The Matrix: De-booted
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Contents:
0:00 A False Hope
6:08 What Year Is It?
11:59 Man vs. Machine
18:19 Artificial Reality
23:44 Suspended Animation
29:55 The Matrix: Rebooted
33:17 A Hero Named Tom
35:46 Tiger Zebra
38:56 System Failure
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My favorite moment in movie history was when Morbius was brought back because of a meme only to lose more money for the studio
_"Does he really say It's morbin' time?"_
_"I don't know, I didn't actually watch the movie."_
@@wisemage0 WELL DOES HE???
that was a grade A moment. I love when Morbius said "It's Morbin Time" and morbed all over the box office.
Didnt the meme come about from the show?
The most forced meme since "x fictional character saying trans rights".
“You take the green pill, and I’ll show you how deep the Downward Spiral goes.” - NeoLemon
I cant believe he would do that 😭😭😭😭
@do not ...what?
Maybe it should be LeMorpheus. Kinda fits the Frenchy philosophy in the matrix
you take the yellow pill the story ends and you Believe what you want to believe or
Do not lose your ego on the green pill. That’s a trap
A generation trying to re-live a moment has prevented another one from ever experiencing it.
Oh the zoomers experienced it... With Minions. It's so sad.
@@astrospect most zoomers and millennials got plenty in other media such as video games and Japanese anime. Big budget games however, is on the downward spiral trajectory nowadays.
You say that like Boomers don't get nostalgic over mickey mouse, Betty boop or anne of green gables
@@shira_yoneI mean, we got some stuff. Fromsoft is the champion of the masses, and CDProjekt, despite a recent stumble, have been consistantly writing solid gold.
I got Binding of Isaac but other than that, I'm at a loss.
The Freddy Got Fingered allegory made me so damn happy. Just the possibility of the new Matrix being intentional sabotage warms my heart.
It was pretty much a self sabotage. The movie keeps name calling corps involved in the revival and use a game company (funny enough) as the stock of jokes for half of it while putting a bunch of 4th wall breaking dialogs that are basically saying "i don't want to exist, i was revived against my will so they could get your money. So guess what? I'm gonna shit on this script". The movie being this bad and outrageous for long time fans was a genius move because than other movies in the franchise that could ruin it even more can't exist lol. Gotta say that move was pure art.
@@CanalbirutaHad to be, didn't it. The references were too prevalent, too obvious, for it NOT to be self sabotage. So for the first half the the film i was feeling rather bitter, and when I suddenly twigged, I enjoyed the chaotic destruction of her own movie Lana seemed to be making. Glorious.
@@RickReasonnz i came out of it feeling robbed and even telling my friends not to watch and spoiling the movie. One of them didn't believe me and went to watch himself and also discouraged the rest to not watch it aswell. I just got less pissed with the movie months later when discussing with them about the movie in a drink party i said something like "it was like not only she wanted to make her message clear of not wanting to make the movie, but she also tried not to make a movie at all and just waste our times" and than one of them (the most sensible to be honest) said "maybe not waste your time but the time and money of the company and theaters that had the movie playing" that moment it clicked to me that all of the middle fingers (both figuratively and non figuratively) weren't for me the fan, but for the company who was extorting my money over a cash grab. That made me reconsider the movie as a smart move to protect the franchise from shit like what happened with star wars.
@@Canalbiruta That's a good take, realizing that Lana wasn't necessarily making fun of us, the fans, but of those who were demanding a sequel. Hell, I only watched it because it was available; never had I ever been pining for a sequel, but thought, oh why not see what this turns out to be. Then i remembered how they seemed to struggle to promote the film, and I do have to wonder if Keanu, Carrie-Anne, etc were "in" on the joke....
@RickReasonnz Larry you mean
“Despite all the concerns of machines acting like us, no one could anticipate just how much we start acting like machines.”
Love this quote
It is a bit frustrating hearing him constantly talk about automation taking jobs. Automation creates jobs. In my own career, every single team for which I've implemented automation solutions has increased their headcount in subsequent years, without exception.
For one example: Instead of wasting their time scraping images of vehicles they've bought and uploading them into their system, these people are instead focussed on finding good vehicles to buy or building relationships with people they sell cars to. So their budget increased, their headcount increased, satisfaction increased, etc.
@Sam A seems like you described removing one field of work for more work in sales. Automation can take away one type of work, saturating other trades. Even if I'm wrong your example is really anecdotal to work in sales.
@@sexylazercatwizard and purchasing in this case yes. I took away useless busywork and replaced it with value-add work. Or rather I made the tools that allowed the team to make that change.
Another tool I made gives self serve access to product information, so instead of getting a phone call every two minutes just asking them to look something up, that team is working on projects, or placing bids on jobs, or one of a dozen other things that generate more value.
It's anecdotal sure, the plural of anecdote is data and the accumulation of anecdotes is maybe called wisdom or experience.
Edit: also it's not just anecdotal because I have objective measurements behind all my claims in my reporting database
just ask chat gpt
@@SamTheEnglishTeacher yes, but people are only trained for one job and now that it has been automated they have to start from beginning(kind of).
Only you would find a way to compare The Matrix to Freddy Got Fingered. Godspeed Emp
I'll admit to Tom Green, he has more balls than any TikTok creators or any prank channels (i.e Paul brothers) who are a complete menace to society
Him and red letter media.
tom green would be a menace if he was gen z too
Someone show coryspazkid this video lmao
@goofyyah emp should make a video talking about how cancer you bots are on this site
Only EmpLemon can rip on consumerism, in the middle of an ad-read.
It’s the American way.
lmao. bet you're the same type of bozo who cries whenever capitalism gets criticized
Keanu Reeves was well known from Bill and Ted, as well as Speed being one of the top grossing films of '94
And point break. I remember knowing exactly who Reeves was when the matrix came out even as a teenager. He was a decent sized star.
Johnny Mnemonic too.
What a world we live in that the death of a franchise is seen as mercy
Are they going to butcher back to the future or have they already done that?
The creators won't allow another back to the future movie to happen, which is good
@@rumblebird9888 Until they die lol
@@TurtleShellProductions We have Rick and Morty
@@orlandomoreno6168 I know, but that's more of it's own thing rather than the film's.
cant believe they dedicated a whole series to that one scene where the dude dodges like 20 bullets in slow motion
Embarrassing!
cant believe they dedicated a whole series to that one scene where the dude dodges like 20 bullets in slow motion
Like Neo, I think something went over your head pal
@@qjames0077 can we get an obnoxious redditor in this thread? I need somebody to do the woosh thing
Don't forget the two serieses of video gameses (the other being Disgruntled Maximillian)
Keanu Reaves was not unknown at the time of the Matrix. He was pretty well established by that time.
True - even if you weren't a fan of Bill and Ted, Point Break was great. Still doesn't take away from the overall message of the video
Absolutely
@@AlexWellbelove I think "Speed" is what really brought him to the limelight...it also made a star out of Sandra Bullock
Exactly. He was extremely well known.
