I began dating my wife, Melissa Anderson, in 2005. Ive dressed as Agent Smith for Halloween every year since, just so I could say "Hello, Mr. Anderson" to my father in law.

@danextrinsic0174

5 жыл бұрын

Well, at least you made him feel like "the one".... however, if i was was him, i would also find it awkward that agent Smith is tapping my daughter...

@colviolet4066

5 жыл бұрын

Haha good man

@V.D.22

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@clairepettie

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like the marriage will last, given this level of commitment to once-a-year cosplay.

@Neonravekid

5 жыл бұрын

CLASSIC.

The Merovingian's line "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without," foreshadows the Architect's scene in that the Machines are trying to offer the humans a choice but to constrain it to make the choice come out in their favor.

@freemanoxenholmes2241

2 жыл бұрын

So pretty much like the last U.S. presidential election...like choosing between cholera and gonorrhoea - either way you ain't gonna feel good and someone makes a profit selling you and getting you interested in the cure

@samf.s.7731

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, why have the humans actually rebel unite, and potentially (Albeit unlikely) succeed, where the machines can give them the illusion of that in a controlled environment, where they get total control over them and easily deal with anything that is problematic.

@Americansikkunt

2 жыл бұрын

@@freemanoxenholmes2241 except one choice would have actually been good (Trump) Seriously, can you even name a single bad thing he did?

@diangelo786

2 жыл бұрын

@@Americansikkunt he tear gassed a crowd of protestors so he could have a photo op in front of a church, while holding a Bible upside down

@Americansikkunt

2 жыл бұрын

@@diangelo786 rioters aren’t protestors, go boo-hoo elsewhere

I guess this is why I love Matrix: I am " _someone who loves philosophical conversations and also enjoys ridiculously over the top action sequences_ " I am the target audience

@roymwale1967

5 жыл бұрын

Person Man Man preach preacha

@Magus_Union

5 жыл бұрын

indeed. But I thankfully liked the Trilogy when it first came out. I don't get why it received so much hate over the years, but I guess because it was so complex for a film as a whole in Western media.

@cobrallama6236

5 жыл бұрын

Same. I love the sequels have since they first came out.

@starlady98

5 жыл бұрын

I was in college when the sequels came out, so I got the whole philosophy thing right off the bat. I may not rewatch the sequels as much (I really have to be in the right mind set for it), but I liked them.

@louisvictor3473

5 жыл бұрын

Same, I was that teenager. It reminds me of some eastern "kung fu" movies, which were a huge influence in the matrix. Its basically philosophy with visual and plot metaphors wrapped around as a dressing, not the point. But people went to see a Hollywood action flick in the molds of the ones they just saw in the 90s and 80s (which is easy to pretend the first movie was, though it wasn't), and were all surprised pikachu when they didn't see one in the sequels.

"The only way to live in an unfree world is to make yourself so absolutely free that your very existence becomes an act of rebellion" Albert Camus

@shantihealer

3 жыл бұрын

Never wear that fake pandemic mask

@michaelnone1437

3 жыл бұрын

@@shantihealer Wait are you saying the pandemic is fake or the mask is fake? I can assure you both are indeed real. Also not what I was referring to by my quote. My interpretation being that living in a capitalist society that everything costs money the only way to live is to free your mind.

@ratking6133

3 жыл бұрын

Well the directors are trans....

@PittsburghSonido

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelnone1437 I love the reply. Chuds see “freedom” in a quote and automatically think “democrats, 1984, constitution, fascism” and reply with a shitty take. Lmao

@youtubesucks1821

2 жыл бұрын

@@ratking6133 I'm so tired of hearing this. So can a gay man not make a movie that has nothing to do with sexuality? Can a black person not make a movie that has nothing to do with race? Just because they are trans does not mean the matrix trilogy has anything to do with that. There is literally 0 references to suggest that. And they were both still dudes when the idea was conceived and the scripts were written. It is mere coincidence that they are now both women

Good thing neo took the blue pill and became john wick

@ClintLoweTube

5 жыл бұрын

Haha

@deltabeta5527

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly there isn't a good John Wick PC game

@psychodrummer1567

5 жыл бұрын

Delta Beta we may consider SUPERHOT as an approximation (despite different plot)

@beyOndzZz

5 жыл бұрын

brilliant :D

@32nikral

5 жыл бұрын

Nani ? 😭😭😭😭

I love the scenes with The Architect. It's silent, but tense, and if you pay attention to what he's saying it is actually easy to follow. It's brilliantly done, because it actually feels like a computer outputting data rather than a person communicating an idea. Cold, precise, and unrelenting. Can you imagine if they did the typical "super-villain" thing, having the architect all emotional and evil?! That would have been a major flaw.

@user-mt4zr5kp7h

5 жыл бұрын

Generic Internetter yes. Exactly! It blew my mind how many people missed this and just think of it as a wordy, boring scene!

@Matteom13

5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Smith is all emotional and evil but still a program

@BlazingOwnager

5 жыл бұрын

Unless you understand what he's saying then you realize he's talking in circles about like Star Trek technobabble.

@Jayfive276

5 жыл бұрын

Some of the reviews at the time and later youtube stuff were all like "HURR DURR BEARDY MAN USE BIG WORDS ME NO UNDERSTAND." What he's saying isn't that fucking complicated. Making the matrix perfect doesnt work, making it with flaws works better but the system eventually breaks down because the machines have to give humans choice. Neo isn't the first One. Those before him made a certain choice, Neo makes a different choice. You don't need a fucking Phd for that.

@Jayfive276

5 жыл бұрын

@@RPMcM09 This explains it better than I could - matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Matrix_Beta_Versions

"hugo, stop having so much fun"

@sparrow56able

4 жыл бұрын

Cookies need love like everything does

@imjy215

3 жыл бұрын

"Okay Mom"

@romanbruni

3 жыл бұрын

'making movies' in ancient greek means 'have fun'

@Logan912

22 күн бұрын

@@sparrow56able”You are a bastard.”

The Matrix Trilogy is really just live action anime.

@DacLMK

3 жыл бұрын

They should've made it into an anime series. It would've kicked ass (I know that the Animatrix exists). Oh well, missed opportunity, but there is a great anime that can rival the Matrix in terms of philosophy and weirdness: Serial Experiments Lain.

@Stax2High

2 жыл бұрын

I just told myself neo & Smith were goku & frieza a long time ago

@clb4947

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stax2High same 😂

@T-800skynett

2 жыл бұрын

It‘s based on and inspired by an anime

@FroggyORTIZ

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can see that.

"Listening to some guy explain philosophy for 15 minutes at a time"... The video lasts 15 minutes... I see what you did there o.ó

@ClintLoweTube

5 жыл бұрын

Another funny numbers comparison: he has 369ksubs and my comment was number 369.

@00grayfox00

5 жыл бұрын

14 minutes and 49 seconds

@Juantotish

5 жыл бұрын

I think he's talking about wisecrack channel. They do a philosophical analysis of a lot of stuff. That's the logo you can see when he mentions it

@TheSkepticalIdealist

5 жыл бұрын

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case, it can't just be coincidence!

@kevinpogue7294

5 жыл бұрын

Looking at it, you're really listening to an A.I. that thinks only in mathematical terms, being bested by a human being that thinks in moral and ethical terms as well as logic. The Architect cannot think like Neo, and therefore cannot predict which door he will choose, or manipulate him to choose the door he wants him to use.

A point that people often miss when talking about Neo choosing the Love door in the Architects Room, is how that love came to be. In the first movie, Trinity tells us that The Orcale told her that The One would be soulmate. :) I've always read this as The Oracle setting up this version of Neo to chose the Love door.

