that it was constant commentary on itself. Action was very perfunctory, but I think its The Matrix film we needed, not the one anyone wanted :)

Why use old code to mirror something new? He made the modal slightly different.

I would have preferred if they just completely leaned into the complete meta commentary from the beginning.

Where is snake eyes

What's worse? Sean Connery playing Japanese or Roger Moore playing a clown?

I have to admit I was disappointed. Not so much with the general storyline but with the execution. The fight scenes were generally lacking. Lots of shaky cam. There were lots of times that the good guys should have been shot by guards/police/agents. It's fine in Rambo or Commando, but having the 'bad guys' fire machine guns down a corridor just shouldn't be survivable. This didn't happen in the first 3 movies. None of the crew felt like they were in danger of dying, even when completely surrounded. The death of Mouse in the first film was an important plot point that was important to the feeling of the film. The meta-ness of the warner bros. sequel talk got cringey. What was the big opportunity that The Analyst gave them? It seemed like the only thing was to rescue Trinity which Niobe was against. I kept waiting for another reason to go in other than her rescue and there wasn't anything. She was against saving anyone from the Matrix because she didn't want to reestart the war but then she okayed a mission to rescue the number one VIP. I'll be interested to know if I missed anything there. It had so much potential which in some ways makes it worse...

I don't wanna check the timestamps to see whether or not there is a real review of Snake Eyes, I'll leave it to surprise.

Matrix titled podcast, didn't start talking about the matrix till 36 minutes in! :D It was good anyway, so I didn't mind

Deadpool can meet Kevin Feige lol maybe even kill him 🤣

The only good thing about the new matrix movie coming out is now I can finally cancel my useless HBOMAX subscription

When dafuq is Mark Wahlberg's Infinite ?

Overall I found the film to be..Fine/Okay/Passable.. whatever!.. it was at least 30 minutes too long , low point of the entire film was a toss-up between MEROVINGIAN TRAMP & New-Old-Morpheus ....total & utter bobbins!

If everyone in the world chucked 5 cent at you, y'all would have 400,000,000 dollars.

..... "Batmanimatrix" That's all. That's all I'm saying.

If the Wachowskis didn't want to do the Matrix they should've given it to someone else who did want to do it. They are definitely out of touch. A younger director who is a fan of the work would've been way better.

The Matrix Exhumed was shot like an episode of a CW show. The cinematography and choreography was absolute shit. I could’ve forgiven it for this if the story was great, but it wasn’t. I really loved the small batch of new ideas. The defecting machines on the rebels side, the new Zion stuff, the magnetic machine avatars, all great. Literally everything else-awful.

My theory is Lana didn't want to make a sequel because there is nothing to say about the matrix at this point other that the meta joke we all tell ourselves that we are in the matrix, so I think she made a movie that doesn't really hurt Neo or Trinity in any way because that would be disrespectful to her older movies, but the studio is telling her they'll make it if she doesn't, so she makes a mediocre uneven movie so everyone hates it therefore it can't be sequelize, she's in control of these characters just as much as they are in control of the matrix at the end so she says how the movie will go and it's a movie about trinity and consent, the most "woke" thing a movie can do now is make the main character a girl, so why not Trinity. And it would make sense that Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss would be on broad for that type of movie to put the matrix to bed. I think the movie is uneven for sure, but on purpose and on our side, it's a better movie when it's meta

I was quite excited for the Matrix: the new Matrix but I was left very disappointed, the story was fine and I liked that it was more human centric, more emotional than the original trilogy and I really enjoyed how meta it went but WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE ACTION SCENES? Didn't they have enough time to train the actors to do kung fu, why was all fights filmed waaaayy to close, why was there sooo much shaky cam and why did it fee like they were cutting around the actors and why oh why oh why was Neo just pushing air? All in all, it's okay.

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35 minutes of spoiling every other movie for me! Before talking about the new Matrix and trying not to spoil it, OMG!