This week, 15 years ago, a movie called The Matrix hit theaters and forever changed what the collective moviegoer knew was possible in the cinema. It was a smash hit at the box office, gained enough critical acclaim to win four Academy Awards, and innovated a number of cinematic techniques that would later become mainstays in Hollywood action filmmaking. In short, it pretty much changed everything about the way movies are made.
It was so successful, in fact, that it changed pop culture as well. Bullet time -- the iconic slow motion cinematic technique that the filmmakers used to highlight a character’s heightened perception in the Matrix -- became the focal point of parodies at the MTV Movie Awards and Saturday Night Live, as well as a gameplay mechanic in video games like Max Payne.
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