The Matrix Runs on Windows XP

By John Farrier in Science & Tech, Video Clips on Nov 10, 2008 at 8:35 pm


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The Matrix probably would have been less exciting if the movie had to be restarted every ten minutes and the Agent Smiths inexplicably froze up during fight scenes. College Humor offers this parody of The Matrix in which the network operates on Windows XP.

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  1. rageagainsttherobots
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    I think I will take the red pill. Apple for sure.

  2. Alex
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Hey! XP ain’t that bad … ;) CH makes pretty good spoof videos though!

  3. Johnny Cat
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    Love the Paperclip Guy. Have you tried realizing the truth that there is no spoon?

  4. Rocky Rook
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    I love CH! The Darth Vader one still makes my laugh my head off. This one is great!

  5. shawnisboring
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    Ubuntu….I’m going to learn… Ubuntu?

  6. silentwatcher24
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Wow… he is a much better actor than Keanu Reeves ever was. They should have had him do the movies.

  7. dgaicun
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Those production values look ridiculously high for such a one-note gag premise intended for the Internet. Who paid for that? How did they make money off it?

  8. dan.rosol
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    i can see if they say it ran on vista, but xp is just fine for me

  9. Johnny Cat
    Nov 10th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    @dgaicun:

    Methinks this looks like a film school project. Maybe I’m wrong, but I never have heard of CH.com doing their own films, they probably just “acquire” them.

  10. mrmuggles
    Nov 11th, 2008 at 12:27 am

    Wow, they have a lot of ca$h to make those parodies!

    Funniest parts :
    “I hope you have cookies enabled”
    “It looks like you try to bend the spoon with your mind” from the REALLY annoying paper clip!
    “You will have to make a choice. To send an error report. Or. NOT to send an error report”

  11. just a guy
    Nov 11th, 2008 at 12:30 am

    College Humor does their own videos all the time. And they don’t skimp on production value for some things. Have you visited their site in the past, like, year? ;)

    (I don’t know about ‘films’, but this isn’t a real trailor).

  12. just a guy
    Nov 11th, 2008 at 12:31 am

    forgot to logon. *sigh*

  13. Keeno
    Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:07 am

    hmmmm, not bad. bit obvious though, and for the amount of time and cash spent on it, could hav had a few more jokes in there really.
    you want to get quality writers like David Neher into the team. He’s talent!

  14. renderanything
    Nov 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    I like the reinterpretation of Neo as a more Napoleon Dynamiteish figure. “Like, duhhh, I’m the chosen one. Gosh.”

  15. MENLOHEAVYWEIGHT
    Nov 11th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    good thing i am actually running on xp i knew exactly how to turn this video off

  16. Dave9
    Nov 12th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    That’s much like this German parody that came out several years ago:

    http://www.matrix-xp.com/

  17. batman movies list
    Dec 18th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Nice, I don’t hate windows, but the parodies are still awesome, and somewhat true lol. I love the mac commercials that too.

    Funniest part to me was freeze unfreeze how about ctrl alt delete.. very true


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