My favorite quote from Laurence Fishborne, the actor who plays Morpheus, from when he first saw the whole movie, “I remembered all of the philosophical and metaphorical things that were in the script. I’d completely forgotten about that…. And Morpheus… scared the shit out of me.”
1999 was a very unique year for movies. Some of the greatest "plot twist" classics like "The Matrix", "Fight Club", and "The Sixth Sense", were released the last year of the 20th century. Some of my favorite films.
Dasha after watching the movie: "I don't have enough English words to explain it" Me after watching it for the first time: "I don't have enough English words to explain it"
I'm a scifi fan. Had seen 100's of scifi/fantasy movies by the time Matrix came out. This movie was beyond innovative... in story and film-making. Keanu ruled my movie favorites for a few years with Johnny Mneumonic, then came The Matrix. Keanu cemented his status in my top 10 movies and actors.
This was all filmed in Sydney, Australia. I was working there at the time. My house mates were working in coffee shops and Reeves used to roll up, on his Harley. Everyone said be was so nice, left huge tips and for the movie, he gave his royalties up as the crew made nothing. He gave everything to them. :)
Yes. Sydney was chosen because it was cheaper to film there but also because the CBD was mostly fairly new buildings and, for northern hemisphere viewers, was not recognizable as any city viewers would know. With some clever camera angles which avoided anything even a tourist would easily recognize, Sydney stood the part of any modern city. If you look carefully, there are a few giveaways. When Neo is on the outside of the building near the beginning, the brief shots of the street below shows cars driving on the left hand side of the road. The woman in the red dress is walking by the fountain in Martin Place in the middle of Sydney, but the clever use of camera angles disguises the scene. I know the area well and even I didn't see it on a first viewing. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour itself are a km (5/8 mile) or even less from where the outside city shots were taken.
The Matrix and V for Vendetta are my 2 favorite movies of all time. I just love the real life analogies from those 2 movies. I am really looking forward to the 4th Matrix movie coming around Christmas 2021.. just hope it's not ruined with woke bs.
This is one if the most compelling, and influential action movies ever made. So many pop culture references and memes came from the film alone. The special effects are iconic and the story really makes you think.
I think you've officially become my favorite reactor on TH-cam. You're always so observant, often catching things in movies I've seen more times than I could count. I also really appreciate that you pay attention to movies instead of missing basic details like some reactors might, while they were making silly jokes.
Agreed! Many reactors appear shallow and try to act like they're too cool or too smart to sit through the given movie and criticize the characters' moves without trying to understand why he/she did it. Those are people who simply want to "be reactors". I guess everyone has their own style. I appreciate Dasha's.
Ohhhh! *Facepalm epically* Why did I not get that till now?! Now all the other little things sprinkled in the other two movies now make sense. All the little Easter eggs here and there that is techno slang.
@@keithmays8076 Did you ever see The Animatrix? Or The Last Flight Of The Osiris (which was included in The Animatrix, but was also shown in cinemas as a short for some unrelated movie)? Or did you play the game Enter The Matrix? That was great at expanding the Persephone role and her penchant for kissing to experience love.
This movie has so many iconic lines to quote and scenes. I think my fav is Switch saying "not like this... not like this." before being killed by Cypher as she held Apoc after he was killed.
Your reactions Dasha are just to cool. You really get into the movie and characters. It really shows when you get emotional, very cool. If you watched this one then you have to watch the other two, it is worth the trip.
Dasha - R and R is a shortened term for Rest and Relaxation. Secondly, not only is the actor who plays Agent Smith also Elrond as you correctly noted, but he ALSO played the Red Skull in the recent Captain America movie you watched and reacted to.
Also the, which I didn't know until a little while ago, giving him the cookie was giving him new code which would activate when he came back from the dead. So technically, he wasn't really "the One" she kind of turned him into the one. You will see in part two, it's not really explained but there are explanations out there you can watch after you watch that movie.
R&R is a common US military phrase that worked its way into common slang for Rest and Relaxation. When one is told to get R&R it means to go rest and do some recreation.
I remember seeing this movie in 1999 the same year Fight Club came out both are innovative cinematic wonders and they came out just before the turn of the century. I think both movies was a start of a new mindset that took motion pictures to another understanding how a movie can explore the complexity of the mind.
My most favorite movie ever. I remember seeing this in the theater and no one knew what it was about, we were mind blown after. I have probably watched this movie 300 times.
