Half in the Bag: The Matrix Resurrections
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2021
- Mike and Jay take a little break from tracking down the Omega variant infested Mr. Plinkett to talk about an important contribution to cinema: The Matrix: Resurrections. This episode also marks an important milestone. It's the first time Mike only drank one beer instead of 5 or more. His dementia is in full swing though. Watch this elderly fat ass try to form coherent sentences is like watching a manatee jump rope. Jay does a pretty good job talking about the movie though.
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My favorite part of the movie is when Neo looks directly at the camera and says "Jupiter Ascending wasn't that bad. You need to give it a second chance."
I think Mike was the only person on the planet who didn’t hate that movie
There were things about JA I liked. But overall it was crap. Why the HELL did they do the same plot 3 times?!
@@RedHeadKevin they had a trilogy of films written and were given the money for one movie. So instead of banking on a movie to do well and earn sequels they made a fucking nightmare of a mash up that uses the same climax twice in a 20 minute span.
I was waiting for that. Never happened :(
I was expecting that part, but what I wasn't expecting was for him to turn away and then turn back and say, "And did you see Speed Racer? Whoa!"
It's almost a crime that Rich Evans didn't fly across the screen at the end of the video
Oh that would have been amazing.
And then the screen goes to black and you hear his laugh.
He couldn't break free from his chronic depression enough to believe he's the One.
We need a fan edit. This whole video sucks now that I know these hack frauds missed such a golden opportunity.
I saw the "also starring Rich Evans" at the end and wondered if I missed him hiding in a window or something
"So what you're saying is I'll be able to dodge bullets?"
"No Neo, what I'm saying is that after watching this movie, you won't want to."
Hahahaha. I read that in their voices with the slight pause before "you won't want to." I'm dying over here 🤣🤣🤣
@@grayfox6518 Happy to oblige
@@4Everlast I have never seen the matrix and I still feel upset by this comment
Keanu Reeves was in the original Matrix, that's why he's in this one to begin with
Fair point tho
Hahahaha that is a brilliant comment
Hahah! Niceone! 😹_👍
- Lana Wachowski : _nosce te ipsum_ @_@
I really like how The Architect has been replaced by The Analyst, commenting on how modern blockbusters aren’t made by a creator with a vision or a creative new idea (an architect) but made by cooperations, based on statistics and consumer data (analyst).
The film industry has changed drastically since the first Matrix movie.
Damn, that's a good catch -- I didn't think of that.
*corporations
Just look at Marvel, started with Soul (Iron Man 1), ended with soullessness (Infinity War/ Endgame).
@@emile1365 I actually really disliked Infinity War at first but have since grown to like it quite a bit. Endgame is unfortunately little more than fan service stitched together to make a movie. Imo the biggest sinner in recent times is No Way Home
It was made by corporations back then, too. The first Matrix was the only one where the Wachowskis were on any sort of creative leash, they got free reign over the sequels to tell their "true" vision, and they were all bad.
After the first third of the film, I fully expected a Blazing Saddles type ending where the characters break the fourth wall, because the only way they can escape the matrix is by attacking the crew and ultimately the executives who want to make more Matrix movies.
No no no, that'd would've been a fully amazing movie. We can't have such nice things. That would break the simulation. ;)
"Screw you, Mr. Anderson! I'm workin' for Mel Brooks!"
_punch_
_credits and_ Brass Against
I'd pay for that.
Can’t get that good with WB anymore they didn’t even let gremlins 2 go without edits or the recently justice league where they forced a reshoot to remove a character
That would have been AMAZING
Very cool
My favourite thing about this movie is that we get a new episode of Half in the Bag.
🍻
What's the point, no Mr Plinkette 😔💔
Took Warner Bros insane budget, made it look cheap, and called them out.
This is the Freddy Got Fingered sequel I never knew I wanted.
That's one way to describe embezzlement.
@@Kyleology in the film world its called a theme
@@4Everlast lay off the word salad, buddy
@@4Everlast "please stop using so much unintelligible slang"
"Read a book idiot"
Wat
Counterpoint. Freddy Got Fingered was a great movie and actually deserves a sequel.
I love how in the Matrix, being a game developer in San Francisco is the ultimate blue pill.
Just like real life, great attention to detail.
So he was tim schaffer?
@@anonemoose7777 Do you realize that Wachowski (both) is trans and red/blue pills are transgendered terms? You're using a trans term without knowing it. You're a goof.
@@AlmostaFlipinSkater that’s right but their original metaphor has be co-opted already for many years to mean otherwise.
Red blue pill means something else now by the majority of people
consoomers are the ultimate blue pilled yeah
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Rich Evans
Rich Evans is the disturbed or the comfortable?
@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 yes
@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 he’s disturbingly comfortable
@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 get a red pill and u will find out ! sns..sns....sns...
this movie did neither.
Neo winning Geoff Keighley's Game Award and then immediately trying to kill himself is the highlight of the century.
We really thinking Geoff would cameo in it when I saw the game awards trophy
did you see his tweet about it. fucking hilarious
I don’t get it
I was crying when that happened.
Hail to the Dorito Pope Geoff Keighley.
The entire time NPH was doing his exposition dump in bullet time I couldn’t help but think that all Neo heard was an incomprehensible chipmunk.
Best comment
Would explain his face
Incomprehensible Chipmunk is my favourite new band name
2023, when you much prefer the near hour long RLM review than actually watching movies anymore.
