The Reel Rejects - THE MATRIX: RELOADED (2003) IS FREAKIN' EPIC!! MOVIE REVIEW

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Starting point is 00:01:19 All right. Let's go. righty guys we are going to get into our questions here thank you so much for watching our reaction to the matrix reloaded if you listen to this on apple or spotify make sure you go and give us five stars also if you are a what the hell is that stop it phone get out of here scram um also thank you to the people who are prepper for cutting down these highlights and yeah

Starting point is 00:02:03 we're going to get into the dang thing like to comment, subscribe when we do also ring the bell ring the bell so you're notified one of new videos coming out all right without further redo we're going to get into it Melissa Taylor

Starting point is 00:02:19 in this film Neo is seemingly given a choice either to save Trinity potentially dooming himself or safe humanity but what sets our Neo apart from previous versions is how much his power is fueled by the profound love he shares with Trinity. So, what do you think are the implications of Neo-chusing love over logic? Would you have made the same choice? Tara?

Starting point is 00:02:50 I know that the guy is setting it up, where it's like if he chooses love, Zion dies. All these people die. but he did make a point in saying of course you're going to make the choice that is beyond all logic like that your mind just can't even comprehend because that's what love is and I feel like because they spent so much time showing us their strong connection and Neo saying plenty of times that he's like I can't like live without you Trinity um it made sense that he would go back, but my assumption is, is that because, yes, I get it, okay, he's a 6-1, that guy has tried to control it. He's like the anomaly, can't figure it out. But I'm thinking he can save her, but then also save Zion. Like, maybe. That's what I'm thinking. I don't know if I, I assume I would have made the same choice with the hope. that I could maybe do both. I don't know. Yeah, and it's a tough pickle. It's a tough situation.

Starting point is 00:04:06 Save humanity or save the love of your life. Because, yeah, I think that, I don't know, there's an argument about what drives humans, right? Is it power? Is it control? Is it love? Is it community? And I feel like that answer very much differs from person to person.

Starting point is 00:04:27 right but I feel like Neo is driven by his love and it feels as though for myself I'd probably err on the side of Neo as well and protecting the people that I care about and that I love because yeah I feel like even in that being the defender of the people that you love can give you a sense of purpose, granted. Can it be, can you have an more altruistic purpose of saving the many, the needs of the many away the needs of the few? That is like the altruistic, heroic choice to make. But in this movie, we're presented with a almost like Spider-Man 2S choice, you know,

Starting point is 00:05:16 save the card of people or save Mary Jane. And heroes typically try to find a way to persevere and save both. And it is a grim possibility. but I think I would try to do my best to save both because I felt like if I were to save the masses but not be able to save the people that I love, would it promote longevity and, you know, the human species, sure, but I feel like I would know how to live with myself

Starting point is 00:05:47 if the things that I cared dearly about weren't able to survive with me. So I would have to make the same choice as Neo in this situation. Yeah, and you also have to remember Melissa, love defies all logic, period. It just does. Yeah, we are emotional creatures. And even when we do have the, you know, the backing of logic, I feel like at the end of the day, we are creatures of it.

Starting point is 00:06:12 And we have to, logic is learned, but feelings are inherent. And I feel like that's at the end of the day what most people are going to go towards, including myself. Yeah. Thanks for the question, Melissa. resident z thank you for sending the question dog hey guys hope you enjoyed the movie i remember being completely blown away by the freeway scene

Starting point is 00:06:36 when i first saw the movie the coordination must have been insane not only for the fights but also the driving was there a scene or visual in the movie that similarly had you in awe have a good rest of your day you two well you have a good rest of your day resident z or resident z as John likes to say. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:56 I think for me that that scene with all the agents Smiths fighting Neo had me messed up. That scene was awesome. That scene was so cool. What about you, Tara?

Starting point is 00:07:07 Yeah, I was going to say where they kept multiplying. That was pretty wild. Some of the best fight choreography that I've seen in a minute. But then I guess, if not that, I would go to when he first meets the

Starting point is 00:07:23 assistant to the Oracle where he's just sitting there and they have just like a one-on-one fight because he needs to test him to make sure that he's the one. That was really cool. I think most of this in hearing you be like the coordination must have been insane. I think the coordination was insane for pretty much every single scene except the times when they were just trying to give us a foundation for the plot, meaning them they're just like talking, which was rare. Most of it was like action, which is wild. yeah yeah i think a minor criticism i have like some of the action scenes went on a little too long but i think that the effort and and impressive coordination of said action

