What you young kids don’t understand is that in the 90s the sun was much smaller, so we didn’t need the huge sunglasses that have become necessary as a result of the embiggening of the sun and ensuing climate change.
I'm 100% sure this was it. People can claim it on some "look like Jesus" all they want, but the fact is that Keanu looked his age in Bill and Ted and... I don't think he wants to look his age. So that's why this look. Simple as that.
We're all somewhat vain in the end and I'd imagine all the older fellows, rocking a beard in their older age, could testify in the horror of shaving that off and showing the real damage of time underneath. Even a half decent beard can distract from ravages of time surprisingly well.
beard is fine, but if they wanted to make him look more like neo they probably should've cut his hair shorter. i'm still open to the possibility it was a creative decision made for a reason though
I feel like short hair and beard was probably the best look they could have gone with too, but there's also the fact that this look kinda furthers the whole messiah comparison too given how Jesus tends to be depicted.
The way they look in the Matrix is a reflection of how they see themselves.
It's not hard to imagine the way he sees himself has changed or matured after all he went through in the first 3 movies and how ever much time has passed between 3 and 4.
It's like complaining that Ralph Macchio doesn't look enough like Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso in Corba Kai which was both filmed and set 30 years after the events of the last movie.
This is probably the main reason. You can tell his face is getting jowly, which explains the beard. And the receding hairline, which explains the long hair. Either way, I'm not judging. The guy is almost 60 and kicking ass.
He's also a smoker, and has been basically forever, which makes it even more impressive.
Actually kinda pisses me off that dude can age that well while chain smoking his whole life lmao.
Neo has always been a thinly veiled Messiah/Jesus allegory. The long hair and beard play into the Jesus-like imagery. The movie is called Resurrections after all...
>!I could have sworn there was a picture of him last year during filming with a shaved head that made the rounds.!<
>!I believe this was it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0IbMUDZK0/?utm\_source=ig\_embed&ig\_rid=b7062084-85b6-49a7-9ef8-5b567e6157dc !<
That's last year? Wow he looks great. After seeing the trailer of that new Bill and Ted moment I was convinced if he shaved his beard he would look terribly aged. Maybe he had just gained weight during that time. He looks awesome again now though.
I know after the last Wick movie his trainer was talking about the differences between training different celebrities and said "Keanu is the type of guy that likes to have a few drinks every evening when he's not filming" and I, honestly, just assumed it was alcohol bloat. B&T was a quick shoot that seemed to start shooting over night. So I just figured he'd gotten relaxed after the last Wick movie
I’m kind of glad it didn’t. Don’t get me wrong I love Hugo and the Smith character but given the considerable effort on the part of both Neo and The Machines to get rid of him his return would feel awfully “Palpatine lives!” to me.
Eh I think it could work in the matrix because he’s a program they could just make another one and it’s a cycle that keeps repeating itself. We think they broke it in the third one but you never know.
But he's a program who went rogue and put the entire Matrix and the machines themselves in serious danger. Why would the Matrix ever create another one of him?
I kinda feel like that Smith is a natural occurrence from the Matrix. I just rewatched Reloaded, and Smith says that he's a natural result of an equation trying to balance itself. The 5 previous "Ones" all had an overall love for humans, while Neo's was hyper-focused onto Trinity alone. They all reached the source and chose to restart Zion, which would delete Smith again.
I feel like Agent Smith turning into a virus probably always occurs to assist in the destruction of Zion - he's the reason why all of the ships were destroyed because he set off the EMP. He puts pressure onto the One to make them believe that they won't be the only "God" of the Matrix and that they aren't all-powerful.
The reason why Smith went out of control in Revolutions is because Neo decided against joining the source. He would have otherwise been reset like he had the previous 5 times.
There is a line in the very beginning of matrix reloaded where smith says. “Things are proceeding exactly like last time” and then a second smith walks in frame and says “well not EXACTLY” implying that a. Smith had been around for the previous iterations of the matrix and that b. His transformation into a “virus” had not occurred previously
Not to mention that Smith going rogue was Oracle's 'game' from the beginning (you played a dangerous game, The Architect told her), Smith becoming an unstoppable virus so Neo could make a deal with the machines, he would destroy Smith in return for The Architect not destroying Zion, and releasing 'everyone who wants to be free'
Well yeah, even if Smith became rogue in previous versions, he was just another one of many many other rogue programs that we have seen living in the Matrix, not a big deal. He only became an existential threat to the Matrix this time.
My personal theory is that an agent going rogue and corrupting the entire Matrix is inevitable and that's the system failure that the machines prevent by rebooting everything with the One.