I love watching people react to this movie, it really changed my life :) the directors were influenced by a lot of early anime, like Ghost in the shell or Akira which is the reason for the look and the way the action scenes were filmed. 3:39 Back in the 90's clubs like this were very alternative, known as "underground". You can still find them if you go looking but dance music has become so mainstream they aren't really the same thing. It was sort of like the punk movement was for rock & roll until the superclub movement around 2000. The track playing is called Prodigy - Mindfields :)
I did not catch The Matrix at the movies, but a friend invited me over to his place when it came out on DVD. That was the first DVD movie I ever saw. I was so amazed by the special effects that I went out the next day and bought a DVD player. This was a movie that changed the presentation so much that new technology was *required* to enjoy it fully.
I love how you emotionally connect with each film and the characters you watch, whether you like it or not..You're one of the best reactors Dasha, take care..xx
I remember the story about this was, they took the budget for this movie and spent it all on the first scene. and from the first scene alone, was able to get the rest of the funding to make the whole movie because of the -then-new method of filming they were using .
"He is faster and stronger than they are" No. As Morpheus said during the training it has nothing to do with actual strength or speed. Neo finally truly understood that its all just a program and he (as a hacker) can change all the rules. He can be and do anything. Its like when you realize you are dreaming you realize you can control everything in that dream (as long as you don't wake up).
It's called a lucid dream. The moment you realize you are dreaming, and then can control it. Everyone is capable of doing it, it just takes time and training. Many people don't even remember their dreams.
This movie is very stylized and usually heavy color correction drives me nuts, but it really works in this movie to highlight the green tint world of the matrix vs the real world. Nice reaction, and you have two more sequels to enjoy Dasha.
I loved watching this reaction. I was a kid when this first came out and saw in the theater and watching your reaction brought all of that excitement and child like awe and wonder back. The more you kept realizing and learning the bigger my smile got and I kept thinking "Oh just wait, it gets even better". Great job champ, keep it up 😏👍
That was, without a doubt, one of my favorite reactions ever! I love how invested you were with the characters and storyline, and you followed the plot of the movie very well. You made me feel like I saw it for the first time again!!! 💯❤️
This is such a classic movie.. Definitely the best of the first 3. Hope you plan on watching the other two even though they can get a bit confusing and hard to wrap your mind around. Also Matrix 4 will be coming out right around Christmas, so it's a great time to be revisiting these movies if you eventually plan on seeing that one too! (Also, YAY for seeing my name in patreon credits!! So glad that I can help contribute to the channel. Always entertaining Dasha, keep up the great work!! )
I was lucky enough to see it in the theater when it came out without having heard of it, went to see something else with friends and got there late, a friend with us said he heard it was good and it was the next starting movie so even though none of us were too keen on watching a Keanu Reeves movie at the time we were already there so decided what the heck. Blew our minds!
The Matrix is an absolute classic, and one of a kind. The flip side to this, is David Cronenberg's "Existenz." Similar ideas, but done in a completely different way. Both films are amongst my favorites.
One of the best sci-fi ever made. Plus its very philosophical. As a Russian I'd be interested to see you react to Equilibrium, another action/philosophical film. Also the song in the end is the perfect song and band. Wake up - Rage Against The Machine This film also has one of the best soundtracks. Highly recommended.
The Oracle needs him to accept a cookie... a glimpse into the future of the internet. Your reactions are great, btw, love how invested you get in them, so much fun!
@@dracoargentum9783 "You hear that Mr. Baggins?... That is the sound of inevitability. This evil belongs to all of Middle-Earth. Isildur kept the Ring. It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
A) That's not a party Neo goes with "the white rabbit" to. It's a dance club. And yes, those exist like that, including the fashion. Industrial music dance clubs in particular. B) Yes, parties like that exist too, to a degree. No servers walking around. And probably no couches and tables. But definitely the lights and decorations and music and people all dressed up. Ahhhh, how fondly I remember raves in the 1990s :)
This movie is actually a great metaphor for lucid dreaming - a lucid dream is basically any dream where you realise that you are in a dream, and at that point you can start to actively attempt to affect the dream in various ways. This is exactly what Neo is practising when he tries out the training programs - he is "lucid" in those "dreams", and can consciously train himself to affect the environments. Of course, an actual lucid dream will not harm your physical body in any way - it will simply try to cause your physical body to act out your dream movements, which is why we become paralysed when we sleep, except for our eyes, which is why our eyes move around a lot during the REM stages - but it is otherwise a very close analogy.
