Matrix - Nostalgia Critic
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2015
- Everybody loves this movie, but is it really the masterpiece everyone says it is?
Originally aired on 1/13/2015
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"You can't be dead because I love you." It's how I lost my job at the county morgue.😂😂😂
...bet it was worth it, though... xD
🤣🤣🤣
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No hurt. No humiliation.
There's no fear. There's no pain.
There's no pulse. Now is it so strange?"🎶 -Voltaire
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Bad time to hear the Ted Bundy story on a podcast and then read this comment 😏
Just when I thought every Matrix joke had been done, "I couldn't hear you over your clothes" cracked me up.
*incomprehensible squeaking of leather on rubber intensifies*
Keanu Reeves saying "woah" is like Owen Wilson saying "wow" it's always gonna be part of his career
Aside from one being kinda funny and the other being literally half Owen's dialogue.
How he was more popular than Luke Wilson is beyond me. Neither are phenomenal but Owen seriously can't act.
@@natecw4164 did you forget about loki?
MONKEY!
1:09 it's canon the critic's first name is nost
Dosent the Last name come first tho
It took me a year and having to type down the name to figure what shmuck was calling critic. Yup im that guy
So his name is: Nost Algiacritic ?
@@_12k70Apparently
Is it just me or when Morpheus screamed and dived through the wall, why did I imagine the 'Old Spice' ads with the REALLY over muscled guy?
+NovaSeraAngel | The Catholic Gamer POWEEERRRR!!! IN A CAAAANN!!!
+Minarus Infernus BEARGLOVE!
+Minarus Infernus i'm more seripsed at the fact that its polystarinee and that the critic didn't pick up on it
I can't believe he didn't do an Old Spice joke with that scene.
Old Spice gives you 12 hours of Agent blocking POWWEEEEERRRRRRRRRR
Is it a coincidence that
Nostalgia critic has an N for Neo
Malcolm has an M for Morpheus
and Tamara has a T for Trinity...
Yes...I think it is.
David William rip
@@spawn760 That's ok because we can't fucking stand you random anonymous internet troll who no one gives a shit about.
@@spawn760 not as harsh as you said about Malcom and Tamara
Speaking of which, I wish NC would have used Malcolm for Morpheus, Tamara for Trinity and Cinema Snob for Cypher in the thumbnail
But nostalgia critic is not his name
23:27
I think the reason he said “I knew it. He’s the One” was because ultimately he was the one who wanted to save Morpheus and that despite being told he’d die before he’d ever succeed at that, he actually did succeed at it.
Not because he dodged a bullet just like an Agent?
Doug is an idiot, we know that. He nitpicks the hell out of everything because he can't understand it so it's easier to not understand and mock it. Using your brain is hard....
I still love the original _Matrix_ all these years later but despite that, I do find this review *hilarious* and I admire your guts for taking such an unpopular stance on a well loved film. Oh and the _A Few Good Men_ parody near the end? *Priceless!*
I hated it and my one and only brother hated me for it. And regreted all the times I went into physical fights to protect him from bullies 😭😭
Same i love the original movies
Dude I don’t even consider the philosophical angles when I watching it. It’s all about the cool action scenes
I'm about to watch it after this👍
Yes but the idiot sheep who are the majority of people watching are just going to do or think what ever NC says, if he says the movie sucks, it sucks and they have no mind of their own to discern or know what they like rather than be told what to think and what to like and dislike. Sad really people can't think for them selfs anymore, for the most part.
Tom Anderson is the name of one of the founders of MySpace.
Make of that what you will.
Glitch
I hadn't even thought about that.
Also he's rich af and doesn't have the media bashing every decision he makes like Zuckerberg does. I'd take Tom's life over Zuck's any day. He's impossibly rich and virtually unknown.
MySpace is dead
I miss MySpace 😭
"Have you found Jesus?"
"No, I found Tom."
TallMist what's the difference
Aidan sucks at games an increased amount of leather and no spoons
TallMist I
Only 333 more likes to go! XD
Aidan sucks at games one isn't always wearing leather
Tamara's "you wrote it" delivery was perfect
I thought it was pretty clear the train hit agent Smith, killed his host, and he jumped into another person who was on the train
Yeah, Walker likes to gloss over details for the sake of a joke sometimes. still funny though.
Exactly
To be honest i wanted the the film to end there because neo defeated smith by the train and then the finale fight feels un nedded drags the film
Yeah but, didn’t he only gain that power in Reloaded?
@@zanderbraincinemas6126 no, in the first matrix agents don't have their own digital bodies, they have to take over the bodies of someone who is jacked into the matrix. In reloaded he has been scheduled to be deleted, but has instead...uh...."mutated"? into a computer virus that is capable of "hacking"? others code to replicate himself. It's weird, but the body jumping is well established by that point in the film.
3:54 "Have you found Jesus?"
Trinity: "Oh Shit!"
I couldn't breathe! xD
"Nevermind. From the sound I think you just did."
Yeah his name is Tom Anderson
+zyphoid666 oh shit, that's incredible
No. The Constantine joke was way funnier.
Yes, that was wonderful, especially, as I know you noticed, because of her name.
Yes...nobody would take Keanu Reeves seriously again...until John Wick came out
"You know...people have been asking me if I'm back"
"I'm thinking I'm back!!"
Yeah...im back
Im defnitly back
Joma Hawk They took seriously?
I still dont take him seriously even after watching John Wick.
"Why is there a Matrix": maybe the machines were harvesting energy from human bodies directly from brain activity, since other muscles and organs in the bodies are undeveloped and weak due to lack of physical activities, hence they needed to have the brains stimulated, and the Matrix in its present form turned out to be the most effective form of a simulation.
