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― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
meh
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
-- chaki (chak...), May 31st, 2003.
Yeah, but that battle of the bands is crap, chaki.
-- Ally (mlescau...), June 1st, 2003.
god gave rok and roll to you
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
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― ratty, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
man this movie is lame
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(having just seen it for the first time, on TV no less)
HA
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
altho I did lol at the Baudrillard quote
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
man do not let the first one get you down, you really need to run out and rent the two sequels, they are so amazing. : )
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
animatrix - the two part "what happened to cause the robots to get all pissed off (rape, dude)" was pretty good if i remember correctly.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
'Beyond' and 'Matriculated' are WELL GOOD
― blueski, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
you really need to run out and rent the two sequels, they are so amazing
roflz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I refused to watch this for so long on the grounds that a) everything else the Wachowskis have made is awful, both formally and textually and b) I hate Keanu Reeves and will only watch him if I absolutely have to (ie, A Scanner Darkly, which btw shits all over the Matrix from a great height)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
keanu reeves is a national treasure.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder whether all that robot technology to extract a small wattage of power from each human being is worth the effort. I am troubled by the economy of the matrix idea. Surely windpower would be more efficient? The barren wastelands look pretty windy.
― moley, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0e4S4lM4v58
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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I couldn't get past how Morpheus and crew were still using computers and tech-gear in "the real world" - like lolz didn't you learn the fucking lesson the first time, technology is your enemy and can't be trusted, why are you bothering with all this programming crap
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder whether all that robot technology to extract a small wattage of power from each human being is worth the effort
also ^^^ this. if computers are so smart why are they fucking around with such an inefficient energy source when they could all just be nuclear-powered or whatever
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i think you can find the answers to these questions on numerous message board archives circa 1999
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― gff, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
believe me if I could go back in time and tell everyone not to give the Wachowskis money I would
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
everything else the Wachowskis have made is awful
that's like one whole film!
i never thought the matrix was partic good, but for a summer event movie, it's better than most.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
first matrix was sweet and maybe keanu haters have never seen a little movie called POINT BREAK????????
― max, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Point Break is awesome!
I still havent seen Scanner Darkly, I really should.
― Trayce, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
matrix is terrible. point break is top 10 best movie ever but it has the swayze. if matrix had the swayzer it would be better.
― chaki, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Swayze was good in Donnie Darko but only cos he played a sleazy asshole who got pwned.
― Trayce, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually that sounds harsh, he's a dude.
― Trayce, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
swayze is good in everything.
― chaki, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
in fact im willing to argue that he's the ONLY good thing about donnie darko.
Shakey Mo must not have seen Bound.
― milo z, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
god i love shakey mo
― sanskrit, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
2 Better endings to the Matrix:
1. Keanu stumbles upon a terminal in the robot city which shows a view of the REAL earth, which is a desert. He pans the camera around/watches a history lesson and realizes that all that is left is a big computer, in which everything - The Matrix, Zion, and all that crap, exists. Ends with Keanu screaming "We did this to ourselves!"
2. Keanu blows up Zion, and kills all the baddies. All of a sudden, his vision blue-screens, and all that is left for him to see is a text message:
"Level three not implemented."
Or some combination of those two.
― schwantz, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
3. Keanu wakes up. He's in a teenager's bedroom.
Keanu: WOW! That dream was RAD, dude!
(Ted enters room with Cheetah)
Ted: Bill, if we don't study really hard we're going to flunk the test!
Keanu: Ted, Dude, look!
(Cheetah does a backflip. They both laugh. Fade)
― moley, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oh indeed I have seen Bound
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
V for Vendetta too
I also saw Point Break in the theater on its original release
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:54 (sixteen years ago) link
matrix 1 was GOOD. but it then went BAD. It went BAD because of NERDS. matrix 1 and 2 thus were both SHIT
― Ste, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
funniest thing about it is that the much-vaunted fx -- the omg they pause in mid-air as the camera turns round -- are kind of wack.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, effects that were dazzlingly innovative at the time then become ubiquitous do date
still like Reloaded - great fun for the most part
― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yep, that's where i'm coming from. My suspicions were first 'arroused' on the release of the game Max Payne when the only selling point that my nerd friends seem to give me was that OMG YOU CAN DO SLOW MOTION BULLET DODGE LIKE IN DEM MATRIX OMG
― Ste, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
there was an advert on tv not too long ago, which used the stop-camera-spin-around fx. But they fucked it up, massively. I think it was a splash of milk. I loved the advert because they still released it and they must of known the effect looked ultra poo.
― Ste, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
god I STILL haven't seen the first (or any subsequent) matrix. out of the loop!
― gem, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
watch the first one, it holds an interesting premise. the sequels are only there to rock the nerds worlds.
― Ste, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Revolutions is just an abortion of a film
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.geekroar.com/film/archives/matrix_rev_club_hel.jpg
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"O RLY"
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the first was great, because it came out of nowhere (i hadn't heard anything about it, just seen one trailer the week before) and the effects were new and cool.
acting/dialogue/pretentiousness of story always sucked. the sequels have moments of coolness but can't rise above the mediocrity of the wachowskis as nerdy philosophy 101 leather fetishists.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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― the talented mr shipley (and what), Saturday, 13 December 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if Shakey has experienced the awesomeness of the sequels yet?
― Neil S, Saturday, 13 December 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Best scene:
― Neil S, Saturday, 13 December 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i read... somewhere... that in the earlier drafts of this script, the robots were not using human bodies as an energy source, but using each brain as part of the huge distributed computer network that ran the simulation itself, and i guess the robots too. execs thought it was too wonky and made the W bros change it.
that's the story anyway. marginally better than what we got.
or is this explained in the last one, that i never saw
― goole, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
That's a slightly neater idea if the implication is that we collectively constitute the AI which in turn is enslaving us. It doesn't explain why exactly there needed to be a simulated world, but the power source idea doesn't explain that either.
― jmm, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
the power source idea makes zero sense
god I hate these movies
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
It's just an adventure series with an uncommonly pretentious façade. Anyone looking at them for profundity soon finds that all you can extract from them is confusion. But the first one was entertaining, if you just suspended disbelief and went with it.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah, didn't happen for me. all the window-dressing was too irritating in its sloppy glibness
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
If the idea of Keanu Reeves as a combination of Clark Kent, Superman, and the Messiah doesn't entertain you, then you are one tough audience.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Funny, he didn't look Jewish...
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
leaving aside the second and third films, the matrix is pretty great because it introduced lots of people to basic philosophical conundrums without them even realizing it. not every blockbuster action movie can claim a real connection to descartes and baudrillard and plato, and that's pretty cool.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
matrix 4 green-lit; co-written by aleksander hemon and david mitchell
(!)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
wait are you sure on that
MATRIX 4 announcedKeanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss return as Neo and TrinityDirected and written by Lana WachowskiProduction begins 2020https://t.co/HLMHz7ixNB pic.twitter.com/24hFeorLCH— Nibel (@Nibellion) August 20, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
The screenplay is by Wachowski, Aleksandar Hemon, and David Mitchell.
according to entertainment weekly
https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/20/keanu-reeves-new-the-matrix/
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
nm, actually clicked. hope to see Larry F return as Dr Morbius
Plot details are currently unknown, as is how the role of Morbius will be handled, originally played by Laurence Fishburne. Some sources say the role may be recast for a younger take.
― gyac, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
That link also mentions Mitchell. Whoa.
xp
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
david mitchell has gone to chelsea
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
what’s up with lilly w not being involved?
― Andy Jones, Earth-Born Angel of Love (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link