I've always been partial to the idea that, when he's heard that there were other Ones before him, Neo suddenly realizes "Wait, this has happened before. Time and again, they've chosen _that_ door. Just to mess with your head, I'm going to choose _this_ door, save the woman I love, and save Zion for real. How do you like *them* drumsticks, Col. Sanders?"

@occultlounge754

4 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Tosoni 💭 actually that’s very logical..

@keyboardevangelist8956

3 жыл бұрын

The matrix is Real kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5astad8g5zQqLw.html

@phillipsmejkal1

Жыл бұрын

who said Zion was even real?

@nicholastosoni707

Жыл бұрын

@@phillipsmejkal1 I mean that the other Ones didn't actually SAVE Zion. Their self-sacrifices achieved only temporary results.

@nicholastosoni707

Жыл бұрын

@@occultlounge754 Let's just say that I have a really good nose for guilt-trips. If you think about it, the Architect is just like Neo's manager chewing him out in the first one.

When Neo says "It was inevitable" it was his way of goading Smith into assimilating him, thus ensuring his own demise. He was tricking him.

@ralphkeeldar4726

3 жыл бұрын

👍🏾 Well said !

@MistahJay7

3 жыл бұрын

Neo accepted the reality that choice truly was an illusion

@Logan912

2 жыл бұрын

@@MistahJay7 He knew the only way to beat Smith was to let him “win” and sacrificing himself.

@MrNicoJac

2 жыл бұрын

No, he realized that, although he does have free will, he as a person would always make the same choice under the same circumstances. What makes it inevitable is that Neo refuses to give up, or stop caring about everyone else.

@rogerdalzell

Жыл бұрын

its a nice fan theory but not fact.

"So why did he actually go through this door?" To rage against the machine my dude... to rage against the machine.

@vaynvance6336

5 жыл бұрын

lolz

@davidfenton3910

5 жыл бұрын

It's a false dichotomy. When you find the architect, you destroy him and his system of deception and slavery all together.

@michatarnowski580

5 жыл бұрын

That's why *the doors should be red and blue*, just like the pills in the first film. The Architect is a mirror reflection of Morpheus, and it's a pity that it wasn't stressed in the dialogues. Morpheus fights against the Matrix - the Architect struggles to make it work. Morpheus is looking for the One - Architect is waiting for the One. Morpheus is black and in dark colours - the Architect is white and all in bright colours. (A side note: Morpheus is bald and clearly shaven, but the Architect has both hair and a beard). What they have in common is that they give a choice to Neo. One option is to stay in the world known so far, i.e. the Matrix (blue pill, return door). The other option is to enter a different, unknown world (red pill, the Source door). They both prefer the "new world" option. Analogies are like a rhyme, they give a unity in variety and I really love them. Maybe that's why when I first watched this video I enjoyed mostly the fact that "Reloaded" has a kind of leitmotiv -- Neo chooses between Trinity and others for three times (by the lift, with Persephone, and with the Architect).

@qpSubZeroqp

5 жыл бұрын

@@michatarnowski580 my dude! Best comment I've seen so far

@thereisnospace

3 жыл бұрын

@@michatarnowski580 to make the doors blue and red wouldn't fit. For a machine a color does not represent anything. So the doors being just like a logic gate and seemingly identical makes more sense (even in your own logic) Morpheus uses color, the Architect doesn't.

The Matrix trilogy is so empowering to me because essentially when you watch it, every single scene builds up to the one moment: “Why do you persist?” “Because I choose to” That one line without context is quite poor but because nearly everything we’ve seen is telling us that free will doesn’t actually exist, it’s immensely powerful. Because whether or not he even has free will in that moment, whether or not his choice to keep fighting is just a matter of everything that’s happened to him up to that moment, HE STILL CHOOSES TO FIGHT. Even if it’s not really a choice, he doesn’t care. He’s going to fight anyway. And because of that fact he’s going to win. And that’s amazing.

@ClintLoweTube

5 жыл бұрын

Good point. I haven't seen the films since they came out. I will rewatch one day.

@theSUICIDEfox

5 жыл бұрын

No he said "Because I choose to" as a revelation not as a statement. It's why he let Smith kill him shortly after, because he realized that he doesn't need to fight him to win.

@mannyverse6158

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, it is only inevitable because he believes he is choosing. He himself creates the inevitability. That's just so stunningly beautiful and true, it applies to real life so well

@AdrianPowersFilmmaker

5 жыл бұрын

Well said, but the key revelation is that he should STOP fighting. Neo realises that the answer is surrendering to Smith and letting go, which eventually leads to Smith's destruction and peace.

@richardleau

5 жыл бұрын

Bitter and small. No one cares.

I think The Matrix Reloaded is pretty good. It ends on an amazing cliffhanger. My issue with Revolutions is that it seems like an inordinate amount of time in the film is taken up by a subplot where the guy who played Michael on Lost pilots a Gundam

@vegancam

2 жыл бұрын

Hard agree.

@RMVideos92

2 жыл бұрын

The guy who played Michael on Lost never pilots a gundam, he's too busy gunning sentinels down on the ship that Morpheus and Niobe are flying back to Zion

@samf.s.7731

2 жыл бұрын

Which is no surprise since that last battle is homage to Goku Vs Frieza 😂😂

Matrix 4 guys... Was it really inevitable?

@chanceneck8072

4 жыл бұрын

I'm excited!

@mariopellegrino3702

4 жыл бұрын

that's sexism!

@MaricaAmbrosius

4 жыл бұрын

Was what inevitable? Neo winning?

@motorcycleboy3paw

4 жыл бұрын

If you are true to yourself, then many things become inedible (I mean inevitable because all else is too tough to swallow.)

@mknomad5

4 жыл бұрын

What's really gonna bake your noodle later is, would they have made it if you hadn't said anything....

One does not simply tell Hugo Weaving to stop having fun.

Joke's on you, 15 year old me thought the architect's speech was amazing.

@merkabah47

5 жыл бұрын

15 year old me thought it was amazing too. It even came out on my birthday.

@ClintLoweTube

5 жыл бұрын

Haha. Well done. It was too deep for me back then.

@Andytlp

5 жыл бұрын

im not gonna lie, i didnt understood the meaning cuz i was too engrossed in Neo being badass throughout. Rather i didnt even listen.

@bolso4

5 жыл бұрын

14 year old me was also blown away and 100% understood it too.

@timhaldane7588

5 жыл бұрын

I was a bit older than you guys, but I too absolutely loved the architect's speech.

There is no paradox tbh. Neo saying "Because I choose to." isn't a response to Smith, but rather him making the realization that his "choice" to resit is keeping him from winning. It's like what the Oracle said in the second movie, "You didn't come here to make a choice, the choice has already been made. Now you have to understand it." Neo letting Smith absorb him is Neo understanding the choice that has already been made and letting Smith take control of his body for the Machines to deal with him is the understanding of said choice.

@piercewarburton4913

2 жыл бұрын

Well put! The choice is only "made" when he fully understands it, the moment he says that line

@rexaustin2885

6 ай бұрын

Thank goodness for your comment. Choice as he believes and inevitably are not contradictory. The choice is the inevitability.

I had no idea that these movies were unpopular. I was 11 when these came out and I loved them. What I got out of it was that faith in ourselves and our friends was more powerful than any system of control the more that you understood and believed in yourself the more powerful you became. That we make our own fate through our belief in fate. Also the action was super well choreographed and the cast had great chemistry. I could watch Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving play off of each other all day.

Some people say the Matrix movies are pretentious, I think it is more an issue of having a fucking amazing idea for the characters and universe but not being able to execute them in the most optimal way possible. Great video dude.

@jmxbox

5 жыл бұрын

This is literally it. The Matrix was so successful because it forced itself to balance fun and philosophy in the most optimal way. Reloaded/Revolutions are pretty indulgent in all the things that the creators wanted to include. Over-indulgence usually translates to bad reception.