@@illusioNery True, completely forgot about Speed
Thanks for vindicating me. While watching the newest Matrix film I couldn't help but think that it was A) made deliberately bad so there would be no chance of any sequels (how did the studio not notice lol) but B) provide so many references and callbacks so that die-hard fans would at least get something out of it while C) being *painfully* self-aware the whole time, from acting to directing to cinematography and ofc the script itself. I knew this had to be on purpose and I commend Lana for powering through this to guide us with a wink and a nod to The Matrix' well deserved last rest. This is honestly the most humane way to desecrate a franchise that I've seen in a while
I feel like no one can appreciate what the movie was trying to do unless you're trans, it's really quite sad. A lot of the movie was dedicated to reclaiming the matrix from the people who turned the red pill into a dog whistle against progressivism. It also says a lot about trans people being forced back into their assigned gender by society that wants them controlled and breaking free from that to be who they really are. It was sincerely spectacular and emotional, to say it was bad is just patently wrong unless youre not paying attention to the movie. They were going to make a sequel without Lily and Lana and I'm glad they decided to say something with it and took back their own art. If you wanna talk about unnecessary sequels, talk about gremlins 2 but don't talk about matrix 4 like it isn't absolutely a work of art despite the studio
@@laurenmartinez55 cringe
@@aesthetic.suicide4082 they enjoyed the movie more than you and clearly found it more meaningful in different ways. That's not cringe, it's the human condition.
I’m not even an SJW and it was pertinent to my experience at the time so the movie was a hit for me. There were things I wanted to get mad at but I had to let go of my ego and get the message instead of judge the experience, I was to just experience.
@@laurenmartinez55 Yeah those poor trans people, they really are being held down by the constant shilling by media companies 24/7.
My biggest movie related fear is a Back To The Future remake. It's impossible to make it work without downright changing everything. It's a product of its time and a really good one.
they'll find a way.
Every single successful 80ties and 90ties movie will be eventually rebooted.
@DJeez888 do not worry! The director and producer has it in the rights contract that they can never remake it in their lifetime. The big studio heads at Universal for once agrees with them as well. They know the backlash. So I'm sure it will not happen.
@@AquaticAbomination "Give up! Re-sist Is fu-tile!" BEEP! BOOP!
Thankfully the creators own the rights to make more of those, so we should be good for another 40 years or so.
One wise person once said:
"We don't hype for remakes and sequels of our favorite shows, we hype for relive that feeling we had back when we first saw them".
isn't that the same function with drug addicts?
@@hippopilot6750 sometimes
yes
So when zoomers get into power all we’ll have for entertainment is remakes of TikTok videos. We really are all screwed!
That's not wisdom, that's called understanding what addiction is, and if you underwent the American education system like me, then you understood the concept of addiction as early as middle school. It's not that deep dude.
Bad news: They’re making another Matrix movie, even despite the bomb of Resurrections, because a) Studios will never learn, and b) Zaslav will do literally *anything* if it means not putting money into animation
So yeah, I’m rewatching this video for that reason
Man, the problem is never the technology on it's own. It's who distributes it and who is allowed to utilize it.
Reminds me of We ♡ Katamari. The creator of Katamari Damacy, Keita Takahashi, didn't want to make a sequel, but Konami gave him the ultimatum of "make it or we'll get someone else to", so he made We ♡ Katamari a lampooning of unnecessary sequels. In the first game, the King of All Cosmos was hard to please, but with enough effort, he would genuinely praise and congratulate you for your highest scores. In We ♡ Katamari, your Katamari is graded by _the fans_ of Katamari, who no matter how close to perfection you get, will still be mildly disappointed at best.
EDIT: It was Namco, not Konami.
I thought that was a good game. At least the soundtrack improved from the first game.
@@unkono It wasn't an intentionally bad game, but the whole narrative of it revolves around how the King of All Cosmos has a huge fanbase, and they want _more_ Katamari, and it needs to be bigger and better. And even if you get a perfect score, the fan commentary afterwards just says the equivalent of "8/10, could be better". And the neat thing about the music in Katamari is that Takahashi mainly just wanted to use it as an opportunity to elevate underrated artists that he enjoyed.
Nothing you've described sounds bad.
it wasnt konami it was namco btw
What kind of video game?
I really love that idea that Emp just has a green aura around him that has always been there and never been questioned.
damn, he stink that badly?
@@ratedr7845 nah, he just stayed in a downward spiral for a little longer than healthy
Too many green Simpsons YTPs do that to you
Hard to believe this all started from a extremely obscure Simpsons Ytp nobody watched except for us veteran fans
i find it funny how you say “never been questioned” because the whole reason why the green thing stuck is because people kept questioning it
I am glad Tom Green's influence on comedy is finally receiving some recognition.
There'd be no Tim and Eric if not for Tom Green. And it's crazy how amazing Freddy Got Fingered has aged. An awful movie when it came out... that 20+ years later was a hidden masterpiece all along, a great big middle finger to Hollywood and the execs who have ruined it.
Tom Greene was absolute garbage. He isn't funny. Nevsr was, never will be. The only ones he appeals to is the lowest common denominators of society.
Or is it? 🤔
You seen Tim and Eric billion dollar movie?
"All the way back to 1999" I turned 30 not too long ago and that phrase makes me feel like I should be in a retirement home.
Mate, you should hardly remember 1999. I'm soon 30 and if someone said "all the way back in 2005" I would totally agree with that assessment. Things that feel really spooky is that I were to write that "2030 is closer to us than 2010", just to realize that 2030 is actually closer than 2016...
lol
"Despite all the concerns of machines acting like us, no one could anticipated just how much we would start acting like machines" damn, that goes hard 🚬
This comment gave me cancer
@@DoctorCyan good
ikr, some artists on twitter are no better than the AI they complain about
Science says that there is no choice or free will. That living beings act automatically, just like machines would. What I find stupid is when people argue that machines cant make choices. But forget to examine humanity in comparison.
@@youluvana "Science says" lmfao no it doesn't. If you want to believe that then fine, just know its not actually a fact but a belief
You were 100% right about The Matrix: Resurrections being completely forgotten. This video is the only thing that even reminded me of it's existence and I genuinely couldn't even remember when it came out. When you showed that it came out in December of 2021, my only thought was, "Really? It was *that* recent? I completely forgot it was *ever* even a thing!"
True, when I think of the Matrix, I only think of the trilogy, now to be fair I only remember the first movie, and that Codename KND did a shot-for-shot recreation of a scene from the Animatrix. I haven't seen Matrix Resurrection's even though a big finger to WB is something I support
@@miguelzurita3216it was mid, no real point to watch it though
2021 was a year that has completely escaped my memory. Kinda like 2017
Based on this video's message, I'd say you supported it by NOT seeing it
Lol I watched it while I had a 102° fever thanks to the virus of unknown origin. It was the worst part of being sick.
Only ever watched it when it was available on stream after hearing bad things, but honestly ended up loving it just for that. its the most beautiful "fuck you" ever put on film, the fact they even let Lana use the ACTUAL name of Warner Brothers feel crazy, like, she convinced an entire board of suits probably saying things like "this is gonna be so meta guys, people gonna love it" and the suits having their heads so far up their asses just believe it, oh, to be the fly in that meeting...
Matrix Resurrections is the movie equivalent of capitalism killing the punk ideology by turning punk into a trendy, marketable fashion.
That's just how trends work, it has nothing to do with economics
@@jonasastrom7422it has everything to do with economics and consumerism
@@DementedFilms7767 Are trends permanent in socialist economies? What is in your opinion the driving factor for trends dying or becoming less nieche?
@@jonasastrom7422 That’s the thing though, Punk was not attempting to be a trend. In fact, it’s whole purpose was to be in direct opposition to the system that births and kills trends on a regular basis. It was as anti trendy as you could be within reason, making it all the more tragic when it was taken to the slaughterhouse and processed down into something meaningless, passive and profitable. A direct inverse to its own ideological ideals.