Key word: "maybe"
That's a good idea. It's also because the machines need humans to give them a purpose. It goes into this existential philosophy more in the sequels. The delivery of that philosophy wasnt the best though
But even that makes the Matrix redundant. If you use humans as an energy source, you have to keep them alive to be able to interact with the Matrix to produce energy. Pumping oxygen, pumping nutrients, producing the nutrients, temperature regulation, all require an energy source. Not to mention the Matrix itself needs an energy source just to function. Even if the machines managed to achieve the highest theoretical energy conversion rate of 99.999999%, they STILL would run out of power no matter how many humans they kept adding to the system. Geothermal, wind and hydroelectric power would solve all energy issues, plus, no need to keep rebellious humans around. Heck, go to space! All the solar energy you can choke down out there!
I like to think they use human brains for their processing power, with part going to the matrix and the excess used by the machines. That way people like Neo and Morpheus found a way to keep all their own processing power to themselves which gives them more control over the matrix.
But why have a VR world ? Just put them in a deep sleep
That Tom joke aged quite nicely given how Smith's reincarnation refers to Neo by that name in Resurrections.
Too bad that movie is by far the worst of the bunch.
@@JoakimOtamaa While I would agree that I don't like the movie as much as the original trilogy, I still enjoyed the new Resurrections film.
@@andrewwang8021 These sequels after a long time rarely work. Same with Indiana Jones and Star Wars. As a kid I loved The Matrix Trilogy as a whole, the action was enjoyable for a kiddywink, even with PS2 quality CGI. The new one had some cool ideas, the execution just didn't work too well. It felt like the movie was made just cash in on Reeves' current star power.
@@JoakimOtamaa True. Also, I hear that the director made the movie in memory of her parents, which is why the love story between Trinity and Neo was so heavily emphasized.
@@andrewwang8021 Triny and Tom just don't have that good chemistry in these. Carrie Ann and Keanu are likeable and good actors with a right director and script for sure.
Best part, Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith.
Any day
He's not gonna be in the fourth ☹
also, holy shit! a British actor doing an American accent that's actually convincing.
...Somehow that makes these films MORE dated...
I only realised that watching these reviews.
Did people actually say the Matrix was the new Star Wars? So, when are the prequels coming out? I demand Agent Jar Jar!!
arbiter11171 Reloaded and Revolutions are at the same quality level with the prequels so there's that
arbiter11171 The actual Star Wars at the time was trash so I don't blame them
It came out at the same time as the Phantom Menace so it wasn't that big of a stretch!
How did you come to that conclusion? From what I know Star Wars was praised even back when it first premiered.
arbiter11171 well to be fair Matrix WAS the science fiction film people were raving over in 1999 unlike the much maligned and hated Phantom Menace
Morpheus: "Ignore that, past life."
Me: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha that part is really funny 😆🤣😂
Lol I died when that part played
Neo was like "Dafuq?!" 🤣🤣🤣
"Really? TOM????" Says the guy named Doug......
He ain't trying to save the world tho just make fun if movies
You look like Wilson the volleyball from Cast Away lol.
I know we’re all uniting to make fun of the things the Critic points out; but I always wondered if Agent Shmuck actually believes his first name is Nost and is his last name is Algia-Critic. Nobody ever acknowledges how dumb this is in the review or brings up what it references in the movie.
@@MASTERM016 I think it's just a joke
Jacey King he's not trying to save the world
The whole point of this joke was to make fun of a guy named Tom who is basically a ninja Jesus
Morpheus: ... as we gave birth to A.I.
Neo: A.I. What does the A stand for?
Morpheus: Artificial.
Neo: Oh. What’s the I...
Morpheus: Intelligence.
Neo: Oh... what was the A again?
I swear to god I’m gonna kill him
Don't you mean Tom?
I see you're a man of culture as well
Your toast has been burned.
A...I
Shutup caboose
"Continue and I will liquidate your testicle."
The way this threat was said calmly with a neutral face, made me die laughing. XD
I just wonder what happen to the other testicle.
I thought the critic's testicles were already liquidated thats why he sounds like that.
@@shawnboekhoff2718
Honestly, same.
Liquidate doesn’t mean what it sounds like. He used the wrong word and I guess he didn’t realize it.
Despite how anyone feels about the matrix movies individually or as a whole we can all agree that these movies helped launch one of hollywoods most down to earth and wholesome celebrities into the public eye.
No, they didn't. He got more star power after Point Break, but Speed was the movie that was his breakout role.
You're both ignoring Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure which came out in 1989, way before any of those films. THAT was the surprise hit that put Reeves on the map. Everybody was crazy about that movie at the time and now nobody mentions it just because it's a comedy, and fans want to see Reeves as this gritty, serious action star.
22:05
In fairness to the movie, they never said that the agents could dodge bullets from ANY distance, so Trinity being able to put a bullet in the agents head at point blank range was possible since he was distracted with trying to kill Neo.
I agree, but his complaint is that she didn't immediately fire, she gave a one liner first. That should have been a huge amount of time to move away given how fast they are...except when running. That is also weird.
"Have you found Jesus?"
"Oh, @&*$."
"Never mind. It sounds like you just did."
If he's called mr.algia critic... does that mean the nostalgia critic's first name is Nost
he just wanted something with the "A" sound,to mimic the Mr.Anderson name
Most... what a common name
I don't know why I kept thinking that - Mr. Algia Critic so Nost will save us
It's an anagram....
..for Snot
Alnost believed it
“And thus went the last remaining thread of anybody ever taking my career seriously. I’m just gonna be summed up in that one word. Thanks Wachowskis”
Keanu Reeves: Laughs in John Wick
Is he really a good actor now? He is just lovable like Arnold.
Jebu911 yes he is good
@@Jebu911 lovable like Arnold? hell no! but he is much better, evidently he works best as the strong and silent type.
