The Matrix Revolutions - Caravan Of Garbage 

The best thing about this CoG series is that James can show the world the majesty of Path of Neo.

"I'm not going to play it, I'm going to explain it." Mr. Sunday Movies is the Architect confirmed.

"Just because I'm a guy in my late 30s doesn't mean I have to give a shit about Radiohead!" I feel this so much.

Something I admire about "The Matrix: Path Of Neo" because it's basically the Wachowski's just redoing the trilogy just as a pure popcorn power trip. You get crazy ants, you get homages to samurai films and, as said, the final stage involves you fighting against a giant smith which promptly goes back to the reveal of the war being over to "We Are The Champions". I mean, credit where credit is due, if it seemed the films acted too *intellectual* or *Ambitious* for your taste, for better or for worse, this sets that right back down to earth.

The EMP *does* shut down the ship that employs it. They need an electrical jump from another ship to get restarted. That's why the Zion dock doesn't have an EMP, and that's also why Locke says that they "handed the dock to the Machines on a silver platter" after the Hammer uses its EMP. The EMP killed the Sentinels in the dock, but it also shut down any remaining defenses they had, leaving it and the rest of Zion vulnerable to the Sentinels that were outside of the EMP's range.

I can’t wait for you guys to talk about The Animatrix!

My favorite part about Trinity's death is when it cuts to the wide shot of her having been impaled multiple times, and Neo says "Oh no."

Bane’s actor was pretty spot on with that impression of Hugo Weaving. Enough so that I could not believe it took Neo that long to figure out what the hell was going on.

I was the leader of the largest Zion faction on one server of The Matrix Online. One thing that should have been mentioned, is that the MMO had Live Events, featuring characters like Niobe, Ghost, The Merovingian, Agent Pace (and early on, Morpheus.) No MMO had, or since has, dedicated Live Events which wrote the player characters who participated in them, into the official story. For example, my character had the very first and very last private meeting with the character Niobe, played the first time by a member of the Live Events Team, and the last time by the only remaining developer, handle "Rarebit." It was truly a unique MMO, and you couldn't convince anyone deep into playing it, that it wasn't the best game going, because of the unique Live Event opportunities.

If I remember rightly, the end of the matrix online was that they gave everyone highest level and power as a goodbye party which increased users online and overloaded the servers.

The editing on this one is phenomenal. I laughed so hard when James was yelling about being at the pub and it cuts

Seraph was from one of the previous versions of the matrix where it was a paradise like heaven. As opposed to agents they had angels and seraph was one of them. Seraph being one of the more powerful “agents” of his time might be why his code is gold.

Mason really sends the most insightful emails James is lucky to have him sending such insightful emails.

When James said "You know what it's time for?" I half expected Mason to answer "What we reading?"

It's the humor and relatable personalities of James and Mason that keep bringing me back.

Seraph was an angel in the original version of the Matrix. The paradise one. Hence, why he is called "wing less" by the thugs in the scene with Morpheus and Trinity @Club Hell.

Mason likes Radiohead because he's a creep. He's a weirdo

That image of dead Neo with googly eyes fucking wrecked me, guys.

One piece of trivia I wish you had mentioned. Some of the prop metal used for the mechs in the final battle had some copper corrosion on it, which made the crew have to painstakingly scrape the corrosion off of the affected pieces of metal before reassembling the mechs, a procedure which the crew nicknamed "the Blue Harvest" which led to the working title of the film being Blue Harvest, which was also the working title of the original Star Wars from 1977.

That they bothered to process James's voice to sound like he's on the phone for that split second scene at the pub is the kind of attention to detail that keeps me coming back

"That woman changed her face, Mason!" Jfc, I'm in tears. Also, great shoutout to that Curio video - I watched it a few weeks back and it was amazing!

Perhaps the real Matrixolgy were the friends we made along the way, or the eyes we lost along the way, definetly one of the two.

I'm actually glad to see that the Matrix sequels are being re-evaluated and some people are starting to come around to liking them or at least appriciate where the story ended up going. There are massive problems with the sequels and they dropped the ball in some regards when it comes to pacing and characterization of many of the side characters. But the idea of how Neo and the "prophecy" ties into the entire story... I always liked it. I think that was a good way to go after the first movie.

Thanks to the pandemic I've watched a lot of movies with my son. He's thirteen. (Man, I'm old.) He loved the Matrix trilogy and the Animatrix. I remember being disappointed by the second and third movie. They didn't seem to bother my son at all. I think that there was a lot of hype after the first movie came out. The sequels couldn't live up to that level of hype.

Let the record show that James canonically loves Kid A.

