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Jonathan Groff played Agent Smith in The Matrix: Resurrections (2021)
Jan 14, 2025 7:40 PM
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Jonathan Groff played Agent Smith in The Matrix: Resurrections (2021)
OmegasParadox
Why are they talking about this agent smith? The movie flopped
emptyother
Matrix Resurrections was a decent movie with unexpectedly bad action scenes.
MadamPuddifoot
GROFFSAUCE WAS AGENT SMITH? D damn he's good.
TiredGoodnight
Holy shit it's the king from Hamilton
AtsaMattaForMe
Telemapus
Why was Bugs called Bugs-as-in-Bunny? Bugs Bunny. I get Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, the Merovingian, Cypher, Tank, Dozer, Link... all those names make sense. Why is she Bugs? Because she hops around a lot when she fights? Is that it? Tell me that's not it.
Gelflingus
Well at least he got something out it. His lousy acting ruined half the movie but he had fun.
braechnov
I sure am glad that none of this fan fiction was ever made! Imagine if they had risked the awesomeness of the first movie by making a bunch if lame sequels, hahahaha!
Yes indeed, it really was a brave and culturally correct choice to never make any sequels to the lone masterpiece that is original matrix movie, which to this day has never been sullied by the creation of any additional related movies.
psychicgnu
There are no Matrix sequels in Ba Sing Se!
languex
Wasn't "Agent Smith" played by Elrond?
conniecpu
In the original 3 movies yes, but not in the 2021 movie
DubhIainn
There was a matrix movie in 2021?
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
The pandemic did weird things, dude.
TheSecondPiewackit
Matrix Resurrections was the 2nd best one in the series.
youreathing
I liked all of them for different reasons. I especially loved The Animatrix though.
TheHuntedSnark
He was unexpectedly great in that. Didn't expect that kind of performance from Jonathan Groff after Mindhunter. (He was great in that, too, but it's a completely different register.)
Overall, I thought that "Matrix Resurrections" was a wonderful way of making up for the dour ending of Matrix 2 and 3. (It'd have been nice if it hadn't been necessary to compensate for the original sequels in the first place, but, oh well.)
bmg50barrett
The acting was great. But oh man was that a huge wasted opportunity. The " you're crazy" concept alone was what should have moved the whole movie. Not this meta wink at camera that we got. At the end of watching Neo (and the audience) struggle with "is he crazy?", "maybe the matrix was fake", they reveal that it was real all along and neo is trapped in the machine mind. Cue epic Matrix 5.
pollypocketfullofposies
I adore Jonathan Groff
MeestowKitty
I was so confused. I forgot there was a new Matrix movie and was like, "Wait, Hugo Weaving did what? And why is everyone calling him John?!"
illmx
There needs to be a preface that this is about the newer Matrix movie
conniecpu
Good point, I'll add that to the description haha
XuncuTheTiger
Considering I've seen "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" I wasn't that confused until the comments.
PaintedSlate
This perfectly describes my journey through this post. All checked out. Even when I saw the title referenced, I didn't realize the title was different than whatever the older sequels were called.
JustplainGross
The front of my brain is like, "Oh hey, that's cool" while the back is "What the fuck did I just read?!?!".
Balance is good In life
seafoamistasty
Matrix: Resurrections was a horrible movie.
lueven118
It was just awful!! The trilogy is some of my favourite all time cinema, but resurrection was just absolutely horrendous
TheSecondPiewackit
It was the 2nd best in the series. Everyone forgets how much they hated the 2nd 2.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
oh I don't. Resurrection is way above 2 and 3, for all its faults. It even managed to redeem/make sense of some of the shit in those sequels, imho.
TheHuntedSnark
What if some people liked it, and you didn't, and it would be enough to state that you didn't care for it?
vDorothyv
People can like bad movies, I like a lot of bad movies.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
What are you, a cop?
Telemapus
What if when a person writes a comment under an Imgur post but doesn't include the words "in my opinion" we should probably just assume it's their opinion, especially if it's about something like a movie rather than, I dunno, the exact orbital eccentricity of Jupiter.
Dagordae
What if we didn’t require qualifiers on every single opinion out of fear that people would disagree?
Also you can find people who like just about any movie. That’s why Rotten Tomatoes has so very few 0%s, and that’s limiting it to just critics.
TheHuntedSnark
I don't mind opinions. I object when opinion is presented as fact.
ps238principal
I was wondering if you had the wrong actor as Agent Smith and then I did a Google search and realized I'd never seen The Matrix: Resurrections.
WitchyVixen
Ahh thankyou! I thought I missed something and was really confused why it wasn't Hugo Weaving.
ICanChangeMyUserNameWheneverIWant
Don't bother.
irrational1618
Oh thank you. I was so so confused.
armonis
Saaaame
HandoB4Javert
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
The same exact series of events just happened to me.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
Do yourself a favour and don't watch it
UncleHang
If possible, you should continue to not see The Matrix: Resurrections.
distractedFreek
I saw it and forgot there was a different agent smith.
leodavinci1
I didn't forget... I never knew. At any time in the movie was he actually referred to as Agent Smith? All things (about the movie) considered, what was the point of bring his character back? Especially since Harris's character was the antagonist.
Sageypie
I think mostly to show off what an arrogant dick Harris's character was. Like, "oh, we trapped Neo and Trinity in this closed off simulation to make them into super energy generators, and we even tossed Agent Smith in here for shits and giggles because we wanted to show how powerful we are...why is everything going wrong?"
InfocalypseRising
He is for sure referred to as Smith, I think the whole movie was just such a forgettable mess that we all kind of blocked it out
SecondSince
Imo it was better than 2 and 3 were.
littlecoatfatguy
Weaving actually wanted to do it, but was already committed to a Broadway thing when the movie shot.
