This movie fundamentally changed my life. I was 15 at the time and have watched this in the cinema 5 times. It taught me the most important lesson in critical thinking and made me question everything and not just accepting it.
My friends owned a game store and soon after "The Matrix" came out, Keanu Reeves went in to buy a custom wooden chess set. The wife helped him buy one and said he was very, very nice, just as you might imagine from his interviews. But we had to tell her he was famous because she had no idea; she didn't watch action movies lol.
I was studying at university when The Matrix came to the cinemas and everyone was talking about it. After 25 years, it's still one of my favourite films. Everything about it is so cool. I'm not a big fan of the sequels, but I still think it's worth watching them at least once. I've had a few déja vus and The Matrix explains it perfectly. I'm definitely living in a simulation and I'm still trying to find the cheat codes for unlimited money.
I have told this story a million times. When this came out we were high school kids. My bass player failed to tell any of us that he had taken acid before we went into the theatre. He didn't even make it through the opening green number sequence before running out. He spent the rest of it in the car doing god knows what. We didn't know! It's insane to think Keanu went from Bill and Ted to SPEED to this and beyond. That's an Excellent Adventure!
knew someone who took one too many of those, he spent the rest of his short life ( few years ) trying to pick something that wasn't there off the floor, he seemed stuck in a loop.
4:40 - The only reason you could realise this so soon into the film without having seen it is you have seen MANY films and tv shows and pop culture media that has USED that 'simulation' thing that The Matrix basically invented with this movie in 1999, you have seen media that was INSPIRED from this revolutionary film - so you got a heads-up basically! lol
this movie looks still great today... but imagine seeing this 25 years ago at the midnight premiere. they didnt spoil anything of the plot or the effects in trailers, there was was a massive campaign with one question: "What is the matrix ?" so all we all been really pumped to see what this movie was gonna be.. and wow did it deliver
I still get chills during the opening Trinity scene. It was one of the only times a movie has made me think "This is going to be amazing" in the first 5 minutes. I'm grateful to have a best friend who's a movie buff. We saw this on opening weekend. We saw a ton of movies together over the years, including the original Terminator.
First time on the channel, I really liked the reaction; girl was very on point, sharp and quick to pickup the movie plot, even at the most confusing points of the movie; guy was already familiar with the movie and did a great job by not spoiling her reaction, by not confirming nor denying her curiosity. Also, the editing is phenomenal, it's quite hard to condense a reaction to this movie, or any movie for that matter. With rare exceptions, this reaction was edited in such a great way that it compacted almost all of the best lines and scenes. You've got a new follow, I'll definitely check out your previous reactions at some point and be on the lookout for new ones. Great job, best wishes.
The most unbelievable thing in this movie is that the phrase, "Hey Mikey I think he likes it," from a 1971 Life cereal commercial is still commonly known and used by the citizens of Zion in 2199.
The calendar date outside the matrix doesn't really matter. Human culture would be from the time that is simulated inside the matrix because that is where most of the population is from.
@@kellymoses8566 No one even used that phrase in the real world around the time this movie was written. I don't think it was ever even a common thing when it was originated in the 70's. It's always just been something advertisers and screenplay writers tried to make a thing.
@@kellymoses8566 I agree. People in the Matrix live in the year 1999, and as such they require a past, most probably based on the real world to match human development. As such, human culture from every period since the beginning of time must exist in The Matrix, even if as historical references that trickle down to cultural references and so on. On the other hand, people living in 2199 shouldn't have retained any reference from less than 50 years ago, especially since they're cleansed every other generation.
There's another pop culture reference from that era. Many people outside the US (or at least the wider native English speaking world) miss the reference when Switch calls Neo "Copper Top" in the car scene. Copper top was advertising slang for Duracell batteries because of their color scheme, but the ads didn't appear in every country.
@@aperson4640 Definitely disagree, I was born in the 80’s and this reference was easily recognizable, I would consider it common. I feel like they remade that commercial because I definitely saw it a lot as a kid. I’m guessing Cypher was a kid in the 60’s.
It's so much more enjoyable to watch intelligent people (this couple) react to movies like "The Matrix". They may not catch every reference if they're not familiar with US culture, but they grasp the "big picture" quickly.
The Animatrix was released before the second movie and introduces several incidents/characters that are directly referred to in #2. The last flight of the Osiris and The kid especially. The Animatrix, the video game and the comics were all parts of the marketing campaign intended to refresh people's memory and fill in some of the backstory due to the long delay in releasing the second instalment.