@@UltimateGamerCC I dont think he holds up against actually good actors like Joaquin Phoenix or Pedro Pascal but he is fun to see in a movie.
@@Jebu911 agreed, i never said he was bad, though he has done quite a few roles that didnt fit him.
Trinity is played by Carrie Anne Moss who also plays Jeri Hogarth in Jessica Jones
She's the reason I watch these movies. 😍
She was also in Models Inc, remember that
*plays clip of The Iron Giant involving the name Hogarth*
Tom Anderson is also the name of Beavis & Butt-head's elderly neighbor who was the semi insipration for Hank Hill.
Also the co-founder of Myspace!
Ain't you them boys that been whackin' off in my toolshed?
The hell you got against the name Tom
Edit: yes, my name is Tom
Hello fellow Tom
Tom is a very power name. Cerrrrrrtainly much more threatening than doug.
Its like Bob, Jose, Mary, those names just speak loveless child.
@Nealen the Nerd my name isn't Tom
I'm Tom too. and this felt weird.
The color green in the matrix signifies the fabrication of that synthetic world compared to when they are on the ship when the green hue goes away to signify that they are no longer in the matrix. That was actually quite brilliant.
29:00 - 29:56 that whole dialog between schmuk and critic sounds like an argument between a reporter and a politician or a recording of one.
Ahh okay
Schmuck is literally every Republican trying to defend what the "President" says and contradicting themselves every few seconds.
I never got this whole 'Neo is an anagram for One', I always assumed it was supposed to be Latin for 'new'.
You mean Greek.
Nocturnalux I would have thought that too. But then again the bad guy of this film is named Cypher
Nocturnalux Same.
Its...both?
Its both... derp
Fun fact: That hidden 1-up in Mario actually does serve a purpose, it's to prevent players who are speeding through the level without looking where they are going from falling into the pit in front of them. It's kind of brilliant level design, actually.
Mister Bristles Gaming I spent a good 20 minutes trying to see if anyone noticed that mistake too. Props to you man!
I suppose he could be hiding behind the door.............but that just wouldn’t add up! 😂🤣😂🤣
you really can sum up the matrix as something that was fun to watch but never should have been taken THAT seriously.
It was a new and novel concept at the time. Very common for novel concepts to be much more popular when they are new. Obviously if it came out today in an over saturated genre it wouldn’t be taken anywhere NEAR as seriously.
@@AMediumSizedKodiakbut there were like 6-7 other films that did the same thing; the Matrix just had a bigger budget
True that it's a movie from a different era, and it being that makes the experience more amazing.
However, as Cinemasins says in every video: "No movie is without sin".
I love how the rebels also dislike the Matrix, but are not only cosplaying as two of the main characters, but act like them to.
Lost Knight Films That's the point, they turn on him in the last part.
Fun Fact: The character Switch was supposed to be dual gendered. Female when outside the matrix and male while inside. Hence the name Switch. They scrapped the idea because they (rightly) assumed the general public couldn't handle it.
This is just so stupid because that idea is brilliant. XD
Ehh, I dunno. Star Trek DS9 got away with the whole Dax thing, and that show ended the same year The Matrix came out. Both things being sci-fi, I'm sure they could have made it work.
Debatable...Star Trek had an existing fanbase that the Matrix, being the first film in the universe, simply didn't.
Besides, look at the backlash against Kaitlyn Jenner, and that's only been in the past two or three years, with a person who was already somewhat famous.
+*** “yeldarb1983” ***
Kaitlyn Jenner is a bit of a different case. She's a celebrity in the "shallow assholes and gossip" world, no fucking shit there's gonna be backlash.
Another high-profile genderswap case is that of the Wachowskis themselves, and I haven't seen NEARLY as much hate for them as I've seen for Kaitlyn.
And just because Dax was part of an established franchise, doesn't mean she COULDN'T garner gender controversy. Remember the "lesbian" kiss scene? No trouble with a male in a female's body, but she better not kiss no ladies no siree!
+Michelle Lehto true, but with an established franchise, unless you do something REALLY insane (or counter to the universe in a fundamental way), it's not going to be make or break.
as for the wachoskis, as you pointed out, kaitlyn's career has declined into celebrity gossip/tabloid fodder and backseat to the reality show, where as the wakoski's are still getting work, (and probably riding the success of the matrix still).Plus didn't kaitlyn kinda come out first?kinda softens the blow not to be the first through the door, so to speak.
not that I'm a huge fan of Mrs(Ms?) Jenner, mind you, I still think her getting off that manslaughter rap was complete b.s., but that's the usual celebrity revolving door legal system at work...
One of the few movies where Keanu Reeves isn't named John
Never watched these movies so don't know the plot of the second or third movie. That said, it may be cliché but why not have the reason the humans are kept alive in the matrix world be not only for the machines to harness their energy, but also their creativity. AI might be intelligent, but could never match the creative nature of humans as a large portion of human creativity is birthed from being able to think outside the box in a manner that machines would find illogical. So it would not suit the machines to just make them brain dead or dream as without access to the illogical side of human consciousness they would never be able to solve novel problems that require true human creativity. That would be a lot better reason than what was described here, at least in the first movie.
What a stupid idea
year late but kinda, the reason is they use the human brains as cheap processing power but try explaining that to 1999 audiences
They originally wanted that in the movie but the budget couldn’t allow it
Ur correct. This is why The Oracle is always meeting with humans. To observe their behavior as well as influence their actions through suggestion and code written cookies she feeds to people.
You could say Neo doesnt have a "personality matrix".
I'm sorry. I'll leave now.
Hypetia OK, can someone please explain what exactly the Matrix is? If you go on a pseudo-existential tangent, I promise you will suffer.
Your mom is the Matrix.
Hypetia go sit in the corner for painfully pushed puns!
is a human zoo. (or asylum)
That was beautiful.
