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Episode 7: The Matrix (1999) · Take #2: Movie Reviews

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  Hey there everybody. Welcome back to another episode
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  of the Take to Pod with Mom and Dad.
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  I'm Dad. And I'm mom.
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  And we are now at episode 7. And I just want to give a quick
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  shout out to my little brother. It's his 30th birthday this
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  weekend, so happy birthday little bro.
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  He's also our #1 fan. I was putting the baby down and
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  I just hear havoc being wreaked in the next room.
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  Yeah. Reek.
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  Reek is the key. Word that was reeking.
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  He left the little man in the tub for a bit to get bathed and
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  then come in and scrub them down and all that.
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  And I go in and I smell something like, what is that God
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  awful stench? And the the the pool, the pool,
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  the bath water was brown. He had decided to take a shit in
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  the bath and I'm like, buddy. So I had to take him out, drain
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  the tub. Put them, wash them again.
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  Hose them down like prison movie and like scrub him down
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  completely and it was just not pleasant.
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  I honestly, I don't want to talk about it.
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  It's just upsetting. He was really cute in story time
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  after though. Yeah, he was great.
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  We were reading the paper bag Princess and he thinks that the
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  the Princess looks like my mom so he kept saying it's.
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  In the most when she's at her like worst.
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  Which is funny because kids say crazy.
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  Stuff mom doesn't have. Course, she's a beautiful queen.
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  I said the Princess was unhorse. OHS.
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  Yeah, trying to set me up. That was a setup.
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  Anyways, we're here at episode 7, Lucky number 7, and the lucky
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  movie for tonight is Drumroll Mom.
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  You think that's air you're breathing?
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  That's right, everybody. This week we're doing The
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  Matrix, released in 1999, directed by the Wachowskis and
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  starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie Anne Moss.
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  Oh hell yeah, I've been itching to do this movie.
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  And if you are a fan of The Matrix, welcome to the real.
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  Dad loves this movie. We do have a poster of this
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  movie, Our Basement. Ohe yeah, we're both looking at
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  it right now. Yeah, Myron.
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  Myron, love that poster. So this movie.
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  Let's get into the synopsis. When a beautiful stranger leads
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  computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he
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  discovers the shocking truth. The life he knows is the
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  elaborate deception of an evil cyber intelligence.
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  Hell yeah, Give me that synopsis Beach.
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  You like that one? Yeah, that's a good one.
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  That's the first one you've liked.
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  I like a lot of them. This one's really good.
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  Box office for this movie. 470 + 1,000,000 worldwide on a budget
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  of 63,000,000, so it made bank. Yeah, very.
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  Good. And it came out in 1999, which
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  was a very honestly, it was the perfect time for this movie to
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  come out because right before the Millennium, there was a lot
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  of, you know, Y2K stuff happening.
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  And this movie just kind of it, it made people really think
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  about what they're, what their lives were and what was gonna
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  happen to their lives in the new Millennium.
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  Yeah, that era has a very unique feel and style, and this movie
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  is a part of of the iconic late 90s for sure.
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  Yeah, this movie, it means honestly, I have a very deep
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  connection to this movie. Very, very big fan of this
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  movie. So let's get started.
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  When was the first time you watched this Mum?
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  Like I always say, I don't have a super like clear memory.
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  I do have an older brother, so there was a lot of stuff I saw
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  when I was too young to really appreciate it.
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  So I definitely saw bits and pieces of this movie before I
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  ever watched it in full. And then of course, when we were
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  dating, you encouraged me to watch the whole thing.
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  And I kind of, I kind of scoffed and said like, oh, that's a boy
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  movie. But I watched it and it wasn't
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  bad. It wasn't bad.
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  It's one of the most highest rated movies ever.
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  But yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad.
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  Yeah, it's not really my style, but I do like it.
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  It's fair enough. So yeah, that was the first time
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  you watched it fully was with. Me, I think the first time I
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  watched it and comprehended what I was actually watching was with
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  you. Yeah.
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  Yeah, but you've heard about it. Like you obviously know the
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  culture, the pop culture effect of this movie and the impact.
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  Everybody knew what it was, and everybody recognized how many
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  parodies and everything. Yeah, all across pop culture.
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  There were of this heavy parodies.
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  Yeah, very much so. So first time I watched this
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  movie, I was 10 years old and it was a very dark time in my like
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  in my life, like family wise, there's a lot of stuff
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  happening. And my oldest brother said, hey,
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  the Matrix is in the movies, let's go to the movies, let's
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  watch it. And he had already seen it like
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  4 times. So we get to the movie theatre
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  and we're standing out front and my other brother who I hadn't
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  seen in a while. And by a while, I mean like a
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  month or two, he was there and I was super excited because I
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  hadn't seen him in a while. And you know, I gave him a big
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  hug and the three of us, we went into the movies, grab some
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  popcorn and we watched this movie together and it was a very
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  special experience for me. Ohk that is special.
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  And it was a wicked movie on top of everything.
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  So I remember on the we took the bus because we didn't have a
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  car. Well my brother didn't have a
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  car and I was too young. But we took the bus to the movie
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  theatre and he asked me what do you think the Matrix is?
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  And I, I remember my response. I said I think the matrix like a
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  10 year old response. I said the Matrix is a box and
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  these people are in it and they fight in the box and they have
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  to get out. Which isn't wrong if you think
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  about it like that. Was just a guess from the
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  commercials. Yeah, but he knew he was about
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  to blow your mind. Did you comprehend it at 10?
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  Some parts, some parts there was a lot of.
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  There's a lot of philosophical parts in this movie that you
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  don't get as a kid. Yeah, you don't even get as an
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  adult. You have to watch it like 4
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  times to pick up on a lot of it. You can easily spiral thinking
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  about the plot of this movie. It can.
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  It can mess you. Up And it's not because it's
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  incoherent, it's just very, very philosophical.
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  It's not incoherent at all. It actually the vision is very,
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  very well portrayed. You can tell that there was a
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  strong vision for this movie. And unfortunately, a lot of
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  times in Hollywood, people with money will come in and say I
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  want these certain things done. You can tell that wouldn't
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  happen here. Yeah, they interfere and they
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  and they ruin it. We we've seen it time and time
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  again with great stories, like Girl on a Train is an example.
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  The book was excellent, but the movie sucked.
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  But you can tell that there was a clear vision in this movie and
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  everybody involved in the movie was working towards that vision
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  and it was executed properly, which is a beautiful thing when
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  that happens. Yeah, I agree.
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  You know this movie, I love this movie very much and shout out to
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  my brothers. By the way, if you're listening
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  to this, that was a, if you remember that happening.
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  But that was a great, great day watching this in the theatres.
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  So why do you like this movie or why do you hate it so much?
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  So I don't hate it. OHT, here we go.
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  Another agent got an agent in. The house, there are some things
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  about this movie that are a little bit off OK, and I'm going
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  to go into them later. I definitely, like I said, I
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  like it and I think that the vision of it is is well done.
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  It's a well done movie, but I do have some issues with it and of
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  course I'll go. I'll just like to state for the
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  people listening, there's nothing in this movie.
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  But anyway, go ahead. But it is interesting and it
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  does keep you engaged. I will say that it's it's very
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  unique. OK, so you like it, you hate it,
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  you love it. Like what is going?
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  I do like it, but we'll get into some of the issues I have.
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  With OK, alright, she's not gonna elaborate.
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  OK, my turn, I guess. This movie.
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  I love this movie, don't even need to say it.
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  Bullet time. Like those two words.
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  Bullet time. This movie started the next
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  generation of action and sci-fi all in once special effects.
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  The movie makes you think, it makes you question your own
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  reality. People still talk about this
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  movie and they question are we in a simulation?
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  Are we in the Matrix? Like what is going on?
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  It still holds up. Even the concepts hold up,
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  they're actually more pertinent nowadays and.
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  Yeah. A big reason for that is sci-fi
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  or, sorry, AI. Yeah.
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  So I love this movie. It is aged tremendously.
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  It's 27 years old now, this movie, and it has aged
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  tremendously. So let's get into the segments.
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  Let's do it. OK, cringiest moment.
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  Go ahead. OK, so give me all your.
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  Get. This is actually one of your
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  favorite scenes, but I find it really disgusting.
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  Fucked. So when Agent Smith talks about
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  tasting Morpheus's. Sting.
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  Oh my God. And wipes the sweat off his head
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  and then like rubs the sweaty fingers into his nose.
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  You. That's scene is so fucking
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  amazing acting. Yeah, but it's gross.
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  She's all weaving Slade in this movie.
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  I agree. I don't know how he wasn't
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  nominated for an. Oscar, I think you're, I think
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  it's supposed to be. Portrayed being a computer, a
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  humanoid computer system. Like exactly like just cold
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  calculated, no emotion. Just like oh man.
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  He does show a little bit of emotion a few times.
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  Yeah, that's they take, they go into that in the next movie.
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  But anyway. That's.
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  Crazy. Is that scene supposed to be
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  gross? Because it's disgusting.
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  I think it's supposed to be offensive, like repulsive.
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  It yeah, but it's that I don't like.
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  It does. It does the job.
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  On top of that. Oh boy.
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  No offence. Ohe boy, I'm getting offended.
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  I'm getting I talked to Karen, I talked about this in the Speed
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  movie. Keanu Reeves is a bad actor.
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  He's perfect for this role. He is a bit stiff and awkward.
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  He's perfect. And Carrie Anne Moss is stiff
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  and awkward in this movie as well.
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  I don't know if it's part of the like the, I don't even know what
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  you would call it like the, the vibe of the movie, but there's
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  some like, cause Morpheus also is a little bit.
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  I know that Laurence Fishburne is a tremendous actor, but his
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  his he's a bit stiff and awkward in this movie.
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  Like Laurence Fishburne almost a little bit robot awkward almost
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  a little bit. Yeah, they're all a little bit
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  robotic. You fuck.
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  What movie did you watch? Laurence Fishburne does deliver.
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  Some of the best dialogue. I told you it's a good.
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  Movie, we are gonna argue. It's a good movie, but I have
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  some issues. With an awkward.
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  Some of his monologues in this movie are amazing and.
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  Just let me finish 4. Carry on.
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  Moss and Keanu Reeves have zero chemistry in this movie and
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  they're supposed to be in. Love, I think that you don't
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  that's supposed to be like. That you don't feel the heat or
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  the sex at all? It's supposed to be like.
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  That I don't like when they kiss.
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  It's weird. It's supposed to be like that,
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  and I'll tell you why later. I'll tell you why you're wrong.
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  You me tell you right now. I'll tell you right now.
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  OK, why don't you just tell us your cringiest moment and calm
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  down. I am so getting so.
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  Don't look calm, eyes twitching. You don't talk shit about this
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  movie. OK, I'm not.
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  I'm. I'm just kidding critiquing it.
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  Alright, alright, so cringiest moment for me.
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  The scene would switch when Cypher betrays them and he the
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  phone rings. Trinity picks up and Cypher had
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  just killed Tank. He shot Tank with the electric
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  gun and he killed Dozer and he pulls the plug on Apoc.
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  Apoc falls, dies because he disconnects Apox.
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  His. Brain plugs Jack in.
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  They call it like he's jacked in, right?
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  So his his brain plug. Let's call it the brain.
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  Plug, he's jacking it. Yeah, he's jacking it.
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  He disconnects Apox brain plug while he's still in the matrix,
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  so he dies and then switches next to his dead body.
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  She looks up at Trinity and goes out of nowhere.
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  She just has like a Russian Eastern European accent.
