The Matrix already looked old aesthetically by the time the first sequel came out. Partially because it was extremely popular and got copied and parodied to death almost immediately.
Soooo many people took the wrong message from that film, but it brings me such joy that transphobes adopted “red pilled” as seeing the truth. Like. You literally have no idea.
It's funny--one of my biggest problems with it since it came out was this trying-too-hard aesthetic.
Always imagined that the machines couldn't actually trace them when they hacked in, but just watched out for people dressed like vampires on a day pass.
The movie literally tells us that this was the pinnacle of our civilization. That we "peaked" in 1999. I've never seen anything to convince me otherwise.
10 fucking years it took us to get past this. I'm begging you not to bring this back. Every music video, every B movie. Talcolm powder has shot up in price since these photos were taken. Plz don't do this.
The difference between how cool a long black duster looks on screen and how cool it looks in person is so vast that the only person I've ever seen pull it off was a priest
There’s an interview with Baudrillard that criticizes the film for “fetishizing” what it claims to critique. If that’s not clear, he means they present the matrix as a place you’re not supposed to want to be *wink wink but they give us this aesthetic by which can cosplay and inhabit that world
Counterpoint: It's how they wear it rather than the aesthetic.
You could give that crew bright, saturated floral bell bottoms with matching blazers and turquoise beads, throw on some rose, yellow, or baby blue shades in fun shapes and then let them grab all the shotguns and pistols? Still fire.
Patrick H Willems observed that The Matrix is like "shooting the moon" of cool. Making any of the choices in the movie is bold. But making *every* choice? Shit's rad
The cell phone that slides. The car with suicide doors. Morpheus's pince nez.
waiting in line for the Matrix 2 premiere, people kept saying "great costumes!" to my friends and I. We didn't have the heart to tell them it was literally just the clothes we wore to school that day. still wear some of those same pieces today.
The extras in the club scene in the first movie are just Sydney goths wearing their regular clubbing gear. Most people who were part of that scene at that time know people who were in it
for a year there every person in the entire world saw some goth ass goths dressing gothly and thought "hey this is kinda sick". a beautiful moment in history
making the second Tron movie cyberpunk as fuck was the right move because the original Tron's themes are very cyberpunk but the aesthetic hadn't solidified yet when it was made
Years ago I got a cheap silly jacket from the Internet that had Morpheus vibes and some of my friends made fun of me but legitimately probably 30 times random dudes asked me where I got the jacket because they thought it was the coolest piece of clothing they had ever seen in their lives.
True story : the sweaters for the 'real world' were created by a STL based textiles place called Skif and they're some of the best sweaters I've ever had
Very weird isn't it. If they made it today, you can guarantee there'd be "original matrix phone!!!" on temu within hours of the promo videos being released.
I remember being in college and taking my girlfiend to see this, and after the lobby fight scene she said "now *that's* a man" and was just sitting there openly drooling. And I was like, huh. Guess I should change up my wardrobe a bit and get back in to karate.
Am I crazy or were there multiple articles about how the designs were taken from priest outfits, complete with young sexy priest photoshoots, in an attempt to make the church look cool and attract the Matrix kids?
Looking at Fishburne in the back and he totally gets a buff for rocking a black leather coat with a black button up shirt and a yellow neck tie when going into battle.
Crime lords are envious of his rizz, as the kids say.
Glad I was in college at that point, we semi-protested the looming trench coat ban by wearing capes. Worked pretty well.
Beat the video game/role playing game ban by having better grades than average, though it’s possible they realized the risk of a bunch of bored engineering students.
Even their fight choreographer (the legendary Yuen Woo-ping) was like "Carrie-Anne Moss is a total babe; I need to make sure she has a fighting style to match"
The second one is my favorite, actually. It wasn't originally, but recently i rewatched the whole trilogy and while the first one is great and a better first-time watch i prefer the second.
