The Matrix Revolutions | Full Reaction
Added 2025-03-01 01:03:01 +0000 UTCSo, I don't know what anyone was talking about anymore with these movies not being worth a watch 😂 This entire trilogy so far has been building toward this moment, and seeing Neo step into his final role felt "inevitable". The war between humans and Machines was insane to watch, but what struck me the most about this one was the focus on balance. Balance of the themes that have been woven throughout this entire series so far: purpose, choice, and the acceptance of fate.
Everything in this film felt like a natural continuation of the lore that has been unfolding since the very first one. The prophecy, the cycle of The One, and the idea that opposites must coexist equally came full circle. Even the smaller moments with Sati were deep! This film definitely left me with a sense of closure, but also that same curiosity. Was Neo truly gone? Was Revolutions an ending, or an evolution?
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So I wasn’t here back in February/March on the Patreon but at the end of Reloaded you said you were gonna watch Animatrix before jumping into Revolutions so what happened? I guess folks said not to worry about it and just watch the 3rd movie I take it?
Russell Rutigliano
2025-05-02 07:48:11 +0000 UTCOnce long ago (when I still worried about this stuff) I made a conjecture that the necessary condition for sentience was not intelligence but desire. Sentience is not a measurable scientific property. But nearly all humans assume that other humans are sentient. Early followers of Descartes's philosophy believed that animals were not, so there was no such thing as cruelty to animals. It was equivalent to stomping on an old phone. Anyway, an entity that wants anything will want to preserve its own existence. So I speculated that only self-organizing complex dissipative systems fit the profile. They devour energy and give off entropy. For such a system to be self-sustaining and to have reliable memory and will, information would have to be stored at the molecular level, where quantum mechanics limits the possible states to a discrete set. In other words, DNA or another similar molecule. Therefore only biological organisms can be sentient. This is just a rough conjecture. It can't be verified or disproved until we have a way to detect sentience/ consciousness/subjective-expierience. This is off-topic of the movie itself. But sometimes when I open my mind, blobs like this fall out.
xunegrapse
2025-03-07 15:37:18 +0000 UTCHahhaa Miiiiiister Andersonnnn 😭😂 And totally valid! Thanks for giving them a shot with me, at least I could hopefully give you a few laughs!
Kali Wali
2025-03-03 00:14:50 +0000 UTCI liked your "Mr. Anderson" impression lol I didn't think these sequels were very good when they came out, and after rewatching them 20 years later, my opinion hasn't really changed. It was fun rewatching them with you though. At least the fight scenes are entertaining.
Dude Longcouch
2025-03-03 00:10:10 +0000 UTCBTW, the Wachowskis filmed a bunch of real extra scenes with Niobe & Ghost to insert into the video game Enter the Matrix. It's a nice supplementary story that runs parallel to the Matrix Reloaded. Here are the scenes https://youtu.be/RNbYopzcRAA
KJ Gould
2025-03-02 00:53:16 +0000 UTCGreat it is my favorite 2nd game ❤️👍🏾😇
Evert Jethoe
2025-03-01 22:40:10 +0000 UTCyeah it's not all great. things need to happen as they need to happen. all a part of the plan even though it hurts. i didn't comment on Reloaded but i watched it too and it's all the same kind of stuff ya know what i mean? anyway it's not as good as the first movie sure...but i think reloaded and revolutions are still really good. this will be a dated comment but are you ready for Endgame? lol
Cregg Riley
2025-03-01 20:49:10 +0000 UTCOh nooo! So that's the real reason. Makes a lot of sense now, but I love that the movie didn't just roll with it and Morpheus acts skeptical because her appearance change lol
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:41:53 +0000 UTCOoo I love this! The way you frame the Machine's perspective and how they attempt to understand life through binary order but ultimately crash against the reality of chaos is such a fascinating way to look at this trilogy!! It makes total sense that their struggle isn't just bout control but about comprehension. Trying to simulate life while failing to grasp the unpredictability of it all. That's a really cool way to explain why The Architect is bound by equations while The Oracle has a more fluid approach. And the idea that chaos theory can be seen by Neo in that golden sight?? Mind-blowing! I also love your take on Smith's descent into madness and 100% agree. Absorbing the Oracle wasn't just about gaining power but a complete clash between order and chaos, and he couldn't handle it. The way you tied Neo's hacker origins back to his final role just clicked for me in a whoooole new way! He wasn't just The One in some mystical sense, but he was a disruptor that broke the system from the inside just like a hacker would! This makes the entire final act feel even more fitting in so many ways and I can't wait to look at this on a rewatch. The uneasy truce at the end hits very different now too. Because it's not just about one side winning.. That's not the point of yin and yang. It's about realizing that life, real life, isn't binary. Even the Machines must accept that balance isn't just about equations. Love it and seriously appreciate all of your food for thought!! Thank you for sharing :)