@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise It was a trend, in every sense of the word
Dude, watching Star Wars with your dad is apparently a family tradition for mine.
My dad told me stories of his dad dragging him to see the first movie. I say drag because my dad was somehow convinced that Star Wars was going to be a campy competition between Holywood Stars. Needless to say, we owe our Grandpa big for that.
It seems like Star Wars and other universally great movies are always better when watching with someone we love.
So glad I didn’t grow up with Star Wars
@@merucrypoison296 more like soy wars amirite?
@@peenywallie I’m just glad I didn’t get to see my childhood get gutted like that
My moms mom took her to the first star wars, my mom took me to episode one, and when my boy was a baby my mom and i took him to episode 9. He was too little and ended up cryin so we left but now that hes old enough we watch star wars and its so cool
The story of John Henry is a little more than just "A man races a machine". The company was going to bring in a steam shovel or whatever the thing is called and replace the entire workforce, so John Henry proposed a wager. He would race the machine and if he won, all the workers would get to keep their jobs. So they raced and he ended up winning, making sure the workers got to keep their jobs, but he himself died of exhaustion right there on the job site.
I read this but heard Alanis Morissette.
I think he chose to cut down the story to just the main point he was getting at, that it was a man vs a machine, rather than taking the time to explain it in an already 41 minute video.
Plus most of the other man vs machine examples didn’t go in depth and got to the main point quickly, so explaining the whole John Henry story may have proved awkward with the flow of the video
He also didn't go into detail about isaac asimov's laws of robotics, the supposed "solution" to stopping evil robots even though all his books on the matter explore how flawed such a ruleset is and criticize it
It's kind of symbolic, maybe man has worked himself to near death and that we should relax and lean on our intelligence a bit more.
I never really thought much about the meaning of Freddy got Fingered (I mean obviously theres not much to think about). Growing up it was that movie friends of mine would quote all the time cause it was so stupid. Now looking back realizing why he made it as a middle finger to the studio its kinda genius. Say what you will about it, its not a forgettable film. He went out of his way to make a bad movie, but the kind of bad movie that would become legendary. Like its a comedy but the movie itself and the fact that it exists (and made audiences and studio execs mad) is the joke. Tom Green was way ahead of his time and you can definitely still see influence from him in a lot ways today.
Anyone seen Cabin Boy? The description of Freddy Got Fingered here reminded me of that movie. I really don't think there was any genius behind that movie, genuinely think Chris Elliot went full mildy retarded because that's what he does. I bought it in case anyone wants to see the worst movie. Might have to check out this FGF movie.
Proud?
"This time you can't change the channel." is a great slogan for such a movie XD
Proud.
That's one theory. Another is that it's simply a bad movie.
I love to consume products.
I am a proud consumer.
If it is good,
I will consume product
for I am one with
the product.
Amazing video essay as usual Emp, I just had to say that Keanu Reeves was nowhere near a "mostly unknown" actor at the time The Matrix was released; movies like Speed, Point Break, Dracula, Devils Advocate, and more made him an A+lister. The Matrix made him an icon.
And Ted Theodore Logan of Bill and Ted! Which, of course, was also recently rebooted.
Everyone forgets Babes in Toyland
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I was about to say the same thing. Devil's advocate was still on fire really. I remember that was all I heard about.
@@JohnBender1313 It wasn't rebooted. It got a sequel. Sequels and reboots aren't the same thing.
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e oh ffs. Don't "well actually" me here. 1. You should know what I mean. 2. Rebooted is actually the very specific word that applies to this. Google it. And even if we disagree on its meaning, let's not get bogged down with semantics.
Rich: How does it feel to have lived long enough to see all your favorite franchises go down in flames?
Mike: …Feels great.
I love rlm so much
I fucking love that clip, so much.
Every year I feel more like both Rich and Mike
*laughs ensue from both sides*
Feels great, man.
I’ve been feeling the existential crisis for a long time and right now it is absolutely unbearable.
Just be yourself bro
Have you tried not being sad?
@@largebaboon5559if you are grieving from a loss of a love one, I’ll say that to you
As a scholar on Freddy Got Fingered I am very sad to let you know that the film was not a result of a studio obligation. In Green's autobiography, "Hollywood Causes Cancer", you can read that the transition from TV star to film star was always in Tom's plans. In fact, Freddy is not exactly a self-sabotage movie; while it's a dadaist, surrealist, blah blah blah masterpiece, it was made in a convivial, cooperative atmosphere on set and in fact the film's producer, Arnon Milchan (who worked with Scorsese and Gilliam in the 80's and produces hits till this day), called it "the best debut a young director could make". Freddy lost money at the box office because, indeed, the public wasn't ready for him - but the movie was not engineered to be a flop.
Still - I think those facts only highlight how purposeful Matrix 4 is in the quadrilogy. We get an introduction to the world (M1), further depictions of the world both inside (M2) and outside the simulation, along with rebooting the universe (M3) and a post mortem video essay on the trilogy coupled with the ultimate effort to keep it dead (M4). 2 out of the 4 movies in the series suck - but, as you said, every film has a purpose to it.
The Rise of Skywalker had the exact same effect on me. I've never felt so dead inside watching a film. I felt absolutely nothing. Nothing
Same, i got drawn to the cinema by my friend to see it.
Halfway through the movie, i started coughing because the air was dry, what a lucky excuse to leave and wait in the car.
Best movie of our time imo. Orginal starwars graphics look like shit momwmt cringe ah
@@teamextremepk What are you even trying to say
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e that the new movies are better because the cgi is updated
@@teamextremepk guy watched the special editions and thought that's what the ot was 💀💀💀
I really respect your skill of grabbing visuals during storytelling portions. Your ability to fit a movie/ tv show/ video game scene to narration is really impressive. And of course I love the way you connect your stories together, it's always unique and clever.
@@danjoredd I was going to mention this. It’s quite ADHD in nature but his story telling is legendary enough to make it not only work but thrive in this format
Seeing how you edited the leia flying scene accompanied by the jaw drops, I’m guessing you felt the exact same way I did during that scene, I literally turned to my fiend and asked if I was dreaming, correction, if I was having a nightmare, I was.
Lemon, I like how your channel has become a place for these longer, video-essay style videos.
You hooked people in with a thumbnail of one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, and got them to stay with compelling looks into some of the darkest fears of the human element. As always, splendid work.
This is what makes EmpLemon an artist. He finds a unique way to merge topics you wouldn't have thought at first were connected into one very well detailed video that capitivates the audience at every second.
There's a line in Spectacular Spider-Man that goes "In nature, everything is connected. As scientists, we explore and expand on those connections". Artists can also explore and expand these connections (in this case human nature) by mastering the art of presenting these abstract connections to an unfamiliar audience.
It just came on auto play cuz I’m subbed and for most of it, I’ve been confused. But his videos always come together.
One of the best.
Eh, eXistenZ is better.
Rise of Skywalker felt like a direct to DVD sequel, something Disney is actually quite familiar with.
And should have stayed there
I walked out of the theatre saying it was like the Star Wars dungeon crawler RPG and never watched it ever again…
Disagree, but to each their own.
Every day I'm glad that I never bothered to watch that garbage. After TLJ, I haven't put any money into a Star Wars product. And I'm gonna keep that way
Underrated comment
I really appreciate this video. I'm glad you managed to re-contextualise Resurrections as one last act of rebellion from the story about fighting against the system for me.
