Official 25th anniversary poster for "The Matrix", returning to theaters September 19 and 22.

As an out of work union filmmaker, unless you want the film industry to die, please don’t pay for this. It encourages studios to stop making new content, simply rereleasing their old content. The film industry is hanging on by a thread as it is right now. Many of us are going to leave to start new careers FAR too late in life to be taken seriously.

I'm just here to say I appreciate your insight.
- No problem. Thanks for your compassion. My colleagues and I sincerely appreciate it.
Funny how people say this, then the moment an original movie comes out they ignore or shit on it. Disney is an example, their last 4 or 5 original animated movies have flopped, meanwhile sequels are raking in the cash. It's no wonder studios go that way. People shit all over Disney's original releases this past year.
- I think you’re conflating two different parties of people. I LOVE good content. There hasn’t been much good content released in a decade.
  Did you see Free Guy? That wasn’t bad at all.
  
  Dune was pretty good. They seemed to get out of Villanueve’s way to let him tell the story how he saw fit. They were a rare, well-made, nearly unanimously agreed-upon good series of movies.
  
  IMO, it’s Disney funding nepotism in that case. Rather than hiring a creative genius (like a David Fincher or Alfonso Cuaron), they prefer to consider someone that ticks their identity politics focus group numbers BEFORE they think about that director’s talent.
  
  If they hired talented directors rather than their buddies and gave them the freedom of CREATIVE CONTROL (like they would give someone like Spielberg or another auteur) they might be shocked at how much better the content is. But the reality is: the studios make nepotistic hires above the line and, at every single turn, micromanage, withhold funding, and focus-group the production into a stiff, lifeless PC representation of their corporate identity. Marvel/Disney and Netflix are ESPECIALLY guilty of this. Seen that one with Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, and The Rock? What the fuck was that? It was like a whole movie of stupid cameos and dumbass plot twists/plot holes. It felt like it was written by a studio head.
  
  Controversy is actively avoided…and controversy/doing unconventional things is the LIFEBLOOD of good content.
I understand your point, but for most of the year more than half of every cinema screens are showing marvel/disney trash that even your average movie goer is sick of. Going to one of two screenings of an old, actually good movie isn't going to make or break the industry.
- Do what you want, brother.
  
  The industry is broken. The marvel shit and allowing the studio heads to deeply involve themselves in the creative process through nepotism and ego are what brought us here.
  
  They don’t even care if the content is good anymore. They have insurance. I worked on Madame Webb and got the sense that they knew it was going to bomb. They have stockpiles of the good stuff to fall back on if they get desperate for money.
  
  The Matrix was made in a time that will never happen again.
  
  Anyway, it is my opinion that going to see this movie actively encourages the film industry to continue their fall into mediocrity unchecked. If one dislikes the super hero shit, don’t go see anything until they put out a new movie. Thats just my advice. Again. Do whatever you want…
I haven't paid for movies in about 6 years now. Literally nothing of interest. I have basically banned all forms of corpo media as a result of their lazyness and garbage. I'm doing my part
- I don't think you really grasped his point.
- When streaming began, I was screaming from the rooftops that we should take the failure of the music industry as a cautionary tale against streaming services. My solution was a decentralized streaming platform that charges users a monthly fee and pays content creators fairly by dividing total viewing time per month.
  
  Since those greedy assholes couldn’t be bothered to listen and have instead moved to the subscription model, competing with massive warchests of licensed-content rather than making any new content, I say fuck em. Pirate it if you will. Netflix and the 500 other walled-gardens have fragmented their own content into irrelevancy.
  
  I say we let the content compete on the open market instead of forcing users to make allegiances with a handful of gatekeepers.

My kids are 11 and 9 and have no idea what the Matrix is. I feel like this is targeted at me.

It might be a little too violent for the 9 year old. Especially the deaths of Switch, Apoc, and Mouse. "Not like this" his hard.

Unfortunately, your kids can't be told what the Matrix is. They have to see it for themselves.
- Leaps off a tall building
We have 8 and 10 and we have just been thinking that maybe the 10 year old could handle it. Sadly the 8 year old is really sensitive so no time soon.
- 10 years old is entirely too young for this film. Mature 13-14 year old is definitely the earliest anyone should watch this.

Great movie. Wonder if they'll make a sequel someday.

I hate my local theater because they never participate in this stuff but they're still playing Twisters which has been available on VOD for weeks now.

Edit

For the record I'm not knocking the quality of Twisters. I thought it was a pretty good summer blockbuster. I'm more knocking the quality of my theaters programming choices, playing movies to empty rooms while never doing special events.

Man, that movie sucked so hard. It was extremely disappointing.
- I really enjoyed it, saw it twice. was a classic summer blockbuster with good actors and the CGI for the storms was insane and really well done
- It was significantly better than the original film at the very least. Both of them were stupid but at least the new one didn't make me hate the main character the whole time.
It's a good thing that they aren't trying to cash grab you

I just got The Art of the Matrix in the mail the other day. I was/still am obsessed with this movie/series.

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Maybe. But at least they're milking a very good cow this time rather than an inbred goat (another sequel).
- Another? Was there more than one film?
- True. The latest one was absolutely awful
- Well, they already did that not too long ago. So seeing them do this is more like "well, the sequel didn't work, what else can we do to milk this even more?"
  
  Is there a plan to show all of them in this anniversary? Because the first one on its own is not quite enough, I feel. It opens the story of the movies that follow.