@dormetheus

5 жыл бұрын

It's about not carrying the general audience through the philosophy gently, measuring it equally, and with balance, with the action-y schlock. Pretentious navel-gazing and philosophizing has its place in several different types of movies, especially sci-fi!, but the hype of the kung-fu, industrial, cypher-punk aesthetic of the first Matrix wasn't matched in the Duo-ilogy. Watch Animatrix. So much is said and explained in the anthology that a lot of people missed between the movies!

@CogniVision

5 жыл бұрын

Matrix just had too much in it for movies which are limited. If you play the games and watch the sidestories in Animatrix, a lot more info and world-building is done in there that the trilogy couldn't cover.

@cmmndrblu

5 жыл бұрын

shouldve been a tv series. the animatrix was brilliant

@jeremythomas1081

5 жыл бұрын

I would suggest to watch W a kdrama much better and a mind blower.

"While art doesn't change, you do" Good job!!

@HOTD108_

3 жыл бұрын

@@keyboardevangelist8956 no

@keyboardevangelist8956

3 жыл бұрын

@@HOTD108_ John 1. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. And the word became flesh to dwell among men... Hebrews 3:10 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.. Jesus is the word of God, the ultimate logos of the universe, the overall of information of the hyperspace realm. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZW2Trc1pqrnPk8Y.html (CERN) kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3p5pLGAfM3boZc.html (emergent universe)

I thoroughly enjoyed both Matrix sequels when I saw them in 2003. I still enjoy sitting down and watching the trilogy from time to time. Glad to see a well thought out opinion on them that’s not just someone bashing on them for 30 minutes. :)

@damac5136

3 жыл бұрын

The only truly irritating part is dancing in Zion.

@AF-vd8dd

2 жыл бұрын

@@damac5136 I just think the scene is long, but I find it completely necessary because it demonstrates the exact opposite of the matrix, the humans are there in the heat being free, having sex and satisfying their desires so that the prison of the matrix will never overwhelm them anymore

@damac5136

2 жыл бұрын

@@AF-vd8dd I can sympathize with that. I agree that the scene communicates an/the important ideal.

@MikeKnight009

2 жыл бұрын

@@damac5136 "To deny one's own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes you human" - Mouse

@damac5136

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeKnight009 It isn't the action itself, it's the cheesy-ass depiction (and the length of it). It doesn't help that one of the directors was asexual.

This is so great. You seem to have avoided the pitfall in most Matrix analysis of determinism and only determinism, and guided it to a deeper, more interesting conversation involving morality, resistance and the characters of the film

Damn, I gotta rewatch Chicken Run.

@ClintLoweTube

5 жыл бұрын

A great movie.

@AllanPatrick7

5 жыл бұрын

Most people should rewatch Happy Feet.

@pedroluz1233

5 жыл бұрын

you're damn right, Chicken Run is awesome!

@lostmyjob2766

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@thelastdisciple

5 жыл бұрын

lmfao there lies the answers to the universe.

I was treated as crazy for liking these films as a kid. Finally, vindication!

@thecianinator

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@ruhurtin4squrtin34

5 жыл бұрын

you are still crazy... ps i kid. hny

@qpSubZeroqp

5 жыл бұрын

Dude same here. I loved all of them from the beginning

@bballClipss

5 жыл бұрын

If you needed vindication, you didn't truly like the film.

@siphomakeleni1649

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone in my school used to love the movies you felt left out if you didn't watch matrix

Great work. Admitting that one's views evolve shows maturity. Admitting it in such a public way shows courage. Admitting it to yourself shows intellectual honesty. More of all three qualities would help us all.

@nightmareTomek

4 жыл бұрын

He just wants to talk about his opinion, that's all. And what one phrases as "I evolved, I'm smarter now", another could phrase with "it took me 15 years to understand this (I hope I'm not always so slow)" and suddenly it doesn't sound as positive anymore, yet describes the same fact. Really, that you people so easily fall for this...

@AndrewBlucher

4 жыл бұрын

@@nightmareTomek What makes you think we "fall for" anything? The guy has publicly said that he has changed his mind. What is there to "fall for"?

@nightmareTomek

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewBlucher that it's so admirable and deserving so much praise. As if I would say: "I evolved and now I'm doing my homework". And you giving me overly much praise for it, that everyone gets the impression it's actually better to start off not doing your homework and than change. Instead of doing your homework from the start.

@AndrewBlucher

4 жыл бұрын

@@nightmareTomek Ok. We have different opinions. I enjoy seeing people grow and develop. Cheers

@nightmareTomek

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewBlucher doesn't mean I don't. Only appropriately/fair. Not to overshadow people who didn't need to grow because they were already there. Or, like in this case, not for simply closing the eyes against the bad and calling it "growth".

6:21 Neyo choosing to ''help others'' by french kissing some hot chick must have been the most difficult one of all, I felt for him!

@nativeinnovations3485

4 жыл бұрын

Paraplegic octopus - not a great experience in front of your chick though! Imagine that in real life! Life wouldn’t be worth living! Fuck Zion!!

@-M0LE

2 жыл бұрын

I’m reality if you have ever been in full love that would be not nice As you don’t see others as sexual or attractive

I just remembered a seemingly throwaway line from Morpheus in the first Matrix film “It was he who freed the first of us” And later in this monologue “After he died, the Oracle prophesied his return” These lines take on new meaning as you lay down what the architect is saying. Ie. Yes Neo isnt special but he is ‘The One’ in this 6th matrix version, due to an anomaly in the code he carries, but as the Merovingian puts it “you see he’s just a man” and will die as all humans do, even if he does choose to reboot the matrix and restart Zion. So- ‘The One’ in previous Matrix’ were different human beings and the Oracle’s prophecy about ‘The One’ returning, wasn’t referring to the same human being, but rather that the anomaly in code would reappear (in this case, within Neo).

@kobalt77

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining that, it has helped in my understanding.

@brycejohansen7114

4 жыл бұрын

Would've be easier if the Machines simply looked up Stack Overflow

@darkhobo

4 жыл бұрын

Wait til you realise the other 6 "the ones" correspond to the Six Major world Religions ie Jesus, Mohammed, Abraham, Confucius, Buddha, and Ramakrishna.

@nativeinnovations3485

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Lawfield - Neo being Jesus this time

@christphern

3 жыл бұрын

The only potential flaw in that theory would be that we see several different Neo’s on the screen all having different reactions to the information the Architect is giving them. I had always assumed this was video of each iteration of The One in that identical situation, all reacting a bit different to the information, but ultimately making the same decisions, until the Neo we follow.

The Matrix franchise is one of the most thought-provoking movies of all time

@frequencydecline5250

5 жыл бұрын

Only if you don't think about it too much

@hexus9198

5 жыл бұрын

The cup is half empty 😂

@MacSmithVideo

5 жыл бұрын

It's philosophy for idiots.

@jinxkhoche

5 жыл бұрын

​@@MacSmithVideo Idiots have no philosophy, so your point is moot

@tinofaratinashemukakaso5632

5 жыл бұрын

definitely

I guess I lucked out. As a teenager watching the Matrix sequels, I loved them because the action scenes were incredible m and the philosophical scenes just blew me away. I couldn't understand them, but I gathered enough to go "woah" and go on to the next scene. Later, when I was old enough to understand them, it made me love the movies even more.

"The problem with the Matrix sequels is that their target audience is a 13-year-old boy who has somehow earned a PhD in philosophy." Maybe that's why I love these movies but could never understand why so many people didn't. I was 13 years old when I first saw them and, while I didn't have a PhD, I found the philosophical discussions in the films mesmerizing. No lie: I spent a lot of 7th and 8th grade thinking about the nature of the universe and the meaning of life because of all the ideas I encountered in this series. And sure, that got depressing after a while, and it was hard to hard to have conversations with regular people, but I've never seen a movie since then that made me think that much.

