I've found a local movie theater that will be showing The Matrix (1999) soon, but it's only available in "4DX" format.
Does The Matrix still hold up enough to justify watching it on a big screen? It's been at least 8 years since the last time I watched it.
Also, how bad is 4DX? I just want to watch a movie, I don't need any useless gimmicks.
The special effects have aged but whether they "hold up" depends on you being autistic about trivial shit
I say go sounds like fun
You have to be a huge fucking zoomer not to think the Matrix doesn't hold up. Good story good action and the effects still look good.
I actually saw the 4k remaster yesterday. The only parts that don't really hold up are trinity flying through that window at the beginning of the movie, and the silver stuff that engulfs Neo when he gets disconnected from the Matrix. Everything else looked fine.
I want to marry trinity
95% of the effects still completely hold up and the 5% that don't are stylized enough that it's not jarring
4DX is a gimmick but it's a fun gimmick depending on the movie. I honestly have no idea how they would implement the rocking seats into it, it's not like there's car chase scenes
yeah I listened to the commentary and apparently they stitched together several takes to get the shot
only problem I have with the 4K remaster is that a lot of the highlights look blown out compared to the blu-ray, and I say this as someone watching on a 4k HDR tv
If you're talking about stuff like the blank/white sky, that's actually on purpose to make it more off putting
No, it's the stuff like the construct being neon white (before it was pure white but you could still see film grain on it) and certain catch-lights now being ultra bright and blown out
Alright, I ordered it.
Fun fact: originally I watched The Matrix movies in reverse order, and each one was in worse format than the one before it.
First I watched Revolutions in the cinema, and didn't understand what the fuck was happening on the screen.
Next I watched Reloaded on TV at home, and liked it more than the 3rd one.
And only then I watched the original, and realized that it never needed any sequels. I watched it on a 15" CRT monitor in a shitty internet cafe, where I found it on a local FTP server.
It's time to correct my mistakes, I guess.
interesting, I didn't have that and I also watched them on a 4k HDR tv. Did you watch it with dolby vision? I didn't have that
UKfag? Oh man, just watched it an hour ago, it's a fucking blast from the past.
I wish I could go back, when the internet was new and shiny (to me) and the millennium was just around the corner and I could just DOWNLOAD anime (and pr0n) from limewire.
Did they ever remove the green tint on the blu-ray versions?
Ukraine. The movie will be in English, thankfully.
If I'm gonna revisit the classics, I want the original audio.
>If I'm gonna revisit the classics, I want the original audio.
Depends on how nostalgic you are I guess, I still watch my (old) anime with streamline dubs and play megadrive games on 50hz.
>Does it still hold up?
Yes.
No, they just redid it
it's more subtle and its closer to lime green now and there are actually different shades of green instead of a fat green filter over everything. In certain scenes its closer to brown/sepia and in the agent training program it's closer to blue.
Based. Matrix/Reloaded are fucking 10/10 action packed movies. Modern trash can't even compete.
comparison with the new colors
The original definitely does, haven't cared to rewatch the other two in forever.
Its a pretty fun concept thats neat though idiots think its some revolutionary idea.
The world and how you perceive it is 100% just a collection of electrical brain signals.
The action in Reloaded is pretty good, although the CGI in one scene looked terrible even when the movie just came out (I'm sure you know which scene I'm talking about).
What ruins it is the plot, and the cliffhanger ending which leads into the worst movie in the series.
green is still there though (and thats a good thing)
Do you live in Knoxville
Thank God the sequel-tint wasn't present in the remastered cinema release.
No
>What ruins it is the plot
There never should have been a sequel to The Matrix, it was a single movie idea.
Do you have Oneitis?
Pretty sure it was written as a trilogy..
The dialogue and some of the effects in the original hold up. Keanu Reeves is a great performer
It spawned some weird films.
nah, but something about Carrie Anne Moss in the matrix just REALLY activates something in me. Just really activates my dick and my almonds. Even in the sequels where she looks really tired. I just like her.
There's no way it was written as a trilogy - just look at the ending of the first movie. It's clear that the Wachowskis tried to write themselves out of a hole with the sequels (unsuccessfully).
No it wasn't
t. just read an interview with Hugh Bateup (art director on the films) that confirmed it was a 3 part thing
>Larry and Andy always said when we were doing the first film, that there were three stories – how the first one went would determine whether the next two would go. So as soon as it was out and well received, and the DVD did what the DVD did, I think Larry and Andy talked to Owen [Paterson, Production Designer], some time in 1999. Then it was just a matter of time before the start date came, and off we went.
matrixfans.net
You love it really.
