I was 7. I thought it was the best movie ever made.

12, what is this

9, and "this is retarded."

>>4949727
You're fucking pretentious

10.

I thought Trinity's "Dodge this." line was the best thing ever.

>>4949726
1987 was the best year ever for being born

High five, Anon

>>4949758
Agree
>>4949725
>Implying it's not

>>4949725
Underage b&

10 and i was all "lol, what IS the matrix?"

9

COOOOOL!

I was 8, and I fapped to the woman in the red dress

Then I wanted to be neo and dress all goth

13? lol I can't believe that shit was 10 years ago.

I was 34, It didn't sink in as ground-breaking sci-fi till I saw it by the 5th time

I thought I had finally known the definition of that thing people call "philosophy".

>>4949798
Yeah, it still looks far better than most modern shit, including Lord of the Rings

>>4949705
17
"Best action movie EVER!" and mind blown by how well it was done.

I was in middle school, and it blew my fucking mind.

15 and I was too scared to watch it because I didn't get the plot/what the matrix was. I tend to avoid things I don't understand.

>>4949826
I'll live longer than you.

>>4949799
>44 years-old
>Still browsing 4chan
Get a girlfriend. And a life

>>4949705
13. Loved it.
Still don't understand why there using 10 round clips.

I cried when I saw the sequels and thought about how much of a talent the Wachowskis have wasted

I was 13 or 14, went with my dad, he fell asleep during the movie (he falls asleep during every movie except for rambo 4). Didn't care for it, untill the second one.

>>4949705

Goddamn they made the first movie 10 times greener for the boxed sets. Prefer my original DVD, thank you very much.

Feels good to have such strong feelings when watching a movie. Do you think you'll ever have such a shock again?

>>4949865

No, because I'm a jaded asshole. We all are.

>>4949864
Actually, green looks better and feels more coherent because of the sequels. Also, blue would look like James Cameron directed the movie.

>>4949846

i think they were real guns

>>4949874
Wait for Avatar

16, I FUCK YEAH'd when Neo faced off against Smith. Loved every minute of it.

clip =/= magazine

>>4949883

It only feels more "coherent" to you because they beat you over the head with the coloring in the sequels.

In fact, the sequels in general just beat you over the head with everything that made the first movie great, ultimately detracting from it.

"Woh."

I had just seem the climax of the 90's. The pure 90's flowed out of the screen and into me through this film.

>>4949865
Peter Jacksons epic Warhammer 40k movie

>>4949926
Implying Titanic and Terminator 2 were not better

I guess I was ten, and it's still my favorite movie to this day.

>>4949836
hehe, glad to see you got your life into perspective

14 and I was like DAYUUUUUUUUUUUUM!

I taught Reloaded was even better.

Revolutions, not so much.

13 and I remember thinking both "wow, this is awesome, I've never seen a movie like this before" and "WTF is going on, I'll have to watch this again because I understood nothing of the story". I must've been kind of a dumb kid, because the story isn't all that complex...

>>4949702
> I read this on http://www.anentalk.com/ (en = on) last night.
I saw this earlier today on here...

>>4949865
I do, but it will be different and for different reasons. I can't tell you how it will be different as if I could then it wouldn't be a shock. The Matrix wasn't the only movie in our collective lifetimes that was groundbreaking.

>>4949883

The "real world" scenes actually reminded me of Terminator 2 because they were so blue as fuck.

I remember when i first saw this movie, the part where Neo first learns kung fu was the most awesome shit i ever seen.

16, saw it at the cinema, HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME

1985 was the best year to be born. Back to the Future came out then. Clearly that's why it's the best.

11. I had NEVER seen anything like it and it's still one of my most favorite movies.

17. I saw an early screening of it a week before it came out in theaters and had no idea what I was about to see. I was pretty close to shitting my pants by the end.

>>4949905

I'm not into elves, so no.

>>4949980
When you're 13, your brain still isn't fully developed. There's nothing to be ashamed of

>>4950000
FUCKWIN GET

9, I threw up

I was 20 and thought it was nice to see something original for once.

