Enter the Matrix

Good sequels and expansive funding;

Fury Road
Psychonauts 2
Maybe some Tarantino thing?
Hideo Kojima lolz option

The basic problem with the idea of making/remaking/soft rebooting The Matrix right now is that we already all know what the Matrix is

So my guess/gamble is that it is no longer what we think it was, it is something severely worse

— qntm (@qntm) September 8, 2021

man i hope so

how does a Matrix movie work in 2021? I'm supposed to be scared of living in a fake reality, trapped forever in 1999? Shit frost my tips and log me in

— Kenny Keil (@kennykeil) September 7, 2021

I’m curious how much they’ll play Keanu as Zen/Jedi Master given his age and vibe. Similar to how he can’t really play Ted “Theodor” Logan anymore, I don’t think he can do Neo ‘99 either.

even when the movie came out "the Matrix doesn't seem so bad" was a standard joke response, the biggest downside was having to listen to Rob Zombie at the club

“the matrix doesn’t seem so bad” - straight people

“the matrix doesn’t seem so bad” - straight people

Eh. tons of straight people embraced the "red pill" idea. but that's only because they fantasized themselves as Neo and they wanted to learn kung fu in twelve seconds and be able to fly like superman.

every straight dude I knew loved the original matrix, I don't think I've ever met anyone who is really into the sequels

they received such a bad reception that I didn't even end up seeing either of them

I'm not convinced yet, come on we've all been burnt by many trailers in the past (mute white rabbit from that trailer and meh imh). Will wait and see.

― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste)

I'm saying it'll be a great film, but it is a great trailer.

this is surely going to deliberately subvert the soft-reboot pitch of this trailer, right? no idea if they'll pull it off well but i expect it will be interesting and gorgeous at the very least

people seem to be expecting some mgs2-esque meta take on the reboot-sequel thing though so obviously the question is if they can subvert that somehow...

Think it's a bad trailer (nothing that exciting on show - just confirmation that most of the things you'd expect to be there are present) but I then think most trailers for these kinds of films are bad (deliberately showing and telling you as little as possible). It really doesn't offer anything that intriguing though does it - as in beyond the questions that would already have arose from the fact that it's being made at all ? Not sure what they can do to match the visual and technical novelty of the first trilogy though.

deliberately showing and telling you as little as possible is good not bad ftr.

That's for sure. I was impressed by how little the Shang-Chi trailer (for example) gave away of what's actually in the movie. But really, this is the fourth Matrix movie. From color scheme to time-warp kicking, people generally know what they're going to get on that front. As for the story, it's surely going to be some convoluted "do you see!?" would-be trip, and I don't know how they would shoehorn that into a trailer, anyway.

So we all agree that trailers are pointless should be abolished cool

I think some trailers are super cool and add to the intrigue/excitement (the creepy trailer for "Lamb," for example, though that one admittedly earned the movie a "nope" from my wife). And then you get stuff like the recent "Suicide Squad" trailer, which provided some pretty sneaky misdirection.

I'm not very enthused about this, but if they take the Universal Soldier approach of effectively rebooting and pretending the second and third movies don't exist, it could be OK.

pretending the second and third movies don't exist has long been the best option for everyone

Did anybody recognize who’s doing the score for the film?

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish),

juno reactor tweeted this earlier :

"Thank you & I Love the support. Lana has made a great choice in Thomas Tykwer and co-composers, nothing stays the same, excited to see the new film!"

I tend not to watch trailers before seeing a movie as they often contain mild (and sometimes not so mild) spoilers but their one job (duh!) is to make people want to see the film, not necessarily convey what the film's about.

It seems that a lot of people walked out of The Green Knight as the trailer suggests you're in for some sword & sorcery action type shit and the reality is obviously nothing of the sort

idk, hatred for the matrix sequels seems like one of the worst hangover opinions from the early '00s

skipped everything after this post, otm

the second and third were bad, the first was good, i will watch the new one as soon as i am able

anyone who walked out of green knight slipped on a banana peel on their way out

to hell with this non-action movie that has a ton of action, i'm gonna go get some fruit instead, whooaaaa

I rewatched most of Reloaded/Revolutions and imo Reloaded is a great action set piece, subverts some of the things people assumed about the movie’s world after the first one, and ends on a cliffhanger that’s unsettling in how it fundamentally changes the conceit even further

Revolutions has some amazing bits, but suffers from too much Zion content. I get exactly what the Wachowskis were going for, but too much of the audience didn’t want an earthy, very human third setting between machine hellscape and VR dystopia

I will admit that I skipped a bunch of Zion scenes and rewatched all three over the weekend

Jessica Henwick looks cool af in this trailer

revolutions very tenderly pays off a bunch of character stuff initiated in reloaded and for that i always feel so emotional watching it that i can't really focus on the things that are supposedly bad about it. zion rules. the ultimate neo/smith fight is just 360 degree punching in digital rain and it's the best shit ever

ugh i'm gonna end up watching all of these again

hello i am rewatching all of these and coming to terms with the fact that i still love this trilogy truly madly deeply in a non ironic nerdy way

and i still love the philosophical gobbledygook underpinnings like i am very linus w his blue blanket about that aspect <3

I watched the sequels for the first time ever recently. didn't love the third, although I liked the ending and the Neo and trinity stuff. just find the big battle for Zion a bit of a slog, as well as the final smith fight. but the second one was very decent I thought

I suppose the final smith fight just felt a little underwhelming. I liked the smith fight in the second movie in the courtyard a lot more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgYs_NDyaLs

this is gonna whip ass (i hope i hope i hope)

change change change change...

change is the only constant...constant...constant...
change change change change

Keanu was spotted eating ice cream alone during the filming:

https://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/keanu-ice-cream-1.jpg

i rewatched reloaded and revolutions and they are the best movies ever

this is my first time watching them while in a loving and committed relationship and the neo/trinity stuff shook me to my core

i had no idea this was coming out until this morning, when i saw a poster on the Tube for it

eat that, online advertisers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpvWBuTfrc

got IMAX tix, opening night, let's fucking go etc

I hope we finally find out how Keanu Reeves becomes the Matrix.

eeeee so excited

I don’t want to say more but based on empirical visual evidence: Lana Wachowski confirmed Blackhat stan

— Jake Cole (@ThatJakePC) December 16, 2021

lmao this is going to rule

SO

EXCITED

I hope the end credits-roll has a blooper reel.

omfg

nah it's a sequel for people who think that lana wachowski found her perfect galaxy brain match working with david mitchell (cloud atlas! sense8!) and pretty much ideally ties together both the inherent optimism of her films with the cynicism that comes with working in film https://t.co/4EunwCUXnK

— the morally corrupt juan barquin (@woahitsjuanito) December 21, 2021

read a pretty bad review over here - "numbing sequence of (nice looking) action scenes just like the 2nd & 3rd movies" etc

well they’ve already characterized the sequels incorrectly