Friday Morning Videos: THE MATRIX, ten years after

April 17th, 2009 at 07:13am Will Pfeifer

Hard to believe, but it was 10 years ago that THE MATRIX arrived in theaters. It’s become more than part of modern pop culture — it’s become a pop cultural cliche, with all those cool black outfits and bullet-time effects getting used and over-used in so many movies (including the two disappointing MATRIX sequels) that they lost most of the effectiveness they once had.

But you know what? That original MATRIX hit like a thunderbolt when it opened on April 2, 1999, changing the face of big-screen sci-fi (and making the eagerly anticipated PHANTOM MENACE, which opened not long after, looking pretty silly by comparison). And you know what else? That original MATRIX is still a great movie. Here’s the trailer they originally used to get us jazzed about it… 

And here’s the famous “dodge this” scene, where we first see Neo using his powers to move out of a bullet’s path.

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