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OZA
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Please watch The Matrix
#19385875 - 01/07/14 11:39 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you haven't watched The Matrix, please watch it. If you saw nothing more than pure entertainment, watch it again.
The Matrix is a brilliant movie. I admittedly made fun of it for years until I watched it and really understood it. It has quickly became my favorite movie and the movie I watch to get my thoughts running. It's a deeply philosophical movie with numerous parallels to the running of our world and society and our hope/hopelessness to get out. It has a couple psychedelic references too, but that's not the point.. It really gets you thinking and is one of the few movies that have conveyed such a message so deeply.
Discuss it if you're with me or aren't with me, watch it if you haven't.
A couple of my favorite quotes:
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
"I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."
(Morpheus talking about agents) "their strength and their speed is based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that they'll never be as strong or as fast as you could be."
(Cypher talking..ignorance is bliss) "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"
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Edited by OZA (01/07/14 11:48 PM)
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: OZA] 1
#19385885 - 01/07/14 11:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah its a good one
really takes the evil deceiver to the masses
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: OZA] 1
#19385893 - 01/07/14 11:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Who has not seen the Matrix?
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: koods]
#19385898 - 01/07/14 11:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: Who has not seen the Matrix?
bob marley and the wailers
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: koods]
#19385901 - 01/07/14 11:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't know, I didn't watch it between when I was 7 and viewed it as purely entertainment and 3 months ago though. A lot of us watched it when we were young and not since.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: Sheekle]
#19385916 - 01/07/14 11:47 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: Who has not seen the Matrix?
bob marley and the wailers
this is true.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: OZA]
#19385930 - 01/07/14 11:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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The second and third ones sucked. Anyone seen this vid?
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: k00laid]
#19385932 - 01/07/14 11:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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OZA said: I don't know, I didn't watch it between when I was 7 and viewed it as purely entertainment and 3 months ago though. A lot of us watched it when we were young and not since.
Young. I was 30 when it came out.
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koods said: Who has not seen the Matrix?
bob marley and the wailers
this is true.
Fine. Neither has Princess Diana, John Lennon or the 10 billion other losers who died before it was released.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: koods]
#19385945 - 01/07/14 11:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: Who has not seen the Matrix?
I wish I could say me! It was dumb as hell.OOOh Keaneau Reeves Hooks a usb cord to his head and he becomes the new Messiah. woohoo that's some good shit.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: Magenta]
#19385946 - 01/07/14 11:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm only speaking of the first Matrix.
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I wish I could say me! It was dumb as hell.OOOh Keaneau Reeves Hooks a usb cord to his head and he becomes the new Messiah. woohoo that's some good shit. 
Watch it again and look below the surface.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: OZA] 1
#19385996 - 01/08/14 12:06 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Did you happen to watch the last time under the influence of a psychedelic substance?
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: koods]
#19386018 - 01/08/14 12:11 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nah, sober. It's an extremely deep movie if your mind is open to interpret a lot of the dialogue and ideas. As I said a LOT of parallels could be observed. I basically watch the movie as one gigantic metaphor with some cheap Hollywood action thrown in.
I'd upload the notes that I took while watching the film, but they are largely illegible/shorthand.
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Edited by OZA (01/08/14 12:25 AM)
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: OZA]
#19386030 - 01/08/14 12:16 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Welcome to 2014.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: r00tuuu123]
#19386064 - 01/08/14 12:27 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wish I could say me! It was dumb as hell.OOOh Keaneau Reeves Hooks a usb cord to his head and he becomes the new Messiah. woohoo that's some good shit. 
that was also the whole concept behind Johnny Mnemonic
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: Prisoner#1]
#19386172 - 01/08/14 01:01 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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OP is right. Watched it last year and was blown away by the psychedelic vibes coming off of that movie
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OZA
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: 1620]
#19386231 - 01/08/14 01:24 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks.. Posted this hoping a few more people would watch it and take it seriously
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: OZA]
#19386339 - 01/08/14 02:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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YEP fellow Matrix lover here!
that scene with neo and that thing that crawls inside him freaks me out every time!!
I wonder when the technological singularity happens. How will our society deal with completely immersive virtual worlds like the matrix and a.i.
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The matrix expresses partially this idea that we all have inside our heads. The actual idea is never really developed in the movie just like we can't really understand the idea ourselves.
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: 1620] 2
#19386487 - 01/08/14 03:56 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anybody ever realize that the Matrix and Inception are ludicrously similar, once you get to the meat of it?
But yeah, the Matrix is good stuff. First time I saw it was actually in my high school philosophy class. It's a 2.5 hr crash course in a whole slew of different philosophical schools of thought
I remember when I used to work in a campus store for food service. Sometimes we'd just be slammed and I'd get this knee-jerk feeling of serenity which would creep over me, and I'd shout, "I feel like fucking Neo when he finally sees all those green 0's and 1's!" then commence to crank out pitas
I'll never do anything as meaningful or beautiful as those few, well executed bar rushes
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Re: Please watch The Matrix [Re: lot_justice] 1
#19386501 - 01/08/14 04:09 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't get what's so philosophical or deep about the matrix. It's a flashy, stylistic action film. It also proposes the possibility of reality as we see it being an illusion or simulation, but never really goes anywhere with that premise. I guess it was the first mainstream action film to have themes like that, and introduced a lot of people to that idea (including me at 12 probably), and that's pretty cool.
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