*To be fair, Infinity War killed main characters and ended with a victorious villain.*
*And then Endgame reversed all that...*
*My Marvel head-canon ends in a victorious Thanos.*
Bro Keanu Reeves was very well known at that point. Speed and Point Break were huge movies in the early '90s.
Yea, I was about to say. His "Whoa" in the 1st Matrix film is literally an ode to the Bill and Ted Series in the Late 80s thst made him a household name
@@myronsanders4563 to be fair, if you went back in time and told people that he'd be an action star in a dystopian future a la Terminator, they probably wouldn't buy it
Yeah I was gonna make this comment, Keanu Reeves was far removed from an “unknown actor”.
Don’t forget Johnny Mnemonic
Keanu was born in '03....
EmpLemon is the type of person who actually remembered everything he was taught in school.
yes
*Is the type of person who listened in school and realised most of what they tell you is either bullshit or things you are supposed to copy paste and instead used their time outside of school to expand their mind.
Simultaneously an English teacher's favorite and least favorite student.
@@adem1781 ,makes you smart either way.
Well, he said once that he used to take studies seriously, so much that his school gave him a parking spot in the honor students area...only to be taken away in his senior year for no valid reason 😂
That really happened, search for his rant video from 2016 about his school.
After hearing about "the machines" in this video, I need an ENTIRE EmpLemon video about Artificial Intelligence.
man, what a journey. you lived up to the lilly wachowski quote, and did not allow us to know what we were going to sit down and watch. this video was refreshing, engaging, funny, and non-pandering, perfectly complementing the theme you emphasize. also freddy got fingered is a masterclass in not selling your soul. tom green is a mad lad.
I absolutely love the idea of self-sabotaging your art so you can move on from it! Amazing video as always, Emp.
It is like r/MaliciousCompliance and i'm here for it.
I've heard of musical artists doing this when they had contracts to produce x amount of albums and they either couldn't get out of it or wanted to try something different and were literally sued by their label for delivering material that wasn't in line with what was expected. Here is a snippet from when Neil Young was sued by his label Geffen Records: (to this day it's still unclear if he deliberately trolled the label with out-of-character albums or was sincere and got shafted by his label...)
This is a well-worn story, but it’s always worth another airing. In the early 80s, Young signed to David Geffen’s new label, which expected - not unreasonably - that it would take delivery of more of the classic American rock records that Young had made in the 1970s, such as Harvest and Tonight’s the Night. Instead, executives were rather alarmed when the first Young record for Geffen came in the electronic form of 1982’s Trans, an experimental synthesiser album which Young later explained was a reflection of his attempts to communicate with his young son, who was born with cerebral palsy. When Shakey then turned in Everybody’s Rockin’ - a rockabilly collection - this was just too much for the incensed label, which sued him for the unprecedented and rather hilarious crime of delivering “unrepresentative” music - ie not sounding like Neil Young. Young counter-sued, claiming that his contract allowed artistic freedom, and won an apology. He recorded two more albums for Geffen, before returning to Reprise and delivering - yep, you guessed it, classic-sounding rock. Never let it be said that the angry great man doesn’t have a fantastically dry sense of humour. Meanwhile, anyone fearing for his blood pressure should take heed of his 2010 song Angry World, in which he assures us: “Some see life as a broken promise / Some see life as an endless fight … It’s an angry world, and everything is gonna be all right.”
Kill your darlings
you can see it all over the place, even in games, see what happend to MGS franchise, after MGS 3 Kojima already wanted to end the franchise, 4 brought back characters from MGS1 for no reason, and 5 has the most disjointed and inconclusive story ever seen, its almost like a fever dream from a schizophrenic crackhead.
Peace Walker was a continuation of 3, that was a prequel, a story that starts even before the Metal Gear from the SNES, in the end, Kojima ran out of ideas, and decided to run the name of the game into the fucking soil, didn't work and somehow once he was fired, that's when the whole thing went downhill, you can notice that after you reach the middle point in the campaign on MGS5: The Phantom Pain, the original MGS 5 was supposed to finish what happened to Peace Walker, rescuing Chico, Paz And Sorting out things in Outer Heaven and how it got destroyed in the first place, setting the motivation for FoxHound to move on to new places, thats how Big Boss originally got into Zanzibar, and the events of the first game(SNES Metal Gear) happened, triggering everything from MGS1-2-4 along with a few spinoffs.
In the end, nothing fucking mattered, since Not Kojima Launched Metal Gear Survive and it was so fucking bad it killed the franchise for good, the signs could have been observed on the previous games campaigns and how Kojima Just wanted to end things, but Konami wanted money. Konami could have Kojima, being a talented writer and director, to work on any other project, about literally anything.
To this day, in my mind, the only solution for corporate greed would be rampant violence and corporate espionage and terrorism, and i don't care if i get into a watchlist, i want greedy people to bleed money and guts alike
"Kill The Past"
~Suda51
Purposely making sure the sequel you didn't want to make but were basically held at gunpoint to do be a bad movie is a powermove in my eyes
Definitely a power move.
Side note: I remember someone argued that part of why Hollywood film studios took more risks up through the 2000’s was because even if an experimental film flopped, it could still recoup some of the losses on rental markets.
But since streaming replaced physical rentals for a lot of people, those same projects were less likely to make money through rentals because a consumer would have more options as opposed to choosing from what was on the shelf.
And as such the person argued that studios don’t take risks out of fear that a project would flop and they would potentially lose more money than before.
In addition, reboots are likely less time consuming to make since the characters and settings are already made, in addition to the possibility of prior viewers returning on brand recognition alone.
@@fortynights1513 Wasn't that the interview with Matt Damon? I remember him talking that back in the day, production companies and film studios would have an additional stream of revenue, after the movie would hit the DVD/VHS sales (and yeah, rental services too, when physical copies were still somthing most people used) about 6 months after the theatrical release. Maybe we're thinking of the same thing.
@@nob2243 It was a UK Guardian article I looked up.
I’ll have to look up the Matt Damon interview you mentioned. Who interviewed him?
@@nob2243 Yea, that was Matt Damon on Hot Ones. Physical media still exists but it's more a collector's thing nowadays. Like vinyl in music. It's nice but you won't get rich off of it.
@@fortynights1513 If you want a fully contained example of how rentals enabled cult films and then hurt them, look at Full Moon Pictures. Masters of quintuplet sequels for horror films where the budgets somehow got higher with each new property that debuted. By 2001 they were basically dead in the water and were licensing already made films. Newline is another example. Struggled all throughout the '70s, and then rentals enabled them to more than triple in size in the '80s to the point where they had a dedicated straight to video art house wing. Then in the mid '90s they got sold off and used like a skinsuit to make licensed adaptations Warner Bros. didn't want their names directly on. They've basically been used as the filler mark by Warner ever since then to get around royalties or dump films they have no faith in.
The growing distaste for reboots and sequels is completely justified and reasonable but I feel like people are ignoring the solutions. There ARE original movies being made even today. A24 continually produces inventive and original stories that allow the director full reign on the project. MUBI is a streaming service that literally curates movies for you that you ordinarily wouldn't have heard of. It may be asking too much of the general public, but the solution to this problem is to simply seek out the better content that you keep asking for.
I wish I could like a video more than just once.
This video perfectly encapsulates and summarizes exactly how I’ve felt about every topic you branch out on.
