THE MATRIX (1999) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | This Is Deep... 

Yeah man. I was thinking the same thing. I had forgotten how confusing this movie was at the beginning when you first watch it. She’s generally pretty good at figuring things out though too. From the other videos of theirs I’ve watched.

@@neile5893 Like she pointed out, she had a lot of help because sing 1999 there has been a slew of movies with similar VR simulation storylines so it is easier for people like her today to work it out. But back when this film came out in 1999 there were only a few similar films like it. Dark City (released the same time as The Matrix), The 13th Floor (again same time) and Lawnmower Man 1992/1993 ish. Harsh Realm (tv show) also was similar, but apart from these examples, there was stuff all!

To the point where he wouldn't say a simple "yes" when asked if Laurence Fishburne is in it Dedication...

@@ANARKOTEROR lol yeah. I like watching him look over to see her reaction when there is about to be a reveal or something that is sort of a twist in the story line. The perfect person to watch a movie with. He wants her to experience it as he did the first time watching it

To an extent. First, this is clearly a gimmick. No one hasn’t not watched a single movie in their whole life. Second, if the question is “ is someone in this or is the entire movie in black and green?” Then just answer the question if it’s not significant to the plot and the gimmick that she’s went her whole life without seeing a movie.

I need to learn this power when watching movies with my wife. It has got to the point where if it is a new movie I haven't seen I have to watch it by myself first so I can enjoy it without questions.

@@ryanjones2297 such power is available only to those in the matrix)

The reality is, is that this is how she processes her own ideas, she has to talk them out in order for them to be understood by her. The fact that he doesn't answer means he was never really needed to answer, she could of answered her own questions but she can't see that so she keeps asking. 😉

Agreed

You can ONLY lose ... answering a question from your wife / GF!

The whole theater was wild at the end. Everyone was just mind blown in the lobby.. others waiting to watch it were thinking what the heck happened ?!

Until you realize that part (but not all of it) is a screen for screen re-imagination of ghost in the shell. The iconic lobby scene is especially is very simular to the Ghoost in the shell variant. Granted, the movies are very different, but there are still a lot of similarities. Ghost in the shell have sort of the opposite perspective, and its also a very slow movie

My friends and I quoted “He’s beginning to believe” For almost anything. Makes a layup during PE “ he’s beginning to believe”. Gets an 80+ on a test “He’s beginning to believe”. It was practically a religion for us.

I remember being in the theater for the first one, nobody was really hyped because nobody knew what the movie was about due to great and concealing marketing. I went to the bathroom for the first 5 minutes and came back to my friends completely wide eyed in amazement and I asked what happened. They said this chick just kicked everyones ass. I still remember that theater experience more than almost anything Ive ever seen.

we immediately went and bought another ticket to watch it again

She also said being the one is like being in love ... no one can tell you... you just know... and when trinity kissed him ...he knew ... he didn't become the one when she said she loved him ... he became the one when she kissed him and showed him.

@@TheGodfather-bm3ow I see what you're saying but Loce is greater and expressed differently than through a kiss?

I see it more as Neo needed to experience death to fully break away from the confines of the Matrix.

Ray Bans were invented by Top Gun.

Her instincts with shows and movies are uncanny! lol

@CrowTTubebot... Howdy, and welcome to the club! The Mr. and Mrs. movie team are the best!

lol she's super spot on with some things but super off with others

For real. Her spoiler score is at like 98%. She's predicted almost every movie & show.

Silence

It was the studio who demanded it apparently

I thought id mention the same thing, but glad others know it as well! cheers

'Combined with a form of fusion' The magic line that makes it all okay I guess? (still one of my fav movies ever despite this)

Humans being used for processing power also makes the Matrix actually make sense. Suddenly there's a reason to keep our brains in tact and thinking whereas if we're used as just batteries... why?

Not sure it matters tbh. I've never really liked that specific criticism. Disbelief isn't broken for me. The fusion thing works for me, as well.

🤣 thanks now me too Neil the saviour 🤣 his prophets would be called Keith Karen etc

Lmao!

@@-M0LE Karen was the Judas - she went rouge 😂

Your two best friends are Neil and Bob!! LOL!!

Yes, that was interesting.