21:39
" Take that, innocent security guards doing their job! Tell your wife and kids I said _f*ck you!_ "
This line right here... would be fitting in so many movies and stories. XD
I think when becoming a security guard or a guard in general you sign a contract where you acknowledge you are going to be serving bad guys and you will be killed by a hero eventually
It is almost like a promotion, the cycle closes
A guard that isn't killed by hero is considered a failure by his family
"Mister Alga Critic."
I love how Schmuck calls the Nostalgia Critic “Mr. Algia Critic”. 🤣🤣
17:57 "giant bunnies on tv"
That's Night of the Lepus
Every thing in that movie is so darn adorable
I must see that movie
@@tastyloaf5487 "True terror has never been so cuddly."
i respect dougs opinion. I think he has allot of great points. But i still like the movie.... maybe its nostalgia.
no, it's nostalgia critic.
I don't love this movie and can't get enough of this review, but I find The Matrix kind of fun to watch, so ... :)
i don't think he's trying to force a change of opinion, just sharing his lol
No one says you couldn't
I watched this film again a month after this episode was first posted. I did really like it but found it to be pretty flawed in some ways. It does get pretty darn pretentious at times, to name one example.
“Just dunk the camera in green, that’s the same thing as atmosphere, right?”
I think it's meant to make it so it looks like you're viewing it through an old monitor
lunadotexe I could film a missing-persons mystery-thriller movie with a gas-station security camera for authenticity, that wouldn’t make it _good._
@@Fluffkitscripts fair enough, but it's was a fun little touch. Keep in mind this was mostly a passion project for the wakoskis. Hell, the special features mention that the script was basically a comic that they had made before the films.
Yeah, as soon as my brother saw the "Neo is revived because love" scene, he said it would've been better if she had said "You can't be dead, because I don't love you yet".
Think about it this way-from her point of view, these are the facts:
1. She will fall in love with the One
2. Neo is the One
3. She doesn't love Neo
As such, if he's dead, she wouldn't have any time to fall in love with him, which means he can't be dead-it's factually impossible. This would mean that he wasn't revived by a 1985 Huey Lewis song, he just survived being shot a whole bunch because he's the One, and that's one of the things Morpheus said the One can do. All of the stupidity is eradicated by her admitting her LACK of infatuation for him, rather than, to repeat myself, ThE POWEr oF loVE!!!1!1!11!1
TL;DR: Tough. Read it anyway, lazy. I'm not your puppet.
I love that idea.
It's not "the power of love" that brings him back, the kiss just showed him that he isn't dead, he is still alive on the ship. This was foreshadowed in a scene earlier in the movie where Morpheus tells Neo "What is real?", Neo coming back in the end brings this idea full circle that the Matrix is not real, it's just a program in his head.
@@socklock1957 Wait, so you're saying that Neo thought he was dead like some kind of f*ckin apocryphal blindfolded crocodile, then Trinity kissing him made him realize "oh sh*t I'm not dead after all"?
Because, to me, that makes less sense than love.
Also, it's made very clear that, if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life-whether you're the One or not.
Thats one of the best ideas I've ever heard!
Is this nostalgia critic or cinemasins?
i noticed it too while watching cinemasins matrix
Except Jeremy from Cinemasins is very open about the fact Matrix is his favorite movie.
He's both.
exactly .... i was feeling kind of at odd with some of his points and now i know why. It's just taken too far, that this clip can no longer be tagged as a legitimate criticism that could point out potential drawback. Instead it warped into something what cinemasins do. I mean u will agree onto almost all the negative things/ mistakes that "cinemasins" guy comes up with, but at the end of the day i would never factor in everything that he pointed out to tag the movie. It is just fun to watch or hear those silly mistakes that doesn't affect the movie on the whole at all or its effect is negligible and that's all there is to it.
It's "nitpicking", i'm sorry i have to write all those sentences, while in actuality i was trying to find this particular word :p.
The humor of Cinema Sins is so low it barely gets a snort outta me. Nostalgia Walker on the other hand is consistently funny, entertaining and worth watching. Ah don't always agree with him reviewing/criticizing/making fun of movies ah consider just dump, harmless escapist fun no matter how reasonably bad they are according to most if not all, critics & public alike but at least he IS willing to show his face in his reviews and he is funny. Jeremy on the other hand... gah, ah can't even stand his voice anymore. E.W.W is becoming a guiltier pleasure of mine by the episode.
NC: “Great? Now why don’t you pick up acting?”
Me: HEY!!! Leave Ted “Theodore” Logan alone!!!
False: everyone knows Ted is short for Tedword
Arthas Menethil oh my Tom
We should make a fortress out of these cubicle walls! They’re amazing!
Dont disgrace your self. Forts can only be made from pillows and you know that
8:21 Not gonna lie, I was on a binge watching spree, and was expecting to hear "Well the chart says".
My name is Tom and I find this very offensive.
I'm find and I offensive this Tom.
He wasn't trying to be offensive, he just feels that the epicness of Neo being "The One" kinda gets sucked out that his name is Tom and he's suppose to save the world.
Lol
I have a friend named Jerry. I think you two will be great buddies!
Oh my...Tom....
Wasn't "My own 'Personal Jesus'" a Depeche Mode reference?
Still literally saying he's Jesus.
@@marquis911 If that's your take, you clearly haven't heard the song. Neo actually fits very well with the lyrics of Personal Jesus (hint: the song isn't actually about Jesus).
@@Marcelelias11 Yeah, but the movie is.
His name being Tom is not a flaw with the movie. Also, agent Smith did see Trinity on her motorcycle, but he didn't bother to chase her because he already caught Neo and knows that she won't follow them since she's been spotted.