This video was so good, I think I need to see a sequel to this.
quick! Let's pump out 3 more and get a spin-off going pronto
Spin off channel too! We’ll call it “EmpLime”…yeah. Then, let’s put it behind a paywall and make people pay to see all the recycled product!
whenever emp decides to quit i'll be looking forward to his nonsensical essay parodying everyone else on here
I want three reboot scripts on my desk by Monday
its incredible how your ytp skills translate into these works of art. this shit is beautiful, you are such a talented video editor
Emp has been telling people for years now that YTP is an art form itself. Have you seen the works of @aruxash , @krazeddonut or @JeffLindblom ? Those and other video makers, even ones whose content is far more peripheral to the content of YTP demonstrate that it is an art genre, albeit one that will probably be given a new name someday
Considering that the standards for editing have so quickly escalated over the last few years, it's astounding that EmpLemon can compete with the quality of editing provided by large online media companies. I guess the tradeoff is less frequent uploads from EmpLemon, but still the point stands that his editing is impressive.
And WRITER!!!
@@nardinyouryard you know youre not wrong, he is a great writer. but sections of this video's editing give me heavy ytp vibes and it fits perfectly, its like a window into emps past or where hes come from. i wanted to give props for that specifically.
What is ytp?
Just watched the 4th Matrix movie. Your theory seems to hold up.
I can't understand how anyone approved of this movie with so many obvious signs.
While every Matrix film had deep philosophical themes, the fourth one didn't seem to have anything new except saying that everything starts again and that it's forced, without choice.
The choreography felt like it was made with the least effort possible, with the camera shaking all over the place.
Neo uses the force everywhere without any semblance of style like in the trilogy, like it's his only power.
He even does it a lot better than in the other films, but somehow doesn't have a mastery of the Matrix's code that would make him fly or dodge stuff.
And the ending where Trinity flies felt like a mockery of Leia's flying scene in The last jedi.
The ending quote also made me feel as confused as the "Rey Skywalker" scene in The rise of Skywalker.
It's like the heroes never learned everything and are redoing the same things, just like it's told in the beginning of the film.
It's weird how this film makes a lot more references to the first film than the other two.
Just like the Star Wars sequels tried to milk the OG trilogy while disregarding the prequels until episode 9 because they were too criticized.
Edit : I just realised that the shockwave that happens when neo and trinity touch hands could be a parody of the " dyad in the force" from episode 9
You can bet that the next matrix thing won't even bother asking Lana or Lilly back :^)
@@at0micl0bster if it exist at all.
I love the part where Lilly and Lana Wachowski, Wachowski'd all over everyone.
... while shouting "it's Wachowskiing time"!
Like Mike Wachowski?
They are dudes no matter how much they hate them selves
@@DirtRider999 seethe
@@DirtRider999 try cock
no-one turns smashing rocks into points to hunt animals into a elaborate discussion of Freddy Got Fingered as a grotesque underlining of the pure glue-munching culture of modern hollywood films as nothing more than harvesting dead soil when the grass is so much greener not 10 paces away.
You've managed to honestly give such a perfect understanding as to why films are the way they are now. The only way to make better films than Hollywood is to do it yourself, make it your own and never fall to the temptations, and goddamn man, your films have been top notch.
Keep up the good work, and always make brands regret sponsoring you.
Not only in Movies this is exactly what's happening to Games as well.
Disciples 😭😭
I would argue this only holds for AAA games. The weakness of movies is that the indie / middleware scene (AA for games) seems to be completely invisible, which means that hollywood gets to dominate. On the flipside I would argue that there have never been so many good games in the history of gaming.
Media as a whole actually...music is uninspired garbage that's directly ripping off the success of previous creatives. (Just look at all the songs that are sampling Elton John in one form or another) ...games are suffering from "We'll fix it later" and "surprise mechanics" because we've accepted it just like how we accepted reboots and sequels/prequels as a form of filmmaking now. We honestly are in an alternate timeline and the end doesn't justify the means...it'll only get worse and worse until you finally want to remove yourself from the equation altogether.
Care to cite some examples?
Yeah the AAA game industry is long overdue for an implosion.
Because people have started equating a game's potential quality with its budget, largely because of studios bragging about how big of a budget their latest game has, creating a feedback loop, studios are forced to spend more and more on their games, and when you're spending that much money to develop a game, you can't afford to try new things, because new things aren't proven to work and if one game flops it'll sink the whole company. Which incidentally is why the implosion is inevitable. Gamers are losing interest in buying the same games over and over. I even talk to sports gamers who have finally started to figure this out. It's completely unsustainable and it's coming to a head.
I never thought I'd be thanking the Wachowski sister for killing my favorite franchise.
I agree with most of what he says in this video, but it's interesting to me that he doesn't mention that ewoks as a concept were basically just created to sell Star Wars™ merchandise back in the 80's. He presents things like BB-8 and porgs as endemic of this "new" corporate media devoid of all soul, but George Lucas did the same thing with the final movie of his trilogy (that many people will say is their favorite).
Overall, his point stands but the star wars marketing aspect kinda fell flat for me.
EmpLemon videos are an event, bro. Every 2-3 months, you are guaranteed to have 30-60 minutes of some top-notch content
indeed. theres only a few at the top of youtube who can make you watch for an hour glued to the screen!
Facts. Reminds me of the old content cop days. Before icuccckz went down in flames
@@RabidlyTaboo to me idubz was very unlikable from the start. Emplemon clear
Yeah I think emp is the best right now, second best for me is turkey tom, not as great but still realy good
@@IgnorantWeed internet historian?
I'm surprised you didn't mention the role of the VHS and DVD in all of this. I think it was Matt Damon who explained it once, he mentions how many of the more original films he and other used to make were, most of the times, only profitable after the film went into the domestic market
those are just formats of selling movies. and they mean nothing without the movies to put into them.
But did that change a lot from now, when the movies go into streaming later?
@@RicardoDirani Hard to say if streaming is as profitable as movie sales, but there has been many musicians that speak out against streaming music since it is a far less profitable way to distribute media. I would guess that this is also true for streaming video, especially in the earlier days of streaming where it was just a few companies that probably didn't really share their stats with the license holders. Maybe it is easier for studios to track their return on each film today since they all have a streaming platform.
@@not_my_fn_real_name2689 The theory that some seem to imply is that in the old marketplace of getting a rental at a DVD store is that a consumer who wanted to rent a film would be choosing to rent that movie over only the films that the store had on its shelves, whereas in a streaming marketplace, the film could theoretically be competing with far more films, including many successful ones before it.
I remember Finding Nemo was one of the profitable animated movie for DVD release back in the day, we never see this kind of thing alot anymore.
youtube doesn't need to recommend me your videos, I'll remember you, search your name and sit down for another hour. I can only hope you continue posting, and more importantly keep finding interest in new things to research and documentate. happy monday.
I’m so glad to see a video talking about this. The movie seemed laughably bad; the on the nose, self referential, self deprecating humor and commentary was just cringey. And well below the unique talents of the Wachowskis.
But when I learned about how WB would have made the movie with or without the Wachoskis, it got me thinking that Lana Wachoski did actually make the movie intentionally bad, nonsensical, silly, and cringey.
And I can see how she was able to do this, and pass it off as meta commentary that would be fun. I’m sure the studio executives ate it up and agreed, as they don’t know art and have no talent for storytelling. Studio execs probably thought all the self referential, self aware dialogue was hilarious.
Though, it is kind of sad to think an artist had to intentionally make a mockery out of their creation.
I’m not sure if it was deliberately bad, but it is more logical than Lana Wachowski writing and directing a movie as bad as matrix 4.
