Wrong. The trilogy is concluded and finished. It was fantastic and didn't need anything further. Even the Wachowskis agreed and purposefully sabotaged this forced cashgrab 'sequel'.
There's a kernel of a decent movie hidden in Resurrections, but it's bad. I found it less tedious to watch than Revolutions which I rewatched in preparation for it, but it's still bad.
Meta-modernism ain't your thing bucko? Gee, well maybe just stick in with your normal ADD kids tv shit and YT shorts. I bet you don't even Brechtian Alienate.
No, they're just post-ironic. Or they really have zero love for the trilogy as a whole, and they are still upset about the sequels, so the movie that ruins the legacy of those sequels is of course applauded.
Or, they are completely uninvested, and like Mike Stoklassa, they can appreciate a train-wreck. Me, I wanted another movie EXPERIENCE like the trilogy, and felt cheated; betrayed; lied to.
>“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.” >― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
This movie highlights modern methods of control (feelings are so much easier to control than facts) and various other things I'll elaborate on if anyone cares. I am convinced a lot of the hate is artificially generated because of this.
>I am convinced a lot of the hate is artificially generated because of this.
It just doesn't deliver. The Matrix was, above all else, an action movie. It was an adventurous movie with big ideas which is why it was good, but it was still an action movie. Resurrections is interested in many things (the fixation with remakes and sequels, what it means to progress in life, social control, the relationship people have to storytelling) but it isn't interested in being an action movie whatsoever. Most of the action is just Neo shoving the air. The cinematography isn't very good either. It's cheap as frick looking. Being self-aware doesn't allow it to evade the truth that it's still an example of the same creative impotence the movie is ostensibly critiquing. Going meta isn't exoneration. Winking at the CCTV doesn't mean they oughtn't be arrested.
>The cinematography isn't very good either. It's cheap as frick looking.
Agreed. I would say the meta stuff is surface level. I don't know I just think there are a bunch of really clever ideas there. Wasted, possibly, but still enough good ideas for me to enjoy it. I read shitty 60s sci-fi so maybe that broke my brain or something
It was also the ultimate power fantasy for the basement dwelling Noticer, in a good way. It spoke to the voice in all of us who notices all the fricked up shit in society and through our autism and paranoia it all clicks into place and we become super powerful, die, come back to live, get pussy, and live like a God.
It's a lot easier to stomach when you realize the entire first half is the writer talking directly to you, saying "I know this is shit and no one wants it, but if I didn't at least make this shit, you'd have gotten some even worse studio trash."
At least it doesn't shit on the characters or their legacy. It's just a really bad and boring movie. But at least it's not pointless.
That's the first pass.
The really clever thing about this movie is how it hides the text in the subtext.
Because everyone watching it the first time is looking for the symbolism, the commentary, the relevance, and they're so obsessed with it that they actually miss the perfectly cogent and rational story about Neo's role in the nu-matrix after the peace he forged at the end of Revolutions.
Larry leads you down the rabbit hole on purpose, so you're not wrong, but that's not "the realization", the realization is that Neo doesn't want to be free. Neo is retired and comfortable.
The movie's flaw is that the ending comes off as girlboss trinity owns the chuds. It spend the entire movie exploring the role that Trinity plays in The One, and then at the end it just kinda stops bothering.
>Neo doesn't know who he is so that is wrong.
But he does. And he says so.
Bugs couldn't "find" him, and Neo points out that he was the lead developer on a game called The Matrix about the events of The Matrix.
He wasn't hiding. He wasn't asleep. He was having a well-earned nap.
Even the Jude character is a bait and switch. The anti-semitic subtext is fricking obvious. But when you really think about Jude is the perfect bro. He's always there to listen, he's supportive, he picks you up when you're down, and in the background he's heading off all the upsetting things that you don't want to deal with. Jude immediately dislikes Chad, because frick Chad, Trinity should be with Neo.
Because it's the system that makes Neo as comfortable as possible.
Sure but you've also got Niobe who is clearly on the side of peace, not on the side of humanity.