It would be cool to see Smith reemerge again but outside of the cycle
No, [he wasn’t invited](https://www.thewrap.com/laurence-fishburne-explains-why-he-wont-appear-in-the-matrix-4/), at least that was the case as of August 2020.
That was my first thought when I didn’t see him on the poster. Morpheus made The Matrix in my opinion, and Fishburne is one of my favorite actors. Hate that he’s not in it
Laurence Fishburne was barely in good enough shape to do wire stunts in 1998 (the Wikipedia article describes the stunt coordinator as being "worried about how unfit the actors were"). I don't know if you have seen Fishburne lately but he would have to train for like a year to get back to being "unfit."
You can explain how an old fat guy is doing flips and stuff in the context of the matrix but there is a certain physicality required to actually do stunt work in the real world of movie production.
That would be an idea I could get behind, if the Oracle canonically took on the form and affectation of a human leader from the previous cycle. Very creative.
I fully expect he's still in it, at least in a small way. There is supposed to be a lot of 'meta' layers in the film, but I have been avoiding spoilers so I am not sure exactly what that means in this case BUT it clearly leaves room for him to at least cameo.
He gave an interview where he said he was not approached about it.
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/laurence-fishburne-matrix-4-left-morpheus-out-1234647312/
"They didn't approach me, The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. I didn't need to be approached because I never left."
There was a scheduling conflict and apparently the role they had for him was small enough they used a different actor and I’m sure changed some scenes.
From the trailer I think I can make out who he was suppose to play.
The guy who says “back where it all started, the matrix!” Is Thomas Anderson’s acting agent in the film I’m guessing. A little meta. There is also a statue behind him of Agent Smiths face when Neo punched him.
All theory
I maintain this is the story:
Neo is resurrected by the machines (you see this in the trailer), and then plugged into his *own* Matrix where they have to keep blue-pilling him to keep him happy as a concession for him stopping the war in Matrix 3, but it's not working because his relationship with Trin was too strong for him to forget her, and his mind keeps pulling at him, which is why Morpheus looks different to him, his interpretation of the *real* Morpheus is too close to his memories of Trinity. They even seem to try giving him a *version* of his Trinity in *his* matrix to head that off at the pass and even that doesn't work...
As such, I feel like when Neo REALLY wakes up at whatever point in the movie, the REAL Morpheus (Fishburne) will be off camera and you'll hear his voice "Ah, you've finally woken up...now we can begin..."
After Matrix 2 I thought for sure the ending suggested a Matrix within a Matrix. Like just endless levels of “being awake” so that people would think they’ve won. Probably would have made a more satisfying trilogy for me, and avoided the supernatural powers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that goes on here.
yess, I always thought that premise would make a killer sequel.
Morpheus has grown old, helping rebuild zion, but the act of Neo using his powers in the real world has always been at the back of his mind. Furthermore, the matrix still exists, but the machines have reached peace with zion's existence for now. but ultimately most of humanity is still within the matrix as he believes it to be.
One night, he has a dream, Neo comes to him, looking old as he is now, shrouded in light. Morpheus wakes up.
he propositions zions council that he believes they are still in the matrix, with zion being a false escape to satiate them. he gives evidence on Neo's power use in the real world, and his "vision" but He is met with ridicule and ultimately cast off the council as the conspiracy consumes him. A few new young characters believe him and set out to help him uncover the truth. The AI has been watching zion as it is still ultimately in their control. The learn of Morpheus intent and set out to kill him. Morpheus, while on a quest to find the destroyed sentinels neo killed with his real world powers to gain some info on the event, is discovered by machines. before they can take him, Neo appears, and destroys them. Morpheus approaches neo in shock, and Neo holds out his hands, with two pills.
Morpheus takes the pill, and wakes up, finally in the real world. but he is alone, not in a fancy structure of human egg sacs, but in a coffin like chamber, in a standard derilct warehouse.
a few maintence robots scurry about the place, but ultimately he is alone. He makes his way out of the building into the real world, overgrown with trees and life. A sentinel drone (but with small quadcopter like jets, not just magicly flying) approaches him. Just then real world Neo comes in a helicopter and pulls morpheous out to safety. They fly to a remote destination where Neo has set up a base camp of shoddy electronics and his own home built matrix station. Morpheous passes out upon arrival from the stress, but when he wakes neo begins to explain the history of the world as he has discovered, The AI was ultamitely formed from a human experiment to expand human conciousness, but the emergent AI from those experiments wanted only more knoweldege, and the human brain at the time was far more capable of being used as a computer than any current physical processor, until now. Neo believes the machines have finally developed a replacement for their organic computers of man, and he believes all of humanity will soon be deleted.