@samsand8638

4 жыл бұрын

Did u also think the architect had a sick way with words? I know 13 year old me thought his word choice was so clean.

@gvlacic21

4 жыл бұрын

Haven't found a movie like that since? Truman show. Dark City. Prometheus. Inception. The show Westworld. They're all gnostic movies. Check it out dude. Or just look into the original scripture. Since they are gnostic allegories.

@gertjanvandamme2068

4 жыл бұрын

you are litteraly me

@nightmareTomek

4 жыл бұрын

I always thought philosophy is using your thoughts to waste time. Well, I used my time on psychology, much more real life connection, if you ask me, and more benefits. And when me and friends got of the cinema after watching Revolution (I think I was about 15), we all just thought "well that was... 2.5 hours of war".

@nbucwa6621

3 жыл бұрын

@@nightmareTomek If you don't think philosophy and psychology are connect then you are the one wasting your time.

I always liked the sequels and never understood why people used to talk crap about them.

@douglasquaid1711

5 жыл бұрын

Because they are awful, he knows it, he actually gave a number of the reasons in this video at the beginning, he's just becoming a shill.

@tonygehlen2643

5 жыл бұрын

Because people compare them all the time to the first one. But in compare to 99% of other movies they are not bad.

@VinnyNapalm

5 жыл бұрын

I am a massive fan of The Matrix and I will admit that the sequels are skin crawlingly corny.

@McL0VINNN

5 жыл бұрын

Because the first one is a masterpiece, and the sequels didn't need to exist

@c.j.awesome1937

5 жыл бұрын

I do not hate the sequels but they do get a bit heavy with action. The first movie also had a lot of it but the 2 and 3 its like action for the sake of having action. Anyway I love Animatrix series way more than M2 and M3

What people never got is that Revolutions is literally just the finale to Reloaded. Not a separate film. Watched back to back Revolutions works because you don’t want anymore exposition, or the philosophy overload we just spent 2.5 hours consuming. The story needed to slow down and focus on the actual physical conflict. As a standalone it’s lacklustre, but as a 2 part story, Revolutions is flawlessly orchestrated.

"Made for a 13 year old boy who earned a PHd in philosophy" I feel so attacked right now

@johnnycincocero

2 жыл бұрын

I'm triggered.

YES!!!! THANK YOU!!! It's been driving me crazy finding literally no one on the internet who seems to understand these movies. I don't understand why no one seems to be able to tell what's going on. You are the only other person I've found who even realizes that the other door isn't a good choice, and I feel like that's, like, really obvious??? I mean it's literally comic book fare! I also thought it was fairly obvious that fate comes from the choices people have to make. I would love to hear your thoughts as a like-minded fan on what you think the deal is with neo having powers in the real world

@bolso4

2 жыл бұрын

I highly recommend “Matrix Trilogy and a Culture of Haters”. After this video, it is the best video I have seen defending the matrix sequels on KZread

@1998Cebola

Жыл бұрын

@@bolso4 the best one is the one about The Matrix and Baudrillard by CCK Philosophy in my opinion

YES! I feel like I've been the only person saying this for 15 years. It seems obvious that the two sequels were rushed through the writing process after the success of the original, and that's a GD tragedy, because I'd argue that both the action scenes and philosophical revelations in the sequels are on par and often surpass the first one. It just sucks that they were buried by poor pacing, pretension, and the insurmountable expectation of being as tightly constructed at The Matrix. Still, enormously flawed as they are, both are bold visions very much worth watching and not the garbage fires most people seem to think

@ShaunKL

5 жыл бұрын

nathan bayless Five years was rushing the sequels? I think they effectively accomplish what they were trying to do. It just wasn’t what we the audience, (like for example, with TLJ) were expecting, and that negatively influenced reception.

@ClintLoweTube

5 жыл бұрын

It takes a couple of years to write a good story, mostly. So many of these films rush sequels hoping the interest hasn't died. I'd prefer if they waited, tho. Matrix sequels are excellent given the short time frame.

@OliverNorthZA

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Paper thin plot in the sequels due to limited time in development unlike The Matrix which went through various drafts DUE to WB not trusting the Wachowskis because of their limited experience as filmmakers THEREFORE they were given a budget to film what was essentially a sizzle reel in 1996's Bound. If WB had faith in the Wachowskis they would have given them a budget for the Trilogy i.e LOTR and we would have much better sequels.

@ArtofLunatik

5 жыл бұрын

Shaun Lamb they filmed reloaded and revolutions back to back.

@ArtofLunatik

5 жыл бұрын

Shaun Lamb its not like they began working on sequels immediately after the first movie.

Funny story: The first time I saw the scene where the machines invade Zion, I ate a humongous amount of spaghetti carbonara that was almost too much to stomach. Now every time I see those slithering tentacle drones I have that exact taste in my mouth.

@ignaciosandoval1940

5 жыл бұрын

BaronZ same thing happened to me but with the movie wall-e, i was young and had brought 3 big chocolate bars to the cinema, ate them all. now when i see something related to wall-e i taste chocolate in my mouth.

@borntobebroken

5 жыл бұрын

that sounds sick i would love to be reminded of spaghetti carbonara automatically watching the matrix

@ToriRocksAmos

5 жыл бұрын

Damn you Pawlow!

@seanhartel5362

5 жыл бұрын

Well done, sir.

@raynonoubre2104

5 жыл бұрын

Haha very dumb story why share

The lesson is basically: so long as you always choose to oppose the system of control, it is ineveitable you will find a way to beat it because eventually out of the box thinking will always trounce where we thought math ended before.

@bolso4

3 жыл бұрын

That's really good man. Never thought of it that way. Emotion trumps a system based on logic.

@PhenomResurrections08

3 жыл бұрын

@@bolso4 I'm glad that kinda made sense. Lol seems like one helluva run on sentence. But that's truly what I think it means.

I love rewatching movies I've seen a thousand times in my youth and young adulthood only to find how much more they resonate with me now that I am middle aged and have some wisdom and experience. This is why adults will always sound arrogant to the youth, and why the youth will never understand their ignorance. Life moves in cycles, and you will never understand those cycles at a young age. But watch the world repeat itself over and over for 4 or 5 decades, and you start to see things differently. The ultimate irony is that so many "adults" and "old people" choose to double down on ignorance and "the way things were" rather than understand the world in a broader context.

I watched this video shortly after its release. Back then, I enjoyed it as a yet another summary of the twisted plot and a yet another pack of curiosities - like the repeated choice between Trinity and others, or the fact that Neo visiting the Architect has to choose between utilitarianism and Kantian deontology. "Opinions need refreshing every one and then." After the second watch, now I can see what probably made you so excited. Yes, Neo's repeated choices between Trinity and others made him "know himself", just as the Oracle advised. This understanding that he can sacrifice himself to others finally makes him triumph. The whole story is about resistance against an authoritarian system -- just like the first film, but from a different perspective. It's not enough to realise that you're in an illusion and to oppose it. It's also necessary to realise what drives your choices, and to follow it if necessary. It's quite an original perspective, but you'd probably agree that the sequels are pushing some kind of comaptibilism, i.e. free will and determinism at the same time. That's an impression that I've had for about two years or so.

