| | Matrix DVD (16 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Warner Store DVDs, Warner Theatrical Movies, Action Videos, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Martial Arts, Futuristic, Future/Futuristic Worlds, Kung Fu, AFI Top 100 Thrills, Special Effects, Philosophy | | Starring | Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Julian Arahanga, Marcus Chong, Matt Doran, Belinda McClory, Anthony Ray Parker | | Director | Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | | Composer | Don Davis | | Director of Photography | Bill Pope | | Editor | Zach Staenberg | | Fight Choreographer | Yuen Woo-ping | | Producer | Joel Silver | | Production Designer | Owen Paterson | | Screenwriter | Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski | | Sound Effects Editor | Dane Davis | | Visual Effects Supervisor | John Gaeta |
This 136 minute feature film is a special edition DVD star ring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburn, and Carrie-Anne Moss. An imaginative hybrid of action, kung fu, and science fiction, THE MATRIX is a hyperkinetic, mind-bending, and visionary spectacle. Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a disaffected computer hacker seeking the answer to the question, "What is the Matrix?" His search leads him to the elusive Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who begins to enlighten Neo about the illusions of his so-called reality. In accepting the answer Morpheus provides, Neo is hurled into a futuristic world where old realities are shattered, and he must fight for his life, and the future of humanity, against a dangerous group of inhuman government agents. With THE MATRIX, the Wachowskis have established themselves as innovative filmmakers who push the boundaries of live-action films. Like the groundbreaking STAR WARS, THE MATRIX (also the first film of a trilogy) showcases a unique visual style, one the Wachowskis achieved through an array of techniques and digital effects, some never before seen in mainstream Hollywood films. Although computer morphing technology had been used before in films such as THE ABYSS and TERMINATOR 2, the Wachowskis were the first to use "bullet time," a time-bending digital effect that utilizes both computer-generated imagery and still photography.
The film itself is a complex story that aspires to mythology, focusing on a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) who searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He finds his answer with a group of strangers led by the charismatic Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). What they encounter in confronting that truth makes for a lightning-paced, eye-popping thrill ride of a movie. Packed with stunning fight scenes (choreographed by accomplished Hong Kong director Yuen Wo-Ping), astonishing visual effects, quotable lines, and a terrific supporting cast (led by Carrie-Anne Moss, in her first major Hollywood film), THE MATRIX is a bold triumph that raises the bar for all science fiction films. Theatrical release date: April 2, 1999.
THE MATRIX won three Academy Awards: Achievement in Film Editing, Sound, and Visual Effects (beating out STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE). In each category, the winners quoted a line from the film.
The Wachowski brothers got their start at Marvel Comics, where they wrote dialogue for Clive Barker's HELLRAISER.
The official website, www.whatisthematrix.com, features a revolving showcase of comic book writers.
The actors initially thought combat training would take a few weeks. They eventually trained for more than five months (October 1997-March 1998), primarily because the actors and the Wachowskis wanted to limit the use of stunt doubles in the picture; the directors wanted the audience to see that the actual actors were performing the stunts.
Each actor had their own kung fu master on the set.
Neo is an anagram for "One."
The Wachowskis named Neo's alter ego Thomas, for the biblical Doubting Thomas.
SIMULACRA AND SIMULATION, Jean Baudrillard's theoretical text concerning culture, reality, and simulation, is the title of the book Neo uses to keep his contraband.
Carrie-Anne Moss sprained her ankle during the filming of the federal lobby scene but told no one at the time, even though she was unable to walk the next day.
Moss appeared in the 1993 television show MATRIX, about a hit man working for the underworld.
A musical theater piece by the Live Bait Theater group in Chicago (the Wachowski brothers' hometown) called NEO: A MATRIX MUSICAL ran in May 2000.
Producer Joel Silver called THE MATRIX "the first film of the new millennium."
Talking about the making of the film, Fishburne compared the brothers Wachowski to the Brothers Grimm in their ability to tell fairy tales.
