The Matrix (1999) Movie Reaction! FIRST TIME WATCHING!
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"I love the look of these OLD movies"
*sad noises of someone who saw it in theatres*
This is the first dvd I ever had, watched this movie a few times a day. Now they call it old; damn lol
I saw all 3 movies opening night
@@michaelangelocostello2599 i watched it on vhs 🤣🤣🤣
I still can't understand how my 21 year old nephew was born after the Matrix came out. I remember going to see it when I was 15 in the theatre, got my lip pierced the same day. Still seems like a modern movie to me.
@@dotheyfloat9961 he was born because his parents were doing something interesting that night
"This man can stop bullets?"
No...there ARE no bullets. He just had to fuck with computer code, which he finally figured out how to do.
Exactly! I feel like people find it very hard to realise this truth and that is the whole point of questioning reality after this movie. But somehow people still don't understand that fundamental fact! LOL
@@Well-in-the-garden There is no spoon.
@@charliekenyon9723 precisely!
Neo: So are you saying I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: I'm saying when the time comes you won't HAVE to.
He basically entered administer mode
This movie was revolutionary when it came out. All the slow motion stuff really hadn't been done like that before and everyone was blown away. I remember walking out of the theater just mind melting
exactly. the only other movie that i remember giving me the same feeling when coming out of the theatre was "300", 8 years later
@@AtrolinK don't compare 300 to the matrix plz...
@@samuelgadoury2595 I'm comparing my feelings, not the movies
exactly this film was revolutionary. without matrix the world would not be complete
If you've never watched the behind-the-scenes on how they did bullet time, it's pretty interesting (and awesome)
tl;dw they used still-photography cameras set up along the path we see the "camera" follow in the finished movie, and rigged up a wire-orgy hodgepodge of switches to make them trigger in sequence, one after the other, with just the tiniest delay between each one and the next, and the shot is just the pictures from each camera set in sequence like a flip-book. This meant the actors didn't have to act in slow-motion, and it produced a high number of frames for just a couple seconds of movement, giving it a unique look (today, we can more easily recognize the look as what happens when you film something with an extremely high-speed camera and slow down the playback, but even if those existed at the time, you can't physically move an actual film camera the way the bullet-time shots move.)
When this movie came out, people were walking around in a daze. It's the first time I can remember people having discussions about a movie outside of the theater. It spawned all sorts of books and courses discussing the nature of reality, the ghost in the machine, existentialism, life as a simulation.
It was also a modern retelling of Christianity. The One dying and resurrecting with supernatural powers, Zion, the Nebuchadnezzar, Trinity, the Oracle and her prophecies, the betrayal by one of the disciples, etc.
"You're my savior, man. My own persona Jesus Christ."
We had a neighbor man a couple houses over that was essentially my dad’s best friend. He would always come over and gab about a bunch of nothing for hours and by the time he left you were always exhausted from listening 😂. But one evening he came over he was super pumped and couldn’t stop raving about this new “Matrix” movie that he went to see. Probably the most thought provoking thing he had ever talked about before! RIP Wiley
Neo’s eyes hurt because he’d literally never used them before. He’d spent his whole life asleep in that pod until they woke him up.
Bro when he said "new eyes" gave a legit chuckle.
Like he missed the whole explanation of the matrix
@@91besty91 The matrix wasnt explained yet at that scene
@@Vilppy Exactly. Some people are so busy trying to sound superior, they forget to check their own shit.
Sad thing is Americans haven't woken up yet and most likely never will
Adults referring to The Matrix as an old movie just hits differently.
He's naive.
@@OblivionGate It just means I'm old, lol.
@@OblivionGate 22 years is on the young side of old, for a piece of media.
Peter Parker syndrome...
It also means that you're lucky. People currently can't even go to the cinema.
"Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
This is what Neo as The One understands at the end, there are no bullets. There is no death inside The Matrix. It's all a simulation. It's all computer code. Thus, it can be manipulated, bent, and even broken. At the end, he basically realized he could turn on God Mode as he has Admin Privileges.
When there is no Spoon, why is the imagination of Soup?
@@Ugramosch lmao
This makes a lot of sense
I worked at a very very large software company and our department's motto was "We took the blue pill."
