The Matrix Resurrections Should Never Have Been Made
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- The Matrix Resurrections has turned out to be an absolute flop in theatres, and its easy to see why. This film was a disaster from start to finish. Join me as I review it.
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Sweet
I actually like the movie
Agents are now pussies,
Law enforcement uses rockets like candies.
Bullets follow stormtrooper logic.
Machines are 'synthients' and you're supposed to trust them because she said so, else we put your head on a spike.
All you need to expose the bad guy is a mirror.
Plenty of reasons why I agree with your choice of title, Drinker.
you're wrong... and the fact that everyone on 'your side' agrees with you, should at least make you question your echo chamber
The Matrix: Refunded
The matrix: Rewoke
The Matrix: Experimental Internet Gas
The matrix: refurbished
No refund for you!
@@donle499 you watch you buy!
The Matrix Regurgetation, Retaliation, Rahashatation, Re-eteration, Reinsertion, Re....
Drinker you kill me!
Thr Matrix Refunded
Re iteration.
....Reclamations, Redundancies, Recalculations, Retardations, Crapanimations, re-Colonoscopies, etc...
The Matrix Redundant
The Matrix Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I remember seeing a poster and just being like: “That’s not Neo, that’s just Keanu Reeves.”
Hahaha he is starting to play himself just like Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson
Thats john wick
agree, too lazy to cut his hair for the movie.
@@neoluthuli3254 George Clooney pioneered that act.
@@ColoradoStreaming It really can be traced back to him
When I saw that they were making this movie…I naïvely thought it would be a worthy revival. I felt 16 again and I was geeking out at the idea of it. Then I saw it…I left the theater quietly and feeling empty. It has to be similar to what being left at the marriage altar feels like.
you put that wonderfully. the first matrix was so revolutionary and well made it awakened questions in me that i had never thought of before. that’s what a good movie does, it leaves something in you. add great special effects and ground breaking style and you’re all set for a movie that will go down in history, together with its two sequels, still not nearly as good as the first.
resurrections… it just made me want to have back the two and a half hours i’d just wasted watching it. it’s embarrassing how they managed to completely miss the point of the trilogy, and ruin it with a modern rendition which can only be described as cringe
For those who knew it was gonna be shit and didn't waste their money, congrats, you actually fought the system.
I watched it for free online and still feel like I got scammed.
Well put.
Yep I refuse to watch this garbage and give them my money
It feels like Chrismas Romcom so I quit disappointed after trailer. Nothing that pumped me like Trilogy, and I found that actors of Agent Smith a Morpheus are not in this and this was red flag for me.
At least there is that Unreal engine demo...
@_OBK_ quit watching cape bullshit
The real winners of this movie are Hugo Weaving and Laurence Fishburne for refusing to participate lol.
Their replacements were a joke. The whole story line is a joke. I dont expect to see number 5
I thought Laurence was just forgotten and wasn't even invited? Says the man himself iirc
I read that both wanted to be in it but Fishburne wasn't asked and Weaving had schedule conflicts. I bet they're glad now though.
@@Lucas12v Movie: Dodge this!
Lawrence and Hugo: Ok
@@Lucas12v Yeah what even happened there, "schedulation conflicts"? That sounds too unprofessional to be true. What is this, little Hugo overslept the bus to school and couldn’t come?
Obviously one of the two parties didn’t want anything to do with the other.
I 100% agree with everything said in this review, *they really pulled a Last Jedi on us.*
Matrix 4 never needed to be made.
but they got your money.....
Agents are now pussies,
Law enforcement uses rockets like candies.
Bullets follow stormtrooper logic.
Machines are 'synthients' and you're supposed to trust them because she said so, else we put your head on a spike.
All you need to expose the bad guy is a mirror.
Plenty of reasons why I agree with your choice of title, Drinker.
Except the last jedi actually had some hype leading up to it.
@@janeshepard9549 even the Originals had Stormtrooper bullets tho...
I can’t get over the continuity error of that handshake 🤝 Their right hands go together, but due to poor blocking, they got Neo looking like he’s going in with the left. Literally could’ve just flipped the camera to over her right shoulder
bro you reached that part? i couldn't make it into 15 minutes straight !
This movie was like Trainspotting 2 it seemed like a big deal then it was just gone
The title of this video is the only review anyone will ever need.
“Miss Deranderson!”
Short sweet and more honesty than any review
420 likes, this movie is shit dislike
I thought it is the BEST film of the franchise. I loved the cis white male privilege removal.
I made it to the reveal at 3:30
Keanu spent the movie in full on "I'm just here for the paycheck" mode, and I cant even blame him.
And then he gave 70% of that entire paycheck away. (Really.) That's Keanu. He's just a guy...who happens to act. Bought the entire crew Harleys too. (And even got upset when some reporter leaked the truth about his generosity-he didn't want the attention. (The movie blew chunks, sure-but Keanu is that dood. Fact.)
@@Noir0rioN According to his friend, he gives that much money away too cause he's embarassed by all that wealth he has. Factor that new Matrix movie into that, and I really respect him for it.
20 years ago i heard the same thing.
I mean, most of his paycheck goes to charities and funds anyway, so why would he turn down a role?
Laurence F wasn’t even in this movie too ! 😂…
I think someone thought the new "bullet time" thing would be really cool, but a lot of those sequences felt made-for-TV quality.
The cast was definitely TV movie quality.
Like a Lifetime Movie
It really did seem like that in a number of parts
Agreed. This movie was garbage. I wouldn't even wipe my ass with it
Exactly what my wife said, she felt like she watched a TV show.
The trilogy was decently wrapped up. With that one line architect said. "How long you think this peace will last? " " As long as it takes" says the oracle. Could have started franchise again with that conversation
Could've been a new story.
I wouldve been cool with a prequel..... The architect says there were 5 others before neo, lets see their stories
Oh damn, they could have
@@TheLOSTJoker - No bullshit dude.
@@TheLOSTJokerI wanted them to do a live action trilogy on the AI takeover. That would’ve been amazing
The film is so meta, that the director might as well have walked onto the screen, told the other characters to leave, and just talked the audience. “That Hollywood, am I right?”
I hate that word. It's not "meta", it's fukin' shyte.
Lana's movie....i thi k
The "joke" meta stuff was bad, but for me it was the "serious" meta stuff that was truly egregious. Like the digs at Ben Shapiro, or when Toilet-Brush Head goes into a diatribe to Neo in the real world about how "they" take your experiences and weaponize them for themselves against you, which was a painfully obvious commentary on the "Right Wing" supposedly hijacking the term Red Pill (Wachoski openly admitted the entire reason "she" made the film was to reclaim the term for the Left).
Add onto that all the really gross stuff about family bonds being an illusion and used to imprison you (and the key to liberation and being your true self is to sever those ties) and the whole movie just comes across as one giant self-therapy session for Lana Wachowski. Lana is clearly a messed up human being and this movie felt like their attempt at rationalising their unhealthy coping strategies.... Almost as though Lana has spent a lot of time in therapy and didn't like what their therapists said, and they made an entire movie as a way to explain why the therapists were wrong - which explains why the villain of this movie is literally depicted as a therapist... 🤷♂️
Still not seen.....
All about money i think.....
The Matrix was known for three things:
1) Amazing hand to hand fight choreography
2) Creative gun play
3) Introducing audiences to some armchair philosophy through the guise of science fiction
What the The Matrix Resurrection offers:
*None of the three things mentioned above.*
The Matrix Resurrections has characters explaining to you the themes of the previous 6 hours of film, just in case those themes were too intelligent and flew over your head.
It also makes mockery of humanity and its stupidity & gullibility, that is the primary purpose of the movie and all movies really
...OR it could just be a suck-ass movie designed to separate highly intelligent people, like yourself, from your money.
--In which case, it succeeded.
@@jamesmaxwell1940 That's a lie. If you like this movie, then you like it. But, don't tell lies.
Yep! You nailed it!! 👍👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I'm old enough to remember when the original Matrix came out. The Internet was still in its infancy (no leaks or social media at the time), and the one thing that made that movie so special back then was the fact that so little was known about it. The first trailers were very cryptic, with most of the marketing consisting of asking people the question *What is the Matrix?* and I remember that lots of people barely knew what they were going to watch when they bought the tickets.
The second and third were not as good because they were running out of creative juice and ended up relying too much on action. They still had a few good ideas in Reloaded, but failed to deliver in Revolutions. We still felt compelled to go watch them though because we wanted to know how the story was going to end.
With this entry, however, there's no surprise element anymore. It tries to reminisce on what once was but the whole thing feels off since the world has changed too much since 1999-2003. This movie feels like going out on a Saturday night, getting drunk, hooking up with your ex-girlfriend you haven't seen in almost 20 years and expecting to get that spark going again. It's not going to happen. She's now divorced, overweight, and you can no longer relate to each other at any deeper level. You'll just leave with a bitter aftertaste and end up regretting the whole thing.
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Wow - i forgot about all that. Cryptic advertising plugs "What is the Matrix?." You are right! No idea what I was going to see and blown away. Thanks.
LOL
Commenter is definitely channeling The Drinker with this spot-on trip down memory lane.
And now 90% of the movie is revealed in a never ending succession of trailers, making it almost pointless to go see the movie.
