Matrix Revolutions

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That's what extended Two Towers DVDs are for.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe that anyone could be at all even intrigued by this after the absolute shittiness of the first Matrix sequel

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

that bombshell is FAR more fascinating of course. wft, yeh right, every single minute of The Matrix Reloaded was OH SO TERRIBLE, no redeeming features at all. oh no. i mean, even if there was one poor aspect of it that would just render the whole thing completely useless junk wouldn't it? of course. just like with albums - if there's one crap track on there then the whole thing is a shit waste of time.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

hey, I was super buzzed for Matrix ReLoaded, but it was shitty. Really really shitty. Like Metallica ReLoaded.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck that noize, the freeway scene was one of the best action-movie-sequences of all time.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

I love steve and nick!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

reloaded was a lot better than the first - the main flaw being the rather boring first half.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

the only criticisms i accept of Reloaded was some poor dialogue and occasional poor delivery from Neo and Morpheus. no complaints about the CGI at all, thought it was fine. and as i said before if you just treat it as live action anime then it's more fitting.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

"Goodnight Zion, sweet dreams"
"No, you do not really know someone, until you fight them"
the Neo/Chancellor exchange

these are the worst bits of dialogue in the film, the only REALLY bad ones i think. cut those out and i'd be happier.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

this whole series seem scientifically calculated to completely disinterest me

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

hurray!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

first of all the green pallete

second the philosophical bombast

then the actors

then the ultraviolence

then the sci-fi premise

then the saturation marketing

then the "cutting-edge digital technology"

then...

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

um, then I enjoy a fucking movie?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

this whole series seem scientifically calculated to completely disinterest me

you have great taste in movies amateur!st but i think i feel exactly the opposite! then again i am a sci-fi geek.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

so enjoy it, what do you care what i think teeny?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

sorry ams't, I will not include green in your scarf.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

ah see i like all those things

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

so amateurist going to see Matrix Revolutions would be as pointless for you as...posting on here that you're not interested?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

i don't mind any of those things either but Reloaded was still hogwash

― jones (actual), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

Those things could work but we all know my own particular beef with the movies by now.

um, then I enjoy a fucking movie?

The MatriXXX.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

so amateurist going to see Matrix Revolutions would be as pointless for you as...posting on here that you're not interested?

yes and considerably more expensive

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

I already shamefully covered how hot I thought the rave scene was; I know it was awful, but it was still hot. :(

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

It was just too hippy for me.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

Fluke, the rave act for people who can't be arsed to go to raves. I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

during Morpheus's speech and the subsequent rave scene i just told myself that 'it's cool, this probably really is how people would behave and react given the situation they're in and after all that's happened'. it happened during the Blitz too you know. down in the tube stations everyone was semi-naked and gurning like bastards to Fluke.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

um, then I enjoy a fucking movie?
then I enjoy some other fucking movie! Like LXG! Ha! haHA!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

if this one features a massive dance-off between humans and robots I might change my mind about the last one

― jones (actual), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

i can't help but think i will not enjoy this one as much as the last one (which i enjoyed more than the first one). as long as they do another Animatrix (surely this film isn't going to end with all the machines destroyed and everything back to how it once was?)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

i just hope the sequel will feature more robots in jaunty hats & monocles, like the Animatrix did.

http://www.scanartcentral.net/wthumbs/rich_bot_bender.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

If the new one has robot zombies in it, I'll probably pay full price to see it.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

The VP of my division has roped us all into seeing this at 7am on wednesday! I'd love to be able to complain about this, but I'm really excited!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

well, that would have me excited too!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

I do like the paranoia about web downloads. "We've GOT to show everything at the same exact time around the world or we won't make any money at all!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

I want to be all excited by this but I never got round to seeing the first one and so don't know what's supposed to be happening.

But the second one had pretty fights! And stuff.

― cis (cis), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

here we go again

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

my buddy wanted to get like 20 people to dress up in the Smith look and converge on a movie theater.

then we told him to go first. We'd follow.

we'll see what happens.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 3 November 2003 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=84&e=8&u=/pagesix/matrixtricks

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 November 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

there are some slight spoilers in that link.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 November 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link

sorry to be so crabby upthread. i don't know what got into me. i hope everyone enjoys this film.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, well fuck you too man! ;-)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

oh sorry, i mean, "fuck you all!"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Aw sweet, we love you too, Am!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

I like that this movie seems to promise a lot more IRL/non-inside-the-Matrix action, and I think a lot of the best of the graphic design comes from dealing with the burnt-out-Earth rather than the dreamy-reality-stretching that goes on in the Matrix.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

you know I gotta say, I've been holding back, but I don't think the trailer for this movie can possibly make it look any worse. sorry matrix-lovers I'm not trying to be a dick but I thought the last movie was a complete fiasco and I can't imagine them salvaging this one.

xp: that's exactly what worries me about it nick!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

dick

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:49 (twenty years ago) link

just kidding s1utsky! are you gonna bother seeing it then? i actually rather liked the trailer. i'm a sucker for this stuff. i think the first one really can't be improved without fundamentally altering what it is (ie you could carp about some cheesy lines, but it's a sci fi hero story people), and the Matrix setting is intriguing enough that I'll happy sit through another couple hours there.

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link

I'll probably see it just to know... and for the (slim in my opinion) possibility that they may have re-found their footing.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link

what do you think about the possibility that it's really the second half of one film? i think this might make it better. if you stopped the first one an hour and ten minutes in you'd be fucking confused...i sort of feel that way about reloaded.

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder if this one will have Not Donald Sutherland in it, too.

ha ha! i think he (the Architect?) specifically told Neo that they wouldn't meet again, right? seemed like an odd and interesting thing to say.

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:55 (twenty years ago) link

well... that doesn't really wash with me, as I don't really think reloaded could in any way be the first half of a good movie. whereas the first matrix movie, for its flaws, had a lot of neat ideas (mostly visual--the telephone stuff for example), reloaded was totally dry. the first movie had its rhythm problems but when it was on it was ON--I never thought reloaded ever hit anything nearing that stride! it was so hermetic and self-congratulatory and plodding!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link

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70% of this was a corny war movie

― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link

the rest is corny inconsistent gibberish

― marcos, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link

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

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

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

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link

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