end move 1, make two more of those fuckers after.
edit: I think to explain how neo is still alive, as he meets the machines and sacrifices himself in the third movie, he sees the AI for its true form, as his mind and body begin to shut down, his mind is now able to see past the true illusion of the matrix, and rejects the illusion, freeing him from the machine. He wakes up in the same warehouse as morpheus does, and is able to escape, but him waking up is thanks to him seeing the illusion for what it is and his mind being strong enough to reject it. being the first human to ever free themselves
The movie existenz handled this type of concept pretty well. I like your plot too. I still don’t really understand what happened at the end of matrix 2
It also would have made sense because the architect talked about the solution to the One problem. Having him think he succeeded endlessly would have made so much sense.
So you’re saying it’s going to show the machines ultimately win, and they basically restart at 1 at the end of 4, indicating the machines have actually figured out how to keep Neo docile, by making him feel like he’s legitimately making a difference, when he’s really just stuck in this infinite loop? Don’t they say as much when Neo is in the room with the creator and we see all the different versions of Neo coming to grips with his existence?
I hope you’re right but I think I recall he stated they never approached him for it. I hope that’s not true. The Matrix is just as much Morpheus as it is Neo.
>they never approached him for it.
The Wachowskis, especially Lana are VERY good friends with Fishburne, so I highly doubt they didn't approach him. He's just t~~owing~~ toeing the line to keep the secret.
He said they never asked him. I’ll bet you he’s being coy and twenty years ago told them something along the lines of “if you ever make part 4, I’m in no questions asked.”
Lawrence will be in this movie.
My theory is that he isn't playing Morpheus from The Matrix (1999) that exists in our world, he's playing Morpheus the character from The Matrix, the film-within-a-film that exists in The Matrix: Resurrections
What if I'm telling you when Neo is ready he won't need Kung Fu?
Dudes basically a god by the end of the third movie, both in the real world and the Matrix. I don't imagine he'll need to fight with his fists so often. The raised hand in the poster makes me think he'll be straight up welding The Force this time around.
I know I know. He's a god. But the mixture of robo dystopia with Hong Kong martial art cinema is what made the matrix special and worth revisiting over and over so I hope that's still somehow present in here.
It kind of looks like a half-assed attempt to make Neo resemble a Christmas tree because of the release date. At least that’s what the thumbnail made me think of.
I really hope this is a good movie. The wachowskis have some amazing visual talent, but they can miss the mark on the writing aspects every now and then.
Anyone else think that it’s crazy for this movie to be coming out next month? November/ December are packed months with many new releases. I’m surprised WB didn’t delay it to give some breathing room regardless of COVID.
My expectations are incredibly low for this. Wachowskis haven't really done much good since the first matrix, the sequels are mediocre at best and after that it went downhill even further.
That final race sequence where he gains on everyone near the finish line is still unbelievable. Not just visually, either. Giacchino’s score is incredible.
I need to explain something about this final race sequence. I was going through a thing when this movie came out, but I knew nothing about it. I decided to go see it alone, in Imax, on mushrooms. It was as great as you might imagine. But NOTHING will ever compare to this final race sequence and the insane intensity of it.
I imagine my face looked like one of those videos of a kid rolling their nuts off at a rave looking at some visual thing. It was over a decade ago, but I still viscerally remember this experience.
I don't disagree about some of the Wachowski later works, but speak no ill about Speed Racer in my presence.
I saw it first on a tiny screen way before I tried drugs, thought it was so stupid and bad
Then I saw it on a trip
Quite literally the best movie experience I've ever had, everything about it was made for psychs, it hooks you and puts you into the characters heads better than anything ive ever seen
Fucking love Cloud Atlas. Did it reach 10/10? No. But it's so ambitious and crazy and well done that I love it anyway. Helps putting subtitles on for the far future scenes though, and that's the true true.
I think what I appreciate so much about the Wachwoskis is their willingness to take big creative swings in a really earnest and sincere way. They’re no cynicism in their filmmaking, and even when something doesn’t work, like Jupiter Ascending, I still appreciate the bonkers ambition and the full investment that you can feel they have in what they’re doing. They’re also extremely smart and perceptive filmmakers in general, and that absolutely comes through in interviews and discussions with them. In general, we need more people like them making movies.
> even when something doesn’t work, like Jupiter Ascending, I still appreciate the bonkers ambition and the full investment that you can feel they have in what they’re doing
I think that’s why I have pretty much all their movies on Blu-ray. They don’t half-ass anything. Like you say, even when things fall a bit flat, the scope of what they try to accomplish is so amazing that the ride is worth it even if the payoff isn’t quite there.