The Architect straight up tells Neo that his predecessors all experienced the intense love they were programmed with "generally," as in impersonally and for all other humans more or less equally. This made it easier to convince them to martyr themselves for the continued existence of humanity, despite that existence still being under the boot of the machines, because their feelings told them that just the fact of that continued existence was a moral net good. Neo, however, was different. His experience of that love was, as the Architect puts it, "far more specific," and focused exclusively on Trinity. He could say "Screw the rest of youse, nothing matters more than THIS human's life." Why this was uniquely true for Neo never really gets fleshed out, but if the machines planned on running this game forever, it was statistically inevitable (omg) that one of their messiahbots would eventually take that door for one reason or another. This simultaneously gives Neo the chance to buck the martyr role in his mind, and yet fulfill it more effectively than any before him. Weird.

Did anyone else notice that Dr. Strange‘s plan in infinity war is in a few ways kind of reminiscent to Neo‘s plan in revolutions? At its core they both came to the same conclusion, which is giving into the bad guy, and giving him what he wants, is ultimately the only way to defeat him. I know it’s a bit of a stretch, and there are some differences, but at the very least their ideologies behind their reasonings were very similar.

@kevinw712

4 жыл бұрын

unless I wasn't paying attention to this video close enough (which is not outside the realm of impossibility) I'm not sure it's close in arguably the most important way. There's no actual real strategy or special maneuvering to Strange's plan. It's simply that he had the ability to gain the knowledge that there was literally only one very specific way to defeat the enemy out of a finite several million number of possibilities (though I suppose on that particular point, technically there COULD have existed more than 14,000,605 potential outcomes, I mean while that's definitely getting a pretty comprehensive awareness of a given scenario, for all we know there were billions of them to be seen, only he had the "time" to get to see 14 million of them, in the context of time in relation to the others with him there on Titan as he used the Time Stone. which, for that matter, and this didn't occur to me til just now, if THAT is true, technically there could've indeed been at least one other successful ending included in those billions of others). But anyway my point is, while yes he had to do some subtle (or not so subtle) "guiding" of others along the way to get to that one winning ending, it took no special skill or intellect for him to focus on that given order of following events. He was given clear information it was literally the only way to do so. And it's not like in this story, we have any details about the world simply getting to start over with new versions of everything if any of those "bad" outcomes happened. Well, Thanos winning wouldn't have been the end of everything immediately, certainly, but even he couldn't have foreseen if he'd accomplished his goal, that it would've inevitably triggered some other/greater subsequent event that would've indeed basically wiped the universe clean for good. After all the whole concept is he was trying to enable an action that had never been acted upon in the universe, including bringing together the 6 most powerful physical objects together for the first time ever, an action whose full outcome couldn't possibly be accurately predicted on its own. And yes, I'm painfully aware I'm a nerd on a probably unhealthy scale lol

@canadaman1786

4 жыл бұрын

Po did it in King Fu Panda 3, as well.

@nightmareTomek

4 жыл бұрын

If the universe had an infinite amount of galaxies and planets, there's bound to be some where life is the same as on our planet. Same with the movies - the more you have, the higher the probability of similarities. Not a big deal.

@standowner6979

3 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, you stretched it too much. Because Neo's plan didn't involve sacrificing many beings throughout the universe. Because when Thanos snapped his fingers, airplane pilots, surgeans, and many others all over the universe suffered the consequences

@MistahJay7

3 жыл бұрын

Difference is Dr Strange was actually fighting a real battle that made a difference Neo vs Smith rivarly was orchestrated by the Oracle and both are going along the oracles desired path. Choice is but an illusion

Oh my God... Thank you so much. This was a beautifully put together video essay. It cleared up so much confusion I had with Neo's seemingly conflicting motivations in the sequels. This is amazing.

*DEATH* is inevitable but Neo had a *CHOICE* of when he died. You can't escape death, you can't escape fate, but you can choose your own path to the end.

@Kushufy

5 жыл бұрын

"Choices" and paths are always predetermined. Free will is an illusion and a useful social construct when placing blame and responsibility, but in the end it doesn't physically exist in reality.

@theSUICIDEfox

5 жыл бұрын

No, Neo's choices weren't predetermined. Death is, but the choices he makes along the way are not. The reason that the Oracle could predict his future is because she can see the path that he was on. It could have been any path, and he could have at any time chose to follow a different path (eg. died in the hallway) but he chose to continue on THAT path to his inevitable end. He still has free will, but made all his choices before setting down that path, even if he didn't know what choices he made until it happens.

@Kushufy

5 жыл бұрын

thesuicidefox Again, free will doesn't exist, neither in The Matrix nor in the real world. You don't have free will, Neo doesn't have free will, and Gandalf doesn't have free will. No character in any movie have free will. Free will doesn't make any sense as a physical construct, and all your choices and actions were predetermined to happen from the beginning of time. Even compatibilism can only see free will as a social construct, because it's impossible to explain as a real-life phenomenon.

13 year old me LOVED Smith's monologue in M2 about purpose. I would play his speach on repeat because it hit me very hard. As a 13 year old with no direction in life, a broken family that moved twice and was left in a new town that didn't accept me or give me the time to learn the social skills everyone else had already learned years earlier, I was very lost. I had no idea what I wanted, what I needed, or what direction in life would give me either. Smith's repeat after repeat of the word "purpose" made me realize exactly what I wanted and needed. It defined a nebulus concept that 13, 14, and even 24 year old me is still striving to find. My purpose. My reason for existing. I may never find it, but thanks to this movie, I know what IT is

Can't wait to see you analyze Resurrections!

AMAZING writing here! I loved your explanation, very in-depth! Very informative! And so relatable because after watching the matrix trilogy again I felt the same need to understand what the underlying meaning of these movies were trying to convey, I definitely got all the answers to the questions I had and furthermore I got answers to questions that I didn't even know how to ask myself. THANKS!

Oh hey there.

@feordedid9113

5 жыл бұрын

Why is nobody liking this comment?

@CSM100MK2

5 жыл бұрын

Because it's baiting.

@feordedid9113

5 жыл бұрын

@@CSM100MK2 but... its wisecrack though...

@CSM100MK2

5 жыл бұрын

Feorde Boy BIG DEAL WHO CARES IF THEIR CONTENT IS SHALLOW AND MOSTLY STOLEN....

@feordedid9113

5 жыл бұрын

@@CSM100MK2 but its wisecrack...

Neo saying "It was inevitable" is like when Thanos said it, it wasnt saying he believed in faith but, that he believed in himself thus choosing. Everything is a choice, everything has a cause and effect, it is inevitable that we all die but, when and how is our choice as much as everything around us. One man's inevitability is another man's choice.

@MistahJay7

3 жыл бұрын

Choice is an illusion in the matrix universe. Neo finally realized this when he told smith it was inevitable

Your analysis is absolutely brilliant, you managed to beautifully put into words what it was lingering in my mouth since I watched them!!

Absolutely loved this video. I have long thought that the entire trilogy is wonderful and you articulated things that I couldn't express before going to school and getting some book-learnin' down me. So glad that I found your channel and am loving going on a deep dive through your work. Subscribed and looking forward to that bell ringing.

The biggest problem with the sequels is in this dialogue from the first: Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to. At the end of the first movie, Neo transcends the simulated physicality of the matrix by seeing directly into the code. Bullets and melee with the agents are suddenly trivialized and Neo wins. From there the only place to go with the plot would be much more psychedelic and mindbending. But instead what do we get? Two more movies full of bullets and martial arts, because that's the Wachowskis' thing. It's like the ending of the first Matrix never happened, except that now Neo can fly. This was a total disconnect for me and made the sequels irrelevant to what would have been the true trajectory of the plot.

@HereComesPopoBawa

5 жыл бұрын

I see that as a case of Morpheus not being in a position to really know from his position what it means to be The One. As if finally achieving real self knowledge and actualization means that the battle is over. So now you no longer have oppression! Or tough choices! So I think that making Reloaded and Revolutions a bit more grounded was a smart move. Neo can see directly into the code, but that doesn't mean that he automatically knows what to do without any introspection. IMO they are psychedelic and mindbending by going a bit deeper with the themes.

