Fixing The Matrix Resurrections with Total Recall
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- The Matrix movies used the 1990 movie, "Total Recall" for a lot of key scenes. Here I look at the fourth Matrix movie, "The Matrix Resurrections" and play Script Doctor, to suggest how it could have been better, using Total Recall as a reference.
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26:44 It is my fault. Errr... The YT algo recommended me here. I think ive seen one of your videos once before. But I've never seen the 4th matrix. Glad to have made the correct choice.
Great commentary on The Matrix and Total Recall, both of them had great original movies. Looking forward to watching more of your commentaries.
Lovely ideas, good job. Keep it up.
Really enjoyed this. I saw Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll Along last year and totally forgot I had seen him in this! Your comment about him and NPH and the tragedy of their not singing really made me laugh.
I am so happy you have made a new video. I do not know why TH-cam recommended your channel but it is super cool.
First about Total recall: I always thought he was a real agent. The counter arguments were too small. Like the woman he meets fits the description of the woman he chooses at this holiday facility. Yes maybe he chose that because in his subconscious he remembered her. But what changed my mind a little now is the tracker he pulls out of his nose. I guess normally the nose would have to rip apart. It does this is something that happens in well some action movie. Which Arnold was living in that moment. This would explain why everything is larger than life somehow.
The Matrix was not only about what is reality but also about free will vs purpose. Not only Neo but there was a program that had no purpose and that is supposed to die somehow. This is why I never understood why the Oracle is treated like some supporter. It is not it is a program that just fulfills its programming.
As you pointed out Neo takes some decision but in fact he just fulfills the prophecy. In many films those prophecies are shown as something good that you have to live up to. Here Neo is shown as positive too but he just enacts the Matrixes plan. But now my question : does he not follow his programming? I am not sure if the Matrix just waited for the one or if Neo is a kind of program. The hero who has to live up to the purpose that is given to him by god or destiny is turned on its head. There is a deus ex machina ( the god of machines ) who wants him to live up to his destiny or programming. This would mean later in the movie he is outside the Matrix. The reason he can manipulate machines is that he is a machine and is programmed to do so. The question here is if Neo is no real supporter like the Oracle is not either. He is the bad guy. The Matrix made him so that people who rejected the Matrix would gather behind one guy and could be controlled. This way it is not that Morpheus tracked down Neo. In fact why should he. There are millions of people and Neo is a random hacker. But if Neo is part of the Matrix he could find everything in there. This meant Neo made himself findable. This would answer my question how the first Neo could get out of the Matrix. Yes he could reject it but Neo could only get out as someone else got him out. Maybe the Matrix ejected him. This way even Zion is outside the Matrix but not outside the system. It is like someone wearing a Che Guevara Shirt but paying a big company to buy it.
As you bring up the theory that humans wanted to be in the Matrix because earth could not support the humans anymore and Matrix was much more comfy( in fact this reminds me of the American life on Mars Show). This would even explain why Zion has to be destroyed again and again. If too many people are there earth cannot support that anymore.
This would even be another parallel to Total Recall as both are simulations made by humans because they are better than real life which got out of control.
Unpopular opinion the humans were not batteries but sustainable processors crunching new data in the form of daily seemingly mundane tasks akin to how we use prompts to achieve different outcomes using one LLM like Chatgpt for example.
This movie is really funny and fun for the fans, its the only tone it could have gone without feeling forced just like the games that came after the movies. "never trust marketing" -Neo
There is one problem; there are no Matrix sequels, there is only one movie.
Wachowski Brothers: 3 awesome Matrix movies.
Wachowski Sister: 1 awful Matrix movie.
I wonder what the problem was...
I suspect Lana Wachowski, as well as her sister, purposefully designed The Matrix Resurrections to be a franchise killer.
Also, you should consider watching video game play of Enter The Matrix (or at least play it), as it's basically Matrix 2.5 (as it's the other half of The Matrix Reloaded story).
I'd go with the industrial tycoon option tbh
Great video
Great insights!
22:21 Wasn't the idea of a network of minds was deemed too outlandish by the studio, so they went with the battery option?
I think you missed the fact the Wachovsky sisters did not want to make 4th Matrix and that it was most likely ruined on purpose
I just have a hard time accepting how anyone could deliberately make a movie bad. Think about the thousands of people who work on it, the hundreds of thousands of man-hours. Lana Wachowski pulling a "Producers" out of spite seems insane. That makes this movie Lana's "Springtime for Hitler." How much do you have to hate your fans to pull this on them?
