After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic aspects.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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A Glitch in the Matrix
Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for through archival footage, compelling interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a collection of cases from some of our most iconoclastic figures in contemporary culture.
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The Matrix Revisited
The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.
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Making ‘Enter the Matrix’
A look at Enter the Matrix: The game’s story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet, or just fight with lots of guns.
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The Matrix Recalibrated
The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us how they were affected by the deaths of Gloria Foster and Aaliyah, and also delve into the making of the visual effects that takes up a lot of screen time. Written by Rhyl Donnelly
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Making ‘The Matrix’
A promotional making-of documentary for the film Matrix, The (1999) that devotes its time to explaining the digital and practical effects contained in the film. This is very interesting, seeing as how they’re giving away the cinematic secrets that they created solely for the this movie, that have now been spoofed and referenced in countless other films.
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The Matrix: What Is Bullet-Time?
Special Effects wizard John Gaeta demonstrates how the “Bullet-Time” effects were created for the film Matrix, The (1999).
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Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
An hour long discussion on the philosophical concepts that inspired, and are presented in the trilogy. This is one of the two feature-length documentaries on disc number 8 of the 10-Disc Ultimate Set.
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The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
This thirty-minute documentary follows the Wachowski sisters and the film’s crew through production on the film’s famed highway chase sequence. We get interviews with the visual effects supervisors, the stunt coordinators and even are taken through aspects of pre-production and planning for the scene. Then the documentary moves into production, the scariest aspect of which is certainly Carrie Anne-Moss trying to learn to ride a motorcycle good enough to do so safely without helmet for the scene. We also watch as the stretch of freeway used in the film is being built.
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The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
The making of The Matrix Reloaded: Go to the middle movie’s furthest reaches via five documentary paths revealing 21 featurettes.