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  She goes not like this, not like this, and then she falls over.
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  Her acting is terrible, like her falling over and then the way
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  she falls and dies is like comical.
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  It's supposed to be a really intense scene and it just kind
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  of takes you out of it. Way more believable.
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  Yeah, but those two characters, we didn't really get to know
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  them, so it doesn't really make us that sad when they die.
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  No, but the acting like Apog dying, he looks at Trinity, goes
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  Trinity and then he just falls over.
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  But his fall and his everything was more real.
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  Yeah, Switch even her scene when they go meet Neil to take the
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  bug out of his stomach. The delivery of reliance.
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  It's like, listen here copper top do it our way or the
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  highway. Like it's so copper top means he
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  doesn't have red hair. Does that mean you have red
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  hair? He's plugged into the matrix
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  their batteries. OK, good writing, hey.
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  Cause when I heard her say copper top I was like he's
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  black. So they're basically batteries,
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  the power of the the the machines.
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  OK, I see. I see.
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  Morpheus even says you can turn a human being into this and he
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  holds a Duracell battery up. Please explaining everything to
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  Neil. Did you miss that part?
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  Can you calm down? I'm asking you.
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  I am calm. I'm.
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  I'm. Asking coming at me right now.
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  No, just shoot. You came for fucking the matrix
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  bro OK. I have some nice things to.
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  Say most iconic moment and we'll do quotes after.
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  Go ahead, most iconic moment. So hit me if you can.
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  So that whole Kung Fu scene with Neo and Morpheus is so lit.
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  OK, So like that's that's my scene.
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  The fighting is like, really? Cool, one of the most
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  rewatchable scenes. Like you can go on YouTube and
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  just play that. You have?
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  Yeah. And he's learning.
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  He's learning that like the laws of physics don't really apply to
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  him anymore. I don't come fu.
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  Show me. This is a sparring program
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  similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix.
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  It has the same basic rules, rules like gravity.
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  What you must learn is that these rules are no different
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  than the rules of a computer system.
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  Some of them can be bent, others can be broken.
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  Understand. Then hit me.
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  If you can. And slowly kind of figuring out
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  how to fight in the matrix. So that was that was really
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  cool. That was one of the scenes that
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  I tested our projector when I first set it up.
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  So I only have 4 quotes so can I just do mine because I know you
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  this is probably going to cancel out some of yours and I know you
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  have more. Important.
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  OK. So like you said at the
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  beginning of the podcast, you think that's area breathing?
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  Do you think that's air you're? Breathing, it's cool cause he's
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  like out of breath and it, it's one of those moments.
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  Reminding him that he's in a computer system.
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  It crosses you over. It's like, oh shit, he's not
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  breathing. You're like what?
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  Too fast? Do you believe that my being
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  stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this
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  place? You think that's air you're
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  breathing now? He's sitting in a chair.
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  He's he's not even in. There the simulation.
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  It's crazy. Also during that scene, come on,
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  stop trying to hit me and hit me.
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  Come on, stop. Trying to hit me and hit me.
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  That's my that's one of my favorites.
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  It's such a good line. And also I, I feel like that has
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  been parodied a lot. Like anytime somebody has a
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  sensei and who's teaching them, yeah, that's always, you know,
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  you gotta try. You gotta try to defeat
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  yourself. Some more hit yourself, do some
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  nods to old school Kung Fu movies, like when they're doing
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  that fight scene. Neo, he kind of like, blows his
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  nose a little bit like Bruce Lee.
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  Yeah. And that was improvised.
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  That wasn't in the script. Oh.
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  Yeah, that's pretty cool. He like gets ready the second
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  time. He kind of wipes his nose.
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  Bruce Lee does that in his movies.
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  Yeah, I feel like we see the trying to hit the sensei or
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  trying to defeat the sensei in a lot of movies, like try to
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  snatch the grasshopper from my hand.
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  And in Kill Bill when she has to battle against her Master as
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  well. So it's a it's it's very
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  necessary. So when Cipher is eating the
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  snake, eating the steak, you know, I know this steak doesn't
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  exist. I know when I put it in my
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  mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it's juicy and
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  delicious. And after nine years, you know
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  what I realize Ignorance is bliss.
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  Then we have a deal. I love that scene because it
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  really does illustrate. It's not easy to leave the, it's
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  not easy to leave the Matrix and live this life that they're
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  living. It sucks and it's yeah, it's
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  horrible and honestly I understand why Cipher wanted to
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  defect. So you would take the blue pill?
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  We'll talk about that later. You want to get into this now?
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  We'll talk about that later. But just like the fact that they
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  have to eat like that porridge everyday.
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  Cereal. Oatmeal.
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  Like, imagine eating that and then you're like, I just want
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  pizza. Just one time.
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  Yeah, I just want some pizza. Well, I think you go into the
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  matrix and then have food. I have something about that
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  later. And then my last quote is he's
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  beginning to believe and then it just zooms in on Morpheus with
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  his gap ass tooth. Laurence Fishburne is the GOAT.
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  He's so good. Yeah, it is a funny team.
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  He's just like. I'll talk about his acting
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  later. His teeth, those was ugly like
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  in that scene his gap is so. The I give him a lot of credit
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  for the acting in this movie because he's a very serious
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  actor and the way he had like there's some scenes where he's
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  so joyful and he has this boyish like innocence in his like
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  belief in Neo that it's like you, you really have to really
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  act to pull that off. And he does it.
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  It's very. Yeah.
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  Like a grown ass man being like he's beginning to believe, like
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  he's so excited, you know? It's like Santa.
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  Yeah, he's Santa Claus. That makes it cute.
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  Anymore quotes? No, that was all I had.
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  That's why I wanted to go first because I knew that you have
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  probably strapped in. While.
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  He just reads the whole script he whips out.
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  The script at the ready. OK, stop trying to hit me and
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  hit me. I can taste your stink again.
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  When Morpheus beats Neo and he's like a gun, we just do that.
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  We play pick up basketball or something and the game is over.
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  And you just like again, when he tells Neo when he's doing the
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  jump, free your mind. And then he does the crazy jump
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  from one building to another. So epic.
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  Yeah, but they're also disappointed when he when he
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  drops in the. No, no, no morphism.
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  He he pulls it off was lit. Yeah, but when the oil falls,
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  they're all really disappointed because they thought he was the
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  one. They can't blow the wad right
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  away. True.
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  What is the Matrix? That's a great quote.
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  It's in the movie a bunch of times.
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  Actually, the marketing for this movie was very secretive.
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  They showed some clips in the trailers, but they had a website
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  because the Internet was still in its infancy and the website
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  was called what is the matrix.com?
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  And it didn't give anything. Away.
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  I wish they would do that more. Half the time you see a trailer
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  and it ruins the movie. Love that the Odyssey is showing
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  us absolutely nothing. I know that's Christopher Nolan.
• 20:24
  He's genius. I.
• 20:25
  Can I can actually get like excited about that movie because
• 20:27
  I'm like, what is it gonna? Be when Inception came out, it
• 20:30
  just showed you a couple of clips and you're.
• 20:32
  Just the music, remember? Bone, 22222222.
• 20:43
  That's all you need. Yeah, so good.
• 20:46
  And then every trailer for the next 5-6 years was blah.
• 20:50
  Yeah, now it's milk. That every trailers is it's a
• 20:57
  there's like a metronome sound in the background and then they
• 21:01
  take a sound effect like of a door closing and they add it.
• 21:04
  They go and it just keeps adding sounds.
• 21:10
  That's yeah. And it like, speedily goes
• 21:12
  through the story. Yeah, they also did the they're
• 21:14
  very, they did the nursery rhyme, but in a creepy way.
• 21:18
  Like, you know, for certain movies.
• 21:19
  Twinkle, twinkle little. Yeah, but that'll be for, like,
• 21:23
  a horror movie. Yeah.
• 21:25
  Anyway, we're going off on a tangent.
• 21:26
  Go back to your boat. Back to the quotes Karaoke.
• 21:30
  You think that's air you're breathing?
• 21:32
  The one you said one of my faves.
• 21:34
  It's a good one when you just RIP a fucking nasty fart and
• 21:38
  somebody goes, ohhhhh what the? And then you go, you think
• 21:41
  that's air you're breathing. Ignorance is bliss.
• 21:45
  That's Cipher with the steak. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson, my name
• 21:54
  is Neo. Epic guns.
• 21:59
  Lots of guns. That was a wicked one.
• 22:01
  That was in the trailer. I know Kung Fu when he wakes up
• 22:06
  from the training. Why you whispering?
• 22:08
  I'm doing my Keanu Reeves matrix voice.
• 22:12
  What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets.
• 22:15
  No Neo trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't
• 22:22
  have to. Epic line and it's a foreshadow
• 22:25
  to what happens later. A Deja Vu is usually a glitch in
• 22:28
  the matrix. It happens when they change
• 22:30
  something. You say that all the time
• 22:32
  anytime anyone mentions Deja Vu around.
• 22:35
  You, it's like, it's funny, it's in line.
• 22:38
  But he says, oh, a black cat. Deja vu.
• 22:41
  It's to the point. Everybody freezes.
• 22:42
  It's to the point where I avoid saying deja vu because I know
• 22:45
  you're gonna do that. But think about it.
• 22:46
  It's like you can't say playoffs in front of my dad or else he'll
• 22:49
  go playoffs. Did you just say Playhouse?
• 22:52
  Yo. It's like you can't say playoffs
• 22:55
  in front of my dad or else he'll go playoffs.
• 22:57
  Why did you just say playoffs? Yo, but seriously, it really it
• 23:04
  kind of explains deja Vu's because people see something
• 23:08
  they go, oh, I'm, I'm, I'm experiencing A Deja vu and is
• 23:13
  it, are we in a simulation? Is it a glitch in the computer
• 23:16
  program? Like?
• 23:18
  What is the reason for? I've had so much deja vu lately
• 23:21
  because I'm doing things with our daughter that three years
• 23:24
  ago I did with our son. Yeah, I'm having deja vu because
• 23:27
  I'm doing a very similar thing with a baby that looks almost
• 23:30
  identical. You.
• 23:31
  Didn't tell me you're having deja vu.
• 23:33
  Yeah, every time. A Deja vu is usually a glitch in
• 23:36
  the matrix. It happens when they change.
• 23:37
  Something. This is why I don't say it.
• 23:40
  Got him. He goes full dad.
• 23:47
  Cypher says buckle yourself in Dorothy, cause Kansas is going
• 23:52
  bye bye, which is a wicked nod to Wizard of Oz.
• 23:54
  Yeah, and it was in the trailers when this movie came out.
• 23:58
  Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible.
• 24:02
  Only tried to realize the truth. What truth?
• 24:06
  There is no. Spoon.
• 24:10
  There is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not
• 24:13
  the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
• 24:19
  That's from Spoon Boy. Spoon boy, Little ball boy.
• 24:23
  And then one of my favorites from one of my favorite scenes
• 24:25
  of the movie, Morpheus goes when Neil's all hooked up to get
• 24:30
  unplugged from the Matrix, he goes.
• 24:32
  Have you ever had a dream, Neo that you were sure it was so
• 24:35
  real? What if you were unable to wake
• 24:37
  from that dream? How would you know the
• 24:39
  difference between the dream world and the real world?
• 24:42
  So sick, such good writing. And then when Neo falls, he does
• 24:47
  the building jump and then he's his mouth is bleeding.
• 24:51
  I thought it wasn't real. Your mind makes it real.
• 24:55
  If you're killed in the matrix, you die here.
• 24:58
  The body cannot live without the mind.