@@RoseColoredMovies I don't think they would go through the trouble of making it bad on purpose but there is nonetheless something to be said about how much making a movie out of obligation yields a different product than one that comes from a place of true passion.
Personally, I feel like there's quite a few incredible ideas presented in 4, it just needed to be ironed out a lot better. If Keanu and Carrie-Ann were better actors/had better chemistry then that alone would've gone an incredibly long way towards making a stronger film despite its other flaws.
I didn't see the writers pitching the ideas for a fourth Matrix as an insult to the audience. I saw it as commentary on sequels of any media in general and a meta reference to our times. I doubt anyone was forcing the wachowskies to make another Matrix sequel especially if only one of them was involved. Apparently this story was lanas idea post her parents dying. Sure the studio would like to revive a cash cow but no one is pushing for a bad movie.
Its just badly written and badly shot by an uninspired artist.
It's insulting to creative people who like movies (and maybe would love to be movie producers) that they would create that last Matrix movie complaining about getting huge amounts of money to make a movie. They could have made something special, but obviously had no good ideas and no talent
And in commando arnies name is John matrix
bc same producer
And you said whys neo so stupid what if he's not neo but ted from bill and ted as they use phones to get around too
randomly got recommended this through the almighty algo. good video essay, Matrix 4 sucked and you have good ideas that would have been better. have you heard of the theory that Lana Wachowski intentionally made a bad sequel to try to kill any attempts at milking the series further by having Matrix 4 bomb? don't think it worked tho, I heard they're making Matrix 5 with a different director and NPH and others returning (pls no 😩)
Sorry if this comes of as rude, but some of the images used in this video seem like they were made with AI, which I feel defeats the whole point of the video :/
Use a thief to catch a thief, eh?
I take your point, though, and I like it. I do make extensive use of generated images, and if you subscribe to the notion that these images are all just someone else's art, sure, it's a bit hypocritical. However, I generate at least a thousand images a month, so I can actually talk about what you get in generated images. I have to generate so many because the vast bulk of what's generated is pure garbage, unusable for anything. I've looked at a lifetime's worth of nightmare people with dripping faces, extra arms, and no legs.
What the garbage gives you, however, is a window into how the generation works. AI gives you a pixel bucket of what it thinks corresponds to the text you input. So, if you ask for a banana, it shows the image associated with the word banana. It can combine ideas, so if you ask for a banana made of metal, this is no problem. This is actually the most useful case for me, as I am using it for illustration. Getting a glass coffin for Snow White was terrific.
AI mostly generates terrible looking stuff, it makes very general interpretations of an image. I've seen some images that looks like closer copies, usually in Fantasy art. But most of what I see is melty blobs interpreted from many images.
But thanks for making the point, it certainly might be valid, and it's a cool point to be made regardless.
Have you ever watched or heard of Dark City? The Matrix apparently took a lot of inspiration from it and even used some of the sets from it as well. Neuromancer was apparently one of the biggest inspirations for The Matrix, but I haven't read it yet. Ghost In the Shell 1995 is also apparently a big inspiration as well, though I have yet to see it.
It's interesting seeing it was also inspired by all these other things as well like the Dark is Rising book series which I never heard of until you did those videos comparing them to the first 3 Matrix films. I never realized the similarities between The Matrix and Total Recall but it's an interesting observation.
Have you seen The Animatrix yet? It's basically an animated anthology film consisting of 9 shorts, 2 of them explaining what happened between humans and the machines.
I read Neuromancer, and can say that the book contributed less than people think. Neuromancer is a heist story, it's a very cool, cyberpunk heist, but under everything it's like most heist plots. I saw Dark City ages ago, I could see how that contributed, especially visually. And I also saw the Animatrix! It was great.
@@RoseColoredMovies Did you ever see Ghost in the Shell? I heard that contributed a lot inspiration wise when it came to The Matrix. Also what were your thoughts on Dark City from what you remember and what was your favorite short in The Animatrix?
Love Ghost in the Shell, I even watched the Stand Alone Complex series. I don't remember much from Dark City aside from a vague disappointment. It's also been too long since I've seen the Animatrix to remember the individual shorts. I think I watched it on VHS, back when it came out, tbh.
I actually liked Luke's character arc in the final sequals.
This is a terrible video because the starting premise is flawed. There is no fixing Matrix 4.
Whineception much?
Truth that movie sucks that shit is not matrix. The matrix is way better
STOP call it what it is the GAYtrix.