Based on what I've read, WB kept pushing for a new Matrix, the Wachowskis said no but after losing their parents they said okay. However the movie was pretty much used as a coping mechanism (hence the resurrected characters) and possibly also a mean to satisfy WB's constant nagging. So they clearly didn't put up too much effort for the quality.
Exactly which is whybi liked the movie what it was I got the message but will never watch it again lol
Yeah, it definetly has to be a meta-piece. I mean even if ti was completely fresh directors they'd at least put some effort in. This whole thing is deliberately a big insult
You mean WB “nagging” to use the Wachowskis only profitable property after 15 years of giving them hundreds of millions of dollars to make pretentious drivel that nobody wanted to see?
@kevinzhang6623 no I mean if it was genuine then a nebiew would be better.
Like they'd have better action coreography and cgi, and less obvious writing.
But they decided to purposefully avoid these due to their meta-narrative
Only 1 of the Wachowskis participated in this. The other sibling just couldn't go through with this money grab.
I feel like the scene of Keanu taking a dump is a metaphor for what the filmmakers did with this movie.
Absolutely best comment ever 🤙 on point and should be pinned
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Its art, the rich people are showing you that they got nothing better to buy. At least they can use your old dreams as toilet paper and be amused by your reaction. I think it's coming from China, if they can push you away from American media, maybe you will start watching Chinese movies. Sadly, Chinese movies tend to be better than American movies anymore.
@@elinope4745 lmao I guess China lives in your head rent-free. Hollywood is nearing a state of creative bankruptcy due to inept and incompetent executives and creatives. Gotta clear out the internal rot before shouting "China! That's why!"
@@elinope4745
Bit of a language barrier in the way of switching to Chinese media.
“Damn, this is pretty good!”
5 seconds later
“Damn, this is awful.”
On repeat for two and a half hours
Hear hear
Same, but I'll admit I liked how they dunked on the corporate nature of movies and video games while also making fun of the reboots, sequels, and prequels of old IPs. Feels nice that at least someone in Hollywood acknowledges it's stupid. Not as stupid as making Neo and Morpheus comic relief characters though.
No way you watch critical drinker too?
Eh, except I never felt anything was good
@@andreivaldez2929 It was an attempt to have the cake and eat it too. It's like walking in on your spouse cheating on you and they just say "Yeah, this is pretty fucked up, right? I suck." and they just carry on banging someone else in your bed.
0:08 The Matrix: Resurrections
0:47 The Matrix: Redirections
4:57 The Matrix: Regurgitations
6:02 The Matrix: Revelations
8:31 The Matrix: Re-circulations
8:54 The Matrix: Regenerations
9:20 The Matrix: Retaliations
I hope I haven't missed any 😅
Matrix: Repopulation cabbage patch kids cross over
We don't need no hateration hollarations~
The Matrix: Reinventions
Regurgitation, pfft
That just hit the spot
The matrix: Retardations
I just watched it on TV the other day and it felt like a fanfiction in motion.
First, we have to circumvent canon.
Resurrect Trinity and Neo.
Next, construct a backstory around *why* the machines would not only resurrect them but keep them alive.
Sprinkle it with liberal use of flashbacks.
Add a touch of modern political philosophy.
It's a fanfiction, without two of the major characters. Four, if you count the Oracle and the Architect.
God it was such a sad end to the 2021 movie cycle, what a mess.
I think the official stated reason this movie was made is because "people we don't like have been using the redpill/bluepill meme and we wanted to reclaim it." Because all the best movies are made out of spite.
This is why I've completely given up on hollywierd, it's all BS. Nothing original and taking established characters and completely changing and/or neutering them.
I gotta say: you have one of my all time favorite insults from your Unbridled Rage of Rise of Skywalker: “Insipid Pisswaffle”
Yeah, my movie fast started in 2018 after the awful The Predator, and will carry on into 2022.
@@kennethboyer2338 Either you haven't seen *_Spider-Man: No Way Home_* yet or you are letting yourself be a prisoner of the moment. Chill. Yes, Hollywood is a tool of the global-elites to further their agenda, but it has ALWAYS been that. They've just put the volume on blast the past 6-7 years or so. There are still masterpieces that happen in the midst of trash. Focus on the good movies like *_Ghostbusters: Afterlife_* and *_Spider-Man: No Way Home_* and forget about movies like this.
I like how in the original movies when people ran up the walls, it was usually to jump over enemies, or get out of the way of an attack, but in this film they just randomly start running along the walls, as if the bullets that were aiming for their head will somehow now miss them now that they went horizontal.
my favourite one in the original was trinity cartwheeling through the metro gates or something, a big move and a lot of effort for something trivial xD
I giggle every time I watch that scene.
Hahaha! Great assessment, mate! Happy Holidays!
*vertical
@@faithhopecharity2843 , while walking on walls, people are in horizontal position, aren't they?
@@andreydragomirov8559 oh i see..yeah horizontal means smaller target points. Thanks.
This movie feels like a day in the life of a Hollywood celebrity during one of the few times they're struggling to stay sober this year.
LOL, too true! Super rich but alone and unhappy. Sounds legit.
I know it's two yers too late but I agree with Fishbourne's statement:
When asked whether he felt like he had missed out on being a part of the franchise’s revival, Fishburne offered a simple, “No, not really.”
First I felt bad for Lawrence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving for not being included in the movie. Now I think they dogged a bullet (no pun intended).
💀
But yeah it's Actually good that they weren't included. Shit was a Mess.
James Cameron should've directed this
Yes Doogie Houser ended up being the only good thing in this movie except maybe Trinity still looking pretty hot 20 years later
I think they dodged a bullet too. I thought it was kind of interesting how the new Morpheus and Agent Smith actors were both 25 years younger than their respective predecessors, and I now feel intrigued to see how the narrative of this film explains them looking sort of different. April 28, 2022, 4:03am
You're telling me these machines can bring the dead back to life but they can't find an alternative energy source?
I'm mind blown, this had never occurred to me. You're asking the real question here.
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I think this was explained in the first movie.
@@amrokas It honestly really wasn't. They were dependent on solar power, humans blocked out the sun, and the machines put humans in pods to turn their body heat into energy. A human body literally cannot output more energy than it takes in. Humans in pods could never be net producers of energy.
@@WombatDave It honestly really was ;). It was explain right after Neo was awakened "As Morpheus, who's played by Laurence Fishburne, explains to Neo shortly after this truth is revealed to him: "The human body generates more bio electricity than a 120 volt battery and over 25000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the energy they would ever need." So why would machines ever need to seek for an alternative?
8:35: Given Keanu has done all the John Wick movies in his 50s, I don't think the problem is that he's too old for exciting action scenes.
I think the problem is that the choreography is garbage.
Exactly. In Wick Keanu has competent people. In this not even close.
The problem is that this movie really should have taken his age into account while working out the fight scenes. Keanu might not have the physical strength and speed necessary for the fast-paced fights of the original movies, but focusing instead on timing, strikes meant to disable or weaken his opponent, and taking a slower and more strategic approach would have made up for that. Using lazy Taken-style quick cuts just highlights how this version of Neo is an inferior knock-off of himself.
Ironically, the Chad in the Matrix film is Chad Stahelski, the director of the John Wicks films.
So they had a guy on hand that knew how to make fight scenes.
Odd.
I just commented the same thing.
Keanu doing jazz hands during the entire third act was pure lazyness, and considering the budget for this movie, I think Keanu got paid A LOT for this movie
This is the only film where using CGI to de-age the actors could've made sense, since the matrix is a simulation, and they decided not to do it. Hell, they could've used CGI to turn a young acrobatic kung-fu fighter into Keanu in post so he looked like a badass and not a middle aged has-been. They could've even written it off, by noting how "you don't notice things look unusual in a dream until you wake up" if they wanted
I think someone should do a documentary about HOW the Wachowskis actually managed to create the first Matrix successfully. Did they sign a deal with the Devil? Where did they get the script? Who hired the fight choreographer who did wirework and cinematographer who did bullet time? There's got to be a story there; cause I no longer believe that they were the creative force behind that movie
......Sophia Stewart
Strong support that the wachowski's stole the script for the original matrix.
I'm starting to think the same thing, the wachowskys did'nt make the original Matrix movie, they only put their names on it.
I can not agree more. We demand to know the truth !
The Machowskis just stole ideas from Dark City and The 13h Floor and called it "The Matrix".
The only thing “good” was Laurence Fishburn & Hugo Weaving seeing the script & be like “nah it’ll be fine”
That would suggest they signed onto the project.. no?
They purposely didn't invite Fishburne back. If Keanu looks a bit past it for the fight scenes then spare a thought for Laurence who embraced fatness and oldness with joyous abandon.
@@MrMittens1974 i guess he feels fine now NOT have been invited
@@MrMittens1974
True, he's actually pretty good in John Wick 3, but he embraced the aging here.
Hugo Weaving when he saw the script: "You should have stayed dead."
They would have been better off making this Groundhogs Day - Matrix style.
That actually sounds really fun!!
Think thats sort of Edge of Tomorrow?
That's honestly an amazing idea.
CROSSOVER!!
@Kristopher Chavez which video talked about smith being the one?