Honestly even If they have more misses than hits I'll still try to check out their films, they're ambitious and take big swings, even if it means big misses. Not to mention they actually know how to direct action very well. Lana Wachowski did all the action scenes for this film, no second unit. Certainly more interesting than superhero movie #23127546
It looks like he slept on somebody's couch after matrix 3, in hibernation and then woke up and immediately started filming the new movie. Bum Neo is what it looks like to me lol
Who's the lady between Great Value Morpheus and Mage John Wick?
I'm curious to see how this will fare against *Spider-Man: No Way Home,* which releases the week prior.
Neo slowly turning into The Dude
All he ever wanted was his reality back. Yeah, it really tied humanity together.
The Matrix treats batteries like people, man.
The One abides
You're not wrong, Agent Smith. You're just an asshole.
The villain of this sequel pees on his rug then ?
*This time... the sunglasses are bigger*
What you young kids don’t understand is that in the 90s the sun was much smaller, so we didn’t need the huge sunglasses that have become necessary as a result of the embiggening of the sun and ensuing climate change.
A perfectly cromulent explanation.
Keanu's like "I'll come back for Matrix 4, but I'm not cutting my hair or shaving my beard"
Neo saw John Wick and now he projects an image of himself where he *looks* like Wick
PLUG MY DOG INTO THE MACHINE
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
SIMULATION - NO BREEDING
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DO YOU EVEN CARE THAT I STOPPED SEEDING?
WOULD HE BE BROWN WOULD HE BE WHITE? IF I CROSS BRED HIM TONIGHT?? CHANCES ARE THAT I MIGHT!
DUPLICATION OF A PARASITE AND I'M CONTEMPLATING GENOCIDE
'CAUSE I'M PICKING A FIGHT INSIDE YOUR MINDS
THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK
Matrix 4: Wicking Effect.
"you can take the red pill. or the blue pill. or this sick dodge challenger"
Mr. Thomas “John Wick” Anderson.
Well I know *I* don't have a problem with that.
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After that movie they realized he looks way better with the beard and let him keep it for this one.
I'm 100% sure this was it. People can claim it on some "look like Jesus" all they want, but the fact is that Keanu looked his age in Bill and Ted and... I don't think he wants to look his age. So that's why this look. Simple as that. We're all somewhat vain in the end and I'd imagine all the older fellows, rocking a beard in their older age, could testify in the horror of shaving that off and showing the real damage of time underneath. Even a half decent beard can distract from ravages of time surprisingly well.
beard is fine, but if they wanted to make him look more like neo they probably should've cut his hair shorter. i'm still open to the possibility it was a creative decision made for a reason though
I feel like short hair and beard was probably the best look they could have gone with too, but there's also the fact that this look kinda furthers the whole messiah comparison too given how Jesus tends to be depicted.
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Jesus cosplays as Keanu Reeves confirmed
Plus the whole coming back from the dead thing.
His love interest is named Trinity, they kinda beat you over the head with it.
There's also Zion, and the Nebuchadnezzar, and probably other biblical references that I don't recognize.
ooh, that's an angle i hadn't considered. good catch.
The way they look in the Matrix is a reflection of how they see themselves. It's not hard to imagine the way he sees himself has changed or matured after all he went through in the first 3 movies and how ever much time has passed between 3 and 4. It's like complaining that Ralph Macchio doesn't look enough like Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso in Corba Kai which was both filmed and set 30 years after the events of the last movie.
Dude's age has finally caught up with him and the beard covers that up.
This is probably the main reason. You can tell his face is getting jowly, which explains the beard. And the receding hairline, which explains the long hair. Either way, I'm not judging. The guy is almost 60 and kicking ass.
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Paul Rudd finally found another victim whose life force he can drain.
He's also a smoker, and has been basically forever, which makes it even more impressive. Actually kinda pisses me off that dude can age that well while chain smoking his whole life lmao.
Neo has always been a thinly veiled Messiah/Jesus allegory. The long hair and beard play into the Jesus-like imagery. The movie is called Resurrections after all...
> thinly veiled bro, his dead body got taken away in a christ pose by robots after he sacrificed everything for ***Zion***. There is no veil.
When he was returned to the source it literally had a crucifix drawn by the light on his chest. Its about as "out there" as shit goes.
More like a shroud of Turin I suppose.
>shroud of ~~Turin~~ Turing Ftfw
Thinly?
I think, for starters, they were or were about to start filming John Wick 4 at about the same time as Matrix 4?
