The Matrix

[Jessie]

I feel like starting a Jaws vs TDK thread. That's gonna be a hell lot of fun if Squaremaster is involved, and I'm sure baumer will like it.

Yeah but they are completely different movies lol

[baumer]

I feel like starting a Jaws vs TDK thread. That's gonna be a hell lot of fun if Squaremaster is involved, and I'm sure baumer will like it.

 

I'd have to quit as a mod if you started that thread.  Gloves would be off with Squaremaster if he decides to hate on JAWS.

[Blankments]

Rewatch in one sitting made the movie a lot better A+

[Infernus]

Ome of the best sci fi films of all time. Loved it. The philosophical side and the punky dialogue was what made the film special. The action and special effects were pretty good too.

10/10 for me.

[max314]

A QUESTION FOR EVERYONE:

I saw The Matrix when I was 16. Naturally, it blew me the fuck away.

I am reading that there are people here who were only 12 or 13 when they watched the Matrix sequels. Others are saying that they've only recently watched The Matrix for the first time as part of a class.

Apart from feeling incredibly old, I am also curious as to roughly how old a lot of users here actually are / were when watching the Matrix films for the first time, and how you felt when you watched them.

Thanks.

Almost 4 years later and Inception is still being talked about as a mind-blowing film.

 

The Matrix isn't referred on any level except the bullet time sequence.

The Matrix and its sequels inspired more dialogue and discussions and dissections and dissertations than any other film (series) in recent memory.

I enjoy Inception immensely, but let's face it: it's just a simple heist film with a dream gimmick.

I haven't heard anyone talking about it recently, unless it's someone trying to grapple with the convoluted plot.

How is anything in that film even remotely as flawed on a fundamental/logical level as the Matrix' plot of "using humans for heat energy to keep the machines running for years" when their power source would most likely be depleted in a week, if that?

"Combined with a form of fusion, the Machines had found all the energy they would ever need." -- Morpheus, The Matrix (Wachowski, 1999)

Edited February 21, 2015 by max314

[DeeCee]

The Matrix is brilliant but there is no logic to the human battery conceit.

[solaris]

I was 15 when I first saw it. Still the only movie I watched more than twice at the cinema. To say it blew my tiny little mind is something of an understatement. Jeez I really need to rewatch this sometime soon.

[baumer]

Pretty sure Matrix will make my list of top 105 films of all time.

[luna]

rewatched. was worse.

 

3.5/10

[vc2002]

rewatched. was worse.

 

3.5/10

 

The Matrix honorably joined the list of the most influential films in the history that lisa rated 5 or under, along with Jaws, ET, Terminator 2, etc....

[Jessie]

lol at lisa and her pretentious (shitty) movie taste

[ShouldIBeHere]

It is a bit hard to watch this without thinking about what happened with 2 and 3... but it remains a fact that this was one gamechanger of a movie.

 

There is no denying that... Inception is a glorious movie. But it will be forgotten long before The Matrix.

 

 

A+

[jb007]

Revolutionary and completely entertaining. The script, the score and action just awesome. One of the all-time great movies.

Immensely rewatcheable.

A+

[baumer]

When you can get a terrific performance out of Reeves, then you have transcended film.

[Goffe]

Pretty terrific when it is not trying to be political and deep, the social commentary holds as much intellectual weight as movies like The Maze Runner and Divergent. The second act, in particular, is unbearable, there's so much bad exposition that it would make someone like Nolan blush. 

 

I thought the chosen one stuff  was atmospheric and well done, still holds up really well, especially after so many movies with the same trope, so many movies ripping it off. I also really liked Neo and Trinity relationship (even if a bit underdeveloped), Carrie-Anne Moss was great in the part, her performance alone injected the heart that the relationship needed and Reeves usual innocuous performance sorely lacked.  

 

It's clear that The Wachowski put much more effort in the action sequences, most of which are gratuitous, than the plot itself, something that would became evident in their later works.

 

Old rating: 90/100

new rating: 75/100

[vc2002]

A QUESTION FOR EVERYONE:

I saw The Matrix when I was 16. Naturally, it blew me the fuck away.

I am reading that there are people here who were only 12 or 13 when they watched the Matrix sequels. Others are saying that they've only recently watched The Matrix for the first time as part of a class.

Apart from feeling incredibly old, I am also curious as to roughly how old a lot of users here actually are / were when watching the Matrix films for the first time, and how you felt when you watched them.

Thanks.

The Matrix and its sequels inspired more dialogue and discussions and dissections and dissertations than any other film (series) in recent memory.

I enjoy Inception immensely, but let's face it: it's just a simple heist film with a dream gimmick.

I haven't heard anyone talking about it recently, unless it's someone trying to grapple with the convoluted plot.

"Combined with a form of fusion, the Machines had found all the energy they would ever need." -- Morpheus, The Matrix (Wachowski, 1999)

 

The first time I watched The Matrix, aside from being completely blown away, I was actually thinking what if it was all true and we were now indeed sleeping in water tanks and the world was just a program as the matrix. Of cause the objective side of me told myself it's just a movie, but that what if thought gave me some good fun thinking.

[Dementeleus]

How are action sequences gratuitous in an action movie?

[The Futurist]

AM I the only one that noticed that Neo,Morpheus & Trinity were merciless terrorists in this ?

[lilmac]

Awesome story. Amazing FX and freeze frame choreography, not to mention the martial arts. 

 

A+

Edited October 19, 2015 by lilmac

[RobinHood26]

I totally think this movie is an A now btw.