This is the worst film I have seen in the last decade. I walked out so angry I could barely talk but I apologized to the friends I took to it.
knowing when to stop is one of the most important lessons for an artist to learn. unfortunately, the maturity that process requires isn't in high demand in hollywood. the sad truth is i've got a lot of experience ignoring films in the matrix series, so one more doesn't really change anything for me.
In Lana's defense, she did want to stop. She only made this film as a coping mechanism for losing her parents. WB were the ones demanding and pushing for a sequel.
Hot take but there wasn't a bad movie in the original trilogy
It feels a lot like the Terminator franchise. I didn't care for most of those so I either watched them years down the line or not at all. I didn't care about Matrix 4 so I probably won't ever watch it.
You're asking for maturity in Tinseltown, where idiots like Seth Rogen can get famous? You're asking for a lot...
@@under_score3829 "She only made this film as a coping mechanism for losing her parents. "
Her saying that sounds itself like a coping mechanism, tbh. Me, I not only ignored this film, I watched the original Matrix film last night and enjoyed it. I don't think I'll bother rewatching 2 and 3 either, tbh.
“Have your cake, eat it, and mock the whole concept of cake too” lmao that line is better than the whole movie 😂
The cake is a lie
Rehashed quote and boring
I watched this last night. I was hoping that they were going to turn it around and make everything Neo went through in this movie be some sort of containment program where he has to go through the same events over and over again in some sort of sisyphusian punishment for rocking the boat so hard in the first movies. If the first movie was an exploration of the allegory of the cave, this one then being caves within caves.
Sadly that was not the case, and all the weird commentary on modern media and sequels, and the strange misuse of the color blue with many of the characters was for nothing.
It really felt like the studio said "make another matrix movie" and the director didn't want to, but couldn't turn down the fat paycheck.
The Sisyphusian over and over is what was heavily alluded to in the Matrix Reloaded during the scene with Neo and the Architect. Those 'tvs' were instantiations of Neo, many instantiations. There were definitely more interesting places to go with this latest movie but they didn't go there.
When I saw the first trailer, I thought that's what this was going to be as well. The Matrix keeping Neo imprisoned and punished, and essentially someone discovering he was still alive and what it would take to remind him of what he had done and rescue him.
Personally, I would've like for this movie go towards the Second Renaissance route from the Animatrix and explore how machines view humans after their freedom.
I'm sure some machines harbor hatred since the war but others might want to look toward forgiveness.
I'm sure you put less than 10 minutes of thought into this comment, but came up with more or less the perfect "it was all a dream" plotwist I've read in a comment section.
Why weren't people like you hired to write this movie?
that "cave within a cave as punishment" idea is pretty neat honestly. I would have watched that.
She doesn't know why she's making this film? You mean He doesn't know why He's making this film!
The Matrix Resurrections is like ordering crepes at a diner, then the waitress serves you American pancakes yet the menu clearly said crepes, leaving both parties confused when confronted with reality, you ask the waitress why and she tells you that crepes and pancakes are the same thing. Facepalming hard, you reply that they might made of the same ingredients but they most certainly not the same.
The Matrix Resurrections might be made of the Matrix lore but its certainly not a Matrix film.
Edit: Holy shit this thing exploded, thanks! Go watch some more Critical Drinker videos.
Read this in the drinker's voice for some reason
Yeah but at least pancakes are still delicious, resurrections is complete trash especially compared to the previous films
@@MMoniz253 It certainly makes it sound better in my head too.
Lol the art of analogy
Ricky Bobby Reference strong with this one
When a movie shouldn’t be, but its review definitely should. Magnificent.
IDK
Maybe with all that time, the Wachowski Siblings could have created an interesting sequel. Matrix 2 and 3 had their issues, though they also had some great scenes and concepts.
Why do all the "good" directors and "writers" have to Lucas up the sequels???
Cocaine must be one hellova drug.
@@drx1xym154 It's actually bc of capitalism, same reason China made products are so low quality.
@@Ebani what's the big issue, it's a great movie??
I just wanna know why he hates BUGS’s blue hair? She looked dope as fuck in the matrix.
Fits we’re on point. Shades were killer. Hair was always nicely quaffed and looked good.
Maybe I’m just partial. I really loved BUGS as a character.
(And RESURRECTIONS rulez btw)
@GETREKT47 you're just trolling. You wouldn't know a great piece of film if it slapped you up and down Hollywood.
I learned my lesson back in 2015 when I went to see Terminator Genisys. Vowed to never see another reboot again.
Pretty much. If something gets decent reviews I may look. But the majority of these reboots are terrible.
This movie pretty much seals that fact!
You'll have to give Top Gun: Maverick a chance. The movie slapped
I did that a long ass time ago, think it was back when terminator salvation came out? Might have been when Conan the barbarian came out? Can’t remember.
@@justasparagi8343 isn’t that a sequel though?
Hate how Keanu just looks the same in every movie nowadays.
Has he ever really looked different? I mean there is Young Keanu and Old Keanu With Beard but I never really noticed him playing strikingly different roles when he was younger either. He used to be kind of a joke for always playing the exact same character, everyone used to laugh at him for his "lack of acting ability" and single expression, although everyone still liked him. Which makes it more impressive that he actually managed to move on from that.
This is hands down the best and most accurate review I've seen of this complete blemish on the franchise. First-time viewer. Definitely subbing.
@@hollowaether4034 I know. Drinker is weirdly focused on pandering to the "antiwoke" right-wing neckbeards instead of making legitimate criticisms. Most of his videos are basically him whining about how some movies don't fit exactly with his political views instead of legitimate criticism. He was supposed to keep politics out of this.
And his audience of righteous neckbeards lap it all up.
@@hollowaether4034 "I could do that with everything this guy says", please do. It would be interesting in hearing a different perspective, a single counter argument does not do this review video much justice.
@@haveyouseentheyellowsign61 Most of the movies he whines about are full of political views, that’s partly why he’s whining.
@@haveyouseentheyellowsign61 There's nothing left-wing/right-wing about this. If you're going to do a remake of a 20-year-old franchise, there are certain expectations you must satisfy. The simple truth is that this film met none of them and is a rehash that is worse in every aspect.
This movie was absolute steaming dog shit bad. Pathetically bad.
Someone in the comments said there were so many stories they could’ve explored and I couldn’t agree more. My wish has always been to know what happened to the previous 5 Ones. Why did they fail? What did they do wrong and why was Neo such an anomaly compared to them? Also, I would love to know about the first Zionists and their struggles during the very early stages of the 3rd Matrix (as the architect stated that there were 2 previous failed ones). Who led them during that era? What started the war? They had sooo much content to fall back on and expand but instead they gave us rehashed scenes and Neo and Trinity as the main leads again. I love them, I really do but their comeback was so unnecessary. New leads with Neo and Trinity making cameos (like we saw in spider man 3) would have been the better option imo.
I feel like the point the architect was making in Reloaded was that the difference between Neo and the previous ones, is that he was in love and that emotion made him make different, perhaps irrational (from his pov) hard to predict, decisions. Definitely agree that there were so many other interesting stories to tell from the Matrix. Just have to look at the Animatrix to see that, which had some fantastic ideas.
Honestly they should just leave the franchise to rest. I'm not for keeping movie franchises going on for too long. I even think that no movie should go beyond a trilogy.
The difference of (Keanu) Neo from the other chosen ones was already clearly stated in the trilogy. You just didn't listen and didn't try to think.
And @Arghlex, no, this is some BS. He predicted his 'irrational' choice long before. Every single chosen one chose 'The Love Door', when presented the same choice as was given in the second movie (well, those who made it to the Architect's room).
The different choice of Keanu Neo from others was shown in 'Revolutions'. Don't you think it's quite obvious, given the title of the third movie?
@@masrfaker Are you saying this movie is about if Neo had chosen to take the other door instead of 'the Love Door' which given the Architects chance to upgrade and reset the Matrix universe? Kind of makes sense although they now need to make a final Matrix and tie up all the loose ends people have mentioned like those in the real world aka Zion, the worlds reaction to being woken up etc
@@monkstandinglast By 'this movie' you mean 4th part? Never seen it, and never will. It doesn't exist for me. Matrix universe ended at Revolutions. There is no logical way to incorporate Keanu as a main protagonist after Revolutions, because he already made his choice. The only way to stretch it is to name your Matrix movie 'Subvertations' (so you are soo gonna subvert expectations :D and just don't give 2caps about life-defining choices of your character). It would be possible to continue Matrix universe, but with a new protagonist, a completely new plot, that goes even further than the choice of Neo, building upon the lies, that machines created.
And one more thing, choosing 'the Love Door' didn't give 'the Architects chance to upgrade and reset the Matrix universe'. He almost didn't want it. It was plan of the Oracle, and he just decided to go along with it. Re-watch the trilogy or find some clever review (though, I haven't seen any clever Matrix review in English segment)
Lawrence Fishburne - “I’m not sure why they didn’t call me back for this movie.”
Also Lawrence Fishburne after Matrix Resurrections is released - “Thank God.”
Same for Hugo Weaving
Are ya sure they weren't the ones who passed up the "opportunities"?
This review was PERFECT….I don’t think you understand how happy it makes me that all my thoughts were put into this video😂
When your film is about a love story featuring The Matrix, rather than being a movie about The Matrix featuring a love story, you know you've cocked up.