>>4950037
Your brain continues to develop until your mid 20s.

>>4949980
Same here, I was 13 when I saw Matrix and Episode 1

Didnt follow the storylines of either film, I still dont know what the story of Episode 1 was aside from "anakin grows up and races MEESA JAR JAR"

>>4950037
And besides the movie had blown my mind, so I didn't have the proper functioning organ to process the information...

I was in 12 and was disappoint.

The best part of it was that I was young and there was close to no internet. I had seen no trailer for this movie, and all I saw or knew about it was a short clip of Neo dodging Smith's bullets on the roof of a building. I didn't know what the story was, then I went to see it in theaters...

BAM.

I didn't know what just hit me, but it was an experience I'll never forget.

>>4950053
It was far from original, but I thought the same at the time.

>>4950053
>Matrix
>original

HAHAHA

>>4950091
There really was nothing like it till that point

11

HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME

>>4949705

That green looks fucking retarded. Are they fighting in the jungle?

It's strange to think that these two faggots made something that even Cameron, Tarantino, Spielberg or Peter Jackson all wish they had directed.

>>4950081
I hadn't even seen a single image from the film yet. I went to the the theater with my friend and we thought the poster looked cool so we decided to go see it. Knowing absolutely nothing about it made the experience even more awesome.

I think I was about 10 or 11.
It was pretty much the first sci fi movie I'd ever seen. Blew my fucking mind.

>>4950097
Ghost in the Shell

>>4950105
"digital"-feeling green > generic brown

Why don't they give interviews or discuss their own works, for fuck's sake

I've been waiting to see a decent making-of for YEARS

>>4950126
Not to mention aspects of Akira and Ninja Scroll.

>>4950126
>>4950144

The weaboos are coming.

I was 8, saw the commercials and thought, "this movie is stupid, why is everyone in suits?"

Then I saw i when I was 10 and was all like "FUCK YOU 8-YEAR-OLD SELF."

>>4950135

Reality > retarded chroma

>Actor Will Smith turned down the role of Neo to make Wild Wild West, due to skepticism over the film's ambitious bullet time special effects.[2] He later stated that he was "not mature enough as an actor" at that time,[2] and that if given the role, he "would have messed it up".[3][4] Nicolas Cage also turned down the role because of "family obligations".[5] Prior to the casting of Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock turned down the role of Trinity because she didn't see herself working with the actor then being considered to play Neo.[6]

>>4950144
Oh no an obscure japanese anime did something first too bad nobody outside japan gives a shit

>>4950160
Considering this is 4chan, weaboos are generally always lurking in the shadows, waiting for their chance to strike.

>>4950126
>>4950144

> Implying anyone gave a shit about anime back then.

>>4950174
Doesn't change the fact they they themselves have said that they were influenced by those films. And I wasn't trying to be negative by mentioning them anyway. Don't get so defensive.

>>4950144
>>4950126
There was nothing like it IN FILMS your idiots. Those are animation. Do you weeaboos really need everything spelled out for you?

>Joss Whedon called the film "my number one" and praised its storytelling, structure and depth, concluding, "It works on whatever level you want to bring to it."

A fag who likes a fag's movie, how surprising

Saw the movie for the first time when I was around 16, a few years back. Didn't think much of it because I was already familiar with all those scenes from seeing them being parodied in various ways.

>Roger Ebert praised the film's visuals and premise, but disliked the third act's focus on action.

Ebert hates action (see District 9's last part) and hates 3D. My prediction is that he's gonna hate Avatar, and, as a consequence, Armond White will love it.

Fucking awesome.

My opinion still hasn't changed; The Matrix is one of the best Sci-Fi films ever made.

>>4950214
So simply because its animation means that it can't possibly be similar?

12 thought it was cool
3 years later, saw it again and realized how terrible it was. The sequels are also horrible. My friends ate it up while I grew up and stopped watching bad movies

I was 13, i seen it the week that the 3rd one came out. Seen them all back to back. First one was the best.