And she's kind of the counterpart to Neo on the outside, as much as Neo is required to form the basecode for nu-Matrix, Niobe is required to form the basecode of nu-Zion.
Both of them are satisfied with the Status Quo, not because it's ideal, but because it's the best they could do.
Bugs is the real villain of the story. All she does is cause conflict and mystery while dragging Neo and Trinity further and further apart.
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>Bugs is the real villain of the story.
Elaborate please. I was distracted by her kissable lips.
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Anonymous
>I was distracted by her kissable lips.
Well you should have known better, women are evil.
Exactly. Where's the logic in respecting what Wachowski did? Somebody else will probably make a really bad movie, and that would harm what we made before, so I'll guarantee you a bad movie to spare you from that!
>Why didn't the degenerates so fricked up on ketamine, CBT, and public-humiliation-based paypig BDSM just make a good movie, like they did before they got famous and blew all that money on their drug-dealing dominatrix?
Because their movie trilogy was finished. It was done. The story they wanted to tell was over. They were forced to make another against their will. How many times does this need to be repeated for you to get such a simple concept?
It is.
Particularly because the Analyst's plan is literally to "trigger" people.
If there's a moral to the story it's about man making peace with the system is the last thing the system wants.
Once you understand this movie in full, the real reason they buried it is because if anything has killed capeshit, it's the explanation on how fanbaiting is a psyop.
You'll also find methods of control in the way zion has come to rely on the machines and the way they are bribed with trinkets. It is not a victory of humanity it is something different.
Additonally: Agent Smith? Agent.....White?
I thought the point of the movie was to get people off the internet and out into the real world. They made every action scene shit as a subversion, they even meme the slowmo. I understand what the troon was trying to say, but I would much rather he fricked off and just went to therapy.
Its not great, but it isnt as bad as people claim.
The first part of the movie where he works at a gaming company was fine. I thought that was actually an interesting direction for them to go. It goes off the rails later though, especially the last 3rd of the movie.
You can make a pointless rehash sequel, or you can go the other way and make a smug meta-commentary about the nature of sequels, but the one thing you should never do is make something boring. That's the problem with this film, it's just dull and empty.
Keanu couldn't do the stunts in the 90s you expect him to be able to do a side kick now with his broken back? Go look at his side kick its fricking awful, he can't lift his knees above a certain angle, its why in part 2 and 3 they cgi his high kicks. kek
It really had no redeeming qualities. They say the studio was gonna make it with or without them but it seems like such a cope and bullshit to me. Plus the other brother dropped out, that says a lot to me. They weren't agreeing on something.
However, the brothers always seemed to be a little mentally ill and loved fricking with the Matrix. Remember Mecha Agent Smith in the Path of Neo game or whatever it was? Or the bug assassin that kills Morpheus in Matrix Online.
I simply believe the bros are fricking hacks that couldn't come up with something.
>Remember Mecha Agent Smith in the Path of Neo game or whatever it was?
Yes and that was kino, they actually were fun back then instead of the bitter trannies they;'re now. If this new movie ended with mecha smith it would have been glorious. Path of neo soundtrack moggs this dogshit in everyway.
>path of neo
Lots of fun but I remember fighting crickets or some shit at one point in a maze? Clearly some shit was better off on the cutting room floor
Ants IIRC and yeah some of it was fricking wild. That was the most frustrating part of the game for me. Also this boss fight with some clam who screams at you, it's like that b***h in Raised by Wolves. Weaponized screaming.
I like how they had to pause the game and speak directly to the player to explain why it was going to be a mecha fight instead of like the movie. They knew people would reeeee if no one spoonfeeds them kek
Somehow looks and feels like shit could not get past the opening scene. Heard the studio was going to give the film to a different director so xir accepted the film and gave it a proper wokewashing
Matrix>Animatrix>Revolutions=Reloaded>Resurrections is objectively correct and anyone who disagrees is trolling or was filtered.
Ressurections was bad but not series-defilingly bad, which was probably the point. Even so, it's at best the "I was only pretending to be moronic" meme turned into a full-length movie.
I like Reloaded better than Resurrections because it gives me more of what I watch the Matrix movies for in the first place.