It's funny how he is bird man from John Wick for you, but for the most of us he is Morpheus from The Matrix.
Shit . . . I'M so old that he's Mister Clean from Apocalypse Now.
He’s funny in the show “Blackish”.
He also won an award for his role as Ike Turner in “What’s love got to do with it?”
Cowboy Curtis! Is Pee Wee with you?
@@AndrewDW44I forgot he was in Pee Wees playhouse.
Apocalypse Now is where I first remember him from.
This is the film where the terms “red pill” and “blue pill” originated.
None of the youtubers who reacted to this actually stopped and realized that. Unless it was in their uncut version on patreon.
The red pill was in Total Recall
Yup
It comes from freemasonry; red lodge and blue lodge. Blue lodges are the master mason lodge, if you go to the York rite, you see how far that rabbit hole goes.
@@michaelangelocostello2599 no it comes from the red pills used in Hormone Replacement Therapy, because the whole movie is a metaphor for transgender awakening and "waking up" to the fiction of the gender binary
The camera work was revolutionary at the time.
You love this now but imagine how we felt 22 years ago . There had never been anything like this, our jaws were literally on the floor . It`s strange to hear someone call this an old movie though. To Me, it`s timeless.
ikr this zoomer isn't watching an existential analysis he's watching a movie :\
"Old movies"
Insert the "excuse me wtf" guy
I was in high school when this came out lol. Man am I that old now?
People born in 1999 are about old enough to drink now. I was 6 years old when my mom took me to see this in theaters. Yeah, it's a bit on the old side now.
Since 99, it feels like time has flown.
I have to admit, though there's no malice behind the remark, it still feels a bit like a gut punch. Ah, aging...
This movie didn't come out this decade - or the one before it ...OR EVEN THE ONE BEFORE THAT.
After the oracle told him he wasn't the one, she said "You've got the gift, but you're waiting for something. Another life maybe" So when the agent killed him, he came back as the one.
wow ive never caught that.. :D Genius. :D
Good catch.
The something he was waiting on was for Trinity to admit she loved him, that made him the one.
Neo's "death" is also the Christ resurrection mythology being played out. It's found in many fantasy books and films. (Harry Potter, etc) The hero has to die to his old self and becomes reborn as the greater version of himself. It's no coincidence Carrie Anne Moss' character is named "Trinity".
Someone did tell him "she doesn't tell you the future, she says what you need to hear in that moment"
"What is the Matrix?"
for MONTHS 'THAT' was the advertising campaign before the movie came out! (it was very clever)
The part where Morpheus sacrifices himself for NEO always gets me, he doesn’t even hesitated man
I just love Morpheus. Lawrence Fishburne is just incredible in that role.
I saw this in high school. Things were never the same.
I was probably 10 years old when the movie came out, and I recall this being one of the very first R-rated films my mom showed me and my brother as kids. It blew my mind and, yep, changed so much. Things truly never were the same after seeing this masterpiece!
"Wake up heyzooz, the Matrix has you."
@@blitzgirl6522 R? It's 14A.
@@ItApproaches The rating is "R" in the US.
@@blitzgirl6522 So it's like Deadpool. R in the states, 14A in Canada lol.
25:30
"What are you traying to tell me? that I can dodge bullets?
No Neo, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you wont have to"
Favorite line
There is no spoon.
Neo's powers at the end, explained in two quotes:
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."
"Why does he keep waking up in his bed?" I mean... that's where I usually wake up 😂
It's a good respawn point.
Lol on both comments
Fun fact: one of the guys who directed John Wick is Keanu Reeves stuntman in this movie.
Another fun fact: du jour is French for "of the day," as in soup du jour, the soup of the day. Like clam chowder is the soup du jour for many restaurants and cafés on Fridays.
@Soumodeep Guha Mais oui. haha
@@LA_HA yup correct served clam cowder today at work- today’s Friday
@@nostalgicedits206 (SIGH) I miss clam chowder. Especially when it's made with cream. And topped with those clam-shaped crackers.
@Soumodeep Guha Italian isn't that far off with Buongiorno. It's so cool that you know French.
I’d take the Red pill too. I love that scene, especially the sunglasses of Morpheus showing Neo reaching for the pill on one lens and the not on the other. Also the CGI holds up well being over 20 years old.