Starting point is 00:08:06 yeah still made it entertaining but i was like oh this feels like actions for action's sake rather than action for progressing the plot yeah might get you but you know still enjoyable overall just a you know minor critique but um yeah thanks for sending the question residency awesome Joe awesome in all caps thank you for sending in a question man do you believe when movies break stories into two parts into two part films is it because the studio is cash grabbing or do they actually have a story they are trying to tell but it takes more than one movie to make it happen either way for me it works because the matrix trilogy is one of my favorite trilogies I think it depends It really does depend both on the type of story that it is

Starting point is 00:08:58 and the intentionality because some stories could be one thing but like there's other examples like it's been a minute of something in the Harry Potter movies and they like took that book and divided it into two and you watched them more recently

Starting point is 00:09:14 do you feel like that movie could have been one and you feel like it justified being two movies there's more than two movies there's like seven I'm talking about like the last book because they divided deadly parlous part one deadly harliss part two I see what you're saying I was like no I know there's a lot of books

Starting point is 00:09:31 I think there's just so much information that they had to you just had to if you wanted to feed the audience if there's people who read the book you want to feed them with as much somewhat as much detail as you can because of that audience. There's other movies

Starting point is 00:09:50 obviously that we've seen that have sequels that are just for cash grabs that are absolute shite. That's where it's like not good. Where it like ruined. You're like, why you've even got to mess with that? And I can't think of an example right now. But yes, that happens. I don't think that's happening here with the Matrix because we found out at the end of this movie that he is number six. And that was a wild fact.

Starting point is 00:10:15 and they're ending on taking us back back to like the beginning when we see him, you know, on the table of like, well, what's going to happen now? What more information can we find out about this anomaly in him choosing love over logic and what can actually be concluded? Is Zion like actually blown to bits because he did that? I doubt it. But also I feel like they're going to give us the foundation that they already set here. Yeah, I'll say Kevin as she's talking to myself

Starting point is 00:10:49 some time to think, I think it's a combination of both really because on one hand with something like the Harry Potter final book broken up with the two movies it gives fans of the book more expansive storytelling really allowing things to get fleshed out

Starting point is 00:11:06 that if it is an adaptation and that would justify it being a true part one part two I feel like other stories like for example Avengers Infinity War was originally announced as Avengers Infinity

Starting point is 00:11:23 Part 1 and Avengers Infinity Part 2 but they changed it after Infinity War what was originally part 1 came out because Endgame was a very different kind of story than Infinity Part 1 was and I feel like if you're going to do something like

Starting point is 00:11:39 dividing it into 2 you have to either A, allow it, have it be so much story that having it find a natural cutoff point would justify it being a sequel or two, the two parts are, you know, it's one story, but the way that they're told are vastly different experiences. And I feel like because a lot of those things are vastly different experiences or they're just so expansive that studios do cut them in half because, you know, you have to, have them hit a certain amount of movie theaters in across the country or across the world rather and I feel like the longer the films is the less showings you can make for said movie which means less money they can make in return so that so the business side of it because yeah they want to have more opportunities for more showings both in the for part one and for part two but also it allows the stories to actually be fleshed out. Like I feel like it's tough because I'm trying to think of like the mission impossible part one and part two because originally Dead Reckoning part one and then final

Starting point is 00:12:51 reckoning. I'm like could that have been one movie? I know I liked part one more than part two but you know it really varies but yeah that's my long-wood way of saying both. Do you have any to add to that? No.

Starting point is 00:13:09 All right. All right, Pop Gibberish. Thank you for sending in your question, Mr. Mrs. Gibberish. Have you played the tie-in Matrix game that follow Naomi and Ghost on their mission that actually affects events of the movie? The example, there's the highway scene where they have to chase. Morpheus. We have to catch Morphias. My bad.

Starting point is 00:13:36 I make up words sometimes. Also, villain reveal. I was the one in the comments of your previous reactions that I said that Aaron to speak up because you whispered dude. Oh shit. And pointed things out. Joe Willard still love you guys so much. Hashtag engagement. Thank you for the engagement.

Starting point is 00:14:01 And no, I've not played the Matrix tie-in game, but I would really like to, especially after watching this. And I also want to watch the Animatrix. I don't know what that is about, but I know there's like an anime tie-in to these movies. Oh, that's cool. I'm curious what you actually said, Joe's Will Art, about pointing things that we missed.

Starting point is 00:14:20 I don't know if you're saying previous reactions as in the previous Matrix films, or if you're talking about way different reactions with me and Aaron. I want to know. I just want to know because I'm like, I feel like we didn't miss anything on the Matrix stuff. Maybe.