All of the "big ideas" in the Matrix are trite and shallow and you can get them reading a book. What do we REALLY watch the Matrix for? We watch it for cool people in cool clothes to have cool fights with cool weapons that bend and break the laws of physics. We watch it for the cyberpunk action, the anime influences, and the guns, lots of guns.
Reloaded just has more of this than Resurrections. Resurrections just has a lot of Zion, which is everything I DON'T go to the Matrix movies for. Zion is ugly, dirty, and full of hobos who probably smell. Frick that. That's not what I want from the Matrix. I'll watch a grungy 70s cop drama if I want to see that.
Reloaded has the opening scenes, the chateau scenes, the freeway fight, and the final battle, and those alone make it worth the price of admission.
Plus, I like Neo's cassock costume in Reloaded, it's cool. Gives him a bit of a cape when he's flying around.
This anon is based and redpilled because he Gets it. Exactly my feeling.
However I also really love the music, and I enjoy the dialogue. So for me it's a total experience, there is little that's truly objectionable. Except spending too much time in Zion.
>the final battle
?
The Burly Brawl occurs before they rescue the keymaker, and it's the action centerpiece of the movie. It took 27 days to film a 6-minute fight scene.
The actual "final battle" or Neodammerung is in Revolutions and it's such a let-down. Too much CGI. One of the great things about these movies are the practical fights with excellent Hong Kong wirework and minimal use of CGI. The final battle with Smith and Neo in the air is probably half digital fakery. It's very good fakery but some of it stands out and all of it is reprehensible in a movie series that became known for excellent, well-shot, practical wirework.
Yeah it's pretty good. Smith is such a good foil for Neo. It really is poetry. They are two sides of the same coin. Their fates are entertwined.
Even Morpheus, who is like the John Lennon of Free Will, believes in the destined "One" and is utterly certain that the prophecy is real, it is obvious that Neo will end the war. And importantly THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS, against all odds. Destiny is fulfilled.
To me I feel like the movies just validate a Deterministic universe. The Merovingian was 100% right. Everything is cause and effect, and this can be extrapolated back to the First Cause.
These are interesting ideas worth thinking about. I don't think the "big ideas" are completely without merit. You almost never see them explored in movie format, which makes it unique on it's own.
>the freeway fight
Pure unadulterated kino. Really like how they built a mile of real highway to shoot this on instead of some moronic fricking Disney CGI slop that it would be if released today
I agree but the characters have 0 reason to enter the matrix after part 1. Neo can rekt everything with hacks. Him fighting in the château is fricking stupid he could just melt these programmes with a thought.
Nah he's just really good at fighting. He can't alter the Matrix or do any of that shit like Morpheus suggested. He's just tapped in and can tell what's going to happen because A) he can see and feel the Matrix on a deep level, and B) the universe is deterministic, so he can predict every action and every move with his deep understanding of the Matrix on a structural level.
>they asked me if I wanted to make another one instead of just doing it without me so I went ahead and made the shittiest film possible """""on purpose""""" as a joke
Supreme cope from a hack. No, he did the best he could and when it turned out it fricking suck he turned to the ol "I was being moronic on purpose! xD" cope to cover his hackey ass. Look at literally any other flick he's put out, dude can't direct or write and got lucky with skilled stagehands, stunt artists and other people in the team who worked on the first one.
Which is a shame bc the guy who plays Smith is good.
>the guy who plays Smith is good.
why would you say this you fricking homosexual? the whole movie is bad
You know who's better? The guy who made Agent Smith a fun villain in the first place.
No. I like Groff but he is just terrible as Agent Smith. He doesn't get the character at all.
Hes not even playing smith. Feels completely different.
The matrix franchise is not for you then. You never understood what the matrix is really about.
Wrong. The trilogy is concluded and finished. It was fantastic and didn't need anything further. Even the Wachowskis agreed and purposefully sabotaged this forced cashgrab 'sequel'.
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STOP DEAD NAMING THEM CHUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOURE OBSESSED!!!
wtf is that supposed to mean? Those men have names homosexual.