Omg....never caught that
That was a great little trick by the Directors. The Matrix has a lot of references to mirrors, sunglasses and reflections littered throughout the film. Characters are often shown wearing sunglasses in scenes where they are defensive, then removing them in scenes where they are gaining a new perspective/truth on something or showing a hunger to gain more insight -e.g. Smith interrogating Neo, Smith interrogating Morpheus, Neo when he kisses Persephone, etc. The red/blue pills reflected in each lense is an overt reference to the two perspectives being offered to Neo; to see the real world as it is, or to continue believing in the simulated world he sees all around him. It's also a reference to choice being an illusion (which is alluded to by the Architect, and stated directly by the Merovingian); Neo can only make 1 choice, but the in the lenses we see both framed together simultaneously suggesting that there is no 'true' choice.
@@IrishGuitarGaz The sunglasses come from anime. Instead of tediously animating the eyes of characters, they made them wear sunglasses. The Matrix was heavily inspired by anime.
Based
There’s part of the script that alludes to why Cypher wants to be reinserted to The Matrix & why he’s lost faith in Morpheus.
Sadly the scene was trimmed down for the theatrical cut, but the missing dialogue is below.
CYPHER:
I'm going to let you in on a
little secret here. Now don't tell him I told you this, but this ain't the first time Morpheus
thought he found The One.
Neo: Really?
Cypher: You bet your ass. It keeps him going. Maybe it keeps all of us going.
NEO: How many were there?
CYPHER: Five. Since I've been here.
NEO: What happened to them?
CYPHER: Dead. All dead.
Neo: How?
CYPHER:
Honestly. Morpheus. He got them
all amped up believing in bullshit. I watched each of them take on an Agent and I watched each of them die. Little piece of advice: you see an Agent, you do what we do; run. Run your ass off.
I’m glad they didn’t
Wow they clipped it all
Yeah I agree it's so much better clipped
Don't you find it ironic that there were five misses before Morpheous found Neo? There were also 5 versions of the matrix, Neo being the 6 anomaly. Five bent spoons in front of the spoon boy. He hands Neo the 6th.
Having read the script as well, it's possibly better they left it out--and this is coming from me even thinking Cypher's arc is the weakness of the film. The deal Cypher made with Agent Smith tells all the motivation Cypher needs. But if it's because of what Morpheus did to so many, Cypher killing the rest of the crew is not only inconsistent but hypocritical.
There are ways that it could have worked. For instance, they could have introduced the idea that Cypher is detached from reality outside of the Matrix. Like he is emotionally attached to the crew in the Matrix, but in the real world he's all sarcastic and detached. Or with other characters. Example, maybe Neo wants to stay in the construct so long that he has to be forced back into the real world to eat and sleep.
But adding these concepts would have turned The Matrix from 2 to 3 hours. IMO, the Wachowskis cut a lot of exposition and it makes the shooting script much more smooth. It benefits from those cuts. And true, Cypher makes more emotional or thematic sense than logical sense even in the final cut. But at least his character is consistent. I could not say the same if they left this monologue in.
"It's so weird to see him young...". By this time Keanu had already done movies for 14 years lol. You need to check out the comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. From 1989. Used to be the movie he was most famous for.
Yeah, I was thinking of that movie when he mentions "young Keanu".
He was in his mid thirties when the film was made
Dude, Point Break.....
If you'd like to see another movie with Keanu Reeves when he was younger (though a bit older than when he was in the Matrix), I recommend Constantine. It's pretty awesome, IMO.
Point Break
Speed
SPEED
None of you said Bill and Ted.
@@Chasmodius I didnt wanna overwhelm the guy
"I just love the feel of these old movies" jesus that made me feel old.
When you remember this movie came out just in time to inspire an edgy teenager phase in your life.
Watching this for a teenager today is like me watching Star Wars when this film came out. That does make me feel a little old!
I drive for Uber, and last year I picked up a passenger named Trinity, I asked her if she was named after Trinity from the Matrix, she said she was. I asked her if she'd watched the movie, she said she hadn't, maybe she would at some point, she just didn't really like "old" movies. I felt ancient.
When you realize your childhood movies and TV shows are 20 years old, it just hits you hard!
Exactly what I say when I watch the movies my parents loved when they were kids (my folks are in their seventies 🤣)!