Kudos to Alexandra for understanding that the Oracle told Neo what he needed to hear. Many viewers don't understand that. Although a hugely innovative SF movie, The Matrix was not original in concept. Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel, Simulacrum 3, also used the reality-as-simulation idea and was coincidentally made into an excellent movie, The Thirteenth Floor, the same year. However, the idea is even older. One of the stories that compose the 1933 fix-up novel, The Man Who Awoke, by Laurence Manning, also described reality as a simulation----long before computers.
Great points all around. Note however that the concept goes back even further, to the 17th Century in the writings of Rene Decartes' 'evil deceiver' concept in his Meditations on First Philosophy. And yeah, The Thirteenth Floor is a great movie. It actually deals with the concept better than the Matrix trilogy.
Not only that, she pointed out how the helicopter crashing into the building looked "fake". As if the matrix was slow to render such an unusual event and resorted to fluids for a split second.
whatr can i say about this and the rest of the matrix movies that has not allready been said ? this was lightyears ahead of its time and looks just as good and impressive today as it did back at it's release i wish they would bring it back to the big screen again it truly is awesome on the big screen....
11:07 Hearing her say it’s surprising we get to See Morpheus so early 😂 is funny considering. We’re seeing Morpheus for the first time, within The Matrix. Last I checked. The only way you can see into the Matrix is by looking at all the green code flashing across the screen representing everything in the Matrix. Basically we’re not seeing Morpheus in the real. Just his digital avatar 😅 in the Matrix
From the voice, guy is from Fin, and girl is harder, at first heard Estonian, then mixed(mid europe), then finnish, then swedish, so yeah the girl is a bit of a mystery where she seems to be from by voice only.
Great reaction, and nice editing. This was my fav movie for a long time, since it came out, until I started watching Indian movies. Now I watch only Bollywood, but I like to see some Matrix reaction for "good old times" ;)
This film was amazing when it came out... but it was s logical progression from previous films like it.... Highly recommend watching Blade Runner and then Dar City the director's cut.... 2 more amazing films that set the stage for the Matrix... I hope you watch those as welll.
4:40 : that commentary is the fastest truth any reaction previously had ! damnit she is brilliant no magical kiss : the brain isn t dead when the simulation tells it , she can still talk to him and the kiss tells his brain he is still alive. oracle : you may need a second life to discover your true potential : there it is !
If you guys watch the 4th movie that was release a year or two ago, Just remember that director is going through a sex change, And his/her mother Past away, So the movie is not that great. It's so bad that even Keanu Donated His paycheck from that movie😮
I watched this movie when I was 11 (when it came out). I liked the action but did not understand what it was about. I met Keanu at my workplace last year (when he was shooting some scenes; most down-to-earth guy I ever seen btw) and then I re-watched it. Yeah, I guess I missed a lot of its meaning when I was 11 :D One of my favourite movies since. (if not the favourite)
AI and Robotics are some of the most exciting things happening in the world right now, and i am happy to be alive to see it unfold, and to be a small part of its development.
Using humans as a power source doesn't actually make any sense. The script originally had human brains being used as computers which actually makes sense but the producers forced them to change it to batteries because they thought people wouldn't understand.
Actually is more complicated than that, Neo was already was an anomaly, the one percent of humanity that reject the program of the Matrix is are anomalies, and they are send to the Matrix trash bin, Zion, to be deleted at the end of the cycle, what happen to Neo is that the Oracle enhance him introduce him the source code The Matrix, that why he can bend the rules of the Matrix, because the machines allow him to.
@@Kileik Actually it is, is explained in Reloaded, Neo is a false messiah figure created by the machines, but the whole point of The Matrix is choice, that sometimes is not binary, sometimes a good choice could lead to a bad consequence like the destruction of Zion, because Morpheus lost his trust into the Oracle and when she warn everyone of a new possible treat that could destroy Zion, he didn't listen, he believed that what Neo did was absolute, couldn't be undone, but he didn't realise that the machines had more human qualities than they realise or even want.
@@TheKeyser94 Neo wasn't created by the Machines, nor was he "allowed" to bend the rules by them. He's very much human and he's an anomaly in the sense that he can remodel the Matrix, which the Machines can do nothing about, they had nothing to do with this. The prophecy was just a lie they created to deal with that problem. And Zion wasn't a "trash bin", it was just the real world that the Machines invaded multiple times.
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The cookie the oracle gave Neo is the "Why" to how he returned to life.