I don't know if you heard, but the Wachowskis aren't cocking up anything anymore.
The love story, and it must be clarified it's between a man and a woman because that's important for its function, is only a smoke screen for the fact that they castrated Neo and the previous movies. It's there to distract you from all the penis envy, cough, I mean cunt "power".
@@YoureUsingWordsIncorrectly I don't think they even have actual balls anymore.
Please, go see the end credits of Matrix Resurrections and see why they made about a love story! you might think twice before judge the story. 😂😂 Also, this movie was also The Matrix,! that tiny mind just didnt paid attention enough because you listen to what a drunk guy words has gospel.
I see my days of having no desire to see this film are just getting started. Thank you, Drinker, for falling on this grenade so that others don't have to.
Talk about taking a hit for the team!
I started watching days ago. I've turned it off many times and shut it down for good after a scene where the MACHINES have preferred -pronouns- names. They prefer to called simbiots apparently. Eff off film!
@@justinm2697 No! Not pronouns!!!! They got woke on us? 😭 #machineslivesmatter
@@ElNegroMasGuapoDeMexico That's what the script was alluding to.
I was one of the unfortunate souls that watched it over the Christmas weekend. My dad was a huge fan of the original trilogy. We watched it on HBO Max. He got up about an hour into it and went off to take a nap. I asked him later in the day if he wanted to watch it and replied “No. I’ll watch the first Matrix instead.” I finished watching it. It was hot garbage. I went to go see Spidey NWH again later that day.
Your dad's a chad
@@AukeLauwers or is his name Chad?
Dude I put it on for my mother and i came back halfway and she went back to watching the news and said the movie was so bad she shut it off
thats ok only low IQs with small attention spans didn't like it, Disney is more of your thing since u only watch movies for CGI action scenes. You are the "sheeple" the movie makes fun of, OH WAIT U DIDNT MAKE IT THAT FAR LOL
@@MKultraInstinct or maybe the movie sucks? I dunno, it's a foreign concept to understand that something is a shitload of fuck.
Time and again, I enjoy coming back to this for the expert and perfectly stated analysis…and because I love hearing “f*** off, film!” which just makes me laugh.
This felt like a poor Netflix series made into a film. Agent Smith was about as intimidating as a kitten, and I couldn’t care for anyone else apart from Neo. The pacing was terrible also.
💞Guardiantext🌼org❤and .... The purpose of any Lifetime. From the ancient wise men.
You are not the body and mind you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body, you have forgotten over many incarnations.
The Matrix is your own bio computer brain machine that keeps You in the illusion of being a physical Being in a physical world via the nervous system and the five senses.
Meditation is putting the body and mind to sleep but staying Awake and Alert inside so you can re experience your Self as Eternal Spirit again.
If you remain in this state after Meditation its called Nirvana, Samadhi, The Tao, AWAKE as Eternal Spirit again, The Holy Grail to Eternal Life, Obtaining the Golden Fleece Greek mythology, Self Realization Yogananda, Prodigal son ,Garden of Eden, Satori Cosmic Consciousness, Leaving the Body but not dying Socrates Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti , etc etc all the same.
THAT IS THE TRUTH.
Yep, just like with Mortal Kombat. WB really dropping the ball lately. Godzilla Vs Kong was the only decent thing this year.
They did try to bend a Matrix-esque sci-fi into their Netflix hosted show “Sense8” which they absolutely suffocated with woke garbage. Probably better than Matrix: Refinanced.
There really is so much that you can pick apart in this movie, but that did stick out to me quite a bit. The Smiths in the first one right from the start were already intimidating as faceless, robotic government men bent on snuffing out any divergent individuals. When the audiences realizes that they are literally inhuman beings, they become all the more freaky.
Yeah the pacing was pretty bad
You know the sad part is they could have explored the idea of a machine civil conflict... Neo still alive, but as code... how there could be a faction of machines aligned with humans similar to the Animatrix short films. Goes to show you evil can only corrupt not create.
Yep. Even if forced back into it, there’s a lot Lana could have done that wouldn’t have dented the mythology, and Animatrix is up there with the original.
2nd renaissance live action & 2 part 2 hour movie
But screw that, too much work!
Aye. The Pitch Meetings for this movie made this point, and you're both right. The concept of the machine civil war is super cool, but would have been faaar too much work for the lazy ass filmmaker.
Why? Because inter-robot relationships are more interesting than interpersonal relationships?
What really makes you think is that the Intensions behind most movies is evil, pure profit motive, as it certainly is not art. A lot of films are primarily made to make money so in this instance we get exactly what that type of system thinks we want. Or I should say what we have been conditioned to accept. So long as the incentives are there films and art in general will continue to de-evolve into nothing more than corporate propaganda. Sad but it's happening in gaming as the push for profit is literally killing everything creative because it funnels that creativity into a limited vision.
I remember watching "The matrix" at the cinema. When the film ended, everyone was clapping and cheering. I bet that didn't happen for this movie.
No, no it did not.
I laughed mockingly at the biggest reveal in the movie. It's a good movie but christ it's not even on the top 10 list of movies so I don't get why people even wanted this, much less want to roast it.
It doesn't happen for any movies nowadays. There's nothing coming out that's good enough to clap for.
Nope. It was dispear and embarrasment
Nope. Probably just bunch of stunned in disbelief at how bad it was diaper faces crowd.
I love how he purposefully gets the title of the movie wrong each time by calling it something slightly different lol
Even when the film fucks it all up beyond recognition, the Drinker never fails in his poetic destruction.
When I found out that Laurence wasn't even asked to be in the new Matrix, I raised an eyebrow. And after watching this, I'm glad he wasn't. His legacy didn't need to be sullied with this garbage.
How much does he weigh now?
@@rogersmith7396 Doesn't matter.
He could've lost weight for the role
Its 60years later, he's dead in story, and the 'new' Morpheus doesnt look like him for in-story reasons. Wouldve been cool to see him but I understand why they werent bothered to.
@@leonrobinson8180 Yeah when Christian Bale can get or lose the weight of a human being depending on the role actors don’t have any excuses.
@@theatheistbear3117 Tom Hanks got diabetes from Castaway. Maybe severe weight loss for a role isn't very smart.
I’m convinced we need a new line of talented directors that actually want to push past something different then what Hollywood has been pumping out...not all Directors are created equal.
I think that's why they are rebooting so much. The "young new, talented directors" are making the garbage that is currently on netflix right now.
Denis Villeneuve is probably the best most consistent director we currently have (dune blade runner 2049 sicaro arrival and prisoners he had 5 great awesome film in a row
Late stage capitalism = you only get funding for stories and concepts that they know will generate money, and as long as audiences keep giving them money that is how it will be.
@@hayrogarciga924 That's not true, most of these films flop at the box office but they keep making them anyways. There have to be different reasons why. I believe that the western world and its shared values is coming to an end, it shows in art like movies, music and (pop) culture in general. Everything is changing, we are amidst a really big societal and cultural change right now. The only question is: Where does it lead to?
It’s been said by many artists at many different times: if you haven’t lived a life out in the real world, working real jobs, living among regular people… you’re never going to be able to create stories that they can appreciate.
The new crop of writers and directors have nothing but disdain for regular people. They graduate from their opulent universities and hole up in their west coast cities, totally insulated from the rabble. They’ve never filled out a time sheet, performed manual labor, worried about money, etc. They have no authentic life experience to draw from. So the motivations and anxieties of the common man are alien to them. This is why movies and TV shows are feeling more and more contrived and rehashed, they’re grasping at straws.
Complete list of the successful movies of world famous director duo Wachowskis:
* Matrix 1
Which was stolen. Check out Dark City(1998). The Matrix was ripped straight from that movie. I still dig it tho. It's one of my all time favorite films.
V for Vendetta
@@mkultra7588 The only downside to Dark City is that I felt the characterizations could have been done better. Still a good film though.
@@mish375 I like the movie but the author hated it lol
@@mkultra7588 not true. Stolen in the same way DARK CITY was stolen from Kafka narratives.
Everything influences everything else. Dark City owes a bunch to Noir, K Dick, and Paul verhouven. I wouldn’t say it stole from those tho.
Just influences.
I've discovered you, Nerdrotic, Disparu etc in the last couple of months and going back to see these videos is the best.
Studios attempted to use diversity as an attempt to rebrand its image as friendly companies gaining its audiences. The Matrix Resurrections proved this by introducing multiple weaknesses for a franchise already destroyed by its previous sequels.
Its attempts to break the fourth wall and go meta within its own universe didn't fit. Its attempts to use female empowerment and feminism as plot points for both new and returning characters are undermined by being obvious. Its attempts to paint men as mindless programs jumping out of buildings instead of spending time with their wives is meh. And its attempts to jump back and forth between the scenes of the trilogy and the film looks like it's made by people with actual mental illnesses.
Also, Keanu Reeves' performance screams John Wick more than Neo.
"Her husband's name was literally "chad"", I laughed so hard on this line.
I'm pretty sure that's Chad Stahelski, stunt double for Keanu in the original series and director of John Wick etc, so Chad is meant to be yet another meta reference.
or juts a lazy writing
@@rootvalley2 It means, only "chad" could have made her choose him over neo and that is exactly what happened in the movie, neo was an incredible man but chad in her mind was many times better than neo till a psychological tradcon act made her to choose the beta, in this case possible neo. Anyway, women would never leave chad in any way, reason this movie was a lie.
