Occurred to me on a rewatch how good Laurence Fishburne's performance is, and that the films do have a lot of diversity without drawing any attention to it whatsoever (Zion, multiraced cast, hell it they have a woman do the critical driving duty and there's not a second of ham or complaining; people are wrecking machines and it's a great entry level philosophy/theology story)
...not like in the Witcher Series - which is most of the time really good in my eyes (and stupid in some rather minor aspects) - in which I have the feeling each new entrance of character is shoved in ur face like "loook! this one is more european! and this one black! and this one cant talk! and this one is in a wheelchair! and the next on might might be human-machine-device-hybrid...! look look how diversve we are!"
I don't think in the context of the films, drawing attention to the diversity would even make sense tbh.. It's human civilization on the brink of extinction, I doubt anybody would (or should) care about something like the Race for the pilot of the Neberkenezer, long as you're able to fly the thing.
Morpheus: You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and I show you - Drinker: (grabs whiskey bottle and chugs) Nah, it’ll be fine! (passes out) Morpheus: …I wasn’t expecting that.
@@spudvarr Well if you remember from the movie, the red pill was a tracer program that allowed them to find Neo's actual body. I only remember this because I recently re-watched it btw.
I don't know Danquish, but I feel like Critical Drinker is holding the conversation in this entire video. As in, he's trying to make it interesting and keep the conversation going. 🤷
Agreed, so unless someone like Drinker gives it 2 thumbs up I’ll be avoiding it like the plague. I want to keep living under the delusion that we still have some heroes left
I've read the early reviews and it's probably far worse than any of us expect. Apparently it's 80% meta-humor (yes, humor) often just gender-swapping the character repeating the line and in a different context from the original film.
@@PetersonZF yeah most ppl in that situation would just take the piss and crack jokes or pretend to be the star of the show or shit talk the other person until they came back but crickets
Personally, I was hoping that Morpheus was actually the Chosen One. That the only reason why he didn't see it is because he's too focused on his search to find the One that he looked everywhere but within.
24:29 Another fun fact: The character of Switch was supposed to be a "Transformer". Male in the real world, but female within the Matrix. But apparently the studio put the kibosh on that.
I was 14 when I saw it in the cinema and honestly...it had me already when I saw the intro with the green numbers and the transition into the szene by zooming in on them. Great movie!
The reason that Morpheus seems so slow when fighting Agent Smith is that they choerographed the fight show him as being much slower than an Agent. Obviously, Hugo Weaving couldn't move at super-human speeds, so Lawrence Fishbourne had to fight slower.
Yeah, Drinker has pointed out a lot that I didn't think about when I saw the first movie so long ago, but the Morpheus fight with Agent Smith was an obvious one to me. Morpheus is probably the greatest human threat in the Matrix up to that point, so it was showing even he can't stand toe to toe with an Agent alone. Which also does the job of validating why 'The One' is so important to them, because they are a resistance on the losing side.
@@maximusaralieous1728 Morpheus' sacrifice also drives home exactly how important Neo is. The strongest fighter the resisitance has is willing to sacrifice himself, knowing that 'The One' is more powerful than him.
My brother and I saw the Matrix when it first came out. I think I was 12. It’s really hard to overstate just how much we had no idea whatsoever about what we were about to see. Neither of us really had any clue what the movie was about, really, and there really hadn’t been any hype or word of mouth until a few weeks after the release. Just really cool to be right there to witness such an iconic movie coming out of nowhere to change cinema and pop culture.
I remember the marketing and commercials for the 1st matrix being so vague and intriguing. "Unfortunately no one can be told what the matrix is" was the tagline iirc. Its amazing how films werent spoiled like today. I didnt see matrix until its DVD release, it was actually the first DVD I ever saw incidentally as it was a brand new format then, and I still was able to enjoy it spoiler free. I miss those days.
I saw The Matrix on the day I finished my last GCSE exam. No anticipation, not heard anything about it (no internet so no trailers outside of the cinema). A friend suggested we all go see it to celebrate the end of the exams. We were not ready for what we saw…
Drinker Was going to listen on a long ride home. However, your guest has the energy and personality of a head of lettuce. I’m nodding off. Maybe next time. And get that guy some Red Bull.
The Animatrix: Second Renaissance Parts 1&2 are important viewing to go with The Matrix 1 - the machine war is amazing. P.S. you should get Farewell Thunderchild back on. And if you ever chat about War of the Worlds (all iterations) with him I'd be happy to join you :D
I just rewatched the first matrix last night and I nearly cried at how amazing it was, and how we're never getting something like this again. Timeless.
I actually quite liked Danquish's different & dry delivery. He def knows his material, & not every one is as comfortable on a stream in front of so many ppl like Drinker & co are (who do it daily). Also, I hope you're feeling better after your health issues Danquish.
I remember seeing the first Matrix movie on opening day at the first showing of the day with my friend and younger brother right after school let out (I was in high school). We had seen the brief TV spots, had no idea what it was about and to be honest if you don't know what the movie is about those first ads look rough, so we figured "Let's go watch this Matrix movie after school, looks terrible and we can at least get a good laugh out of it!" There were maybe a total of 15 people in the theater and we kinda all sat close enough to each other in the center to the point where we could hear each other talk, and we did. As soon as Trinity ran up the wall and took out the cops our collective jaws were on the floor followed by "WTF was that OMG what is going on!" When the dojo scene started up my friend leaned over and asked if that was really Keanu doing the Kung Fu which at the time was literally unheard of, you always had stunt doubles do that kind of stuff, and you could hear the rest of the audience asking the same questions "Are they doing that? What? WOW!" When the movie was all over we just sat there in our seats, exhausted from the spectacle and suspense we had just seen. We knew we had to see the movie again but we needed a break first, also to spread the word. Never before in my life have I left a theater, seen a line of people about to enter for another movie showing, and tell them to go see another movie instead, but that is EXACTLY what myself and everyone in my viewing did. We sounded like lunatics trying to describe what we had seen but not spoiling anything. I don't know what it was like where everyone else was but the Matrix spread by word of mouth and in about two weeks it was all that anyone was talking about. If you watch it now for the first time you may think "Eh, what's so special about this?" but just like Die Hard setting the mold for action movies The Matrix set the standard for the next almost decade. I will be watching the new Matrix when it comes out, I also worked for a company that did tech support for the Matrix MMORPG back in the day so I understand why Neo and Trinity are in the Matrix again and why Morpheus is young, I am sure it will be shown in the movie. I am not expecting something grand but more of a "Here's the first movie again but with a time loop angle where things are slightly different this time."