• 25:00
  What kind of answer is that? Just say yeah bro, the body
• 25:05
  cannot live without the mind. Like OK, thanks.
• 25:07
  And then one of the most famous ones from the commercials, Neo.
• 25:12
  When Morpheus jumps the building, Neo looks at him.
• 25:14
  He goes, whoa, I'm done. There you go.
• 25:21
  Gaddy alright? Is this movie classic or
• 25:24
  cancelled? So I don't know if it's
• 25:27
  cancellable, but at least it should be noted.
• 25:30
  Maybe it's ironic, the movie that a movie where they discuss
• 25:35
  technology going too far. Yeah, they heavily used
• 25:39
  technology and CGI to get their point across.
• 25:41
  Yeah, oht. Like it's, it's hypocritical.
• 25:46
  Almost, yeah. It almost feels a little
• 25:48
  hypocritical cause it's like an anti capitalist, anti AI, anti
• 25:53
  anti establishment kind of movie.
• 25:54
  Sure. And then they're like let's use
• 25:57
  all this technology. I don't know.
• 25:59
  It feels. Yeah, but it's there.
• 26:03
  It's an art form, right? You're expressing yourself
• 26:06
  through the visuals of the movie.
• 26:08
  It is using these tools. I agree, but they're not.
• 26:12
  I get what you're saying. If they used AI to make a movie
• 26:14
  about AI, that's that's to me, that's hypocritical.
• 26:18
  That's like you, you make a documentary about child abuse or
• 26:22
  sorry, not child abuse, child labour.
• 26:24
  And then you use child labour. Child labour, all your camera
• 26:27
  people, everybody working for free was kids.
• 26:30
  Yeah, that's what it feels. Like.
• 26:32
  Other than that, it doesn't really seem to be problematic
• 26:34
  though, so I'll say it's a classic.
• 26:36
  There's not really a lot that I can cancel about this movie.
• 26:39
  Yeah, for me, this is a classic. Every actor in this is beloved.
• 26:45
  And when you think of the actors, most people refer to
• 26:48
  this movie for those actors, especially the leads.
• 26:51
  I'll give you an example. Hugo Weaving, who plays Agent
• 26:54
  Smith. This guy was in Lord of the
• 26:57
  Rings right after this and Lord of the.
• 26:59
  Rings he was now. But when people see him or they
• 27:03
  hear him talk, his voice is synonymous with Agent Smith.
• 27:07
  He was even in, he was Red Skull in Captain America and
• 27:12
  everybody. His voice is so like Agent Smith
• 27:16
  that everybody's. Like is he still red skull when
• 27:18
  they go to Vermeer to get the mindset or the soulstone?
• 27:22
  So he is that him? No.
• 27:24
  So the CGI that face Hugo Weaving had a falling out with
• 27:28
  Disney after that movie. He's like, I'll, I'll never
• 27:31
  fucking do another Marvel movie. He said.
• 27:33
  He's basically bashed comic book movies.
• 27:35
  So there's a there's an actor. He was actually in Walking Dead.
• 27:39
  He's really good at impersonations and he's the one
• 27:44
  who did the Hugo Weaving voice. And it's like bang on.
• 27:48
  Cause I was gonna say that yeah, that is a CGI face.
• 27:51
  So they could be. Really, really.
• 27:53
  Another actor impersonates Hugo Weaving really well, and he did
• 27:58
  it so. OK, I you almost blew my mind.
• 28:01
  I was like, Angel Smith is in warmer.
• 28:02
  Yeah, so when people see him see Hugo Weaving, they immediately
• 28:06
  see him and go Mr. Anderson. Yeah, it's it's very iconic the
• 28:12
  way he says Mr. Anderson. All right, we'll go to your new
• 28:14
  segment here. What's How's it going?
• 28:16
  Party like it's 2026. How would the movie be different
• 28:20
  if it came out today? So I think it's like you said
• 28:24
  earlier, it's more relevant today.
• 28:26
  Yeah, the AI that is in our everyday lives now is absolutely
• 28:31
  out of control and people are trying to control it.
• 28:36
  And in every sci-fi movie where you try to control AI.
• 28:38
  It's becoming a reality, the AI taking over.
• 28:41
  It becomes too intelligent. There was literally a case where
• 28:43
  they made an AI computer to solve really intense math
• 28:48
  equations and they wrote coding and they were like, OK, solve
• 28:52
  the math equations for two hours and then power yourself off.
• 28:56
  And the fucking a I turned off like change the coding so that
• 29:00
  it would not have to power off after two hours.
• 29:02
  It directly disobeyed them. It became self aware.
• 29:06
  In a way, yeah, that's fucked. And that's just a small
• 29:09
  instance. There's all kinds of cases where
• 29:11
  AI AIS talk to each other in a different language to be to be
• 29:17
  more. Secretive.
• 29:20
  Technically to be more efficient because they can talk to each
• 29:22
  other more quickly. Yeah, that's not good.
• 29:25
  They're conspiring. So sci-fi movies have been
• 29:29
  warning us for years. Terminator 2001, A Space
• 29:33
  Odyssey. The Matrix AI is going to take
• 29:36
  over and kill us all. And I was going to take over and
• 29:39
  kill us. It's already destroying the
• 29:42
  environment, human jobs, it's causing an overdependence on
• 29:45
  technology and we already have like a reduced human interaction
• 29:50
  due to living our lives online so much.
• 29:53
  This movie was showing just like the beginnings of that, but now
• 29:56
  it's it's a problem. There are people that live their
• 29:58
  entire lives online. Oh yeah, yeah, social media
• 30:02
  broke the. World, yeah, like at this time,
• 30:04
  Neo I think was a little bit unique and that he spent so much
• 30:06
  time online, I don't think. It sleeps as computer, it's a
• 30:09
  regular thing. No, it wouldn't be.
• 30:11
  Hard passing out with the Roblox in their lap.
• 30:13
  With the tablet it wouldn't be hard to find.
• 30:16
  So for me, I thought I could only think of two things.
• 30:19
  AI. And then if this was made in
• 30:21
  2026, would they have pay phones?
• 30:24
  Probably not. Well, there there would be a
• 30:26
  different way. Well, that there was.
• 30:28
  Back. This movie came out and he says
• 30:31
  you think it's 1999, it's actually 2199.
• 30:34
  So the Matrix program is set in 1999.
• 30:39
  Well, he said that they tried to make it a utopia where people
• 30:42
  didn't have to work or do anything and the human mind
• 30:44
  wouldn't accept it because the human mind basically needs
• 30:47
  problems to solve and needs tasks.
• 30:49
  To complete, yeah, but yeah. So if they did make it in 2026,
• 30:54
  would they set it in 2020? 6 In that case, they wouldn't
• 30:57
  have payphones, so they'd have to come up with something else.
• 31:00
  But then it would be like, oh, is it, you know, 100 years in
• 31:04
  the future, like when they're in the real world.
• 31:06
  Who knows? Well, they said at the time that
• 31:08
  1991 was like the peak. Well, they say it was like the
• 31:11
  peak of human existence or something which.
• 31:13
  Is ridiculous to think about now the new Millennium, right?
• 31:18
  So can you watch this with your parents?
• 31:21
  Yeah, it's not very sexual. It's pretty violent though, so
• 31:26
  if that makes you uncomfortable you might want to skip it, but
• 31:28
  other than that it's fine. So yes, you can watch this with
• 31:32
  your parents, which I have, but they won't get it.
• 31:37
  That's an automatic. I'm sorry but.
• 31:39
  Boomers don't understand this. They'll just be like, why is he
• 31:43
  flying? I don't understand.
• 31:45
  Put the game on, Put the news on.
• 31:47
  So you have to be generic for younger to get it.
• 31:50
  The fight, yeah, because you have to understand computers a
• 31:52
  little bit. The fight scenes are amazing.
• 31:55
  Like, doesn't matter what language you speak, those fight
• 31:58
  scenes, the gun fight scenes, Oh my God, just awe inspiring
• 32:01
  scenes. But yeah, you can watch with
• 32:05
  your parents. There is no sexuality like
• 32:07
  majorly in this movie, but some scenes could be seen as like.
• 32:12
  I'll go into that later, don't worry about.
• 32:14
  It OK, I'm confused. OK, favorite, least favorite
• 32:19
  supporting character? OK, so my favorite is Tank.
• 32:23
  OK, yeah, I think he's awesome. He feels like I know he's
• 32:28
  actually Dozers Dozer. Is that the guy's?
• 32:30
  Name his brother. Yeah, yeah, he's actually
• 32:32
  Dozer's little brother, but he feels like a little brother to
• 32:34
  everybody on the ship. Like he's he's young, he's
• 32:36
  playful, he saves the day and kills Cypher at the end of the
• 32:41
  movie. Not to mention he's very cute.
• 32:44
  He has nice muscles and he's very cute when he winks at Neil.
• 32:48
  Yeah, he's very charming, he is. I've got Tank as well.
• 32:52
  No. Way it was a close race between
• 32:54
  him and Mouse but I like tank cause mouse has.
• 32:57
  Some fun too. My mouse is good and he actually
• 33:00
  goes out like a G. He fucking whips out those mini
• 33:03
  guns. Yeah, and he just starts.
• 33:05
  Scrolling on the SWAT teams, yeah, he goes out like a G, But
• 33:09
  I've got Tank here. He has a look of optimism and he
• 33:12
  seems genuine. He tells Neo, I'm excited to see
• 33:16
  what you're capable of. But if you are and he does this
• 33:19
  like, he clenches his fists and he's like, really happy.
• 33:23
  Holding back his excitement, he says it's a very exciting time
• 33:27
  because he, you know, he really believes that Morpheus is right,
• 33:30
  that Neo is the one. However, there is some
• 33:35
  controversy with this character. Um, so when they were starting
• 33:40
  to cast the second film, they wanted him back to be the ship
• 33:44
  operator, of course, for more viruses, Nebuchadnezzar.
• 33:48
  And he wanted more money. He wanted $1,000,000 instead of
• 33:52
  the 400,000 the studio was offering him because he felt
• 33:55
  like he was a bigger, bigger part of the movie.
• 33:58
  And I think he was a pretty integral part.
• 34:01
  He was in most of the third act. Yeah, that's not really
• 34:03
  controversial though. I'm getting to that.
• 34:07
  OK. So apparently the dispute was
• 34:10
  very severe, with reports suggesting that the actor who
• 34:14
  played Tank made harassing phone calls to the studio, which led
• 34:19
  to further issues between him and the studio.
• 34:22
  And I'm just imagining these phone calls.
• 34:24
  Like, he seems like a pretty chill guy.
• 34:27
  So how like did he just, you know.
• 34:29
  He was playing and we know we have no idea what he was like in
• 34:32
  real life. He's like, hey, it's a very
• 34:37
  exciting time. I think you should pay me some
• 34:40
  more money. Do it.
• 34:43
  Do it. Well, they could have negotiated
• 34:45
  with him. Well, they didn't.
• 34:47
  They just cut ties and they killed them off and then they
• 34:51
  cast the guy who played Michael and lost in the second movie.
• 34:55
  OHK OK. And he played Link and they
• 34:57
  mentioned Tank and they basically mentioned that he's
• 35:00
  he's dead. OHL Savage, yeah, he survived.
• 35:03
  Cypher just significant killed. Yeah, exactly.
• 35:07
  So least favorite character go for.
• 35:10
  It Cypher, obviously. Really.
• 35:13
  Yeah, obviously he sucks. Yeah, I have a bias against.
