04/03/1999...

It had been hyped up for months. A movie that promised to reinvent movies as a concept. A revolutionary film that would change the face of cinema as we all knew it. A movie that spawned countless discussions and rumors and debates up till it's release date. Weiss's father in a grand gesture to her daughter and friends rented out an entire special showing before the movie theater was to even set to open. The absolute madman then convinced the parents of the 5 teens to give them a day off of their normal chores and responsibilities to be able to watch it together without having to fight a crowd.

Jacques Schnee was nothing if not considerate of his cripple daughter, and the rest of her friends including the deaf girl that tended to avoid movie theaters for this very reason.

Also, it was a movie that Jaune was dragged off to see by his girlfriend, his girlfriend's sister, and two of there friends.

It was a movie that Jaune couldn't give a single solitary shit about.

They were going to watch. "The Matrix"

Ruby sat Next to Jaune as she set up a device in front of her that would display subtitles in for her, a clear tube that apparently caught a reflection of the subtitles being projected from the rear of the theater. A neat but flawed device that would at least let her be part of this outing today.

Weiss asked "So how did I get roped into seeing this?" As she sat in here wheelchair at the end of the row.

Yang smiled and said "Because you literally had nothing better to do." as Jaune interpreted for Ruby who just chuckled to herself "Besides they built this movie up for a good year or so now, it has to be good!"

Blake shrugged "Well I mean sure it looked good on the TV ad's"

Jaune signed out to the group [I don't know, it has one half of the "Bill and Ted" main cast, how good is this really going to be.]

Yang with an indignant tone replied "Excuse me, Keanu Reeves was also in "Point Break" As well."

Jaune sounded like he wanted to say something but the lights in the theater started to dim as the movie trailers started to play out.


About five minutes into the film

Weiss whispered to to the group "Is anyone else noticing this weird green tint to the film"

Jaune signed back [Can't say that I am.]

Yang winced whispered "Jesus that lady just pulverized that cop's arm"

Ruby looked on with a shocked look on her face as she looked back and forth between the subtitles and the action on screen with a deer in headlights look on her face.

"And now he's been kicked through a wall" Weiss whispered back

A couple minutes of pulse pounding CGI enhanced action later

[Okay bullshit, how did that dude find a goddamn dump truck?] Jaune signed out.

Ruby just rubbed his arm and finger signed out [Plot Holes happen deer]

[Why is the phone so damn important?] Jaune finger signed back

[I couldn't-] Ruby paused as the black haired character on screen was seemingly ran over by the dump truck in the phone booth

Both Ruby and Jaune tilted their heads in confusion when it's revealed the character was not actually there.


Barely 11 minutes into the film, the cast is introduced to a character named "Neo" and the hacker ninja girl "Trinity" is talking to him in a nightclub about how she understands him better than he does.

"Oh my god this is like a female version of my Ex" Blake whispered.

"Oh thank god someone besides me found that fucking creepy" Yang sighed out.

On the other side of the group Jaune just looks slightly put off out in general and Ruby is looking back and forth between the subtitle device and the screen trying to keep up.

"Who the hell is 'him' Is she trying to get him to join a cult?" Yang quietly asked.

"I'm so lost right now" Blake whispered"

Jaune leaned back in his seat and stared blankly at the screen.


Later on after another harrowing CGI enhanced sequence the character "Neo" is now in the custody of a men in black looking character.

[So let me get this straight, the guy from the "Priscilla queen of the desert" is supposed to be an intimidating government agent in this film?] Jaune signed

Ruby signed back [I haven't seen that movie, what's it about?]

Jaune replied [That man right there, the one in the shades, in a dress in Australia]

Ruby giggled at the thought of it [Can we go see that instead? Were almost twenty minutes in and I still don't have any idea what's going on.]

Then out of the blue the Man in black said something about not being able to speak, and the gang was subjected to a horrific moment of the main character seeing his mouth fused shut and having something akin to a robotic bug force its way into his stomach

Jaune and ruby both tilted their heads in confusion for the second time in the film, Jaune signed out [Nah... I'm kinda invested in this now]


A few minutes later on screen Neo had just got into a car and had a gun promptly pointed in his face by a woman with short dyed blonde hair demanding that he takes his shirt off.

Jaune clapped his hands and signed out [Alright let's go, we got an R rating to earn here] Which earned him a chuckle from Yang and a playful smack on the chest by Ruby.

After a bit of Dialog "Trinity" pulled out a strange vacuum like contraption from the back seat

"Oh hey she brought the blowjob machine with her" Yang whispered earning her a groan from Blake and Weiss. Jaune chuckled silently as Ruby looked at him with a confused look having not heard what Yang said.

"Oh my lord you are just the worst sometimes." Weiss said still groaning at the mental image.

Eventually "Neo" finally meets "Morpheus" almost immediately after the scene in the car...

[Imagine just how much time and money he spends trying to look that cool everyday] Jaune signed out to Ruby

Ruby Just shook her head [I swear to go if someone doesn't get kicked in the face in the next 10 minutes I'm going to riot!]

As the gang watched the dialog unfold on screen Blake tilted her head "So is the Matrix supposed to be capitalism or something? The hell is Kung-fu Jesus here trying to tell us?"

Yang tried her best shot at be introspective "I think he's trying to imply that the media we consume, or that maybe society itself is trying to control our thoughts or some shit?"

Weiss shook her head "then what the fuck was up with the mouth thing? Or the weird super power stuff?"

The three girls just shrugged and went back to watching the movie.

Jaune shook his head [Did that guy just take a pill from a man he just met like two minutes ago? Also what if Neo was colorblind?]

