The theory of the Matrix (only spoilers if you know nothing about the first film, and if that's true you SUXOR)

matrix 1 was GOOD. but it then went BAD. It went BAD because of NERDS.
matrix 1 and 2 thus were both SHIT

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.

yeah, effects that were dazzlingly innovative at the time then become ubiquitous do date

still like Reloaded - great fun for the most part

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

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.

god I STILL haven't seen the first (or any subsequent) matrix. out of the loop!

watch the first one, it holds an interesting premise. the sequels are only there to rock the nerds worlds.

Revolutions is just an abortion of a film

http://www.geekroar.com/film/archives/matrix_rev_club_hel.jpg

"O RLY"

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.

man this movie is lame

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(having just seen it for the first time, on TV no less)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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, December 12, 2007 6:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I wonder if Shakey has experienced the awesomeness of the sequels yet?

Best scene:

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

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.

the power source idea makes zero sense

god I hate these movies

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.

yeah, didn't happen for me. all the window-dressing was too irritating in its sloppy glibness

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.

Funny, he didn't look Jewish...

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.

matrix 4 green-lit; co-written by aleksander hemon and david mitchell

(!)

wait are you sure on that

MATRIX 4 announced

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss return as Neo and Trinity

Directed and written by Lana Wachowski

Production begins 2020https://t.co/HLMHz7ixNB pic.twitter.com/24hFeorLCH

— Nibel (@Nibellion) August 20, 2019

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/

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.

That link also mentions Mitchell. Whoa.

xp

david mitchell has gone to chelsea

what’s up with lilly w not being involved?