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Did we all watch the same matrix.
The thing about the matrix is that the first time you watch it
is what counts... what did you get from the first time.
Where did you watch i.e cinema... video... dvd.
What year... Why did you watch it...

Now if we all watch a different matrix in the sense that your location and setting meant it means something different for you.

So tell us about your first time.

Year 2001, TV.

At the time I wan't a movie fan, as I am now, and I was only 13-4. I didn't know anything about the matrix, never watched any trailer etc.

But one day I saw a custom trailer created by the channel that was going to show it. I liked it veeeery much and I was looking forward to watch the film. The day has come, I watched it, and immediately 'The Matrix' became my favourite film. One week later a PC magazine I bought had a demo for the game 'Max Payne' and I had a great time with it, with the bullet-time and such.

Maybe answering the last question isn't a good idea.

I saw them all in the theater a few weeks after they opened. I'm not the first in line type. That must be for Blue Pills.

The advertising for the 1st indicated it was sci-fi and had something to do with computers so that was enough to make me pop for it, since I'm into both. I am really not a movie fan I can usually wait 'til they come on cable. But this sounded interesting enough. I wasn't disappointed. I went and saw The Matrix again a couple of weeks later. That is extremely unusual for me.

So I had to see the other two in the theater shortly after they came out.

Since I have read occult stuff and suspected the system worked on reincarnation before The Matrix came out I sat up and took notice when Morpheus started talking about a man being reborn. Now you have to look at The Exorcist and Ghost to consider the possibility of decarnate beings without bodies moving physical objects. Now if all human beings reincarnate that means that each of us is really a ghost inhabiting a shell at the moment. If a ghost without a body can move a physical object, why can't a ghost inhabiting a body move that object without touching it. Could a sufficiently advanced and powerful soul levitate his own body like Jesus "walking" on water?

Could this relate to what is called the Ki or Lifeforce?

The importance of this question... Is that it will show why we relate to the film as we did.

What year you watched it.
What format.
When did you watch the other films.
Are you one of those people who had a video with a glitch at
the glitch scene.
The matrix and its effects on us is what is important.

I hope you all play apart. People that watched the film in the cinema may have got a totallly different feel for the matrix.
If you watched it during the day and walked out to the bright sun would you not feel like you were indeed already in the matrix.

Lets do this....
NEXT

Sorry for the double post but just realised I have not put my expierance down.

I first watched it in 1999 on pirate video. I had seen the trailers on TV and
had the film on my action item list. Out of the blue a friend brought me the pirate copy
and later that night I watched it the first time. I knew I had to watch it again. But in all
honesty, I kept asking myself did I just watch the best movie in my life. Is this science fiction or is this science fact. I did not watch it again until about five months later, I just felt I was not ready to see what this movie was telling me. I watched revolutions last year
and cried at the end, could not help myself.

I have always being a sci-fi fan.
Oh please could you all add the character you most identify with.

With the matrix I felt like Neo... Things like living alone, sitting at computer
curiousity, breaking rules were all things I identified with. Depression has
being my longest friend. True and honest always there, dependable.
Apart from that all my questions on life always led to the fact that life
is pretty pointless. The matrix gave me a chance to explore other ways
of looking at life...

If at the blue/red pill scene the movie gave the choice to the viewers to choose
a pill to continue watching I would have taken the red. Just seeing Trinity to
the wall dance, I knew sci fi had moved into a whole new arena.

Lets all be honest about our feelings we have nothing to lose but a world to gain.
So who is next?

Yeah Neo me too. For the same reasons as yours. I want to add that I saw Reloaded and Revolutions at cinema but I didn't understand the messages that were carrying and thought that the Matrix became just another franchice.

One day I did some search at the Internet for a site that would explain some of my matrix questions.. and I've found these forums. I immediately registered and I begun reading all of the great theories here.

The reason that I am here and I contribute to the site is YOU, people. With your posts I understood what the brothers try to say with these films, because of your posts I know love M2 & M3.

And sometimes I feel ashamed because I didn't get the 2 movies the first time I saw them.

P.S I think we know that story.. with the pirate DVD etc. I think vieome has already said that at a post of his.

Quote:

I have always being a sci-fi fan.

Did you read much sci-fi before seeing The Matrix?

psikey

Year 2003, TV.
Apparently I was the only one who hadn't seen it yet.
So I don't know if it was because of the Matrix trailers, but I've always had that matrix kinda splinter in my mind:

If you dream, and in that dream you dream of dreaming.. and the cycle goes on.. and what if you can't wake up, how would you know when you are awake?
.. anyways.

And when I saw the movies I became a crazy fan of the matrix, and I became obsessed with it heh...

Later on when I discovered this forum, I ran into AwakenedRadio, (which doesn't exist anymore)..
and I listened to it a lot even though my computer was too old to play Matrix online with.

I agree with Red Ghost, that a movie has much more influence at you if you watch it at night time or in the evening.

hi everyONE!
i watched the movie in the year 2000 in VCD.i first heard about this movie from my friends.after the exams i watched the movie,although i didn't understand the movie,i couldn't keep my mind of the movie because of the those fighting scenes and bullet timing.

then i saw M2 and M3 in theater the very first week they were out.but i didn't like them as i liked i first one until i read about 2 and 3 on this site.i never thought that these movies had such a deep meaning.

thank u guys for making me understand and freeing my mind.

14515 wrote:

hi everyONE! i watched the movie in the year 2000 in VCD.i first heard about this movie from my friends.after the exams i watched the movie,although i didn't understand the movie,i couldn't keep my mind of the movie because of the those fighting scenes and bullet timing. then i saw M2 and M3 in theater the very first week they were out.but i didn't like them as i liked i first one until i read about 2 and 3 on this site.i never thought that these movies had such a deep meaning. thank u guys for making me understand and freeing my mind.

Welcome to the matrix-explained forums! Thanx for sharing that!

i watched it in 1998, on a video, at night. and i was blowen away by the special and visual effects it was only when i watched for the second time did i get into the storyline.

cool

Neo1

Sorry did you mean 1999 ...
and where did you watch... who were you with.
Are you a sci fi fan. Do you work or study computing.


agame... what is your story this is your chance to say
more then a few words.. just tell us when you watched it...

when i first seen the matrix 1 when it came out on dvd it got me thinking about this world if it is an illusion and all hensing why i am on this website

Red Ghost wrote:

Neo1 Sorry did you mean 1999 ... and where did you watch... who were you with. Are you a sci fi fan. Do you work or study computing.

sorry it was a typo i did mean 1999, on my small tv and i watched by myself. i am i sci-fi fan, sci-fi is a genre that i appeals to me on an intellectual level as well as an entertaining one, plus i can also retale to it as well.

i did study computing, im webdesigner and graphic designer, but i did it just for fun.

cool i am a scifi fan 2

I like scifi but I am not a die hard fan.

And I study computer science!

cool