I can remember being in my 3rd year at uni and near the end of the course. I was really looking forward to Star Wars episode 1 but it wasn't on in the cinema in Hull lol. I read an Empire magazine and read no more than 2 sentences about The Matrix and thought "yeah go on i'll go see that it sounds cool". When Neo wakes up in the pod of red goo and we see his hands from his point of view before he pushes out of it, my jaw hit the floor. I was already captivated by the first half hour of this film.. the style, the action, trying to understand whats going on as Morpheus discusses the Matrix being all around them. But this did something else - it was like it pulled you into the cinematic universe it had created by a factor of 10. I left the cinema of that movie with my mind utterly blown. I headed up to the top of a car park and was sat up there looking across the city for about an hour thinking about it all. I was able to draw so many parallels to the real world we live in and even today it still manages to do that.. to remind me of the system we are all captured within... to question how much we are truly "free" ...to ask yourself are you able to be more... to do more with your life or happy to just be in the rat race or just endlessly live the same cycle till your a spent battery? Even today parallels can be drawn... Morpheus teaching Neo about the way people are "so inert... so hopefully dependant on the system they will fight to protect it" ....this is so apt today... look at the massive defense people are throwing at policies that make no sense regarding unspecified virus of unknown origin. Some people cannot be helped and furthermore certainly are too asleep to ask questions or think for themselves. They want an overriding system (government) managing them increasingly. Thats a scary thought. God help us when Facebook's metaverse switches on properly - we think people are plugged in now?! This film is quite possibly one of the most important films made in my eyes. The fact it managed to do it with all the action and mind bending bullet time and great cinematography and be stylish is nothing short of incredible. Its in my top 5 and will continue to do so along with T2 and Aliens.
I was born in 90s, all my favorite movies are in the 40’s, 50’s and 70’s and The Matrix would be in my top 5 easy. Controversial option, I think it’s a better version of the hero’s journey then Star Wars, that climax is so darn satisfying and it keeps building and building until that bullet stop. Not flawless, but what a movie
It shouldn't be a controversial opinion, I could totally see somebody making the argument that it's better. The Matrix did the hero's journey in just 1 movie, while Star Wars took 3 movies to do the same.
I used to work on CIWS (Phalanx) guns when I was in the Navy. They're even louder when you actually shoot bullets out of it for real. Almost like a drag race car but much much cooler.
Amazing machines but when watching videos, I have to wonder; with that volume of fire, how long can a unit fire before it needs rearming? And are they taken offline for rearming?
@@unbearifiedbear1885 If memory serves (it's been 20 years), they'll only shoot for a 10 second maximum burst. Anything more than that, the barrels will start to warp because of the heat. I'm not sure if that's changed since I last worked on them.
I'm pretty sure agent Smith had the opposite reason for wanting Zion destroyed. He hated being in the immersive environment of the Matrix which made him taste, feel, and smell all the nasty sensations of being around humans. His whole purpose for existing was to deal with renegade humans. If Zion was destroyed, he'd no longer be needed and he wouldn't have to deal with the smell anymore. Little did he know that all of this was a repeating cycle.
That sounds right, he wanted Zion destroyed so he could finally be released from The Matrix. He was of course unique to the other agents as he clearly was taking on very human sensations whereas the other ones were still very robotic. Makes you wonder how long Smith had been in there.
Drinker! The M4 is an amazing Rifle, I had an ACOG for mine in Iraq. It was amazing, AK shoots everywhere but the M60 is a dream to shoot. Belt fed 7.62 is beautiful, it is so well balanced and one day you have to go to Arizona to shoot one on full auto
I watched this with a girlfriend, our housemate came home whilst we were halfway through and asked "What's this about?" We mouthed a few things then just said "you'll just have to watch it from the start".
Btw The Matrix is at its core a modern sci-fi take on Descartes ‘Evil Demon Theory’ from ‘Meditations’. Not that I knew any of that when I saw it age 16 back in 1999…
Telling Neo he wasn't the One and vaguely implying it either *was* Morpheus or he was still essential to finding it, was IMO motivated to give Neo something important enough to fight for to *bring it out* in himself, to make him push past what he thought he was capable of. The result is that he risks the impossible to rescue Morpheus and starts doing the sort of things only the One could do - like lash a freakin helicopter to his arm to save Trinity
@@Bow-to-the-absurd I did see the original Robocop at the cinema - but it was in 2015 ... so I was a bit late there. Thought of course I did see it on VHS a lot before that.
No mention of how the Oracle did more than just push Neo with the dialogue. She gave Neo the cookie, which, even if there's not much love for the sequels, paints the picture clearer when the Merovingian explains how so much can be change with that subtle push implanted in the coding of the food. Neo never had choice. The Oracle simply made him believe he did. That said, I remember watching this in the drive-in movie theater and falling asleep right before breaking Morpheus out. I was quite disappointed, haha. Also, Conker's Bad Fur Day's spoof was enjoyable :D
Love your videos Mr. Drinker. What about comparing similar films i.e. Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove, Deep Impact and Armageddon, etc.? I’d love to see you do Fail-Safe, one of my top 5. Have a great Christmas!
So yeah The Wachowskis haven’t made a good movie in a while but to me they did make one of my favorite shows ever. And that’s Sense8. Absolutely masterfully done show.
There are some great film theories about the Matrix... my favorite is that Agent Smith is actually The One, and he is the entity that caused the Matrix to crash. I find it really interesting to think about.
The GE Six Pack is a 5.56 minigun from general electric that was developed in the sixties. The whole kit(power pack, gun, and 1000 rounds of ammo) is 85 pounds. The deployment is mainly used for dual purpose heavy weapons support and clearing an LZ.
I was around 9 when this came out and I watched it. It probably informed most of my coming life more than I realize. It was the first rated R VHS tape I bought, from Walmart. Luckily they didn't card a little kid lol
Also remember the vase. If she had told him he was the one would he have become the one? But, yes it’s about neo needing to hear what is needed, not what he wanted to hear.