3:30 "The club where Neo meets Trinity is an actual BDSM club in Sydney. The extras were all patrons of the club who wore their own gear." It was cheaper than to rent or buy all the leather/latex/pvc cloths
@@markcarpenter6020 Yes (according to some random web page) Back when the Hellfire Club was located at the site of the former Blackmarket Café in Chippendale, it appared in the movie The Matrix starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving. In the particular scene, Keanu Reeves follows the white rabbit and meets Carrie-Anne Moss for the very first time at a dance club in this building. Back then, the Hellfire Club would host bondage nights where leather-clad patrons equipped with whips, ropes and hot wax let their imagination run wild. In 1997, several members of the Bandidos gang were gunned down in the basement by two members of the Rebels bikie gang. It took two years to shut the place down. The building has since become a café furniture showroom. The Hellfire Club, now relocated to Oxford Street, gets a mention in the article below. There’s more information on the original club and its role in The Matrix in the fourth volume of Sydney on Screen: Where Heroes & Monsters Play available for purchase here:
@@mikgus wow I didn't realize that's where it was shot. Not surprised the place was eventually shut down. I've heard it was worse back in the 80s but it was a pretty wild place even in the 90s. (Though still nowhere near as wild as stories I have heard about Sydney's club scene in the 70s) I'm almost willing to bet the new one is more toned down than the old one.
This is such a legendary movie. I was in high school when it came out and I saw it in the theater. I was so blown away. I had never seen anything like it in my life. And it still, absolutely, holds up to this day. You should definitely watch the other 2 movies, but you should also watch "The Animatrix" before them if you can. The Animatrix is a collection of animated short films from different creators that tell stories in the world of the Matrix. One tells the story of the war between man and machines, a couple help set up the story for the next movies, and a few are just weird, interesting side-stories. They all have different animation styles, and are worth a watch.
Square Pictures made one of the shorts in "The Animatrix", which surprised me, because I thought "Final Fantasy The Spirits Within" killed off Square pictures, I guess they made it a few years before release, since it took 4 years to make "The Spirits Within".
My favorite reaction to this movie...my girl is young enough, yet still spoiler free and able to understand but better yet...appreciate the nuances, ambience and ultimately the message of this classic film. Good on you, Dasha:)
This movie came out when computers and the Internet were just starting to become a thing. They weren't commonplace in every household and people didn't know what to expect. It is why this movie became so successful - going into scifi territory that hasn't been explored before and doing it in a spectacular, fascinating way.
Oooo steaks ! 😂 ... I watched this at least three times before I got my head around it 😂 but you Dasha, cracked it in one (it's not fair ! 😂) ... great reaction
I remember seeing this in theaters back in High School, my bass player failed to tell any of us that he had dropped 3 hits of acid before we went. He literally didn't even make it through the intro, before running out of the theater and spent the rest of it doing God knows what in the car. P.S. Lord Elrond really turned his life around
The whole thing about the Matrix, and what Morpheus is trying to get Neo to REALLY understand, is that even though it LOOKS like the real world, it isn't, thus the rules governing it can bent (or broken in the case of The One). "Do you think that's air you're breathing?" he asks Neo calmly after their fight, while Neo is huffing and puffing like a bellows. It's because Morpheus knows that he's not using his physical muscles, he's not exerting himself and thus his mind doesn't simulate the sweat and breathing one would have after something like that. It's all about perception and understanding. The kid at the Oracle's gives him a big clue: "There is no spoon". That's because there isn't. It's code, not a spoon, and code can be manipulated by one with the proper mindset. The Oracle can see that he hasn't fully grasped the concept yet, but gives him the cookie (with the One's activation protocol on it) anyways on the off chance he figures it out. And he does, at the end. Neo doesn't die when shot by Smith because he gets it: those aren't bullets, and that's not his body, so clearly he can't be dead. It's all code, and he's able to manipulate it directly after that, seeing everything for what it really is: background programming and lines of code. He can now see the command pathways for the agents and fight them with one hand behind his back, instead of just having to guess because he was still acting like it was the real world. That's how he is able to win, and become The One. It was a very mindfucky movie back in the day, no one in the general public had ever really thought about something like this before, and to this day we have scientists trying to determine if we really are living in a simulation or not, because how would we know if we're inside it? I especially love how they explain weird occurrences we see here like deja vu, in terms of "it's a glitch in the Matrix", which makes you wonder... was that a deja vu mind trick or was that really the system glitching out? :P
I heard deja vu explained as a glitch between our short-term memory and our long-term memory, where we accidentally perceive our immediate past as if it was something that happened weeks ago, hence the illusion that it happened twice; it's our long-term memory misfiring where it shouldn't
Cool reactions. If you like the simulacro subject, maybe watch The Thirteenth Floor, and Dark City. Both deal with the same subecj and were made before Matrix.
Clubs in the 90s used to be like the one in the beginning of the movie. At least in my area. And I know Moscow was famous for it`s clublive aswell back then. Clublive just changed over time, that`s all.