The movie almost did something..but as soon as Jada Smith showed up as the wise old leader, I knew it was over.
Good movies are still being made but you have to sift through or look past the big franchises and reboots/remakes.
Exactly. My list of movies that I want to watch someday continues to grow, but all I ever actually watch are the aging RLM men talking about movies.
I'm rewatching this review 8 months later... I only watched the movie once.
Loser
Mike is Jay's opposite, his negative. He is the result of the equation trying to balance itself out.
Mike is the Yin to Jay’s Yang
The Id to Jay’s Superego
With Rich Evans being the normal Ego
@@hilotakenaka Rich is the diabetes that keeps the two grounded.
now I'm seeing them both in my head, kung fu stances ready to face off. Meanwhile there's Rich just watching, cat in lap.
The Matrix intentionally keeps them together so they don't do any damage because they just end up sitting around talking about nothing.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
Finally I’ll know what to think about this movie.
Lol/haha
It's the film equivalent of Rich Evans' crippling diabetus
Hahaha u OK hun? 😅
I like to think think they’d hate this comment
I hated it when I saw it, one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life but now I’m pretty sure I liked it!
I improve my english level with you guys. Thanks for clear english conversations. Also the discussions on movies are really impressive
You're not fooling anybody, MR. ANDERSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
Good luck bro :)
If you're trying to learn English, maybe stay away from videos featuring Rich Evans for a little while.
@@holycow818181 Chable
All the Neo's in the tv screens with the Architect were not previous versions of Neo, they were all his possible reactions.
Thats exactly what I picked up. The TV screens represented possibilities not actualities
More specifically, they were predictions being made by architect insinuating that humans didn't have free will. Pretty sure Neo debunks it by doing something the architect did not predict.
@@F_C... Oh, I didn't realise they were Architect predictions, but that makes a lot of sense. Especially since the one time Neo and all the screens do the same thing, its:
Neo/Neos: "Bullshit!"
Architect: "Denial is the most predictable of human responses."
But yeah, these two made a couple of mistakes regarding the lore set out in 2 and 3, and seemed confused by some stuff that I thought was quite clear in 4, but I'm something of a super-fan so I don't hold it against them.
Me too. I thought that was obvious . Why would anyone expect a computer to be honest?
Yeah just The Matrix running a few hundred simulations like chess AI's currently do!
I watched the original Matrix recently and I was struck by how visceral the action scenes are. It's not just the choreography, the way the camera moves is also super dynamic and exciting. Feels like recent movies can't capture that.
It was all based on classic Kung fu and modern anime
Yeah that throat chop move Neo does vs Smith Is quite possibly the best action scene attack in all history, nevermind containing such greatness to matrix alone!
Did the same, the fighting in IV felt less important and wasn't artistically anywhere near as good. However, even in 2 and 3 the fighting scenes tented to devolve into fighting scenes for the sake of having fighting scenes. They should've been significantly shorter in some instances. That being said, fighting in 4 was easily the worst.
@@Cuthalu bullshit. The château scene is fucking phenomenal
The fighting in 4 was one of the worst aspects for me, mainly because it's what made the matrix stand out as a franchise. It just never *looked* right, which could be a factor of age but had to have been just mediocre choreography.
Neil Patrick Harris looks way more like he belongs in the 2003 MTV Movie Awards parody than the real Matrix.
Did the director not remember that skit, a better parody and much and actually funny.
“ERGO!”
"VIS A VIS!"
This movie is that parody. Concordantly!
He doesn't age.
So super-intelligent supercomputers were outsmarted by the lack of a Nest camera pointed at Trinity.
You’d think after Neo escaped a second time they’d fast track that Nest install.
The A.I. in charge of security probably hates it's job and half asses it.
a simple sentence can put it better "I am the most intelligent AI and i resurrected my own demise again"
@@killerbee2562 That is how we are going to find out that we managed to create A.I. when asking computer to calculate something and it answers "Don't wanna. Do it yourself."
@@Veged4 And the more advanced one will out source it to another AI.
Google was out of stock due to Russia attacking Eurkrain
Lawrence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving dodged a bullet with this one.
Literally and figuratively
True but they also dodged an easy paycheck where they probably could have gotten paid whatever they wanted.
Must have used bullet time.
lol Laurence Fishburne was like , "better do John Wick than this" .
Well, Hugo dodged a bullet here but failed to dodge an arrow in The Hobbit films. **slide whistle**
"Do you think that's air you're breathing now? ". That’s how simple and perfect the first Matrix movie was.
never got it, cause at this point in the story he actually WAS breathing air again (in the real world)
@@CinceTheDay Not where they were at that moment and that's the entire point. They're re-orienting him with the Matrix as a simulation, and helping him understand that distinction so he could better control and bend the rules of it.
@James Clouse I always think that too LOL
Yeah of course it's air. What else would it be? What pretentious pile of shit from beginng to pathetic end.
@@CinceTheDay well... he was talking to him inside of the program, so technically it was one computer generated avatar to another in a closed, rendered environment (since they weren't exactly in a matrix, just inside of a training program). Neo was breathing air, but his kung fu slinging avatar wasn't.
Mike - "This movie was a mess, it was confusing, it was cringey, it was annoying, it was sloppy, terrible"
Me - "He's gonna say he loved it"
Mike - "And I loved every minute of it"
Jay: sarcastic ohh my godd
You’re the devils son!
Mike's opinion is always the LEAST relevant to me.
