I never saw the Matrix at the cinema. I had gotten married a few months before and my life was being consumed with that sort of thing. It's now probably my favourite movie.

Some of the local cinemas are showing the 35mm version.

I've seen on other posts that people seem to prefer the 4K version, but I assume people are talking about the Blu-ray versions and what scan they've used? What do people think of the the 35mm in the cinema?

I'll include the link I have and a screen grab from Facebook where it says 35mm.

https://preview.redd.it/hqx36xcjfi4e1.png?width=702&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2a67c1eeb16fc43e64e6c87770af8810eb86c85

https://wallis.com.au/films/the-matrix/

Matrix (1999) : ABSOLUTE masterpiece of a movie. Always learn something new about it every time I watch it.

Matrix Reloaded: ANOTHER masterpiece. Plot twist after plot twist is my type of movie!

Matrix Revolution: Not quite like the first two movies, except for the part where Neo uses his power IRL. STILL, a great movie!

Matrix 4:

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*"What the f*** is this piece of sh*t?" in Joe Pesci voice*. I mean, to propogate political themes through such a masterpiece of a movie is just sad, nothing else to say. Ruined the watching experience for me. Talk about free speech and open opinions when this type of content is practically being shoved up your nose. Sorry, not sorry that I don't care whether something is "Binary, non-binary" when I'm just trying to watch a f*cking movie and enjoy myself ffs...

EDIT: Rewatched the trilogy and decided to watch the 4th part for the first time and golly did it inspire me to type all of this!

I just rewatched all of the matrix movies. I haven't watched them all in sequence in many years and I never saw the most recent movie. I already loved Keanu Reeves, like everyone, but after looking him up I found out he is also a widower. His wife died at 28 in a tragic car accident. My husband died at 27 from cancer. I've struggled to move forward from this loss.

I've always had respect for Keanu Reeves as an actor and genuinely good person, but seeing how he has risen above the devastation of losing a spouse really gives me hope for one day overcoming my own personal struggles with tragedy. I just wanted to say, thank you Keanu Reeves for being an amazing inspirational human being.

I think I'm close to understanding their relationship, but not quite 100% what do they mean to each other respectively, and why do they meet up at the end of the 3rd movie. They have a brief conversation and he asks something about how long the war will continue on for i think? Like if he designs the matrix, howcome he can't write her out of it?

Though Neo and Trinity are such iconic characters, I felt like it undermined their heroic deaths and made it seem like they were out of ideas. Even the MMO didn't do that.

The Matrix has such a rich universe with so much potential (as The Animatrix showed) that I felt like going back to the same tropes and characters again felt tired. Even with the elements they did change up, I didn't feel too invested, especially since Neo's "One" powers in Resurrections just seemed to be nothing but Force Push? There's so much else they could do.

I realize they probably did it for practical reasons: Keanu Reeves gets people into the theater, and he was still popular from the John Wick movies, so they had to force him in somehow. But still.

I am struggling to find it on the high seas, and I don't think it's being streamed. Would appreciate a link or some guidance.

Thanks!

I have always wondered that this new triology(idk if it's even happening just got to this sub )will try to do the idea of waking up the humanity as a whole by the end of it

Ik this question might have been asked in this subreddit to death,,,,so ,, sorry for that

But what are your thoughts?

Ik large amount of humans waking up will cause chaos but how can you see this happening?

I've been thinking about what would happen if the Reprogrammed Terminator (Terminator 2) were in the first Matrix movie, and that Trinity is let's say erased. How different would the movie be then? What would a relationship between the T-800 and Neo be like? I'm writing all of this, as I've seen fan theories that explain that Terminator and The Matrix exist in the same universe.

and I feel like the T-800 and Neo fighting side-by-side would be badass as hell.

What do you guys think?

As part of the 25th anniversary year they showed The Matrix at the famous Opera house. It was packed.

What an amazing experience! The sound, the picture quality, the packed audience (who gasped at the AI line mentioned by Morpheus), the atmosphere. I had many goosebumps throughout!

The best part... walking out of the cinema, over looking the Sydney CBD and buildings that were in the background of The Matrix or filmed inside of eg. The Metacortex building. It was incredibly surreal.