I had a chance to fire a Yugoslavia build version of a AK47 (Zastava M70) at a military range. The recoil is not as big as you might expect, but its big for anyone that has never fired a rifle. But man its fun to shoot. Accurate to 300m (but not like a hunting rifle or a marksman rifle). I shot it at 50m and 300m.
Regarding whiskey, Lagavulin is my favorite. But then again there's a whiskey for all moods, so a speyside, highland, lowland, campbelton or any Islands whiskey is also good.
only partly... Inspirations were drawn from a lot of anime,but more from a few books about muliple realities. Actually it was mandatory for all main cast to read these 3 books,one of those is the one where neo hides his pirate media, Simulacra & Simuli! They really put shitloads of effort into that 1st film. I think this new one will be standard hollywood shitty remake (in the style of new Star Wars,Terminator,Ghostbusters,Predator etc.,just purely destroying the franchise)
Mouse's guns were (heavily customised) automatic shotguns with cylindrical mags.. can't remember the name of the base firearm but yeah - they're shotguns I think the "in universe" insinuation is he designed then himself (like the Woman in the Red Dress and....."other"....programs!)
One of the scariest things about the movie is when the robots see neo wake up, and just casually flush him. This implies that people just wake up like that from time to time, but with no warning or introduction, and then just drown in that sewer with no answers.
1:42:00 - Smith recognized that it's the same hotel as was with Trinity in beginning of the movie. Matrix 2&3 - are good movies, if you pay attention. But they are just not worthy sequels to the first one.
The unusual pair of weapons that Mouse uses are custom-built, cam-operated, electricity driven Manville automatic shotguns with 25-shell cylinders and a fire rate of 900 rounds per minute. It can be assumed that Mouse designed these shotguns himself like he designed the Woman in Red.
Disagree on the mini-gun, when mounted it is quite accurate, with tracer rounds you just walk in the "trail" of bullets coming out of it. It is not a sniper rifle but used properly you would have better control of it than a hand held weapon (with spray and pray, which they would need to deal with the agent dodge ability). Granted in a small room it Would be very dangerous but you could carve a path around someone if you really needed to.
One line in "The Matrix" that didn't work was Cipher talking about the "image translators." When Neo was fighting Morpheus, the rest of the crew could watch because of them. So Neo asks Cipher if he always looks at the Matrix like that, and the reply is "Well, ya gotta. See, the image translators work *FOR* the construct program, but there's way too much information in the Matrix to look at it like that." See, Pantoliano put the emphasis on the wrong word. He should have said, "The image translators work for the *CON*struct program, but..."
1:42:05 - it wasn't an apartment Neo was going into. It was the hotel from the beginning of the movie! The "Heart o' the City" hotel. They even show Agent Smith look up at the sign, recognizing it. Neo was heading for the room where Trinity was! My take is, Smith jumped/flew up to the window and let himself in, to ambush Neo.
Yeah I stopped 20 minutes in. He seems like a really nice guy, I've listened to some other stuff with him on with drinker, but there's no go in him for this. It's a shame aswell, especially with matrix. Typical MauLer wasn't about for this one aswell!
I you haven't read William Gibson's books, that The Matrix are based on, you need to do that, you won't be disappointed. He pioneered the sifi sub genre cyberpunk. The books are, the so called sprawl triology, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
I saw it yesterday. I wouldn't say that about it.. decent idea for the story, maybe a little safe and formulaic with some very shallow ancillary cast but it was better than I expected, even if I did find the entire first act (backstory and exposition) waaaay too long.. the movie goes on for like 2.5 hours..
@@robertwayne352 I too almost didn't bother going to see it because of what other people have done with previous sequels etc but decided what the hell it's been a while since I went to the theater. Not going to lie but during the really long first act I was thinking "ugh maybe this was a mistake" (although my friend was loving that part too so if there is some major division over the film it is probably the first act) without spoilers it's very 4th wall breaking wink wink nudge nudge style so I guess its best left to the viewer to make up their own mind... but as soon as the second act opened and got matrixy the film kept my attention well enough... I'm not a super critical film buff though and probably easily pleased but the last Jedi and similar films made me think "WTF IS THIS" and that did not happen with this film. The integration of modern tech into the film and a few other things made it enjoyable to watch, there is also quote about how suffering and misery help the matrix keep people compliant which I thought was an interesting reference to real life Even if you don't like the whole film or find it a bit marvely safe I think anyone who enjoyed the original Matrix will find at least a couple of things enjoyable in the film and it doesn't shit all over the originals to make this either, any of "the message" that has been hammered so much in films lately was probably very subtle.. apart from quite a few of the ancillary cast being females very little was overly in your face... trying not to include any spoilers but even if there are some powerful women in the film they don't come at the expense of making the other guys weaker. Overall pretty enjoyable to see how the matrix has progressed 20+ years after the originals, what happened to everyone etc etc without turning Neo into a green milk sucking hack, do not regret going to see it.
Drinker, have you ever seen EQUILIBRIUM? It's a movie with Christian Bale before he Batman, it was massively overshadowed by The Matrix, but it is still amazing movie, super underrated...
54:39 I seem to recall hearing (perhaps in a special feature somewhere) that they were non-functional props. That is to say, they weren't patterned after any real firearm. They were designed to look cool, and have a visible function/mechanism. I suspect that they didn't even use blanks. Based on the shells within the wraparound cylinders, I thought them to be some kind of automatic shotgun. Maybe the imfdb might have more information. 🤔
I suspect Morpheus was made to look slow and clunky during his fight with Smith. To that earlier point about Trinity being great and then the agents being better, I think that's just how they showed that the agents truly were on a whole other level even above Morpheus, who is the best of the best at that point.
The context of the "juris-my-dick-tion" line is the age-old trope about who has the authority at the scene of a crime - federal or local (see: Die Hard). The cop is arguing that it's not a federal crime, so the agents have no authority to interfere in his domain, or his jurisdiction.
Actually there is a nice easter egg in Lone Echo, a SciFi PC VR game... the three sea shells sit on a shelve in a hab and interacting with them gives you the line "I still have no clue how these work" 😎
@@ChrisRubeo From Wikipedia: "The Matrix was released one year after Dark City and was also filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney using some of the same sets.[40] Comparisons have been made between scenes from the movies, making note of similarities in both cinematography and atmosphere, as well as the plot."