Right. Like, what is the point of existence for anything lol

SPOILERS FOR MATRIX RELOADED/REVOLUTIONS Based on the scenes in Reloaded with The Merovingian where they seem to be making a point about how you can influence people's emotions/actions with food/getting them to ingest things, I was hoping there would be a big reveal in Revolutions that there was some extra significance to the Oracle giving Neo that cookie, manipulating him into breaking the cycle instead of making the "logical" decision. Instead they just never bring it up again, so I don't know what was the point of any of that.

yeah. like morpheus said, she told him what he needed to hear. also i think she maybe wanted to give the impression that he wasn't the one, then told him that morpheus was gonna sacrifice himself anyway. if you don't believe you're the one, you wouldn't want someone like him to give their life for you, so you'd probably try to do everything you can to prevent that, or sacrifice yourself to help him. in so doing, you'll find out if you are the one, in which case morpheus will be saved, or not, and you'll end up dead.

Exactly. They only created the Matrix to keep the humans complacent. This worked for the majority but not everyone so the machines created the agents to root out and eliminate the problem cases.

yeah. it's just sustenance. we do the same to animals. but of course, as humans, with our egos, we can't possibly fathom when it's done to us by more capable, intelligent beings. i don't necessarily think we'll move to a scenario where humans are cultivated for our energy, but i definitely think AI will reach a level where they can anticipate all the decisions we make, and start dictating our choices.

Or they will know what we will want them to do before we even think of them. It will be like they were clairvoyant, because at every scenario they will be able to count all possible outcomes in a nanosecond and choose the best or most logical one that we will choose based on probability and our personal profile. Knowledge is power and infinite knowledge is almost godlike power.

@@user-vc5rp7nf8f Ha ha they're already doing that, wake up dude

Good analogy. I do think the Misses eventually reached a similar point of understanding when she said that the same could be argued for us. The answer is, the machines are using us to power themselves to live, the same way we raise livestock to eat like your example. But the answer to “But why?” is the same for them as it is for us. Cuz we want to “be”, we want to exist, we want to live lol.

The Animatrix short showing what happened in the machine war is probably one of the most harrowing pieces of animation I’ve ever seen!

Oh so I see where Mass Effect got his inspiration for the Geth/Quarian conflict...

@@WheresWaldo05 When the animated part of Kill Bill comes on do you just pretend that it didn't happen or what?

@@WheresWaldo05 The animatrix is canon, therefore it relates to the movie. Also some of them directly tie in to the movies with characters from the movies in them. It only adds lore which is generally accepted by the fanbase. I think the original Matrix stands on it's own well enough but if there is extra material that adds a little more clarification to it than why not bring it up?

@@realburglazofficial2613 Agreed. It's been a while since I watched it, but that one scene where they are tearing the clothes off a robot particularly disturbed me when I watched it.

...or how a fish never knows anything other than it's watery home it's entire life until by chance it's caught on a hook by a human and pulled up beyond the barrier between worlds and into our (terrifying) reality. Suddenly it can't breathe and there's an unfathomable giant being handling it. If the poor thing is released instead of being fileted it goes back to its own reality with a story entirely incomprehensible to the other fish.

@@CousinCreepy Might just have to become a vegetarian after reading that.

@@stynershiner1854 even worse if the fish can't express what happened to the others and has to suffer alone with the knowledge of this frightening other dimension.

Or as the Chinese'd say - you are merely a frog in a well, believing that is reality for that is all you can perceive.

​@creepyclips9024 Or better. The fish remembers, and tells his competitors that, "Yes! That's the best food I've ever tasted!"

they still make those frames

Which means "Pinch nose."

Prince Nez

Sprung slightly? SLIGHTLY? Those things have to stay on when you get punched in the face by a computer program with superhuman strength.

We do go back in time , when "modern" style of eyeglasses frame, which could be placed over the ears and nose, was invented in 1727 by British optician Edward Scarlett , 50 years before USA was a country . Pince-nez were invented later most likely in 1830s .

He WASNT starting to believe

LOL, not sure he grokked the concept of "movies", then. Or "stories" in general, for that matter. Maybe he was a Dogme 95 kinda guy? But even that doesn't exclude supernatural story elements.

Even grass want to survive.

I never knew that! Man, I love the original concept so much more! It also further reinforces and greatly amplifies the need for a Matrix in the first place

"...but in the end the writers decided that concept might be a step too far for the regular viewer..." No. Not the writers, the producer ($$$). So the -brothers- sisters rewrote it.

Jackie created drunken boxing right?

@@vicentegeonix yep, she needs to see Drunken Master cos the stunt choreographers are the same guys who did stunts in Matrix.

The kung fu movie Drunken Wu Tang, also titled Shaolin Drunkard, features a master of the drunken style. The more relaxed you are, the more powerful you become.