The job Neo did in the Matrix was software engineering, the manipulation of computer software. So eventually during his fights he rewrote the code in his head to use cheat codes, this lead to him dodging bullets, and jumping into Agent Smith to infect him with a computer virus, a Neo virus, over wrote the Agent Smith's code.
The next few movies deal with the fact that programs new and old exist in the Matrix, some redundant and some corrupted files that hide from agents too. Those programs look like regular people, but have talents too.
The Oracle is a program that predicts the future, a smart AI program that help the original Matrix to develop outcomes based on interactions in the Matrix and likely possibilities of events as they unfold in real time. The Oracle got so good at predictions the Oracle knew Neo would break a vase before he touched it.
Remember we have AI that predicts our words, its predictive text, based on the previous words the program can predict the sentence before its finished being written.
Such iconic scenes in these movies...
Guns in lobby, dojo, dodging bullets on roof, stairway fight in 2, highway, squids, park battle, ...
These are definitely in the category of everyone must watch at least once in their life.
My favorite is the fight between Neo and Seraph in 2
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" LMAO I love Matrix reactions
Ah the movie that taught me what existential paranoia really feels like
If there was ever a movie fitting for the word masterpiece, this one is it. So many fascinating crazy ideas, so well executed. I just love this movie. Was fun to see your mind get blown, again. :D
Iconic.
this was the movie that introduced me to Hugo Weaving. I loved him as Agent Smith, and I nerded out badly when he played Elrond in Lord of the Rings!
Mister Baggins..
He was good as V and the Red Skull to
The first act of this movie is so great. It's so mysterious. Not being fully aware of what they are even talking about. You barely understand what the hell the movie is about until Neo is freed.
For young Keanu Reeves I'd recommend his movie SPEED
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure has him even younger
Youngblood
Pointbreak
Johnny Mnemonic
Bill & Ted
We watched this movie in philosophy class In highschool when we had the topic of Platos cage allegory. This was the only topic in philosophy class that truly blew my mind and changed me forever.
Tbh if i wouldnt have known the explanation of the cage allegory i probably wouldnt have grasped the movie the way i did.
It can be very confusing for some people.
cave allegory?
Fun fact, the actor who plays Agent Smith also played Red Skull in "Captain America: The First Avenger"
His daughter is also the actress in Ready or Not.
And Elrond from Lord of the rings
@@charliehustle7055 and V form V for Vendetta
Fun fact: his name is Hugo Weaving
@@mrhateful1259 Samara Weaving is his niece.
The Matrix was definitely a mind fuck when you first see it. Especially if you were a teenager and just smoked for the first time when watching it lol
Dude no way same
Random teenager smoking weed in the 90s while watching it: "THAT'S RADDDDDDD DUUUUUDEEE!"
Literally me years ago lmao
don't smoke, it's bad for you lungs 👍
"Seeing him young?" He's hardly aged at all since this series ended. It's rumored by some that Keanu Reeves is secretly immortal. When he's told about these rumors, he usually laughs it off, but I don't think he's ever actually denied it.
The Film was soooooo far ahead of it's time. Just a Masterpiece
When the red headed mescaline user who came to see Neo at the start he called his girlfriend with the white rabbit tattoo “Du Jour”. That’s French for “of the day”. Like if you go to a restaurant they might have a soup du jour - soup of the day that changes each day.
So what he was really doing was calling her his girlfriend of the day meaning he’ll have her today and a different girl tomorrow.
You learn something new everyday
"What the fuck is going on, why does he keep waking up in his bed?" I almost cracked the rib laughing, hilarious.
I think a lot of it was because they didn't know how to end a scene, or how to transition to the next thing, so they were just like "Alright, we'll just have Neo wake up a lot and call it a metaphor" lol
@@almightyshippo1197 you know the metaphor of how we do the same things day after day after day after day.........
@@kendawson8268 When making movies, anything you don't want to explain is a metaphor. :P
@@almightyshippo1197 it's called a theme. The movie is about waking up, having your eyes opened, etc. I know its foreign to new movies, but people used to actually think their films out.
