Sea Speed said:

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Was that movie good? I saw it back in 2005 but can't remember a thing about it

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I remember that it's one of the movies I can count on one hand that I was thisclose to walking out of, because it was so horrible.

Agreed, it was at the very least well made and an intriguing watch.

Huh. Had no idea they didn't direct V for Vendetta.

Still, I feel like they should get a lion's share of the credit for writing, producing, and for the director having been an AD on The Matrix trilogy.

Agreed. It *feels* like a Wachowskis movie for sure, and it sounds like they were basically on set everyday.

Highlight from this was learning that @LanalWachowski channeled her grief over her parents becoming ill and dying into the “resurrection” of Neo and Trinity.

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V was an anarchist, but go on y'all.

He said there were similarities not that it was an accurate prediction of the future.

Morpheus is fighting Neo!

Nice. Rewatched it a couple nights ago as well. Still so damn good.

I have a question for the thread, though…

WHY did Morpheus believe Neo was the one? This really stood out to me this go-around, and as far as I could tell, it's never really addressed. From the jump, Morpheus is all-in on Neo being the one, but seemingly zero evidence is presented to the audience, pre-Neo's awakening at the end of act one, as to why Morpheus has so much faith in this particular person. And we never really get an explanation in the rest of the movie either. Sure, Neo's really good at downloading fight programs to his mind, his "neurokinetics are off the chart," then he's "the one," and and that's that. But there's no explanation as to what evidence Morpheus saw in Neo that tipped him off to how he knew Neo would be so special. In his search for for the one, when he finally came across Neo, what about this unassuming computer programmer/hacker dude stopped Morpheus in his tracks, to the point where he goes, "THIS is guy!"?

Am I missing something?

Or could the movie have potentially used even a single line explaining what Morpheus initially saw in him?

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That's a great point. What struck me about the movie was how basic and how few sets there actually were in the movie.

Today we have so much green screen time building worlds and depth but it's not always a good thing.

Yeah, it's definitely more streamlined and to-the-point than I remember it being.

Honestly, it *almost* made me feel guilty for ragging on Rey for basically being a fully-formed Force-user from the jump and being special just because. Because this viewing had that same general vibe, where Neo's "the one"… just because. Of course, we eventually come to learn *why* in the sequel, when the Architect gives his spiel, but before the events of the first movie, Morpheus obviously doesn't know that yet. So what, exactly, does he see in Neo pre-awakening?

Regardless, the pacing is so good, the world is so interesting, and the overall mystery is so engaging that it doesn't matter nearly as much here. Still, I was just curious if I happened to miss an explanation.

Furlock Bones said:

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That's a great point. What struck me about the movie was how basic and how few sets there actually were in the movie.

Today we have so much green screen time building worlds and depth but it's not always a good thing.

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I mean, yes and no.

It was more streamlined with fewer locations, but probably 3/4 of that film is green screen.

And here I was worried about derailing this thread with my "V for Vendetta" hatred.....

Ulrich said:

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Piloting seems like a much more instinctive thing than, say, breaking into a trained Smith's mind and reading his thoughts like Rey did to Kylo Ren after precisely 0 minutes of training. Luke had been flying for years and did at least get a bit of training from Ben Kenobi. It's pretty common in the old legends stories that force sensitive people are identified because they have some skill that they are really good because they are unknowingly tapping into their force ability. That's not the same as being able to punk a Sith at multiple things right out of the gate.

I didn't really mean to turn this into "here's what's wrong with the sequel trilogy", my point is actually more that The Matrix did a really good of showing the hero train, get beat up, fail several times, but keep getting back up until he broke through. It was earned, probably more than anything in Star Wars movie canon.

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I'm still laughing too hard at the term "force enchanting" to keep this argument going.

TCTTS said:

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Yeah, it's definitely more streamlined and to-the-point than I remember it being.

Honestly, it *almost* made me feel guilty for ragging on Rey for basically being a fully-formed Force-user from the jump and being special just because. Because this viewing had that same general vibe, where Neo's "the one"… just because. Of course, we eventually come to learn *why* in the sequel, when the Architect gives his spiel, but before the events of the first movie, Morpheus obviously doesn't know that yet. So what, exactly, does he see in Neo pre-awakening?

Regardless, the pacing is so good, the world is so interesting, and the overall mystery is so engaging that it doesn't matter nearly as much here. Still, I was just curious if I happened to miss an explanation.

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I haven't watched The Matrix in a few years, and really Ive seen it so many times that when I rewatch it Im sure I don't actually pay attention to a third of it since I just 'remember' it already.

Didn't Morpheus' crew kind of joke about him finding "another" The One? For some reason I had the impression that this wasn't the first time they tested someone out.

The only thing I remember along those lines was when the crew kept saying, "No one makes their first jump." But they could just as easily have been talking about themselves as opposed to other potential "the ones" Morpheus had recruited. Other than that, I don't remember any dialogue that hinted at that, though there very well could have been.

What if when they downloaded the kung fu data into his brain that they didn't just download the "you're the one now dawg" program into his brain too? Lol