@sethrogers5722

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Where would you have gone with the trilogy?

@randyohm3445

5 жыл бұрын

The other huge problem is that the end of the first movie makes it clear that Neo can defeat the machines by just waking everyone up, and then they all forgot about that last phonecall in the sequels. I mean, he literally tells the source to fuck off because he can pull the plug at any time.

@andrejlondyn

5 жыл бұрын

@@sethrogers5722 It really didn't need to be a trilogy. The first one was a self contained film, the story finished in a satisfying way and it was enough. Neo was enlightened. He could literaly bend the reality and smashed agent Smith into pieces. Him having to fight with fists again made no sense. The only redeeming part of the sequels was the scene with the ingeneer. It was quite a nice twist but they just didn't do anything interesting with it. Lets face it Wachowski brothers are not all that smart. They just got lucky. The first film was quite simple and sort of tounge in cheek concept with those sunglasses and cyber punk outfits and style. The sequels just tried too hard to create something but there was nowhere to go with it. They have made some atrociously dumb films afterwards and thinking that matrix sequels are some mind bending philozophical masterpieces is quite silly tbh.

@christiantaylor1495

5 жыл бұрын

@@andrejlondyn "they got lucky" having intelligence in and of itself is lucky. You get intelligence from you genes and you didn't choose your genes. So them being intelligent or not isn't even relevant. The video is stating observations about the film. You can't disagree with observations. If we should use the word mindbending or not is a different debate, but debating that is quite silly. The films are what they are. And a lot of us like them.

One giant problem: Someone making a choice out of moral duty neither implies nor refutes determinism any more than someone making a choice from love or emotion.

@aleatoriac7356

5 жыл бұрын

I know. "Free will" in the metaphysically libertarian sense is incoherent. You have to chuck causality to pretend you have free will while relying on causality to inform and describe the choices made.

@GoliathWarfare

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's why he said that it was inevitable for them to have changed the system. It was still an instance of casuality, even though he said he persisted because he chose to.

@Drace90

5 жыл бұрын

I think it does when fulfilling your moral duty is considered the logical choice.

@fiorefiore9910

5 жыл бұрын

I think that he showed Westworld as an example to imply that, like the hosts, we are all "programmed" to make choices. Basically the sum of our experiences, our personality and our education forms our "self" and that self will never change. That is why our choices are just an illusion. It's like saying "I like cake more than cookies" and if next year someone had to tell me to chose between a dish of cookies and a slice of cake I would choose the cake. It sounds like a choice out of free will but it was actually predetermined.

@mattmanard8817

5 жыл бұрын

We program ourselves through experience and growth. We attain self-awareness through the analysis of our programming. Therefore, the later choices are inevitable, but only within the scope of our previously self-determined actions. This does imply that an individual's personal growth over time is impossible, or at least unlikely, but I think that's for a different discussion.

Man, I've just watched this video and I so glad I did at this moment. I started listening to music I haven't listened to since ages and it was quite refreshing to find little nuances that eluded me when I used to listen to them when I was younger. Definitely people change and so our perception of art :)

Great insight. Good interpretation. You hit the nail on the head with the Oracle. Our choices have already been made, we just come to where we try to understand them.

Since this is a video about defending the Matrix sequels, I would like to combat a few of the criticisms you briefly list in the beginning. I will give you the exposition, slow start, and not-enough-Morpheus complaints. I would also add that the CGI really hasn't aged well. But, in response to the other things you list, I'd like to say: - I don't find the Architect scene dull. Sure, I had to watch it several times with subtitles and a dictionary to figure out what the hell he was saying (and I had a headache by the end of it), but now that I understand it I actually think it's really interesting. You learn a lot about the history of the Matrix, they drop a huge twist about the nature of the One and the resistance, and I could listen to Helmut Bakaitis talk in his Orson Welles voice all day long. - It's not necessarily a bad thing for a film to be confusing. If a film is confusing because the plot and characters are a jumbled mess (like The Big Sleep: my pick for the most confusing film in history), that's bad. But when a movie is confusing because it's cerebral and there's a lot going on (like The Matrix Trilogy, or most films by Christopher Nolan), that just means you get an extra dose of entertainment: watching the movie, and then solving the puzzle of the movie. Maybe a lot of people don't like solving puzzles when they watch movies, but those people probably didn't like the first Matrix movie either. - It's a sci-fi epic. Epics have a lot of characters. Maybe some of them could be cut, but do any of them hurt the story by being included? The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series each has a lot of characters, and nobody complains about that. - Revolutions is the climax of a war story, of course it has a lot of action. Did Return of the King or Deathly Hallows Part Two have too much action? - I had to look up "fetch quest," but now that I understand that, what's the issue? Isn't the point of Reloaded that they're barreling through this quest the Oracle gave them without asking any questions, only to learn that there was something else going on the whole time? The Merovingian even points out how dumb they are for just running around hunting MacGuffins. - This series takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where half the characters are artificial intelligences. I think we need to use a different rubric for what constitutes "realistic dialogue." Also, I'm not sure why you show Commander Lock when you mention this.

@kaliq13

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent excellent response !!!

@kaliq13

5 жыл бұрын

We make choices all day long every single day. Even though the probability of certain choices "appear" to be 100% this way or that way, nothing is absolute. Neo and The Architect's conversation is essentially bull crap - The Architect has to maneuver with a specific set of rules because he is still a program and connected to the Matrix. Neo does not. So even though the situation at the end appears one way, we must remember that Neo is still an "anomoly", because he is the one and because he can do things that most minds can't..

@rmsgrey

5 жыл бұрын

@@kaliq13 The choices we make always have reasons (not necessarily reasonable ones) - we don't just arbitrarily decide to do things without (what seems to us) sufficient reason. If someone genuinely did something without having reasons for it, we wouldn't say that they were exercising free will; we'd say that they were crazy...

@tastycookiechip

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with a slow start tho

@volbla

4 жыл бұрын

I also love the Architect scene, and for the same reasons. The dialogue by him, the Oracle and Smith is one of the biggest pleasures i get out of these movies. I've honestly even found appreciation for the CGI during my latest rewatch. The render looks like crap by modern standards (they look like plastic action figures) but now that i have seen a lot more animation in my life i have come to appreciate detail of movement more. The deformation of their bodies and clothes; the weight of the characters; even the facial expressions. There is a looot of love and effort put into making this look as realistic as possible. I reckon any shortcomings are only because of limitations of technology. I think the only big problem i have with these movies is the cleft - nay, the _chasm_ between the story and the action. Way too much of the story is conveyed by two people just standing/sitting and talking to each other, and way too much of the action does nothing to further the story. The action is good and the story is mostly good, but movies will usually be the best when these two aspects work together. Well, one more thing. I do think the fetch quest is a fair criticism. The reason mcguffins so often are lazy and ineffective storytelling is because they don't provide any deeper motivation for the characters, and motivation is important. The way we empathize with characters on the screen is by 1) relating to them as people, and 2) understanding their motivation. If the characters are deeply motivated, meaning they have very strong, personal reasons for what they do, they will engage the audience more. Mcguffins usually don't bring that. Though i suppose you're right that it's part of the theme of the movie that the main characters basically just follow orders until they realize everything they've believed was a lie. I think that is a really cool development of the prophecy set up in the first movie, but is it really worth it if it ends up making the story unengaging? Maybe there could have been other ways to make this story and this journey more emotional for the characters. I don't know, i'm not a writer ¯\(ツ)/¯

Yay! So happy to see another person finally come around to the wonderfulness of The Matrix trilogy :D

best video helping understand & interpret the Matrix I have seen. thank you for this! 😊

Thanks for keeping these digestible and easy to watch. You must be a good writer

I've gone back and forth with these movies multiple times but I'd say I overall enjoyed all 3 films. But I still think the first film is the best.