Weapons expert Rock Galotti taught the cast how to realistically hold and shoot all the weapons in the film. Matrix Quotes/Excerpts: "What is the Matrix?"--Neo (Keanu Reeves) to Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss)
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."--Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) to Neo
"I know kung fu."--Neo to Morpheus and Tank (Marcus Chong)
"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"--Morpheus to Neo
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure."--Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) to Morpheus
"The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."--Morpheus to Neo
"The answer is out there, Neo, it's looking for you. And it will find you, if you want it to."--Trinity to Neo
"Welcome to the real world."--Morpheus to Neo
"Whoa."--Neo upon seeing Morpheus make a gravity-defying leap Matrix Reviews: "...Clever....This virtual-reality saga takes advantage of Reeves' sometimes endearingly boyish personality..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "...THE MATRIX is a visually dazzling cyberadventure, full of kinetic excitement....It's great looking, both in its design and in the kinetic energy that powers it. It uses flawlessly integrated special effects and animation to visualize regions of cyberspace..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...A feast of unexpected fidgets and perspectives, punctuated by trademark overhead shots and teasing detail and detour....THE MATRIX is a wonderland of tricks and stunts..."
-- Philip Strick, Sight and Sound "...THE MATRIX soars with its feet in the air..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...A breathtaking rollercoaster ride..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
-- Holly Gallo, Premiere Matrix Movie Review Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Perfect
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Submitted by Stefano (Italy)
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The Most Inteligent Sci Fi Movie
- I like this movie, The Matrix can make the feeling that all us is living dream world. Great Perfomance of Reeves, Lawrence and Hugo Weaving. The matrix is a excellent and cleaver movie, never before i saw aother with the effects like this, dodge the bullets, jumping, loading programs, etc.
Submitted by pedro_moronta (Moronta, Dominican Republic)
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The Matrix is a really good movie. I have probably seen it over 10 times and it still never gets old. The whole cast gave good performances especially Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne. I also liked the whole story line to the movie. It's very different and a whole new concept for movies released from recent years. So go out and buy this movie immediately and add it to your dvd collection. You'll have a good time watching it. I know I did.
Submitted by AJAY204182 (East Hanover, NJ, USA)
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Its a great movie. You'll watch it over & over. there alot of boring movies out there. If dont want to take a chance & get a bad movie, great rent or buy this one.
Submitted by Lee (Alabama)
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After reading several reviews about the movie (both critics and regular film-goers, I've finally decided to stop hiding, sit down and seriously consider the Matrix. Okay, in order to make this as fair as I can, I will consider three basic areas of the movie that movie critics and we, the people, look at: the script, the acting, and the story line. First, the script. Honestly, I think that the "average" person would not be able to fully understand the Matrix. I mean, it's really not that difficult for us to comprehend, but we don't like having to understand a movie. We like to be spoon-fed plot lines. However, to me, I like the fact that The Matrix forces us to think and put two and two together. So, all and all, I would give the script a B average rating. Next, the acting. Now...let's be honest, you have to give these guys credit for turning themselves into emotionless robots. Even at the end when Trinity is confessing her love for Neo. There are sentinels not even thirty feet from her location, and she is just totally fixated on Neo's dead body. Most notably is Hugo Weaving. Watching this guy's acting, it's like he studied Terminator for hours to get the fluid, calm and collected movements that his character, Agent Smith, so vibrantly portrays. Overall, the acting is simply weak, and there is really no way of getting over that. Rating for acting, C-. Now, we come to the story line. Now, of course we've seen Human v. Machine movies before in the past (Terminator in 1984), but there's something unique in the Matrix that these other machine movies lack, and that's the philosophy. Now, it's the philosophy of Descartes and Russell which differentiates this movie from all the others. It makes us question whether we really are awake or sleeping. We can NEVER truly know the answer to that dilemma, but we have what Russell calls "good reason" to believe that we're not sleeping. So, the interjection of philosophy into the story line forces me to give it a B+ rating (not to mention, my partiality to philosophy. If this, in any way, makes you question the true validity of this review, immediately stop reading it.) But, taken altogether, it's still only a basic martial arts movie with nothing to make it stand alone but the philosophy. Therefore, I honestly must give this movie 3 stars, one for the effort and the other two for the philosophy. Thank you.