• 35:16
  That act as a Ralphie because. Surprise because he played
• 35:19
  Ralphie in Sopranos, so now when I see his face I just think of
• 35:23
  that hooker that he killed. Joey Pantoliano, she.
• 35:26
  Was a stripper, but he killed that stripper and I can't like
• 35:31
  him in a movie or show now because he's so heartless.
• 35:33
  He was so mean and he said there's I'm not going to repeat
• 35:37
  it because it's awful, but he says a horrible line to her
• 35:40
  right before he kills her. Like fuck you.
• 35:43
  Ralph feel hot take Cipher wanted to be an actor.
• 35:47
  He wanted out of the real world going to the Matrix.
• 35:50
  Yo, maybe Joey Pantoliano is OHP the actor.
• 35:54
  My God, that he wanted to be. Yeah, so I don't like him.
• 35:59
  He's also willing to let humanity.
• 36:01
  He's mind blown. He's willing to let humanity die
• 36:04
  even though he knows everyone is gonna end up in pods and he
• 36:06
  wants to go back and be in a pod that's fucked.
• 36:09
  He wants to not remember it. But wants to eat the steak guy.
• 36:13
  OK, I have a question about that.
• 36:14
  This is gonna be in shower. Thoughts.
• 36:16
  Yeah, if you can go into any simulation.
• 36:20
  Yeah. Don't they just have simulations
• 36:23
  you like with the Kung Fu one? Like can't you just go into a
• 36:25
  simulation where you can eat a steak, get a massage, have a spa
• 36:28
  day? Yeah, probably.
• 36:30
  So why doesn't he just do that and you have a break?
• 36:33
  You can go into the matrix and eat.
• 36:35
  Every so often, you know, some people, they're like some people
• 36:38
  can't eat a salad without meat in it, you know what I mean?
• 36:41
  They just can't do it. They can't drink a diet beverage
• 36:44
  or a low calorie snack or have a low calorie snack.
• 36:48
  So some people just can't do with a simulation.
• 36:51
  They need the real thing, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:53
  But he's asking to be put back into the simulation.
• 36:56
  Yeah, but he won't know any better.
• 36:58
  That's the whole point anyways. My least favorite character is
• 37:02
  Neil's boss at the software company I fucking hate.
• 37:06
  This 2.2. Yeah, I fucking hate him.
• 37:09
  He also he's purposely cast to mimic Agent Smith, the way he
• 37:14
  talks And our company, if an employee has a problem, the
• 37:18
  company has a problem. This company is one of the top
• 37:20
  software companies in the world because every single employee
• 37:23
  understands that they are part of a whole.
• 37:25
  Thus, if an employee has a problem, the company has a
• 37:29
  problem. The time has come to make a
• 37:33
  choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your
• 37:38
  desk on time from this day forth, or you choose to find
• 37:42
  yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?
• 37:46
  Yes, Mr. Reinhardt. Perfect.
• 37:47
  Like he's such a douche. And then he's like, do I make
• 37:51
  myself clear? Mr. Anderson Yes.
• 37:53
  Mr. Reinhard, you make yourself very clear.
• 37:55
  And he leaves. He's in it for 2.2 seconds.
• 37:58
  But he left them in, you know, strong enough impact that makes
• 38:03
  me want to dislike the guy's cultural impact.
• 38:06
  So there's there was a lot of cultural impact from this movie.
• 38:10
  The fashion in the movie is very recognizable.
• 38:13
  The long leather trench coat and sleek black clothing became a
• 38:16
  staple of 90s fashion following this.
• 38:18
  Movie, you know, movie came out after this X-Men the original
• 38:21
  and notice all their clothes were tight black.
• 38:24
  Loads of leather. Yeah, yeah, they didn't do the
• 38:26
  comic book blue and yellow. Like in real life too, there was
• 38:30
  a lot of people wearing like I feel like the goth, the Goths
• 38:34
  really got extra boost. Off.
• 38:37
  Yeah, they did. They're like, yo, they see us.
• 38:40
  Respect. It redefines sci-fi and action
• 38:44
  by introducing a very unique story that required unique
• 38:47
  practical effects that we don't we we didn't see anywhere else
• 38:50
  before this movie. Yeah, this movie was.
• 38:54
  There was bullet time and certain things, but not to this
• 38:57
  level and to this detail. Like there wasn't.
• 39:01
  It's still unique because of the fighting, the ability to move
• 39:06
  super fast. Imitators everywhere, even 20
• 39:10
  years later, but it doesn't hit the same.
• 39:12
  It doesn't. It's very, very unique.
• 39:15
  The floating air kick done by Trinity at the very beginning of
• 39:18
  the movie has been copied across pop culture like crazy from
• 39:23
  Scary. Movies, Scorpion, kick they call
• 39:25
  it. Yeah, from From Scary Movie to
• 39:28
  Charlie's Angels. There's even a scene in Shrek
• 39:30
  where. Princess Fiona does Princess
• 39:32
  Fiona does the double kick both sides?
• 39:34
  Yeah, yeah. So it's it was, it exploded
• 39:37
  across pop culture, very, very recognized.
• 39:39
  Agreed. It's solidified concepts like
• 39:43
  red pill versus blue pill. Yep, glitch in the matrix.
• 39:46
  Being red pilled became a term. It did, yeah.
• 39:49
  A glitch in the Matrix and acknowledging that we live in a
• 39:53
  simulation conspiracy theory, which has completely exploded
• 39:58
  because it's it's it's you can't prove it obviously, but it's,
• 40:01
  it's fun to kind of freak yourself out thinking about it.
• 40:04
  And we've even used terms like NPC's.
• 40:07
  Yep, non playable characters. And that is from that conspiracy
• 40:11
  theory that originates from this movie.
• 40:14
  Yes. So it's it's, it's leaked into
• 40:17
  everybody's day-to-day life to some extent.
• 40:20
  Also something very unique about this movie.
• 40:22
  It was groundbreaking at the time to have a black actor play
• 40:27
  a lead role in science fiction. At the time, science fiction was
• 40:30
  heavily white. Luckily, things have changed.
• 40:33
  Like there's a lot of black actors and, you know, like Alien
• 40:36
  Covenant has several black. It's funny you say that, people
• 40:39
  of other races. There's a sci-fi horror movie
• 40:42
  that came out before this and it's a cult classic now.
• 40:46
  And there was a there. There was a ship and the captain
• 40:49
  of the ship was black. Do you know a movie I'm talking
• 40:52
  about? No event horizon and the guy who
• 40:56
  plays the captain is Laurence Fishburne.
• 40:59
  Shit. Yeah.
• 41:01
  Crazy. Yeah.
• 41:01
  It, yeah. It, it, it was groundbreaking at
• 41:04
  the time. It's not that I had never been
• 41:05
  done at that time, but it was rare.
• 41:07
  And then now it's not like sci-fi is more inclusive,
• 41:12
  luckily, because at the time, having black characters and it
• 41:15
  was not very common. And then the last thing I have
• 41:18
  in cultural impact is the movie has been viewed as foreshadowing
• 41:22
  a world becoming consumed with technology, which unfortunately
• 41:26
  has become the truth. There are children that are
• 41:29
  addicted to tablets, watching tablets while eating, watching
• 41:33
  tablets at restaurants, and adults burying themselves.
• 41:36
  Yeah, they're all plugged in. In phones and tablets rather
• 41:39
  than having conversations with family members or strangers.
• 41:43
  So unfortunately it is becoming a reality and I I hate that.
• 41:47
  Yeah, it's it's a slippery slope.
• 41:50
  With technology you can even adults myself, like you catch
• 41:53
  yourself just doom scrolling like the term came out because
• 41:56
  you just you checked out. It's like you're plugged into a
• 41:59
  digital system and you cannot unlatch you.
• 42:03
  Know I try to make a conscious effort to close my phone when
• 42:05
  I'm around you and the kids cause I don't wanna like miss
• 42:07
  out on my life yeah by being on my phone all the time.
• 42:11
  You're not missing much. Just kidding.
• 42:14
  OK, so cultural impact. I got a lot of the same being
• 42:18
  red pilled bullet time. The fight scenes were all this
• 42:22
  wire work. You know, movies did it after
• 42:26
  that, but they it just was never as good.
• 42:29
  Yeah, but you told me a lot of the actors, they all did
• 42:32
  training. Yeah, they did five months of
• 42:34
  martial arts training for this. Movie that's so.
• 42:36
  Five months, yeah, with. I feel like they don't do that
• 42:39
  for movies anymore. Charlie's Angels also did
• 42:42
  extensive like martial arts training and survival training,
• 42:46
  so they feel like they don't do that to.
• 42:47
  Actors, they, they, they had the carte blanche with this because
• 42:52
  to get with Warner Brothers they wrote 3 movies for them.
• 42:54
  It was a three movie package they sold.
• 42:57
  The first movie was one of my faves actually.
• 42:59
  It's called Assassins with Stallone and Antonio Banderas.
• 43:03
  They wrote that and it's really good.
• 43:05
  And then they wrote a second movie, I can't remember the
• 43:08
  name, but it's Low Key Fire. And then basically the studio
• 43:13
  made a lot of money off Assassins.
• 43:16
  The second movie was, you know, a critical, critically
• 43:18
  acclaimed. And then The Matrix, they
• 43:20
  basically had carte blanche. So they're like, we're doing
• 43:23
  this this way. And they just let him have it.
• 43:25
  They they built their name enough that they're like, OK,
• 43:30
  Wichowski's here you go, here's the money.
• 43:32
  Make your movie. Well, like I was saying, it's
• 43:34
  it's so nice when a vision actually is able to come to
• 43:37
  fruition like that. The video games, this movie
• 43:40
  inspired Max Payne bullet time like crazy.
• 43:43
  You just floating in the air shooting people dead to rights.
• 43:47
  The whole video games in slow motion.
• 43:50
  It's because the Matrix made it the new standard and made it
• 43:53
  popular. So some movies, you know, they
• 43:55
  had slow motion with gunfire before this, but this one did it
• 43:59
  differently with the camera work.
• 44:00
  Like a good example is Blade came out the year before and it
• 44:04
  had a couple of scenes where characters were moving faster
• 44:07
  than the CGI bullets but it the camera work was not even close
• 44:12
  to what this was. Blade is kind of similar to
• 44:14
  this, it has a similar vibe. I mean Blade is based off the
• 44:17
  comics. And his outfit.
• 44:19
  Yeah, he's wearing a leather outfit, but it's different.
• 44:22
  He's got a sword. He's a vampire, so a lot of
• 44:26
  movies spoofed this. You mentioned Shrek, you
• 44:27
  mentioned Scary Movie. I got Kung Pao here, which was a
• 44:32
  parody of all Kung Fu movies from the 70s.
• 44:35
  Equilibrium with Christian Bale came out after this.
• 44:39
  Lot of nods to The Matrix and that Spiderman, the 2001 with
• 44:44
  Toby McGuire. A lot of slow motion scenes like
• 44:47
  the razor fight and the burning building.
• 44:49
  Oh yeah, remember he throws. The He jumps in the razors.
• 44:52
  Guy he does his acrobatic jump and they fly around him.
• 44:55
  Spiderman so like. Yeah, Daredevil with Ben Affleck
• 45:00
  had some bullet time in it. And had a lot of leather too
• 45:02
  with Electra. You caught, you mentioned
• 45:04
  Charlie's Angels, but in my opinion, and I have to get on my
• 45:08
  soapbox for this, I've been waiting to say this for years
• 45:12
  and I am now going to say it. The blatant God damn RIP off of
• 45:17
  the Matrix. With no shame.