@@migangelmart Well yeah, he tends to love shit. He's into gay movies where older men get massaged by other men so what do you expect? He's notoriourly known for loving the Disney Star Wars trilogy, calling it better than the originals. So don't expect him to have a valid opinion.
Yeah I’d never take a polish person seriously
Watching this movie was like watching a hostage video. Like someone was trying to sneak in messages that they we're being forced to do this against their will without their captors knowing.
T.O.U.R.T.U.R.E.
And yet still didn’t have the balls to do a trans story x
I don't know why it always makes me laugh, but that look that Jay gives, where it looks like he's absolutely terrified by what Mikes saying... I don't know if that's just a normal reaction because he does it in every video but it's just hilarious the way it's edited.
I, for one, want to see the alternate universe where Dark City became the new-millennium pop culture defining uber-hit that gradually faded from consciousness after some increasingly incomprehensible sequels.
Love that film. Revolutions copied its ending. Dark City deserves more recognition.
Dark City did in one film what Matrix took 3 films to clumsily achieve.
@@cactusmalone
I have shown loads of people who didn't even know it existed.
Nah it was just good and those that know, know.
@@treborkroy5280 Nah the Matrix did its thing in one brilliant movie and then the sequels tell the same story again, but clunkily and worse.
i adored mike passionately monologuing about the first matrix
As if we haven't all seen it 100s of times each and can recite it line by line 😏
I don't believe you're the real neuromancer
Who hasn't? Movie is a masterpiece
If there's one thing this film did it's make me want to watch the first one again. It's perfection.
Mike is a douche.
Says he loved this one, then proceeds to talk about the original trilogy the whole video.
"Remember when is the lowest form of conversation"
-Tony Soprano
17:00 I love how Mike appreciates what the fanbase latched onto, and how it very much was "our starwars" for a new generation. Especially cuz hes not a huge fan himself, but he still "gets it"
I loved the part where Will Smith turns to the camera and says, "What is this, some kind of Matrix: Resurrections?"
Personally, I preferred the part where Will Smith turns to the camera and says, "YAaaAAaaAaAaHhhH!". It just really elevated the entire film, IMO, and really showcased the writers mastery of that "Big Willy Style" of storytelling. I can't hide it anymore. That particular line and and the way Will delivered it with such humanity and vulnerability, whilst boldly showing off his tenor and this genuinely emotional vibrato, almost reminiscent of some kind of billygoat or sheep in heat, brought this grown man to tears. Bravo! 👏👏
Yeah, but Niobe did him dirty in that scene.
@@redbigun this definitely happened in a parallel dimension where Keanu Reeves played Jim West in Wild Wild West.
My favourite part is where he punches an agent and says "Welcome to The Matrix!"
Or when he struck a feminine pose and said "oh, hell naw. no he didn't. i'm the real agent Smith".
Mike and Jay: "It's not as good or bad as you've heard."
Also Mike and Jay: "The acting, plot, action, and special effects sucked."
Mike: "I loved every minute of it! I had to go to sleep and finish it in the morning."
No Mike, that's no how it fucking works. You overpay, you lose time and patience at the theater, you get your seat kicked by screaming kids and you get to hold your piss for three hours.
@@migangelmart oh, Mike Depends on a different solution for that latter problem
Yeah, I loved it so much that I decided to finish it the next day.
Said no one ever.
When I started watching Two towers extended edition I was dead next day...f-ing worth it.
@@JM-mh1pp I do it all the time when I'm too tired to focus on the movie. It doesn't take a lot of brain power to remember what happens in a movie you were watching 12 hours ago
@@zm1055 I do it only when movie is kinda "meh". If I am engrossed in the narrative real life can go and f itself.
Matrix Resurrections let’s me know that the MTV matrix spoof with Justin Timberlake and Sean William Scott was, in fact, officially part of the Matrix canon.
what do u mean officially canon?
Ergo! Vis-a-vis! Concordantly!
That “oh yeaaaah” extended freeze on mike at 9:45 is wonderful. Salute to this episodes editor.
Loved it
I really enjoyed Mike waxing poetic about the first matrix movie and Jay sitting there, bored out of his mind, just saying "yeah, yep, oh yeah, uh huh".
I'l think Mike is more of a lore and big picture guy, and Jay is more of a technical, effects kind of guy.
describes like half the episodes really
Jay is a bot confirmed
Yeah. Not entirely unlike many an infant, Jay is either interrupting feverishly or is otherwise bored.
@@bentonrp This is perfect.
" So what are you saying? I'll be able to dodge bullets? "
" No Neo in Matrix 4 you won't want to "
I didn't think of this but it was funny.
The best part of this review is when Mike talks about how great the first movie is
Yeah, feels like Jake doesn't appreciate it as much
@@jw-ob1wv Who's Jake?
@@luiginastro8831 Oh Jay, i thought his name was Jake
There is no Jake
It's Jake and the fatman
The scene with the Architect where there are dozens of Neos isn't demonstrating previous iterations of the One, it's basically the Architect showing the list of Neos probable reactions from calculations based on Neos life and the previous 5 ones. He's basically flexing that he can predict anything and nothing Neo can do will surprise him.
Ok.
So we all knew this. 😭🤣
@@bradydavis5791 I can’t tell if you’re doing a thing, so I’m just gonna point out that every single interpretation I’ve ever heard of this scene has been ‘Hundreds of previous Ones who look exactly like Neo.” They literally say this in this video which is why I brought it up at all?…
So refreshing to have a 200th episode without it being all or even mentioning it. Congrats guys, here's to 200 more 🍻
They subverted your expectations!!!!