This movie fundamentally changed my life. I was 15 at the time and have watched this in the cinema 5 times. It taught me the most important lesson in critical thinking and made me question everything and not just accepting it.
Best joke is that Neo had to accept a 'cookie' to interact with the Oracle program
The movie was ahead of its time.
Mind blown 🤯
He didn't have to - he could interact with the Oracle without the cookie, but the Oracle was very pushy about him getting one anyway.
Or the subtle foreshadowing from his boss -
"You believe that you are special. That the rules do not apply to you..."
To be fair, we had to watch Reloaded to get that
My friends owned a game store and soon after "The Matrix" came out, Keanu Reeves went in to buy a custom wooden chess set. The wife helped him buy one and said he was very, very nice, just as you might imagine from his interviews. But we had to tell her he was famous because she had no idea; she didn't watch action movies lol.
I'd wager he finds people that don't know him refreshing.
@@alexestin8553 Or breathtaking.
I was studying at university when The Matrix came to the cinemas and everyone was talking about it. After 25 years, it's still one of my favourite films. Everything about it is so cool. I'm not a big fan of the sequels, but I still think it's worth watching them at least once.
I've had a few déja vus and The Matrix explains it perfectly. I'm definitely living in a simulation and I'm still trying to find the cheat codes for unlimited money.
I have told this story a million times. When this came out we were high school kids. My bass player failed to tell any of us that he had taken acid before we went into the theatre. He didn't even make it through the opening green number sequence before running out. He spent the rest of it in the car doing god knows what. We didn't know! It's insane to think Keanu went from Bill and Ted to SPEED to this and beyond. That's an Excellent Adventure!
knew someone who took one too many of those, he spent the rest of his short life ( few years ) trying to pick something that wasn't there off the floor, he seemed stuck in a loop.
Watching it high as a school kid is always best way.
Pretty lame story to tell a million times. You had a friend who walked out of the cinema because he was high! Amazing story
That had me dead bro 😂. I can just imagine taking acid and watching that number sequence and just freaking out lmao😂
4:40 - The only reason you could realise this so soon into the film without having seen it is you have seen MANY films and tv shows and pop culture media that has USED that 'simulation' thing that The Matrix basically invented with this movie in 1999, you have seen media that was INSPIRED from this revolutionary film - so you got a heads-up basically! lol
this movie looks still great today... but imagine seeing this 25 years ago at the midnight premiere. they didnt spoil anything of the plot or the effects in trailers, there was was a massive campaign with one question: "What is the matrix ?" so all we all been really pumped to see what this movie was gonna be.. and wow did it deliver
I still get chills during the opening Trinity scene. It was one of the only times a movie has made me think "This is going to be amazing" in the first 5 minutes.
I'm grateful to have a best friend who's a movie buff. We saw this on opening weekend. We saw a ton of movies together over the years, including the original Terminator.
First time on the channel, I really liked the reaction; girl was very on point, sharp and quick to pickup the movie plot, even at the most confusing points of the movie; guy was already familiar with the movie and did a great job by not spoiling her reaction, by not confirming nor denying her curiosity. Also, the editing is phenomenal, it's quite hard to condense a reaction to this movie, or any movie for that matter. With rare exceptions, this reaction was edited in such a great way that it compacted almost all of the best lines and scenes. You've got a new follow, I'll definitely check out your previous reactions at some point and be on the lookout for new ones. Great job, best wishes.
The funniest line "not the Nokia"
It's bad to drop one of those.. the last time all the dinosaurs died.
Neo is an anagram for One btw :)
The most unbelievable thing in this movie is that the phrase, "Hey Mikey I think he likes it," from a 1971 Life cereal commercial is still commonly known and used by the citizens of Zion in 2199.
The calendar date outside the matrix doesn't really matter. Human culture would be from the time that is simulated inside the matrix because that is where most of the population is from.
@@kellymoses8566 No one even used that phrase in the real world around the time this movie was written. I don't think it was ever even a common thing when it was originated in the 70's. It's always just been something advertisers and screenplay writers tried to make a thing.
@@kellymoses8566 I agree. People in the Matrix live in the year 1999, and as such they require a past, most probably based on the real world to match human development. As such, human culture from every period since the beginning of time must exist in The Matrix, even if as historical references that trickle down to cultural references and so on. On the other hand, people living in 2199 shouldn't have retained any reference from less than 50 years ago, especially since they're cleansed every other generation.
There's another pop culture reference from that era. Many people outside the US (or at least the wider native English speaking world) miss the reference when Switch calls Neo "Copper Top" in the car scene.