@@worldwanderingfisherman2166 haha this is so absolutely not true XD
@Trsum_ Its the truth, chad is the one who leaves them for the streets hehe
There are so many very interesting stories that they could have told, to build this matrix-verse. Like: Morpheus and Trinity's path to search for Neo, stories of the Merovingian and his wife, stories of the twins, the keymaker, stories of Neo's predecessors. Stories of the Oracle and the choices she made that cost her so much, stories of seraph, stories of sati sand her family, stories of dozer and mouse and their families, stories of cypher's awakening and converting... Enter the Matrix and Animatrix told so many better stories than this fan film.
you completely missed the point of this movie
@@TarantinosNightmare which is...? Did you see 6:15 of the movie?
we need another animatrix
@@TarantinosNightmare either you dont know what good is , or you are too young . or you never seen the matrix 1 2 and 3
They should probably just leave the Matrix alone. It was a groundbreaking movie that was very much ‘of its era’, followed by two okay sequels that didn’t really need making either. I don’t need ‘more’ of them, I want to see something new and exciting. People reward Hollywood too much by going to see sequels… in herds they go and see shit like this then complain when it doesn’t meet their expectations.
Your concise reviews really help me avoid disasters like The Matrix: Remunerations. Thank you!
When only one half of the Wachowski 'siblings' got involved, alarm bells started ringing. I can see why.
They might have been better moving the story on to the next "One", who sought out Neo, this spirit living in the code of the Matrix. After all, Neo was essentially disseminated into it after 3 as some sort of digital Jesus figure, or Rache Bartmoss for those with a more Cyberpunk background.
Ultimately there was a whole bunch of directions they could have gone.
Ditto man , the other one could see the writing on the wall which is a sign that it's not going to be pretty.
the other wachowski had period and therefore couldnt participate in da process
that's how I assumed they were going to go as well, which would have been infinitely better.
Actually, looking at the end credits, she'd only credited for the original Matrix characters. I believe it said something like "based on the characters by". She may not even have written the story.
The direction they should've gone was tossing the film and script in the garbage.
Whole movie has "somehow, Palpatine returned" energy
"Gender Studies Graduate" is by far and away the best thing anyone has said about this atrocity of a movie. I have tried to watch this on three separate occasions and cannot get through any more than thirty minutes without falling asleep. Spot on analysis once again Drinker.
Every fucken one is a GSG nowadays. 🙄
Yup. It's designed to be bad.
@@TheYahmez found the GSG
@@TheYahmez btw the dude has a couple good vids, most is mgtow shit as I later found out but sometimes the dude got a point.
@@TheYahmez 🤣🤣🤣 damn man, next time I'll give out a trigger warning.
You've exhausted the 30second attention you're worth so I'll let you seethe in silence now, but thanks for the laugh 😂😂😂
It would've been better if they'd made Neo into a sort of oricale type character with Trinity as his bodyguard & when they died in the last one, their consciousness somehow went into the matrix.
Arhythmic choppy editing (not Staenberg's genius from the previous trilogy), messy choreography (not Woo-ping's), shallow music score (not Don Davis), no punch lines, no iconic scenes, forced dialogues, disgusting costumes, camera too close or too far, no process of awakening, wrong character arc on Neo, no progression or connection between scenes and character appearance... You should have seen everybody's disappointed faces leaving the theatre. The worse part of Matrix Resurrections is that it is so ridiculous that the great philosophy behind it is now dampened, buried, or even mocked. And the second worst is Lana, probably thinking "they didn't get it, I'm too avant garde and it's the audience's fault that they don't love my, my, my masterpiece!”
Actually I think it would be more akin to "There are more important things in life than this stupid franchise that's gonna keep with or without us, so I might as well flip WB off while also kowtowing to them." It's confused, to say the least.
AVANT GARDE?
@@motherplayer I honestly don't get this fascination with Lana flipping WB. Even if that is the case I kinda wish she didn't do it at the expense of fan expectations and money. There's nothing heroic about signing up to do a job, getting paid and doing it shittily regardless of whether that's to make a point or not.
The lack of Don Davis killed it in it's crib for me and hearing the generic score buried it.
Trilogy? The second two SUCKED, dude. You remember that?!
Let this film serve as a reminder for two important things:
1. Film directors only go bad with time. Some go faster, some go slower, but past a certein point, it's a road downhill.
2. Having the original creator of a franchise direct a new sequel/reboot/rehash is no guarantee for success.
Cough Prometheus cough, perfect example. The Matrix (original) was a fluke, the wachowskis haven't had a hit since. And they pretty much ripped off everything to do it the first time.
Lana didn't even want to direct this one. She was kinda put into a Sakurai situation
@@idc2120 Sense-8
Directors are best at the beginning because they are more ambitious and they are forced to be more flexible with their decisions. As they gain more clout, they get more and more self-indulgent and insular. Surrounding themselves with yes-men also doesn't help. Creative people always need someone around them to say, "That's a stupid idea!"
@@idc2120 I honestly don’t believe this woman wrote the matrix I think she had a ghost writer
The John Wick films prove that Keanue Reeves can still perform incredibly exciting fast paced action sequences, I really have to put all of my blame for this film's lacklustre action on shoddy direction and downright appalling editing. I guess we know which of the two Wachoski's edited all the fights in the original trilogy...
Ya'. The 'guys'.
Yea I can't believe they turned to "just make the camera shake a lot during action scenes" along with constant cuts
Not really. If you put a twenty-year younger Keanu in a John Wick movie he'd be just as the Drinker says here. He'd move far quicker than Old Keanu moves. The only reason its passable is because the Wick movies are all highly choreographed. Watch some of the combat and you'll see Wick's opponents pause for a hair of a second so Keanu can block their punches and kicks. I'm Keanu's age and the realty is I'm just not as quick, fluid, and strong as I was twenty years ago. Aging is a bitch, and it creeps up on you ever so slowly until one day it hits you. Damn. I'm old.
@@generalyellor8188 "Highly choreographed" as opposed to THE MATRIX?!
Anyone can do fast paced action movies. That's just video editing and choreography.
What made Trinity so badass was that she did all that she did without being the one.
A few of the things that pissed me off:
1) The stakes are high, but nothing bad happens. In the Matrix, people died. A lot. Almost the entirety of the ship's crew got merked. Tons of people in Zion died. The main character dies in the end. Nobody in this game dies but the bad guys. Even if Neo and Trinity died, Zion would still exist and the world would go on as it did before.
2) Neo and Trinity have superpoweres. In the original, when Neo acquired the ability to dodge and stop bullets, he didn't have to exert himself. It was a fundamental trait of his connection to the matrix; he could intuitively do these things because he had gone beyond the bounds of the system's programing, and could alter portions of it at will. He couldn't fly, he could "fall" in different directions, because while he was still bound by some of the laws of the matrix, he could manipulate how they were implemented. In this new one, he's got to use his stupid forcefield to deflect shit and you can hang suspended in air like Superman because now we're an MCU/DC comics movie. Fuck off Hollywood.
3) The movie plays like a theme park ride. Oh, let's go to Zion, oh look it's so quiet, oh hey we're growing food with these freaky nanobot machines, oh look those machines look and act like animals for no fucking reason, oh no we're in prison now, oh look a jailbreak and we're going to go save Trinity yay. What a fucking joke. The movie treated the audience like we were children and had to have everything explained to us.
Quit. Watching. Cape. Bullshit. You are children
It's called Femsplaining, since it was done in a condensending way, from a "female"
@@dungeonmaster6292 we THOUGHT we were watching a Matrix movie, which once meant trenchcapes plus philosophy.
@@greebj ah...my bad then
Hated how the majority of the film spent for neo “trying” to regain him power for trinity to all of a sudden become the one! Sure I’m all good with her being just that had there been any build up or foreshadowing to it… you know like a trilogy would do🙄
"Trinity decides she can fly now, because she's ALSO The One!" That confused me too.
These late christian concepts... or more like modern global freaks commintern.
that is actually explained in the movie. Try watching it instead of these gatekeeping youtubers
She flies now? She flies now?! She flies now..
@@prometheus5477 I watched the entire movie, it was an absolute dumpster fire. They turned Neo into a complete beta bitch.
@@itskmillz mediocre youtubers would be proud of you
The sad thing is the whole machine civil war idea would have made a perfect follow up movie had they gone that direction. You would have been able to introduce new characters due to time progression and it would have had a different feel from the original trilogy while playing homage to the original.
It looks like they came close to some good ideas but played it safe and went with a rehash instead. The machines ressurecting Neo to use the powers of the one is a cool idea though their reason for doing the same for Trinity is weak.
It doesn't help that one of the founding ideas of the setting, using humans as batteries, is just silly.
th-cam.com/video/k8jftIuZl-k/w-d-xo.html
That’s what I hope they follow with only way I’ll watch
I saw about 15 mins of this film where John Wick and the Gen Z squad fight a hobo looking guy and a millennial who's meant to be Agent Smith, it was terrible and I would never watch the whole thing after seeing just that part.
There was zero reason for this to exist other than for creators to be spiteful of those who made them what they are.