I remember going to the theater the day that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire released. I'd been to a packed theater before but this was different. Everyone was excited. The line stretched out of the building and down the street. There were people dressed up in Hogwarts costumes. I even remember someone who managed to match Hagrid's look perfectly. He was even acting the part while everyone was waiting in line. And of course the movie itself was everything I could have hoped for. There was magic and dragons and brooms and Voldemort.
Yeah I don't think anything like that is ever happening again. People just aren't as excited about movies anymore. And I don't blame them.
You can smell the 'corporation' on modern movies.
that type of stuff happened w marvel during infinity war and endgame
@@mrttripz3236 yeah, this story and emp's recollection of the hype around the star wars prequels kinda made me realize how inherently insincere that so much of this kind of fan movie hype feels nowadays. Fans back then exhibited this kind of behavior of their own volition, to participate in the moment. Now its hard to see people acting so vocal without the cynical feeling that everyone's doing it to post about it on social media, exchanging the ephemeral real life experience for cheap sensation online that will live forever. And of course, when corporate social media accounts themselves encourage this kind of fan behavior, it feels odd, like its no longer something that fans do for themselves, but to fulfill this need that the corporation expects out of them. It's sad considering that the whole act of dressing up and interacting with people back then was such an inherently social, communal act. To an extent, maybe it still is, but with the way that corporations have invaded these spaces, it feels so artifical and insincere.
I had this feeling seeing dragon ball super botg it was so long since the last original Dragonball content and you could tell and feel that everyone there was an og Dragonball fan
@@tree1214 endgame to me felt like a party thrown to celebrate divorce with cinema.
It was respectful and contained much anger successfully, but everybody knew it would go downhill from there and respect was a courtesy left in that movie from there on.
I didn’t expect a history lesson in the industrial age and robotics when clicking this video, but even at 40+ minutes you know I’m watching this whole thing
Grand documentary as usual EmpLemon, love watching these. Love the inclusion of 16-Bit adventure OST as well :)
This is your best work yet, genuinely got so hooked from the star wars lead up to the main crux of the video. So many thoughts to process..
We will always prefer quality over quantity. Great video, Emp. Worth the wait 👍
Agreed.
Indeed
Emp has done a lot of great, deep uploads. Especially the past five years or so.
This is another great entry to that pantheon.
Succeed
We wouldn't be here if we actually did prefer quantity over quality. What i mean by that is i personally never watched anything past Terminator2, Aliens or first and only Ghostbusters. I know that everything that comes afterwards is shit and i simply don't watch it. How do i know? By waiting a day for moviegoers reaction. To me a franchise isn't "dead" or "killed" if i only watch the good part. Im not a cow that is forced to graze until my belly is full and i can be milked for my money again and again.
I truly hope i'm not alone like this.
Literally one of the best video essayists on the platform. I always come away from an EmpLemon video more educated, maybe a bit more nihilistic, but thoroughly entertained. Feels good, man.
SAME
TH-cam has an insane amount of incredible creators when it comes to video essays. Emp, Jon Bois, Folding Ideas is one that I've been hooked on lately (some people may not enjoy the things he covers or some of his political stances but he has undeniable talent in terms of writing and delivery.) And that's just three that I can think of immediately, I know there's more that aren't coming to mind at the moment. Any one of those three on their own are great, but we really are spoiled by the amount of talented people that decided to say fuck it and make a TH-cam channel.
@@shreknskrubgaming7248 don't forget j Aubrey
I miss his edgy TH-cam rant era
@@merucrypoison296 He had some very good points, but as he said in his video last year upon making it to a million subscribers, he wasn’t happy making those, so he switched his focus.
Your videos make my day. You deserve so much more, and your level of research is always immaculate and the stylization is incredible.
Having not thought about it in years, that Leia scene really still hits different
Still just as ridiculous XD
Someone thought this was a good idea...
They should have dug up her corpse and dragged it across the studio for better effect
This is one of those channels that I don't really care what the title or thumbnail is about cause I know it's going to be a good video no matter what
He could make qulity video about brushing teeth if he wanted to
this video suckeddddd
Went from ytps to edgy TH-cam speeches/rants to now documentaries on anything he wants to talk about
@@elucidator1277 lol
Fully agree
Ironically though, The Last Jedi is a case where the studio gave pretty much full control to an auteur director to do whatever he wanted and the fans hated it so much they demanded more studio interference.
Tbf, with how he completely fucked up any cohesion in the trilogy, that also feels like sabotage
@@andrewmeyer4124 I’m not so sure about that claim. Carrie Fisher’s death certainly threw a wrench in things, and Trevorrow was fired and his script for the finale scrapped entirely. TLJ moved every single character forward and set the stage for a thrilling uphill battle to victory. If anything feels like sabotage to me it’s JJ Abrams walking back most of the development from that movie. It’s like if in Return of the Jedi we learned Luke actually isn’t Vader’s son and that Han and Leia just aren’t feeling it anymore lol.
In 1975, Star Wars was the brainchild of an auteur. It had yet to pass through the hands of other creators or be perceived by audiences. At that time, it was appropriate for the creator - George Lucas, in this case - to make the choices he felt best suited his idea.
In 2015, Star Wars was vastly different. It was a product with an established lore, a specific tone, a specific aesthetic, etc. In such a case, the director of such a product cannot serve as an auteur - he is a caretaker. He must work within the established boundaries of the works that came before.
I don't blame Rian Johnson for what took place in the Disney trilogy. He was given too much freedom and he made the choices he saw fit. I blame Disney - Kathleen Kennedy, primarily - for not planning this trilogy. It was a trainwreck born out of a refusal to take the SW franchise seriously.
Woah
The entire point of allowing auteurs to exercise their creative visions is that failure is possible, but so is unimaginable success. Some movies like TLJ will be disasters as a direct result of the writers' decisions. Other movies will have amazing writing potential only to fail due to poor execution. Some movies will be mediocre, others will be favourites of a niche audience but ultimately forgotten by the majority of viewers. And finally some movies will become timeless classics that go on to inspire the next generation's great writers and filmmakers.
The point is to avoid endless mediocrity even if it means taking risks. Great successes are great because they overcame that chance of failure.
i can tell you're pretty young because you said Keanu Reeves and the Wachowskis were unknowns. dude they were all well known by then.
To be fair I am 22 and the only way I knew of Keanu was John Wick. I later on discovered his works
Freddie Got Fingered was absolutely genius. I was lucky enough to see it in theaters. Twice. I also really enjoyed the latest Matrix. The new cast was fantastic. The director was able to express the personal trauma and loss currently going on in her life while absolutely taking the piss out of Warner Brothers. It is amazing for what it was. She was even brilliant enough to not only write her wretched experience into the film so that the audience might catch on to what was occurring, but even made sure to include every character possible, like the Merovingian, and utterly ruin them so they could not be mined for content later. The only possible issue with both of these movies is their ability to "stand alone," or how the added context of the creator's life and struggles informed the art itself. I would argue against even that being some sort of flaw because in viewing either of these films if as an audience member you don't immediately notice something being off or not feeling right, then you may need to go into media consumption with a more critical eye. Searching for the intent and meaning of a work of art can lead to amazing places, like it does with this film. The same can be said for famous works of art like Munch's "The Scream." While it stands alone quite well, knowing the inner life and struggles of the artist directly expands on the artwork and it's narrative.