I highly appreciate all three Matrix movies and I consider that they form a solid, cohesive, unique and memorable Trilogy. Sure, the first Matrix is the best by far, but still, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions are really good sequels that cleverly expand the original universe and add more layers to it. For me, the Matrix Trilogy is rather a "unified whole" than a "sum of three unequal parts": I don't really separate these movies in my mind. It's actually my favorite movie Trilogy.

You’ve gotta cover the Animatrix… it gels so much of the trilogy together. After the first movie it’s probably the bit the franchise that has stuck with me the most

I'd love to see you guys cover Enter the Matrix and Animatrix, and maybe even do a brief recap of what happens in The Matrix Online in one of them. Just be fully ready when the fourth movie comes out for any possibility.

What if the matrix was originally designed by humans, as a way to ‘escape’ the horrific real-world after nuclear war… its just that the matrix-machine broke, and machines rose (they think they’re helping us escape suffering, whilst also using us for energy, to keep them powered, so that they can keep helping us)

The EMP does shut down the spaceship when it's activated, that's one of the reasons they only use it last. Then they need to bring another ship that was out of range to use jumper cables on it or whatever.

Still love captain mafuni’s last stand though and that “vagaries of a human perception trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose” speech… And oh yes “although only a human mind could create something as insipid as love”🤣🤣 Gosh i love Agent smith

My love for these movies are immense, so it brings me great joy to see so many people talking about them. In my opinion, the sequels deserve way more love than they get. Mostly because they actually added to the overarching story instead of just being action packed cashgrabs that were just rehashes of the first movie. In any other context, movies would be shunned for that and the Matrix sequels for some reason are shunned for doing the opposite, which is unfortunate.

I just don't think it helped how similar Reloaded and Revolutions sound as titles. It's too similar for films just 6 months apart.

“We get movies the first time we watch them” “I didn’t notice the colour palette change despite watching this multiple times” CONTINUITY ERROR

The speech that the Mech leader gives before the battle is underrated. Gives me chills

Animatrix would be a great subject to cover when Star Wars visions comes out.

The crazy agent Smith mech battle was crazy. Definitely my favorite game from my childhood.

When I saw this in the cinema (day 1) near enough everyone burst out laughing when Trinity died - surprised james thought it was moving. interesting! this was in england though perhaps a tad more cynical

May as well go 100% complete everything that is matrix, and I think the reason behind lore wise of why the mechs don’t have front armour is that Zion knew about the original mechs from the war and how they didn’t held up so Zion were like screw it bigger guns and no armour.

DEFINITELY interested in a look at Animatrix. Brilliant stuff in there; I wasn't much of a fan of Matrix 2/3, but that Animatrix really knocked it out of the park for me.

The giant kaiju Smith fight would have been so much better if Neo was like, "two can play that game", and it turned into a city-levelling kaiju brawl, King Of The Monsters shtyle, proper melee mechanics, tearing out skyscrapers and using them as bats etc. Fake Plastic Trees is a good song.

9:30 From what the Animatrix says as I remember, putting us into the matrix was how humans brokered 'peace' after losing the war that humans started. The machines agreed not to wipe out humanity and then became our reluctant caretakers.

You know something that's always stuck me as funny about the, "Did Neo die. Is he alive?" ending of the movie. Is how no one ever points out the thing I noticed a long time ago in rewatching it once it came out on DVD. So the animatrix came out between reloaded and revolutions like around july-ish 03' I believe. and the final story in that movie "Matriculated" is one of Runners luring robots and jacking them into a low key matrix trap to make them find their humanity essentially.Once a robot comes out of the trap their eyes go from red to green. At the end of revolutions when the carrier (I don't know the proper name of that machine) drags Neo onto its back and it carries him away. It does a quick pan to the front of the machine and you see the machines, eyes are green. But I never hear anyone talk about this. Or how a rehabbed machine is the one that takes Neo away.

"Im an alien or whatever" that 3rd rock from the sun clip is such a genius insert. Bravo Ben.

James' "I dunno..." regarding The Bends is the funniest thing I've ever heard him say.

I've always loved the entire trilogy, obviously 2 and 3 could've done with a bit more refinement but I think they came out pretty great all things considered, could've been a LOT worse. I'm concerned about 4, but remain optimistic.

I really enjoyed them both on a recent rewatch, so much so that I’d happily watch them again. The big thing for me is the feel and general ambience and I think the sequels carried that over from the first films brilliantly. The boys mentioned it in the last one: the spooky antiqueness of the run down areas, lost splendour for long dead people who might never have existed. The Matrix itself is so eerily timeless and the whole Merovingian cycle fits it perfectly. Similarly, I like that the lore is kept fairly vague and that nobody has really kept track of real time, and the sequels build that into an almost Dark Soulsy sense of mystique and horror. Even Zion feels, and is, improbably ancient. They’re just great and most importantly they fit the first film very comfortably, after an initial disturbance from all the new faces. I loved pretty much every minute apart from the ropey cgi - next time I’m rewatching on DVD to smooth out the edges.