Just checked, and it's not on Netflix. Youtube has only fragments - don't ruin your experience with those. 🙃 I'd say check the pirate sites or your local library.
Yes, but there’s also stuff from Neuromancer by William Gibson which they based a lot of the movie on. Trinity doesn’t take her sunglasses off for a long time at the start of the movie - and the character from Neuromancer she’s based on has sunglasses that are physical implants. Stuff like that.
Given the radical changes in radio (fuck u, clearchannel) and hire music is recorded and distributed since the 2000s-2010s I question how reliable this data is now.
Completely accurate. TikTok is now one of the cultural centers of how music and taste is discovered and shared. It’s just different but also very much the same
We’ve survived the transaction from live music to gramophones, and we’ll keep changing and surviving :)
We had 40 or so people who ran out of the theater after and basically began a circus. Backflips off cars, running across car roofs, a couple guys trying to scale the theater.
When I was in college, (back half of '00s) someone floated a headcanon of the second and third movies being in a different universe from the end of the first one based on differences in Neo's sartorial choices.
Anyway, they didn't quite fit the vibe of the last two minutes of the first one.
I haven't taken the time to rewatch the series ever since I learned about the whole trans allegory going on. I really want to see if 2 and 3 hold up better with that understanding
On the way out of the theater after seeing that movie, the gate in the parking lot was stuck open so we didn’t need to pay for our parking. Just like Neo, we were five teenaged gods bending reality to our will. In, you know, a busted Subaru.
I’m starting to introduce important movies to my kids. I have a few years before it’s appropriate, but I’m still trying to figure out how to introduce it correctly. One of the few movies I saw multiple times in the theater. (This is completely different than my dad introducing me to Doctor Who.)
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Always imagined that the machines couldn't actually trace them when they hacked in, but just watched out for people dressed like vampires on a day pass.
Dig through the ditches, etc
You could give that crew bright, saturated floral bell bottoms with matching blazers and turquoise beads, throw on some rose, yellow, or baby blue shades in fun shapes and then let them grab all the shotguns and pistols? Still fire.
The cell phone that slides. The car with suicide doors. Morpheus's pince nez.
Apoc *spinning the pistol* he gives Neo
Shit's rad
Now imagine many of them IRL. That was terrible
its a little unsettling
I liked Spybreak because I first heard Propellerheads on the MTV AMP compilation and bought their album
We are not the same
It was like someone had several banger concepts and couldn't quite get them to mesh well.
But its time to end this
I was prepared to fight.
i am in love
Crime lords are envious of his rizz, as the kids say.
Beat the video game/role playing game ban by having better grades than average, though it’s possible they realized the risk of a bunch of bored engineering students.
Everything about her was perfection.
No notes.
Not cool
The third is my least favorite :(
I mean, the competition is fierce, but it's gotta be up near the top
Massive attack dissolved girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS4zYWxzNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdMU0wCYGo
First soundtrack they were on, that I can remember
We’ve survived the transaction from live music to gramophones, and we’ll keep changing and surviving :)
Vaguely Bondage-Influenced Sci-Fi Action Futurism... should have been the fashion of the twenty first century once we discovered it.
We never improved on this aesthetic, it's all been downhill since:
I will not be taking questions.
It passed, but wow.
so i look forward to watching the first two again with my daughter in a couple years and then having a think about lying about any more sequels.
Anyway, they didn't quite fit the vibe of the last two minutes of the first one.
i want to rewatch the 4th one (that I’ve seen just once) with that lovely review about how it’s a triumph of feminism firmly in mind.
maybe that, too, will help.
Okay, here's one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEdgmNZnLs4
Although I'm not sure how accurate any of this, considering I lived through it. It's easy to make a video telling folks their memory isn't accurate.
we moved past this look?
I'm about to reach the goal. If you can re-quote and help me, I will be very grateful to you.💜🙏🏻
for sure, micah!
[dances off; bicycle kicks police officer on curb outside apartment]