@@dash4800 There's a common trope that appears in a lot of movies, and books, where they don't know how to end a scene so they just skip to the next (often abruptly with no real connection). In this case, yes, waking up was a theme of the movie, but it was also pretty clear in a couple of those cases that they just didn't know how to end a scene and skipped from a big event to him waking up. The waking up aspect is thematic with the movie, but they were still abrupt transitions with no indication that he would have just went to bed after the events (after having the bug implanted was a little different, I would assume they 'drugged' him).
So while I understand that there are themes in movies, especially ones with esoteric leanings like The Matrix, the way they handled the waking-up scenes was ham-fisted and out of place.
"they gave him new eyes?" 😂 not making fun of you but that was so pure I had to laugh
"Love these old movies" made me die inside a little bit...
same ... it's like ... how can you not know what matrix is ... but it only shows how old we are: /
This is probably in my top 3 movies of all time
You should see the movie Constantine with also Keanu Reeves and with Rachel Weisz! Great movie!!!
Yeah, it's definitely underrated!
Agreed, love that movie
dunno if he seen john wick :D
Fucking awesome movie.
Love Constantine
Science isn't a belief, it's hard work!
This is one of the best examples of why reaction videos and channels have taken off. Easily one of the most satisfying experiences is seeing the same reaction that a lot of us had back when these movies first released. Especially movies like this.
"Because of that they can NEVER be as strong or as fast as you can be."
Baddest movie quote ever.
Duuude, wanna see him -real- young? Gonna have to watch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure then.
Parenthood
He might not be ready for that lol.... or even in speed.
Genuinely one of my all time favorite movies!
He'll have a most excellent time.
@@michaelangelocostello2599 Bogus.
I’d watch The Animatrix; especially The Second Renaissance Pt 1&2. It gives you an insight into how the war against the machines / AI began, the reasons for darkening the sky & how the AI started to use humans as power source.
Part of me wishes they’d make a prequel based on that concept.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Click bait before click bait was a thing. :D
My favorite scene is when Agent Smith is telling Morpheus how he views the human race. It is so engaging, and so well done.
Love how Neo’s able to bend matrix’s laws of physics as he understands it’s a simulation and can use it to his advantage
I went through a stage as a kid where I watched all the matrix movies over..and over... and over again
I went through that stage in my early 20s. Lol
I remember renting the first one from Blockbuster on VHS, watching it, rewinding it, then immediately watching it again.
Remember, when Neo was ready, he wouldn't have to dodge bullets.
His entire life was in that pod with the thousands of others. He's never used any of his body.
mate how have you never watched this work of art before
I wonder if he saw anything before he started his channel...
yeah..i wonder the same...all this reactors..watching for the first time..BS
you do have to wonder how people suddenly decide they have something interesting to say about a subject that they apparently have absolutely zero experience of.
It is interesting, but weird af.
He has, but if he admited it, he wouldn't get as many views. A lot of fake reactors on YT, specially to old stuff, anything for the audience, just like on TV :D
I do enjoy their reaction to The Boys tho, because it's a more recent show, and his reaction and his girlfriend's are more likely to be genuine.
This is where the term “redpill” comes from, just realized
Not one of its better contributions to pop culture.
@@hettbeans It's not the Wachoswkis' fault that a bunch of online shitheads misinterpreted their work.
@@hettbeans that sounds like something a person who's taken the blue pill would say
red = right = reality
#walkaway
@@seamusburke639 They didn't. It's a perfect analogy for realizing the world is not what we have been taught it is.
Even watching this in tiny clips - welling up and goosebumps. So. Fricking. Good.
Dont forget to watch The Animatrix after the three movies, it gives alot of backstory.
"Short for Digiorno Pizza?" ROASTED.
Oh, Shit! I haven't watched the reaction yet, but that's the white rabbit chick, isn't it?
Haha, I'm French and actually it's "Du Jour" which when paired with the guy's name "Choi" Makes "Choix Du Jour". It means "Choice of the day", symbolism for the choices Neo will have to make.
Let’s go love this movie
Hold on, I'll grab my coat
Agrees its my favourite movie ever
Bruh, we really bout to gangbang a major motion picture in this thread
Keanu Reeves is a legit awesome guy. When this movie trilogy made it big he bought motor cycles for the the entire stunt team and gave ~70 million US dollars to the special effects team. He still made ~27 million from the films but it is still crazy.