Your guys' channel has become one of my favorite, love the selections keep it going! I've seen Revolutions one too many times having it on DVD

Every time I see a CoG, it takes precedence over every other video. And i always hit that like button before the video buffers!

“I’ve never cared about Radiohead” is exactly the motivation I needed to get through the day

You've gone this deep into the world of the matrix you might as well keep going. I say cover "Into the Matrix" and "The Animatrix"

Shout out to Lawrence! I love that Mr Sunday appreciates his editors because they definitely work hard!

NGL, knowing this was coming kept me going during my overnight shift.

I left a like for the algorithm, (the RU-vid algorithm not the Matrix algorithm, the Matrix is fictional) you’re welcome.

In Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin, Ramba Ral complained about the 1st mobile suits not having a covering to protect the pilot. Ramba Ral would have been great for Zion

Frank Herbert burned out Paul Atriedes's eyes, and that did NOT stop sequels...

When I watched this as a kid, my only complaint was why didn't they have shields over their human bodies in the mech's🤣😭

Thanks for this CoG boys. The Matrix was my favourite movie growing up, and I was obsessed with the trilogy. Never disliked any of the movies but watching them again recently has made me appreciate the third movie more. Also seeing the giant Agent Smith in Path of Neo was one of the highlights of my childhood. Excited to hear what you guys say about the Animatrix and can’t wait for the 4th

This is so insightful and entertaining! Love these guys.

Love watching your videos every week. They always entertain and make me laugh. Have you guys ever thought about doing a series on disaster movies? Like Deep Impact or Armageddon??

This has been my favourite trilogy from you since the Twilight films.

I saw these when they came out at the theater and felt very underwhelmed after loving the first one. Several more viewings of them over the years has not changed my opinion.

This video was awesome, thank you for all the hard work and research.

I really love this trilogy, it was always one of my favourites as a teenager and still is. The Animatrix is absolutely brilliant too, definitely cover that!

I really love revolutions commitment to kind of, epic spectacular absurdity. Like, reloaded to me always felt like it was just the matrix, again, but also slightly worse, like it didnt look as good as the first, and it wasnt as tightly written as the first, etc; but revolutions just says fuck it, absolutely massive mech battle with a gigantic swarm of squid robots destroying everything? real life neo controlling robots but also getting his eyes burned by a newly human smith while flying to the machine city? neo taking on smith in a city literally made of smiths with crazy orchestra and they're flying through the air and punching each other through walls in the rain with sunglasses? its just this commitment to showing the most climactic finale they could think of and I absolutely love it, like its really cool

The bends fucking slaps, one of my absolute favourite albums, maso gets it

I’ve rewatched The Matrix countless times. I’ve rewatched Reloaded two or three times. I’ve watched Revolutions once. 20 years ago.

6:15 Maso has so many great points, he can't remember what great point James was talking about. Must have been a really long email!

"I know Jujitsu." "I also know...Radiohead."

I just want to say that the entire trilogy bled over into the "real" world, has a unique solid structure that keeps true to the previous and whoever were to be given the chance of finishing The Matrix during those times..... none of us would've done fk all....

I've watched this video more than a few times and I laugh every time at the "look at me" through the phone to Mrs. Sunday movies. Whoever edited that has just perfect comedic timing so good

I'm not sure if it's James or Maso, but whoever has that in-depth knowledge of MxO is a true gem. I was there at MxO's server crash; Ballak of Syntax server. Cool of you to give that small corner of the internet in 2005-2009 a shout-out!!! Matrix 4 HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve always assumed the Mechs didn’t have coverings because they were made for construction and used to build the giant mechanical structures in Zion then converted to war machines. Zion doesn’t have unlimited resources so they didn’t really have a choice but to equip them with guns and send them into battle.

The Matrix sequels are some of the most unfairly maligned movies of all time.

With scenes shot specifically for Enter the Matrix with the actors as well as a storyline that follows Last Flight of the Osiris from Animatrix, running parallel to Reloaded and to the opening scenes of Revolutions I think a single video covering both Animatrix and Enter the Matrix could be a lot of fun.

I watched this... Then go back to RU-vid homepage and... THE MATRIX 4 TRAILER.... HOLY MOLY BATMAN

I’m from Oxford so I have to like Radiohead. We have very odd and specific British laws

If Matrix 4 doesn't have John Matrix in it I will be upset.

