This one small exchange of dialogue in The Matrix (1999) is incredible...

Agreed. I loved this movie as a kid, but honestly I think it still holds up now as an incredible film. Maybe the best of the decade?

And those sunglasses just on the nose with no stems.

For me, what glued me to the screen with *incredible* anticipation of what's about to happen next was when Mouse blasted to the mess hall of the ship with the words: "*Morpheus is fighting Neo*", and they all stormed out of there to watch it. It's an incredible audience moment, because in this moment of the film, you as a spectator, are right in the middle of uncovering what the buildup was and learning the actual merit of the movie. You learn rules of the world. And somewhere in the rules of this world, there are two characters, which are the pivotal points: A teacher who just found his best student, and the student, which - supposedly - is destined to beat him in his own teachings of the world. It's important that both of those characters were built up significantly by the movie itself to the highest proportions. This is the point where they do, and the second Mouse says his line, you know shit is going down. Important shit. That's why for me, those three seconds are the actual best scene in the entire movie. This is a scene where you *lean forward on the chair.* There's no greater feeling in cinematography other than lean forward on the chair.

Yea I really think the real hero of The Matrix movie is Fishburne. I don't think it's as successful without him.

Like Javier Bardem’s character in Dune. Prophet hype man.

One of the best casts. Smith and Cypher too. One feels like a simulation- the other fallible. Human.  Not like an innocent horse..

What is ‘real?’ How you define ‘real?’ If you’re talking about what you can smell, what you can taste, or touch, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. Credit the writing too, a master class performance of a very good script!

I think so too. He just elevates the whole movie, with every line of delivery spot on. Keanu is good but he was still a blank slate, while Carrie-Anne's Trinity is like a Morpheus-lite.

Hot Fuzz has this in spades, too. It's great!

Every movie in the Cornetto series is explained at the beginning of the film. Also instead of the protagonist learning a lesson or changing his ways, the movie ends with him remaining mostly the same. 

The pub names in The World's End also tell the story

I liked her getting him to accept a cookie before things moved on for him..

some of the best ambiguous endings are the ones that you don’t notice right away that it’s ambiguous. Total Recall is an amazing example that I didn’t know right away until I read a Verhoeven interview where discussed it. I like to think it’s all real but the ambiguity wonderfully spurs fun discussion

I think it's purposefully ambiguous, as there are hints throughout the film that point in both directions. That said, I lean more towards "it was real," because we see post-Rekall scenes in the movie that Quaid couldn't possibly have known about (since he wasn't there).

Anybody who says Arnold can’t act has to really watch that movie seriously. He sells naive Quaid, determined Quaid, helpful Hauser and smug ass Hauser all so beautifully  Even though Hauser doesn’t get as much screen time, this is a great example IMO of an actor pulling off dual roles in a movie  Also, this is my GOAT movie. I might be biased 

Or live a little and convince yourself and look at the other ambiguous side of it. Personally I can hand wave the picture of his love encounter as sedatives kicking in and half dreaming. Attempting to convince someone that their significant other is out to kill them to the point of not caring they're dead and doubling down by having the simulation runner appear and tell you it's a simulation and everything is wrong would be absolutely fucked for a company to do.

Same same! Me and my mates walked out of the cinema into the daylight and were just like... Whooaaaaa. quickly followed by, we have to wait how long before the sequel??

The choreography is phenomenal, but the thing that sets this movie apart is how much of it is actually being done by the actors themselves. They spent so much time training for this movie and learning this choreography. This let the Wachowskis go for long takes where we see the actors' faces. There are other movies that do this too, and once you see it, you can't not notice how many movies "cheat" their fights. For example, the most recent Matrix where the fight scenes were more or less the same quick cut/no face typical action movie slop to hide the fact that the more advanced stuff was being done by stunt performers. No disrespect to the stunt performers (or the fact that Keanu Reeves was in his 50s) but I was really let down by how visually unremarkable the fight scenes were.

Yeah I mean obviously it was a ground breaking movie in regards to visual effects but the writing is what really brings it all together. Just a truly incredible movie all around

That's also very interesting. Again, just a small bit of dialog that's seemingly a throwaway line but actually reveals a very important piece of the storyline

The interesting thing about that exchange is that the Oracle basically says "you already know what I'm going to tell you" and Neo is the one that says "that I'm not the one" basically signifying that he doesn't believe it and in that moment it's true. The entire scene is just a masterpiece

“What’s really going to cook your noodle is whether or not you would have knocked that over if I hadn’t said anything.” My favorite Oracle line, basically shows how she can manipulate the story how she likes

I’m still mad I only recently learned the programming joke about her making him take a cookie

Same! Come on op

Neo also uses a hollowed-out copy of "Simulacra and Simulation" to store his w****, and that book has so many elements that pop up in the movies. 

Doesn't that mean he's The Five? There are 10 kinds of people in the world...

It’s an amazing mix of western and eastern religions and philosophies, anime, Alice and wonderland, and so much more. I consider it nearly a perfect movie

I know kung fu

The Matrix is, to me, the absolute perfect action movie. Every actor f****** nailed their parts, the pacing is perfect, every scene has so much importance and gravity.

A lot of people give the trilogy shit, but that is one of my favorite Morpheus moments. Seeing it in theatres and then not knowing what would happen until Revolutions....Man!

Smith wasn’t wrong though. That’s the last reference to Thomas Anderson, when Neo fought back and escaped, IIRC.

When I was 18, my reaction to the whole "1999 was the peak of civilization" bit was like "yeah, cheeseballs, f*** you. My generation's comin' through, get out of our way. We'll show you 'peak of civilization.'" Now . . . yeah . . . f***.

It's my #1 favorite movie. I'm just smiling reading all these comments rn 🙂

The first?

I’ll matrix you

There is no back.

There’s not really a back bend, people only bend the back when they imitate the scene. It’s more of a backwards fall, since he does, in fact, land.