>The Matrix came out 25 years ago/quarter of a century ago
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>The Matrix came out 25 years ago/quarter of a century ago
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oddly it looks better than the majority of movies being made in [current year]
Damn really puts it into perspective
Still can’t believe it is [current year] and we don’t have a [franchise] movie
For all its sci-fi trappings a lot of the matrix was just a wuxia movie using traditional wire work and just doing it live in front of a camera. Even the bullet time was based on live photography. So much of it looks real because it is.
There's still a shitload of digital effects and some of it actually looks a little dodgy in places but in general it holds up better than the sequels or a lot of contemporary films because it doesn't just rely on digital effects for fricking everything. It's not all greenscreen and CGI stunt doubles
You're right and that's because CGI was still kind of in its infancy back in the 90s, so CGI back then was used to enhance practical effects instead of being used to outright replace practical effects. So yeah, a lot of the film looks real because a lot of the film IS real and that's why The Matrix still looks good even to this day (like you said).
And there's still no definitive home video release.
How so?
>dvd
too beige
>blu ray
too green
>4k
cyan raped
But I've got the VHS.
I just watched it on prime 1080p bluray quality and it's not even green it's like the theatrical release
the 4k release is still better than anything we've had for decades
It's the worst one yet. Some shots look like an improvement but there's this nasty cyan shit in more than half the movie.
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/z9ldAgl5FvaMpT9F
What compels a studio to keep fricking with the colors this much over and over again? Is it the wachowskis themselves doing this from their troony induced delusions?
>re-release movie
it doesn’t have the filter this time!
>need to make more money
>re-re-release movie
b-but I already bought the re-relea—
>but it’s in 16:10 this time!
…
>and now it’s green!
They’re going to do it again and it will still sell because it’s a good movie
>>dvd
>too beige
Colorwise the OG dvd would probably be the most tolerable for me if it weren't for all the bizarre flattened contrast shit that's also going on.
>the film scan
fun fact: you can see it get color corrected away from a greenish tint in the transition between the title sequence and the cop's flashlight
based
no more shitty colorgrading
how the frick do you even get your hands on a 35milly print tho?
I don't know if the guy who did the scan ever said explicitly where he got it from but based on the damage it's pretty clearly a film set from an old theater that some worker snuck off with after screenings of the movie came to a close. Presumably the guy who sold it to him had been sitting on it for years and years.
True, but you can find a scan of the original print on russian trackers.
The original theater release doesn’t have the uniform green look that the other ones have, nor is it as blue as in the DVD release. In many ways the original color timing just looks more conventional, very late 90’s, though the “Matrix” green is so iconic at this point it looks off without it.
Or did it come out a few centuries from now???
>the 1980s was 70 years ago
>we are closer to 2029 than we are to 1980
fell old yeti
My dad really liked this movie a lot before he died in 2000 and didnt get to witness 9/11
Dang shame it never had any sequels.
blew my mind in high school. i still love it
I just watched this on one of my recent mushroom movie trips. I have the DVD, played on a PS3 hooked up to an LG OLED TV. I'm not sure what kind of upgrading was going on with each device. It looked pretty good but maybe a little flat like the other anons are saying.
As far as the movie itself goes there have been a few that hit me as particularly well made and this is one. Just the pacing and the script was nice and tight. It was kind of jarring but kind of cool on the shrooms when it'd switch from the blue real to green matrix. I liked this guy's getup.
What the frick
I know that, but The Matrix is a timelessly good movie. We will grow old, but it will not grow old. Also, fricking ~~*Captcha*~~ is giving me hell today.