>watch clip
>this movie sucks
>credits music plays
>THIS IS FRICKING AWESOME!!
>The trilogy
What trilogy? This is the second Matrix movie.
HAHAHA LE EPIC REFUTATION OF THE SEQUELS LOLOL THAT'S HILARIOUS DUDE NO CAP FR FR
If you like being gaslit and having your psyche restructured to be a femcuck to a borderline troon woman, by all means enjoy.
how much could I pay you to ravage the body of the wachowskis
Sexually? Or
>The Matrix is about shitty Netflix-tier action scenes, Netflix-level production values, and forgettable music
>forgettable music
>The Matrix
you take that back right fricking now bucko
>The matrix franchise is not for you
Anything beyond the first movie is garbage and is a good filter to see all the plebs on this board who should stick to Cinemaphile
1 Great
2 Eh
3 Ugh
4 *vomits after a minute*
worst movie i've ever seen
There's a kernel of a decent movie hidden in Resurrections, but it's bad. I found it less tedious to watch than Revolutions which I rewatched in preparation for it, but it's still bad.
filtered by larry's epic shitpost. hobo merv made me lol, lmao even
Meta-modernism ain't your thing bucko? Gee, well maybe just stick in with your normal ADD kids tv shit and YT shorts. I bet you don't even Brechtian Alienate.
Animatrix > The Matrix > Resurrections > Reloaded > Revolutions
>Animatrix
I never really thought it was that impressive. It's a cool idea but all of the shorts felt thin to me.
There was like two really good ones, the rest were okay to bad.
The Matrix > Animatrix > Resurrections > Reloaded > Revolutions
These people are mentally ill
No, they're just post-ironic. Or they really have zero love for the trilogy as a whole, and they are still upset about the sequels, so the movie that ruins the legacy of those sequels is of course applauded.
Or, they are completely uninvested, and like Mike Stoklassa, they can appreciate a train-wreck. Me, I wanted another movie EXPERIENCE like the trilogy, and felt cheated; betrayed; lied to.
>“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”
>― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
Filtered
I dont like the asian girl. She cant act and the way she 'hisses' when she speaks is irritating.
This movie highlights modern methods of control (feelings are so much easier to control than facts) and various other things I'll elaborate on if anyone cares. I am convinced a lot of the hate is artificially generated because of this.
>I am convinced a lot of the hate is artificially generated because of this.
It just doesn't deliver. The Matrix was, above all else, an action movie. It was an adventurous movie with big ideas which is why it was good, but it was still an action movie. Resurrections is interested in many things (the fixation with remakes and sequels, what it means to progress in life, social control, the relationship people have to storytelling) but it isn't interested in being an action movie whatsoever. Most of the action is just Neo shoving the air. The cinematography isn't very good either. It's cheap as frick looking. Being self-aware doesn't allow it to evade the truth that it's still an example of the same creative impotence the movie is ostensibly critiquing. Going meta isn't exoneration. Winking at the CCTV doesn't mean they oughtn't be arrested.
>The cinematography isn't very good either. It's cheap as frick looking.
Agreed. I would say the meta stuff is surface level. I don't know I just think there are a bunch of really clever ideas there. Wasted, possibly, but still enough good ideas for me to enjoy it. I read shitty 60s sci-fi so maybe that broke my brain or something
It was also the ultimate power fantasy for the basement dwelling Noticer, in a good way. It spoke to the voice in all of us who notices all the fricked up shit in society and through our autism and paranoia it all clicks into place and we become super powerful, die, come back to live, get pussy, and live like a God.
It's a lot easier to stomach when you realize the entire first half is the writer talking directly to you, saying "I know this is shit and no one wants it, but if I didn't at least make this shit, you'd have gotten some even worse studio trash."
At least it doesn't shit on the characters or their legacy. It's just a really bad and boring movie. But at least it's not pointless.
So the classic theory that Lana made the movie bad on purpose to frick with the studio so they can't keep making movies about the matrix.
How the frick does a studio don't realize this sabotage?, they don't watch the movie before releasing it or what?
