Matrix Revolutions

I tend to contrast this with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies: in both cases I had faith coming out of the second one, and the third made me a fool with its incoherent mess, but At World's End at least had a sandship/Singapore/Keith Richards - lots of details to keep the attention. Also, you got the impression that they at least had a plot at some point before chopping bits out of it. Both of them have big spectacular endings that are inferior to the smaller setpieces in the second one (highway scene/three-way swordfight).

Also, I have watched At World's End twice, and nothing on this planet could make me sit through Revolutions again.

At World's End probably has a better script and acting but I didn't enjoy it as much as Revolutions at the time (i may do on rewatch tho - not that i want to see either again tho)

At World's End >>>>>>>>>> Revolutions

The 4 years in which The Matrix was worshipped and looked at as the next Star Wars or whatever were unbearable, and I'm eternally grateful to the sequels for being so shitty that even the fanboys jumped ship.

omfg those exoskeletons were totally ridiculous. this is what happens when you try to make mecha vaguely realistic - you wind up with a stupid ass artillery platform that's slower and more fragile than one that's on wheels, and as a bonus in Revolutions they also don't carry enough ammunition to last more than two minutes. That shit was ridiculous with the fucking handcart.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:01 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

film criticism very much in character

"New Star Wars" sounds fair enough - well put together, amaaazing special effects for its time, vague mystical understructure. We just didn't have to wait 30 years to feel all the blood drain from our bodies.

Oh yeah also annoying fuckers claiming the original was "never that good" :)

i liked the original when it came out but i didn't love it

Oh yeah also annoying fuckers claiming the original was "never that good" :)
Seriously, no matter how annoying the other two got, the first one still holds up very well.

i can see why the sequels might ruin the first film for people, tbh. there are some minor things in the original that are indicative of the coming shitstorm and now seem lamer.

listen slocki I'm just saying what everybody else is thinking.

I think there are a lot of things in the original that make you think they'd never chose the angle they took with the other two that can make you forget the shitstorm in rewatching

The 4 years in which The Matrix was worshipped and looked at as the next Star Wars or whatever were unbearable, and I'm eternally grateful to the sequels for being so shitty that even the fanboys jumped ship.

A-FUCKING-MEN

yeah that was sort of the most hilarious fallout from the sequels. all these people who invested in the promise of this awesome universe got matrixrolled in the worst way

it's simple. Matrix was "for teenagers" in the same way Star Wars was "for kids".

I think you mean "for goths"

first movie is fucking retarded btw

like teenagers

lolz point taken

btw i can't think of the matrix without thinking of this first

"SEAN PILE"

yeah that was sort of the most hilarious fallout from the sequels. all these people who invested in the promise of this awesome universe got matrixrolled in the worst way

this guy was depressed for MONTHS afterword:

http://www.viceland.com/int/dos_donts/1652/main.jpg

Some fans persist. I helped a 20-ish guy at work in the bookstore today who could have walked off the set of one of these movies, trenchcoat and all. No, he did not remove his black lolmatrixglasses indoors.

i think there are a ton of douchebags who just dress like that, whether they like these movies or not.

they're called goths and they cannot die cuz they're like sexy leather vampire gods dontchaknow

True, but the guy totally blindsided me (ok, I saw it coming) by bringing these movies up in conversation while we looked for some sci-fi books or graphic novels or whatever it was he came in for.

I think that a case could be made that the Matrix films DO have a sense of humour, but I'm not sure that the same could be said of their fans, at least IME.

"SEAN PILE"

― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is mega lolz should xpost with wanda sykes tribute thread

never seen that chapelle, funny!!

I haven't gone back and re-watched the first to see what other hints it drops, but I know a massive one is when Neo gets interrogated and you see the giant Batcave TV-bank of The Architect!

3d sequels apparently happening UH

Meanwhile, the Wachowskis are also working on a futuristic Robin Hood retelling called Hood, which Reeves says is set to star Will Smith

Matrix sequels debunked. http://screenrant.com/matrix-4-5-bill-and-ted-3-keanu-reeves-rob-97796/

a futuristic Robin Hood retelling called Hood, which Reeves says is set to star Will Smith

ok this could be awesome

so someone quickly tell me why the Neo who could do anything he wanted with the Matrix at the end of the first film is here in the third film, seemingly inside the Matrix, having a lame fight and getting his ass kicked.

also why's everyone exploding. I'd say that this film would benefit from a more focused viewing, but.

Awful, awful, awful film.

i've just seen this for the first time since watching it in the cinema, and i am so. fuckin. confused.

Everything based outside the matrix (zion battle scenes etc )is awesome though, they should just have made a terminator sequel and told keanu to take his gere lite codology fuck off

*and* fuck off, obv

This series will be rehabilitated and will become trendy again -- especially with teen males -- before the decade is through. Right now it's obviously at the fifteen year mark of critical disrespect and forgetfulness, but it will make a comeback.

I thought of the series because of this commercial,

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=loinY8MmVq8

this was bad

70% of this was a corny war movie

the rest is corny inconsistent gibberish

i remember seeing this in the theater with my high school friends and we all just simultaneously burst out laughing at the slow-mo close-up punch in the face

This series will be rehabilitated and will become trendy again -- especially with teen males -- before the decade is through. Right now it's obviously at the fifteen year mark of critical disrespect and forgetfulness, but it will make a comeback.

I thought of the series because of this commercial,

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=loinY8MmVq8

― Cunga, Friday, April 26, 2013 12:17 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

not wrong but totally wrong at the same time