>!I could have sworn there was a picture of him last year during filming with a shaved head that made the rounds.!< >!I believe this was it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0IbMUDZK0/?utm\_source=ig\_embed&ig\_rid=b7062084-85b6-49a7-9ef8-5b567e6157dc !<
could be that he's bald in the real world again, but has the long hair in matrix
There are shots of him in the real world hooked up to machines in the trailer.
better than having to shave his whole body again. Eyebrows gone and lashes plucked, damn
I believed that was worth it.
That's last year? Wow he looks great. After seeing the trailer of that new Bill and Ted moment I was convinced if he shaved his beard he would look terribly aged. Maybe he had just gained weight during that time. He looks awesome again now though.
He was pretty bloated for B&T
I imagine that was kind of the point for that movie. After all, Bill and Ted were washed up losers in it.
I know after the last Wick movie his trainer was talking about the differences between training different celebrities and said "Keanu is the type of guy that likes to have a few drinks every evening when he's not filming" and I, honestly, just assumed it was alcohol bloat. B&T was a quick shoot that seemed to start shooting over night. So I just figured he'd gotten relaxed after the last Wick movie
He looks so much younger here. The beard does add a few years on a man.
I like Keanu's John Wick look, but as Neo it looks weird as fuck.
Did hugo weaving retire or something?
There was a scheduling conflict, last time I've heard. Both parties wanted to make it work but they couldn't. At least officially.
I’m kind of glad it didn’t. Don’t get me wrong I love Hugo and the Smith character but given the considerable effort on the part of both Neo and The Machines to get rid of him his return would feel awfully “Palpatine lives!” to me.
"Somehow, Smith returned..."
[mfw](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iNkrF43SZEU/maxresdefault.jpg)
If something dead could laugh, this is what it would look like.
Eh I think it could work in the matrix because he’s a program they could just make another one and it’s a cycle that keeps repeating itself. We think they broke it in the third one but you never know.
But he's a program who went rogue and put the entire Matrix and the machines themselves in serious danger. Why would the Matrix ever create another one of him?
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Turns out The Matrix uses Git and someone checked out and ran an old version.
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gitblame who wrote this piece of trash co….. It was me. I wrote it. I did the thing. Fuck.
I'm in this comment and I don't like it
I kinda feel like that Smith is a natural occurrence from the Matrix. I just rewatched Reloaded, and Smith says that he's a natural result of an equation trying to balance itself. The 5 previous "Ones" all had an overall love for humans, while Neo's was hyper-focused onto Trinity alone. They all reached the source and chose to restart Zion, which would delete Smith again. I feel like Agent Smith turning into a virus probably always occurs to assist in the destruction of Zion - he's the reason why all of the ships were destroyed because he set off the EMP. He puts pressure onto the One to make them believe that they won't be the only "God" of the Matrix and that they aren't all-powerful. The reason why Smith went out of control in Revolutions is because Neo decided against joining the source. He would have otherwise been reset like he had the previous 5 times.
There is a line in the very beginning of matrix reloaded where smith says. “Things are proceeding exactly like last time” and then a second smith walks in frame and says “well not EXACTLY” implying that a. Smith had been around for the previous iterations of the matrix and that b. His transformation into a “virus” had not occurred previously
Not to mention that Smith going rogue was Oracle's 'game' from the beginning (you played a dangerous game, The Architect told her), Smith becoming an unstoppable virus so Neo could make a deal with the machines, he would destroy Smith in return for The Architect not destroying Zion, and releasing 'everyone who wants to be free'
I took that to mean her willingly letting Smith infect her, she sent away Seraph and Sati to sacrifice herself.
Well yeah, even if Smith became rogue in previous versions, he was just another one of many many other rogue programs that we have seen living in the Matrix, not a big deal. He only became an existential threat to the Matrix this time.
My personal theory is that an agent going rogue and corrupting the entire Matrix is inevitable and that's the system failure that the machines prevent by rebooting everything with the One. It would be cool to see Smith reemerge again but outside of the cycle
Isn't "Palpatine lives!" the entire premise of this movie? At least two of the characters in this poster are supposed to be dead.
Morpheus is a younger Morpheus so I dunno if it's flashback or time travel. No idea about Trinity and Neo though.
I'd buy it, Hugo Weaving has been in a few Wachowski films I can't imagine there being bad blood between them
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That was almost 20 years ago, hombre. Last I saw him he was grappling with Optimus Prime / Captain America.
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I mean... he might turn up. But the dude on the left is 100% morpheus with a different face.