Saw this movie on VHS cassette when it was released. Although it was a very bad pirate copy, we ❤️ the movie. I've oc later bought it on DVD, and still ❤️ all Matrix movies
After I saw this movie my first thought was whether or not my mind had actually made up the world around me because I couldn't deal with the fact that I was in a mental institution... lol
Hugo Weaving who plays Agent Smith also played V in V for Vendetta, the Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger, and as you mentioned in the Lord of the Rings. Not a bad resume. Btw, V for Vendetta is another movie I think you would enjoy, Dasha.
I've been around for almost 40 years, and got to go to Raves in the '90s and many parties after of all different types. I can tell you that the really cool ones are actually like in the movie, although they are rare. Persist and you will find some :-). But don't take them for granted, they only come around once in a while
3:34 -- oh yea.. Been to my share of both underground and top dollar events in Manhattan. Places and parties like that did exist, and I'm sure they still do.
Dasha, this movie had you the most emotionally reactive yet that I've seen. There are two other Matrix movies at this time in the franchise. Looking forward in seeing you react to those films.
If I remember correctly, they started to make the slide-cover Nokia phone only after this movie, because people wanted to have it. It was made as a prop for the movie or it was a prototype originally (something like that).
P.S. Dasha just showed her big brain. I've known many who couldn't figure out anything after watching this film, but you were able to figure out the themes on first viewing. Cheers
My favorite quote from Laurence Fishborne, the actor who plays Morpheus, from when he first saw the whole movie, “I remembered all of the philosophical and metaphorical things that were in the script. I’d completely forgotten about that…. And Morpheus… scared the shit out of me.”
1999 was a very unique year for movies. Some of the greatest "plot twist" classics like "The Matrix", "Fight Club", and "The Sixth Sense", were released the last year of the 20th century. Some of my favorite films.
3 classics
WE DONT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB
Silly goose
and Dark City just before then
96 to 03, best time for cinema
2000 is the last year of the 20th century. The clue is in the fact that 20 centuries is 2,000 years.
Dasha after watching the movie: "I don't have enough English words to explain it"
Me after watching it for the first time: "I don't have enough English words to explain it"
Me after watching this movie for the first time: "I don't know enough words in the English language for this movie to explain how awesome it is"
I'm a scifi fan. Had seen 100's of scifi/fantasy movies by the time Matrix came out. This movie was beyond innovative... in story and film-making. Keanu ruled my movie favorites for a few years with Johnny Mneumonic, then came The Matrix. Keanu cemented his status in my top 10 movies and actors.
Minds were blown around the world when this masterpice came out.
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I've watched it 50 times and still can only express it in emotion.
This was all filmed in Sydney, Australia. I was working there at the time. My house mates were working in coffee shops and Reeves used to roll up, on his Harley. Everyone said be was so nice, left huge tips and for the movie, he gave his royalties up as the crew made nothing. He gave everything to them. :)
Yes. Sydney was chosen because it was cheaper to film there but also because the CBD was mostly fairly new buildings and, for northern hemisphere viewers, was not recognizable as any city viewers would know. With some clever camera angles which avoided anything even a tourist would easily recognize, Sydney stood the part of any modern city. If you look carefully, there are a few giveaways. When Neo is on the outside of the building near the beginning, the brief shots of the street below shows cars driving on the left hand side of the road. The woman in the red dress is walking by the fountain in Martin Place in the middle of Sydney, but the clever use of camera angles disguises the scene. I know the area well and even I didn't see it on a first viewing. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour itself are a km (5/8 mile) or even less from where the outside city shots were taken.
@@Zero11s who asked
@@Zero11s - Please keep your ignorant views to yourself, there are enough delusional lunatics already. Thanks
@@Zero11s you really commented this haha.. please sail to the edge.. or fly whatever it is you tards do.. and jump off
@@Zero11s then seriously please jump off of it.
Anything with Keanu is great, but the matrix is one of the best movies ever!!
In 1999 Keanu reeves plays the one, 2021 the one plays Keanu reeves…. Lol
Even Dracula?
The Matrix and V for Vendetta are my 2 favorite movies of all time. I just love the real life analogies from those 2 movies. I am really looking forward to the 4th Matrix movie coming around Christmas 2021.. just hope it's not ruined with woke bs.
The Watcher. Evil Keanu is best Keanu.
Nah you must have not seen Knock Knock if you actually think that's true.
This is one if the most compelling, and influential action movies ever made. So many pop culture references and memes came from the film alone. The special effects are iconic and the story really makes you think.
R’n’R means rest and relaxation. In other words he needs to chill out.
Or possibly Rest and Recreation...same thing just different words.
