299 – The Matrix Resurrections

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

This week’s film has Joe and Chris on opposite sides of a divisive reception. The Matrix not only revolutionized genre filmmaking in 1999, but it resulted in a resounding Oscar success. Reception to its first two sequels in 2003 was decidedly unappreciative, but the franchise has received some critical reassessment in the two decades since. Enter 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections, a COVID-delayed and incredibly meta revisiting of The Wachowski’s science fiction world, this time with only Lana Wachowski at the helm. The last of Warner Bros.’ films to be released simultaneously in theaters and online during the pandemic, Resurrections nearly cracked craft categories, but its timing proved unfortunate.

This episode, we talk about Oscars relationship to awarding franchises and overlooking later installments. We also talk about our opposing points of view on the film, how the film incorporates new cast members as stand-ins for the original lineup, and the film’s bold meta elements.

Topics also include the late 2021 box office, gay villainy, and doomscrolling.

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Heck.
0:17.0	And Chris!
0:18.0	And Chris! I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poohop. From the door, the door moves on the side.
0:45.0	Feed your head.
0:47.0	Keep your head.
0:51.0	Keep your head. After all these years, to be going back to where it all started, back to the Matrix.
0:59.0	After all these years, to be going back to where it all started. Back to the Matrix.
1:05.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that the French call the best film of the decade.
1:12.0	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about this. French Call the Best Film of the Decade.
1:13.0	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz,
1:14.6	we'll be talking about a different movie
1:16.0	that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations,
1:19.5	but for some reason or another it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy.
1:26.4	I am your host Chris File and I'm here as always with my evil therapist mastermind Joe Reed.
1:33.0	Tell me what you think about your mother bored.
1:38.0	What? Your motherboard?
1:40.0	It's the oldest joke in the book, Chris.
1:42.0	It's a computer joke about the word mother.
1:45.0	It's a joke about how therapists ask you to tell them about their mother, and also the fact that a
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