Planned as a trilogy != Written as a trilogy
Man i've started to forget how influential it was.
For like 5-8 years after the release so many movies and games had slow mo copied down to that matrix bullet tail.
I remember liking the action and hating the plot. Watched it only once.
They lied dude.
The fight scenes in the sequels were never as tightly choreographed as the original and had way too much cgi.
>The fight scenes in the sequels were never as tightly choreographed as the original and had way too much cgi.
Keanu Reeves always had trouble with his kicking technique, which looked off. But you can't fault him for giving it a go in the fight scenes.
It doesn't really hold up that well nowadays.
This movie was so awesome I saw it in the theaters 5 times. That's how gay I was. Great movie,still holds up. What the fuck is 4dx?
4 dicks. In your arse.
Just watch it retard
That actually sounds like a lot of fun. OP, you should totally go.
>>>>>
On LSD. Imagine the sweet smell of Trinity's but when she tells the key maker to get on her motorcycle
I wanna watch the matrix revolutions smith vs neo super burly brawl in 4DX
the fuck does this have to do with the matrix
too bad bullet time never developed as an idea
It was just a joke about actually being the ONE
>as an idea
It's been taken pretty far as you can go with it and to be honest, it's really basically an extension of John Woo's slo-mo gun fights.
>the sweet smell of Trinity's but
What did he mean by this?
visually though it could have been used to orientate within a landscape
why is hugo weaving so based and so angry
Yeah it does. It's the greatest fucking movie of the 90s and the 00s. And you could suck this fucking dick
It had quite a big lasting impact on the Western movie action genre.
It does hold up relatively except for Smiths death
Absolutely, you fucking fag
Reloaded is fucking garbage, and so are you.
What was the point of the Renaissance aesthetic in the sequels? Was it just a form of visual counterpoint?
>the Renaissance aesthetic in the sequels
You mean besides the Merovingian's chateau?
this. the wachowskis didn't even use it in the sequels as i recall. there's a shot where they basically put the camera on a rocket rig to move it super fast and obviously a bunch of cgi shit, but nothing remotely close to what they did in the first film with way less money.
I still can't believe Wachowski brothers turned into the Wachowski sisters. What a world we live in.
very effective in building suspense leading up to an action scene
using bullet time again would have been cliche
neo had moved onto real time
Yeah, I mean, sure, if they looked like artsy fags, but they always looked like retarded chubby dudebro fratboys.
I'm a fucking boomer who misses those times so fucking much. I'm 35 yo boomer and I can easily say that Matrix was the biggest thing of that year. Because everybody had the feeling that the world was coming to an end, getting monotonous, everything goes shittier at those times, due to incoming millennium. And Matrix was the escapism everyone was looking for, so was Fight Club. And then LOTR came two years later, it was the ultimate escapism. But Matrix was something different, because everyone thought it could be possible. And it opened a way for every white collar worker at that time, a way for a possible escape.
And then there was late 90s, early 2000s internet, where everything was unsafe, everyone was truly anonymous and everybody was experiencing something new. You can watch every movie from the past, listen to every music but you can never experience the early internet times. I may be talking like a true boomer but there has never been another time where I had the same fun as I had in Ultima Online (or early WoW for others).
To put it simply, Matrix was good, Fight Club was good, LOTR was good. Those were the quintessential escapism for everyone.
>the whole point about Neo awakening in the Matrix was that he could bend reality because he realized it's not real at all
>still have to fight goons with his bare hands in the sequels because actionzz lol XD
>using bullet time again would have been cliche
It was mostly this I think
Bullet time had been spoofed to death by that time and they felt nobody would've taken it seriously anymore.
>You can watch every movie from the past, listen to every music but you can never experience the early internet times.
This. It really was a wild west that will forever remain lost to future generations.
>but nothing remotely close to what they did in the first film with way less money.
Limitations usually makes people more creative.
The Matrix, not take away anything from it, is not really an "original" idea, it's a lot of things rolled into a sleek package, from chinese wire-fu films, john woo's gun ballet, western stand-offs, "dude what if reality is a simulation", minor anime details etc.
The sequels tried to go their own way but flopped.
>but they always looked like retarded chubby dudebro fratboys.
The first one that turned always looked like a fag though.