They were bouncing between two separate mergers and covid during the production, probably didn't care as long as it came out
>even worse studio trash
nah it would have been watchable instead of this demented troony’s RLM tier movie.
That's the first pass.
The really clever thing about this movie is how it hides the text in the subtext.
Because everyone watching it the first time is looking for the symbolism, the commentary, the relevance, and they're so obsessed with it that they actually miss the perfectly cogent and rational story about Neo's role in the nu-matrix after the peace he forged at the end of Revolutions.
Larry leads you down the rabbit hole on purpose, so you're not wrong, but that's not "the realization", the realization is that Neo doesn't want to be free. Neo is retired and comfortable.
The movie's flaw is that the ending comes off as girlboss trinity owns the chuds. It spend the entire movie exploring the role that Trinity plays in The One, and then at the end it just kinda stops bothering.
>the realization is that Neo doesn't want to be free. Neo is retired and comfortable.
Neo doesn't know who he is so that is wrong.
>Neo doesn't know who he is so that is wrong.
But he does. And he says so.
Bugs couldn't "find" him, and Neo points out that he was the lead developer on a game called The Matrix about the events of The Matrix.
He wasn't hiding. He wasn't asleep. He was having a well-earned nap.
Even the Jude character is a bait and switch. The anti-semitic subtext is fricking obvious. But when you really think about Jude is the perfect bro. He's always there to listen, he's supportive, he picks you up when you're down, and in the background he's heading off all the upsetting things that you don't want to deal with. Jude immediately dislikes Chad, because frick Chad, Trinity should be with Neo.
Because it's the system that makes Neo as comfortable as possible.
I think that is more to do with the control of comfort. It's the way the machines control nuzion as well, with sweet fruits and smiles.
Sure but you've also got Niobe who is clearly on the side of peace, not on the side of humanity.
And she's kind of the counterpart to Neo on the outside, as much as Neo is required to form the basecode for nu-Matrix, Niobe is required to form the basecode of nu-Zion.
Both of them are satisfied with the Status Quo, not because it's ideal, but because it's the best they could do.
Bugs is the real villain of the story. All she does is cause conflict and mystery while dragging Neo and Trinity further and further apart.
>Bugs is the real villain of the story.
Elaborate please. I was distracted by her kissable lips.
>I was distracted by her kissable lips.
Well you should have known better, women are evil.
>hehe Chad! Like the meme
That’s the guy’s actual name you moron, he’s a stunt guy that worked on the matrix sequels and directed the John Wick movies
>Things literally everyone knows
It's also the name of his character.
Pretty wild that troony named the israelite and no one said anything.
I mean that's based right my fellow /misc/tards?
Whatever they made legitimately would have been better.
Exactly. Where's the logic in respecting what Wachowski did? Somebody else will probably make a really bad movie, and that would harm what we made before, so I'll guarantee you a bad movie to spare you from that!
Why didn't they them just make a good movie?
>Why didn't the degenerates so fricked up on ketamine, CBT, and public-humiliation-based paypig BDSM just make a good movie, like they did before they got famous and blew all that money on their drug-dealing dominatrix?
Because their movie trilogy was finished. It was done. The story they wanted to tell was over. They were forced to make another against their will. How many times does this need to be repeated for you to get such a simple concept?
They should've given this to les wiseman and have kate beckinsale as the lead
You probably should frick off back to normie.net then.
>tired white man has to be goaded to fight for his woman by civilised black man composed of equal parts revolutionary and glowie
It's a deep movie
It is.
Particularly because the Analyst's plan is literally to "trigger" people.
If there's a moral to the story it's about man making peace with the system is the last thing the system wants.
Once you understand this movie in full, the real reason they buried it is because if anything has killed capeshit, it's the explanation on how fanbaiting is a psyop.
How was it buried? It came out, everyone realized it was bad, everyone stopped talking about it.
You'll also find methods of control in the way zion has come to rely on the machines and the way they are bribed with trinkets. It is not a victory of humanity it is something different.
Additonally: Agent Smith? Agent.....White?
I thought the point of the movie was to get people off the internet and out into the real world. They made every action scene shit as a subversion, they even meme the slowmo. I understand what the troon was trying to say, but I would much rather he fricked off and just went to therapy.