Bold of you to assume they didn’t forget
They probably don’t even know:)
I don't even think they care enough to think of that
@@teskio They allude to it in the description, but subvert your expectations by talking about Mike only drinking 1 beer.
Jay recommends the film because it's "not satisfying" and some of it "is flat-out bad."
We love Jay.
'the screaming scull is literally one of the most important movies of my entire life?!?!?!?!" - me
the matrix: "hold my beer"
me: --------------------------------- :) _ fu(k-------yeah!!!! :)~~~~~~~~~
@@baconatormcpooperson8169 Well said.
"it's supposed to be bad! it's meta!"
-Susan, probably
I actually have a higher appreciation for Jupiter Ascending now. As bad as it was, at l least it was a genuine effort to make something great.
@@dereksbooks Same!! It´s such an injustice that Jupiter Ascending flopped, even though it was just flat out better than the average Star War movie. It also was´nt a deliberate joke at my expense as a movie goer. I miss movies like that.
One of the best review videos I've seen from you guys. 5 stars.
The "actual story reason" Neo and Trinity were revived was because the machines were struggling for energy after the end of Revolutions and The Analyst realized Neo and Trinity's connection produced a ton of energy. He mentions that he broke productivity records during one of the many exposition scenes.
I didn't expect Keanu to commit to the whole "Sad Keanu" meme throughout the whole movie.
When Mike said Keanu was too old, he's almost 60, to do the action thing anymore, that was complete bs. Keanu just doesn't have the time to train like he did in the past.
@@backalleycqc4790 i mean he's gonna be slower. he is slower. thats just life. biology catches up no matter what. you got some standouts who have been doing martial arts films their entire life but even those greats slow down.
In real life Keanu is always sad unless he isn’t riding a motorcycle or destroying a shooting range.
@@backalleycqc4790 Well, that wasn't true what two years ago for John Wick 3, lets see if that's true for John Wick 4. I suspect he will do great there again.
@@fonzylopez5806 People will never stop making excuses for Keanu's shitty acting.
Luckiest man in cinema.
RLM's complete disregard for microphone cable dressing after 200 episodes is what keeps me subscribed
I do a lot of interviews and nothing is worse than having to stop someone because their mic is rubbing. I always try to get away with leaving it out in the open as well.
haha wow what a moronic thing to even worry about
My favourite part of this movie is the part when Neo punches the alien and carries it to area 51 to meet Data
I did like the use of bullet time as a literal prison. Felt like a great response to everyone who wanted the same thing again - to revolutionise gaming, again! It was like Lana saying "You want bullet time? Fine! Here's what it's like being trapped by your best ideas."
I love that Mike turns this into a Re:View of the first movie.
That's what I guessed when I saw the running time first.
Yeah they are *so* desperate to not talk about Resurrections.
The MOVIE is that already.
@@ajsouza3720 he said Resurrections had something magical going on about it.
I love Jay repeatedly saying, "I don't care about the lore or the story," and Mike goes, "... so anyways, let me summarize the entire story!"
Since when was Jay a Matrix expert?
Jay is entertained by shiny jangling keys.
@@hanspecans At least he's honest
FOR ME MATRIX WAS AN ACTION MUBI
To be fair, I read a lot of philosophy so the Matrix was made for me but even if I didn't read Descartes or Plato the idea it was all about kung fu kicks? Do they have any quotes or interviews to verify this? NAH
Jay its muh opinion so its now a fact its all about the dumb action lol
@@hanspecans If they were Shining keys he'd like it lmao
@@hanspecans Only if they're being used to lure cats to their doom.
That whole self-aware ironic detachment is precisely what drove me crazy about the film. I found it so disingenuous. Just because you're aware that this is lazy cheap recycling, doesn't mean you're not doing exactly that.
Yup, it's the same thing that has made Marvel movies insufferable for me.
"Hey guys, look at how silly this whole situation is because we aren't capable of writing a proper, slightly serious superhero story."
Like Cuties making exploitative movies about exploitation. Defeats the purpose entirely and comes off as disgenuine
I also loathe this implicit assumption that "the fans just want the Matrix 1 again". Actually, the number of fans I heard asking for a new Matrix movie of any kind whatsoever is exactly zero. Even if it were true - if that's what your fans want, and you don't want to do it, maybe don't make the freaking movie?
Exactly, it's what few films out there get, (the jump street movies understand this is well) you have that as a foundation but to be actually be good you have to do a whole heap of building on-top
Yeah, like I can appreciate the critique they're making, but the self-awareness and the meta commentary by itself isn't enough to make the movie good. The writing and the plot and the action still has to hook me.
They couldn't call it The Matrix: Rebooted, even the studio would've noticed.
The parodying of the film executives in this was literally just The Nerd Crew. Can't believe these hack frauds got ripped off again.
VERY COOL!
*clapclapclapclapclap
Thing I remember! *clapclapclap*
They broke new ground!
It's about family, and that's what's so powerful about it.
I can't believe Warner Brothers spent 190 million dollars on a giant middle finger. Must be a record.
Pretty sure Fox did stuff like that with stuff like Fant4stic
There's even a model hand making the middle finger in the movie, as shown in this review. Remarkable!
@@PunkRJH90 You giving wayyy too much credit to Josh Trank.