@@Garion0000 i always thought it was rest and recovery or recuperation. I guess all 4 work.
Rest and Recuperation
It’s relaxation.
Originally a military term. Abbreviation for "Rest and Relaxation".
R & R = Rest & Relaxation, aka a vacation
I think you've officially become my favorite reactor on TH-cam. You're always so observant, often catching things in movies I've seen more times than I could count. I also really appreciate that you pay attention to movies instead of missing basic details like some reactors might, while they were making silly jokes.
Agreed! Many reactors appear shallow and try to act like they're too cool or too smart to sit through the given movie and criticize the characters' moves without trying to understand why he/she did it. Those are people who simply want to "be reactors". I guess everyone has their own style. I appreciate Dasha's.
Antarfodoh, that is why I subscribe to her channel
My observation too.
Well said
Same...
The Oracle loaded a cookie into Neo’s system.
Ohhhh! *Facepalm epically* Why did I not get that till now?! Now all the other little things sprinkled in the other two movies now make sense. All the little Easter eggs here and there that is techno slang.
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These movies have so much depth to them; I’m still unraveling bits of them, especially the ending of Revolutions.
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Did you ever see The Animatrix? Or The Last Flight Of The Osiris (which was included in The Animatrix, but was also shown in cinemas as a short for some unrelated movie)?
Or did you play the game Enter The Matrix? That was great at expanding the Persephone role and her penchant for kissing to experience love.
This movie has so many iconic lines to quote and scenes. I think my fav is Switch saying "not like this... not like this." before being killed by Cypher as she held Apoc after he was killed.
Your reactions Dasha are just to cool. You really get into the movie and characters. It really shows when you get emotional, very cool. If you watched this one then you have to watch the other two, it is worth the trip.
Dasha -
R and R is a shortened term for Rest and Relaxation. Secondly, not only is the actor who plays Agent Smith also Elrond as you correctly noted, but he ALSO played the Red Skull in the recent Captain America movie you watched and reacted to.
Love the conversation with the Oracle, everything she said to Neo came true. "Your waiting for something, next life maybe"
Also the, which I didn't know until a little while ago, giving him the cookie was giving him new code which would activate when he came back from the dead. So technically, he wasn't really "the One" she kind of turned him into the one. You will see in part two, it's not really explained but there are explanations out there you can watch after you watch that movie.
R&R is a common US military phrase that worked its way into common slang for Rest and Relaxation. When one is told to get R&R it means to go rest and do some recreation.
I remember seeing this movie in 1999 the same year Fight Club came out both are innovative cinematic wonders and they came out just before the turn of the century. I think both movies was a start of a new mindset that took motion pictures to another understanding how a movie can explore the complexity of the mind.
My most favorite movie ever. I remember seeing this in the theater and no one knew what it was about, we were mind blown after. I have probably watched this movie 300 times.
I love watching people react to this movie, it really changed my life :) the directors were influenced by a lot of early anime, like Ghost in the shell or Akira which is the reason for the look and the way the action scenes were filmed.
3:39 Back in the 90's clubs like this were very alternative, known as "underground". You can still find them if you go looking but dance music has become so mainstream they aren't really the same thing. It was sort of like the punk movement was for rock & roll until the superclub movement around 2000. The track playing is called Prodigy - Mindfields :)
RNR = Rest 'n' Relaxation = Rest and Relaxation (sometimes 'n' is used for the word 'and', like Guns 'n' Roses)
You said exactly what I said to my friend when Matrix hit theaters and he asked how it was. "I don't know how to explain it but it's a cool movie!"
I did not catch The Matrix at the movies, but a friend invited me over to his place when it came out on DVD. That was the first DVD movie I ever saw. I was so amazed by the special effects that I went out the next day and bought a DVD player. This was a movie that changed the presentation so much that new technology was *required* to enjoy it fully.
I love how you emotionally connect with each film and the characters you watch, whether you like it or not..You're one of the best reactors Dasha, take care..xx
I remember the story about this was, they took the budget for this movie and spent it all on the first scene. and from the first scene alone, was able to get the rest of the funding to make the whole movie because of the -then-new method of filming they were using .
"He is faster and stronger than they are"
No. As Morpheus said during the training it has nothing to do with actual strength or speed. Neo finally truly understood that its all just a program and he (as a hacker) can change all the rules. He can be and do anything. Its like when you realize you are dreaming you realize you can control everything in that dream (as long as you don't wake up).
It's called a lucid dream. The moment you realize you are dreaming, and then can control it. Everyone is capable of doing it, it just takes time and training. Many people don't even remember their dreams.
@The Hollow Called White that’s a myth dude, we use the whole thing.