When asked why he said he already had enough money. Apparently another time when a flight he was on was canceled he helped everyone else get home via buses or what not, even traveling in a van with some of the people.
Eliminating the traitor in matrix... directly to top 10 most satisfying killing in movies.
"I don't think i have watched any movies with him from his younger days"
Oh... gotta watch Jonny Mnemonic then... or Billy & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey. Yes to both. Haven't seen the third one.
Speed
Point Break
Movie Constantine is also great.
Jonny Mnemonic is great.
Yes dude I forget you haven’t seen these movies, this one is the only one I like but I’m glad your watching them
Thanks!
They're all pretty good aside from (spoiler free) some events outside the matrix being a tad bit not so believable.
@@AmishMicrowave agreed
@@ItsAPrimatee can’t wait to see u react to the 2nd one!!!
@@AmishMicrowave if it isn't believeable then you didn't understand it. There are no abstracts in these movies, all is put in front of you in plain view and the explanations are solid.
"I've never seen anyone push someone's nose into their brain" My guy, let me direct you over to Bruce Willis in The Last Boy Scout.
I saw this for the first time in its theatrical re-release in 2019. Truly blew my mind!
Fun fact: the role for Neo was originally supposed to go to Will Smith but he declined it
Fun Fact: For about 10 years I have been trying to convince a friend that between Will Smith, when he turned it down but before Keanu took it, Scott Baio was cast. He was in stunt training and blew his knee out. Had to duck out. I figured if I kept putting it out there, the lie would take hold in her brain. :O
Yeah he turned it down for The Wild Wild West. What a moronic decision.
@@MontgomeryWenis I was working at a movie theater around those times. Was there to see Independence Day go through the roof one summer, MIB the next, sounded like a weird but good idea. But....wow did that one tank.
I think I would’ve preferred Will as neo. But I think Keanu played the PERFECT mr anderson so I’m ok with either
@@Melkac Give us 5 years and we could use DeepFake to insert who ever we want to a movie. I think I will go with Bobcat Goldthwait and see how it works out.
"I know aaarrhhhh arrraaah kung-fu (snort)"
Fun fact: The reason the character of Switch has that name is because in the original script Switch was a man who when he was in the Matrix his mental projection was him as a woman. However the studio wouldn't allow it.
Somewhere on UA-cam or the internet, is a nearly hour-long video essay/analysis on how the Wachowskis were trying to subconsciously express something very personal about themselves through the meta-themes of the Matrix trilogy. The whole idea about gender bending the characters was their attempt at art imitating life in that the directors both got a sex-change and they are now both women.
And then one of the creators of this had a sex change. He was going through it probably when he wrote it.
@@michaelangelocostello2599 both of the wachowskis are trans women
@@michaelangelocostello2599 why using male pronouns then? She is a woman. Actually both of them are. They are sisters.
@@sophiaonca yes. If someone cosplays as something fulltime, they are really the thing they are cosplaying as.
If you didn't notice, the Drunken Master martial arts program that was uploading into Neo was also a nod to Jackie Chan.
Yuen Woo-Ping was the martial arts choreographer for this film. His first directorial credits were Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master which starred Jackie Chan. They were both smash hits and launched Jackie Chan's acting career.
Yuen also did Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Kung Fu Hustle.
Also... notice during Neo's first sparring program with Morpheus, Keanu did a signature gesture in tribute to Bruce Lee. ;)
For more Keanu Reeves, Point Break and My Own Private Idaho are worth checking out.
When you said that you love watching these old movies...my heart stopped for a second. I was 19 when this came out & I saw it in the theaters. Man, time flies the phuck by all too fast!
Watch “the Devil’s advocate”
Great movie
Absolutely!
Lol, I can’t imagine starting out with “John Wick”. I grew up with Parenthood, Bill & Ted, Point Break, Speed, The Replacements, Walk Amongst The Clouds. Even his small spot in Paula Abdul’s Rush music video. He didn’t achieve John Wick badass status for a long time 😂.
I forgot about Rush. That's where I actually fell in love with him, even though I was about 11 or 12. Then when Speed came out, that was the nail in the coffin. Good Night! He went from skinny to built in no time.
I'm so happy to see you starting this series. My favorite sci-fi trilogy of all time.
