Awesome The Matrix

The Auralnauts used some editing and visual effects trickery to make it look like the characters in The Matrix movies (and Wilford Brimley) are reciting the lyrics to the Vanilla Ice hit Ice Ice Baby. Take the red pill, and it’s really Queen and David Bowie’s Under Pressure.

To celebrate the release of The Matrix: Resurrections, Epic Games released this impressive tech demo of Unreal Engine 5. The Matrix Awakens combines advanced cinematics with a third-person shooter and an open world to explore. It’s available for free on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

After freeing humanity from the machines, Thomas Anderson finds himself in a familiar scenario – but in a slightly different world. Eventually, Neo finds Trinity and they must work together to tear down this new and improved version of The Matrix. The Matrix: Resurrections hits theaters and HBO Max on 12.22.21.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original LED Pulsar, this remarkable watch has a green dot matrix display as a nod to The Matrix Resurrections. It has an all-black PVD-coated steel case and link bracelet, with a Matrix digital rain pattern inscribed on its case back and on its packaging. It’s limited to 1999 pieces.

FavnCrafts makes this tabletop accent lamp inspired by the “digital rain” of code from The Matrix. The 11″ tall lamp is handmade from laser-cut wood with bright LED lighting inside. You can choose from various light colors, but we think it should always remain green.

Each year, Tom BetGeorge puts on an awesome Halloween light show to help raise funds for the McHenry House Family Shelter. One of 2021’s displays was inspired by The Matrix, complete with those iconic green computer effects, and set to Rage Against the Machine’s Wake Up, the track from the ending sequence of the movie.

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.

As The Matrix 4: Resurrections kicks off, Neo and Trinity find themselves caught in the illusion of The Matrix. But it’s not long before they find their reality is not what it seems and must learn to fight for humanity’s freedom once again. Coming to HBO Max and theaters on 12.22.2021.

“…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?