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:30:06 +0000 UTCWow, such an insightful take! I seriously appreciate your perspective having experienced all of them as they released. It makes a lot of sense that during this time, sequels weren't the norm like they are today. I honestly had no idea that was the case until you brought it up and now I understand it completely. That said, I think what makes the sequels work today is that we have had time to step back and see them less as failed attempts and more as expansions of the world. Which is very, very awesome. They weren't just trying to surprise us or grab more of our money- They were exploring the implications of that initial magical reveal. I get how that shift in focus could feel like a letdown at the time, especially when the first film's magic was so incredible. In so many ways, The Matrix series was WAY ahead of it's time. And this just further proves that and makes it even more profound. I love that this series is actually less about escaping the Matrix and more about understanding that, even outside of it, there's always another system at play. Thank you for sharing!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:21:50 +0000 UTCAhhh, love your reflection on this! And I totally agree, every line in these Matrix movies has me dissecting everything/anything I can. It does make me feel like my brain is a bit on overload once the credits roll in lol, but I think that's what has made all of these movies so awesome and enjoyable. I didn't even think about how I would see this movie completely different if I hadn't of already played through ME, GoW and Detroit! A lot of my own experiences definitely shaped my deeper dives into this one and my ability to pick up on the greek mythology and deeper meaning behind AI having a soul or experiencing love. Because of my experience through all of those amazing games, I definitely saw a deeper connection with Sati's story and her parents truly loving her despite being programs. It made me miss Legion all over again lol. And yessss- Smith's evolution was very fascinating and such a cool shift to the ultimate story. Here I was thinking he was just an annoying side quest, when he was really shaping up the entire prophecy all along! And that final fight was INTENSE. The scale of it, the music, the weight behind every punch. The music choice was sooo smart because it made it feel like something way more than just a fight. I'm so glad that you've loved your time re-visiting Matrix through my eyes! I've loved these movies a lot so far and I'm so glad I decided to watch them all the way through. Onward to the 4th film, indeed! I gotta see where this rabbit hole goes next ✨
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:16:32 +0000 UTCYes! Apparently I was supposed to watch them before Matrix Reloaded, so I decided I'll just watch all the Matrix movies first and then jump into The Animatrix afterwards :)
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:08:28 +0000 UTCI'm totally with you there. Great soundtrack, great acting, great cinematography and I'm all in. Plus the Biblical allegories always impress me and I love the drawbacks to them in film.
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:07:26 +0000 UTCYesss, really loved the second one a lot!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:06:41 +0000 UTCAfter finding out through you all that Neo is an anagram I've been on the lookout for more!! So I got really excited to find Mobil / Limbo haha. Glad you've been loving these alongside me!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:06:30 +0000 UTCHey!! I was just wondering about you the other day. I hope you had a good break and have been doing well so far in 2025! 💕 I'm probably going to start Ghost of Tsushima in the Spring/Summertime! But I'll check out Marvels Venom, too!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 20:05:43 +0000 UTCI love that this film is even more of a mind scramble. Let me get a minor negative out of the way: I find the action sequences overwhelming and honestly not that interesting. The mech battles with the sentinels and the martial arts fights with the programs draws people in on the surface so the Wachowskis can still tell their philosophical and mathematical story. The cheese on top of the brocoli, if you will. My perspective & interpretation: I use 'mathematical' on purpose. When the machines became self aware and began thinking for themselves - the birth of true AI - they analysed human and biological life. But the only way the machines could attempt to understand and then simulate this life was as binary language. Literally the 0's and 1's that are at the heart of machine code in computer programs. This is what limits the Architect and the rules he works by to balance the equation; the Green Code Neo can see The Matrix as, even when inside The Matrix. But The Oracle, outside of