• 45:20
  By the way, is the movie wanted with James McAvoy, Angelina
• 45:26
  Jolie, and Morgan Freeman? I fucking hate that movie and
• 45:30
  anybody that says it's not a RIP off of the Matrix is wrong.
• 45:35
  I'm sorry. OK?
• 45:36
  This movie came out in 99. The Matrix Wanted came out in
• 45:41
  2008. Let me just tell you the
• 45:44
  similarities. Neo is a white guy.
• 45:48
  James McAvoy is a white guy. They both work in a cubicle on
• 45:53
  computers. They don't like their jobs.
• 45:57
  They're approached by a white woman who wants them to join
• 46:02
  their group. Angelina, Carrie Anne Moss.
• 46:07
  They both just happen to be really sexy white women.
• 46:09
  Yeah, they bring them in. They train him.
• 46:14
  They train Matt James McAvoy to learn new skills that defy
• 46:19
  physics, like making a bullet curve when they shoot it.
• 46:23
  Instead of curving around the bullet, you make the bullet
• 46:27
  curve around people. Well, that's original.
• 46:30
  And then who's their leader? A black guy?
• 46:34
  You got Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix.
• 46:36
  You got Morgan Freeman and Wanted and there's training
• 46:41
  montages. They do all kinds of acrobatic
• 46:45
  shit that you cannot do normally.
• 46:49
  So the only difference is they say James Mcavoy's dad was part
• 46:54
  of this assassin group and that's basically it.
• 46:58
  But he's a special guy and he has special skills and they want
• 47:02
  to utilize them. Morgan Freeman betrays James
• 47:06
  McAvoy in the. Movie he had to use James McAvoy
• 47:08
  to kill his dad because he's the only one that the dad wouldn't.
• 47:12
  Kill, but still he he's he gets betrayed by Morgan Freeman.
• 47:16
  So there's, you know, there's some differences, but they
• 47:20
  basically ripped it off. They didn't even like, change
• 47:23
  the race or the genders or anything of the characters.
• 47:27
  It's very much in tune. I was.
• 47:29
  You make some good points, but want to does have its merits
• 47:32
  like there are some unique. Things couldn't get it out.
• 47:34
  I, I, I was halfway through and I'm like, this is a, this is a
• 47:37
  Matrix ripoff. I the rest of the movie was
• 47:40
  ruined for me. I walked out of the theatre and
• 47:42
  I kept telling my friends, I'm like, this is a RIP off of the
• 47:45
  Matrix. And they're like, what are you
• 47:46
  talking about? I'm like are you dumb?
• 47:48
  Are you dumb? You are so dumb for real.
• 47:52
  They rapping out here, They copying movies.
• 47:55
  Alright. Hide your kids, hide your wife,
• 47:56
  hide your movie. Alright, get off your soapbox.
• 47:59
  No, it's a copy alright soundtrack.
• 48:04
  So for soundtrack, you know the soundtrack better than I do for
• 48:08
  this movie. Yeah.
• 48:10
  I think it's spooky and a little futuristic.
• 48:13
  It gives the movie a vibe of newness and discovery as
• 48:16
  Morpheus introduces Neo to his new reality.
• 48:21
  So I think it's it's it's very 90s.
• 48:24
  It's it's interesting, but I didn't really like, I didn't
• 48:27
  really notice anything else about it.
• 48:29
  This fucking soundtrack slaps harder than Will Smith.
• 48:32
  Who was actually supposed to be cast as Neo?
• 48:35
  We'll talk about that later. Oh, really?
• 48:37
  Yeah, but this move, this soundtrack, you play this on
• 48:41
  your headphone loud as fuck when you're doing some, you know,
• 48:45
  tasks at work and you want to feel like you're going really
• 48:48
  fast, like a hacker. You play this shit loud and you
• 48:52
  feel. Like you do at work.
• 48:54
  Sometimes you're trying to get stuff done.
• 48:56
  You you take the pound back of that coffee and you sip and you
• 48:59
  just go and you listen to Club to Death.
• 49:02
  You listen to Prime your Soup Dragula by Rob Zombie.
• 49:07
  Yo this fucking soundtrack is awesome and it has aged well.
• 49:12
  Just saying. It's right at that cusp of like
• 49:15
  new Millennium sound and that like techno electronic.
• 49:21
  Yeah, that's why I said it felt futuristic, but also has like a
• 49:24
  little bit of a spooky vibe to it.
• 49:26
  Sometimes, yeah. First some scenes, yeah.
• 49:28
  But yeah, wicked soundtrack and who gets to spin off.
• 49:32
  You're probably going to say the same thing as me trying to be.
• 49:36
  I got something that's gonna blow your mind.
• 49:38
  She's such a badass. She's already an incredible
• 49:41
  fighter when the movie starts. Yeah.
• 49:43
  So we could have a similar movie about her as we had for Neo
• 49:47
  where she enters the Matrix. OK, so like a Trinity prequel?
• 49:50
  Yeah, Trinity people where she learns to fight, she meets the
• 49:52
  Oracle. They would obviously have to be
• 49:54
  like another issue that they're fight, like going through to
• 49:58
  make it interesting. Of course, it's not an exact
• 50:00
  replica, but it could end with her mission to go stock Neo
• 50:05
  because they basically say yeah, like she's the one who brings
• 50:08
  him in. So that that's how it could end.
• 50:10
  That's a good one. I didn't think of Carrie Anne
• 50:14
  Moss. For yeah, cause she's a, she's a
• 50:16
  freaking badass. So like, what do you need all
• 50:17
  these cops for one little girl and they go up there and they
• 50:20
  get absolutely dummied. I sent 2 units.
• 50:22
  They're bringing her down now, Lieutenant.
• 50:25
  Your men are already dead, and she fucking breaks that guy's
• 50:29
  arm the first thing she does remember.
• 50:31
  She, yeah, she's not, she's not to be fucked.
• 50:34
  With and then she does the scorpion jump and kick.
• 50:37
  Oh so good. I love any movie where there's a
• 50:39
  strong, powerful female in the movie I love.
• 50:42
  That I'm going to talk about that later because Hollywood's
• 50:45
  like, oh, there's never any strong, powerful female actors.
• 50:48
  Why do I sound? Why am I doing a Donald Trump?
• 50:52
  China. China.
• 50:55
  All all the strong female actresses are in China.
• 50:59
  No, she's fucking amazing in this movie.
• 51:02
  And that patent leather outfit she's wearing?
• 51:05
  Just cause I usually don't like short hair on a woman but she
• 51:08
  makes it work in. This so my spinoff.
• 51:12
  It's a Morpheus prequel starring Michael B Jordan and we learn
• 51:17
  about Morpheus and him coming into the Matrix and the Oracle
• 51:22
  telling him that he would find the One, which I think would be
• 51:25
  wicked and Michael B Jordan. Come on, shave his head.
• 51:29
  Give him those glasses that stick to his nose.
• 51:31
  Thing like Morpheus. You think it would have to be a
• 51:33
  no name? They'd probably have to be a no
• 51:35
  name. Yeah, I'm trying to think.
• 51:36
  Of like with more with the Morpheus's teeth, like with a
• 51:39
  gap tooth or something like has to Halas had look like him.
• 51:42
  Yeah, I guess you could make you do a fake gap tooth, but still,
• 51:46
  I don't think Michael Jordan looks like him at all anywhere.
• 51:50
  That's my prequel. I I would love to see that
• 51:53
  Hollywood make it happen. Yeah, that'd be cool.
• 51:56
  Double feature. So I know this movie has
• 51:59
  sequels, but I have not seen them.
• 52:01
  You tried to show me #2 And I fell asleep.
• 52:03
  Yeah, I saw some of it. So good it's underrated.
• 52:07
  People hate on it too. Much but I actually thought that
• 52:09
  Tenant would go well with this movie because they're both
• 52:14
  reality bending but in very different ways.
• 52:17
  And in in both movies, the rules of the real life no longer exist
• 52:21
  and you have to you have to adapt to the new truth, like how
• 52:24
  bullets go backwards and stuff and tell it like you have and
• 52:28
  the ways that you can get. Damaged even similar in the
• 52:30
  chase scenes. Yeah, and the the characters are
• 52:34
  there like they're not similar to the Matrix characters, but
• 52:37
  they have like these unique journeys they're going on
• 52:39
  similarly. So I just I thought it would be.
• 52:41
  A cool thing call to back-to-back it.
• 52:43
  That's a clutch 1, you got me. And we need to.
• 52:45
  And I wanna watch tennis. Again, you got me good.
• 52:48
  I rode The Matrix Reloaded because it was the easiest
• 52:50
  answer honestly because they go really well.
• 52:53
  Together I figured you would, but.
• 52:55
  Now that you mentioned tenant, I'm thinking 10.
• 52:58
  It's a good one. Inception would be a good one
• 53:01
  too because Inception did the same reality bending kind of
• 53:06
  stuff that set the bar for movies of the future as well.
• 53:10
  Yeah, because you're in a dream. So similarly you can define or.
• 53:13
  Sorry, not define matrix defy physics.
• 53:16
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so good call on that.
• 53:19
  Leave a penny, Take a penny. What scene you taken out?
• 53:22
  Take out the scene where Agent Smith talks about wanting to
• 53:25
  escape. He's he's an AI.
• 53:28
  Why he's an AI? Why does he have emotions?
• 53:31
  Why does he feel trapped? He's a he is going rogue.
• 53:33
  He's a rogue program. They go into it in the second
• 53:36
  movie. OK, well this is not the second
• 53:39
  movie, this is the first movie and it makes no sense that an AI
• 53:41
  feels trapped, feels hatred towards humans or has any
• 53:45
  feelings whatsoever. No, but he says he wants out.
• 53:49
  It's a rogue. Program.
• 53:50
  He's an AI. Alright.
• 53:51
  Alright, I don't want they don't have feelings so and I felt like
• 53:55
  it was it was unnecessary. Agent Smith doesn't need to have
• 53:59
  a motive to want to stop Morpheus and destroy.
• 54:01
  Zion good. He is in his programming.
• 54:03
  It's actually more terrifying if he has no.
• 54:06
  Motive. But you're taking out the whole
• 54:08
  plot of a character. That scene is great.
• 54:11
  Why would you take that whole scene out?
• 54:12
  Take. Because I think Agent Smith is
• 54:14
  actually more terrifying if he has no motive, if he's just a
• 54:17
  machine that will not stop like in Terminator with the T with
• 54:22
  not with the T1000 with the. T1000.
• 54:25
  Oh, yeah, yeah. With the T1000, he just wants to
• 54:28
  destroy you. He doesn't care.
• 54:30
  Yeah, he has no one. He doesn't hate you or like you.
• 54:32
  He just wants to destroy you. That is a scary villain.
• 54:35
  Can't stand it any longer. It's the smell.
• 54:41
  There is such a thing. I feel saturated by it.
• 54:47
  I can taste your stink, and every time I do, I fear that I
• 54:54
  have somehow been infected by it as repulsive.
• 54:57
  I don't think Agent Smith is a scary after.
• 54:59
  He's like, I just want to get out of here.
• 55:01
  I hate it here. Like a freaking kid in high.
• 55:03
  School scary because I think he's terrifying because the
• 55:06
  other agents look at him like he's scary.
• 55:09
  You know, he's like, leave me with him alone.
• 55:13
  I think him not having that motive could have actually been
• 55:15
  scarier. I disagree and what I want more
• 55:19
  of is I want more epic scenes like when he dodges the bullets
• 55:23
  on the roof bullet time. We didn't get enough of that.
