Metal Mummy's Movie Meme

Fab idea from the lovely Metal Mummy to let us all loose with our favourite flicks each week! This week's our theme is a broad one - the 21st century. Blighmy. I could be here all day! Oh, I've got to pick just one. Well then I'm picking one that for me captures the future in a way that makes me want to watch it again and again. The science-fiction-action series; The Matrix. I know that's cheating a bit because it's three films rather than one, but I think you'll agree you can't ever have too much Keanu Reaves. 


Written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, it was actually released in 1999 and stars Keanu, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss (looking amazing), Joe Pantoliano and Hugo Weaving. The film shows a future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. When computer programmer and hacker "Neo" (Mr Reaves) discovers this, he joins and eventually leads a rebellion against the machines, involving other people who have been freed from the "dream world". The film references subcultures and philosophical and religious ideas, but it's also a fab action film that keeps me on the edge of my seat every time I watch it.


I love this film for all sorts of reasons. The soundtrack is amazing (it's so bassy that speaker shops often use it to showcase their sound systems), the story is exciting and thought-provoking, the costumes are fab (Carrie-Anne Moss looks incredible in her spray-on outfit) and the action uses 'bullet time' which blew me away (sorry for the pun).


Shhh...movie gossip! According to Wikipedia...

• Actor Will Smith turned down the role of Neo to make Wild Wild West, due to skepticism over the film's ambitious bullet time special effects. He later stated that he was "not mature enough as an actor" at that time, and that if given the role, he "would have messed it up".
• Nicolas Cage also turned down the role because of "family obligations".
• Prior to the casting of Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock turned down the role of Trinity because she didn't see herself working with the actor then being considered to play Neo.
• Sean Connery also respectfully declined the role of Morpheus.

Love films? Pop over to Metal Mummy's Movie Meme to check out the other entries in this weeks meme.

Photo credit: Original theatre poster courtesy of Wikipedia.com. Thanks also to Wikipedia for the fab info about the film.