I’ve had the whole dream realization thing happen many times and I’ll usually throw on some super powers and just take off from whatever is happening
This movie is very stylized and usually heavy color correction drives me nuts, but it really works in this movie to highlight the green tint world of the matrix vs the real world. Nice reaction, and you have two more sequels to enjoy Dasha.
I think rather than cocky that the word you are seeking is confidence. Great reaction!
9:05 The needles are from acupuncture to stimulate the muscles, those needles don't cause pain.
I loved watching this reaction. I was a kid when this first came out and saw in the theater and watching your reaction brought all of that excitement and child like awe and wonder back. The more you kept realizing and learning the bigger my smile got and I kept thinking "Oh just wait, it gets even better". Great job champ, keep it up 😏👍
That was, without a doubt, one of my favorite reactions ever! I love how invested you were with the characters and storyline, and you followed the plot of the movie very well. You made me feel like I saw it for the first time again!!! 💯❤️
This is such a classic movie.. Definitely the best of the first 3. Hope you plan on watching the other two even though they can get a bit confusing and hard to wrap your mind around. Also Matrix 4 will be coming out right around Christmas, so it's a great time to be revisiting these movies if you eventually plan on seeing that one too! (Also, YAY for seeing my name in patreon credits!! So glad that I can help contribute to the channel. Always entertaining Dasha, keep up the great work!! )
I dunno. I I think I prefer to keep the Matrix in a bubble and forget the other two even exist.
I was lucky enough to see it in the theater when it came out without having heard of it, went to see something else with friends and got there late, a friend with us said he heard it was good and it was the next starting movie so even though none of us were too keen on watching a Keanu Reeves movie at the time we were already there so decided what the heck. Blew our minds!
Dasha: "She knows how to fight."
She knows kung-fu...! ;)
The Matrix is an absolute classic, and one of a kind. The flip side to this, is David Cronenberg's "Existenz." Similar ideas, but done in a completely different way. Both films are amongst my favorites.
One of the best sci-fi ever made. Plus its very philosophical. As a Russian I'd be interested to see you react to Equilibrium, another action/philosophical film.
Also the song in the end is the perfect song and band. Wake up - Rage Against The Machine
This film also has one of the best soundtracks. Highly recommended.
The Oracle needs him to accept a cookie... a glimpse into the future of the internet. Your reactions are great, btw, love how invested you get in them, so much fun!
Agent Smith is what happens when Lord Elrond of Rivendell keeps Sauron's one ring of power, lived forever.
He turned into agent Smith.
I can legit picture that. "Mister Baggins" in that cold, smooth tone.
great theory :)
Until the Larkhill explosion, and he puts on his mask, and seeks revenge.
@@WaywardVet Eactly. That's what she said.
@@dracoargentum9783 "You hear that Mr. Baggins?... That is the sound of inevitability. This evil belongs to all of Middle-Earth. Isildur kept the Ring. It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
After a bottle of wine, I feel her reactions a lot more than usual.. I can feel a habit developing hahaha
A) That's not a party Neo goes with "the white rabbit" to. It's a dance club. And yes, those exist like that, including the fashion. Industrial music dance clubs in particular.
B) Yes, parties like that exist too, to a degree. No servers walking around. And probably no couches and tables. But definitely the lights and decorations and music and people all dressed up. Ahhhh, how fondly I remember raves in the 1990s :)
Wonderful! I am so glad you get to experience this! love from USA!
This movie is actually a great metaphor for lucid dreaming - a lucid dream is basically any dream where you realise that you are in a dream, and at that point you can start to actively attempt to affect the dream in various ways.
This is exactly what Neo is practising when he tries out the training programs - he is "lucid" in those "dreams", and can consciously train himself to affect the environments.
Of course, an actual lucid dream will not harm your physical body in any way - it will simply try to cause your physical body to act out your dream movements, which is why we become paralysed when we sleep, except for our eyes, which is why our eyes move around a lot during the REM stages - but it is otherwise a very close analogy.
3:30 "The club where Neo meets Trinity is an actual BDSM club in Sydney. The extras were all patrons of the club who wore their own gear."
It was cheaper than to rent or buy all the leather/latex/pvc cloths
Was it the hellfire club? Or does that club still exist?
@@markcarpenter6020 Yes (according to some random web page)
Back when the Hellfire Club was located at the site of the former Blackmarket Café in Chippendale, it appared in the movie The Matrix starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving. In the particular scene, Keanu Reeves follows the white rabbit and meets Carrie-Anne Moss for the very first time at a dance club in this building.
