THE BEST The Matrix

Remember the part of The Matrix where Neo took the red pill? What if he took the blue pill instead? Ctrl Shift Face and VFX artist Chris Ume make us wonder no longer, with the help of some deepfake tech. If the concept seems familiar, you might recall this mashup. VFX breakdown and comparison clip here.

“…it wasn’t so much a death, as it was a discovery.” The The Matrix trilogy, particularly its first movie, can be interpreted in so many ways. Now You See It offers that it can also be read as the expression of the Wachowskis’ desire to come out and be true to themselves.

If you ask us, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions were huge letdowns, whether or not we compare them to the first film. But Just Write argues that with adult eyes – and some perseverance – the movies are worth rewatching and dissecting.

He chose the red pill. He knows kung fu. He is The One. The Matrix turns 20 in 2019, which means a ton of merchandise are incoming, starting with Hot Toys’ realistic 13″ action figure of Keanu Reeves as Neo. It comes with 4 pairs of hands, 10 guns and his signature black outfit.

According to a 2004 interview with Wired, Will Smith was offered the role of Neo in The Matrix, but turned down the part. Now, thanks to The Unusual Suspect, we know what that movie might have looked like. While we’d miss Keanu, we would have loved this too.

“Your weakness is not your technique. It is doubt, and disbelief.” Eclectic Method chopped up bits of dialogue and sound effects from The Matrix to create this groovy EDM track that gives us another reason to watch some of our favorite movie moments of all time.

(PG-13: Language) “As you all know, the quietest way to kill a man is to just put your arms over his eyes.” Dunkey plays the 2005 game The Matrix: Path of Neo. It’s obviously broken or modded, but man those cutscenes should have been cut scenes.

The Wachowskis copied heavily from Grant Morrison’s comic book series The Invisibles, Nicholas Cage could’ve been Neo, and Samuel L. Jackson could’ve been Morpheus. All that and more in The Film Theorists’ video.

There is no spoon. Burger Fiction cut out all the bits of The Matrix Trilogy that didn’t move the plot forward, summing up the entire story in just 90 seconds. We love how they gave less than 30 seconds to Reloaded and Revolutions, because that’s all they really deserve.

Cinematic montage artist Roman Holiday compiled this brief sequence using only closeups from the only Matrix movie that really counts – the 1999 original. Set to the original soundtrack’s epic Hotel Ambush music by Don Davis.

Threezero’s badass 1:12 scale model of Zion’s battle suit. The 13.5″ tall poseable model has light up arm cannons and a removable pilot figure. The deluxe set comes with an ammo loader and a crew member. Drops 2/16 for $390-$430.

For their latest retro-style video game, CineFix takes on the 1999 classic The Matrix, trading wire-fu, bullet time and groundbreaking VFX for SNES (or is it Neo-Geo, get it?) quality graphics and sound effects.

Editor Philip Raupach took footage The Matrix Reloaded, and replaced the sounds with the bleeps and blips of old video games, leveling up what was otherwise not the Wachowski’s finest moment. We were waiting for Blanka to appear.

The Matrix was arguably one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. Here, Screen Junkies reminds us what we loved about the original, and why its two sequels were, uh, not quite as memorable. Neo, this is loco.

A creative music video for London Grammar’s Wasting My Young Years, shot with a rig loaded with 625 pinhole cameras and a loop of 35mm film to capture 360° images of performers frozen in time. See how it was done here.

1A4 Studio is back with another animated movie speed run. It’s amazing how they’re able to squeeze in most of the important scenes in just a minute. Did Neo really puke that many times?

Neo has to hide out from Agent Bill Lumbergh as he comes around looking for the latest T.P.S. report in this amusing combination of two incredibly classic movies, both released in 1999.

It’s an old video, and an even older movie and song. Yet, reddit readers dug up this little gem, showing how well Lou Bega’s cheesetastic tune syncs up with the lobby scene from The Matrix.

Good artists copy, great artists steal. We learn that yet again in this examination of the Wachowski’s 1999 classic The Matrix, which clearly found plenty of inspiration in many earlier films.

The classic lobby gun fight sequence from The Matrix gets its sounds effects replaced by a single dude, making noises with his mouth. A little silly, but Matt Mulholland gets an ‘A’ for effort.

A Matrix fan film about a bounty hunter named Kaydara, who thinks that The One is not a savior but a threat to man’s awakening. Skip the trailer if you want and watch the whole thing here.

28 year old Romanian dancer Razy Gogonea put on quite a spectacular audition on Britain’s Got Talent, taking his inspiration from the film The Matrix – even the Hoff was impressed. (Thanks Orion!)

The Matrix may be passé, but that didn’t stop these guys from creating an episodic action and effects-laden fan-film. Great looks, cheesy dialogue – just like the original. First episode out 5/21.

If only Neo’s problem was as simple as defeating Trinity’s Seven Evil Exes, then maybe the trilogy wouldn’t have been so freaking vague and convoluted. Neo, this is loco!

Choosing between red and blue pills is not so much a philosophical quandary as it is a peristaltic one for Neo in The Matrix Pill; if he’s The One, it’ll be a bitter pill for humanity to swallow.