@@vicentegeonix No, it appears to be quite old, there is some basic info on wiki. I really love this part: "Due to a scarcity of historical sources, it is nearly impossible to point to the time or place of drunken boxing's origin" ...they all just probably forgot where did they learn it :D

@@michalkuban9888 nah, Jackie invented drunken boxing.

It all comes down to free will. You can't have free will in the Matrix as I see it. How could you know your thoughts and actions are still your own once you are plugged in since the Matrix is in your mind at that point and manipulating your reality? Sure, we can't know we have free will in our reality but if we do not then the Universe is deterministic which means our lives right down to every thought are preordained. In fact, since the Universe is causal from the moment of its creation there is no mechanism that allows for free will so if it exists then it must be endowed upon us through a supernatural force (outside of nature/the Universe) and this is what we refer to as God if we are spiritual. This is the counter argument to the idea we are in a simulation as evidenced by the fact everything is basically one's and zero's (neg/pos. on/off true/false etc) and as such can be simulated just so long as we have enough information and the computing power. Where does the genome within our DNA for the idea of free will and good and evil come from? The answer must be that it was innate within the big bang just like consciousness and that is where it starts to get properly deep because that means that consciousness isn't a product of our minds but something we tap into and our thoughts are filtered consciousness but filtered by what (soul?) and how (free will?) And why was it innate within the Universe to create sentient beings that would ask where and how the Universe began? It is almost as if the Universe is having an existential crisis and asking what it is and we are product of that schism made manifest by our profound desire to understand the meaning of our lives.

@@Muckylittleme Okay. I was only talking about why the machines wanted to live (for the same reason most people do; because self-preservation is part of sentience). Not sure where the free-will essay came from, but...good read I guess.

@@StCerberusEngel Sorry, it wasn't a direct response but I was late to the party and new comments don't get read so I posted in the first popular comment that had a little relevance. Your comments are right although the instinct for self preservation does not require sentience, we see it in all animal life. A machine/AI can never achieve sentience IMO because there is no mechanism for free will since it is all algorithms and weighting one outcome over another. Also AI cannot feel pain or loss or a concept of its own mortality which is a huge part of the human experience and our development and motivation. That is why the question of free will and sentience is so fundamental to our existence and why we developed a sense of spirituality and developed religions, it is innate within our humanity. Sorry for the hijack.

@@Muckylittleme I wasn't saying sentience is required for self-preservation, but that self-preservation is part of sentience. And as far as machines gaining sentient thought, well...it's a fictional movie universe, so I'm basing it on the context of that. Same goes for the "combined with a form of fusion" line that handwaves the humans-as-batteries concept's implausibility. It's what the film presents, so that's what we have to work with. A flaw, perhaps, but not one big enough to break suspension of disbelief IMO. Results will vary though. I don't really think I have anything to hijack. Just thought it a strange "reply" as it were.

@@StCerberusEngel From what I understand the humans were supposed to be a neural net used by the AI but they thought the audience was too dumb to get the concept so changed it. No, self preservation is a natural product of life like reproduction. it does not require sentience. A rat isn't sentient but it will try to preserve its own life when threatened.

I sometimes feel that way about people who claim to be watching The Matrix, or Star Wars for the first time etc, and as I follow them they then start to go into other movies that are super popular like The Princess Diaries and I realise there's a ton that I haven't seen either.

It know what you mean, i'm over 50 and i've still never seen, E.T., A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Titanic, The Goonies or Fight Club.

Yeah but The Godfather trilogy maintains consistency whereas the matrix sequels get so far up their own ass that they can’t see the light of day

@@thedeepfriar745 While I agree with your Matrix critiques, I gotta disagree with your Godfather’s. The Godfather 3 is complete trash. Even as a stand alone movie it would be ruined by horrible acting, terrible dialogue and a ridiculous plot.

@@07foxmulder I saw III in the theaters so long ago. I remember feeling immensely disappointed and not much else.

In the sequels it’s explained that the machines have a civilization of their own. There are programs born without any specific purposes with parents and everything and they just live their lives. They have their own ‘machine city’ in that exists virtually (the color’s gold as apposed to green), that’s what they’ve been harvesting human energy for. The ‘balance’ was that the machines could live their lives in cyberspace, and the humans live theirs in the matrix.

They really over analyzed it there at the end. lol

@NolanEP false

@@Ruskad Yeah got stuck in. a logic loop

E My - speak for yourself I don't live to exist or vice versa. I live to realise the ultimate source of reality through love.

The academy wasn't complete crap that year? No shizzle..... Truly it deserved each of those, and also didn't deserve best director or arguably best picture. I oddly 100% agree with those calls.

