Movies Of 1999: ‘The Matrix’

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What is The Matrix? Why, it’s a film that the matrix would make about the matrix, of course!

Welcome back to Nerdette Recaps with Peter Sagal! It’s the podcast where we rewatch movies and dissect them like the intense nerds we are. This time around, it’s all about the films of 1999.

And today, we’re breaking down The Matrix, a seminal film from the Wachowski siblings starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss.

Listen as Peter, Tricia and Greta break it down, and then join us next week for another iconic movie, The Blair Witch Project ... just in time for Halloween.

And don’t forget, we want to hear from you! Join the party and send us a voice recording about any of the movies we’re featuring. Just record yourself on your phone and send the audio file to [email protected].

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0:00.0	From WVEZ Chicago, this is Nerd at Recaps. I'm Greta Johnson.
0:07.3	I'm Trisha Bobita. And joining us, as always, is Peter Sagle.
0:11.6	Whoa.
0:14.7	So we're back. We're recapping movies from 1999. You might be wondering why 99. Mostly it was just that like we were looking through
0:23.3	90s movies and we were like, wow, a lot of stuff came out in this particular year. So we thought
0:29.4	it would be fun. Today we are recapping The Matrix, which for those of you who want to keep track,
0:34.2	came out March 31st, 1999.
0:38.4	Yes, it did.
0:44.7	And it's also an interesting movie to choose to start this off because it is explicitly set in 1999.
0:55.8	And at one point, of course, somebody, namely Agent Smith refers to it as the height of your civilization.
0:58.2	Thank you. Thank you very much.
0:59.0	I feel like that's a great opportunity for me to mention.
1:01.5	I felt like the over-enunciation in this film is extremely intense.
1:07.4	I don't know what you are talking about, Ms. Johnson. I used to do, I used to walk around and do
1:14.5	Agent Smith all the time. And in the intervening years, I have someone gotten rusty. But my wife and I have
1:20.1	been trying to polish up my Agent Smith impersonation. And we discovered something that if you
1:25.1	start doing Agent Smith and you don't focus on it, you start
1:29.7	doing the funny voice we attribute to our dog.
1:35.9	It's very similar is what I'm saying.
1:38.6	Is my dog a sentient program?
1:40.3	I don't have a dog.
1:41.5	It's possible.
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