Hi Everyone,

If you watch Matrix again, does it feel like that movie is 14 yrs old?

I simply cannot accept that fact.

If i watch a movie from 2005, i tell myself that "this movie was made 6 yrs after Matrix, and why does it feel like this is much older?" Because you would assume the quality and concept would be much improved since a movie like Matrix had already come out?

Did Matrix set a high standard in people's mind? Maybe it could be just me.

Even Inception did not have that impact on me... to me Inception is a good movie made in 2009, and i'm okay with that. Just cannot say that same for Matrix, to me Matrix feels like a movie made in 2007 or something...

Im not addicted to it, i watched The Avatar, Shawshank Redemption, Lion King and few others much more than i watched Matrix, however i did feel like the story, concept, and overall presentation was good and yes i have bad things to say about it as well.

I don't know, for those who watched it recently or remember it... how do you feel about it? does it seems like a movie made 14 years ago? something before 9/11 something before the Y2K?

"I simply cannot Believe it" Hahaha.

Whats your thoughts about it?

The movies, I've found, tend to stay timeless. Certain films, like The Matrix trilogy are production designed to be hard to pin down to an era. That helps them feel new. Many of my favorite movies are from even before I was born and end up dated because of the cars in them, the clothing, etc. Movies that manage to avoid that trap tend to have a longer shelf life in pop-culture. I mean look at Star Wars - I was ten when that movie came out and it is still a HUGE buzz today.

The real kick in the soul is the process that begins when you discover some of your favorite music in the clearance bin at the dollar store. Initially you're like "SCORE!"... then, as it sinks in... the offense starts to build up until you find yourself drunk texting acquaintances at four AM to say "You know, Krokus but out some garbage after they hit, but "Headhunter" was a classic! How could Dollar General be selling it for a buck???"

What hurts even more is when you go back and find music you never even heard of in the bin and the stuff from your youth is long gone. When your childhood doesn't even merit the dollar bin? That's a sad day.

I think your looking at it the wrong way. Movies are art, and art is timeless. Their are tons of grate movies that came out before the matrix that seem as if they wear "ahead of their time" but their is no such thing when it comes to art. The matrix is similar to allot of movies... The one man with a destiny who saves humanity from some huge event, the only thing that changes is the theme. Most movie's have the same story's, hardly any one realizes it because the theme changes. I am only using this example because its blatantly easy to see, terminator vs the matrix. John Connor is neo, Arnold is Morpheus and trinity is john Connors mom. Inception dream world is the matrix. These story's are based off of one outline. They are all ways filled with the same masonic symbolism witch tells you who each character is. Almost as if they are the ritual plays you see when you are gaining your ranks in freemasonry.

Your one this site for a reason. Beware of these movies, they are made by company's that want nothing more then to brain wash you. They are the controlled by the elite. This is the real matrix duality.

Hey, I was just watching The Matrix last night. You are right, for some reason it does not feel like that old a movie.

I think Star Trek: The Next Generation is like this. When did that series begin, 1989? To me it doesn't seem nearly that old.

Then there are some movies that will always be timeless for me, but definitely show their age. The original Star Wars trilogy. Dune. But I can still get more immersed in those movies, even with their sometimes-immersion-breaking special effects , than I can in new movies that have special effects so advanced that they are difficult to tell apart from real life.

Getting old now I guess. But still don't look it, hah!

I honestly think a lot of the visceral impact with The Matrix came from two things..

1. It being something unique at the time
2. It being so close to Y2K with a March 1999 release.

I know a lot of people that took a new interest in anything close to computers because of Y2k so this movie hit that wave perfectly.

Matrix is to this day, is one of my absolute favorite movies. I remember seeing it when it came out and only seeing the action aspect as I was not even a teenager at the time. Then when I re-watched it a couple years back, my mind was blown by the true layers and meaning of the film. I agree with the above statement that it doesn't really fall into a genre and could be why it feels so new but personally I feel it made such an impact because the concept was something so bizarre at the time and to this day is still commonly referenced.

I just hope they don't do a new age spin on it with Zac Effron