And I'd just rather you fricked off back to normie.net where you belong normie.
Its not great, but it isnt as bad as people claim.
The first part of the movie where he works at a gaming company was fine. I thought that was actually an interesting direction for them to go. It goes off the rails later though, especially the last 3rd of the movie.
>I-i-its bad on purpose! you didn't get it!
You can make a pointless rehash sequel, or you can go the other way and make a smug meta-commentary about the nature of sequels, but the one thing you should never do is make something boring. That's the problem with this film, it's just dull and empty.
Filtered
But it's actually good
Remember watching this really baked and wondering why they turned Neo into a jedi that could only force push.
It hurt bros
Keanu couldn't do the stunts in the 90s you expect him to be able to do a side kick now with his broken back? Go look at his side kick its fricking awful, he can't lift his knees above a certain angle, its why in part 2 and 3 they cgi his high kicks. kek
Is this the third one? I kept falling asleep trying to watch it. I remember him being blind or something. A real shit film.
Frick I forgot they made this one. Is it possible for him to bother to shave and take a bath for one fricking role, holy shit
He was shaved during the real world scenes
You just don't understand. It's supposed to be shitty!
The sex change was the first humiliation ritual
This film was the second humiliation ritual
The first pill blackpilled too many people
Keep looking
The world..is rigged against us?
It really had no redeeming qualities. They say the studio was gonna make it with or without them but it seems like such a cope and bullshit to me. Plus the other brother dropped out, that says a lot to me. They weren't agreeing on something.
However, the brothers always seemed to be a little mentally ill and loved fricking with the Matrix. Remember Mecha Agent Smith in the Path of Neo game or whatever it was? Or the bug assassin that kills Morpheus in Matrix Online.
I simply believe the bros are fricking hacks that couldn't come up with something.
Didn't they rip off the first matrix entirely from some other work? They are talentless hacks
Yeah. The invisibles, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Baudrillard, Ghost in the Shell. This are just the ones in the top my mind
Dark City
>Remember Mecha Agent Smith in the Path of Neo game or whatever it was? Or the bug assassin that kills Morpheus in Matrix Online.
No I don't remember that, because I have a life.
>reddit space
not so sure about that hombre
I guess that's what happens when you're literally Buck broken
>Remember Mecha Agent Smith in the Path of Neo game or whatever it was?
Yes and that was kino, they actually were fun back then instead of the bitter trannies they;'re now. If this new movie ended with mecha smith it would have been glorious. Path of neo soundtrack moggs this dogshit in everyway.
>path of neo
Lots of fun but I remember fighting crickets or some shit at one point in a maze? Clearly some shit was better off on the cutting room floor
Ants IIRC and yeah some of it was fricking wild. That was the most frustrating part of the game for me. Also this boss fight with some clam who screams at you, it's like that b***h in Raised by Wolves. Weaponized screaming.
I like how they had to pause the game and speak directly to the player to explain why it was going to be a mecha fight instead of like the movie. They knew people would reeeee if no one spoonfeeds them kek
>It really had no redeeming qualities.
The Merovingian scene was fricking hilarious
I never even saw the 3rd one, much less the 4th one
Somehow looks and feels like shit could not get past the opening scene. Heard the studio was going to give the film to a different director so xir accepted the film and gave it a proper wokewashing
>wokewashing
Read the thread and free your mind. It's anti-woke.
There's no doubt WB will go back to this watering hole, the Matrix is too good of an IP for them to ignore.
They're rebooting Harry Potter. "good" is not a requirement for them to squeeze old IPs.
Why the FRICK can't they george lucas this and "remaster" it by rendering non-toaster CGI and putting it in theaters?
Because it looks fine and it's only you autists perpetually whining about everything that would want that and you'd torrent it anyway
people shit on the cgi yet the cgi looks better than every marvel trash made today.
Ryonakino
>Hello Mr. Anonson, I'm afraid you won't be getting those crablegs...
I would love to see a live action version of the second renaissance.