Until today I had no idea there was a real backdrop to "Freddy got Fingered", like I got the story context but had no clue it had anything to do with irl film/media issues.
It's been one of my favorites for many years in the comedy genre and I have just legit never looked into it.
Legendary content as always.
I was lucky to be a 15 year old in 99. It did feel like an inflection point. All the movies about false realities and being trapped by modern life aligned with a sentiment that was hidden under the surface everywhere.
yea man.. kids born in the mid 80s were born in the good times.
born to see movies at their peaks but also GAMING growing from the old NES and gameboy days to ps5 and vr today.
kids born in the past 10 years were born into the ps3/ps4 and will never exprience the AWE we had seeing the insane evolution in technology
Ye then 2001 happened
Kids these days, they don't know. They missed out...
The matrix is all around us. It is the system of mind control that we are trapped inside. Freedom truth and morality on a foundation of love is the way out. Watch Mark Passio's analysis of the matrix trilogy.
@@joshhickson7551 oh shut it
You are a genius emp. Honestly the new matrix movie was so depressing for me as I've held the original so highly since my childhood. But this theory that Wachowski bombed the movie on purpose is giving me so much solace. I can't believe I never noticed how telling some of those new agent smiths lines were. I am accepting this as the new reality :) Thanks for another top quality documentary. Inspiring.
I thought it was pretty on the nose about it all really LOL especially in the first half, like when the game company employees started brainstorming. Or wannabe-Morpheus fanboying over Neo. "Oh, it's _that_ kind of movie." It lost steam in the last act though.
Recent films use that kind of dialogue to say, "Haha, we're so smug. That means we're hip and cool! (Now give us money)" WB editors probably thought Wachowski's script was a genuine attempt at zoomer humor.
It's actually my second favourite movie in the franchise with how perfectly meta it is.
A fourth Matrix shouldn't have been made, but the way it was executed was a perfect fuck you to the studios who won't let franchises die when they should.
4 months later, and Disney is looking to sell Star Wars back to Lucas. What a time to be alive, fellas.
That's a silly rumor. It would currently take the combined wealth of 100 George Lucases to buy that back
@@The_Ballo I doubt it would ever happen, they will sit on the IP until the end of time BUT (and its a big butt) , they would sell it back to lucus but demand a portion of all future profits till the end of time...
I feel like some days I'm the only one who understood this story is of the prequel. I don't even think Lucas knows entirely or forgotten, but it's a story of a Jedi Order having backwards and broken rules leading to a rebellion. They're main savior and then that guy gets redeemed not by a jedi, but by his own son. And these stories are supposed to mirror each other as it could tell you. That Luke, could it end it up exactly like his father if he made the same mistake?
You don't need 2 things. You can really fault the prequels for. Are bad Dialog scenes And overplayed visuals.
To me this movie felt like a deliberate "if you didn't get it the first time, you certainly won't this time" so I'm glad you got it at least in one way.
Lana said she did (the last) matrix only for the money and she had no intent on doing it but since she had no choice to either make it or they'd let someone else make it..
So yes, this WAS a middle finger to Warner Bros
Surgery money
he*
The problem is: the movies the Wachowski's try to make good also suck.
All that money and they still will never be women
@@cookieface80 so you're saying matrix 1 and 2 suck ? While I agree the 3 is meh, the 1, 2 and animatrix are pure cult classic and you objectively are wrong to think otherwise because every body on this planet is agreeing on this point
Everyday I feel more and more like humanity could use an IRL equivalent of Dune's Golden Path, a painful lesson that would be felt by humanity to its very bones for thousands and thousands of years.
The folly of men shall never cease until he realizes his own undoing or divine retribution comes from the heavens.
My sister and I (big fans of the first Matrix movie, and movie people in general) watched this film and absolutely loved it. We laughed our guts out the entire time. The whole thing is some truly epic-scale, next-level trolling. It was beautiful.
The hand touch at 9:45 to show only Emp is green and everyone else is normal skin tones. So great
Inanimate objects are green too. I don't get the logic of this green world.
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e probably it's the aura around Emp
@@cutmanlight1400but why
This video really hit me close to home. I've been a fan of yours for years, but this one video targeted something I've found myself worried and stressed about for quite a while now, and it all hit when you started talking about the year 1999 and it being our peak. I'm old enough to remember a world that was optimistic, original and not ruled by an ever-increasing form of surveillance capitalism, backed by big government and social media giants. I've been unable to shake the feeling that our society is rapidly moving into a state of affairs that I am incompatible with, and I feel powerless to stop it... and I know that I can't. Call it nihilism, call it defeatist, but I can't see us coming back from the mistakes we've made. Human beings, by and large, love convenience, even at the cost of our own autonomy, privacy and dignity. I don't want to live in the kind world we're fast becoming.
I didn't mean for this to get so bleak, your videos just always leave an impression on me (your Never Ever on Homer's Enemy being one I show all my friends), and I've found myself ruminating for the last few years on this very topic. The downfall of cinema isn't a problem unique to Hollywood; rather it is a symptom of an overall sick, tired and overworked society being exploited by large corporations and government because escape is more and more sought out when one needs relief from reality - a reality that has been slowly twisted and manipulated to drive profit.
We really are living in a manufactured 'simulation'. It's just hard to keep going when you're aware of it.
Jesus is coming
You are not alone. I feel like a lot of the magic has disappeared and there are no more secrets left in the world thanks to the internet. Like you mentioned, the early days of the internet were pretty great but now we have nothing but social media platforms that employ every trick possible to keep you plugged in.
A lot of it is because we live in a post modern world, culture is changing. The internet has redefined what it means to be a community, instead of it being the people around you its the people you chose interact with, that changes everything which is why the political divide is more rabid(it's either that or because is with the internet its more easy to share this information.
@@miguelzurita3216 Hasn't community always been this way though? Even in small rural areas like my hometown there were other people around you sure, but you only chose to engage with so many of them, others you avoided or even ostracized if enough people don't like them for whatever arbitrary reason you wanted that let you still have a social life.
If you really feel that way, why not do something about this? Like you said yourself, talk like that just ends up with you losing by default. Start a discord group or something similar and organize some action or a protest around it. Produce media / pamphlets that you can spread around online. Anything is better than nothing.
I don’t say this to undermine your your suffering or pain. I just don’t like seeing cynicism (even as someone who thinks we’re headed for a pretty bleak future), the moment we give into despair and take the future as set and stone we’ve already lost.
(Set in stone, I was typing this on a cell phone, so please excuse the grammar)
you seriously underplayed how blatant the movie is. the like, first half of the movie is just “neo is remaking the matrix because Warner Brothers (just straight up, not even hiding it) told him to”
I walked up to my dad and asked him “do you think matrix 4 was intentionally made bad to be like Freddy got fingered?” He lost his mind
No matter what Emp is talking about, he always find a way to make a Prog Rock reference, musically or thematically. EMPmerson, Lake and Palmer rules.
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside...
It’s because he builds on eclectic theory to manuever narratives; whole tone interpretation of media.
Oh my god it all makes sense now…
The matrix but the song “Dupe- Shum Zero “ keeps on playing at everyone’s radio 🤪🤪🤪
This is probably the best video you’ve ever made!!
Although I do think to make a video on the existential threat of AI and not mention the unabomber is a bit of an oversight haha, but it’s still great, keep up the good work man
Genuinely great video with an interesting conversation that can be applied to many other if not all media outlets as a whole. It really does feel like all “entertainment” these days is trying to get more and more optimized. It’s unsettling to me because it’s working.