Read through the early reviews on IMDB and it sounds like another franchise sacrificed on the alter of identity politics. I'm not telling people not to see it, I'm just adjusting expectations for what was pretty much inevitable given the director.
then it is what i expected,looking what Hollywood did with the last 50 franchises nothing else was possible to come out of this (Star Wars,Ghostbusters,Terminator,Alien,Predator etc)
Ok, I just watched it and I can say I was wrong. It wasn't terrible- it has far too much modern-day Hollywood propaganda like anti-Capitalism and LGBToTheMax, but as far as the plot and action... well, the action wasn't anything spectacular, but I guess given that my expectations were at a low 2/high 1 and it turns out it's a low to mid 4. But jeez-us, that ending... Made me throw up in my mouth. It's bad. It's... very bad. I hear talk there's a post credit scene, but I didn't wait.
16:00 -- This is the most Matrix aesthetic possible for a Matrix stream, right down to the shades. Anyone who doesn't understand this needs to go watch the film again (and play some Deux Ex) until the truth of hackers-with-mirrorshades-and-trenchcoats enters their soul.
The two ps2 games tied into the story also, one with ghost and niobi, and the other being the cool one the path of neo... And the animatrix also has some cool lore
@@williamwalsh3983 My time and money are more valuable to me than that. It’ll take a lot of positive response to the film for me to even consider the investment.
2:41:34 Scenes in the real world used BLUE filter while in the ship, in order to point the depression, and hopelessness. I think they don't use a filter in Zion, but I'd personally use a lot of reds in there, especially during that orgy of a party.
@@robertwayne352 every cell in their body is male, their eyes are male (look it up), they’re men who got plastic surgery to look like woman, but until we can transfer consciousness until another body (and we don’t know for sure yet but our brain may be gendered too) they’re still men by every metric except their own subjective opinions which means nothing
I remember seeing the Matrix in April of 1999. Didn't see a trailer. A nice young lady took me to see it. How was the film promoted? Before I saw it, I knew nothing about it.
Occurred to me on a rewatch how good Laurence Fishburne's performance is, and that the films do have a lot of diversity without drawing any attention to it whatsoever (Zion, multiraced cast, hell it they have a woman do the critical driving duty and there's not a second of ham or complaining; people are wrecking machines and it's a great entry level philosophy/theology story)
...not like in the Witcher Series - which is most of the time really good in my eyes (and stupid in some rather minor aspects) - in which I have the feeling each new entrance of character is shoved in ur face like "loook! this one is more european! and this one black! and this one cant talk! and this one is in a wheelchair! and the next on might might be human-machine-device-hybrid...! look look how diversve we are!"
I don't think in the context of the films, drawing attention to the diversity would even make sense tbh.. It's human civilization on the brink of extinction, I doubt anybody would (or should) care about something like the Race for the pilot of the Neberkenezer, long as you're able to fly the thing.
@@a.r.t93 ...humans always seem to need a bigger enemy
Really, Laurence Fishburne it one of the best actors of my time. Starting with Apocalypse Now.
Morpheus: You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and I show you -
Drinker: (grabs whiskey bottle and chugs) Nah, it’ll be fine! (passes out)
Morpheus: …I wasn’t expecting that.
LOL!
Ever wonder what would happen if you took them both? Ask me in about 10 to 20 minutes.
@@diojiabunai I always wondered that, also surely you didn't need to take the red pill if you wanted to stay in wonderland as you're already there.
@@spudvarr Well if you remember from the movie, the red pill was a tracer program that allowed them to find Neo's actual body.
I only remember this because I recently re-watched it btw.
If only you could post memes here. There's always the perfect one for nearly any occasion, and fuck me do I have it.
I don't know Danquish, but I feel like Critical Drinker is holding the conversation in this entire video. As in, he's trying to make it interesting and keep the conversation going. 🤷
Thats what I thought as well. Danquish had more fun in the other streams with the Drinker.
His whole family just died of covid, please don't berate him
Danquish did not seem that engaged.
@@williamkelly5689 Dude, serious?
@@williamkelly5689 at least they didn't get eaten by sharks
Keanu Reeves still kicks ass all these years later
He will get nerfed in the newest film
I like when D says that "some of the best conversations he's had", I wonder how the other person interpreted the interaction.
One of the greatest movies of all time. I will give the new maxtrix a shot, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little skeptical of it.
I fully expect a woke trash agenda driven farce of a movie. Hollywood brainwashed the director into the trans cult.
I’m willing to bet my entire next paycheck that it will be a woke mess
Agreed, so unless someone like Drinker gives it 2 thumbs up I’ll be avoiding it like the plague. I want to keep living under the delusion that we still have some heroes left
I've read the early reviews and it's probably far worse than any of us expect. Apparently it's 80% meta-humor (yes, humor) often just gender-swapping the character repeating the line and in a different context from the original film.
If you saw any of the show they done that Sense-8 then, well it will make the sequals look like Godfather Part 2/Aliens standard.
Don't leave us with him! Oh nevermind, he just sits in silence...
The most awkward couple mins I've ever watched ay.. sorta confused why drinker chose old mate it's always weird with him
He needs to take lessons from Stubagful on how to carry a stream when the host steps away.
@@PetersonZF yeah most ppl in that situation would just take the piss and crack jokes or pretend to be the star of the show or shit talk the other person until they came back but crickets
On set, Mouse's guns were nicknamed "Andy" and "Larry" after the Wachowski bros. So, does that mean we're now dead naming the guns?
Cancel the guns!
Personally, I was hoping that Morpheus was actually the Chosen One. That the only reason why he didn't see it is because he's too focused on his search to find the One that he looked everywhere but within.
You just described the plot of The Last Dragon.
@@williamwalsh3983 "who's the masta!?"
@@chrisscott3071 Sho'Nuff??? Tell me you wouldn't want to see the Shogun of Harlem smacking Agent Smith around.
@@williamwalsh3983 sure... if The Last Dragon took place in a dystopian nightmare. Guess that would mean that Morpheus has the glow!
I love the scene where smith blows up and neo is standing there flexing with the matrix warping around him and the other two agents are like "nope"
24:29
Another fun fact:
The character of Switch was supposed to be a "Transformer".
Male in the real world, but female within the Matrix.