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Matrix DVD Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes Footage
Featurette -
1. HBO FIRST LOOK: MAKING THE MATRIX
2. WHAT IS BULLET TIME?
3. WHAT IS THE CONCEPT?
Audio Commentary -
1. Carrie-Anne Moss - Star, Zach Staenberg - Editor, John Gaeta - Visual Effects Supervisor
2. Don Davis - Composer
Isolated Music Score
Trailers -
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. Bonus Trailers
Interactive Features:
Hidden Features -
1. TAKE THE RED PILL
Pop-up -
1. FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT to Nine Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes
DVD-ROM Features: (PC Only)
Screenplay/Storyboard Access
Interactive Games -
1. ARE YOU "THE ONE"? Trivia Challenge
Weblinks
Screensaver
Chat Links
Additional Text -
1. "From Script to Screen" (Comic-Book Based Films Retrospective)
2. "Everybody Loves Kung-Fu Fighting!" (Martial Arts Retrospective)
3. "Infinity and Beyond!" (Science-Fiction Films Retrospective)
News Articles -
1. "A Hacker's Haunting Vision of Beauty" - New York Times
2. "If the Cityscape is only a Dream" - New York Times
3. "Metaphysics" - Time Magazine
4. "Maximizing THE MATRIX" - Newsweek Magazine
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In M. Night Shyamalan's THE SIXTH SENSE, Bruce Willis plays Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a successful Philadelphia child psychologist who is haunted by the sudden reappearance and suicide of a former patient. Months later Dr. Crowe encounters Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a troubled, withdrawn young boy who bears a striking similarity to his earlier patient. Dr. Crowe is compelled to help Cole, not only for the boy's sake, but for his own redemption. As Dr. Crowe struggles to determine what torments Cole, he must also come to terms with his increasingly distant relationship to his wife (Olivia Williams). Meanwhile, Cole is unable to describe the horrible things he sees even to his worried mother (Toni Collette). The scene where Cole finally tells Dr. Crowe about his supernatural secret is one of the 1990s most quoted and well-known cinematic moments.
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| | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me DVD (1999) Widescreen
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In his second screen adventure, groovy superspy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) returns to 1969, where one after another hilarious gag is worked into a silly, stumbling, knee-slapping plot. This time around, Austin Powers' arch-nemesis Dr. Evil (also Myers) is joined by a midget-sized clone of himself, Mini-Me (Verne Troyer). Having successfully stolen Austin's "mojo" (his libido), Dr. Evil can concentrate on his ultimate mission of destroying the world. Meanwhile, Austin, with the help of gorgeous agent Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), must now not only contend with Dr. Evil, but also the small but vicious Mini-Me. Also in this installment, Evil's son, Scott (Seth Green), finds out who his mother is, and Mike Myers stars as a third character--rotund and truly disgusting Scotsman Fat Bastard. More raucous fun in the spirit of its 1997 smash predecessor, AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME once again thrills audiences with its inexhaustible humor.
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| | Saving Private Ryan DVD (1998) Widescreen; Limited Edition; Special Edition
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Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in America, where she is grieving the unimaginable loss of her three other sons to the war. The first unforgettable 20 minutes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN realistically and horrifically depicts the Normandy invasion as Miller. his second-in-command, Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore), and the others in the unit land at Omaha Beach. Before the film began shooting, Hanks and the actors in his squad went through a one-week boot camp in the woods. All the actors, except Hanks, wanted to quit, but Hanks rallied their spirits by reminding them of the incredible tribulations endured by the real veterans of World War II. Production designer Tom Sanders found a beach in Ireland that perfectly matched the landscape of Normandy's. Spielberg gave great credit to the Irish army who helped re-create the Omaha Beach scenes.