Copper top was advertising slang for Duracell batteries because of their color scheme, but the ads didn't appear in every country.
@@aperson4640 Definitely disagree, I was born in the 80’s and this reference was easily recognizable, I would consider it common.
I feel like they remade that commercial because I definitely saw it a lot as a kid. I’m guessing Cypher was a kid in the 60’s.
I love her reaction, and how she's a super fan of the movie after watching it once. That often happens to first time watchers.
It's so much more enjoyable to watch intelligent people (this couple) react to movies like "The Matrix".
They may not catch every reference if they're not familiar with US culture, but they grasp the "big picture" quickly.
After she watches all 3 original movies, Show her the "AnimatriX"😮
The Animatrix was released before the second movie and introduces several incidents/characters that are directly referred to in #2. The last flight of the Osiris and The kid especially. The Animatrix, the video game and the comics were all parts of the marketing campaign intended to refresh people's memory and fill in some of the backstory due to the long delay in releasing the second instalment.
@MikePerigo That's nice still watching it after the three moves
"Is that going into his nose?" I literally said out loud to my phone, "No, sweet girl. It's not. It's going someplace worse."
“Unfortunately no one can be told what The Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself”-Morpheus
Darth Vader - have you been in the Matrix?
That was fun. Thanks for sharing your reaction with us.
Kudos to Alexandra for understanding that the Oracle told Neo what he needed to hear. Many viewers don't understand that. Although a hugely innovative SF movie, The Matrix was not original in concept. Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel, Simulacrum 3, also used the reality-as-simulation idea and was coincidentally made into an excellent movie, The Thirteenth Floor, the same year. However, the idea is even older. One of the stories that compose the 1933 fix-up novel, The Man Who Awoke, by Laurence Manning, also described reality as a simulation----long before computers.
Great points all around. Note however that the concept goes back even further, to the 17th Century in the writings of Rene Decartes' 'evil deceiver' concept in his Meditations on First Philosophy. And yeah, The Thirteenth Floor is a great movie. It actually deals with the concept better than the Matrix trilogy.
Not only that, she pointed out how the helicopter crashing into the building looked "fake". As if the matrix was slow to render such an unusual event and resorted to fluids for a split second.
Watch Dark City. Same story but totally different.
@@TemporaryApe Yup. And arguably better.
@@steved1135I think it's a much better film. Matrix was more marketable though, understandably.
Dark City is my FFOAT.
If we are in a simulation, mine SUCKS!
lol damn
We must be sharing the same one xD
I am there with you. Hoping to meet the woman in the red dress.
Change it life's about choices
“They have been setup by the goat” 🤣😂🤣😂
Keanu did indeed have to learn everything, it's all choreographed.
36:00 "Entire crops were lost" is crazy lol! That means a bunch of humans woke up and must have been discarded from the "farm".
Not discarded, but turned into protein shakes to feed the others.
whatr can i say about this and the rest of the matrix movies that has not allready been said ? this was lightyears ahead of its time and looks just as good and impressive today as it did back at it's release i wish they would bring it back to the big screen again it truly is awesome on the big screen....
when he said he watched matrix my reaction was not to watched it but then i thought i should respect his honesty and i watched the reaction video.
11:07 Hearing her say it’s surprising we get to See Morpheus so early 😂 is funny considering. We’re seeing Morpheus for the first time, within The Matrix. Last I checked. The only way you can see into the Matrix is by looking at all the green code flashing across the screen representing everything in the Matrix.
Basically we’re not seeing Morpheus in the real. Just his digital avatar 😅 in the Matrix
17th August 1999! Still remember first time I saw this masterpiece! After the Lord of the Rings this is my secondary best trilogy ever!
"They have been setup by the goat" #perfection
15:16 Why did you blur the year the ship was built? 😃
It was nice to watch a reaction where the reactors didn't call Neo "John Wick" and Agent Smith "Elrond".
Yeah, he got arrested becase of all the destruction he did from the NOKIA falling that high❗
Neo was waiting for his next life to become the One
From the voice, guy is from Fin, and girl is harder, at first heard Estonian, then mixed(mid europe), then finnish, then swedish, so yeah the girl is a bit of a mystery where she seems to be from by voice only.
Fun reaction, keep going. All are perfection
Great reaction, and nice editing. This was my fav movie for a long time, since it came out, until I started watching Indian movies. Now I watch only Bollywood, but I like to see some Matrix reaction for "good old times" ;)
This film was amazing when it came out... but it was s logical progression from previous films like it....