>jew tranny propaganda
if you support that kind of thing, go ahead and enjoy yourself
>The first one that turned always looked like a fag though
Nah, he just had a "rad" (at the time) earring.
Jfc was it really that green on the blu-ray release?
Dodge this.
>*Braaap*
Miyazaki thought that about Dark Souls as well, but hey DS3 is the best in series.
You have to be real fucking stupid to not watch a trilogy in order.
I need to get out of this... prison, this zoo, this
*Braaaaap*
Wachowskis being what they are today doesn't retroactively affect everything that they made before.
Was it even actually done to death? I doubt it. What other movies actually used multiple cameras to freeze time like that? I can't name a single one.
Obviously they didn't want to repeat themselves with the same trick in Reloaded though.
And even wayback machine can snapshot so much shit, a lot of really old websites are horribly broken even if you do manage to find them. Fuck I miss pre-social media internet.
Insert the tears in the rain speech here
>will forever remain lost to future generations.
Good. Fucking bastards don't deserve it.
I can barely remember but it was at the point where parody films were doing it.
But who cares the sequels sucked ass. The matrix didn't and doesn't need a sequel.
I didn't even know it was a trilogy until I finished watching the first(third) movie. I didn't know a lot about movies back then.
objectively incorrect, it actually explains a lot more about the movies they've made
godDAMN trinity was so fucking sexy in that tight ass leather
I care
I love the sequels. One of the best trilogies of all time.
>I didn't even know it was a trilogy until I finished watching the first(third) movie.
The absolute state of zoomers.
That's ok pal, i've gotten autism.
>One of the best trilogies of all time.
Good God no.
I didn't know until recently that the Agents wear green suits
there are unironically zoomers on 4channel, 30 yo boomers rise up. I feel old
They were green in the sequels, I'm pretty sure they were black or dark brown in the originals.
I know at the very very least that their ties have always been green. The filters put on the original are hard to keep track of, and they can seem differently colored depending on the frame.
I watched both Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions at the cinema.
Fuck yes, go for it. It's a good movie, as was the sequel. The third one, not so much.
Just a shame about the zionist and non-White propaganda - 'Zion' which was filled with mud people.
>One of the best trilogies of all time.
Back to the Future maybe, but definitely not The Matrix.
>Just a shame about the zionist and non-White propaganda - 'Zion' which was filled with mud people.
Just leave man, there's other places to be racist on Yea Forums.
>zionist and non-White
It's actually incredibly redpilled
the wachowkis pranked the jews
You could replace "the system" with literally anything.
Here's another piece autism for you: when I was a kid, I believed that the 3rd Ghostbusters movie existed, because a classmate told me this, and I had no way to verify whether or not it was false.
Now it actually kind of exists, and it's a massive piece of shit.
>The fight scenes in the sequels were never as tightly choreographed
wrong
*piece of
IT'S THE SMELL
Compare them, they're a lot more floaty (and cgi) in the sequels.
cant movie for the next movie
Ignoring the context of your image, I'll never forget downloading mislabelled DMX songs on napster.
Awww, let me go back to the 00s.
vaporware
What the fuck happened...
>just b yourself bro
They let their sissification fetish get too far
This.
I've read about how the tall had doms and all other weird sex stuff going on in his life.
this but unironically
they're both married to women aren't they? the pink haired one is married to a dominatrix
buck angel on joe rogan
youtube.com
the tranny that got cucked by larry wachowski
Fuck jannies and fuck this guy
Do the still have dicks though?
Fucking kill yourself, brainlet.
They are literally representations of the "men in black", you fucking mongoloids.
*Tips fedora*
>Fucking kill yourself, brainlet.
Okay, user, you got your point across. You are mad people think you have shit taste.
No need to spam retarded meme pictures.
underrated
Different user actually I just really like that picture, I think it's really poweful.
You have an IQ of 75 though, so I need to reply with one more of these now that I have them on hand.
How does that affect the costuming departments decision to give them green suits with gold liners as part of a computer motif.
Okay bros, is Neo the One or is it Smith? There's a good argument to be made for the latter
Which release of The Matrix looks closer to the 1999 original: DVD, Blu-Ray, or the 4K Blu-Ray?
We had DVD in 1999.
I mean the original film that was shown in the theatres.
Warner Bros has a copyright on the execution of 'Bullet Time' as they created it specifically for the Matrix. It's said in one interviews in 'The Making Of' the DVD extras.
This movie is so godamn great.
I still do not understand how anyone can find that woman attractive