This is such a fantastic film, the final fight with Smith in the subway is one of my favourite fights of all time. It's simple compared to other movies, but the high stakes (especially when first watching it) make the battle amazing.
Dude, saw this in theaters with my brother and sister and it blew me away! I was 9 when I saw this!
This was a 15 Rated movie. How did a 9 year old get in?
27:41 he becomes a philosophy professor in case you're interested
First Matrix the one of the ultimate classic movies. So many iconic scenes, shots, dialogues, plot twists and etc., so many other movies were inspired by this one.
I would watch this now but I gotta wait till tonight, gotta get some popcorn for this one
And he also played Elrond in lord of the rings and he also played in mortal engines he’s been in a ton of other movies Hugo weaving has
Including the hobbit
V for Vendetta
My favorite out of the Matrix Trilogy is its Animated Anthology film, ‘The Animatrix’. You should check it out!
It is amazing how relevant this film is even today.
I love all these dudes watching Matrix for the first time now. They all have the same philosophical questions we all had when we watched it 20 years ago.
This movie blew my mind when it first came out.
Still makes me question reality.
Yes, there are people who literally don't want to know the truth. They are "voluntarily blind. "
That steak speech convinced me to never take the damn pill. Sorry but beef is beef
@@fedemona1 But would you betray your friends, family, loved ones for that beef?
@@starbrand3726 Oh, no, well, i wouldn't go that far for some fine dinner ahah! I meant, when Morpheus offered me the pill "blue, please. Blue"
I saw this movie in theatres at the age of 14 with my sister (aged 11). We came out of the movies: “what the... have just we watched?!!”
I saw this movie as a mind-blown 11 year old. My dad brought me to it. He was old school and liked westerns mostly, but he also had a penchant for sci-fi as an old school Star Trek fan. He passed away in January of 2021. RIP dad, You helped blow my mind with this awesome movie.
More early Keanu I think you’d like - Speed and Point Break 💜
Yes! That whole cast was amazing! I prefer the original Point Break to this recent one that came out a few years ago, even thought I only watched the beginning and end of the newer one.
Hugo Weaving carries this entire movie, and is easily the greatest character.
"What?! They gave him new eyes?" That part made me chuckle.
There's a particular reason WHY he's called "the ONE" He is the only Human being CONCIEVED from the MATRIX..... He and the entire matrix encode are virtually the same, However, Neo can actually reprogram a full code of the Matrix into whatever he wants it to be.... if you go back and look at the Matrix broadcast screens on Tank's console, When Neo becomes "THE ONE" THE ENCODE IS ALMOST FULL and is actually moving FASTER than earlier. It's because for the First Time, The Matrix code is complete with Neo inside.
"You're not the one. Looks like you're waiting for something."
"For what?"
"Who knows. Your next life maybe."
The Matrix is a virtual world and the agents have their way not playing by its rules but by modifying it. At the end Neo just catched up to the agents' cheat code.
The Agents still play by the worlds rules, its only Neo that breaks those rules.
My favorite moment is still where Neo's scream turns to the sound of a dial-up modem. It's the moment I knew that shit was going sideways.
One of the greatest concepts for a plot in movie history.
welcome to the matrix. This movie screwed up the brains of a whole generation of people.
When the last two came out, we were going crazy analyzing the whole thing. Didn't realize how easy it was.
Most of it is concepts from William Gibson's books. He basically created the world of Cyberpunk 2077 before most people knew what internet was.
*William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans-a "combination of lowlife and high tech"[4]-and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.[5] Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.*
The Matrix is not confusing. A movie like Memento is.
@@crashfan9997 Yeah. Got that right. The Matrix, Inception and Interstellar was more understandable to me than Memento.
And at the same time, prepared us for a life with the internet. I’ll even say that the movies has probably had an influence on ethics online and add a level of protection and skepticism.
And you should check out Constantine. Keanu Reeves is in that to. Alot of ppl didn't like it but i thought it was good. I really liked it lol
You: "Hey it's the birdman from John Wick"
Most people watching John Wick and seeing the birdman: "Hey it's Morpheus from the matrix"
Him, trying to wrap his head around the themes, ideas, & meanings brought forth, afterwards was EXACTLY how all of us of that era felt. Then you read the comics Matrix is based on and you go cationic.