But apparently the studio put the kibosh on that.
When I was watching lotr, every time I saw Elrond I was like “mr Anderson!”
I was 14 when I saw it in the cinema and honestly...it had me already when I saw the intro with the green numbers and the transition into the szene by zooming in on them. Great movie!
The reason that Morpheus seems so slow when fighting Agent Smith is that they choerographed the fight show him as being much slower than an Agent. Obviously, Hugo Weaving couldn't move at super-human speeds, so Lawrence Fishbourne had to fight slower.
Yeah, Drinker has pointed out a lot that I didn't think about when I saw the first movie so long ago, but the Morpheus fight with Agent Smith was an obvious one to me. Morpheus is probably the greatest human threat in the Matrix up to that point, so it was showing even he can't stand toe to toe with an Agent alone. Which also does the job of validating why 'The One' is so important to them, because they are a resistance on the losing side.
@@maximusaralieous1728 Morpheus' sacrifice also drives home exactly how important Neo is. The strongest fighter the resisitance has is willing to sacrifice himself, knowing that 'The One' is more powerful than him.
My brother and I saw the Matrix when it first came out. I think I was 12. It’s really hard to overstate just how much we had no idea whatsoever about what we were about to see. Neither of us really had any clue what the movie was about, really, and there really hadn’t been any hype or word of mouth until a few weeks after the release. Just really cool to be right there to witness such an iconic movie coming out of nowhere to change cinema and pop culture.
Doner kababs are Turkish, gyros are Greek. Similar, at least in the type of meat and pita, but different sauces and flavor.
We can all agree that grilled fatty meat + bread and sliced veg = WIN!
I remember the marketing and commercials for the 1st matrix being so vague and intriguing. "Unfortunately no one can be told what the matrix is" was the tagline iirc. Its amazing how films werent spoiled like today. I didnt see matrix until its DVD release, it was actually the first DVD I ever saw incidentally as it was a brand new format then, and I still was able to enjoy it spoiler free. I miss those days.
Danquish has the social skills of a can of mayonnaise. Drinker carrying the conversation here , as per usual with danquish streams
He’s dry but I like him
Yeah, Danquish seems like a nice, knowledgeable guy but he's Ambien in human form.
Danquish just got over life threatening pneumonia... I expect he's still hopped up on all kinds of meds...
I saw The Matrix on the day I finished my last GCSE exam. No anticipation, not heard anything about it (no internet so no trailers outside of the cinema). A friend suggested we all go see it to celebrate the end of the exams. We were not ready for what we saw…
It had to happen at some point. A joyless Happy hour, the guest just killed the mood
Drinker
Was going to listen on a long ride home.
However, your guest has the energy and personality of a head of lettuce. I’m nodding off. Maybe next time.
And get that guy some Red Bull.
He’s got the comedic timing of a terminal diagnosis
@@CuriousGeorgio59 ....w/ a stutter & a learning disability.
The Animatrix: Second Renaissance Parts 1&2 are important viewing to go with The Matrix 1 - the machine war is amazing.
P.S. you should get Farewell Thunderchild back on. And if you ever chat about War of the Worlds (all iterations) with him I'd be happy to join you :D
hand over your flesh... we damand it
I just rewatched the first matrix last night and I nearly cried at how amazing it was, and how we're never getting something like this again. Timeless.
Also watch Korn - Freak on a leash for more bullet time nostalgia.
I actually quite liked Danquish's different & dry delivery. He def knows his material, & not every one is as comfortable on a stream in front of so many ppl like Drinker & co are (who do it daily).
Also, I hope you're feeling better after your health issues Danquish.
Exactly
I like him too, doesn't always need to be loud and chaotic as a guest
I remember seeing the first Matrix movie on opening day at the first showing of the day with my friend and younger brother right after school let out (I was in high school). We had seen the brief TV spots, had no idea what it was about and to be honest if you don't know what the movie is about those first ads look rough, so we figured "Let's go watch this Matrix movie after school, looks terrible and we can at least get a good laugh out of it!"
There were maybe a total of 15 people in the theater and we kinda all sat close enough to each other in the center to the point where we could hear each other talk, and we did. As soon as Trinity ran up the wall and took out the cops our collective jaws were on the floor followed by "WTF was that OMG what is going on!" When the dojo scene started up my friend leaned over and asked if that was really Keanu doing the Kung Fu which at the time was literally unheard of, you always had stunt doubles do that kind of stuff, and you could hear the rest of the audience asking the same questions "Are they doing that? What? WOW!"
When the movie was all over we just sat there in our seats, exhausted from the spectacle and suspense we had just seen. We knew we had to see the movie again but we needed a break first, also to spread the word. Never before in my life have I left a theater, seen a line of people about to enter for another movie showing, and tell them to go see another movie instead, but that is EXACTLY what myself and everyone in my viewing did. We sounded like lunatics trying to describe what we had seen but not spoiling anything.
I don't know what it was like where everyone else was but the Matrix spread by word of mouth and in about two weeks it was all that anyone was talking about. If you watch it now for the first time you may think "Eh, what's so special about this?" but just like Die Hard setting the mold for action movies The Matrix set the standard for the next almost decade.
I will be watching the new Matrix when it comes out, I also worked for a company that did tech support for the Matrix MMORPG back in the day so I understand why Neo and Trinity are in the Matrix again and why Morpheus is young, I am sure it will be shown in the movie. I am not expecting something grand but more of a "Here's the first movie again but with a time loop angle where things are slightly different this time."
Good read. Yes it was iconic and unforgettable. Opened up chambers in peoples minds I think..
I remember when I went to see it because I and my friend got caught in a flood on the way to the cinema.
Great stream guys luv the movie great to get your takes on such a classic 🤙
The car driven by Smith is a 1986 Ford LTD Crown Victoria. The one when Neo gets "debugged" is a 1965 Lincoln Continental.
Freedom and success both have to do with being bold, not with endless planning.
Blessings2all😁
No u
I can remember being in my 3rd year at uni and near the end of the course. I was really looking forward to Star Wars episode 1 but it wasn't on in the cinema in Hull lol. I read an Empire magazine and read no more than 2 sentences about The Matrix and thought "yeah go on i'll go see that it sounds cool".
