sorry, i should have picked a lower resolution poster image whoops (e: fixed)
Also holy shit this movie still kicks so much ass. I rewatched it recently and i was blown away by how excellent it still is 25 years later. Most movies do not age this well.
It's a movie where the antagonists are cishet white dudes and the only cishet white dude in the crew turns out to be the traitor.
If they made the matrix today Neo would be called PRONOUNS and the story would be an allegory for being TRANS.
I kinda wish they didn't put heterosexuality in it :/ or a male protagonist :/ or green :/
The Matrix but when Neo pops the redpill he immediately becomes a cool gender
The green is part of why the movie still looks good years later. It hides green screen artifacting. One of the problems with green screens is sometimes they reflect green light onto things, creating an uncanny valley. This is especially a problem with shiny surfaces, like...say....black latex and sunglasses.
The Matrix hides it in plain sight by masking everything in a green filter. Mixed with practical effects, you don't notice when something is CGI or the CGI just looks good (like when the kid bends the spoon in the Oracle's apartment).
If you want to see a movie where green light reflects off surfaces it shouldn't and it looks like shit, in the first Thor movie it's really easy to spot. The Mandalorian has been a major breakthrough because they use a giant ass LCD screen (instead of a greenscreen) that forms half a dome around the set. This allows them to use CGI, but the light is much more natural looking.
I think the worst CGI in the whole trilogy, is when Neo fights the many Smiths in reloaded and even then it's a great scene and you could handwave it as the Matrix failing to render everyone completely due to the strain from what they're doing.
Yeah that looked like shit even when it came out. IIRC it was the first of its kind, though. The software they used was the best available and made specifically for Reloaded. Subsequent films outside the franchise would use improved versions of the same tech, which is why they don't look like garbage.
One of the problems with green screens is sometimes they reflect green light onto things, creating an uncanny valley. This is especially a problem with shiny surfaces, like...say....black latex and sunglasses.
The Matrix hides it in plain sight by masking everything in a green filte
I do a bunch of green screen photography and editing, if I mess up and there's obvious green reflections I cheat and make it black and white.
agree except for the green the green is good. and can't deny my soft spot for Keanu all the same
I've always though a better explanation was that the machines didn't want the humans for batteries and therefore made the Matrix, that's just Morpheus getting the sequence of priorities out of order. They wanted to put the humans in the the Matrix to prevent having to genocide their creators, and in turn they were recycling the by-products to maintain their fusion reactors (Morpheus says they use fusion energy as well as humans).
I vaguely remember the humans were some sort of neural creativity computer thing, but that got changed later to batteries
Yeah originally they were meant to be using the humans for computing power, there's some hangover of that, like how the agents can jump between people and some other thing I can't remember right now. Even in that scenario I think it makes sense they're adapting around imprisoning humans. The Animatrix shows the humans as being the aggressors in the war and the machines initially wanting peaceful coexistence. Initially making the matrix as a paradise seems like a benevolent thing to do.
Morpheus already in his explanation tells Neo that they really don't know much about the pre-war time, him being wrong about the Machines motivations makes a lot of sense, especially given the film trilogy shows us that even the machines themselves have conflicting beliefs and priorities and the series is ultimately concluded by a ceasefire, that the machines are willing to accept.
I watched a bit recently too (was on tv) and yeah it still rocks
in terms of the craft and concepts it's still ahead of the times today in a lot of ways. mark of wildly good scifi.
matrix 4 is really good because i just feel the bitterness at it existing coming from within the text itself
