The Matrix

[T89 Callan]

On ITV now....

A decade old and still awesome, it makes me feel old thinking back to the cinema in the late '90's and then getting it on VHS.

It's still fresh and contemporary, surely one of the best films of the 90's. Shame about the sequeals but we can't have everything.

I just can't belive it's 10 years old.

Can't wait for the shoot-out in the lobby... one of my favourite film scenes.

[bullies180]

st that means the second film is on next week with the stupid disco scene in the cave. The first film was great but the ones after were rubbish, and i love end of world films, machines taking over and all that! Like terminator salvation tho, hope the next T films continue like that. More Grit about the fight to win back the world is needed and how fked up their predicament is!

[RDE]

I really liked the first one. Shame they took its popularity to mean that we wanted to know about the yawnworthy 'expanded universe' that formed the basis of the execrable sequels.

[GTIR]

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Great film mind

[john_p]

GTIR said:

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Because Will Smith and Nicolas Cage turned it down...

Amazing film, saw it in the cinema and the twist was a big shock.

[T89 Callan]

GTIR said:

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Great film mind

Yeah he is a st actor but his robot style kinds of works in the 'techno' context of the film.

Personally I think Ed Norton would have been awesome as Neo... or maybe not, who knows?

[GTIR]

john_p said:

GTIR said:

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Because Will Smith and Nicolas Cage turned it down...

Amazing film, saw it in the cinema and the twist was a big shock.

what twist?

[Mark-C]

GTIR said:

john_p said:

GTIR said:

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Because Will Smith and Nicolas Cage turned it down...

Amazing film, saw it in the cinema and the twist was a big shock.

what twist?

Chubby Checker is the villain ... HTH

[darronwall]

rubbish

[T89 Callan]

darronwall said:

rubbish

Yes, yes you are.

[Jasandjules]

It's just such a cracking film. Impressive idea, impressively implemented.

As above, sad about the sequels, but let's face it, following The Matrix was always going to be a tough job.

[Matt_N]

T89 Callan said:

GTIR said:

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Great film mind

Yeah he is a st actor but his robot style kinds of works in the 'techno' context of the film.

Personally I think Ed Norton would have been awesome as Neo... or maybe not, who knows?

I could imagine Ed Norton in that role too.

[MiniMan64]

Unfortunately neither of the leads are entirely fantastic but still pretty much my favourite film of all time, could watch it again and again.

Shame about those bloody sequels though, the slow punch of doom in the third one is one of the worst shots in cinematic history.

[Raify]

Great film, I watched it twice in a week at the cinema.

They made a sequel? Blimey, that's got a lot to live up to.

[FourWheelDrift]

Isn't the fact that Reeves is a bit wooden more realistic? He's a computer geek so he's not going to have a sparkling personality.

[louiebaby]

I first saw it in France. I thought it would be subtitled. It wasn't, it was dubbed. My French is limited to ordering beer and pizza.

It was still awesome, even though I had no clue what was going on!

[Negative Creep]

I remember walking out the cinema absolutely amazed at what I'd just seen. Easy to forget as it's been used and parodied so much, but things like bullet time were like nothing ever seen before. Sadly the sequels were less than impressive, as with Pirates of the Caribbean they tried to be too clever for their own good and lost the fun factor. The freeway chase is pretty awesome though

[militantmandy]

john_p said:

GTIR said:

Still think kuanu is a ste actor, wooden and sterile. I don't understand why and how he got the role.

Because Will Smith and Nicolas Cage turned it down...

Amazing film, saw it in the cinema and the twist was a big shock.

Really! Thank god for that! I'd take a wooden Kuanu Reeves over those two any day.

Angree fully with above comments re the other 2. I know it's a cliche, but why oh why does every sequel (with a few exceptions) to a good movie, have to have all the goodness replaced with cash!? I honestly nearly vomitted during the Morpheus speech\Zion party scene.

[Not Ideal]

Negative Creep said:

I remember walking out the cinema absolutely amazed at what I'd just seen. Easy to forget as it's been used and parodied so much, but things like bullet time were like nothing ever seen before. Sadly the sequels were less than impressive, as with Pirates of the Caribbean they tried to be too clever for their own good and lost the fun factor. The freeway chase is pretty awesome though

+ 1 on all of that buddy. Saw it when I was 18 at the cinema and it genuinely blew me away. Still think its good today. Sequels were a complete waste of space.

[qube_TA]

I remember all the hype about this film, everyone claiming that it was ground-breaking, really original, fantastic story etc.

I sat there in the cinema waiting to be wowed.

At the end I just couldn't see what the fuss was about, the story was awful, everything about it was just too silly for words.

I genuinely cannot fathom why anyone would like it.

I got dragged to see the sequels too, I admit, by comparison to them the first one is a masterpiece.

Awful.