When Neo wakes up in the pod of red goo and we see his hands from his point of view before he pushes out of it, my jaw hit the floor. I was already captivated by the first half hour of this film.. the style, the action, trying to understand whats going on as Morpheus discusses the Matrix being all around them. But this did something else - it was like it pulled you into the cinematic universe it had created by a factor of 10.
I left the cinema of that movie with my mind utterly blown. I headed up to the top of a car park and was sat up there looking across the city for about an hour thinking about it all. I was able to draw so many parallels to the real world we live in and even today it still manages to do that.. to remind me of the system we are all captured within... to question how much we are truly "free" ...to ask yourself are you able to be more... to do more with your life or happy to just be in the rat race or just endlessly live the same cycle till your a spent battery?
Even today parallels can be drawn... Morpheus teaching Neo about the way people are "so inert... so hopefully dependant on the system they will fight to protect it" ....this is so apt today... look at the massive defense people are throwing at policies that make no sense regarding unspecified virus of unknown origin. Some people cannot be helped and furthermore certainly are too asleep to ask questions or think for themselves. They want an overriding system (government) managing them increasingly. Thats a scary thought. God help us when Facebook's metaverse switches on properly - we think people are plugged in now?!
This film is quite possibly one of the most important films made in my eyes. The fact it managed to do it with all the action and mind bending bullet time and great cinematography and be stylish is nothing short of incredible. Its in my top 5 and will continue to do so along with T2 and Aliens.
I was born in 90s, all my favorite movies are in the 40’s, 50’s and 70’s and The Matrix would be in my top 5 easy. Controversial option, I think it’s a better version of the hero’s journey then Star Wars, that climax is so darn satisfying and it keeps building and building until that bullet stop. Not flawless, but what a movie
It shouldn't be a controversial opinion, I could totally see somebody making the argument that it's better. The Matrix did the hero's journey in just 1 movie, while Star Wars took 3 movies to do the same.
I used to work on CIWS (Phalanx) guns when I was in the Navy. They're even louder when you actually shoot bullets out of it for real. Almost like a drag race car but much much cooler.
Amazing machines but when watching videos, I have to wonder; with that volume of fire, how long can a unit fire before it needs rearming? And are they taken offline for rearming?
@@unbearifiedbear1885 If memory serves (it's been 20 years), they'll only shoot for a 10 second maximum burst. Anything more than that, the barrels will start to warp because of the heat. I'm not sure if that's changed since I last worked on them.
@@archstanton9073 wow.. I'd never even considered that angle..
@@archstanton9073 10 seconds is still a long time with that rate of fire! Absolutely love those guns, brother.
I'm pretty sure agent Smith had the opposite reason for wanting Zion destroyed. He hated being in the immersive environment of the Matrix which made him taste, feel, and smell all the nasty sensations of being around humans. His whole purpose for existing was to deal with renegade humans. If Zion was destroyed, he'd no longer be needed and he wouldn't have to deal with the smell anymore. Little did he know that all of this was a repeating cycle.
humans are a virus according to him! He was not wrong
That sounds right, he wanted Zion destroyed so he could finally be released from The Matrix. He was of course unique to the other agents as he clearly was taking on very human sensations whereas the other ones were still very robotic. Makes you wonder how long Smith had been in there.
Drinker! The M4 is an amazing Rifle, I had an ACOG for mine in Iraq. It was amazing, AK shoots everywhere but the M60 is a dream to shoot. Belt fed 7.62 is beautiful, it is so well balanced and one day you have to go to Arizona to shoot one on full auto
I watched this with a girlfriend, our housemate came home whilst we were halfway through and asked "What's this about?" We mouthed a few things then just said "you'll just have to watch it from the start".
You mean the movie or the stream?
Btw The Matrix is at its core a modern sci-fi take on Descartes ‘Evil Demon Theory’ from ‘Meditations’. Not that I knew any of that when I saw it age 16 back in 1999…
Telling Neo he wasn't the One and vaguely implying it either *was* Morpheus or he was still essential to finding it, was IMO motivated to give Neo something important enough to fight for to *bring it out* in himself, to make him push past what he thought he was capable of. The result is that he risks the impossible to rescue Morpheus and starts doing the sort of things only the One could do - like lash a freakin helicopter to his arm to save Trinity
Best cinema movie I've seen since 1987.
Awesome immersion.
Robocop?
@@shan4680 i was 9.
So didnt see it in the cinema.
@@Bow-to-the-absurd I did see the original Robocop at the cinema - but it was in 2015 ... so I was a bit late there. Thought of course I did see it on VHS a lot before that.
since 1987? Soooo,the original Predator?
Drinker, you beautiful bastard!
No mention of how the Oracle did more than just push Neo with the dialogue. She gave Neo the cookie, which, even if there's not much love for the sequels, paints the picture clearer when the Merovingian explains how so much can be change with that subtle push implanted in the coding of the food. Neo never had choice. The Oracle simply made him believe he did.
That said, I remember watching this in the drive-in movie theater and falling asleep right before breaking Morpheus out. I was quite disappointed, haha.
Also, Conker's Bad Fur Day's spoof was enjoyable :D
At 1:22:27 on to the next seconds...
From wanking back into discussion of The Matrix..😂
Love this channel 😎👌.
Big ups from Fife, Scotland 🏴
Love your videos Mr. Drinker. What about comparing similar films i.e. Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove, Deep Impact and Armageddon, etc.? I’d love to see you do Fail-Safe, one of my top 5. Have a great Christmas!
So yeah The Wachowskis haven’t made a good movie in a while but to me they did make one of my favorite shows ever. And that’s Sense8. Absolutely masterfully done show.
There are some great film theories about the Matrix... my favorite is that Agent Smith is actually The One, and he is the entity that caused the Matrix to crash. I find it really interesting to think about.
The GE Six Pack is a 5.56 minigun from general electric that was developed in the sixties. The whole kit(power pack, gun, and 1000 rounds of ammo) is 85 pounds. The deployment is mainly used for dual purpose heavy weapons support and clearing an LZ.
I was around 9 when this came out and I watched it. It probably informed most of my coming life more than I realize. It was the first rated R VHS tape I bought, from Walmart. Luckily they didn't card a little kid lol
Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas were great. I don't know what you're talking about with V For Vendetta was their last good movie.
Also remember the vase. If she had told him he was the one would he have become the one?
But, yes it’s about neo needing to hear what is needed, not what he wanted to hear.