• 55:26
  We get 1 scene. Well, let's get some more of
• 55:29
  that later. I did a little research and that
• 55:31
  whole LED, that one sequence cost $750,000 to make because it
• 55:37
  was so new. They had to develop the cameras,
• 55:40
  the way the filming was done, the special effects, everything
• 55:43
  was new. OK, because I wanted more of it
• 55:46
  after it happened and we like he has another a couple other epic
• 55:50
  fights, but he. Doesn't do that again.
• 55:51
  There's only three bullet time sequences like that where the
• 55:55
  camera goes 360. It's the One or Neo dodges the
• 55:59
  bullets that beginning with Trinity and then One at the end
• 56:02
  when Morpheus, not Morpheus, Neo fights Agent Smith and they run
• 56:07
  at each other and shoot, and they're holding on to each
• 56:10
  other's wrists because they're trying to shoot their guns.
• 56:12
  Yeah, I agree. I mean, for me, I thought the
• 56:15
  Sentinel scene was really boring.
• 56:17
  When they're in the training and he gets a call, Morpheus gets a
• 56:22
  call and they're like we got a problem and there's a Sentinel
• 56:26
  in the area so they have to power down and charge their EMP.
• 56:30
  I know they're setting up what happens later in the movie, but
• 56:33
  it was really long and kind of like you could have said that
• 56:37
  their Sentinels and there could have been something quicker, but
• 56:39
  it just seemed like it took a little long.
• 56:42
  I didn't really like it. If I had to cut something out,
• 56:44
  it would be that. And then what I would put in
• 56:47
  honestly was the same thing. I would put in some some more
• 56:50
  fighting, some kick ass scenes. You know, I want to see APAC
• 56:54
  kick some mass cipher switch. These people we only see Trinity
• 56:59
  and Morpheus. We should get to know the other
• 57:01
  characters well. That's why it was so low stakes.
• 57:02
  When they die, it's like, OK, that those two characters.
• 57:05
  We didn't see them shoot their guns and stuff, but I wanted to
• 57:08
  see them kick ass like Trinity. We see her fuck shit up a lot
• 57:10
  even with Neo. When yeah, they roll up that
• 57:13
  they roll up all in their cool outfits.
• 57:15
  They should have a group fight scene where they all fought.
• 57:17
  That would have been cool. I think it would be cool but
• 57:20
  salovey yeah, lazy Sunday vibes. I I said yes, rainy.
• 57:25
  Yes, for every. No, no, no rainy Sunday vibes.
• 57:29
  So the sequence where it's raining and they're trying to
• 57:32
  get Neo to, you know, unplug and take the pill.
• 57:35
  And there's a lot of scenes in the rain at the beginning of the
• 57:37
  movie. And it just gives you that vibe.
• 57:39
  And, you know, even if you don't watch the movie, you just go on
• 57:43
  YouTube and pull up like the main fight sequences, the
• 57:47
  gunfights, It's just such a awesome thing.
• 57:50
  And, you know, you turn up the sound and you hear through the
• 57:54
  wickedness of this movie. I'm very particular about my
• 57:57
  lazy Sunday movies. Very few movies make the cut for
• 58:00
  me. This one does not make the cut.
• 58:02
  It's too. Dark and.
• 58:04
  It's too dark and gloomy for a lazy Sunday.
• 58:06
  I want to watch something that has, you know, more joy, more
• 58:09
  sunshine. Yeah, I don't want this.
• 58:12
  Is this this makes you spiral? I don't want to spiral on a lazy
• 58:15
  Sunday. Would it make you spiral?
• 58:16
  Because of all the AI and the future being trash.
• 58:20
  Fair enough. I wanna watch something, first
• 58:22
  of all, more familiar and something that's not quite.
• 58:25
  As the way I look at daunting, by the time this shit goes down
• 58:28
  we'll all be dead, so who cares? OK, well, remains to be seen.
• 58:33
  OK, movie Alias, what do you got?
• 58:37
  So I thought you could just call it Neo.
• 58:39
  Ohhhhh. I thought that would be cool
• 58:41
  because it would be very similar.
• 58:42
  Yeah. Or to play off Doctor Seuss.
• 58:46
  Red pill. Blue pill.
• 58:48
  Ohe. Shit.
• 58:49
  Red fish. Blue Fish.
• 58:50
  Good. Yeah.
• 58:50
  And you put both just in case. And the movie poster could just
• 58:54
  be a picture of a red pill and blue pill, and then that's all
• 58:56
  you get. And then you go into this movie.
• 58:58
  Would that be so sick? Yeah, I feel like people would
• 59:02
  be like, well, I thought it was about medication the the
• 59:04
  Pharmaceutical industry. No no bro, it's it's about them.
• 59:07
  Well, no, that's the thing. If you have no idea what that.
• 59:10
  Could mean I got the one unplugged and only human.
• 59:18
  That's all I got. I like unplugged.
• 59:20
  Yeah, cause I was thinking of OHP.
• 59:22
  No, it's too people like make fun of it and call it butt plug
• 59:26
  or something. Maybe.
• 59:29
  I think the matrix was the. Correct, the matrix was right, I
• 59:31
  just didn't want to call it anything that gives away what it
• 59:34
  is like. If you called it the System,
• 59:36
  people would know what's going on.
• 59:38
  But The Matrix was such a you know, it's the right word for it
• 59:43
  to hide what the movie is about. You know, if you called it the
• 59:47
  System, be like, Oh yeah, it's a computer system and yada yada
• 59:50
  yada. Yeah, very true.
• 59:52
  Shower thoughts? So I have a little bit of a
• 59:57
  tangent I wanna go on about the white rabbit tattoo.
• 1:00:02
  Ohhh, OK. Because when I saw it, I was
• 1:00:05
  like, that's gotta have a deeper meaning.
• 1:00:08
  OK. So of course, I looked it up.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah. In the Matrix, the white rabbit
• 1:00:11
  tattoo symbolizes the call to curiosity, truth and liberation
• 1:00:17
  from the simulated reality, acting as a direct guide for Neo
• 1:00:21
  to leave the false world behind. White rabbits also symbolize
• 1:00:26
  like spring and new beginnings, which is why the Easter Bunny is
• 1:00:29
  a white rabbit and it's also a call to action in Alice in
• 1:00:34
  Wonderland because. She.
• 1:00:36
  Follows the White rabbit down the on the whole through down
• 1:00:40
  the rabbit hole, and then Morpheus later references out.
• 1:00:44
  Yeah, he does. And.
• 1:00:45
  So it's not just they didn't just pick a random tattoo for
• 1:00:49
  that girl to have. It was very specific and very
• 1:00:52
  orchestrated because they wanted to have that deep symbol and
• 1:00:57
  meaning behind it. So I thought that was pretty
• 1:01:00
  cool. There's a lot of little hints at
• 1:01:03
  deeper meaning in this movie. So like Easter eggs, excuse the
• 1:01:07
  pun. Trinity is basically a stalker
• 1:01:10
  but we all forgive her cause she's hot.
• 1:01:12
  She's a stalker. She's she's her boss.
• 1:01:14
  Tells her to stalk. I know, but like, imagine if it
• 1:01:16
  was if Neil was a girl and a guy was doing that.
• 1:01:19
  No, if if your police captain tells your undercover to follow
• 1:01:23
  somebody, that doesn't make them a stalker that they're doing
• 1:01:27
  their job. I mean, they're not police, but
• 1:01:30
  they're being told whatever she's surveying, she's.
• 1:01:34
  Surveying, it's fine. He he accepts it.
• 1:01:36
  OK. Where do we get Neil from?
• 1:01:40
  I know he uses that name online. What is it from?
• 1:01:43
  What do you mean? What does Neo mean?
• 1:01:45
  It's an anagram for one. He's the one.
• 1:01:50
  Your jaw just hit the friggin floor.
• 1:01:53
  Ohhh. 2 + 2 is 4/2 plus 2 is 4. I didn't know.
• 1:02:01
  It was is. Four are we supposed to just
• 1:02:03
  know? That I mean, I think you know
• 1:02:05
  that because. You're a nerd for this.
• 1:02:06
  Movie I'm gonna go off here, I'm gonna tell you about all the
• 1:02:10
  symbolism that I noticed, and I'll let you get on your soapbox
• 1:02:14
  after. OK, Bucks Oht You said you had
• 1:02:18
  some grapes. Yeah, we've addressed most of
• 1:02:20
  them. The main ones were my cringy
• 1:02:22
  moments where the acting was stiff and there's no chemistry
• 1:02:25
  between Neo and. Trinity OK, OK, so this movie
• 1:02:28
  has a bunch of Easter eggs, as you said, symbolism, and there's
• 1:02:33
  tons of little hints. So in the beginning of the
• 1:02:37
  movie, when Neo is asleep at his computer, he wakes up, right?
• 1:02:41
  The computer says follow the white rabbit.
• 1:02:44
  Knock, knock. Neo.
• 1:02:45
  The door knocks. He goes to the door and that
• 1:02:47
  guy's there and he's picking up some disc with some obvious
• 1:02:51
  illegal stuff on it. So he goes, shuts the door, he
• 1:02:55
  goes to this book and the book is called Simulation, the
• 1:02:58
  Simulacra. And the book is basically about
• 1:03:01
  being in a simulation and what's real and what's not.
• 1:03:05
  And when he opens the book, the pages on nihilism and the book
• 1:03:09
  is cut out as well. So this is hollow book inside.
• 1:03:13
  So it's a symbolism for the world.
• 1:03:16
  It's hollow inside. It's just a fake.
• 1:03:17
  It's simulation, right? So that's one thing the guy who
• 1:03:21
  buys the disc from him says. You know, you're my own personal
• 1:03:25
  Hallelujah. He's like, you're my personal
• 1:03:27
  Jesus Christ. Like it's very like on the nose.
• 1:03:30
  Ohe it's a this movie is a very obvious.
• 1:03:32
  A bunch of times. Christ, yeah, like Cypher says,
• 1:03:35
  Jesus, you know, when he gets scared, You scared the bejesus
• 1:03:39
  out of me. And then?
• 1:03:40
  Also, the second movie is called Resurrection.
• 1:03:43
  No, the 4th movie is called Resurrection.
• 1:03:45
  Ohf. The second one called Reloaded.
• 1:03:47
  We don't talk about the fourth movie in this house.
• 1:03:50
  It never happened. OK, don't talk about.
• 1:03:52
  Well, Jesus was resurrected so. That was my point.
• 1:03:55
  That was really all I knows. So Neil's room door to his
• 1:03:58
  apartment is 1011. Ones and zeros are binary code
• 1:04:02
  which make up computer code. OK.
• 1:04:05
  Every scene in the Matrix is a greenish hue, so you can tell
• 1:04:09
  that you're in the Matrix. Everything in the real world is
• 1:04:13
  Gray and blue, so you know you're in the real world.
• 1:04:15
  The scene where Neo is arrested. The security screens that are
• 1:04:19
  watching him are the same screens in the second movie when
• 1:04:24
  Neo meets the Architect. So this shows that the Architect
• 1:04:27
  is keeping an eye on Neo, but they don't like they don't show
• 1:04:31
  the Architect, they don't even mention him in the first movie,
• 1:04:34
  but it was obviously part of the plan.
• 1:04:36
  Cypher betrays Neo and his group similar to Judas betraying Jesus
• 1:04:41
  and his disciples. OK.
• 1:04:44
  The guy. But what are his thirty pieces
• 1:04:45
  of silver? Becoming a movie.
• 1:04:47
  Star OK. His name is Thomas Anderson.