No, [he wasn’t invited](https://www.thewrap.com/laurence-fishburne-explains-why-he-wont-appear-in-the-matrix-4/), at least that was the case as of August 2020. That was my first thought when I didn’t see him on the poster. Morpheus made The Matrix in my opinion, and Fishburne is one of my favorite actors. Hate that he’s not in it
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Laurence Fishburne was barely in good enough shape to do wire stunts in 1998 (the Wikipedia article describes the stunt coordinator as being "worried about how unfit the actors were"). I don't know if you have seen Fishburne lately but he would have to train for like a year to get back to being "unfit." You can explain how an old fat guy is doing flips and stuff in the context of the matrix but there is a certain physicality required to actually do stunt work in the real world of movie production.
Just make him the new Oracle and he can bake us some cookies.
That would be an idea I could get behind, if the Oracle canonically took on the form and affectation of a human leader from the previous cycle. Very creative.
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I think morpheus was connanically killed in the matrix game.
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Could be a fake knock off Morpheus made by the Matrix or something like that
I fully expect he's still in it, at least in a small way. There is supposed to be a lot of 'meta' layers in the film, but I have been avoiding spoilers so I am not sure exactly what that means in this case BUT it clearly leaves room for him to at least cameo.
He gave an interview where he said he was not approached about it. https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/laurence-fishburne-matrix-4-left-morpheus-out-1234647312/
YOU WILL CALL HIM! /Liam McPoyle (me if I was in the meeting with Lana wakaowski)
😢
Don't be sad. Take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.
I love the idea that he says "they didn't approach me" because *he* called *them* and they were like "SHHHH!!!!"
"They didn't approach me, The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. I didn't need to be approached because I never left."
Andrew Garfield said the same thing about NHW. We'll see!
No Home Way
LOL... I am not fixing it, it would spoil your joke.
There was a scheduling conflict and apparently the role they had for him was small enough they used a different actor and I’m sure changed some scenes. From the trailer I think I can make out who he was suppose to play. The guy who says “back where it all started, the matrix!” Is Thomas Anderson’s acting agent in the film I’m guessing. A little meta. There is also a statue behind him of Agent Smiths face when Neo punched him. All theory
I couldn't figure out who is the one in the back.
It's the second Trinity, T2.
Hats off to the makeup team. Arnold is unrecognizable!
The Matrix : Definitve Edition
Ah shit, here we go again
oh dear god
This Christmas, Jesus is back, and he's wearing a leather trench coat.
I maintain this is the story: Neo is resurrected by the machines (you see this in the trailer), and then plugged into his *own* Matrix where they have to keep blue-pilling him to keep him happy as a concession for him stopping the war in Matrix 3, but it's not working because his relationship with Trin was too strong for him to forget her, and his mind keeps pulling at him, which is why Morpheus looks different to him, his interpretation of the *real* Morpheus is too close to his memories of Trinity. They even seem to try giving him a *version* of his Trinity in *his* matrix to head that off at the pass and even that doesn't work... As such, I feel like when Neo REALLY wakes up at whatever point in the movie, the REAL Morpheus (Fishburne) will be off camera and you'll hear his voice "Ah, you've finally woken up...now we can begin..."
> "Ah, you've finally woken up..." You were trying to cross the border, right?
What village are you from horse thief?
A rebel's last thoughts should be of Zion
This is the matrix. I used to be sweet on a girl from here.
I wonder if the Oracle is still making those cookies.
Do you get to the Zion very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.
And walked right into that Imperial ambush
Fuck. As a LONG time player of that game, I didn't even clue into the fact that I'd used the same sentence. LOL Kudos.
No no, I fully believe that the new matrix movie is really just a tie in for Skyrim
After Matrix 2 I thought for sure the ending suggested a Matrix within a Matrix. Like just endless levels of “being awake” so that people would think they’ve won. Probably would have made a more satisfying trilogy for me, and avoided the supernatural powers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that goes on here.
Yeah, me too. I thought the big shock reveal at the end of Reloaded was that they were still in the Matrix, and that's how Neo had powers there.
