Enter the Matrix

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

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.

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]

Its true the action scenes in 2 & 3 were ugly

??? they’re beautiful

sorry if you’re having a laugh deems it’s hard to tell given the way ppl talk about these movies

NEO!

TRINITY!

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

they’re so good deems open your heart

https://boxd.it/2nTThf

I may revisit based on your good word alone, i want you to know its not everyone would sway me even that much

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

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.

what can you do about it

that writer is also responsible for my favorite review of revolutions/my favorite review on letterboxd https://boxd.it/9FdjD

the highway chase is literally the only thing i can remember about the sequels rn apart from the rave orgy

when I think of the matrix I think of neo doing the "come hither" movement with his hand before a fight

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

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.

This is how I break it down

watching matrix reloaded, I had forgotten the refuelling section in zion at the start feeling like 18 hours of painfully slow in-engine rpg cutscenes. I know this one is good too but I am dying to press select in my mind to skip this shit.

— Marty Punkhouser (@NoChorus) December 23, 2021

the zillion agent fight is so good and then we're immediately back to this stuff, god help us. pic.twitter.com/hWFrscrLcs

— Marty Punkhouser (@NoChorus) December 23, 2021

Otm

simply the hardest shit of all time pic.twitter.com/LDNAfJ2vZJ

— Marty Punkhouser (@NoChorus) December 23, 2021

some of the cgi (esp for the Burly Brawl) aged horrendously

It looked crap at the time too tbf

Oh sure but even from that low base it hasn’t aged well.

i do not really care about realism re: cgi so the burly brawl works for me just via the impact and weight (plus bowling pin sounds) and the insane camera movement

the battle of zion cgi is still astonishing

portentous dialogue, a five minute sequence of ships docking, oh i love it so

also agent smith is the best character and the best analogue for fascism i’ve seen in a science fiction property

otm, was thinking about the first interview scene and the little grimace when he’s saying “and you help your landlady take out her garbage”

Apart from imelda staunton in potter surely

I can see why ppl dig Reloaded - Zion is awesome, complicates the Chosen One idea, all the crazy stuff with the horny French dude, lotsa good kung fu still. It's not my thing but there's lots there.

Revolutions tho I found much flimsier in its thematic concerns and less creative in its action - Reloaded introduced all these ideas about programs within the Matrix having moral shades of grey but outside of the Matrix in Revolutions the machines are all just mindless bug robots to shoot down; felt like watching an unironic version of Starship Troopers at times. Likewise despite Reloaded's revelations Neo ends up in a messianic role.