Put this on the shelf right next to Freddy Got Fingered.
the best part is they spent all that money so someone else would give them the middle finger
I love how Mike’s reference for a reprogrammed robot is Rogue One instead of Terminator 2 lmao
The Architect never said that “Neo” had been there before, but that there were “other One’s” before him.
Love that Mike says “the Neo” like the prophet saying “the Sisko.” Star Trek brain.
Good call.
Star trek reprogrammed his child brain
My favorite part was when Neo looked around at the team and said “What are we, some kind of Suicide Squad?”
Mine is when he looked at the camera and said "I'm spiderman"
Then he looks back at himself and says, “Ya, I’m thinking we some kinda Suicide Squad.”
"I. Am. Inevitable Man."
Why did I find this to be so funny
*I came to this*
I like when neo looked at the screen and said” where’s the agents,did they have a….Total Recall”
I appreciate that they cover the entire series as well as the new film given they surprisingly never got into the matrix films on this channel.
"He finds out he's the One and he has the ability to bend the Matrix with his arms."
They should’ve resurrected Carlin to reprise his role as the architect
CARLIN: That's gotta mean something.
Should have been George Carlin, if that’s what you mean. He could have explained it all and told us all how stupid we are!!
Oh, that was “Scary Movie 3”!
@@Geezer-yf8hv No he clearly means William Passmore Carlin, the United States Army General during the American Civil War...
Hello, Old White Dude.
You can't have anymore of that in today's Hollywood.
I kept thinking the Architect was the voice of Project 2501 from the english dub of Ghost in the Shell. Sounds like him.
I believe all of the Neos on the TV screens were representations of all the possible reactions the Architect predicted Neo might have in response to what he was being told.
I presume all of the past "Ones" were different individuals in every sense, having no direct connection to one another. It's implied that the cycle of the Prime Program (Neo) and resetting of the Matrix has been going on for centuries, being that the Architect says this will have been the sixth time they've done it.. So when you see the desolation and ruins of the real world, you're seeing what the Earth hundreds and hundreds of years after the war between the humans and machines ended... And while I'm not entirely sure of this, I think it's implied somewhere within the lore (but not in movies) that it's actually even further into the future than people like Morpheus think. And that's because he's not aware of all the other cycles of the destruction of Zion and resetting of the Matrix.
14:38
This discussion has given me insight to the fact that Neil Breen is STILL stuck in an early 90's mindset of what the internet is
No more books...no more books
pshhhhhh, you just dont understand his sheer BREENius mind
When Neo meets The Architect, I never assumed that what you saw on the screens were multiple Keanu Reeves. The Architect said there's been multiple "The Ones", not multiple Keanu Reeves specifically. I always just thought the screens were simulations playing out, The Architect predicting Keanu Reeve's responses. The One I figured would effectively be a whole different person each time, just with the same ability to manipulate The Matrix.
That's the movie's dialogue and visuals sending mixed messages. Overall, a poor way to relay what should be unambiguous.
Morpheus talks about the one who freed the humans, who was another One. The Architect himself talks about the cycles, everyone who reaches him in those cycles was also a One.
EU stuff explains this more explicitly with what a One is and how their powers manifest but even in the movies its pretty explicit that it's a title and a power, not a person, the Matrix is all about blending mystical and science fiction concepts and this is just another example. The humans see The One as a god figure and prophet but in the machine's perception he's just a reoccurring anomaly in the matrix's programming.
I thought the architect was lying to discourage Neo.
Exactly, that's why at the end of the scene all of the predicted responses in the background do the same thing.
That's how I read it with all the determinism and choice bs crammed down our throats in 2 & 3.
the story in Resurrections regarding machines was pretty clear, too - it was seriously glossed over, though. There was peace after Matrix 3, and machines kept their word and freed the people that wanted out, but this created an energy crisis, and led to a civil war among them. Some of the factions sided with humans.
New younger Morpheus wasn't a meta commentary, either - they just treated Matrix Online game, where they kill him off, as canon.
Guess none of it matters, anymore, I'm only disappointed they didn't talk about the Merovingian scene in 4, though - it was so bad it didn't even work on a meta joke level. It felt like an SNL skit, or a parody.
My favorite part was when neo looked at bugs and said "you people are all astronauts, on some kind of star trek".
Bugs saying "As in Bunny" when asked about her name and then acting nothing like Bugs Bunny, would have been great to see them get in a rabbit season duck season thing with the Analyst.
Heheh yeah, 🤣
Was that the one where Neo gets thrown off Vasquez Rock by evil robot Neo?
I walked out of this movie. I was sitting there thinking…. This is soo fuckin bad I would rather just go home and pet my cat.
My favorite part was when Liam Neeson came in and saved his family from those bad guys.
I loved the part where Keanu blows his brains out at the corporate meeting.
It should have started with that scene, so that this movie could have been 1 minute long. It would have saved WB tens of millions $$$.
@@dereksbooks 190 mil to be exact.
@@dereksbooks Pretty enjoyable, fun, legit self deconstruction. It's a bit janky, Pandemic perhaps?
Especially now where you either get 'Product' or tone deaf I know better than you subversion boomer 'product'. Example: Free Guy was wonderful until it hit those Boomer moments and insert Disney here.
There are far worse ways to use $190 million in Hollywood. Maybe Chad stole some of it for John Wick.