Highly recommend watching Blade Runner and then Dar City the director's cut.... 2 more amazing films that set the stage for the Matrix... I hope you watch those as welll.
FYI, the actors trained for months and did intense conditioning to be able to do the fight scenes.
90s movies and music were so good. Yes, I'm biased because those were my teenage years.
4:40 : that commentary is the fastest truth any reaction previously had ! damnit she is brilliant
no magical kiss : the brain isn t dead when the simulation tells it , she can still talk to him and the kiss tells his brain he is still alive.
oracle : you may need a second life to discover your true potential : there it is !
You should react to the "Animatrix" (2003) before matrix 2 reloaded ;)
She might really like the next two because they dive heavily into the philosophical/spiritual side of the story.
Its the glasses people! Lol 😊 Alexandra ❤
6:52 the nokia probably survived that..... lol
Now if you rewatch the movie you'll realise that every philosophical thing Morpheus and others say is not philosophical at all but literal.
Esa bebida Monster , es codigo malisioso de la matrix mi amigo. 🐈☯
buena reaccion 🙂
Nobody knew what AI was when this came out.
If you guys watch the 4th movie that was release a year or two ago, Just remember that director is going through a sex change, And his/her mother Past away, So the movie is not that great. It's so bad that even Keanu Donated His paycheck from that movie😮
Awesome reaction! Please do the sequels too 😊
Know thyself ❤
Epic film.
I thought it was the best film I'd ever seen. Still do.
The touch of Animatrix(?) code at the start??
Esta chica se hace buenas preguntas . excelente
good reaction
The matrix is real
Yes, hot philosophy chicks in black leather are great. Thanks for the great reaction.
Good. 🇺🇸👍😎Well done.
Marry her. She's smart and cute.
Wait till the "Matrix Resurrections", it will really mess with your mind. P.S. The Producing brothers both now identify as women in real life!!
I watched this movie when I was 11 (when it came out). I liked the action but did not understand what it was about. I met Keanu at my workplace last year (when he was shooting some scenes; most down-to-earth guy I ever seen btw) and then I re-watched it. Yeah, I guess I missed a lot of its meaning when I was 11 :D One of my favourite movies since. (if not the favourite)
AI and Robotics are some of the most exciting things happening in the world right now, and i am happy to be alive to see it unfold, and to be a small part of its development.
✌️❤️❤️!...
are you the weird swallowing guy!? Beavo?
Using humans as a power source doesn't actually make any sense. The script originally had human brains being used as computers which actually makes sense but the producers forced them to change it to batteries because they thought people wouldn't understand.
Ah, first time for her ... hmmm
so not really first time watching
Blue pill
It's the Christ story. He dies to save us and rises from the dead to prove he is victorious.
How is it possible? Because the Princess has to love the Frog/Beast before she kisses him for him to be transformed into the Prince.
guys... it is obvious you have seen this before... she said stuff in first 30 seconds. don't claim 'first time watching'.
What is a phone call good for if you are unable to speak. Something you hear very often in Russia
Actually is more complicated than that, Neo was already was an anomaly, the one percent of humanity that reject the program of the Matrix is are anomalies, and they are send to the Matrix trash bin, Zion, to be deleted at the end of the cycle, what happen to Neo is that the Oracle enhance him introduce him the source code The Matrix, that why he can bend the rules of the Matrix, because the machines allow him to.
Lol what? That's not it.
@@Kileik Actually it is, is explained in Reloaded, Neo is a false messiah figure created by the machines, but the whole point of The Matrix is choice, that sometimes is not binary, sometimes a good choice could lead to a bad consequence like the destruction of Zion, because Morpheus lost his trust into the Oracle and when she warn everyone of a new possible treat that could destroy Zion, he didn't listen, he believed that what Neo did was absolute, couldn't be undone, but he didn't realise that the machines had more human qualities than they realise or even want.
@@TheKeyser94 Neo wasn't created by the Machines, nor was he "allowed" to bend the rules by them. He's very much human and he's an anomaly in the sense that he can remodel the Matrix, which the Machines can do nothing about, they had nothing to do with this. The prophecy was just a lie they created to deal with that problem. And Zion wasn't a "trash bin", it was just the real world that the Machines invaded multiple times.
Great! It is very interesting to see your joint detailed reaction to the film Robocop 1987. This is a cool classic movie 🦾🤖🔥
Do you have any plans to do it?