"Just because it's symbolic and means stuff doesn't make it automatically good" - NC. You hear that BvS fanboys?
fans of that movie love to cram in the idea that scenes from BvS have more layers than the movie let's on, especially that Martha scene. And while these are somewhat use of symbolism and whatnot, it ultimately doesn't make the movie good
+Oracle of Games
Hah, Exactly! Nailed it!!
Yeah I heard it and hes got a point.
What the hell is BvS?
Most DC fans ssy "Well you gotta read the comics to get it" ...ok, then it's not a good movie...and BvS was so bad we left the cinema before finishing it, we finished it later, but god was it bad!
I don't mind the "I don't like the Matrix" bit but I feel a lot of these criticisms are nitpicky and sometimes it sounds more like Nostalgia Critic doesn't like the movie because of the rabid fanbase rather than problems with the movie.
A lot of the "plotholes" and such do require some suspension of disbelief, but this is true for almost any major movie. Star Wars had tons of things that reached pretty far and only later got explained away in extended materials.
I think it comes down to the things you didn't like about the movie weighed heavily enough that you were unable to overlook them to see the movie's overall value.
Well here's the thing, the most recent Star Wars movie came out in 2018 with another one coming this December.. When was the last time a Matrix movie was made again?
@@predatorgamer4607 your point being?
@@Fbiguy sorry wrong reply I thought this was a different thread. My point being is that If the Matrix is so good.... Why does it only have 3 entries. As opposed to Star Wars and it's soon to be 9 entries. And those are just the movies.
@UCBv7_0JjLpcbSd2gwxHykLg Anakin was created through the midichlorians by Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious' (Palpatine's) master. This is mentioned in Episode III Revenge of the Sith the scene mentioning this is actually quite a popular meme. I believe the words are somewhere are along "Have you heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?"
@@predatorgamer4607 There are plenty of great movies that end up not getting the attention they deserve and there are plenty of bad movies that end up starting bad franchises (just look at the transformers movies).
In my opinion both Star Wars and The Matrix are good and both have had a large influence on pop culture. The original Star Wars trilogy had 3 strong movies that kick-started the franchise. The Matrix had a very strong starting movie but 2 and 3 were weak enough to tank the franchise so we're not getting anymore of it.
Just because there's no more Matrix movies doesn't mean it's influence on pop culture is gone, just look at how many movies were imitating the action and style of the Matrix after it's release and how that's carried through to today.
There is actually a reason for the matrix to exist in the movie. Or at least, there was at one point. Originally, the robots were going to use humans as processors, which is why humans have so much control over the matrix.
Exactly! They couldn't render humans in their care fully inert or damage the brain in any way because that is the center of all actions and, thus, all the energy that would drive that action.
Inhibiting thinking ability in humans would've been counterintuitive to the goal of harnessing their energy, so they needed something that would permanently prevent humans from using that energy but still generating it so it can be siphoned and they need something that will, ideally, prevent humans from realizing the truth about their circumstances forever.
Enter the Matrix; a super sophisticated artificial reality that's basically the world's biggest, most in-depth videogame simulation of "real" life. Something for humans to "live" in while never being aware of the artificiality of the lives they lead.
In this way, humans still plugged in generate energy when they react to the Matrix as an environment but, instead of their real bodies reacting in kind, a machine is sapping that energy.
I love that the sunglasses are part of the agents' code. It's just funny to me. Glasses broke in a fight? Take over a new person and they are right back!
To answer to the last point, "Why is there a Matrix", in the original script by the Wachowskys the humans were not supposed to be batteries, but processing units. The machines would be using most of the brain's capacity for their own uses, which is why they needed to keep it functional. The Wachowkys admitted as much in several interviews, but apparently the studies thought people wouldn't understand, as the general public was not yet as versed in computers by then. To paragraph a character from the webcomic Goliath by Neil Gaiman (in which the Wachowskys were extensively involved in writing):
"I made the mistake of telling Susan some of what I believed one night - about how none of this was real. About how we were really just hanging there, plugged and wired, central processing units or just cheap memory chips for some computer the size of the world, being fed a consensual hallucination to keep us happy, to allow us to communicate and dream using the tiny fraction of our brains that they weren't using to crunch numbers and store information."
Kanz Red Dusk But that is still a bad plot device. I mean why would they allow the matrix to exist at all especially at that capacity. Couldn't they just input a reality that stimulates the brain but gives humans no skills whatsoever (they could think they're children or bugs). Sorry but the matrix is still a useless plot device.
I feel like most problems are addressed if you look at it through the double matrix theory. The "real world" is just a second simulation
But that is really just a cop out
And the central point of the review is proven! Gibber, gibber, claptrap
Everything about this script was insulting to Will Smith .
Now it makes sense why they can control enviroment to this extent -- they calculate it themselves, of course they have at least some power over their brains.
Window tidal wave...
Fun fact: If you slow down glass breaking enough, you can actually see it shatter that way, so that part was scientifically accurate.
However, to slow that down enough to show that happen like that, Trinity would have been appearing as though she wasnt moving, so it's still a flub. Just not the way you think it is.
You're welcome.
Carry on
It’s the Matrix, there was lag.
fun fact: the window tidal wave wasn't cgi, it was real windows, tho a specific types.
Wow that sounds like something MatPat would say.
you do realise it was NEO that was making the windows do that while Trinity moved in real time right ? hence the "I knew it, he's the one" line... really baffles me how so few people see this, plus the way that when Trinity slams at full swing into the glass of the building of which Neo is on the roof of, it doesn't shatter.. very big macguffin's but that's the one for you...
@@SIR1U5 was never explained or referenced ever again though. So not exactly obvious
After watching action movies all these years later, I feel like these shots still have aged quite well. It seems that (especially in marvel movies) in action movies you get a lot of jump cuts where you can't even tell what's going on, I'm sure it's easier and cheaper to do it that way, but the wirework and sound effects in these movies just made the action feel... "meatier" if that makes any sense.