7:02 The Korn video for the song FREAK ON A LEASH had a close-up of a bullet travelling.
Jesus, give Danquish some caffeine.
I had a chance to fire a Yugoslavia build version of a AK47 (Zastava M70) at a military range. The recoil is not as big as you might expect, but its big for anyone that has never fired a rifle. But man its fun to shoot. Accurate to 300m (but not like a hunting rifle or a marksman rifle). I shot it at 50m and 300m.
Thank goodness Drinker addressed the D's mic.
Only D could screw up an opportunity to bond with the boss. He's socially handicapped and I can relate...somewhat.
There are probably only two movies I immediately wanted to see twice in a row in the movies one was fellowship and the other the matrix
I don't know if it was posted yet but the guns mouse was wielding akimbo were auto 12 guage shotguns that he completely whiffed on every shot.
Regarding whiskey, Lagavulin is my favorite. But then again there's a whiskey for all moods, so a speyside, highland, lowland, campbelton or any Islands whiskey is also good.
I had always heard the matrix got inspiration from Ghost in The Shell. Which I think is cool as I love both series
only partly... Inspirations were drawn from a lot of anime,but more from a few books about muliple realities. Actually it was mandatory for all main cast to read these 3 books,one of those is the one where neo hides his pirate media, Simulacra & Simuli!
They really put shitloads of effort into that 1st film.
I think this new one will be standard hollywood shitty remake (in the style of new Star Wars,Terminator,Ghostbusters,Predator etc.,just purely destroying the franchise)
And Dark City and Blade.
Mouse's guns were (heavily customised) automatic shotguns with cylindrical mags.. can't remember the name of the base firearm but yeah - they're shotguns
I think the "in universe" insinuation is he designed then himself (like the Woman in the Red Dress and....."other"....programs!)
45:46 I wouldn't call myself a fan of steampunk, but I WILL say it's the healthiest way to prepare punk.
(RIP Norm Macdonald)
One of the scariest things about the movie is when the robots see neo wake up, and just casually flush him.
This implies that people just wake up like that from time to time, but with no warning or introduction, and then just drown in that sewer with no answers.
1:42:00 - Smith recognized that it's the same hotel as was with Trinity in beginning of the movie.
Matrix 2&3 - are good movies, if you pay attention. But they are just not worthy sequels to the first one.
The unusual pair of weapons that Mouse uses are custom-built, cam-operated, electricity driven Manville automatic shotguns with 25-shell cylinders and a fire rate of 900 rounds per minute. It can be assumed that Mouse designed these shotguns himself like he designed the Woman in Red.
Disagree on the mini-gun, when mounted it is quite accurate, with tracer rounds you just walk in the "trail" of bullets coming out of it. It is not a sniper rifle but used properly you would have better control of it than a hand held weapon (with spray and pray, which they would need to deal with the agent dodge ability). Granted in a small room it Would be very dangerous but you could carve a path around someone if you really needed to.
Drinkers “American accent” gets me every time! It’s damn good! 😝
One line in "The Matrix" that didn't work was Cipher talking about the "image translators." When Neo was fighting Morpheus, the rest of the crew could watch because of them.
So Neo asks Cipher if he always looks at the Matrix like that, and the reply is "Well, ya gotta. See, the image translators work *FOR* the construct program, but there's way too much information in the Matrix to look at it like that."
See, Pantoliano put the emphasis on the wrong word. He should have said, "The image translators work for the *CON*struct program, but..."
1:42:05 - it wasn't an apartment Neo was going into. It was the hotel from the beginning of the movie! The "Heart o' the City" hotel. They even show Agent Smith look up at the sign, recognizing it. Neo was heading for the room where Trinity was! My take is, Smith jumped/flew up to the window and let himself in, to ambush Neo.
Danquish is as dry as a bucket of sand. Sorry, I had to get away. He made this a yawn fest.
Ahh don’t be a meanie.
He sadly doesn't gel with me either. I struggle to sit through the ones with him. Shame.
Yeah I stopped 20 minutes in. He seems like a really nice guy, I've listened to some other stuff with him on with drinker, but there's no go in him for this. It's a shame aswell, especially with matrix. Typical MauLer wasn't about for this one aswell!
@@joeyj6526 😁👍
I you haven't read William Gibson's books, that The Matrix are based on, you need to do that, you won't be disappointed. He pioneered the sifi sub genre cyberpunk. The books are, the so called sprawl triology, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Good mates good chat great movie. And Foundation ain't bad folks give it a whirl.
The Matrix was Anime done right in live action.
name every anime you've seen
Seen on Twitter (for what that's worth): "Heard that Matrix: Resurrection is like The Last Jedi."
The Wachowski brothers are now the Wachowski "sisters", so do with that information what you will.
@@Sixstringman oh, that is very much front of mind.
I saw it yesterday. I wouldn't say that about it.. decent idea for the story, maybe a little safe and formulaic with some very shallow ancillary cast but it was better than I expected, even if I did find the entire first act (backstory and exposition) waaaay too long.. the movie goes on for like 2.5 hours..
@@n2n8sda thank you. That is hugely helpful. 👍
@@robertwayne352 I too almost didn't bother going to see it because of what other people have done with previous sequels etc but decided what the hell it's been a while since I went to the theater.
Not going to lie but during the really long first act I was thinking "ugh maybe this was a mistake" (although my friend was loving that part too so if there is some major division over the film it is probably the first act) without spoilers it's very 4th wall breaking wink wink nudge nudge style so I guess its best left to the viewer to make up their own mind... but as soon as the second act opened and got matrixy the film kept my attention well enough... I'm not a super critical film buff though and probably easily pleased but the last Jedi and similar films made me think "WTF IS THIS" and that did not happen with this film.
The integration of modern tech into the film and a few other things made it enjoyable to watch, there is also quote about how suffering and misery help the matrix keep people compliant which I thought was an interesting reference to real life
Even if you don't like the whole film or find it a bit marvely safe I think anyone who enjoyed the original Matrix will find at least a couple of things enjoyable in the film and it doesn't shit all over the originals to make this either, any of "the message" that has been hammered so much in films lately was probably very subtle.. apart from quite a few of the ancillary cast being females very little was overly in your face... trying not to include any spoilers but even if there are some powerful women in the film they don't come at the expense of making the other guys weaker.