Matrix>Animatrix>Revolutions=Reloaded>Resurrections is objectively correct and anyone who disagrees is trolling or was filtered.
Ressurections was bad but not series-defilingly bad, which was probably the point. Even so, it's at best the "I was only pretending to be moronic" meme turned into a full-length movie.
I couldn't understand a word that asian b***h said
I like Reloaded better than Resurrections because it gives me more of what I watch the Matrix movies for in the first place.
All of the "big ideas" in the Matrix are trite and shallow and you can get them reading a book. What do we REALLY watch the Matrix for? We watch it for cool people in cool clothes to have cool fights with cool weapons that bend and break the laws of physics. We watch it for the cyberpunk action, the anime influences, and the guns, lots of guns.
Reloaded just has more of this than Resurrections. Resurrections just has a lot of Zion, which is everything I DON'T go to the Matrix movies for. Zion is ugly, dirty, and full of hobos who probably smell. Frick that. That's not what I want from the Matrix. I'll watch a grungy 70s cop drama if I want to see that.
Reloaded has the opening scenes, the chateau scenes, the freeway fight, and the final battle, and those alone make it worth the price of admission.
Plus, I like Neo's cassock costume in Reloaded, it's cool. Gives him a bit of a cape when he's flying around.
This anon is based and redpilled because he Gets it. Exactly my feeling.
However I also really love the music, and I enjoy the dialogue. So for me it's a total experience, there is little that's truly objectionable. Except spending too much time in Zion.
>the final battle
?
The Burly Brawl occurs before they rescue the keymaker, and it's the action centerpiece of the movie. It took 27 days to film a 6-minute fight scene.
The actual "final battle" or Neodammerung is in Revolutions and it's such a let-down. Too much CGI. One of the great things about these movies are the practical fights with excellent Hong Kong wirework and minimal use of CGI. The final battle with Smith and Neo in the air is probably half digital fakery. It's very good fakery but some of it stands out and all of it is reprehensible in a movie series that became known for excellent, well-shot, practical wirework.
I mean the race to the Door, to the meeting with the Architect, in the finale of Reloaded. It was cool.
Yeah it's pretty good. Smith is such a good foil for Neo. It really is poetry. They are two sides of the same coin. Their fates are entertwined.
Even Morpheus, who is like the John Lennon of Free Will, believes in the destined "One" and is utterly certain that the prophecy is real, it is obvious that Neo will end the war. And importantly THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS, against all odds. Destiny is fulfilled.
To me I feel like the movies just validate a Deterministic universe. The Merovingian was 100% right. Everything is cause and effect, and this can be extrapolated back to the First Cause.
These are interesting ideas worth thinking about. I don't think the "big ideas" are completely without merit. You almost never see them explored in movie format, which makes it unique on it's own.
Anyway thanks for reading me blog.
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Who did it better? Rob Dougan:
Don Davis, unused:
>the freeway fight
Pure unadulterated kino. Really like how they built a mile of real highway to shoot this on instead of some moronic fricking Disney CGI slop that it would be if released today
I agree but the characters have 0 reason to enter the matrix after part 1. Neo can rekt everything with hacks. Him fighting in the château is fricking stupid he could just melt these programmes with a thought.
Nah he's just really good at fighting. He can't alter the Matrix or do any of that shit like Morpheus suggested. He's just tapped in and can tell what's going to happen because A) he can see and feel the Matrix on a deep level, and B) the universe is deterministic, so he can predict every action and every move with his deep understanding of the Matrix on a structural level.
The ending of the matrix we're shown he is beyond fighting.
>I can’t watch one minute of this. Holy shit.
Yeah it's shit. Just a complete pile of shit. 1st matrix a classic.
>they asked me if I wanted to make another one instead of just doing it without me so I went ahead and made the shittiest film possible """""on purpose""""" as a joke
Supreme cope from a hack. No, he did the best he could and when it turned out it fricking suck he turned to the ol "I was being moronic on purpose! xD" cope to cover his hackey ass. Look at literally any other flick he's put out, dude can't direct or write and got lucky with skilled stagehands, stunt artists and other people in the team who worked on the first one.
you don't need to watch it