In the end we just had to go ahead and hoist the anchor without them.Īs it turns out this massive, cinematic phenomenon is rather special. I've had Titanic in the back of my head as a film I really wanted to talk about for many many years, and I suspect i was waiting for The Abyss and True Lies to hit blu ray so we could do a James Cameron Season, or at least for Avatar 2 to finally emerge.
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This is the movie I didn't realise how passionate I was about until we started engaging our analytical style to it. So buckle your seat belt Dorothy, 'cos Kansas is going bye-bye. And I'm willing to bet that in five year's time we'll feel differently again, such is the way the 'Real World' moves. So this is a show that would have been very different in 1999, in 2004, in 2009 or even in 2014. And like the antics of Tyler Durdan, there are aspects of this film that have not so much 'dated' as they have taken on a horrible new significance over the past twenty years, via misinterpretation. And as we'll discuss in upcoming weeks, there's complexities in those follow-ups that are key to better understanding the overall symbolism at play here. Not only is it a dense and complex movie that's impossible to fully summarise even in our lengthier shows, not only does it mean a huge amount to millions of people, not only is it intrinsically linked with disappointing sequels (whom some claim don't even exist) but it's probably the one movie that got my brain moving the most at the tender age of 19. This one has been a phenomenally long time coming. It is one of our best shows and constitutes vital groundwork before we cover the three sequels over the next few weeks. NOTE: This is a re-release of the 2019 episode. Mackenzie Eastram of Rainbow Connection and Video Game: The Movie: The Podcast of Movies 2019] Next week we will be focusing on The Animatrix (2003) If you've always had a soft spot for them this will be a dream come true. So if you always thought the sequels were trash this may at least convey what they were trying to say. What Film 2 sets up, Film 3 knocks down, and then decades later, Film 4 then ruminates on. Them dichotomy of The Matrix (1999) and was far less successful in ensnaring audiences with expanded perspective. This is the first part of an evolution of the binary Us vs. It was an incredibly rich and dense discussion for the initial recording and I have added a ton of extra content, all to the sounds of the eclectic soundtrack and the rarely-heard extended score of Don Davis. Mackenzie Eastram of Rainbow Connection and Video Game: The Movie: The Podcast of Movies 2022]įor this one we went all-out. Grieve: Vargas whose YouTube channel is here Next week we conclude the original Trilogy with the Matrix Revolutions So that's what powers this discussion, and The Animatrix is absolutely worth watching now, though as you will hear it is not only surprisingly violent and grim at times, but the shorts vary in depth rather significantly.
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The only release which doesn't quite fit this is The Path of Neo, another PS2 game which fills in the blanks of Neo's journey towards fulfilling the prophecy of The One, and while most of it probably happened the end is a direct departure, or at least an abstraction of the narrative. It straddles four films, a PS2 game named Enter The Matrix, an MMORPG named The Matrix Online and this anthology of nine short animated films, and it is ALL official story canon.
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However, the focus of this episode is the trans-media endeavour that The Matrix series became. A very solid argument could be made for this being a movie, and thus being in the "Everything Else" category being erroneous.