We're in a serious age of creators just absolutely hating the audiences that made them, and they're finding out quickly that it's not working out for them
Yup.
I do believe that they "nerfed" him cause, well even tho he does a good Job on the John Wicks movies, Keanu is just too Old to do Kung Fu , like in the Trilogy.
Wicks fight are brutal, but less flamboyant with short and clean moves, close to the body and the target.
Matrix fights are basically like Old School Kung Fu movies, lots of movements, Leg work and Kicks, wich would be difficult for Him now, lets not kid ourselfs.
So they came up with that Jedi/Force push stuff, where all he does is push his hands forward and shit just flies away...
There is the Figth with Walmart Smith, but its filmed really close, there's lot of shit flying around and the camera is shaky, so you hardly really get a good look at whats happening.
And this is also another issue of this movie, it looks like they got a Figth Choregropaher that has never seen 2 people fight in their lives and certainly never saw any of the Matrix movies...
Here's a reason for this to exist: your $$$
@@colonelburton8451 Maybe if the plan was to lose millions of $$$.
It may be projection for the praise they sought for so long has made them realize that it won’t be enough to sustain yourself from the overall disappointment of life and could lead them to self-destructive behavior that it makes them resent the ones who praised them in the first place. That’s why God is so important. He can give you life and a purpose.
Brilliant review man, this movie was one of the most insufferable things I’ve watched in years. Let’s let The Matrix just die horrifically already
Yeah stupid people have been not getting Matrix movies for years.
We are all the ONE
More Arthur Morgan Voice Trolling pls
Pretty sure the director made sure of that. I mean the first 30 mins explain why they were making a 4th one.
I don't think the movie was as bad as everyone claims. There were things that we expected but didn't get and we got things we didn't expect. The ending was incredibly cheesy to the point I cringed but aside from that the rest of the movie wasn't horrible. It wasn't a masterpiece but it wasn't horrible. I think the biggest mistake was glossing over things that would have been a much more interesting movie like the machine civil war.
The first matrix had MASSIVE plot holes. A human body consumes more power than it is capable of producing therefore to even think that machines could use us as a source of power is completely fucking retarded. "I watched them liquify the dead so they can feed the living." Was one of the cringiest lines spoken in all of scifi history. If we used dead people to feed living people then our population would EXPONENTIALLY decrease which means every single day the machines would only have a fraction of the previous days power output.
Aside from the most laughable premise ever, the plot of freeing Neo was a complete waste of time. Why not load a bunch of nuclear bombs in the construct and bring them into the matrix? They could literally wipe out the machines power source in an instant and win the war.
The first movie was just as dumb. But, it was shot better and had FAR better fight scenes, plus there was this Kung Fu centered hero's journey in a cyberpunk dystopia so we all loved and embraced it despite its flaws.
This is a good excuse to talk about the original trilogy's action, the resulting legacy of Chad Stahelski's 87Eleven Action Design company, and then his directing Keanu in John Wick (You can see Chad in this film playing "Chad" at 4:16). Chad had been in stunts for years before he was cast as Keanu's double in the original Matrix trilogy. Production-wise, everything came together perfectly in those films to make things work beautifully.
1. The storytelling of the original Matrix, while hinting at something major going on in the the personal life of the filmmaker, wasn't an overt story of gender or politics. It was a late-90s cubicle movie (remember that opening scene!) and it reached the same audience as Fight Club, Clockwatchers, American Beauty, and Office Space. I remember Christians even glowing over The Matrix. All its images are highly encoded symbols. That's what happens when you're actually "subversive" and your side isn't winning. But once a creator gets comfortable and just hires people who would never dare challenge them, the symbols get lazy.
2. The music (especially in the Burly Brawl th-cam.com/video/9aFVSkncq00/w-d-xo.html and the highway scene th-cam.com/video/WBCQ0_ZNJf8/w-d-xo.html) stands on its own as great music. If you've ever been involved in the scoring of an action scene, you know how hard it is to make a "song" out of an action scene. Most fight music ends up being awkward on its own because the composer is tasked with reacting to the action. The edit is locked, so if it's supposed to be 4/4 time, but this edit requires a 3/4 time measure, or forces some awkward measure, that's your problem. Somehow Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor) got around this. I talked to him about this and he said The Wachowskis were collaborative down the line. That's what composers love. And he worked for some time on it. It's also no small ordeal bringing together two giants like Don Davis and Juno Reactor, but Ben's experience collaborating on all his albums only helped that relationship. In short, collaboration makes great art.
3. The action in the Trilogy leaned heavily on Yuen Wo Ping and his team. The camera moves and edits in the fight scenes were unheard of in Hollywood at the time. We only got those thanks to the Hong Kong spillover when Britain's lease on Hong Kong ended in 1997 and it went to the PRC, causing an exodus of Hong Kong actors and directors who flocked to the USA like Jackie Chan (Rush Hour), Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies), Sammo Hung, Chow Yun Fat, and Yuen Wo Ping. The Wachowskis took advantage of this situation basically let YWP run the show. Check out this blocking tape (previs) of the dojo fight (featuring Tiger Chen who's in the beginning of John Wick III, and was the star of another Keanu film Man of Tai Chi): th-cam.com/video/0jreg4e-lXY/w-d-xo.html. The previs uses pretty standard (and technically solid) Hong Kong-style wide angles and slow editing, standard Yuen Wo Ping stunt fare. The final, filmed scene (th-cam.com/video/0YhJxJZOWBw/w-d-xo.html) remained mostly loyal to the camera and editing of the blocking tape. In the 90s, it was pretty rare for a major American film to hand the keys over to the action team. At best, stunts would handle the second unit shooting, but the footage would have to be cut to the same cadence as the rest of the film. The Watchowskis fostered this relationship with the action team, and this was a cornerstone for Chad's 87Eleven Action Design company.
The Burly Brawl seems to have been put together the same way. Here's Chad S. prepping the Burly Brawl fight: th-cam.com/video/ScIKJgIJMUU/w-d-xo.html. Chad used this same model to stunt coordinate Serenity. Their previs video (here: th-cam.com/video/ztrJrdG2ki4/w-d-xo.html) was mostly followed in the final (th-cam.com/video/hXCaF68sDPU/w-d-xo.html). The Serenity previz really spelled the beginning of the business of "stunt-viz". (The quality of these is off the charts now. Micah Moore did this crazy one: th-cam.com/video/rJNQB2gcIQU/w-d-xo.html.) No action film is now to be produced without stunt-viz. 87Eleven made a commodity out of movement and stunt-viz. Their combination of indie filmmakers, high level performers, and combat trainers made for an action and previz house that could turn an actor into an action hero, while remaining tightly yoked to the production to ensure the quality of action was retained to the end. The natural outcome of this was for Chad to direct Keanu in John Wick, which changed the action industry in ways we hadn't seen since Ong Bak. (Also, at th-cam.com/video/iadLLfFXbUA/w-d-xo.html 4:02 Chad seems to takes a bump, unless this is his stand-in? Sure looks like him...)
At any rate, there are many disheartening things about Matrix Resurrections, but I'll focus on the action. For this I'll reference a behind-the-scenes featurette.
CAMERA AND EDITING PROBLEMS:
th-cam.com/video/iadLLfFXbUA/w-d-xo.html shows multiple cameras shooting the action for coverage. When you have twice the cameras, you have twice the footage, and probably twice the edits (at least). The editor is under a natural pressure to use all the angles, or else it might seem like a waste to have had 2 cameras on set.
th-cam.com/video/iadLLfFXbUA/w-d-xo.html 2 cameras again, shaking madly. No wonder it looks like a cheap Stephen Seagal movie.
THE PERSIAN RUG FIGHT:
th-cam.com/video/iadLLfFXbUA/w-d-xo.html This is important! This kind of action is "Persian Rug Fighting". These are fights that feel like they're contained in a small box, with the performers going through the motions, with minimal environmental interaction and translational movement. The action style that results is so awkward. The arms are at 90 degrees, there's no lateral movement, kicks never close or open the gap, there's no rotating, no hitting walls, no angles. It's just 2 people standing in front of each other doing blocky moves. It's the most awkward style of movement possible, and it's really become the bane of action design. You'll see it everywhere - Marvel movies (Black Panther in particular), Star Wars movies, ugh... Anyway, the reason this happens this this. Sometimes when a producer orders previz, the action team has no idea where the action will take place, so they'll be incentivized to choreograph everything in a small space (usually at a gym or a rented out warehouse in the country of production). These little fight blocks can be moved around the set easily, or transferred between fight teams. All the while, you're attempting not to piss off your actors by changing the action on them. Shoddy action results. The Matrix Trilogy's fights all seem to live in their locations because of the interaction with the environment, and this interaction tells a story. This level of interaction requires the action team being involved in early meetings, location scouting with production, meeting with the director of photography, etc. In other words, you have to be a boss to have that kind of knowledge. Granted some fights in Matrix 4 seem to "live" in their environments, but when the team either hasn't 1) adapted to the changing environment to utilize it or 2) aren't able to get information about the environments, they just deliver a Persian Rug Fight.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Most action design happens in production meetings, on contracts, and within long email threads. We have to fight production nonstop for the ability to make good decisions. Production in turn will always try to yank decision-making power from the action team. We're fighting the producer on budget, the director on script (because we will not meet the writer), the DP on the visual language of the action, and the editor hasn't even been hired yet, so we have no idea will happen to the footage, no matter how well it's shot. Chad nailed this. Brad Allen (who recently died) also cracked this method. He was one of the few gwailos on the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and he pushed the Hong Kong style into Hollywood with Scott Pilgrim, World's End, Kingsman, and Shang-Chi. It's a shame he died. Clayton Barber (my mentor) did this successfully in the Creed series. I was fortunate enough to work side-by-side with him on The Heart and see how he did it in China. So I took that method to India when I action directed Man Who Feels No Pain (th-cam.com/video/5QDb3qfZW-8/w-d-xo.html). I wrote about the whole process here: ericjacobus.com/man-who-feels-no-pain-a-new-process-for-action/ . You have to be a battering ram like these guys to make good action, or you get steamrolled and forgotten.