@bigbro890

5 жыл бұрын

If the 2nd and 3rd movies would be compressed into one sequel, I think it would be just as good. The pacing and focus of the first Matrix is the real difference.

I was the intended audience for these movies. I was 24, in my third year of an undergrad that sat between philosophy and sociology and had already read Zizek's desert of the real book but also was a subscriber to Kung Fu Magazine

@frostatine

2 жыл бұрын

So how do you feel about the movies now? I'd like to see some 'leftist thoughts' on the matter.

Amazingly well done! I have the same results going over previous philosophic or esoteric works after much gained experience and shifts in perception. Parts I originally didn't really understand or glossed over, now are seen as connected to other concepts and reinforce certain threads.

Dude your explanation is incredibly philosophical it`s as if you had a one on one with the Wachowskis. Well done i found it to be comprehensive and it answered most if not all of my questions from the trilogy.

Thank you for making this video! I have NEVER understood why the sequels were disliked and frankly ignored the criticism. This provided some comforting reassurance that I'm far from alone in loving them almost as much as the original.

@douglasquaid1711

5 жыл бұрын

Because they are bad movies, just in his intro where there was the bowling alley sound effect as Neo hits Smith should have been a red flag that what you're seeing isn't good.

@PaulThronson

5 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking of a deeper philosophical and theatrical analysis Douglas. Not one where the thousands of decisions, dialog, acting, and pacing is boiled down to a half second audio clip that maybe should have been different.

@douglasquaid1711

5 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThronson I hear you, what I find odd about the video is that he gives the reasons the movies are bad but then goes on to defend them because of their themes. If that's the case you can defend just about any poorly done movie by finding some salient insights the writers injected into the movie.

@PaulThronson

5 жыл бұрын

@@douglasquaid1711 But does he really give reasons why it was bad? Seemed to me that at least watching them now, he doesn't understand why he didn't like them other than he wasn't interested as much it the meaning behind them. At least that was my recollection though my own biased lenses if course

@PaulThronson

5 жыл бұрын

I'd be more than happy to actually discuss reasons why it was bad, because all I got was the bowling noise and that there was a lot of exposition. But to me, that was the awesomeness of it. The story was all an amazing philosophical proposition. If anything, there wasn't enough

pressed like before even watching the video. Already know this is gonna be amazing

@mihirpotnis4210

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao how is someone as famous as swoozie at the bottom of the comments. I guess the audiences don't overlap for some reason

Great video. Thanks for summarizing the things I have thought about these films as I got older.

Great vid , looking forward to rewatching these films!

Speaking of underrated Wachowski films, it’d truly be awesome to wake up one day and discover a Just Write video on Speed Racer. An incredibly overlooked movie, and honestly in need of a good in-depth analysis on KZread. Critics bashed it, and it’s about time that someone brings this movie justice. That someone should be you :)

@Knarki

5 жыл бұрын

Word fucking Word! Their best film in my opinion

@abhokie1

5 жыл бұрын

🤝

@chriswyble143

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely all of what Vukes Panda said!!! I challenge ANYONE, fan or critic of Speed Racer, to show me a more kinetic film. It's a wonderful spectacle and, I'm sure, a major part of what sank it with average mainstream audiences. All the complaints of "all candy-coated special effects and no story" might as well have been confessions of "I spent the entire time angered by the look of a movie that advertised it would look just like it did and forgot to pay attention to the story". The story was fantastic and alot trickier than I expected. It was also quite impressive how true to the original story arc it was.

@readwrecks

5 жыл бұрын

Hey everyone, Patrick (h) Willems did a video about Speed Racer. I’d be happy to see more videos on Speed Racer, but that guy kinda knocked it out of the park. Go check it out.

@bruceleeds7988

5 жыл бұрын

I'll put two pennys in: I thought Speed Racer was a good movie but it was completely ruined by one thing: its ending. When Speed Crashed, and it was caught on tape that he was sabotaged, that should have led to the end, he didn't win the race but won more important things, justice and a reinforced bond with his family and his love for racing. Sort of an antithesis to Decetors speech on Iodine industries and making money. BUT THEN.... corny ending kicks in, put the car into hyperspeed and go from LAST PLACE to winning the race? Bullshit! totally shat on all the morality in the tale, an bad ending to teach kids that the "Hero" always wins, put's in in the Taladega Nights philosophy "If you are not first, you are last" a total NONJA!!

I remember feeling this way about quantum of solace and age of ultron. Two sequel movies i didnt like originally but actually really liked rewatching years later

That was an awesome analysis! Loved it!

Perfect 👌 after more than 10 years, i rewatch it and have same feeling as you and understanding differently 👍

I am in a bit of disbelief, I loved the trilogy as a kid, thought the story made perfect sense and this is the first time someone has ever agreed with me. Obviously I wasn't educated on Kant and people like that but that morality was at the heart of the story was pretty clear to me.

@fladave99

5 жыл бұрын

NEO is a HUMAN HYBRID SOFTWARE CLONE with FREE WILL that is programmed to TAKE DOWN THE MATRIX and reload itself into the Matrix showing any flaws - a sort of DOUBLE AGENT so the Matrix can self correct. The characters PUSH Neo into continuing his endless fight because THAT is why he cannot stop-because his programmed side is in ultimate subconscious control. And YES - MORPHEUS IS PART OF THE MATRIX - He has to task to FIND THEONE that is implanted at random by the Matrix programmers and lives forever as a Hybrid, teaching THEONE to take on the MATRIX and continue to serve its masters by finding flaws in the Matrix. However, in the end the "HERO'S JOURNEY" story-line takes over (its a movie) and his HUMAN SIDE WINS. HAPPY ENDING - EXCEPT for the writers TRANNY conflicts-The brothers are fighting their REAL sexual ID urges and do not know what side will win and THAT is the real story mother fuckers. MATRIX is a CONFLICT of the TRANSEXUAL CONFUSION OF THE WRITERS - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now go watch PREDESTINATION - Say g-by to your brain.

@mudza92

5 жыл бұрын

@@fladave99 Do you really expect anyone to read this load of garbage? lol As soon as I saw every second word is in CAPS, that was enough of a reason not to read it, well no sane person will probably

@jjb33083

5 жыл бұрын

Does this mean Neo was just an Antivirus Program? Sounds funny if you think of this story as a Hard Drive wipe.

The Matrix Path of Neo is still one of my favorite single player action adventure games to this day i actually love playing out the movies as Neo getting stronger along the way like he did and i love the extra levels and little stories they expanded on and the altered versions of the matrix fit in a video game so so well i really do still love it from the tutorial stealth when you are jsut a regular guy all the way to when you are a fully realized god like combatant i cannot stress enough how much i enjoy playing as neo wall running and slow-mo diving guns blazing and kung fu'ing the ever living shit out of everything i see like a DBZ character. the combat is like a precursor to the batman fighting system based around the x button and dodging and jumping like any other powerful super hero game except also with guns and insane throwing attacks and many weapons Neo knows how to wield like a boss. and hell even the levels were a good amount of fun platforming and double jumping and a very confusing train level and a suuuuper enjoyable congress room area and the infamous smith fight in the second one and the OP flying one at the very end. god damn what a fitting game for this kind of movie and vice versa. i do embrace the over-the-top silliness that is present when ridiculous shit is happening and actually the matrix Path of Neo joke ending is my fav :P i literally go back to path of neo on pc every couples of years to see how i can get it to run better but the original xbox version tends to run best

@chooky4626

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah that game was fucking awesome

@thecianinator

5 жыл бұрын

Dude. Use capitals and periods.