Back then, the Hellfire Club would host bondage nights where leather-clad patrons equipped with whips, ropes and hot wax let their imagination run wild. In 1997, several members of the Bandidos gang were gunned down in the basement by two members of the Rebels bikie gang. It took two years to shut the place down. The building has since become a café furniture showroom.
The Hellfire Club, now relocated to Oxford Street, gets a mention in the article below. There’s more information on the original club and its role in The Matrix in the fourth volume of Sydney on Screen: Where Heroes & Monsters Play available for purchase here:
@@mikgus wow I didn't realize that's where it was shot. Not surprised the place was eventually shut down. I've heard it was worse back in the 80s but it was a pretty wild place even in the 90s. (Though still nowhere near as wild as stories I have heard about Sydney's club scene in the 70s) I'm almost willing to bet the new one is more toned down than the old one.
Yeaa the beginning disco was filmed in a real S&M club..Unless you're into that it makes sense that you've never seen a party like that before 😂
She survived the phone booth because it was the one from "Get Smart"...
This is such a legendary movie. I was in high school when it came out and I saw it in the theater. I was so blown away. I had never seen anything like it in my life. And it still, absolutely, holds up to this day.
You should definitely watch the other 2 movies, but you should also watch "The Animatrix" before them if you can. The Animatrix is a collection of animated short films from different creators that tell stories in the world of the Matrix. One tells the story of the war between man and machines, a couple help set up the story for the next movies, and a few are just weird, interesting side-stories. They all have different animation styles, and are worth a watch.
Square Pictures made one of the shorts in "The Animatrix", which surprised me, because I thought "Final Fantasy The Spirits Within" killed off Square pictures, I guess they made it a few years before release, since it took 4 years to make "The Spirits Within".
My favorite reaction to this movie...my girl is young enough, yet still spoiler free and able to understand but better yet...appreciate the nuances, ambience and ultimately the message of this classic film. Good on you, Dasha:)
This movie came out when computers and the Internet were just starting to become a thing. They weren't commonplace in every household and people didn't know what to expect. It is why this movie became so successful - going into scifi territory that hasn't been explored before and doing it in a spectacular, fascinating way.
Also, R and R means rest and relaxation. There are many clubs like that here in the USA.
'R and R' was military slang for 'rest and recuperation'. Over time it became a part of civilian culture as 'Rest and Relaxation'.
"Give me the One Ring, Mr. Anderson." :)
I am loving your reactions. Your excitement and emotions are so genuine
Very good reaction Dasha!! R & R refers to time that you spend relaxing, when you are not working. R & R is an abbreviation for 'rest and recreation'
You mean rest & relaxation
@@michaelharris7820 It can also be described in many different ways.
@@michaelharris7820 Yeah I've only ever heard relaxation.
Maybe its a Brit thing but ive always understood it as rest and recuperation.
Thank you Dasha, great reaction! Also, R&R is rest and relaxation.
Oooo steaks ! 😂 ... I watched this at least three times before I got my head around it 😂 but you Dasha, cracked it in one (it's not fair ! 😂) ... great reaction
I really enjoyed watching your reaction. Can't wait to watch your reaction on the next one. Love watching your reaction.
Hi dasha just started watching your vids and i love you account and your Russian accent
I remember seeing this in theaters back in High School, my bass player failed to tell any of us that he had dropped 3 hits of acid before we went. He literally didn't even make it through the intro, before running out of the theater and spent the rest of it doing God knows what in the car.
P.S.
Lord Elrond really turned his life around
I feel like I’ve heard that story somewhere. Do you watch a lot of other reactions channels?
@@Provoses I have told this story multiple times yes lol
R & R = rest and relaxation
R and R is Rest and Recreation. Like a holiday or a break.
This movie changed everything!.
Name of song: WAKE UP
Artist: By RAM (Rage Against the Machine)
R and R is "rest and relaxation"
"Mr. Aragorn...you will not date my daughter"
"Bogus dude"!
R & R means rest and relaxation
Yes, parties like the one in the beginning exist. Some in nightclubs every weekend, some on college campuses. Mostly in big cities regardless.
I still remember watching it for the first time. It was cool to see that from someone else's eyes. Thanks for the video.
one of my greatest movies in my life. great choice Dasha
I went into the cinema knowing nothing about this movie. I just saw the poster "What is the Matrix?" and went in. 10/10 masterpiece.
The whole thing about the Matrix, and what Morpheus is trying to get Neo to REALLY understand, is that even though it LOOKS like the real world, it isn't, thus the rules governing it can bent (or broken in the case of The One). "Do you think that's air you're breathing?" he asks Neo calmly after their fight, while Neo is huffing and puffing like a bellows. It's because Morpheus knows that he's not using his physical muscles, he's not exerting himself and thus his mind doesn't simulate the sweat and breathing one would have after something like that.
