r/matrix

We all know that The Matrix is a legendary movie, but the sequels—Reloaded, Revolutions, and especially Resurrections—just didn't hit the same. I don’t know if it’s just me, but after the first film, the concept became way too dramatic and romantic. If I wanted to watch a story about two people just trying to be together, I would have watched Titanic.

I don’t understand why Neo and Trinity’s love story completely overshadowed the actual plot and philosophy of the films. Personally, I’d give the latest movie a 4.5/10, whereas the original easily deserves a 9.5 or even a 10. It feels like as the series went on, the imagination shrank, things became too grounded, and we were just left with romance tropes. I’m not sure why Lana Wachowski got so overly emotional when making these later films, but it’s just incredibly frustrating and disappointing for the audience.

What do you guys think about this?

Hello all!

So decided to check in and ask a question.

How many of you are ready to accept that the end of movie 3 was in fact the seventh version of the Matrix?

Ok so my girlfriend’s dad is a huge sci-fi guy and wants me to catch up on all the best of the genre. So he lend me the trilogy in DVD.

We watched the first one with my girlfriend tonight and I have to say that I liked the movie but it’s not the wow effect I was expecting.

I liked the first hour, I didn’t understand anything and I liked it. Then all the ship part was a bit boring and not as philosophical as the first part. I think that the action part, is not really what I like in the movie.

And I knew some of the cult moment. So it’s not that I was expecting something from them but at least more than what I felt. For example the pill sequence for me was to fast, I wanted Neo to have a real dilemma and not just picking the red pill. Other example, the sequence of the music with the red dress girl was to quick for me, I wanted my mind to be blown by deep explanation of what the matrix implied.

To me the most memorable part was the spoon, that’s when you understand really the power of the mind, the white box where Morpheus explains the Matrix and last fight in the subway.

The downside for me is that sometimes the movie tells you to much things. In thins kind of movie, I want to be free having theories and I felt to guided and things were to obvious. Like the squid part at the end creates a fake sens of pressure, I almost felt like the end of Armageddon.

In conclusion, I think that it’s a great movie but I won’t rate it as high as a Blade Runner for example so I would give it a good 7/10. I want to watch the whole trilogy to see what more can there be in this universe.

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Humans AND machines working together. IO was a really cool concept, and I loved how the two species worked together to achieve a level that Zion could never reach. Seeing the Synthients and their non-combat forms was really cool. I like to imagine, just as the machines help humanity bring over food from the matrix, humanity could help finally remove the dark clouds.

Terminator and Matrix I think were the first movies that introduced me to the "Man vs Machine" concept that lead to global war. Which was of course a fun concept, and we've all seen the ending "humanity finally destroys the machine", but one concept I dont think I really saw before was "What if peace happened without one side wiping out the other and what would that co-existence look like"?

Fun movie regardless

I see a lot of people claiming nobody ever left the Matrix and that Zion was just part of the simulation. But then why does Trinity see the sun after breaking the clouds? There would be no point in simulating sunny weather and clear skies with a star above the hellish digital world. It would be more and more clouds until they descend again.
To play devils avocado though, Agent Smith did indeed transfer from the Matrix to a human, which proved several things. First being that a human brain can support AI as a standalone system, and second, that human life and digital life is transferable and therefore indistinguishable.
The real conclusion I came up with is that humans growing up in simulation from birth to death, for possibly hundreds of years, means that any consciousness that escaped the Matrix going into Zion would be machine code from birth as well. Because the machine cultivated the humans and raised them as well as recycled them. At this point in the Matrix, my strong belief is that everyone is machine sentience.

Machines: "And if you fail?"

Neo: "I wont"

So fuckin badass

Read the comments of this video, they are hilarious!

Advice for the next Matrix movie: The production team and Drew Goddard need to formally consult with today's real AI market leaders. In 1999, AI was just a fantasy. Today, the heads of major AI labs are building the actual future. They know exactly how algorithms, deepfakes, neural simulations, and synthetic realities work. If you want the next Matrix to feel genuinely prophetic and terrifying, base the machine threat on the real-world trajectory of modern AI.

So I've been rewatching the movies, like many it is one of my favorite trilogies to binge. I was watching with my wife the other day who is a developer and never watched them through. When morpheus explains that the if you die in the matrix you die in the real world because the body can't live without the mind. To which she said why, its a simulation why does it matter if you die there. So it made me think what makes sense, and if you think of the body in the real world as a flash drive or hardware it works quite well. If you are killed in the matrix or rather "deleted" then the hardware is now empty and you die. Same goes when switch is unplugged by Cypher, flash drives often have warnings not to unplug while actively writing as the file can be corrupted. So when you are plugged in the experience is actively being written and the brain can't handle being yanked out suddenly. This is backed up with the phone line exit so it is safe to remove the hardware.

Let me know if you like this theory. I've enjoyed connecting the movies to computer analogies its added to the fun of rewatching them.

The hydrocarbon rich reprocessed fluid extracted from human corpses was probably a universal fuel for the machines.

No different than us making ethanol or high fructose corn syrup from corn. Energy Farming from humans wasn't a linear process. At some point our unaware bodies might have ran treadmills.

On most days, when the sun is bright and the moment is right, I can see the simulations coding in the surrounding air. When I’m not focusing my vision on something specific, I can see the coding just, buzzing around. I cannot decipher it, but I recognize it. Sometimes, I try to manipulate it with thought. I’m wondering if anyone else sees things like this with or without trying.

I love it