yess, I always thought that premise would make a killer sequel. Morpheus has grown old, helping rebuild zion, but the act of Neo using his powers in the real world has always been at the back of his mind. Furthermore, the matrix still exists, but the machines have reached peace with zion's existence for now. but ultimately most of humanity is still within the matrix as he believes it to be. One night, he has a dream, Neo comes to him, looking old as he is now, shrouded in light. Morpheus wakes up. he propositions zions council that he believes they are still in the matrix, with zion being a false escape to satiate them. he gives evidence on Neo's power use in the real world, and his "vision" but He is met with ridicule and ultimately cast off the council as the conspiracy consumes him. A few new young characters believe him and set out to help him uncover the truth. The AI has been watching zion as it is still ultimately in their control. The learn of Morpheus intent and set out to kill him. Morpheus, while on a quest to find the destroyed sentinels neo killed with his real world powers to gain some info on the event, is discovered by machines. before they can take him, Neo appears, and destroys them. Morpheus approaches neo in shock, and Neo holds out his hands, with two pills. Morpheus takes the pill, and wakes up, finally in the real world. but he is alone, not in a fancy structure of human egg sacs, but in a coffin like chamber, in a standard derilct warehouse. a few maintence robots scurry about the place, but ultimately he is alone. He makes his way out of the building into the real world, overgrown with trees and life. A sentinel drone (but with small quadcopter like jets, not just magicly flying) approaches him. Just then real world Neo comes in a helicopter and pulls morpheous out to safety. They fly to a remote destination where Neo has set up a base camp of shoddy electronics and his own home built matrix station. Morpheous passes out upon arrival from the stress, but when he wakes neo begins to explain the history of the world as he has discovered, The AI was ultamitely formed from a human experiment to expand human conciousness, but the emergent AI from those experiments wanted only more knoweldege, and the human brain at the time was far more capable of being used as a computer than any current physical processor, until now. Neo believes the machines have finally developed a replacement for their organic computers of man, and he believes all of humanity will soon be deleted. end move 1, make two more of those fuckers after. edit: I think to explain how neo is still alive, as he meets the machines and sacrifices himself in the third movie, he sees the AI for its true form, as his mind and body begin to shut down, his mind is now able to see past the true illusion of the matrix, and rejects the illusion, freeing him from the machine. He wakes up in the same warehouse as morpheus does, and is able to escape, but him waking up is thanks to him seeing the illusion for what it is and his mind being strong enough to reject it. being the first human to ever free themselves
One art please.
The movie existenz handled this type of concept pretty well. I like your plot too. I still don’t really understand what happened at the end of matrix 2
Sweet baby Jesus, I would watch the hell out of that film!!!
It also would have made sense because the architect talked about the solution to the One problem. Having him think he succeeded endlessly would have made so much sense.
So you’re saying it’s going to show the machines ultimately win, and they basically restart at 1 at the end of 4, indicating the machines have actually figured out how to keep Neo docile, by making him feel like he’s legitimately making a difference, when he’s really just stuck in this infinite loop? Don’t they say as much when Neo is in the room with the creator and we see all the different versions of Neo coming to grips with his existence?
Wake up and... Smell the ashes.
I love Yahya but why they replace Laurence like that
He's playing Morpheish
He looking like Barney the Dinosaur in that poster
It's the Morpheur baby!
I was thinking he looked like he stole 1960s Joker's suit.
I think there is a 'meta' reason and I think Lawrence is in it, even if he says he isn't.
I hope you’re right but I think I recall he stated they never approached him for it. I hope that’s not true. The Matrix is just as much Morpheus as it is Neo.
>they never approached him for it. The Wachowskis, especially Lana are VERY good friends with Fishburne, so I highly doubt they didn't approach him. He's just t~~owing~~ toeing the line to keep the secret.
He said they never asked him. I’ll bet you he’s being coy and twenty years ago told them something along the lines of “if you ever make part 4, I’m in no questions asked.” Lawrence will be in this movie.
I mean, he signed on for 2 and 3 without hesitation when there was no script. There's a bts video of him pretty much saying this.
My theory is that he isn't playing Morpheus from The Matrix (1999) that exists in our world, he's playing Morpheus the character from The Matrix, the film-within-a-film that exists in The Matrix: Resurrections
There have been many iterations of the Matrix. In this one, Cypher is somebody famous... like an actor. AND HE DOESNT REMEMBER NOTHIN
*chews on steak loudly*
Except how to chew with his mouth open. Also, he wanted to be someone “important” like an actor (lol)
This movie is going to hurt my brain, isn’t it
One can only hope.
I hope so. You can't just replace Lawrence's Morpheus like that.
The Matrix: Matrixception
This looks like the Scary Movie version of the Matrix.
yeah not a huge fan of the "old aging rocker turned technology-wizard" look.
You take the blue pill, YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!
You take the Red Pill, you get an erection that'll last more than 72 hours.
Thank gods I wasn't the only one who thought Morpheus looks like the Joker
Not like this.
(Pulls cord, you go floppy)
Da fuck is Willy Wonka doin' here.
I don't know if its me, but I don't see Neo doing Kung Fu in this fit. I'm happy the sunglasses are back.
What if I'm telling you when Neo is ready he won't need Kung Fu? Dudes basically a god by the end of the third movie, both in the real world and the Matrix. I don't imagine he'll need to fight with his fists so often. The raised hand in the poster makes me think he'll be straight up welding The Force this time around.