Should've killed everyone else first, even the crew=)
I'm so glad they talked about the horrible rage cover because as soon as the movie ended I was struck by how obviously horrible of a vocal performance it was and it fit so much into what I felt about the movie in general. It definitely felt like a conscious choice.
@jo Byrun Sounds like a good time
I hope they talk about how utterly pointless the after credits scene was...that along with the Rage cover is a masterclass in trolling from the director. I can almost respect it.
@@Gazmus the more I think about the movie the more I'm convinced it was made completely in spite. There was nothing in the movie that wasn't intentional: from the meta bitching, horrible action scenes, the nerfing of Neo, to the very pointed "sheeples" commentary. You did it Lana, congrats, I'm just another lower class dum dum that won't be seeing anything else you create.
@@chinaman1 It's literally the same Rage song from the end of the first movie
It was so bad I thought it was Wicked Wisdom, Jada Pinkett Smiths' old band covering it.
In the original Matrix trilogy the concept was that Neo gets reincarnated every so so often, that the Matrix is aware of him and encountered him several times and ultimately the same deal is struck where he gets to save X number of free humans whom the robots will not kill in exchange for his death/surrender and the death/surrender of the excess free humans... The program "agent smith" however threatens the matrix by taking over all of the other programs and integrated humans essentially threatening the robots much like a computer virus which would ultimately also threaten the humans that are outside the matrix as well... so a new deal is struck where the Robots allow all the humans in zion to live (not be exterminated down to a set number) in exchange for Neo's aid in destroying Agent smith... which he does through his sacrifice.
The Robots have every reason to restore, protect, etc Neo and Trinity so long as they remain "asleep" within the matrix as they are useful in maintaining the balance between the robots and humans while ALSO being a sort of Anti virus (or perhaps more accurately a software engineer/tech/hacker) whom can help clean up dangerous rogue agents in the system. (specifically Trinity is the one who can find and awaken the "engineer" (neo) which is why she is important... similar to the Dalai lama and Panchen Lama in Tibetan Buddhism)
Essentially to the Robots they are both valued as a sort of emergency plan / balance maintaining force that can act against them but ultimately to their greater benefit.
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@@errorerror5184 I thank nobody for their time then
Spot on.
@@vampuricknight1 I read it, then I covered myself in peanut butter and howled to the moon. I also enjoy th ematrix worldbuilding, excited to see this new one.
Eh.
I always took it that the "one-ness" always moved around instead of being stuck to a single actor/ person. Good god, Matrix world building is truly awful.
I thought that Trinity was really the real 'one' as Neo was dead in the first movie till Trinity brought him back to life by the disney kiss. Just a thought.
Then Neos dad is the one for sleeping with his mom. I'm sure all the other people trinity kissed starting flying too.
the whole movie is like the original team is saying "if someone is going to drive this thing down to the ground, it better to be us!"
@@OilFreeFeathers what? Lana Wachowski made this movie
@@OilFreeFeathers They didn't get rid of the old directors, but the old directors sure got rid of something.
@@vincenthalfprice9930 Nope. The original three were actually directed by "The Wachowski Bros." if you check the credits. No sisters directed any of those.
@@vincenthalfprice9930 *brother
@@KnuckleHunkybuck har har you people literally have one joke. Get new content bro it's not 2016 anymore.
A wise man once said "An ironic shitpost is still a shitpost"
Yep exactly. You can't shit post about how bad the industry is for shit posting
Yep. Would have been a much, much sharper commentary if the action/music/acting/plot/lore was actually good and not 1/5 or 2/5 bad. It's either just bad or deliberately bad. I can understand why critics would think it's interesting as a poke at the industry and audiences (or even an attempted heartfelt vision from Lana as RLM briefly touch on) but as a movie it just fails in too many places to land any meaningful blows to the heart or mind.
Exactly. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. You cannot joke about soulless hollywood cash grabs and then make a soulless hollywood cash grab.
@@13ane Just look at something like Tropic Thunder for a movie that pokes fun at the genre, the industry and is a riot of a movie at the same time.
You mean little girl
I love that clip with Lana Wachousky where they ask her “why is now the perfect time for more Matrix movies” and she’s just…lost, no words, nothing prepared, and she’s desperately trying to not say “money”
Why does she sound so manly?
@Rick Wilkinson what is it?
@@petebest3609 The Wachousky Sisters used to be the Wachousky Brothers.
Ooor she felt it wasn't the best time to talk about her parents dying? Or Warner Brothers pushing her? I would imagine she has enough money...
@@Izithel *Wachowski. But, yeah.
We still have a mall that has a Spencers in 2022.
When you said it would work as a series, that's exactly what I felt like I was watching.. the pilot episode of a Matrix tv show. They set up the new characters, new simulation, saved Trinity, & they're finally back together... now episode two!
Really needed to have Mr. Plinkett flying up above his house there at the end.
lmao bro that would have been fucking hilarious
"Were they playing with us all along... that Agent Smith fight"
They literally had bowling pin and domino sound effects in that scene... Yes, The Matrix kept up a silly/serious tone all throughout
They definitely have a sense of humor. Just check out "path of neo wachowski brothers" it's an intro to the final part of that game, tells you everything you need to know about them. Also "path of neo is insane" is a pretty great watch/extended example too.
They’re very aware, a lot of filmmakers are, it’s just that internet culture takes everything so seriously and literally.