I love this review though I like the first Matrix film. It still has a lot of moments that are easy to make fun of. I like how they take Neo to two or three dangerous simulations for his training, and never tell him that he can die in the Matrix. He falls and gets a bloody lip then says, "You die in the Matrix, you die in real life?" and Lawrence nods. That seems like something you should have told him right away instead of letting him get hurt and figuring out for himself. And my least fav part is when Trinity revives Neo with love. Again, I think The Matrix is awesome but that scene was super lame.
So, is Agent Shmuck implying Nostalgia Critic's first name is Nost?
Yes
i still love the matrix, but, i see your point.
It's rare to find people like you, and I like that you exist.
HereKittyKittyX From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!
+Poop Poop Thank you. Personally don't see why they are viewed as the good guys.
Cockroach Charlie there's a 2 hour video analysis video on Kreia and how it ties to the Jedi and Sith philosophies, its ties to real world philosophies, their strengths and weaknesses, etc. Take a look at it
Eric Graham could u link? KotOR II is one of my favorite games :)
21:33 Clever way of saying school shooters without saying school shooters...
22:39 Morpheus singing the last note of an aria.
Aaaaand you pissed off all of your Tom named fans.
Voldemort was a Tom, you know?
Not hating, I'm just saying...
Guilherme Almeida I think he is making fun for calling him Neo while his real name is Tomas
Rohan Sharma it was lol not to mention that the name tom just sounds so bland and just happens to be his name
Urban Kitsune In the movie's context it was
He was just saying it's not particularly unique or intimidating.
الله
The Matrix really is one of those movies that age TERRIBLY! just the look of this film, the leather outfits, the shades, the green filter, it's so late 90s, it's Cyber Punk light and it just doesn't hold up.
the only saving grace is the action, and this is what did hold up, the choreography, the movement and inventiveness of it all, but than again, other than novely it also wears off.
if only The Matrix wasn't such a grim and serious movie, and had it embraced a stronger color palate and a bit more of a satirical edge, maybe it would have help up. but than again, maybe those things would have held it back from being a truly cohesive movie.
+wizzzer1337 The odd thing is that it's simultaneously dated and kind of future-proof. Matrix itself is based on the 90s, so (at least for me) it still holds up as a pseudo-period piece.
+wizzzer1337 It was truly the epitome of 90s films lol.
+wizzzer1337 Totally. I found the first quite fun to watch, but the "philosophy" always was stupid in these movies. I never even noticed that people actially found this deep until someone complained about the later ones.
+wizzzer1337 I know right?! XD It only took an episode of the Nostalgia Critic to convince me into not liking another movie I enjoyed! Time to act like a pseudo intellectual and armchair-movie critic by nitpicking a movie I now hate! /*Jumps on bandwagon*
Fred Harvey I still like the movie, but in a different way, I like it as a time capsule... but compared to what i used to believe this movie was? it's not even close... also, long before NC ever pointed it out, I've seen the Matrix so many times (in the year 2000 when DVD players were still rather ealy, guess which movie was the MUST OWN?) I don't think my opinion on it comes from ignorace. also "pseudo-intellectual armchair something something"- that's actually a better description of the movie than the critic.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you on this one Doug,I love the Matrix movies
The thing I loved about the first matrix, is the gothic atmosphere it had.. The sequels had the gothic tone but not as much as the first film.
Just to be clear guys, he didn't say it was a bad movie, just that he doesn't understand the pedestal it's put on. As someone who appreciates the Matrix for many things it managed to do quite well but doesn't think of it as the best movie of all time, I enjoyed watching this comical review without assuming he wanted me to change my opinion. Don't get mad at someone just because they're expressing an opinion you don't like.
Thank you for that.
Sophie Goodman-Merel it's a rip-off of Dark City anyway
It's actually relatable, when people hype something too much, you end up setting your expectatives really high, and by the time you watch it, you can get really nitpicking about the tiniest detail.
you clearly don't understand how religion works, it is a must to be mad at others with different opinions than your own, it's called heresy... just shitting you lol
Sardar jaiveer singh sidhu No, it's not.
Agent smith without glasses looks looks like JacksFilms
... Holy shit, you're right!
Hugo Weaving
KDGaming What? Can you elaborate further, please?
"Yesterday, I Asked You: WHERE IS MORPHEUS?"
+The Wandering Viewer
Actor's name...
I just started watching this trilogy over the weekend and I’m currently nine minutes into Revolutions. I can say honestly I rarely watch a movie and actively try to find things that are bad or wrong with it, apart from a few exceptions. I find the best quality of a movie, or any form of media for that matter, is how well they entertain you. It’s hard not to notice some inconsistencies within these movies but, in my opinion, I feel that this movie is really good at keeping me immersed within the world. I didn’t see Neo or Morpheus as actors not acting their best or being given bad writing. I just saw this as how the characters were. They sometimes were strange, maybe even a little devoid of emotion, but I know people who can be like that. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the first one (the second one not so much) but I still enjoyed the twist at the end, even if I was the only one.
People dont realize that these characters are basically micro chips and computer software grown into humans and used as tools. It would make sense their dialog almost seems robotic. And how the pure blood humans like Tank are very upbeat and likeable. It honestly feels intentional
I love how the dialogue between Doug and Schmuck is basically from A Few Good Men
what if will smith had taken the role of neo instead of wild wild west? how would this movie be different?
+SouthCalifas619
It would be funny.
XenoSpyro he was offered the role before keanu. He turned it down for wild wild west
+SouthCalifas619 I think the movie would be wayyyyyyy worse.
1)Will Smith's acting is good. For this movie you need a guy that can't easily express emotions aka Reeves. Having a smart and emotional Neo would ruin the atmosphere.