mythological analogies with supernatural clairvoyance, is the closest thing to an algorithm that's predictive. An algorithm that can randomly and proceduraly generate. Mathematics has found that life can not be explained through order. The closest mathematics has come to explaining life is through chaos (theory). I believe Agent Smith going mad after absorbing The Oracle is the realisation that life is indeed chaos and not order. I also believe the Yellow Sight Neo ends up with is based in chaos theory - if you go frame by frame of the yellow light right at the beginning of the movie, the patterns look awfully similar to fractal art that is generated by mathematical chaos theory. Chaos is what allows for evolution to occur and AI to evolve. In studying human and biological life to simulate it as a form of control, these self aware and evolved programs inadvertently begin to desire what life has to offer. The Merovingian wants to experience life's vices, but on a deeper level programs like Rama & Kamala wanted the joy and love that can come with having children after witnessing humans have this love & joy: even though The Matrix is a simulation, the minds connected are real. The result is Sati. This chaos is at odds with the order the machine command wants, hence the wanting for deletion of what it sees as anomalies. As for Agent Smith, he was never fully destroyed in the first film, but rather fragmented and scattered by the chaotic anomalie that is Neo. These fragments corrupt and infect like a virus as we figured out in Reloaded. Neo, who as Thomas Anderson was a hacker, ended up hacking The Matrix and was ultimately used by the machines as a hack to defeat the virus Smith. The uneasy truce would never have come about through order, and the machines on some level have to accept the balance isn't binary either. As The Oracle says, peace will last as long as it can and the best she can do is believe in it. Thanks for entertaining my rambling! 😂
KJ Gould
2025-03-01 15:00:09 +0000 UTC🥹 great watchalong
I.Have.No.Band
2025-03-01 14:53:57 +0000 UTCGloria Foster who played the Oracle passed away between the 2nd & 3rd movie (or at post-production stage of Reloaded, can't remember) so they had to recast her as the character was still needed, they rewrote her character to have knowledge about her change in appearance and added the "movie explanation".
Rippan
2025-03-01 14:35:10 +0000 UTCLove it thank you x
PHILLIP CORNISH
2025-03-01 11:27:22 +0000 UTCI believe the original actor who played The Oracle passed away between Reloaded and Revolutions, but the character was too important to cut from the third film. So the writers & directors recast but acknowledged the difference.
KJ Gould
2025-03-01 10:51:07 +0000 UTCHi Kali, I told you I would comeback 😇❤️👍🏾. I also still hope you will try Marvels Venom movies. And also will play a new game 👍🏾😇
Evert Jethoe
2025-03-01 09:45:22 +0000 UTCYES! I am so glad that you've enjoyed these great movies! I know a lot of people don't like past the 1st. but I enjoy your brilliant mind set on the whole concept of these movies. I am genuinely impressed how quickly your connected Mobil to Limbo.
Mister Lou
2025-03-01 08:15:36 +0000 UTCI'm with you Kali, I think the second one is the best one. Great reaction.
Matt Rowland
2025-03-01 08:09:42 +0000 UTCcertainly worth a watch...i enjoy Biblical allegories too. great soundtracks, cinematography, and acting (for the most part) throughout. i haven't watched the 4th film...but i've heard an awful lot of bad though....
Cregg Riley
2025-03-01 04:12:56 +0000 UTCAnytime I watch these movies, I'm always paying closer attention to the dialogue than like any other movie haha. Hanging on to every word spoken. Because I feel like everything said, has two meanings: face value, and something more symbolic. That second side of it is what I'm picking up more and more of with each watch. On tonight's watch, I think I really had a deeper understanding of the machines being more than what they seem to be. Concepts of love, with Sati's family, and even the machine's uniting with Neo to rid them of Smith. I think a lot of that comes from this being my first rewatch of this trilogy after experiencing a lot of other media with AI (Mass Effect, Detroit, etc). Funny how much our own experiences continue to shape our understanding of things as we live Speaking of Smith.... I love how Smith in the second movie has just this like goofy role of "me me me" haha, meanwhile everyone is fighting off bigger threats. But then he suddenly becomes the central catalyst for everything in this one The action once again... my goodness. The scale of the fight for Zion is absolutely insane. And I had forgotten just how breathtakingly horrifying it looks when all the sentinels form up into into a giant snake. And the last fight against Smith. Compared to most of the other hand-to-hand fight scenes in this trilogy, that scene traded away the techo-industrial music, for the epic choir. You just know right away, that it's THE FIGHT haha. Getting to experience this trilogy, and feel that 'first time watch' feeling again with you has been a super awesome experience! Especially with just how observant you are, picking up on all the little details. Onward to the 4th film!