A memory I'll never forget.

Random shower thought... Imagine if as Neo turns to spot the agent he jumps back, knocking into Morpheus and distracting him before he tells Tank to freeze it. Does the agent just go into full attack mode and start shooting at them? Surely it shouldnt require a command to freeze the program, it should end at that exact moment regardless.

i have a question guys that has always been in my mind , why the machines needs zion to exist to keep humans delusional of hope , while there billions of humans asleep and awake in the matrix that don't even know the existance of zion or the real world ?? knowing that the machines harvest the bioelectric energy just from humans in surface and not from humans in zion

Would be interesting to watch a prequel movie about one of the previous versions of the matrix before Neo. The 5th version being the most interesting one.

What went on the mind of the 5th one choosing to go to the source, knowing that Zion is surely going to be destroyed. And had to pick 23 individuals to build Zion again and repeat the cycle.

What happened to the oracle, finally choosing to side with humans and not let what happened to the 5th and previous ones happen to the next.

Can also be made into an animated series.

i hope this post is not too out of context, but for a uni lab i'm writing a concept paper about Simulacres et simulation by Baudrillard and how this particular text and Matrix have revolutionized the concept of web and human thoughts, and i'm trying to find a good platform to post it, are people here interested in it? or is an argument that has already been studied and there is nothing more to say?

It just hit me the other day... What Persephone is to the Merovingian, The Oracle is to The Architect. I've said it before on here, but I think The Architect and The Oracle, just like The Merovingian and Persephone, are husband and wife, albeit separated during the 6th version of the Matrix. And their marital difficulties and subsequent estrangement is part of what causes all the chaos in the 6th version.

The Oracle, just like Persephone, stirs things up and upends all her husband's rules, foils all his careful planning - the former for more serious reasons and the latter mostly just to have fun and spite her husband (though I do suspect The Oracle also delights in foiling all her husband's perfect little plans, even if it's not her main motivation - and who could blame her?) Both their husbands underestimate them and view their actions as "a game" and "a dangerous game" respectively.

It's as if The Merovingian and Persephone are the shadow of The Architect and The Oracle. It even occurred to me that perhaps The Merovingian and Persephone were something equivalent to The Architect and The Oracle of the 1st and 2nd failed versions of The Matrix. This would explain why Persephone tells Neo, "A long time ago, when we first came here, it was so different; he was so different... He was like you." Perhaps in the first failed iteration of the Matrix, The Merovingian was a benevolent program, an angel, and in the second hellish version he became something akin to Satan, a fallen angel. And the Merovingian we see in the 6th version is the same Merovingian from that failed second version of the Matrix (Either because he evaded deletion or made some kind of a deal).

What do you guys think? I had just never made that connection before, that The Oracle is to The Architect what Persephone is to The Merovingian, and that perhaps Persephone and The Merovingian were the Oracle and Architect of a much older version of The Matrix. Both pairs share a very similar dynamic between them. I've always found the backstory of The Merovingian and Persephone to be particularly compelling.

Most people seem to think that The Merovingian was the program The Oracle made obsolete. But now it occurs to me: The Merovingian was the program The Architect made obsolete, and Persephone is the program The Oracle made obsolete. When The Architect speaks of his failures with the first two versions of the Matrix, he's referring to The Merovingian, the previous version of himself. It just so happens the previous version of the Architect program never got deleted and is still around somewhere - but that's still who he is referring to when he says, "However I was again frustrated by failure." The "I" here is The Merovingian - the older version of The Architect program. It would make sense that a program would still perceive previous versions of itself, even alpha and beta versions, as "I".

So perhaps Persephone and The Merovingian embody not just the shadow of The Oracle and The Architect, but also their past. This would explain the familiarity The Oracle seems to have with The Merovingian... "What do all men with power want? More power." It's the younger version of her ex husband, whom she remembers all too well.

Well it's all fun to think about in any case!

So Morpheus shows Neo the construct place where they can get gear, guns, etc

Is there some limit on the stuff they can bring into the matrix from there?

Like what’s to stop someone rolling up into the matrix with some gun or weapon that defies physics?

Like could neo imagine a lightsaber and bring it in ?