2)People would go mad. Since Matrix's main theme is "Jesus" people would get mad with a "black Jesus" idea and even ignore the movie.
3)Reeves' awkwardness works fine here
For me the first movie was a masterpiece. I remember watching it in vhs countless times with my cousin and then playing while trying to do these crazy moves with our action figures.
4besideyouintime Indeed and personally I found the choice in that movie very interesting and funny but the difference is that BAM was a comedy and the main focus was Bruce.
The God in that movie wasn't a important character and to tell the truth the only reason I remember him is because of the actor (Morgan Freeman).
+4besideyouintime Because Morgan Freeman.
No one can argue with that. In fact, it's most fitting.
The waves on the building are actually pretty believable. In a simulation like this, with practically every atom in the world needing to get simulated, you gonna have to simplify stuff. Like buildings, which are programmed to stand there, not explode (it not a battlefield map, u know). The simulation will have possibilities for explosions, but they gonna load. Basically, the program is buffering the time until the actual animation is loaded. And those waves are easy to animate, because only the basic textures are needed
So the Matrix which can handle the actions of billions of humans all doing different things simultaneously cannot handle a building exploding?
It can handle cars exploding, helicopters exploding, but not buildings?
Also that is not how buffering works, if it was buffering there would be no animation at all before the explosion, certainly not a building wave that actually probably took more special effects than the explosion itself.
@@emmanueludoidung5745 The buildings were optimized to be static objects; when they need to be animated in such a short span of time corners need to be cut.
@@TiagoTiagoT Again that is not how programming works. In order for there to be a ripple animation, someone or something needed to sit down and create the ripple animation, which would actually be harder than just creating an explosion.
If it was a case of cut corners then either there would be no animation at all or a shoddy unfinished animation. There would NOT be a shiny, flashy, well made ripple.
Especially since the matrix was shown to have lots of explosion and destruction animations that could have been used as stand ins, wheras that is the only building ripple animation that we see.
Nothing happens 'naturally' on a computer. Everything has to be made. If you fail to do something then the computer just does nothing, it doesn't have some naturally occurring backup.
@@emmanueludoidung5745 Applying a sine wave into a texture radially is much simpler than calculating the fracturing of several solid objects of various different shapes and materials. The shockwave animation is ready to be displayed way before the system figures out how to break things and perform the fluid simulations for the fire, smoke etc.
@@TiagoTiagoT Except the system was already and had already been doing said animations. Wheras the shockwave would require entire new code. Especially if as was said previously the buildings were meant to be static. It's like going into A random COD game and doing an explosion...easy. Try doing a ripple glass effect, with reflections, refractions, etc. The engine would have a seizure, just on the lighting.
For their faults, the sequel films actually do a good job of fleshing out a lot of the minutiae of the world, such as why the Matrix was first created. It's just too bad that it was done in a way that was often too confusing for audiences (the architect scene, etc). I'm not a matrix nerd, but I'm pretty sure a Matrix nerd could rebutt a lot of the points brought up in this video. Overall I think the series was actually pretty tight story wise, if sometimes hard to decode. As far as themes, I liked that they were accessible without being too obvious for most audience members. The line about "being my personal Jesus Christ" might seem obvious on the 2nd watch, but not the 1st as it happens so early in the movie.
But even if all of that was crap, the atmosphere of the film alone makes it a classic. Not to mention the action, which was earth shattering in 1999. Judging movies based on how they age is silly, anyway. Like every great movie from decades past feels like was just made this year... Come on now, that's a tired notion that should be put to bed. I've got sacred cow flicks I hate too, but this review seemed oddly poisoned, like you'd been dumped by your girlfriend after you saw it, or something. So I can't really relate to your perspective. Still love your videos though.
There are a lot of action movies that have aged quite well, so it's not something that can't happen. And even back then, some of the shots already looked pretty damn bad even at the time.
The acting was also pretty damn bland, specially Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss. They put out an actual pretty underhwelming performance and they have next to no chemistry. And they are two of the main characters, so it's distracting.
@@okagron Keanu Reeves character at least has a bit more leeway because Neo is already pretty blank on everything in the movie
28:53 I always assume that it was because the electrical impulses and energy that the machines needed came in greater quantities when people were put through what they think is day to day activities than if they were dreaming or brain dead.
Sure they don't say it in the movie, but it's just something I thought would at least make some sort of logical sense.
The original idea for the matrix was, the machines used the humans brains for processing power. hollywood didnt approve of that since computers were still very new to the masses at this time, most of everyone i knew didnt even know what a processor was. so they said to make it a battery so the viewer would understand better.
I always assumed that the Matrix (the idea) was a final act of mercy from the machines. When Smith is interrogating Mobius, he said the machines tried to create a perfect world for humans through the first Matrix. But humans were so accustomed to pain and strife, they couldn’t adapt to it, and several died from the shock (which is silly in it’s own right).
I have to agree the whole humans dying from shock in a perfect world is silly...I mean....out dreams are technically perfect world for us
He didn't say they died from shock. It's implied that humans died of lack of motivation.
@@h.rtheater8321 Man, lemme show you like, 2 and a half dozen Star Trek Episodes with that. You'd......You'd be surprised how well they catch it.
@@Miscio94it wasn’t ‘lack of motivation’… Smith was commenting that the inherent flaws and imperfections in human nature which make us individuals and give us free will, caused the blue pills plugged into this ‘perfect world’ to reject the program, as though it were a dream that their brains were trying to wake them from.
You could draw a parallel to the Christian Genesis myth. The Garden of Eden was made to be a place where no one would suffer but human nature led to them being banished from the garden and out into the world.
The machines weren't so villainy. I agree.
I just noticed this now (after watching for the x-th time)
You think "Tom" is a wierd name for the protagonist?
For crying out loud, yours is "Nost", mister Algia Critic!
