[ SECRET POST #5098 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5098 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I think the Matrix is overrated. I enjoyed it at the time, and I get why it was popular. But it was more about the technology than anything else. The plot hasn't really held up that well in terms of having staying power in my opinion. It is just that the technology/effects were so groundbreaking at the time that it has stuck in people's minds and is remembered as being better than it actually was.

[(Anonymous)]

I both agree and disagree.

I think it's still a great movie and it holds up phenomenally in my opinion. But I think it's kind of a fluke that it was a massive worldwide hit.

The technology is probably what made it a hit, and I don't think most people would agree with me that it holds up. It's a very Wachowski movie and I think the Wachowskis, for the most part, just don't appeal to a wide audience. But for me I fucking love it. It's an amazing weird technognostic cyberindustrial biopunk wizard occult kung fu action movie. It's trying to be a very specific very weird thing and it completely nails what it's trying to do.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I think part of the massive success (was in part the message for many people) but also like you mention the tech, and the year it came out, right before Y2K (I remember people clearing store shelves for water lol,)

There was something... ephemeral about the turn of the century, an allure where things that we kind of take for granted right now (like the internet & coding & programming, etc.) still held a certain mystique, a certain power of mystery, shadow,it felt unknowable, a modern day dark woods (recall blair witch project came out around the same time --until the actors showed up on late night, I know as a kid I thought they died lol). It's really interesting imo. I feel like it kind of have people a glimpse into something that seemed unknowable and foreign, yet pedestrian (nowadays anyways). I still sometimes wish we could download knowledge lol

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you that it holds up. Literally every time I watch it I find myself thinking. "How is this still SO good?" despite the fact that plot-wise it has some pretty major issues.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, same. It was interesting and all, and visually very cool, but I don't think I could force myself to sit through it again (have seen it a few times), and didn't care for the sequels much at all.