@fladave99

5 жыл бұрын

NEO is a HUMAN HYBRID SOFTWARE CLONE with FREE WILL that is programmed to TAKE DOWN THE MATRIX and reload itself into the Matrix showing any flaws - a sort of DOUBLE AGENT so the Matrix can self correct. The characters PUSH Neo into continuing his endless fight because THAT is why he cannot stop-because his programmed side is in ultimate subconscious control. And YES - MORPHEUS IS PART OF THE MATRIX - He has to task to FIND THEONE that is implanted at random by the Matrix programmers and lives forever as a Hybrid, teaching THEONE to take on the MATRIX and continue to serve its masters by finding flaws in the Matrix. However, in the end the "HERO'S JOURNEY" story-line takes over (its a movie) and his HUMAN SIDE WINS. HAPPY ENDING - EXCEPT for the writers TRANNY conflicts-The brothers are fighting their REAL sexual ID urges and do not know what side will win and THAT is the real story mother fuckers. MATRIX is a CONFLICT of the TRANSEXUAL CONFUSION OF THE WRITERS - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now go watch PREDESTINATION - Say g-by to your brain.

This is brilliant! Very nicely done!

Great analysis. I subscribed purely for this sublime approach.

I always loved all three movies. Never really got the bad rep they get. Great Video!!

I'll have to revisit parts 2 & 3. The action after every talk scene made me feel like i was watching a set of video game sequences.

Your first line sums it perfectly. I was 14 when the sequels came out, was really excited but let down . Now I'm rewatching them at age 30 and find them genius and very emotionally powerful.

Thank god there are people smarter than me who can justify my love for the Matrix sequels. Bless you, JW I especially liked your flips on determinism/free will, in both the Smith battle and Architect scene. Well done! Also, smooth transition to Skillshare ;)

@Israelpwn

4 жыл бұрын

@@actualfactual8737 Not sure where Islam played a role in this but uhh... Sure?

It's crazy how much depth and how many layers this trilogy has. A true genius in film history.

Damn, you nailed this!

This is my favorite trilogy- their target audience was me 😉 (Young 20 yr old). I loved the original story, the fighting, the world, and the philosophy. I have watched and rewatched those philosophical discussions over and over again. At the end of the first movie, I had so many questions that were unanswered, the #2 and #3 Matrix answered all my original questions, turning small story into an epic. I have often said most viewers were not ready for what they did with the trilogy. Most people just wanted to see more of the original Matrix - which I believe would have been very mundane. Great video, glad to see my favorite trilogy is getting more love.

very good analysis, made the point very clear all people should know about and realise in very important situations. And great speech in the end about art.

I keep telling people that Reloaded was the best of the series but they think I'm nuts. Thank you for letting people know why.

@captpoop22

4 жыл бұрын

Most people don't understand the movies, and to be honest, i didn't before i studied programming. i can explain you WHY, and HOW things happen in this movie. This is a pure master piece.

@captpoop22

4 жыл бұрын

@Luigi Nastro stfu

I don't think there is a paradox to be resolved. The entire series up until "Because I choose to" has seen Neo fight and struggle against the idea that his perception of having free will is false. "I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life" "You already know if I'm going to take it?...Then how can I make a choice?" "Everything begins with choice" "No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion between those with power and those without" Etc. (The screenplay for Reloaded explains the tremendous pressure Neo feels when the Oracle asks him to have a seat while she already knows whether he will or won't) IMO when Neo says "Because I choose to" he is still holding onto the idea that he has free will. Smith then recites what the Oracle had said earlier "...I'm supposed to say something. I say 'Everything that has a beginning has an end Neo'", and Neo not only understands what the Oracle has done, but is reminded fully of what she told him earlier. "Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading. I see death." She is not speaking solely about Smith overtaking the Matrix, she is speaking about Neo and Smith as well (The darkness spreads over Neo as he is overtaken, they both die). As Neo recalls her words, he has a shift in perception. He is finally able to fully accept the inevitability of his journey, which he has been fighting the whole time. I think the movies make the case that Neo cannot attain freedom through a series of free will acts, by "choosing to"; rather freedom is achieved when he finally accepts his determined condition and can understand fully who he is (Know Thyself). This is the path to enlightenment, which is reinforced visually by Neo being carted away exuding the golden shape of a lotus flower. So to reiterate, it's not really a paradox. When he say's "Because I choose to", he has a certain understanding. He has a change of understanding and it is reflected in his acknowledgement of inevitably to Smith.

@0quisuismoi0

5 жыл бұрын

Was just about to write a similar response, but you've put it better than i ever could. Neos 'i choose to' is said out of ignorance. The wachowskis move through philosophy as the films progress. Imo Kant is left in Reloaded, Revolutions takes us to Nietzsche and beyond.

@SNoone89

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with everything except for what Neos revelation us. It's when he hears Oracle's words that he realises. Also it is a paradox. Causality is Smith and neo is free will. Two opposing ideologies converging. How? By neo acknowledging that Smith is right, he doesn't actually choose, that it is inevitable. The irony being by him surrendering does he transcend the casualty principle and become free. He chooses non choice. A definitive paradox of mind which leads to nirvana and transcedence of the world of the mind, purifying him of the shadow (Smith)

Thank you for sharing your insight - I have a much greater appreciation for what the film makers were going for in the sequels now.

One of your best, if not the best. Keep it up

such a nice movie insight , then u blew it at the end with that skillshare add i guess it was inevitable

@henryettoit897

5 жыл бұрын

are you paying him wages? dude has to eat

@petrub27

5 жыл бұрын

@@henryettoit897 read the full comment, it was a joke, a game of words, a line from the movie transported over the years in a top youtube comment

@hexia6760

5 жыл бұрын

Haha

@dairycow009

5 жыл бұрын

@@petrub27 i guess someone not getting the joke.... was inevitable

@metalgearsolidsnake6978

5 жыл бұрын

ich bin ein berliner.. RICH Evans from Redlettermedia

The matrix sequels are my favorites, the first one is okay but kinda slow for me

This is really a fantastic video essay and reading of the films. Thank you for putting this together. The Matrix Trilogy remains a series of films I revisit to this day.

i watched these as an adult and have such a deep love of them. the new movie coming out is making me nearly tearful with excitement.

Eloquently explained. Thank you.

My interpretation is that The Matrix trilogy does not come down firmly on one side or the other of the "does free will exist" debate, but rather it posits that the human belief in free will serves as a source of hope for humanity that is inscrutable to the machines-- and that hope itself is a causal factor in allowing humans to exceed what should be possible with a purely deterministic worldview. It's not about whether free will really exists, it's about how choice leads to belief which leads to hope, and that gives us purpose-- whether the choice was "real" or not. Morpheus chooses to sacrifice himself because he believes in Neo. Neo believes he can choose to save Morpheus even though the Oracle tells him this means he will die- his hope/belief sees him through. Neo "is beginning to believe" when he faces against Smith in the subway station. He believes he can win even though he has been repeatedly told it's suicide. At the end, everything unfolds as The Oracle knew it would... and yet the events could not have occurred if the characters did not believe in their own free will to choose.

@8xrry

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment.

I like how you explained the meaning of all the dialogue. When I was younger I watched the matrix just because I thought it was bad ass, but I never payed attention to the meanings of what they were saying

You mentioned Kant and "The Good Place" in a video about The Matrix philosophies. Love it 👌🏽.

While I agree with most of what you said (I too love the squeals) I have to disagree with one point: No one ever had as much fun as Hugo Weaving did making these movies.

As a computer nerd I loved it right away. But philosophically I got it again in college.

This is me exactly. Was 15 when the first one came out and 18 when the others came out. Enjoyed them but was mostly cause of action. Rewatched them a handful of times in my 30's and I was completely surprised at how different I felt about them and how much had gone over my head. They are quite brilliant tbh.