Ruby chuckled and signed [You took the red pill!]

Jaune signed back [I did? Shit I meant to take the blue one!]


The group watched Neo then get led to a seat in a room with a hodgepodge of slapped together computer parts and components, Morpheus just threw down with some jargon at Neo leading. him to ask "What does that mean" before doing some generally weird shit involving a mirror. and now he's woken up in a weird goo filed pod.

"So he's just going to spend the rest of the movie high, is that it?" Yang whispered out "He's on drugs right now so he's going to be tripping balls the rest of the film?"

"Okay why is he naked and hairless?" Blake whispered out

Ruby wrapped her arms around Jaune's arm with a look of discomfort, Jaune just looked confused as all get out.

Weiss just made quiet "ew ew ew" noised watching the scene unfold.


A half hour of generally stunned silence from the group later. The gang learned in rapid succession, that the real world was a VR construct by an Artificial intelligence to lock the minds of humans as they are being used as a power source for... reasons. They also just got done watching a rather kick ass martial fight in a dojo and "Neo" face plant of a skyscraper.

[Okay you got to see someone get kicked, happy?] Jaune signed to Ruby

[Oh yeah, that was freaking awesome!] Ruby signed back to him

[Still are they seriously going with this whole "People batteries thing?" That doesn't work for several reasons.] Jaune finger signed.

[Hush it's a movie, let it go.] Ruby said as she tried to follow the dialogue on the subtitle tube.

As she did a scene was playing out with Neo and Morpheus, they hit the point where they explained what exactly an "Agent" is.

[Oh hey that's why that guy got into that Dump Truck as quick as he did.] Jaune signed out.


More dialog, a visit to an "Oracle" and one sudden betrayal later, the gang is now almost an hour and 30 minutes into the film. As the gang continues to watch the spectacle, Yang and Blake chat to each other.

"Dude Morpheus is getting his ass kicked" Blake whispered to Yang

"They just said 'Don't fight these guys' even. The hell is he thinking?" Blake whispered back

"Ow that toilet was just broken with Morpheus's face" Yang whispered

"And now he's being beaten by an entire swat king, is that supposed to be a Rodney King thing?" Blake whispered...

"On screen Cypher managed to get out before the others, he uses some kind of lightning gun on the two minor characters of "Tank" and "Dozer"

"Oh man, that's not good..." Weiss whispered...

"I'm sure they'll all be fine, it's not like their going to off half the cast" Blake said

"Ew now he's getting all creepy on Trinity..." Yang whispered. "Kinda like how she had been on Neo..."

As they Watched on the character of "Apoc" had his cable pulled killing him instantly, this got gasps from the entire group...

[Oh crap I did not come to see people get off'd like this...] Ruby signed out as Jaune put an arm around her.

A few moments and Switch's death later, the group, to a loud applause watched Cypher get taken out by the still living Tank... and the movie could keep going.


The 5 teenagers sat with their mouths agape for different reason's after the slow motion lobby shootout. The most anyone could muster after the spectacle of a dozen swat officers being gunned down by Neo and Trinity was silent "Whoa" from the mouth of Jaune.

Ruby turned to Jaune as the heroes on screen walked towards the elevator [Is it bad I think you'd look hot in one of those?]

[You mean a trench coat?] Jaune signed as he tilted his head as he thought it over [I guess not, I'm not so sure though]

Ruby get a small blush [Well I think you kind of got the same bod as Neo does, might be worth looking at.]

Jaune smirks and signs back [Pervert.]

Moments later the movie shifts to Neo and Trinity fighting an agent on the roof. Neo unloads a pair of guns into an agent who blurs around the shots, before doing a slow motion dodge of his own when the agent returns fire.

Yang sitting on the edge of her sear whispers out "Okay that's just near" to the nodding agreement of her friends.

"If they didn't show all of this in the trailers though..." Weiss whispered out.

"Yeah loses a bit of shock value because of it." whispered Blake.

The group kept watching as on screen heroes steal a helicopter rescue Morpheus and then crash it into the side of a building...

Yang quipped out "There is no way Morpheus didn't shit himself when he broke those cuffs, look at his face."

Weiss shook her head "Now that's all I can think about. Thanks."


The rest of the movie passed without further need for comment, and the gang then moved over to the local dinner for lunch and to share their thoughts on what they just watched.

"Okay I'll admit, I thought it was pretty good" Weiss said as she nibbled on a fry

"Yeah no, I kinda want to go see it a second time" Blake mentioned out loud.

Jaune shrugged and signed out [I guess it was alright, I mean the story itself had some issues but it was a fun movie either way.]

Ruby smiled and was making kung fu gestures while they talked before she noticed people were waiting on her to speak [I guess I'll have to see it again if the Implant operation works out right?]

Jaune smiled and signed [Yeah I'll be there with you.] As he remembered that the date for her Cochlear implant operation was only a couple months off now...

Things were looking bright, and none of them could think of how anything could go wrong as they kept enjoyed their day out together...


So I'll be the first to admit this chapter doesn't do a whole hell of a lot to advance the story. But in 1999 this was one of those movies no one could really shut the hell up about. It was this and "The Phantom Menace" which came out in May. I don't suspect I'll do a chapter like this for that movie unless there's a demand for it. Honestly the only reason I did this chapter is I wanted to get something out there since we hit 100 follows the other day and I wanted to write up something special for it.

Now that I think about it, I do need to get busy thinking about that whole Y2K thing that was big during this year as well. Nothing in the reviews needed directly commented on so I'll leave it at that. Thanks again for reading and i'll see you all next time.