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The Matrix is my favourite film of all time, it's a commentary on the human condition and one's purpose in life, but it's not a timeless film. It's almost explicitly about cultural stagnation and the veiling of authoritarianism as enabled by the context of a newly encroaching digital age. I would personally call the fight scenes fantastic, but I see them through the lens of 20 odd years ago when I had quite literally never seen anything like it before.
I think it struggles now with something that Halo 1 struggles with - It pushed its medium beyond the limits and borderline invented a new genre. But now that people have experienced the thousands of films(/games) that took that and built on it, people don't get the hype and will say it looks tired and overdone, in the context of today.
Agreed and very well put. I think it was revolutionary both in content and context, but has definitely been battered by time and the numerous other forms of media that took some cues and inspiration from it. That said, I think it still holds up very well.
I very much agree, and would still 100% recommend people watch it now. There are many timeless parts to it.
But there is an inescapable tie to the times - rotary phones, dial-up noises, talk about the 90s specifically, cubicle offices, 'hardlines', alarm clocks. I think even these were largely important and great parts of the film, but I could see how someone who knows nothing of that era might not "get it" quite so easily.
Yeah I was refraining from calling it a period piece of sorts, but the things you just brought up here I think I can confidently call it that.