Jerry: He offered you a red pill and a blue pill?
George: Two pills, no water.
Jerry: No water?
George: No Water.
Jerry: Can’t take a pill without water.
George: Never could.
Jerry: So what’d you do?
George: I left; I’m not choking down a dry pill.
[Kramer enters in a leather coat]
Kramer: Hey guys, you would *not* believe who I met today. [as he takes off his shades]
Jerry: So which pill did you take Kramer?
Kramer: Oh I took both! Once I work my way up the corporate ladder I’LL be the one offering blue pills and red pills. Can’t do that without quality control.
[Laugh track]
I've never seen Seinfeld aside from a number of clips I can count on one hand but I can imagine that lol
The exact theater in which your hope for Star Wars died was coincidentally my favorite one to visit
This was really well put together, and I'm glad to see another with a similar view on resurrection$.
When my friend told me that Matrix was getting a 4th movie I could smell all the way from Europe what it was going to be. We had family over one day after the release while it was on Netflix and we decided to watch it. I decided to watch together and eventhough I knew it was gonna be really bad I wanted to make sure for myself. After not even an hour into the movie, I left with a strange feeling. It wasn't disappointment, it was the opposite. I felt so content with the thought that one of these, if you will, massproduced trash sequels was so obviously going to be a disaster. It's actually amazing how sure I was of it after not even seeing the whole movie, now that I think about it.
The thought of this non-consumerfriendly formula rinsing so much money down the drain could only mean one thing, and that is this formula not having been a good idea even if the title arguably should have guaranteed success. Knowing this filled me with so much satisfaction because it means there is a glimpse of hope that this isn't going to continue indefinitely and end the movie industry in this way. After all, it's money that speaks and as long as there isn't profit associated with it, it will stop being the norm for movie creation.
It's a shame you didn't mention Villeneuve who is single handedly keeping ambitious auteur sci-fi afloat. He is a true genius
his movies are great, but I don't think he's reached anywhere near his true potential. Blade Runner was meh, Dune was great, but still just Dune. I want to see more movies like Sicario. Enemy was a good movie too. So to me it's sad to see him stuck making reboots and book adaptations, when he's capable of things like Enemy and Sicario.
@@moonasha When he's capable of making Enemy, Sicario, Prisoners and Incendies, definitely he's got way more potential.
Also, what's wrong with Dune being "still just Dune"?
Also also, Blade Runner 2049 was pretty good and nuanced. I do prefer the original in a lot of ways (More noir, stronger atmosphere, better soundtrack) but 2049 tells a better story.
He is great.
@@theblobconsumes4859 dune is a pretty boring story in my opinion. At least the first book. Dont get me wrong, the movie is great, it's just not something that's going to make you think.
Arrival was spectacular too
My dad just passed last august of 2022, but when he was in high school and the FIRST Star Wars came out (before it was called A New Hope, just Star Wars), he told me he went to see it in theaters about 50+ times. Literally 50 times at least.
Then I remember him showing the original trilogy to me as a kid, long before the prequel trilogy had come out when I was about 12
The Phantom Menace was such a big deal my best friend and I went to see it together alone, I still remember around age 12 seeing it in theaters and it was so packed it was the only time I had to sit in the very front row at a large screen movie theater. We could barely see anything but I still remember how insane the pod race was while being that close lol.
I still remember watching every Star Wars film as a kid on VHS, before the special edition changes.
I couldn’t tell each film apart but I knew they were all part of the same epic sci fi story that changed my dad and my own life.
The Matrix came out when I was 12 or 13.. it changed my life and was around during high school. I took my other best friend to see the matrix on my second viewing and his first, i still remember his jaw dropping during the pill scene when Neo first wakes up. My god nothing was more satisfying than watching someone that stoic have their mind physically blown. The Matrix is the one film I remember going to the theater to watch that was nothing like I was expecting, and was completely different but everything I wanted in a film. It is still one of my favorite films of all time. It is always a joy to watch.
Sadly like in EmpLemon’s video, that East Gate Cinema no longer exists where my dad and friends and I grew up watching ALL these films.
It still stands there abandoned as a monument to all of our sins.
We need to save our small local theaters, the best ones have been open since the 20s or 30s.
Lel nice halo 2 reference
@@frysco5927 first thing i thought of too lol
My condolences, fam. My mom actually passed in September of ‘22, so I definitely empathize with you.
I was in Kindergarten when the first Star Wars came out, and it absolutely changed pop culture in a way that’s hard to describe
Like many 90s kids, the matrix was truly a seminal experience for me. It’s hard to explain but if you watched it back when it came out you will know what I mean; it was a cultural milestone of some sort. There is the time before the matrix and the time after lol. It cut into the concept of time it’s self 😅
Third time I’ve rewatched this video. Thinks it’s one of my new favorite videos on TH-cam. ❤
I always think about what you say about 1999 being the height of our society. I feel this more and more.
One extra point I've been thinking about:
Pre-internet, we saw actors as characters on the screen. They seemed so mystical when you knew nothing about them outside of the movies. Now days, we see everything an actor posts on twitter, and most of them have taken on some political identity that overwrites your perception of the character they are supposed to be playing.
I have the inverse problem where since I don't follow the news closely I only find out that I was supposed to start hating some actor or singer I like because they made a tweet two years ago which makes them an evil person.
One specific example is the fighting game player Gootecks. I don't follow modern fighting games so I only see him in old Third Strike footage.
It turns I was supposed to start hating him in, like, 2019? But I've never seen the tweet in question and don't care about his political opinions. I just like watching him play Urien.
The same thing happened with Jontron, Hulk Hogan, Woody Allen and probably like a dozen other people I'm mildly interested in.
Sometimes I feel like I've woken up in Oceania and everyone's mad at me because I didn't go to yesterday's Two Minutes Hate.
It makes me just want to stop watching media with real people in it in general. Nobody's ever called me a bastard because I said I think that Charlotte is the best girl in Infinite Stratos.
Totally, I used to like people like Seth Rogan. Impossible now.
@@awkwardcultism never forget that we lost pogchamp because of some fuckin tweet
all to 'deplatform' someone who most twitch users didn't even know about until his emote was removed.
"political identity" 🤣 sounds like it's a dogwhistle
it's not like they suddenly decided to take on a different identity from the characters they play in the rise of social media.... social media just allowed their personalities to be more present in people's every day lives which they always were even pre internet tabloids and television has existed for a long time. I don't really get this point at all
@@SeasideStrangler because you don't agree with his "political identity" like the radical concepts such as women's rightss and not supporting police brutality or weird republicans 🤣
I didn't even realize they made another Matrix movie; this is quite literally the first I'm hearing of it, which I think is very fitting and funny.
You didn't miss much.
Good because it was bad
it was decent. people dont like the romance aspect of the matrix. even tho its the reason why neo got his powers cus of "love"
I’m very surprised you didn’t mention the original plot for the Matrix trilogy - the one that Wachowskis wrote, but the studio threw out the window, insisting on a much more bland and boring alternative (aka. the sequels we’ve actually gotten). Look it up, the Wachowskis wrote a fantastic story, but sadly weren’t allowed to tell it.
what type of boneheaded decision is that?
@@ratedr7845 studio meddling often ruins the director's vision.
What about what they wrote didn’t click with the studio?
@@fortynights1513 so in the original script Neo dies in the end, sacrificing his life to release the humanity from the machines. The studio said that at no point should any of that happen because “audiences will be disappointed.”