[School of Movies 2022]
The least-loved, most-hated, and in consequence least-explored of the Matrix saga finally gets the School of Movies treatment. The 1999 original is turned on its head here, resulting in a film that almost seems the inverse of everything that got us fired up in the first place. But it was a necessary refocusing in order to expand outwards from Morpheus' dogmatic vision of "Us vs. Them".
Philosophically this lands in a healthier place, even if so much of what we see feels mismanaged, awkward, stalling for time and sometimes downright annoying. We go all-out here to clear away the debris of the original conclusion and lay bare the depth of thought beneath.
Next week we close out with what might well be the last Matrix movie. Certainly the last steered by a Wachowski.
Guests:
Brenden Agnew @BLCAgnew of Cinapse
Victoria Luna B. Grieve: @VixenVVitch
Alexa Vargas @Plutoburns whose YouTube channel is here
Mackenzie Eastram @KenziePhoenix of Rainbow Connection @MuppetsPod and Video Game: The Movie: The Podcast @VGTMPodcast
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The Road to El Dorado
Withnail & I
Secret of NIMH / American Tail / Land Before Time
Mario Kart
Bound
Sing & Sing 2
Street Fighter
Akira
Hawkeye
The Matrix Resurrections
The Animatrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix
Avatar
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Titanic
The Ref
True Lies
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