I have been saying this for YEARS, nobody I know understands the comedic value of The Matrix trilogy
@CrappyMcDick a lot of people are dumb and don’t know what to think unless they’re told
@@ScaryBandMonster no thanks 👍
Just getting around to this episode and find it both hilarious and reassuring that you guys thought of Gremlins 2 as a comparison. That's how I was describing it to people, lol.
Funny... WB wanted to make another trilogy but this film killed it. lol
That may have been the secret aim of Lana in the first place. Kill it dead.
When Mike was talking about Hollywood stumbling through these kinds of movies in the 90s, all I could think of was "A gigabyte of RAM should do the trick."
What movie was that from BTW? I have seen the clip and want to see this catastrophically dumb flick.
@@RangerMcFriendly Under Siege 2
The network is on an internet.
sh*t I remember watching that when I had a computer with 4mb of RAM and thinking "woah 1GB of RAM!? thats... thats just crazy talk!"
Replace words with other words, and consider computer technology has been stagnant for several years.
I hate how you sell computer components in the internet.
I'm surprised Mike didn't bring up the Star Trek DS9 plot with the Pah-Wraiths in which Sisko imagines himself as an author on Earth in the 50s writing about himself in Deep Space Nine.
IT'S A FAKE!
IT'S REAL!
Far beyond the stars. My favourite ds9 episode.
@@dokols so many good episodes
@@williambatley3411 DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!
A shitty movie does not become good simply because the writers forewarn you how shitty it is
No, but it does make it slightly more interesting than just your run of the mill bad movie.
@@RetroDrew not really
I don't think anyone (with a brain) is arguing that it is a good movie because it's self-deprecating, it's still really bad and I'll never watch it again. However, I'd rather have a shitty movie where the writer and director is passive aggressively saying "Fuck you corporate slimeballs for making me make this nostalgia bait shit and fuck you audience for eating it up anyways" than a team of directors and writers who tried seriously to make the optimal shitty nostalgia bait movie. Either way it was going to be awful because it's a shitty nostalgia bait cash grab and I'm never going to watch either of them again but one is markedly more interesting to think about after the fact.
Freddy Got Fingered though.
That one was funny, imo
15:02 Mike just casually calls her Sandra Bollocks and Jay doesn't bat an eyelid :-)
It might have been a joke put in by the editor 😁
It's great to see Keanu still mastering the role of "clueless dumbass hero in a world".
In a world - and somehow yet also _in a society..._
“woah” Keanu Bandicoot
"What?" -Keanu Reeves
Be it a bad video game or a bad movie, you still gota love him.
@@Marinealver was watching Constantine earlier today and after the 3rd time l realized that's IT! THAT'S WHAT KEANU'S GOT!
Listening to Mike try to describe not just a movie from almost 20 years ago but also the movie he apparently just watched and still getting all the things wrong is my favorite thing.
Wait matrix is a love story now???
@@no-xr8wv yeah this review show has been the definition of trying hard since 2013, right?
@@no-xr8wv weve been calling them hack frauds for years
@@no-xr8wv you must be new here
I fell asleep through it twice two days in a row and missed around the last half hour, great ASMR, would recommend.
For the question about how 'the one' has talked to the architect however many times, I don't believe that Neo was the only malfunction in the Matrix. Each time the matrix makes an iteration, there is always that glitch of 'the one', but I thought it was a different person each time. It's not Neo every time, just a random person in each iteration, reincarnation if you will.
Right. The One is part of the Matrix and there by design and each time The One reaches the architect, they always restart the Matrix. It's part of what makes Neo's character interesting, that he plays the archetype role setup for him, but transcends the role and becomes it in more ways than the machines envisioned.
But yeah, it wasn't Neo in past iterations.
My favorite aspect of this film is it hates its own existence as much as I did, those first 30 minutes I was convinced they would just break the fourth wall completely
Lana/fans/critics: "this movie shouldnt exist"
Aren’t most movies like that now? Reboots full of self-hatred
@@73685 to get paid and to bury the project forever
@@73685 I think they just wanted to implode the IP, make such a bomb that would kill the franchise forever...what I cant even begin to understand is how a studio give $200M to someone who clearly wants to do that"
@@73685 If we get enough of them like this, it might be the only way to stop these incessant soft-reboots - at least for a decade or so. If so, I'll take it.
I'm about 10 minutes into the video so I'm not sure if Mike and Jay talk about it yet, but did anyone else think that showing clips from the original trilogy in the new movie was weird because the original films look WAY better than Resurrections? Like holy mother of god those original movies look good. The lighting, the blocking, the gravity of every shot. The new movie looked like a high-budget TV series.
Yes.
"Hey look, more clips of the movie you'd rather be watching right now"
Apparently Lana Wachowski got really into using natural lighting for this movie, shame it ended up just looking worse.
absolutely how I felt
40m:20s among other moments
The soundtrack in the original is gripping and I'd argue it's more than just icing.
"...And then that's the end of the film, and he goes off to adventure and who knows what awaits..." "Well The Matrix Reloaded is what awaits." - that was sooooooo frickin' funny to me. Holy smokes. Well done guys.
Mike and Jay didn't really like The Matrix: Resurrections the movie but really liked The Matrix: Resurrections the video essay.
This is the whole problem. The people who like the film actually just like some of the messages in the film. It’s a bad movie.
@@maxmalarkey1132 Yep, there is an idea in the film that with proper fleshing out and competent writing and film making around it could have been something good. But it wasn't fleshed out and it was surrounded by incompetent film making and writing.
@@maxmalarkey1132 movie can be just okay. Like 6 or 7. This film is that.
