The Matrix Is Twelve Years Old Today

On March 31st, 1999, Warner Bros. released a little family-team-directed film called The Matrix, and sci-fi and action cinema could never really be the same afterward. Suddenly everybody, for better or for worse, had to pay lip service to bullet-time, knowing kung fu, and spoons (or a lack thereof).

And now The Matrix is almost as old as I was when it came out.

In order to dispel this sudden existential shock, here’s a trailer for an impressive looking Matrix fan film called Kaydara, concerning a couple of human brothers who set out to kill Neo. So, practically a more interesting plot hook than the second and third movies.

Oh, right, there were no Matrix sequels.

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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