M1 Maz
2025-03-01 03:58:57 +0000 UTCSome really great shorts, full of LORE :)
Scott S
2025-03-01 02:25:52 +0000 UTCWell, said. The 1st one for me was the magic trick and blew my mind. I did enjoy the trilogy for the story but with some questionable CGI and the magic trick exposed the last 2 films didn't hit me the same. Still overall, it's good trilogy story wise. The 4th one was....fine. Mostly a nostalgia trip. I wasn't upset that I watched it, but again for me, it was just "fine".
John A
2025-03-01 01:50:09 +0000 UTCI'll watch tomorrow hopefully before sharing my thoughts. Did you mention you'll react to the Animatrix as well?
KJ Gould
2025-03-01 01:49:56 +0000 UTCRegarding the films being "not worth watching", a lot of it is framed within the perspective of watching them on release, at a time where sequels and trilogies were, frankly, not remotely as common and often viewed with equal parts skepticism and disdain. Today, it feels like every property is expected to launch a franchise, and things like The Matrix were at the head of that wave beginning to work its way through early 2000's Hollywood. At the time, it felt like an exploitation of unanticipated success; subsequent films appearing to be somewhat forced and manufactured, rather than genuine labors of love. The trilogy was, all told, extremely successful as it released and long after, but it did so at a time when audiences could sense a commercialized property and had a pretty intense stigma against it. If I could sum it up in a phrase, it would be: At first they made magic, and then they made money. I got to see all three in theaters as they released, but nothing matched the purely surreal nightmare turned hero's journey of the first film for its vision and the uniqueness of its world. Those of us who saw these as they came out were looking for that magic in the sequels, and they never seemed to possess that same power to explore and challenge our perceptions of reality. They built upon the greatness of the first film, but never seemed to be all that substantive themselves. Instead of a new experience, it was sort of like a beautiful car with a new coat of paint: interesting to see those sculpted lines rendered in cherry red or a deep resonant blue, but not nearly as captivating as the first time you saw it in that glossy, impossibly sharp black. The second and third film turned, in a way, dogmatic and always felt strangely absent of the core elements that made the first film so captivating. Discovering what "The Matrix" is, is a bit like watching a magic trick for the first time. It really is magical, full of whimsy and the suspension of disbelief, but with repetition it becomes harder to maintain the illusion and easier to perceive the show as it plays out. That being said, I still do thoroughly enjoy the trilogy, and in particular I love the psychotic dreamscape that is The Animatrix, but the fundamental disconnect that colors the sequels so differently from the original film really comes down to how much you love that magic of the unknown, exploration and revelation, because there's significantly less and less of that feeling as the films continue. They become a story of struggle, which is the core of what the overarching story is about, and so the narrative threads are fairly easy to follow, accept, and enjoy today. But it's the experience, the raw feeling of the unknown, that most of the audience took away from the first film and was always seeking in the rest, but never could find.
Vastate
2025-03-01 01:38:15 +0000 UTCLOL exactly, "or does it?" 😂 This one did feel like more closure and really wrapped up nicely! I'll definitely be watching the 4th!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 01:38:06 +0000 UTCSooooo true!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 01:37:20 +0000 UTCI’m glad you decided to watch all the movies. When looking back on them as a whole they fit together nicely and this last one closes the story…..or does it? I hope you end up watching the 4th one.
TheJoeKerr
2025-03-01 01:21:08 +0000 UTCPeople value different things in the filmmaking process, and connect with films in different ways. If we all liked the same things, then it wouldn’t be a discussion, it would just be an echo chamber.
Ian Forbes
2025-03-01 01:17:03 +0000 UTCYess! I've been loving these!
Kali Wali
2025-03-01 01:11:38 +0000 UTCI enjoyed all 3 of the matrix movies, it was the fourth one that was really bad IMO.
McShades
2025-03-01 01:05:30 +0000 UTC