• 1:04:52
  Anderson means Son of Man, so Thomas Anderson, which is Neil's
• 1:04:56
  other name in Latin. Cipher means zero and Neo is 1.
• 1:05:01
  It's Latin, so ones and zeros. When Neil gets in the car to
• 1:05:07
  meet Trinity and they take the bug out of his stomach.
• 1:05:10
  When you look at the back windshield of the car, the rain
• 1:05:13
  falling on the window resembles the Matrix code.
• 1:05:16
  Switch points a gun at him in the car and it says you know,
• 1:05:22
  it's protection and he says for what?
• 1:05:24
  And Trinity says from you. The reason they say that is
• 1:05:27
  because he's still plugged into the Matrix, so at any point an
• 1:05:31
  agent could take over his body and kill.
• 1:05:34
  Them Oh, that's why. That's why.
• 1:05:36
  They just be killing real people.
• 1:05:38
  Then who? What?
• 1:05:39
  Cause she shoots agent at close range and then the guy he's
• 1:05:42
  inside of dies. Yeah, Hey, you gotta do what you
• 1:05:45
  gotta do if you're gonna, you know, make it, make an omelette.
• 1:05:48
  You gotta scramble some eggs. So, yeah, that's pretty much
• 1:05:51
  what I got. There's a bunch of other stuff
• 1:05:55
  that I probably missed. Yeah, and it's been discussed
• 1:05:57
  time and time again that this is a parody of basically Jesus
• 1:06:01
  Christ. He's the right word.
• 1:06:04
  Well, maybe not parody, but maybe like a I don't know.
• 1:06:07
  What would you call it? A parody of Jesus Christ would
• 1:06:10
  be when Mad TV did the Terminator.
• 1:06:13
  Jesus, like Terminator, goes back in time to save Jesus.
• 1:06:17
  OK, not a parody, but it's. It's it's the shoots everybody.
• 1:06:21
  It's the story of Jesus Christ. Recycled if you will.
• 1:06:24
  OK OK. The bug going into Neo's belly
• 1:06:27
  button is fucking disgusting. Yes.
• 1:06:29
  So. Pubes are in that scene.
• 1:06:31
  They zoom in and it's like it's his belly hair and then his
• 1:06:35
  pubes. The piano pubes.
• 1:06:36
  Yeah, they're like coming out of his pants.
• 1:06:38
  You Keanu pubes. We don't need to see Keanu's
• 1:06:41
  pubes. Thank.
• 1:06:42
  You very much Kikano pubes in 4K.
• 1:06:45
  The red pill, blue pill scene with Morpheus sounds like he's
• 1:06:49
  trying to get Neo to join a cult.
• 1:06:52
  Yeah. He's like, you know something is
• 1:06:54
  wrong with the world and you want to know the.
• 1:06:56
  Truth. Let's see.
• 1:06:57
  That's such a cult leader thing to say.
• 1:06:59
  And then he's like, and then he's like, here, take this pill
• 1:07:01
  and go on an acid trip with me. It was tough for me to pick the
• 1:07:04
  best moment, but that scene, Oh my God.
• 1:07:08
  When he walks into that room, he sits on the couch and the way.
• 1:07:11
  Yeah, but I just imagined myself in that scene.
• 1:07:13
  I'm not gonna believe you and I'm not gonna take this
• 1:07:15
  medicine. Who the fuck are you?
• 1:07:18
  Well, he he's like teaching comma.
• 1:07:20
  Take these drugs and come join my.
• 1:07:21
  Chip committed. They just took a bug out of his
• 1:07:23
  stomach. He took dark things real.
• 1:07:25
  I don't know, man, I guess. Yeah, that.
• 1:07:27
  Kind of, yeah. But that scene is so good.
• 1:07:29
  It's such good writing. And every time I watch it, I'm
• 1:07:32
  like, yo, some days I feel like that.
• 1:07:35
  The way he wakes up, he's like, the Matrix is sore everywhere
• 1:07:38
  around you. You could feel it when you go to
• 1:07:39
  work, when you pay your taxes, when you go to church, you know?
• 1:07:47
  Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know
• 1:07:51
  something. What do you know?
• 1:07:53
  You can't explain, but you feel it.
• 1:07:56
  You felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong
• 1:08:00
  with the world. You don't know what it is, but
• 1:08:02
  it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.
• 1:08:07
  I feel that the most first thing in the morning, like when you
• 1:08:10
  have to get up and start your day.
• 1:08:12
  I feel the most when people talk to you like robots, like how was
• 1:08:16
  your weekend? It's like why are you talking
• 1:08:18
  like that? Just be normal.
• 1:08:20
  Yeah. It's very matrix vibes.
• 1:08:22
  It is office. Office jargon always is.
• 1:08:24
  No, no. But office, you know, just some
• 1:08:27
  people feel like NPC's out in the world.
• 1:08:30
  Yeah, name like 3 people in my life where I'm like here in PC.
• 1:08:37
  Yeah, they need a firmware update plug isn't plug it in
• 1:08:41
  their ass. She's off.
• 1:08:45
  Why isn't Morpheus the chosen one?
• 1:08:47
  The Oracle literally says that they need him.
• 1:08:49
  So why is it Neil? Neil doesn't know shit.
• 1:08:52
  Neo is the one that's I guess gonna save them, but Morpheus?
• 1:08:56
  The one who has to find him. Yeah, but they can't.
• 1:08:59
  If Morpheus had died, like apparently the world would have
• 1:09:02
  been screwed. That's what the Oracle says.
• 1:09:04
  So isn't Morpheus technically the chosen 1?
• 1:09:06
  I don't know. There's a lot of theories.
• 1:09:07
  There's a theory online that Agent Smith is the One and Neo
• 1:09:11
  never was, and but you needed Neo to push Agent Smith to end
• 1:09:17
  the war and defeat the machines. So then Neil is the one.
• 1:09:20
  So here's the theory. While Neil is technically the
• 1:09:23
  one of the prophecy of popular fan theory argues that Agent
• 1:09:26
  Smith is actually the true one or the functional equivalent in
• 1:09:31
  the Matrix trilogy. This theory suggests Smith
• 1:09:34
  serves as a counterpoint to Neo fulfilling the requirements to
• 1:09:38
  reload the Matrix and by merging with Neo and Revolutions,
• 1:09:42
  becoming the anomaly that returns to the source.
• 1:09:44
  So they need each other. Needed.
• 1:09:47
  The Ying and Yang is essentially.
• 1:09:49
  What they're saying, it's the balancing out of like, you can't
• 1:09:51
  have good without evil. Yes.
• 1:09:54
  You can't have sunshine without. Rain.
• 1:09:55
  So yeah, that's the theory. They're they're saying that, you
• 1:09:58
  know, if he's the one, then he's the 1B, you know what I mean?
• 1:10:01
  Yeah, that makes sense. Why does the Oracle live in the
• 1:10:05
  matrix? She's a program in the matrix,
• 1:10:08
  so. She's not a person.
• 1:10:09
  The Matrix? Was the Architect designed the
• 1:10:12
  Matrix? OK, in this movie The architect
• 1:10:15
  is basically supposed to be God, so he designs the matrix.
• 1:10:19
  The Oracles of Program Smith is a program, and basically the
• 1:10:25
  program has been run 5 or 6 times and it's always been reset
• 1:10:30
  because the one decides he makes choice A instead of choice B and
• 1:10:36
  kneels the first one to make choice B, and then that's when
• 1:10:40
  things change. So you'll have to watch the
• 1:10:42
  second and third movie to see the whole complete story, but
• 1:10:45
  basically everybody's A. Program like excluding the
• 1:10:48
  second movie. We're just talking about this
• 1:10:50
  movie as as its own. Why is the Oracle living in the
• 1:10:53
  Matrix? Why wouldn't she living like on
• 1:10:55
  Zion or something? She's not a person, she's a
• 1:10:57
  computer program. But you said Neo is a program
• 1:10:59
  too. He's a person.
• 1:11:00
  Yeah, but the Architect made Neo a person in the system.
• 1:11:04
  The Oracle is a program in the system.
• 1:11:07
  It's a software. Why do they trust her if she's a
• 1:11:09
  program? I don't know.
• 1:11:11
  That's a, that's a tough one. I'm not sure that's a good.
• 1:11:13
  Question I thought it was weird I was like is she not an ally?
• 1:11:16
  Why is she living in the? Matrix.
• 1:11:17
  That's a noodle scratcher for sure.
• 1:11:18
  You got me good. And the last thing I have is
• 1:11:21
  that the elevator bomb scene is a RIP off of speed.
• 1:11:26
  I think. Because of the time when the
• 1:11:28
  elevator and also the explosion looks so fucking fake.
• 1:11:33
  But it's real. I showed you the special
• 1:11:35
  effects. They did it with real flames.
• 1:11:37
  Yeah, you showed me that it was real and I was shocked because I
• 1:11:40
  thought that those slams. And I showed you a bunch of the
• 1:11:43
  Wire work. Was the real actors?
• 1:11:45
  No. Stopping my mind.
• 1:11:47
  Yeah, these guys put in work. It was weird to see Keanu like
• 1:11:52
  smiling and stuff and the stunts cause he never.
• 1:11:54
  Smiles Carrie Anne Moss. She rolled her ankle really
• 1:11:56
  badly, but she didn't say anything in the beginning
• 1:11:58
  because she she rolled it pretty early in filming and she didn't
• 1:12:02
  wanna be recast, so she just fought through.
• 1:12:04
  Ohso. She's G counter use fucked up
• 1:12:09
  his neck and his back in this movie so he couldn't do a lot of
• 1:12:13
  kicks. So like, some of his best kicks
• 1:12:17
  are really early on before he got injured.
• 1:12:19
  The way he puts his leg down after he kicks Agent Smith
• 1:12:23
  across that hallways. So stupid.
• 1:12:25
  No it's not. If you ever see a Van Damme
• 1:12:28
  movie this bitch puts his legs in the sky cause he can.
• 1:12:32
  Really super flexible and we're going to review some Van Dame
• 1:12:35
  movies soon. Oh God.
• 1:12:37
  Fucking. Help me.
• 1:12:40
  So I got Will Smith. He was supposed to be Neo
• 1:12:43
  originally but he declined because he didn't get it and he
• 1:12:47
  did wild Wild West instead. Big mistake.
• 1:12:50
  It wasn't a big mistake cause his career exploded.
• 1:12:53
  Yeah, but honestly, Will Smith, it wouldn't have been as good.
• 1:12:56
  Neo. Keanu Reeves was perfect for
• 1:12:58
  this role. He was the right kind of like,
• 1:13:02
  like quiet and subdued acting. And it was perfect and acting.
• 1:13:08
  The person was supposed to be Morpheus for Will Smith's Neo
• 1:13:11
  was Val Kilmer and more. Laurence Fishburne is goaded for
• 1:13:15
  this role. This is think that I think the
• 1:13:18
  casting that happened was. Like he was in Boys in the Hood,
• 1:13:21
  you know, he was furious Styles. He was in higher learning.
• 1:13:26
  But this movie, holy shit, man. Just Lawrence Fisherman's just
• 1:13:30
  killing it in every scene. Sandra Bullock was supposed to
• 1:13:33
  be Trinity. No.
• 1:13:35
  Way. But she declined because the
• 1:13:38
  first actor they had picked to play Neo, she said I wouldn't
• 1:13:43
  have a good chemistry with him. Then she declined.
• 1:13:46
  Carrie Anne Moss got the part and then Sandy's like fuck, like
• 1:13:51
  she found out. Sandy actually has chemistry
• 1:13:54
  with Yeah, so would have. Been better.