@@somestuff7876 Movie is mediocre at best, so 5 is as high as it can go. As for how good of a Matrix movie is, that's a whole different metric and its is terrible as that
You can like a movie for what it has to say. The statements are not independent of the movie that tells them. That's like saying that people that like the movie are really only liking the characters, or the look, or any other specific aspect of it.
Having Neil Patrick Harris play Dr. Octopus was a bold choice.
He said he wouldn't come back if it was just for a cameo and he also wanted to do all his stunts!
Studio Had to cut the check to get Neil.
Worth it
The saddest part of this review is hearing how good HBO Max is / was while currently looking into the bleak, not-so-distant future merger with Discovery...
I fell asleep several times seeing this...snoring and all I'm sure lol....plus it seemed like all the actors were doing asmr so....congrats on making something to lull me to sleep.
My favorite part was when the guy made of a cloud of magnetic balls made a dramatic leap across a gap, even though....he's made of like...magnetic balls. He could have just made a little line of magnets and bridged himself across with absolutely no drama.
or he could have been even more dramatic and turned into like a dna strand of magnetic balls
@@Ninja1Ninja2 or a slinky!
I said something like 'he can't just fly..?' and then immediately after the jump he dissolves and flies up into the vent thing. Oh.
I wanted to see him form himself into a line of letters that say "Look what I can do"
My favorite part was when Neo wakes up from the Matrix and says, “Guess this means I’m Resurrected.”
And then he said to Agent Smith "Resurrect this!"
My favorite part of the movie is when my favorite part of the movie looked directly at the camera and said "hey UA-cam commentators, there is no spoon, and there is no movie."
What a wonderfully refreshing and honest review! I was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying the movie a whole lot but I know it had faults, so I was prepared for these two to tear this movie apart, instead I found a very reasonable discussion and an amazing review. Amazing content as always gents!
Same! I had seen lots of thumbnails bashing this movie and was kind of prepared to be disappointed(otherwise I was oblivious about the movie going in - a great decision by me, thank you), but the movie was actually kinda genius, in all the ways Mike and Jay discuss here.
One thing I was very disappointed was the action. Making it bad might have been intentional, but if it was, it was a bad choice imo. Overall I feel like Lilly should have been making this with Lana. Originally I was expecting studio sequel so I wasn't bothered by Lilly not helming this with Lana, but seeing what this movie was: an actually original and thoughtful script despite all that is required from the baggage that is Matrix, Lilly should've been on board. Together they could've ironed out some of the remaining problems.
Overall I'm super happy that Lana managed to make something worthwhile with the reboot. Almost no reboot is worth your while nowadays, but this is.
@@emuman09 I would imagine most did. Matrix 4 doesn't give the audience what it wants, instead it mocks them for always wanting more. That's where the brilliance is; not that it's a great movie, but it's a great $200M middle finger to the studios and to fans, like saying "why are we doing this" and "this is where Matrix will end for better or worse".
And it should end here. But it probably won't.
Same here I thought was a great and fun movie i hope they do some HBOMAX spin-off in so many matrix story possibilities
@@emuman09 The film is kind of brilliant in that it agrees with you: the film shouldn't have been made and we would be better off without it. They literally say in the movie that warner bros forced them to make it.
I'm not an author on what the film was trying to do or say, but interpreting it like a hostage situation for the movie creator makes it kinda good for me.
@@z3dar
Ya the movie just should not have been made, but given that there was going to be a remake no matter what and also seeing how universally bad the recent remakes have been, this movie was a lot better than it should have been and also a nice jab at companies reviving franchises that should stay dead.
I was never a superfan of Matrix, but that scene in the first one when they find out Keanu is the one and Keanu unlocks creative mode was one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a movie, it was so powerful.
Edit: the argument under this comment over the creative mode analogy is some of the most spergy shit ever lmao.
You saw Keanu's powers and felt so empowered
by a movie made in Hollywood
@@gsesquire3441 it’s just a comparison man don’t get mad about it
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Now that's a reference I didnt expect to find here
Same. It was like he had infinite blocks in minecraft and could fly. i almost cried
And then in the second movie where you find out there's been 5 toher ones already
The video screens at the end of reloaded were showing all of neo's possible reactions to that meeting. They weren't past versions of the one. Everything going on inside his head that moment. The matrix was only reset 6 times as far as I can tell.
Thank you for clearing that up.
Yes
I agree. I think this is the minority opinion though. I really only see comments from people who think it's the previous one's.
I'm pretty sure it was explained outright by Goatee Exposington, but obviously that means lots of people missed it... The architect can predict everything, except humans are too "imperfect" and so they have this unpredictability (or possibly "free will") but it's not utterly random, it's constrained by their personality etc.
So the screens are "I can perfectly predict your next reaction is _one_ of these screens but because of your stupid free will I don't know which one." So him going to the opposite door from the screens is that the odds of him still choosing the same door as his predecessors was arbitrarily high, but because he loved Trinity it wasn't _absolutely 100%_ and indeed he decided to take the other door.
That's pretty much the only thing I retained from that entire scene except for during one screen zoom in it shows Neo being really angry and keanu is flipping the bird and cursing and that was pretty funny to me.
@@UltimateOmegaRed
Yep.
Now I don't have to worry about Neo looking too young for his implied age.
I need an entire episode about Mike and Jay talking about 80's wrestling for no reason at all
I love how this video has a full credit sequence, with most of it being a black screen.