Dagordae
I went: ‘Wait, Hugo Weaving is gay? Did I miss the wall of memes him coming out would trigger?’
InfocalypseRising
"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound... of fabulousness."
cyno01
Same, but i kinda shrugged cuz Priscilla.
Salpinus
Gay weaving? Watch Priscilla: queen of the desert .
It's FABULOUS!
WitchyVixen
Yes. Yes it is.
Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp were perfect too.
R.I.P Bill Hunter.
And I adore The Dressmaker for giving us a glimpse of Hugo's cross-dressing fabulousness so many many years later. He nailed it
pupquine
thekeyofe
I liked it up until the Merovingian showed up about 3/4 of the way through the movie. At that point, the social commentary went from "subdued, but definitely not subtle" to "we're literally slapping you in the face with it." It was obnoxious because they were basically saying "viewers are too stupid to get it unless it's blatant as fuck." Which is not true; a lot of us get it even when the commentary is subtle, while a lot of morons STILL won't get it no matter how unsubtle it is.
SomeFukinWizard
I like the merovingian scene. Simply because it introduced me to Monica Bellucci. Good God, I was but a boy and she stole my heart.
paladindansesgirlfriend
Same!
InfocalypseRising
That was the second movie. This is about the fourth.
SomeFukinWizard
OIC, yes I deleted that from my memory as soon as I finished watching it. Glad it exists. But like that movie that comes after Highlander, I dont acknowledge it.
ThatSpaceMan84
idk man I fucking loved Merv basically going on a boomer rant about "Mark Zucker-Fuck" during a kung fu battle with homeless werewolves
thrael
I enjoyed it a lot! Don't listen to the haters
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Tarmaccian
The first act, especially… it did something extremely rare for a sequel: tactfully acknowledged that it’s been decades since the original movie(s), set up a new story, yet didn’t abandon the old.
YouAreCorrect
Matrix 4 was so god damn bad.
subrosaflorens
I loved it. It did something I thought was impossible. It brought back that feeling I had the first time I watched the first Matrix movie. I could not tell what was real, and what was in the Matrix. That sense of uncertainty about what was reality was really delightful to experience once again in a Matrix film.
UNHchabo
I haven't seen it, but by some accounts Warner Brothers told the Wachowskis they would make a sequel with or without them, so Lana signed on as a result. I'm opposed to that sort of creativity under threat, regardless of the outcome. :(
aguacatedeldiablo
You should at minimum watch the beginning, through the scene where they complain about being forced to make a sequel whether they want to or not.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
They should have made it without them
TheCryptid
I read about that too and you can easily tell in the movie. Quality and plot was abandoned in exchange of a middle finger to WB. There's no love or passion in the movie, just spite
CommodoreSkippy
The movie literally has a subplot about a big company forcing a sequel out of an unwilling creative.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
So they didn't want someone to make a terrible movie out of their creation so made a terrible movie themselves? Should have left it to somebody that actually wanted to do it
aguacatedeldiablo
I enjoyed it too. People love their black and white thinking, it's either great or it's terrible. It's been long enough, I don't need the Matrix to blow my skirt up the way the first movie did and the first two sequels mostly did not (though I still think the fight in the Chalet is one of the best in the series, including the first movie).
It was good. It was an enjoyable return to this world. The basic plot was always gonna be a problem - to use the same actors with a satisfying plot would 1/?
aguacatedeldiablo
2 require the mother of all retcons. That's not why I'm watching it. I'm watching it for cool action sequences, physics bending and an exploration of AI.
thrael
sorry you're being downvoted for a perfectly reasonable opinion.
TheCryptid
Id say listen to the haters, it was awfully bad imo
3/10 at most.
That being said, I encourage everyone to watch it and make up their own mind about it
ReleaseTheBeeees
The whole self referential 'don't make a sequel, it will be terrible' was a bit on the nose
YesYouJustLostTheGameAgain
What, what is this? Rational thinking is not allowed here…/s
TheCryptid
I lost the game. Damn you!
TheSecondPiewackit
Everyone who bitches about it forgets that they also bitched about the 2 sequels. I'd say it's the 2nd best in the series.
TheCryptid
Its the 5th best
1. Matrix
2. Animatrix
Then quite behind
3. Reloaded
Then even more behind
4. Revolution
Then just at the bottom down
5. Resurrection
ps238principal
I did have problems with the sequels, but two pet peeves stuck out to me, plots aside: One, why did they just have washers glued to their skin instead of the bio-ports in the first film? Too expensive? And two, who builds mechs without armoring the squishy bits actually piloting said mech?
SouthAlexander
Yeah, I liked it. I thought it was just as good as the other sequels. Which meant it was trash, but enjoyable trash. At least it had an interesting idea behind it, being basically a Gremlins 2 style fuck you.
dingoflickums
It was horrific mush with absolutely repulsive character throw backs and an unhinged plot only a moron could love. Truly one of the worst things I've ever seen
downvoteifyouhatekittens
This guy gets it
dingoflickums
I almost opened my skull chakra with a bullet after watching that
downvoteifyouhatekittens
Actually lol'd
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
I remember nothing at all from that movie to be honest, but I loved Groff in Mindhunter
Telemapus
Keanu lying in a bathtub with a rubber duck on his head. I only remember that because it made me feel smart that the stereotype is hackers/programmers use a rubber duck (or substitute) to help them think through difficult problems... somehow.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Talking through what you are doing to help you spot the problem/debug some code, some people find it helps to have an object to treat like an actual person so you have to properly express each line/step. I have been told that many times as I have a rubber duck collection, even though I have never purchased a single one, I just got a few randomly and it became a thing
Telemapus
Good explainer, thanks!