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| | Samurai 2 - Duel At Ichijoji Temple DVD (1955) Subtitled
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In Part Two, Musashi learns to control his violent impulses under the guidance of the Yoshioka samurai school. Unfortunately, as he is learning to use his sword in a more thoughtful way, his classmates transform into violent thugs and the school falls apart. While Akemi, Miyamoto's love, hangs on to him, he also finds love and respect in Yoshino, a courtesan in a house of pleasure. Both women, however, must stand by as the brave warrior takes on eighty samurai guided by the mysterious Kojiro.
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Part Three finds Musashi reflecting on his place in the world after winning sixty duels and becoming the stuff of legend across Japan. His young enemy, Kojiro, continues to pursue him, however. While Musashi regrets the death he has caused during his travels and intends to become a farmer, Kojiro thirsts for more and learns the way of the Shogun. The two enemies finally get the chance to meet and settle their score on the small island of Ganryu.
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In director Samuel Fuller's pure pulp classic, Kelly, a former prostitute, hoping to escape her brutalizing big-city life by moving to a small town, discovers even more depravity in her new, supposedly sanitized environment. When she discovers a shocking murder scene, the townspeople are quick to make accusations based on her past.
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Samuel Fuller's honest, visionary pulp film uses an insane asylum as a metaphor for American society. The inmates include a black man who thinks he's a white supremacist, a Korean War Vet who thinks he's a Civil War Confederate general, and a nuclear physicist who has reverted to childhood. This microcosm, which Fuller created in 1963, has lost none of its force over time. In addition, the film's treatment of journalistic hubris foreshadows the contemporary problem of media becoming corrupted by its compliant association with governmental elites. In SHOCK CORRIDOR, a journalist (Peter Breck) hoping to get a scoop on a murder suspect has himself committed to a mental institution where the inmates have information on the culprit. As the film unfolds, the purity of the hero's mission is undercut by his own monomaniacal ego. Things go terribly awry, and although he gets his story, he pays a high price for his success.
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| | Barbershop DVD (2002) Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled
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Tim Story's BARBERSHOP is a lighthearted, crowd-pleasing romp that takes place over the course of one day in and around a south side Chicago barbershop. The owner of the struggling establishment, Calvin (Ice Cube), presides over his raucous staff like his father and grandfather did before him. There's the aging, politically incorrect Eddie (a show-stealing Cedric the Entertainer), the pretentious Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas), the ex-con Ricky (Michael Ealy), the fiery Terri (Eve), the white, unappreciated Isaac (Troy Garity), and the poetry-loving Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze). As the local police search for the criminals who stole an ATM from the deli across the street (the hysterically pathetic Anthony Anderson and Lahmard Tate), Calvin contemplates selling the barbershop to a menacing loan shark (Keith David). When it appears that a deal has been made, Calvin realizes the error of his ways and tries to rectify the situation before it's too late.
With BARBERSHOP, Ice Cube is well on his way to establishing another cinematic franchise (following in the steps of the FRIDAY series). Using the universally identifiable backdrop of a barbershop, the film bounces between drama and action and comedy with easy assurance. If ever there was a film that deserved a sequel, this is it.
This top box office film features the story of a barber who sells the shop he inherited from his father, only to discover just how important it is to him, and just how far he'll go to get it back. Stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas Eve and Cedric the Entertainer. Special features include 4 behind-the-scenes featurettes, audio commentary, deleted scenes, bloopers and outtakes, a Barber school interactive game, "Trade it All" music video with Fabolous, featuring P. Diddy and Jagged Edge, more.
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| | Mummy Maniac DVD (2007) Widescreen; Subtitled
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Egyptian mummies have provided horror film directors with a rich vein of material over the years. MUMMY MANIAC takes the concept in a different direction, with a story based around a serial killer who gets a bizarre kick out of swaddling his victims in bandages and mummifying them.
Inspired by true events, this film presents the ultimate serial killer who captures his victims and wraps them up like mummies.
| | Mozart Concert In St. George Abbey DVD (2007) DTS Sound
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