NOST!!!
LetsPlayCrazy his name's doug.
Nostalgia critic not neo.
@@OfficerFriendly2006 Really?
Yes really.
@@OfficerFriendly2006 Woosh...
Something funny to think about. My name is Thomas, and my mother's maiden name is Anderson. So I was pretty close to having the same name as Neo.
because you're the ONE Thomas
Now imagine how the Matrix would've been if Will Smith and Sean Connery were Neo and Morpheus (respectively)
It would have to be a comedy, but it could work...
That’d be really cool, actually
What about Tommy Lee Jones as Agent Smith
Fishburne IS Morpheus.
@@yeldarb141983 why a comedy? Independence day wasn't a comedy.
5:01 "no, really. you could impale me on metal wires i'll still make this face."
that foreshadowing.
I read that Wachowsky's original idea was to make people within the matrix a cheap, EMP immune processors, since human brain is faster and can store more information than many modern computers. This is why people within the matrix had to be perfectly healthy and sustained. However the producers rejected the idea, claiming that this concept would be too difficult to understand for an average viewer. So they came up with an idea of making people simple batteries.
My biggest problem with this is that everyone seems half asleep. Every line is a whisper.
Funny thing is, that no one knew she was a program in this movie. They assumed she was another gifted with a different set of abilities. The prophecy says there is an Oracle, the One, and the person who will find the One.
Ok, so the whole "tidal wave when glass is smashed" was always made fun of, but it turns out, it actually does happen. If you look up the Slow Mo Guys video where they throw a hammer through a mirror, you see that the glass actually does produce a shock wave followed by the glass actually shattering. So, it actually does make sense for the programmers of the Matrix to include it
THANK YOU! Glass does break like that if you have the right size and type, it is just physics. It happens extremely fast, but it works for a slow mo.
"Oh, just blow up in a stupid effect!"
I will not let this quote die. XD
Like CinemaSins says: "No movie is without sin." And Nostalgia Critic has found a lot of them here!
Cinemasins is a hack
"I couldn't hear you over your clothes!" 😂
6:27 Sounds like Critic needs to watch more Tom Cruise movies. And Tom Hanks movies. And Tom Hardy movies. And Tom Brady highlights.
That "joke" annoys me so much, it's just a name, like fucking hell it doesn't have to be some grand heroic shit, a normal name everyone has can help us connect with the character and make him more human
+berry Box That's what's funny about it. It's an average name, and he's a seemingly average guy..... named Tom.
I think it's just more that Tom's so...generic. And it seems to be the only thing he seems to try and be relatable with, and everything else tries to make it a grand epic. It's so out of place that it's kind of laughable.
LOL, I saw what you did there xD
But seriously, "Groundhog Day" (1993) is still a better movie....... ;-)
+berry Box I never got this complaint he made fun of it once and calls him Tom for the rest of the trilogy. It's not he is constantly reminding everyone.
Actually, watching the scene of Morpheus slamming his head into the toilet, you can see the crack outline on the toilet before he hits it
the same thing happens when Smith punches through stuff during the metro fight scene.you can also see the ropes Keanu is holding when he backflips his way out of the metro tunnel.
I saw that too.
I accept that some points in your video are legits, but other points i hope are just ironics, because for example, the Morpheus' scream before the break of the wall, is a typical in the martial arts (the Kiai)
Just for everyone who's curious, the movie playing on the TV at the Oracle's home is Night of the Lepus (1972). It's actually fun. Stupid premise…but fun.
Fanboyflicks has a great review of that movie
I mean, I get the humor behind the joke here. However, THOMAS, going with The Matrix's religious themes, was the name of the disciple of Jesus who is known as "Doubting Thomas" in that he didn't believe Jesus was resurrected until he put his finger on the crucifixion wounds before accepting he was truly back.
And Neo is "doubting" his life inside the Matrix before being set free to see the truth. He also doubts he's "the one", but only manages to become who he was meant to be when he stops waiting for a sign ("You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something... ") and acts upon his own free will. And of course, he stops being "Thomas" when:
"Goodbye, Mr. Anderson..."
"My name.... IS Neo."
THANK YOU
I fucking hate how he devotes so much time to shitting all over the fact that Neo's original name was Thomas (or Tom, as Critic insists)
The entire point is the fact that it's a completely average name, which he leaves behind along with his previous life within the Matrix
But Neo isn’t the One, Smith is
Nooooo..your name is Tom Anderson as it state on your birth certificate...Neo is your nickname....ok....also...you don't know what E,M,P is...really!!!!
The Matrix exists to keep humanity in a collective dream, one where they would never wake up.
walter conley True, but the machines could easily grow the humans under a medical induced coma so that way they can still provide the energy without having to worry about them waking up from the dream world.
Why do they need a matrix for that?
They needed the matrix to trick the mind into growing the human body so it could mature enough to create more human beings while benefiting from the perpetual energy the body gave while in the process.
Like Dark City, except with less mind-swapping, and the ones in control are less goth.
And Why do they need to keep humanity in a Collective Dream?
They can just keep everyone unconscious. They Don't need a simulation that networks into everyone's mind. In fact if they simply had everyone unconscious but no Matrix, there would be no possibility of rebellion.
Just had to watch this again after Matrix Resurrections first trailer dropped
Morpheus’s yells: the first one looks like a sneeze and the second looks like he’s getting over constipation.
It was tinted green to make it look like you were watching it on a old computer
@vulkan435 ...Perfectly dated.
And it's only there for scenes in the Matrix, not scenes in the real world, so the real purpose is to cue the audience to feel differently about the two realities the same way the characters do.
It's a "visual language" technique lots of movies use to distinguish between different settings/time periods/etc. within the same story.
And was done so after they decided to make it green in the sequels.
Then why was the ship and sewers blue, and Zion yellow?