>>4949826
>>4949826
>>4949826
>>4949826
>>4949826
>>4949826
>>4949826
16 but exact same. nothing but win.

I was 19 and saw it because a co-worker told me it was "Bitching". I rented it around 2000 and was vaguely interested in the plot, but couldn't understand why the robots needed humans specifically. I mean, wouldn't cows be more compliant and easier to control? Also, that specific action scene was cool at the beginning as he was entering the building and started fucking shit up, got retarded when he started doing unnecessary rolly pollys.

Anyway, I made the "mistake" of seeing Equilibrium first and found it to be a little deeper than the Matrix so I found it to be a better film. For its genre that is.

10 Fuck yeah. how is this 10 years old already?

>>4950281
Yes, but overall it's a completely different experience.

11, I Liked it, didnt care for the sequel and never saw the finale.

>>4950171
Man, if I had gone into the theatre at ten years old and to see Keanu Reeves + Sandra Bullock in the movie, I would have nostalgia'd so hard.

Goddamn I watched Speed so many times when I was a kid.

>>4950167

>Reality > retarded chroma
>Reality

lol did you even watch the Matrix?

Fuck yeah 1999

Blair witch project scaring the shit out of everyone

Episode 1

Matrix

The 90's ;_;

>>4950328
Lets agree to disagree.

>>4950214
.... the directors said what their influences were, including those mentioned anime movies. You should watch ghost in the shell and realise it is an animated FILM. Some of the most realistic animated scenes. Before The Matrix came out non animated movies couldn't come close to achieving some of the things GiTS and Akira achieved. This is what was said at the time. I think the majority of anime like that shonen shit is shit, but don't group it all together because you end up sounding like a retard.

The Matrix is like Terminator 2 and Jurassic park, it never gets old.

>>4950174
Far from obscure :/

This thread should be archived

http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/main.php?mode=submit
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>>4950174
>Akira
>Ninja Scroll
>obscure

11 or 12

>>4950463
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Why?

I was 10 and thought it was totally fucking badass.

I still do.

>>4950167
the movie wasn't set in reality. it was green because of the matrix code being in green everywhere == everything being made up of the codes color. they had to differentiate the Matrix from the real worlds mostly blue tint.

13. i still have the poster from the movie.
kungfu and guns, fuck year.

>>4950417
I wasn't, I love GiTS, Akira, Ninja Scroll and a bunch of other animes(I'll even admit I'm a bit of a weeaboo), but animation in any form, even 3D(unless photorealistic is achieved correctly, which it still hasn't blue furries is not photorealistic, so INB4 AVATAD), will never equal the feeling of seeing real people do things, for the same reasons puppets and practical effects will always be more interesting than CGI. Look at one of things that ruined Reloaded: excessive use of lazy, unrealistic model CGI.

>>4950551
>blue furries is not photorealistic, so INB4 AVATAD

Fuck you a million times

http://www.whatisthematrix.com

Anybody go here when they were a kid to poke around and figure out WHAT THE MATRIX WAS OMG? !

>>4950551
If you really were a bit of a weaboo, you'd now that the plural of anime is anime.

>>4950601
holy FUCK, they still run that www. i remember for my "website" i made back in the day i made this shitty animation. silly self made isp pages back in the day, shit was so cash.

>>4950615
FUCK YOU A GOOGOLPLEX TIMES.

>>4950551
Funny, because I find that real people will never be able to achieve what characters in animation can do. CGI action, admittedly, tends to feel light and you don't feel the force behind it. But I get the same feeling of the actors needing to hold back in live action films as well. While animation can be free and wild and have no real restrictions. But that's just my opinion.

12, Watched it on TNT, managed to by a DVD copy, wore out the DVD, bought it 2 more times. Shit was amazing, still is.

I was about 15 or 16, watching it on TV. Never saw it in theaters or anything, but never heard much about it either.

The twist was brilliant, and the action enthralling.