@@tudeslildude It wasn't even nominated for best picture/ director / screenplay. But it was a tough year with American Beauty, Sixth Sense, Green Mile and Fight Club. American Beauty won the more important mentioned categories, imo deservedly so.

@@nth_to_see_here Indeed, though I'm still not convinced American Beauty deserved it over those other 3 =P

@@tudeslildude Just out of curiosity - what would u give best picture to that year? Personally I wasn't a big fan of Green Mile. For me either Fight Club or American Beauty.

@@nth_to_see_here Umm... good question actually... I suppose I would pick fight club, but I agree with your feelings on the green mile. I don't like hate it or anything, but I didn't find the movie particularly profound or something. My guess is it suits people with a stronger religious background, but hard to say for sure. Yea I might have to give American Beauty runner up actually, so perhaps it wasn't that bad of a pick after all. (I like the Six sense... but admittedly it would be a very strange choice for best picture)

Elon Musk

I suppose it’s the same thing as when we watch someone getting punched we don’t flinch as much as if you see someone stub their toe

Rita's death scene got to her

She found something worse than facehuggers!

Some people are more affected by gross things than violent things. I was the same when I saw this for the first time.

Right. I had to look at their bios to see if they were sisters somehow.

@AL we would have to get into those when we start doing more rewatches. We have both seen those many many times. D&D is one of my favorites and Tommy Boys is one of hers.

and eXistenZ (1999) by David Cronenberg

He said “speciality,” not “specialty”…although they do both mean the same thing.

Or a thesaurus. Or word-of-the-day calendar.

Take both and you win.

As a historian with a minor in anthropology I find it interesting how quickly we forget all the millenia of our past. When you say we humans have no natural predators you are only referring to the recent few thousand years. Prior to the era of city building and the first kingdoms and empires came into existence we had plenty of natural predators basically anything with Sharp teeth and claws and a lot of speed. In the last few millennia we conquered and in many cases exterminated most of those species that once challenged us for control of this world. Today they are kept in zoos, refuges and in many instances museums, often rarely more than a memory. Today we have no challengers other than other humans and have chosen to forget the accendency we now possess over this world is of fairly recent origin.

@@r.g.o3879 Hmm. I agree with much of what you're saying, but if you have time, I've a theory I'd like to run by you... We do have natural predators, as it is a basic truism that Nature Always Prevails. As you point out, we ascended until we became dominant, as Nature allowed, planned, however you choose to see it. The theory I have that's incomplete: As humans became dominant, Nature put an apex predator into our midst, Terminator-style. It looks like us on the outside, but is "programmed" to hate/destroy us on the inside. The deranged. The insane. The psychotic and sociopathic. The serial killer is the created natural enemy of human beings. This creation is designed to thin "the herd." To help keep the balance. We see them as evil. Nature knows they're just tools in the arsenal What do you think of this possibility?

The Second Renaissance 1&2 are awesome. But I’ve always wished they would make an actual prequel based on the war with the machines.

Actually they're just claiming territory and challenging rivals.

@@gamesman0118 wow, that joke went RIGHT over your head

Worse than that, they are absolutely just singing "please have sex with me" over and over. Even calls that aren't that directly, boil down to it. The genetic imperative is pervasive.

@@1369Stiles I got the joke. It wasn't that good.

Birds aren't real.

Or watch animatrix and forget the sequels - they are rubbish anyway.

Do you watch avengers assembled cartoons before going into an avengers movie and take what you saw in the cartoon and apply it also to the movies as canon? Cause they are not. They are two seperate things.

@@WheresWaldo05 Except the Animatrix was commisioned by the Wachowskis and is considered canon.

@@eschatological doesn't matter who made it. Until there are cross over aninated or real life movies where characters cross over (which would be the most dolty thing that could ever be done) they are their own seperate universes.

@@WheresWaldo05 There is crossover. The animated short "The Kid" in the Animatrix is the same Kid who shows up in the 2nd and 3rd movie. "Last Flight of the Osiris" is directly referenced in the 2nd movie - the package they drop off is what tips the other captains off to the drilling to Zion. Interestingly enough, the video game Enter the Matrix (also canon) with Niobe and Ghost show the pickup of the Osiris's transmission, on the way to the meeting in Reloaded, and the game had multiple game-exclusive movie quality live cutscenes that showed Niobe and Ghost's stories.