Overall pretty enjoyable to see how the matrix has progressed 20+ years after the originals, what happened to everyone etc etc without turning Neo into a green milk sucking hack, do not regret going to see it.
Danquish spent over an hour talking about a dead franchise, God bless him.
Drinker, have you ever seen EQUILIBRIUM? It's a movie with Christian Bale before he Batman, it was massively overshadowed by The Matrix, but it is still amazing movie, super underrated...
There is only ONE Matrix movie.
I'm going to have to ask you to stop disrespecting the Animatrix here.
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I seem to recall hearing (perhaps in a special feature somewhere) that they were non-functional props.
That is to say, they weren't patterned after any real firearm. They were designed to look cool, and have a visible function/mechanism. I suspect that they didn't even use blanks.
Based on the shells within the wraparound cylinders, I thought them to be some kind of automatic shotgun.
Maybe the imfdb might have more information.
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Didn't know about 'Dark City', looked it up, yea i'm gonna head over for a watch, as a bonus it has it has Jennifer Connelly,
I suspect Morpheus was made to look slow and clunky during his fight with Smith.
To that earlier point about Trinity being great and then the agents being better, I think that's just how they showed that the agents truly were on a whole other level even above Morpheus, who is the best of the best at that point.
The context of the "juris-my-dick-tion" line is the age-old trope about who has the authority at the scene of a crime - federal or local (see: Die Hard). The cop is arguing that it's not a federal crime, so the agents have no authority to interfere in his domain, or his jurisdiction.
Actually there is a nice easter egg in Lone Echo, a SciFi PC VR game... the three sea shells sit on a shelve in a hab and interacting with them gives you the line "I still have no clue how these work" 😎
The beginning of that film is almost identical to dark city which came a few years before
Both filmed in Australia.
The rooftops at the start are the Dark City sets.
@@shan4680 Really? Holy smokes.
@@ChrisRubeo From Wikipedia: "The Matrix was released one year after Dark City and was also filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney using some of the same sets.[40] Comparisons have been made between scenes from the movies, making note of similarities in both cinematography and atmosphere, as well as the plot."
Dark City is awesome. Drinker should take an extre shot with that one.
Read through the early reviews on IMDB and it sounds like another franchise sacrificed on the alter of identity politics. I'm not telling people not to see it, I'm just adjusting expectations for what was pretty much inevitable given the director.
then it is what i expected,looking what Hollywood did with the last 50 franchises nothing else was possible to come out of this (Star Wars,Ghostbusters,Terminator,Alien,Predator etc)
Its not surprising considering they are the Wachowski SISTERS now, the directors
Ok, I just watched it and I can say I was wrong. It wasn't terrible- it has far too much modern-day Hollywood propaganda like anti-Capitalism and LGBToTheMax, but as far as the plot and action... well, the action wasn't anything spectacular, but I guess given that my expectations were at a low 2/high 1 and it turns out it's a low to mid 4.
But jeez-us, that ending... Made me throw up in my mouth. It's bad. It's... very bad. I hear talk there's a post credit scene, but I didn't wait.
Merry Christmas
16:00 -- This is the most Matrix aesthetic possible for a Matrix stream, right down to the shades. Anyone who doesn't understand this needs to go watch the film again (and play some Deux Ex) until the truth of hackers-with-mirrorshades-and-trenchcoats enters their soul.
Tried to force myself to like the new Matrix. Just once you watch it more than once, you can't.
love these keep it up!
Kebab rolls are the real way of doing it - essentially a rolled up plate sized pita bread filled with kebab meat, salad and stuff.
Sounds like danq is still hopped up on meds for the pneumonia... Get well soon danquish
...the real reason for the sunglasses indoors 😎
lol. That "large tracts of land" reference.
There is a few gyro places in the Midwest of all places. I'm pretty sure James Cameron fired the mini gun in t2 in firearm training.
The two ps2 games tied into the story also, one with ghost and niobi, and the other being the cool one the path of neo... And the animatrix also has some cool lore
I’m going to have to just say no to The Matrix Regurgitation.
I'm going to see the Regurgitation and I'm prepared for it to be trash. I'm either going to be not disappointed or pleasantly surprised.
@@williamwalsh3983 My time and money are more valuable to me than that. It’ll take a lot of positive response to the film for me to even consider the investment.
The dude stole Neo's sunglasses.
What do you think about ‘the last duel’? Would really enjoy a vid about that movie
Thanks for asking. I think it was well-constructed movie in terms of plot, acting and visual effects. Definitely one of the best movies of 2021.
@@WaxTheDolphin still second to the dune remake
@@PessimisticBrian let's be honest: the dune remake wasn't all that great. I actually prefer the Dune series.
@@WaxTheDolphin whatever suits you
@@PessimisticBrian my opinions are infallible.
2:41:34 Scenes in the real world used BLUE filter while in the ship, in order to point the depression, and hopelessness.
I think they don't use a filter in Zion, but I'd personally use a lot of reds in there, especially during that orgy of a party.
Love the person who sent the superchat about Asians being cast in Kung Fu movies whereas Keanu is so good in it as well. Isn’t he 1/4 Chinese tho?
There is one good Matrix movie!
Drinker, I wished you had talked to someone about the Matrix who actually knew something about the movie
Danquish, kind of lackluster contribution to teh talk.
He should have invited you, right? You would have brought a tremendous benefit to the discussion.
The Wachowski Brothers’ best movie.
Sisters.
@@robertwayne352 Brothers.
@@DeltaAssaultGaming no, I mean they actually are sisters now. There were...changes. Look it up. It's a whole thing.
@@robertwayne352 every cell in their body is male, their eyes are male (look it up), they’re men who got plastic surgery to look like woman, but until we can transfer consciousness until another body (and we don’t know for sure yet but our brain may be gendered too) they’re still men by every metric except their own subjective opinions which means nothing
@@ToriHiragana tell them that. Go ahead. I'll wait here.
I remember seeing the Matrix in April of 1999. Didn't see a trailer. A nice young lady took me to see it. How was the film promoted? Before I saw it, I knew nothing about it.
Really good mpvie. Id love to see a dark city review...matrix did have a big dark city feel
Kill and Kill Again (1981) was the 1st use (poorly) of 'Bullet Time' in a movie.