The Berlin team is a good fight team. Joshua Grothe did some TV like Cobra, Lee Huang's done indie stuff, and Ulrik is a solid indie filmmaker, and so this team SHOULD have been able to pull together a great fight image. We'd at least expect the aesthetics of the fights to be solid. But they didn't get the action scenes to live in their locations, and it looks like mush. It's also always possible that an action team will be hired late in the game, when most decisions have already been made, and so the action gets boxed in. Most other decisions will remain wildcards until the shoot day, and if the team isn't agile enough to adapt, there will be Persian Rug Fights everywhere, and the action will not go down in history. (Or even worse, people will get hurt or killed. There's been a string of these incidents lately.)
The action is mush, because the production was mush. It probably wasn't even worth fighting for. This film "just happened" (th-cam.com/video/6mkNIs2XWZU/w-d-xo.html). Nobody dared challenge the director here. That sounds like a power play.
For movies that matter, though, fight the battles, and always be ready and willing to walk away from a job. That's how you get great action done.
Wow. I learned so much from this comment. Thank you!
@bodd boward Maybe not. But it's very interesting and well written. It's more interesting than The Drinker's review, for sure.
Subscribed to you YT channel. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the insight.
Fucking hell man!!! I could put the kettle on;make a cup of tea and still be reading that comment
The Matrix: Regurgitations had me cracking up 😂
This literally could’ve been a ghostbusters afterlife, a pretty good movie that pays homage to the past while setting up a likable cast for a possible sequel
There's nothing good about Ghostbusters afterlife.
The movie was never going to be similar. The Wachowski brother are now sisters and are different people. Looking to trash everything they used to be. Matrix is a part of that.
The matrix regurgitations 😂
Found this channel a few days ago and so far loving every minute of it
Hats off to you Drinker
Yep I’ve been hooked since I found it by accident a month ago! His spot on critiques has given me much needed enjoyment
he is the man
You forgot the most important thing! The fight scenes are terrible. No body can actually fight or trained for the scenes. Who ever was the stunt or fight choreography is terrible. The original matrix had famous hk martial art choregrpahers and Chinese martial artist help train the cast. I remember the cast would train everyday for months before shooting. In this one it looks like who ever was in charge just watched a few self defence videos on TH-cam and used that
@Jip Jackson that’s just lazy and cheap! And how about Lawrence Fishburne not being invited back to film! I reckon the top guys at Warner brothers knew this was going to be a let down because usually once a films released there is clear indication of sequels. This has no indication of future films
So it wasn't just me, I kept saying "maybe it's only now cuz Neo doesn't remember being Neo" but then his 'cool Neo' moments were just him using the force to push the enemy, no hand behind his back fight style and emotionless blocking every hit he gets thrown at, also the part at the end where they fly holding hands, it looked like a Disney movie where they did a lil pirouette and went up
they where trained by doink the clown for that shitshow
They watched Detroit self defense training videos 😂😂😂
@@trevoromondi1663 lmao you right
Tonight I tried to watch this movie (one year after it came out) and... after the first minutes I thought "what the f..k is this?". After 15 minutes "stop, just can't watch this s..t!". I better look for the Drinker review ... and what? Drinker said the things I thought, and more, and better. Thank you Drinker for showing me I'm not... Crazy (we don't use that word here)
The best part of this movie is that it makes Revolutions and Enter The Matrix look like timeless gems.
you mean reloaded?
This movie makes "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" look like a cinematic masterpiece...
Part 2 and 3 were already shit if you ask me. They were already milk products. So this shit isn't even milking the franchise. It's milking the milk of the franchise..
@@GibDozer1 Hey no need to bash the Great Pumpkin lol.
@@Micha-qv5uf I use to hate the 2nd and 3rd but I also understand the matrix concept so now I love them it’s a deep thinking movie most ppl only liked the matrix for the action and never caught the mental aspect of it
The whole premise fails to work now. The Matrix came out in 1999, a time when the internet was new and just beginning to take off. Hell, most of us were still using dial up back then, hence the phones to get in and out of the Matrix. It's a great movie, and a decent enough trilogy but set in its time and poking fun at your shameless cash grab does not make it any less shameless. I suppose the one blessing is that since it's being panned by critics and fans alike, it's doubtful this monstrosity will go any further.
It's actually split. You think it's being panned because you're in your camp of haters right now. In reality it's pretty divided. There's as many people like it as hate it.
Exactly. It's the essential problem with lampshading. Just because they're pointing out the dang lampshade and cracking sly jokes at it doesn't mean it's not stupid for the lampshade to be there.
@@johnmellor932 I honestly don't know what people like about it. Even if you don't care about the martial arts....anime influences...characters that were the heart of the original trilogy....tone of the original trilogy......and you were totally into a whole new type of film..this was still a mess for what it was.
With this movie I expected them to do something with our overuse of cellphones and social media, but nothing came of it! Sucks! There was some reap potential there.
@@johnmellor932 Its walk out of the theatre bad. I have alittle self respect. I couldn't continue with this. I am a huge Matrix fan!
Who is this for!?!?!
The film actually told us why it was made at the beginning. There is a scene where 'Thomas' is called into the office by his boss 'Smith' and they had a little talk about making "Matrix 4". Thomas refuses to, but Smith tells him that the "Parent Company - WB" will proceed with the project with or without them.
It is very explicitly told to the audience they were going in for a bumpy ride. All my hopes and expectations were depleted in real time by the end of that scene. They should've put that into the trailer.
Agree. I knew it was shite after that scene as well.
Yes, the "clever social commentary" is about as subtle as a sack of hammers.
So the film-maker decided that the production wasn't going to shit on his creation, so he decides to shit on it himself to save it from being shat on?
He's not a smart man, is he?
This is the only explanation I can really think of. WB wanted to make a fourth one and basically gave Lana an ultimatum. So, rather than letting them turn it into some monstrosity wherein they make three new films that wreck what little cache the original three still had, she used the fourth film as a giant sword with which to kill the franchise for good.
@@ekscalybur "Ha! What if I kill myself first!?" *Ded*
Love they shoved in the “it’s her turn” agenda… just had to do it
"You don't get to have your cake, eat it, and mock the existence of cake at the same time." You are a true wordsmith.
This movie would have been better if it revolved around the matrix being inside another matrix.
Except that would be good 15 years ago. After Inception, Existenz, Rick and Morty Zigerion shenanigans... would've felt dated
They could have dared to actually continue the story? Like actually from the end of the matrix trilogy, maybe a move from ‘the matrix’ to a film about rebuilding, maintaining peace with machines, perhaps something around the trauma for those involved etc. Why do companies keep picking up old franchises and rehash them? Why aren’t they continuing the story? Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, now the matrix…
Maybe, after an alliance, the humans swap with the machines to reclaim the surface while tech lives underground. However, the AI programs used to terraform the environment are secretly recoded by humans into a similar kind of illusory enslavement and a rogue program (a prorogue if you will) has to reckon with the new Matrix without dissolving it and dooming it’s fellow programs to non sentient stasis.
@@mathewhale3581 already a whole lot more to do there than this movie 😅. The same plot as the first 3 🤷♂️
@@CST247 because they're creatively bankrupt. All movies have to check each box and if one isn't checked then the project is severely altered to mirror this movie or scrapped all together.
I am convinced even more that the first The Matrix movie wasn't actually made by the Wachowski
You're not familiar with one hit wonders?
Or people being past their best, shooting their bolt and having no more ideas?
Everything is finite.
I know what you mean. I remember thinking the same thing when I walked out of the theatre after the 3rd one. The sequels are so such a drastic drop in quality its astonishing. :)
Well they took much from ghost in the shell
More like Wojcicki
ah like they stole a script from some unknown? very possible.
To be fair, John Wick 4 proved Keanu Reeves can still pull off awesome fight scenes at 50+. I blame the sloppy and slow choreography on Matrix Resurrections.
Massive fail on the movie maker's side with the whole "Morpheus is now an agent who becomes self aware" bollocks.
The agent programs were always self aware, their literal description in the original matrix is "sentient programs".
But the new Morpheus/Smith was coded and created by Neo. He was not an agent created by the machines with full functionality. Neo placed him in the modal simulation to train his AI to become sentient. At least that's how I interpreted it.