for me, it's really timeless because it touches on a lot of ideas and themes that have turned out to be true. the simulation theory, for example, wasn't too believable back then, but now, seeing how realistic computer graphics and physics simulations get every year, it's not too hard to imagine what it would be like in 50 years, or 100 or 200 years. we use to play games like pac-man, now we have games like forza where if you took a snapshot, it would be indistinguishable from reality. add in augmented reality and in a few hundred years, it's not a stretch to see how the line between reality and virtual can be blurred. also, the advancement of AI and the ability to download information is slowly gaining momentum. there was a point where we thought no machine could ever beat a human in the game of Go, and now it can beat the top players simultaneously. then you have the takeover of AI for truck driving and taxis. i do believe in a few hundred years, maybe sooner, all highways and public transport will be controlled by AI. fast, efficient, safe, and no more slow drivers or dangerous drivers. all regulated by computers. and, i believe elon musk is working on a microchip that can be surgically implanted in the brain. in the short term, i think it's designed to repair cognitive deficiencies, but long-term, i think the possibilities are endless.

@@user-vc5rp7nf8f The Matrix is a true blue ultimate masterpiece. The Wachowski Brothers directed a classic that will be in our hearts forever. It never gets old.😍😎👍💯

@Strong Coffee. I 100% agree with your comment. For me this is the only Matrix movie. I don't need anything after this one.

Strong Coffee: Exactly. You say that and some people have really negative reactions to this truth for a lot of people. Oh, well. haha

Well welcome to our family and thank you so much for watching along!!

Or Dark City

Both 13th Floor and Dark City are excellent. Highly recommend.

Your brain create simulations without you knowing it.

His idea was also that there might be a grand deceiver or an evil demon somewhere who might be veiling the truths of the world from me.

I think this concept is even pre-Cartesian thought. Plato's allegory of the cave basically talked of a self-believed reality, which might be separated from the true reality, which only some people have the courage to see.

One of the biggest sins that can be attributed to The Matrix as a movie, if we can blame it for anything at all, is popularising solipsism, i.e. the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist, and that everything outside of the self is potentially a simulation or a fraud. On the one hand, it's good to question things like authority and systemic injustices, but when your point of view is so tied up in not being able to tell what's real and what's not, you end up seeing everyone else as potentially not real and thus making empathy for others next to impossible. Why care about world hunger, racism or institutional injustice if the world itself isn't "real"? The crew of the Nebuchadnezzar don't seem to give a lot of thought to the number of people they kill within the Matrix, whether they're possessed by Agents or not - what is the consequence of that? Do they die, or just get reset? The movie never tells us. Now, admittedly, that's not entirely the fault of the filmmakers - more an unwanted side effect of trying to introduce a very complex topic to a majority of people - but it's very easy to draw a line from this movie to the kinds of behaviour that they would almost certainly not approve of IRL, whether that connection is justified or not. And sadly there's no real right answer to that conundrum.

@@radicaladz Well isn't that the driving force of religion? How our world isn't the true one, just a temporary torment until the eternal afterlife. Surely that is one of many burdens off theism. I'm sure the crew justifies it the same way most killers do by thinking "now they're set free". But this is exactly what's great about movies like this, they create a debate and don't just echo the boring 'good vs evil' concept most of western media has.

@@runki9413 - kind of answering your own question there, imho, but yes, it is a debate worth having, and much as people turn their noses up at the sequels, you can see them trying to tackle that dilemma with the inclusion of the Exile Programs, and how the layers of control within the Matrix run deeper than previously known.

@Bradley Graves... Thanks for sharing, that was cool. :)

"too go fishing" "went too the newsagents"

@@SalvableRuin time to get a job and stop harassing people on the internet neckbeard

With the exception of the very dated cell phones

You should show him the sequels because otherwise the story is incomplete

Love you! Thanks for watching!

Marieke K: Except a fairly similar outfit was worn by Zod's female companion in Superman II. So, it's kind of an early 80s look "From L.A." haha

They’ve got The Long Kiss Good Night in the queue for this month. December 14th.

@@SteakSauceOTG Yay!

I had it on the schedule for this month because of Matrix 4 coming out ;)

Hard to not overthink with a movie as layered as this one. I probably took it too far but there are just so many things to consider (moral, cultural, political) it’s definitely a thinker. Probably the main reason I never watched it until now. You have to want to watch a movie like this that can challenge your own beliefs about yourself. Thanks for watching with us though!

@@MrsMovies Forgive me if it sounds like I was insulting you in any way,I wasn't,I just took notice of all your comments and you were really thinking it through very well.Stay safe and well and look forward to more of your reactions.

@@andrewmccormack4295 oh no not insulted at all! I appreciate you taking time to comment and engage with me! It’s nice to have dialogue about such a cool movie!

Wow weird fact, thanks for sharing!