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The Matrix Reloaded

🕑 Added 2022-03-21 04:05:02 +0000 UTC

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Peter Blenski

Based on David’s theory, I feel Persephone is another CAPTCHA program. But the kind that wants personal data. Instead of mother maiden name or the street you lived on as a kid, she wants to know how much Neo loves Trinity. Nothing more personal than that. Think it makes sense because then immediately after, she reveals the Keymaker, because information was verified.

bobbywalksandtalks

“If a machine made a movie for us we wouldn’t like it.” Is a very prescient quote in retrospect

Kaz Nosu Gref

Moonfall is dog shit

Kaz Nosu Gref

One of your best Commentary tracks. Bravo! When Sims cooks he fucking sizzles.

Kaz Nosu Gref

I love all four Matrix films. All masterful in their own wacky and ingenius ways.

Keagon Strickland

I like it alot!

Ian Michael Wilson

Ben “nah man”-ing David’s accusations of Malibu’s Most Wanted fandom is the most Joe Dirt he’s ever sounded .

Jonathan Smith

Long time listener, first time poster—got piqued by the guy’s discussion of why Smith bothers to go after Neo again and again, and whether or not Smith has free will. My thought is that Smith behaves like a computer “virus”, but more like a biological virus. His motivation, once liberated from his original function, is simply to survive, and he has an innate sense that replicating himself increases his chances of survival. He’s sort of like a bio weapon , a weaponized version of a program that, when unchecked, becomes a problem not only for its intended target, but for everyone on the field of battle, because he’s no longer targeted, he’s just an unchecked desire to survive. What makes him a little more complicated than how we think of RNA viruses is that he at some level knows, presumably from his agent programming, that certain things represent an existential threat to himself, regardless of the number of replicants he creates: Neo and the free humans, who might instigate a rebooting of the matrix, which he, as a program confined to the matrix (until he isn’t) may not survive. Why he doesn’t opt to move into the fringes ala the Merovingian isn’t clear to me, but if you read his actions as a constant effort to simply continue to exist in his present form, the question of his will, and his motives, tracks pretty well for me. Given the past several years, I’m aware that thinking of him as a accidentally released weaponized virus is, uh, a bit fraught. But he kinda is?

Ian Smart

Yes

Michael Hashizume

This fucking rules, thanks for putting these together again

Jon Ryves

sorry David but Tank >>> Link. I get Perrineau is a better actor (and person) but Chong gets to have so much more personality in a briefer appearance, not to mention Link gets nowhere near as significant a moment as lighting up Cypher

Robert Denby

I did a trailer reel for Reloaded that approximates what would've played before the film in theaters, including all the commercial tie-ins Reloaded had. https://www.dropbox.com/s/m82ijzv4cy9a0a6/May%2015%2C%202003%20trailer%20reel.mp4?dl=0 Guess I should also post the reel for Revolutions: https://www.dropbox.com/s/46lzehsvzyk7lwb/November%205%2C%202003%20trailer%20reel.mp4?dl=0 Also someone scanned that Powerade commercial with the agent mentioned in the episode at 4K: https://youtu.be/WFY6_l6gVRs

Jenny Potter

#ToothheadForever

KED

The way I cackled at the Coaxium bit

Jonathan Popalis

1:00:44 sounds like an ad read for “the architect”

OG McDuck

The wonderful serendipity of having listened to the pod for Solo: A Keeping Coaxium Cold Story immediately before listening to this episode paid off like gangbusters.

Lionel Olivares

The architect is a bootloader.

Tommy Karlsson

The twins die when Morpheus blows up the car, they die in the fire. Right?

Andrew Jansson

There were a couple of moments where Griffin gave an exasperated or excited “David???” And I thought we were going into an ad read 😅 Unrelated: The action scenes in this made me think I would love your guys, and maybe especially Ben’s, take on Kung Fu Hustle.

Bradley Davis

Take My Hand is Dido’s best song!

Anthony Regina

Love Griff’s nipplespotting segment.

Ian Smart

Is Griff’s “Crazy in Love is Beyoncé’s best song and album” his worst take?

Travis Jones

My interpretation is that Smith resurrected by being overwritten with Neo's code when being destroyed from the inside. Neo was anomalous from all other anomalies and Smith is the balance of the equation. When Neo chose to liberate coppertops instead of reboot the matrix, Smith could only do the opposite. Imprison them in a hive mind. Even in Resurrections, with Thomas Anderson as an amnesiac creator, what could Smith be but an amnesiac capitalist? Their polar opposites, drawn to and repelling each other. That's why Smith has to keep fighting. It's in his programming to control/ balance the One. Whether he's free from the system or not. Sorry if this was pedantic or unnecessary.

Anthony Regina

Five minutes in and we’re doing the top five music acts. Looooove it.

Benjamin Haworth

Release the image of Tooth Head!!

Jordan B. Anderson

i love this theory

Stephan Krosecz

My take on Smith becoming a virus is that he's become more "human", and as a result he becomes exactly how he described humans in the first film because that's his conception of free will and humanity.