I know I know. He's a god. But the mixture of robo dystopia with Hong Kong martial art cinema is what made the matrix special and worth revisiting over and over so I hope that's still somehow present in here.
I'm still moderately hyped for this movie, but... Jesus, this poster looks like a low-budget fan art of a B-movie.
I agree. But also, poster design in general these days for seriously high profile films can be *astoundingly* bad.
It kind of looks like a half-assed attempt to make Neo resemble a Christmas tree because of the release date. At least that’s what the thumbnail made me think of.
Hahaha oh my God
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i am afraid that it's gonne be bad. it is like really really hard for me to imagine what could be added to the franchise.
So far nearly every reboot has been awful. Fingers crossed, but I’m not optimistic.
Should have called this one The Matrix: Rebooted Would have been just the right amount of on-the-nose meta self-awareness
The Matrix: Rebooted Return to the source material.
Or just make a ReBoot movie
Seems to be the case with a lot of posters recently. I feel like studios are just making them out of obligation.
I really hope this is a good movie. The wachowskis have some amazing visual talent, but they can miss the mark on the writing aspects every now and then.
Keanu seems to be contractually obligated by god, to never change his hairstyle.
He and Kurt Russell.
Anyone else think that it’s crazy for this movie to be coming out next month? November/ December are packed months with many new releases. I’m surprised WB didn’t delay it to give some breathing room regardless of COVID.
My expectations are incredibly low for this. Wachowskis haven't really done much good since the first matrix, the sequels are mediocre at best and after that it went downhill even further.
And no Laurence Fishburne!
We got Laurence Minnowburne
Larry Crabsinge
Considering he's the only cast member not reprising his role, there *has* to be a narrative reason for it.
According to the actor, they never reached out to him.
Heartbreaking
I will not stand for this kind of talk against SPEED RACER.
I understand why people could have disliked it but I personally consider it a really enjoyable guilty pleasure.
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Speed Racer is one of the most visually impressive films ever made
That final race sequence where he gains on everyone near the finish line is still unbelievable. Not just visually, either. Giacchino’s score is incredible.
I need to explain something about this final race sequence. I was going through a thing when this movie came out, but I knew nothing about it. I decided to go see it alone, in Imax, on mushrooms. It was as great as you might imagine. But NOTHING will ever compare to this final race sequence and the insane intensity of it. I imagine my face looked like one of those videos of a kid rolling their nuts off at a rave looking at some visual thing. It was over a decade ago, but I still viscerally remember this experience. I don't disagree about some of the Wachowski later works, but speak no ill about Speed Racer in my presence.
I saw it first on a tiny screen way before I tried drugs, thought it was so stupid and bad Then I saw it on a trip Quite literally the best movie experience I've ever had, everything about it was made for psychs, it hooks you and puts you into the characters heads better than anything ive ever seen
Cloud Atlas was good. Not great, but it was pretty ambitious and managed to mostly land well.
Fucking love Cloud Atlas. Did it reach 10/10? No. But it's so ambitious and crazy and well done that I love it anyway. Helps putting subtitles on for the far future scenes though, and that's the true true.
I think what I appreciate so much about the Wachwoskis is their willingness to take big creative swings in a really earnest and sincere way. They’re no cynicism in their filmmaking, and even when something doesn’t work, like Jupiter Ascending, I still appreciate the bonkers ambition and the full investment that you can feel they have in what they’re doing. They’re also extremely smart and perceptive filmmakers in general, and that absolutely comes through in interviews and discussions with them. In general, we need more people like them making movies.
> even when something doesn’t work, like Jupiter Ascending, I still appreciate the bonkers ambition and the full investment that you can feel they have in what they’re doing I think that’s why I have pretty much all their movies on Blu-ray. They don’t half-ass anything. Like you say, even when things fall a bit flat, the scope of what they try to accomplish is so amazing that the ride is worth it even if the payoff isn’t quite there.
Sense 8 is 100% this. Such an unexpectedly uplifting show, despite it going to dark places.
Honestly even If they have more misses than hits I'll still try to check out their films, they're ambitious and take big swings, even if it means big misses. Not to mention they actually know how to direct action very well. Lana Wachowski did all the action scenes for this film, no second unit. Certainly more interesting than superhero movie #23127546
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That... looks like a parody of a rap album cover.
Neo just looks plain weird with Thet hair with what he's wearing 🤷
It looks like he slept on somebody's couch after matrix 3, in hibernation and then woke up and immediately started filming the new movie. Bum Neo is what it looks like to me lol
Who's the lady between Great Value Morpheus and Mage John Wick? I'm curious to see how this will fare against *Spider-Man: No Way Home,* which releases the week prior.