Starting point is 00:14:36 I don't think this is not even out yet. he's aren't out yet no they haven't even put the first one up yet at the time of recording this oh then he's targeting other ones okay we do a lot of reactions together so yes it could be something I don't know you whispered dude I'm a whisper man look at I do need to get closer to the mic though I will say that and I've been told that so I'm trying to be

Starting point is 00:14:55 better for though so thank you very much he has this too much too loud is it too intense well I would just have to no they probably like it I would just have to turn my your headset down okay I'll stop for your sake I don't need to ASMR experience But yeah Thank you for the

Starting point is 00:15:12 The note And we will I will work on it in the future I will be louder I can be soft spoken But I don't want to blow my Co-host ear out Thank you

Starting point is 00:15:23 All right Final question of the questions Jay Rustin The man the mental legend The guy who comes Every freaking video We love you dude

Starting point is 00:15:35 question what actor would you cast in film now if we're updated neo there for in the updated neo there it's tough that's tough hmm maybe like this is weird but I want to say Miles teller but maybe it's just because he has like brown hair and he's a good actor and he's done some like stunty stuff um i also think tom cruise would be cool but like young tom cruise um but you're saying now uh huh i'm gonna go out of the box i'm gonna say si um no simu liu yeah i think i play shang chi i think you'd be a really good neo cool love it yeah and oh i think i think will play i think will Smith could be a fun Morpheus

Starting point is 00:16:32 because I know he's supposed to play Neo originally Yeah I gotta think about that Yeah Also I think Timothy Chalamake to be a fun of that Timothy Chalamake

Starting point is 00:16:42 It could be a fun Neo as well Then again he's already Like a Messiah figure Already in the Dune movies Yeah he is I'm trying to think of like Who's really Like popular right now

Starting point is 00:16:54 Because he said now That I'm like Oh who'd you actually cast Who's working a lot who's of that age. I don't know. I don't know. But if you ask again, Jay, what I would say,

Starting point is 00:17:10 and I've said this multiple times is when you guys send in questions, give us like multiple choice. Give us a few to just get it going. And then that will remind us of other things just because it'll help with the conversation. And that's just for any question, for any reaction. when you ask stuff like that, multiple choice is always a lot of fun.

Starting point is 00:17:31 We can add on top of that. Yeah, exactly. Get the spark going and then we can build off of that. But, yeah, there's a lot of actors who could probably potentially do this. Obviously, Keanu is the best. He's synonymous with this role. This is one of his career-defining roles. But, yeah, it's an interesting question nonetheless.

Starting point is 00:17:51 Thank you. Thank you, Jay Reston. All right, before we get out of here, we can give our final freaking thoughts. terror do you have any other things you want to share about this movie feelings um i really liked it i thought it was a lot of fun i'm glad in the scenes where it did slow down where they're trying to give us the foundation or relationship stuff um i did feel engaged because of the very good acting i do think some of the action scenes like when they kept going and going and going i was like wow this must have taken so much choreography and like just planned

Starting point is 00:18:27 I'm not sure that it maybe needed to be that long, but I also understand they're feeding a beast of like maybe that's actually what people want to see versus there might be people like me who's like, yeah, I want to have the story and the action, but maybe it doesn't have to be two and a half hours. I think that's what it was, right? It's 207.

Starting point is 00:18:51 Two, okay, two hours. I still really liked it, though. those are just like my little thoughts of like huh i wonder if i would have walked away with this going like holy crap that was awesome and flew by if it was like an hour and a half versus two hours i don't i don't know i don't know but um i know that it's cool and the way it ended to be concluded cool i'm down yeah yeah i think in a lot of ways this movie is ahead of its time because of the concepts of choice and reality and, you know, in a sense, multiple realities or, you know, multiple versions of the same

Starting point is 00:19:32 thing, especially in that scene with the architect towards the end there. I think, I'm pretty sure, even in the immediacy of leaving this moment, I prefer the first movie, but I still did really like this movie. I feel like it did a great job of elevating the action scenes, finding inventive new ways to shoot action, while still, you know, allowing for. a story to flow. I feel like definitely this one was a lot more exposition and plot heavy and some of the action scenes did kind of drag for me. That being said, they were

Starting point is 00:20:03 still really cool and they were still impressive, but I felt like maybe some of them could have been like a little shortened up to kind of like, you know, make the title little plot, the plot a little tighter. But yeah, still, still

Starting point is 00:20:18 really enjoying the movies a lot and I'm excited to see how they end up saving Zion. what becomes of The Matrix. Yeah, guys. Yeah, let us know your comments, your feelings below, your theories, your takeaways, how this movie's affected you. And yeah, look forward to talking with you guys about that in the comments and look forward to watching the final. All right, guys, that'll be up for us today and we will see you in the next one.

The Reel Rejects - THE MATRIX: RELOADED (2003) IS FREAKIN' EPIC!! MOVIE REVIEW

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