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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 10 September 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
pretending the second and third movies don't exist has long been the best option for everyone
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Friday, 10 September 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
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!"
― mark e, Friday, 10 September 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
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
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
anyone who walked out of green knight slipped on a banana peel on their way out
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
Jessica Henwick looks cool af in this trailer
― mh, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
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
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 13 September 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
ugh i'm gonna end up watching all of these again
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 13 September 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
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
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 October 2021 06:44 (two years ago) link
and i still love the philosophical gobbledygook underpinnings like i am very linus w his blue blanket about that aspect <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 October 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
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
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 18 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
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
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 18 October 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgYs_NDyaLs
this is gonna whip ass (i hope i hope i hope)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
change change change change...
change is the only constant...constant...constant...change change change change
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link
Keanu was spotted eating ice cream alone during the filming:
https://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/keanu-ice-cream-1.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
i rewatched reloaded and revolutions and they are the best movies ever
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
this is my first time watching them while in a loving and committed relationship and the neo/trinity stuff shook me to my core
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
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!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 December 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpvWBuTfrc
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
got IMAX tix, opening night, let's fucking go etc
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
I hope we finally find out how Keanu Reeves becomes the Matrix.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
eeeee so excited
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 December 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
SOEXCITED
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
I hope the end credits-roll has a blooper reel.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 16 December 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
omfg
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 December 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
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
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
read a pretty bad review over here - "numbing sequence of (nice looking) action scenes just like the 2nd & 3rd movies" etc
― StanM, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
well they’ve already characterized the sequels incorrectly
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
I'm about 90 minutes in and so far there's not one scene that's not a) an easter egg or b) glib meta-commentary on the previous three. Shit, half the movie is a clip show. It's honestly pretty boring. The one thing I'll give it is that in this one, people bleed when they get shot.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
what a beautifully incoherent mess A+
also funnier than expected
also lol reminded me of Scream 4 because it's also a 4th entry in a series and both are about [redacted]
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 December 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
Its true the action scenes in 2 & 3 were ugly
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 December 2021 08:35 (two years ago) link
??? they’re beautiful
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:48 (two years ago) link
sorry if you’re having a laugh deems it’s hard to tell given the way ppl talk about these movies
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link
NEO!
TRINITY!
― ma dmac's fury road (PBKR), Thursday, 23 December 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Im afraid we might for first time ever part ways on the sequels but i want you to know its been an amazing journey and we will meet again the far side of it im sure
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
they’re so good deems open your heart
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
https://boxd.it/2nTThf
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
I may revisit based on your good word alone, i want you to know its not everyone would sway me even that much
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
the highway scene in reloaded is my favorite action sequence ever, clearly inspired by the long chase at the end of terminator 2 (and cameron in general) and somehow exponentially better than it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
the fate of the world doesn't matter nearly so much as the one person who can see you even when you've lost yourself
Easy to say when the world is actually ending tbh.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
what can you do about it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
that writer is also responsible for my favorite review of revolutions/my favorite review on letterboxd https://boxd.it/9FdjD
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
the highway chase is literally the only thing i can remember about the sequels rn apart from the rave orgy
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
when I think of the matrix I think of neo doing the "come hither" movement with his hand before a fight
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
I have a certain regard for the sequels but I rewatched the whole trilogy recently and the dialogue in the last two is super cringe at times.Things I liked about the sequels:- maximum Agent Smith (do not @ me, I love that character)- the soundtrack for Reloaded is great iirc- the weirdness of two of the guys from Changing Rooms cast as villains- Revolutions maybe edges Reloaded slightly for me, Reloaded is very fun but it’s a bit too computer game and there’s not enough humour. A big part of what I loved so much of the original was the touches of humour in the right places that stopped it being overly pompous.- also, the notion of contamination between the worlds (even if they don’t flesh it out right)Things I didn’t:- Cypher is an incredibly relatable villain, there’s nobody quite like him in the sequels. They’re all either Smiths or rushed caricatures, whereas Cypher is genuinely less is more and Pantaliano really does the most with it- the dialogue, fuck me, I wanted to die at some of Morpheus’s lines in Reloaded- they didn’t lift enough stuff from The Invisibles to tip it over- some of the cgi (esp for the Burly Brawl) aged horrendously- they didn’t spend enough on Trinity being the only person to see the sun in centuries Am interested in seeing this fourth one, despite decidedly mixed reviews
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
I love Brad's enthusiasm for, well, everything, and I agree at least as far as my memory has it that the highway chase in part 2 was pretty awesome. when we tried to watch the movie last year or so, though, for the first time since I either saw it in theaters or more likely an advanced screening, we didn't even make it that far It's one thing to be silly, but that second movie was so boring. as I recounted here some months ago, at the start there's something like 50 minutes after the first fight scene before anything interesting happens again, and this sequel ain't no Aliens.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link