Thanks for your opinion. I’ll give it all the consideration it is due.
I expect original content, and I get reruns?
Just like the Matrix sequels.
I am meh. Like many, I enjoyed Matrix 1 and was bored and puzzled by Matrix 2. I was 50-50 on watching Matrix 3 but the trailer convinced me that it would at least have entertaining special effects and action scenes and on that score it delivered IMO. However I am left with very little desire to go back to the universe and unless the next one receives stellar reviews I probably won’t.
Depends on how you look at it. The movie was made for mass distribution, not just aimed at sci fi audiences. The fact that it raked in just shy of half a billion dollars in box office alone says to me they knew what they were doing.
Having said that, one of my main frustrations of the movie business has always been the dumbing down aspect. I realize why they do it, movies are a business. If you spend tens of millions of dollars on an investment, you want that investment to pay off.
The Matrix, Lost, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead.
Started so good I (did or will) stay to the bitter end, but as the final credits roll on the final installment I feel nothing but relief that it’s over.
I hope this isn’t Matrix IV: A Quest for Peace.
Matrix IV: The Final Frontier
Neo: “Why does God…need a computer?”
I remember reading a story when someone was pitching a Harriet Tubman bio movie back in the 90s a studio executive asked if Julia Roberts could play the title character.
New trailer out. It gives me hope they’ve put some actual thought into continuity from at least the first movie. Or it could be even more of a jumbled confusing mess.
Well, if nothing else, it looks like it will have some cool visuals and action set-pieces. And after all, the original didn’t really make much sense itself, but it was carried by bravura visuals and action set pieces, and a heavy dose of not just style-over-substance, but style-is-the-substance. Although I’m a bit worried that we’ve now seen all the highlights in that trailer, which commonly happens with movies. I think as long as we don’t spend half the run time with monotone monologuing exposition of the nonsensical plot, though, it could be a fun movie.
He was a hacker, I assume it was just something he stole.
Well, now that the movie is out…
'S’pretty good. It does a good job of recapturing the ‘90s cyberpunk motif of the original, and there’s a lot of meta-commentary about being a creator who made a genre-defining work 20 years ago and now having to revisit a story you thought was finished, and being a legend to a younger generation who simultaneously reveres you and has moved on from you. “Morpheus” is a fascinating character who doesn’t really get enough screen time - I’d have loved to spend more time with him and the other synths in Bugs’ crew, and to get a better understanding of the Machine Civil War. Smith and the Analyst make a fine pair of dueling antagonists. Niobe is kind of a tragic figure - a revolutionary who’s grown so old that she cares less about the struggle than she does preserving the status quo. The martial arts sequences are good, but the gunfighting doesn’t quite hold up to the original, as Neo relies on his wizard powers and the supporting characters aren’t as impressive overall. There’s enough of a mindfuck aspect to the first third of the movie that it left me expecting a plot twist that never came, which I suppose is appropriate considering that the original movie gave a lot of people the same impression.
If I have one complaint, it’s that, within the Matrix, the original trilogy has been reimagined as a video game trilogy designed by Thomas Anderson in 1999, but actual clips from the films are used as game footage. Ain’t no video game in 1999 that looked like live action film! The best you got back then was Lara Croft with thighs made out of square blocks and pyramid-shaped tits. Even FMV games were grainy and low-res. Considering that the games were supposedly produced by a company called “Deus Machina”, they could at least have rendered up some Deus Ex style cutscenes with the original voice acting dubbed in.
I’m not sure if this is intended as a coda or as the start of a new trilogy, but either way I’d say it’s worth watching if you enjoyed the originals.