Can we just say that Ben is one of the best editors on earth. All theses videos are edited with utmost precision

Love the Curio shout out! Phenomenal video, fantastic channel

I love Radiohead. Kid A is my favorite. It's a masterpiece.

I've always loved this trilogy. It's just a great time and it's extremely creative. Very excited for Matrix: Resurrections

The “look at me” phone cutaway. Excellent

Complete the canon! Do all of it! Even a video of Mason just reading the tie-in comics. And a Shadows-of-the-Empire retelling of the entire Matrix Online story. I want it all!

Animatrix please its actually pretty good. Oh and to be "that guy" the machines can't go through the clouds because it's somewhat of an EMP itself. If they get too close they shut down the same way the ship did when Neo and Trinity passed through it.

The funny thing is that the human body takes more energy in then it gives out. Especially when you realize to that the human body gives out more energy when it’s happy not when it’s sad. These things were not put into account at all when making this movie and even Guy as someone who is not a doctor understand this fact. Not to mention in the late 90s and early 2000s, we were not stupid even as kids, we realized parallel processing. This could have been used instead of the whole humans generating energy thing which is just absolute bollocks. I was in my teens when the first matrix came out and even I understood that it would’ve been much better to say humans act like individual cores for the machines so they could be having extra processing power to, I don’t know, take over the universe or something hell even my mother, came up with the theory that people could’ve been just studied because the machines were curious about human behavior and so they put them into the matrix so they could study them and make sense of this strange creatures. Even if it came at the cost of how much energy they would have to put into them.

Coming back to this years later, the lore drop of James being indifferent to Radiohead is the most important clip of the year by far

Whoever edited this video deserves a raise. Or at least a bonus.

Outside of all the real life reasons/changes as to why the Matrix (changing it from processing power to battery power to make it easier for audiences at the time to understand), part of the reason the machines go through all the trouble with the simulation, or just don't get solar power from the sun above the clouds, is because the machines ultimately still care about humans to some degree. Alex suggested is it some retribution or torture for what humanity did to the machines but it's actually quite the opposite. They may look down upon us and some might outright despise us like Agent Smith, but ultimately the majority view humanity as their parents. And like for a lot of people who might have fucked up, abusive parents, you may hate them and what they did to you, but there's still some part of you that is still like, "Well they're still my parents." That's what we are to the machines. Their screwed up mom and dad. So while they could completely kill us off and just rely on solar energy above the clouds if they really wanted to, at the end of the day, they can't pull that trigger, they can't kill their parents. And they can't live with the idea of just leaving all of us in catatonic states, using our body as power, so that's whey they created the Matrix. That's why they went through multiple iterations, and the first one was them trying to give us a perfect world, which failed. They created the nightmare world after that not because they hated us, but because the first one failed and they thought, "Oh, maybe humanity prefers this." They were still trying to do right by us to an extent. This complex and weird relationship between humanity and the machines is one of the cool things that the Matrix does imo that adds nuance to it that separates it from more typical man vs machine, black and white, good versus evil sci fi stories.

I'm really hoping they talk about the Animatrix

on the animatrix is explained your question about the mech suits used on zion: (why they dont have some sort of cover on them to protect the humans) on the first time zion was destroyed, the centinels rip out all the protection (they look like the mech suit the evil guy uses on the ending of avatar when tries to kill the main character with the huge ass giant mech blade one on one) as well as the humans on it. ripping only the torso leaving the legs and arms tight to the safety features. once zion people retake the city, they took the bare bones of the mech suits and fix the ones that could be started up again, never knowing (or having the skills to) restore the "egg" metal shape they had. witch would be stupid since the centinels would rip them out clean.

I loved this whole trilogy as a kid because the action and effects blew me away. As an adult I've definitely developed an appreciation for the ideas and themes the Wachowskis brought to this concept and think for the most part they pull it off! It doesnt' all work but as a three-act epic story its very entertaining and feels fresh!

ah yes, the matrix revolutions; the movie that inspired WB to make another superman movie and yet that superman movie had no superman style fight scenes at all

Mason needs love, like everything does

Matrix: amazing script, amazing action sequences. Matrix Reloaded: so-so script, amazing action sequences. Matrix Revolutions: so-so script, so-so action sequences.

29: 40 I love Speed Racer! Don’t forget about Ninja Assassin - another great film.

I can’t believe james came around to the matrix sequels. I know they are flawed but it’s a great trilogy compared to most.

The animatrix is the best part of the franchise IMO

Begging you guys to cover Enter The Matrix and Animatrix before December!!! These videos are the best way to re-experience this story by far.

The "Box Office Time" editing - love it.