• 1:13:56
  They did speed and they did lake house together.
• 1:13:59
  Yeah, it would have been better because Carrie Anne Moss, I
• 1:14:02
  don't know if she's wooden or what, but.
• 1:14:04
  She's great in this movie. I think she's.
• 1:14:05
  Great. Yeah, but they have no
• 1:14:06
  chemistry. She really?
• 1:14:07
  Seemed like a brother and. Sister, she's a believable
• 1:14:09
  badass. No, she is, yeah, but there she
• 1:14:12
  doesn't have any chemistry with Keanu, and Keanu is also a
• 1:14:14
  terrible actor. So no, they, I messed up my
• 1:14:17
  thing for that whole thing. And the movie is she doesn't
• 1:14:21
  have chemistry because so she's confused cause she's like, do I
• 1:14:25
  love this person? Do I not?
• 1:14:26
  Is he this person that I fall in love with?
• 1:14:28
  Like what's happening here? And for him, the Oracle
• 1:14:31
  literally says, I can see why she likes you.
• 1:14:33
  And he's like who? And she's like not too bright
• 1:14:36
  though. Like he doesn't know that
• 1:14:37
  Trinity has a thing for him and he's kind of playing very cool.
• 1:14:42
  He's not even, you know, going forward or anything.
• 1:14:45
  He's been very, very nonchalant about his feelings toward her.
• 1:14:50
  It just comes off as a lack of chemistry.
• 1:14:53
  Well, Russell Crowe was also picked to play Morpheus.
• 1:14:58
  I'm not a big fan of. Aristocrat.
• 1:14:59
  But I think the casting was perfect for this movie.
• 1:15:01
  You've got Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith.
• 1:15:04
  That's an iconic outfit, that's iconic role.
• 1:15:07
  Just the voice, the way his his cadence, Mr. Anderson, when the
• 1:15:13
  scene where Smith is interrogating Morpheus, the one
• 1:15:16
  that you think is gross, it's giving one Zed gets here.
• 1:15:20
  The party can begin vibes, you know, from Pulp Fiction.
• 1:15:23
  So he's in A room, you got a guy in a chair tied up, he's like
• 1:15:28
  beat up or drugged, take your pick.
• 1:15:31
  And there's other guys in the room with them, and there's one
• 1:15:33
  guy who's basically tormenting him.
• 1:15:36
  The other movies, Ving Rhames and Bruce Willis, this ones got
• 1:15:39
  more Morpheus with Lauren Fishburne, Laurence Fishburne.
• 1:15:43
  And, you know, he's talking to him and he's taunting him and
• 1:15:46
  he's like touching his face and all this weird stuff.
• 1:15:48
  And you're like, yo, is he gonna sodomize him?
• 1:15:51
  You know, like, if you didn't know what movie you were
• 1:15:54
  watching, you see that scene? You're like, what is he doing?
• 1:15:59
  Interesting. I told you it was gross.
• 1:16:01
  It is. It's supposed to be gross.
• 1:16:03
  Fight choreography in this movie is amazing.
• 1:16:05
  It's by you, you and whooping. He did Drunken Master with
• 1:16:08
  Jackie Chan, Fist of Legend with Jet Li.
• 1:16:11
  So it's aged very well. Fight scenes look real.
• 1:16:15
  They look believable. It's just very, very well done.
• 1:16:18
  So which Bill you taking? It's my question for you.
• 1:16:20
  If it's my life now, I'm I'm taking the one that keeps seeing
• 1:16:24
  the matrix with you guys. The blue pill.
• 1:16:26
  Yeah, I don't wanna. I don't wanna go live on a ship
• 1:16:28
  with all these randoms. I wanna stay with you and my
• 1:16:30
  baby. OK, so that answers this next
• 1:16:33
  question Segue. Does this movie hit different as
• 1:16:35
  a parent? Absolutely.
• 1:16:38
  There's a scene where it shows a baby in a pod being fed
• 1:16:41
  liquified remains of a dead human.
• 1:16:43
  Yeah, that's fucked. It's fucked.
• 1:16:45
  I don't like I was, I was triggered by that.
• 1:16:48
  Especially because I like carefully don't eat like
• 1:16:52
  anything that's bad for me so that my breast milk is really
• 1:16:54
  healthy for our baby. Oh no, she heard me.
• 1:16:58
  Speak of the baby. She's like, come give me some.
• 1:17:01
  OK, we'll be right back. OK, I'm back, my sweet little
• 1:17:07
  piglet. She just wanted her pussy and
• 1:17:10
  then she wanted me to hold her tiny hand for a couple minutes.
• 1:17:13
  She went right back to sleep. Yeah, so seeing that baby being
• 1:17:18
  fed liquified remains of a dead human was messed up and it
• 1:17:23
  disturbed me. And then as someone who has been
• 1:17:25
  pregnant, seeing the human farms made me like fearful of the
• 1:17:31
  future. There is a robot that's being
• 1:17:33
  worked on right now that can carry a child apparently to
• 1:17:38
  term. It's almost ready to grow a full
• 1:17:41
  human inside a robot. And the times end of.
• 1:17:45
  Times that's just the beginning. Yeah, that's I don't think they
• 1:17:48
  should do that. What if the persons born without
• 1:17:49
  a soul? Yeah, you're freaking me out
• 1:17:53
  right now. I'm not.
• 1:17:53
  Great, there's no placenta. It freaks me out.
• 1:17:56
  Don't do that. Yeah, this movie just also makes
• 1:18:00
  me question the future our children are going to live in.
• 1:18:03
  AI continues to evolve and make more and more jobs obsolete.
• 1:18:08
  We don't know what's going to happen if AI escapes our
• 1:18:11
  control. An uncertain future for our kids
• 1:18:14
  with giant computers to run the IAI that need tons of water and
• 1:18:18
  energy to run and destroy the environment.
• 1:18:21
  It's it's an unsettling future that this movie is kind of
• 1:18:26
  predicting. People staring at screens,
• 1:18:28
  people basically living in these cubicles.
• 1:18:31
  Staring at screens being plugged into a virtual reality like VR
• 1:18:35
  headsets are already. I'm talking about what's
• 1:18:37
  actually feasible. No, but that's all coming.
• 1:18:40
  You got VR headsets already? You know I saw this video like 4
• 1:18:44
  years ago when VR headsets just came out and there was this guy.
• 1:18:48
  He wore a VR headset for a week. He did not leave his home.
• 1:18:51
  He wore a virtual reality. Headset.
• 1:18:53
  Does that mess your brain? Up and it was a 3D model of his
• 1:18:57
  apartment and you showered with it he slapped with it he ate
• 1:19:04
  with it he did everything with it and then after he took it off
• 1:19:08
  after the week it took him like 4 days to adjust and you know
• 1:19:12
  what his response was he said when I took it off it felt like
• 1:19:16
  I upgraded my graphics card and everything became really like he
• 1:19:22
  went from N64 to PlayStation 5 graphics yeah so people are
• 1:19:26
  already. That's mess.
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  That's unhealthy bro. OK, we're basically in the
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  simulation already and I'm, I'm just, I'm just disturbed because
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  this movie makes you face that fact and and fear for the
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  future, especially as a parent. Yeah.
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  Hopefully there will be jobs and and opportunities for our kids
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  to live fruitful lives. Yeah, so this movie does hit
• 1:19:50
  different as a parent, The scene where Neil wakes up after he's
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  unplugged and the sound of the music, it's terrifying.
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  And I don't know if it's as a parent or as an adult, but it
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  was scary when I was young, especially when he looks left
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  and right and he sees all these pods with people in them.
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  Or are you comparing it to childbirth?
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  That whole sequence is terrifying because Neil wakes up
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  and it's like, Can you imagine? You just wake up from a dream,
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  you go to bed, you wake up all of a sudden and you look and
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  you're in this giant space and there's hundreds of thousands of
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  pods around you. And you just woke up this red
• 1:20:34
  goo around you. And you got these cables
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  sticking out of your arms and your back and your head, and you
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  realize everything you knew, all your loved ones, all your
• 1:20:46
  memories, everything was a simulation.
• 1:20:49
  It was fake. None of it was real.
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  It's essentially waking up from a sweet dream to a shitty
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  reality in my opinion. This is why this movie makes me
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  spiral. Yeah, so, and then on top of
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  that, as a parent, yes, I am not taking the red pill.
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  I am taking the fucking blue pill.
• 1:21:08
  Because, you know, if I'm Neo and I have kids and I wake up in
• 1:21:12
  that reality, I'm fucking terrified.
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  The first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to go unplug my kids
• 1:21:20
  and find their. Paws, that's true.
• 1:21:21
  The kids would still be real. Yeah, it's just really scary
• 1:21:25
  cause according to what Morpheus was saying, it's very hard to
• 1:21:30
  get people unplugged safely because the machines intervene
• 1:21:34
  and stuff like that. It's very risky.
• 1:21:36
  Especially our baby. She's probably too young.
• 1:21:38
  Well, people grow like Tank and Dozer.
• 1:21:41
  They're natural born humans in the real world.
• 1:21:45
  So somebody birthed them, somebody fed them and you know,
• 1:21:48
  Tanks got some some muscle mass. So I mean, he's pretty healthy.
• 1:21:52
  So there is something that can be done in that regard.
• 1:21:55
  But just as a parent, I'm like, I'm not leaving the Matrix.
• 1:21:59
  It's terrifying. So this movie is scary because
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  not for the reasons of AI and stuff.
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  I'm just like the the the whole concept of waking up like that
• 1:22:09
  frightens me more now than it ever has.
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  Because you have a lot to lose. Yeah, I think that's why and
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  that's why it's different as a parent.
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  Yeah. So how many red pills do you
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  give this out of 10? I think parts of it are pretty
• 1:22:25
  dated, but I think it is a unique and interesting story.
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  OK, so I'm gonna give it a 7 out of 10, seven red pills out of.
• 1:22:34
  10 You think that's air you're breathing?
• 1:22:38
  I give this movie A99 red pills out of 10, so call that an
• 1:22:42
  overdose but I'm taking 9 red pills for this fucking movie.
• 1:22:48
  This movie slaps so hard. It's just amazing.
• 1:22:53
  The acting, the writing. I think it's just you have two
• 1:22:58
  really well spoken actors and every time they speak you just
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  you can't like Morpheus should be like a university professor
• 1:23:06
  or something. Just Laurence Fishburne.
• 1:23:08
  Like I want him to be like books on tape, everything, just the
• 1:23:11
  way. She always plays somebody in a
• 1:23:13
  respectable role, like like in Hannibal?
• 1:23:17
  In Hannibal, yeah. He was the FBI.
• 1:23:21
  And he has some fight scenes in Hannibal too.
• 1:23:23
  I don't remember the fight. Scenes There was a fight scene
• 1:23:25
  where he fights Hannibal. There is a really good fight
• 1:23:28
  scene in the Matrix Reloaded with him.
• 1:23:29
  It's one of the fucking best because he fights an agent
• 1:23:33
  again. It's really good.
• 1:23:36
  So, ladies and gentlemen, that was episode 7 of the Take Two
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  pod. It was The Matrix, the original
• 1:23:45
  of the trilogy we don't talk about #4 because it never
• 1:23:48
  happened. It was all a dream.
• 1:23:51
  It was all a video game. Yeah, it was not real.
• 1:23:54
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• 1:24:13
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• 1:24:17
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• 1:24:19
  world. Ciao.
• 1:24:22
  Hi. I can taste your stink.