@@davidgosserand8100 you’re right, he’s a program created by neo in order to free himself,
@@davidgosserand8100 yeah you're right, people are glossing over that fairly easily it seems. Drinker did as well as interpreting the previous three films as actually having been video games. Neo in this newer Matrix iteration has it designed for him so that those original film experiences - and any potential flashbacks of them - are to be remembered as a video game he designed. Neo has in fact coded this game himself within this newer iteration of the Matrix but that is after having been brought back and run through other iterations before by the machines.
@@alvinoflys7504 ok you noticed that too. That's why I came to the comments originally to see if anyone else had noticed that. Side note: The Drinker also makes a comment about the name Chad, but they did that because the actor playing the Chad character is stuntman and John Wick director Chad Stahelski.
@Carl Johan
I was planning to see this film when it came out on home video. But upon hearing that Morpheus became an agent? Oooooh I might have a bad time...
The video title sums the whole thing up so perfectly. Why the fuck did we need this?
Love you Gman. 💚
Second to Love Gman, and lacking the originality or a new concept for a comment. Just like this movie! ^_^
You're here too, huh? Why are we still here, just to suffer?
Gman ❤️
because if it wasnt a trans allegory before it will be now bigot ;)
"The humans still trapped inside the Matrix began to rebel"
Meanwhile literally in the ending of Revolutions that nobody paid attention to because "too many goofy fight scenes", Oracle asks what about those who want to get out and the Architect graciously answers that they will be let out.
Fuck off film
You're forgetting about the people who didn't want to leave initially, like Cypher from Matrix 1. They could in theory be wanting out between the end of Revolutions and Resurrections, after hearing about Neo.
Thank you, for all the nostalgia sequences in this film they really didn’t respect the originals
They can't want to be let out if they don't ever know there is an out.
@@muddro420 remember what the Architect said? The majority had accepted the programming as long as they were given a choice, even if it was only at a subconscious level.
@@cameronchesters5300 Humans choose the right way only after they run out of all other ways avoiding it...
20 years later . The CGI and fighting at the least should of beem mind boggling. The story already was stretched for the trilogy. All we wanted was a nod to the orginals, with insane badass sequences. Think what Tom Cruise has done with every iteration of Mission Impossible movies
I love that Keanu couldnt even be bothered to changeup his John Wick look for this film lol
I've read that he was filming the new John Wick movie at the same time as he shot The Matrix 4.
He couldn't change his look.
Reminds me of Stallone in Rocky 3-5 and the last Rambo. After some time, it seems they just stop giving a s#!t and just start appearing and thinking "nah it'll be fine". :/
@@daveeyes damn, keanu not giving a fuck to this poor remanufactured 'Movie' (using shit is too nice) is just icing on top.
John Wick 4 is going to be 10 times better than Matrix 4
He did shave his head for this movie🤷♂️
I find it funny that, in the original films, Neo was sort of the Mary-Sue character due to his unique powers as "The One". Whereas Trinity was the person with hard earned skills who has to get by with being a normal human, yet kept pace with Neo in many ways, even as he was awakening to his true potential.
I mean she even yeeted an agent with the "Dodge this" move in the first film, even though Morpheus explained in no uncertain terms that every single Matrix hacker that has gone up against an agent in the past has died as a result.
So ironically, by shoehorning Trinity into being "The One... Of Two", they take AWAY from the characters strengths and abilities rather than adding to them.
She's a Mary-Sue now. Alongside with Mary-Sue Neo. In a perverted and cringe Mary-Sue "Maryage"
The woke morons love making female characters who are perfect beyond description.
Hehe that funny I never thought neo was a Mary Sue. He does have a few scenes where he fails though. Like the roof jump scene.
Except Neo was useless in the beginning and took three films to become godlike.
Whereas trinity wakes up and is god like.
Completely different
The first movie he wasn't much of a Mary Sue. He got the snot beat out of him all the time and spent the most of the movie confused, unsure of himself, and afraid. He did seem more of such in the sequels (2 and 3) where he was more of a super hero though.
How was neo a mary sue? He gets his ass kicked throughout the first film until the end. He earned becoming The one, and in the second one he got overwhelmed by Smith's and ended up dipping
The first movie asked some very basic but interesting questions:
1) What is reality?
2) Would you rather live in a reality where you were always cold and hunted and had nothing to eat but snot or in something you know is a simulation where you can eat steak dinners in your mansion every night in a simulation that is so real you can easily forget it isn't?
The best films are really about basic ideas that serve as a skeleton, then you build a story around them. Hollywood seems to have no idea how to do that now. Everything is a reboot of a reboot. Find a franchise people are already emotionally invested into and then just continue it with endless fluff and filler. No setup, no payoff, just mindless nonsense.
Matrix was a copy of human reality. It wasn't fake in that aspect. The wish to leave more most of humans had source in human egoist desire to be more than what world's ladder enabled, to cheat system, to gain adventage. Only for very few it was about true freedom as the ultimate value - most of humans hate it with passion & is scared of it shitlessly. Because it forces them to aknowledge they are responsible for their actions & ourcomes. And this despite being true in theory in true life is also an illusion. For most of us our actions aren't so much ours, the same as our identity & beliefs which in big part are shaped by our environment, surroundings, programmed on subcoscius level & often by habits & addictions somatically driven. There is also a big factor of randomness and luck. The same ppl despite being equal get to different places just because of sheer randomness.
We may try to choose direction & carefully note what shapes us around gaining back part of free will but the pace we will go, the chances around will still vary. And without aknowledging this natural disparity, laughter of fluid fate you aren't even aware how to act to take adavntage of those sublime, hidden small cheat codes in the matrix around us.
Try wearing more interesting cloths, you gain attention, you become more recognisable, you automatically gain adventage. But be wary of other ppl who know about other factors as hidden politics, deceptions in groups - the thing that gives adventage to the conformists & sneaky & the better informed & using this against you for own gain.
And all of it are just natural laws of human societies, anywhere.
Only some of us decide to group with similar exceptional ppl and build things differently with more integrity, in more decent, honest way by cost of separation from big processes that always come back to bite our asses anyway.
This Movie Made Me Feel Like I Was In The Matrix Watching The Matrix; That Was The Point Right..? 🤔
Essentially the Metaverse.
@@logicaldude3611 Agreed. To be fair, though, Resurrections is based on a simple idea: love overcomes all/love is all-important.
Unfortunately, romance movies with Keanu suck; always. No disrespect, love the dude.
And don't get fooled by the thin veneer of SF artlessly tacked on...Resurrections is a romance movie first.
I think Drinker could fix the movie; deep down in the emotional drivel was the kernel for a decent idea (i.e. what if Neo died in vain).
Thanks for saving me from this disaster
Did anyone notice that instead of having to dodge bullets, people just run away from the gunfire and seem to magically not get shot? The original had a more grounded feel, where each movement was intentional. Also, what’s with neo’s force field thing? The whole point is that things change because he wills them to change, not some force bubble to stop bullets!
Ya that's what I thought. Ya wow...Neo can use the force now. Jeez. Force pushing everything in sight. Lol
He's too old to be active now...
The disappointment from movie goers for this film rather reminds me of Ralphie from A Christmas Story. He was so full of anticipation waiting for his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring to come in the mail. When it finally does arrive, he catches the next broadcast and excitedly writes down the secret message. Rushing upstairs to the bathroom and begins to decode the message with the aid of the decoder ring. Only to be epically disappointed that it was just an advertisement. At least Ralphie had a good excuse for his disappointment. He was just a young kid and not wise in the ways of the world yet. There's no excuse for adults running to this film and being disappointed. And now we know why the other Wachowski wanted nothing to do with this movie and the franchise as a whole.
I suspect the other Wachowski not wanting to be involved was estradiol-fueled drama more than anything else.
Eh, sort of. I'm one of 'those' who actually like the sequels. I know they are bad but I still like them. Saw this trailer and immediately thought uh-oh. I don't really know of any Matrix fan who was anticipating this in any way. Less skilled actors, less directors, a giant Yuen Woo Ping shaped hole in the heart of it, and worst of all, a political agenda inspiring it. I think for fans, it was morbid curiosity rather than excitement.
Ralphie even said "I went out to face the world.....wiser" and the narration and child actor made it clear that he accepted he got screwed over and was swallowing the bitter pill of disappointment in something he held dear.
A crumby commercial? Son of a bitch!
Well at least the decoder ring remains useful for novelty even after the advertisement rug pull, provided a friend of his also had one. So it wasn't a total let down.
Crazy how Neo has to relearn his mastery of the matrix, meaning he can't fly around right away.
Yet Trinity wakes up and 5 minutes later she can fly, something she could never do before. Totally unearned skill.
But she is female so she will probably end up much stronger than Neo anyway.
Doubt it. The Wachowskis seem to like giving Neo's powers to other characters and keeping them equal to him in strength. Idk why though.
Another example of how Hollyweird has to put men down to make them inferior to their female overlords err umm counterparts. Such crap
She does take the lead at the end where they have Neo kinda standing in the background. The whole "I can't fly" scene on the sidewalk really almost seemed like a tongue in cheek joke about impotence.
@@loganscott814 probably to address the whole neo is jesus thing?
It felt like Lana was bitter that Neo and Morpheus were the fan favorites so she nerfed them, made them joke characters - here's Neo taking a dump and Morpheus likes to play dress up and act goofy - but she also buffed Trinity and tried to make her as important as Neo to the prophecy of The One.