It's all about perception and understanding. The kid at the Oracle's gives him a big clue: "There is no spoon". That's because there isn't. It's code, not a spoon, and code can be manipulated by one with the proper mindset. The Oracle can see that he hasn't fully grasped the concept yet, but gives him the cookie (with the One's activation protocol on it) anyways on the off chance he figures it out.
And he does, at the end. Neo doesn't die when shot by Smith because he gets it: those aren't bullets, and that's not his body, so clearly he can't be dead. It's all code, and he's able to manipulate it directly after that, seeing everything for what it really is: background programming and lines of code. He can now see the command pathways for the agents and fight them with one hand behind his back, instead of just having to guess because he was still acting like it was the real world. That's how he is able to win, and become The One.
It was a very mindfucky movie back in the day, no one in the general public had ever really thought about something like this before, and to this day we have scientists trying to determine if we really are living in a simulation or not, because how would we know if we're inside it? I especially love how they explain weird occurrences we see here like deja vu, in terms of "it's a glitch in the Matrix", which makes you wonder... was that a deja vu mind trick or was that really the system glitching out? :P
I heard deja vu explained as a glitch between our short-term memory and our long-term memory, where we accidentally perceive our immediate past as if it was something that happened weeks ago, hence the illusion that it happened twice; it's our long-term memory misfiring where it shouldn't
Dasha, you are the absolute queen of movie reactions. R and R means Rest and Recreation.
Cool reactions. If you like the simulacro subject, maybe watch The Thirteenth Floor, and Dark City. Both deal with the same subecj and were made before Matrix.
Thirteenth floor is great!
Recognizing Elrond. Love it.
Clubs in the 90s used to be like the one in the beginning of the movie. At least in my area. And I know Moscow was famous for it`s clublive aswell back then. Clublive just changed over time, that`s all.
R&R is rest and relaxation
Saw this movie on VHS cassette when it was released. Although it was a very bad pirate copy, we ❤️ the movie. I've oc later bought it on DVD, and still ❤️ all Matrix movies
After I saw this movie my first thought was whether or not my mind had actually made up the world around me because I couldn't deal with the fact that I was in a mental institution... lol
Its mindblowing alright Dasha ... been viewing movies with yur reaction... very cool ... Fr Saskatchewan ,Canada tc
Adorable reactions with an awesome movie. 10/10.
That was fun! Looking forward to your reactions to the sequels!
Hugo Weaving who plays Agent Smith also played V in V for Vendetta, the Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger, and as you mentioned in the Lord of the Rings. Not a bad resume. Btw, V for Vendetta is another movie I think you would enjoy, Dasha.
R and R = Rest and Relaxation
Great viewing, dasha! Those types of parties definitely exist
To free one's mind in the Matrix, means one must understand that elements (air, gravity, speed) the matrix aren't real.
The style of clothes that Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo wear is known as Cyberpunk
One of my three favorite movies of all-time.
R & R means rest and relaxation.
I've been around for almost 40 years, and got to go to Raves in the '90s and many parties after of all different types. I can tell you that the really cool ones are actually like in the movie, although they are rare. Persist and you will find some :-). But don't take them for granted, they only come around once in a while
Cutest reaction, "Oh Elrond, HI! Weaves"
3:34 -- oh yea.. Been to my share of both underground and top dollar events in Manhattan. Places and parties like that did exist, and I'm sure they still do.
Dasha, this movie had you the most emotionally reactive yet that I've seen. There are two other Matrix movies at this time in the franchise. Looking forward in seeing you react to those films.
@Nicolae Sescu Welcome to Hollywood! The land of Sequels!!!
Another great video Dasha. I'm glad you liked it. Thank you so much. I loved it.
PS. (Morpheus Voice) "Do You Believe it Now, Dasha?"
"They're going to beat him up."
No, no it's much worse than that.
R & R = Rest & Relaxation
“Unfortunately no one can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself” -Morpheus
Agent Smith who also played both The Red Skull in Captain America and Lord Elrode in LORD OF THE RINGS is Hugo Weaving.
Please watch the other 2 to finish the story
27:56 "I'm so sorry, but their first kiss is going to be the one where he's dead."
A real out of context gem.
Now on to the next two.
If I remember correctly, they started to make the slide-cover Nokia phone only after this movie, because people wanted to have it. It was made as a prop for the movie or it was a prototype originally (something like that).
P.S. Dasha just showed her big brain. I've known many who couldn't figure out anything after watching this film, but you were able to figure out the themes on first viewing. Cheers
R&R = "rest and relaxation"