it's not a bad idea at all just the execution isn't really there
like most of revolutions really
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
I don’t see how you ignore Smith constantly deadnaming Neo!
Haven't seen the new one yet, but from what I read it starts with Keanu living in the matrix again under his old name. Per the above reading would that mean he effectively detransitioned?
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
i believe this is a theme in the new one (also haven’t seen it)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
or at least i read a review that was like “most trans ppl detransition bc the world makes it too hard for them”
― ufo, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 7:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
idk it’s there if you think of reloaded and revolutions as a single movie
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:32 (two years ago) link
admittedly i care about the rave orgy-oriented citizens of zion by default
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
and i love kid but he is very much assisted as a character by his animatrix short
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
wow i never made the connection. maybe i’ll like the movie character better now..
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 05:12 (two years ago) link
reloaded could have done a much better job at making me care about the zion residents than it did but even ignoring that the actual battle in revolutions is just such a drag with its endless scenes of mechs shooting at the machines.
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 06:09 (two years ago) link
new one is a cross between wes craven's new nightmare and rebuild of evangelion. doesn't have enough gremlins 2 (looney tunes character excepted)
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 07:17 (two years ago) link
I liked the first half much more than expected. Kind of wish they would have committed to the first three movies being a fantasy in sad Keanu's brain, or even Neo & Trinity only continuing to exist as computer programs would have been more poignant .
Biggest surprise was how good Keanu looks without that beard.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
“This is Cybebe.”[crowd goes apeshit. Just absolutely foaming at the mouth wild.]— 🏜🔋, fka ☕️ (@coopercooperco) December 23, 2021
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 06:06 (two years ago) link
(Elliott smith needle in the hay voice) I know Kung fuuuuuuuuuuu pic.twitter.com/VgEVTcV44c— Mister Goblin (@DrMisterGoblin) December 31, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 December 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
Matrix 4 best Matrix
I hope the end credits-roll has a blooper reel.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, December 16, 2021 4:01 PM (two weeks ago)
sshh
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Friday, 31 December 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
Dear God
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-covid-19-tracker-players-list-week-17/17xzodcji35bn1e2w5gnho3r3d
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 December 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
Lol wrong thread
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 December 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
ok i never finished my rewatch of the trilogy (the revolutions rave stopped me cold & i forgot to go back) (sorry brad ilu)BUTResurrections was so good, like i am kind of flipped out by how much i loved it. i loved how it pulled so many things together but was like a seven-layer dip of new ideas and new feelings and reclaiming ideas & holy crap meta on meta on meta yes i am very down
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 January 2022 07:41 (two years ago) link
also this piece by Emily Van Der Werf is SPOILERS but well worth reading https://www.vox.com/culture/22847558/the-matrix-resurrections-4-spoilers-review-neo-therapy-mental-health-trauma
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 January 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
the cave rave is the best sex scene of all time
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 January 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
matrix power rankings currently 2 4 1 3, watch this space for updates
― adam, Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
finally saw resurrections, cried through the whole thing, 10/10
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 January 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
<3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 January 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
this movie is like... swirling through my head like a helix of code. the meta stuff was so well done. making art to access the truth in a world that constantly sublimates it away. feeling too old to resemble who you used to be, to be capable of what you used to be capable of, because the world has reinforced, over and over again, that you can't be, won't be, and you weren't ever that person in the first place. but you were. you knew hope, and love. and you will know it again
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 January 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
for my anime heads it was very much like watching evangelion 3.0 and the utena movie at the same time
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
I have seen that comparison(to Eva, esp.) made elsewhere, yeah
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
Hey whaddayaknow, this new one is probably the best of all the Matrixes. Matrices? Anyway. Would not have expected that.I only saw Revolutions for the first time ever this week, mostly underwhelmed. And only saw Reloaded for the second time ever this week, better than I remembered. Resurrections kinda retroactively makes the whole series better than it was before, though. It's like a magic trick.
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Sunday, 2 January 2022 05:47 (two years ago) link
otmi think making it so personal really opened it up.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 January 2022 07:20 (two years ago) link
Revolutions definitely made Reloaded worse for me retroactively, so that's good to know.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 January 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
i'm personally glad that revolutions will continue to be misunderstood
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 January 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
i could have done without the kung fu scene and the groff agent smith. i liked everything else.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 2 January 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
I really didnt care for this film. Groff was really miscast as Smith (I do realise they wanted Weaving back in the role but he couldnt commit).
I do get the whole trans subtext and think the overall premise of the Matrix story is great and the first film remains a standout but this? This just felt like a clip show! A good 20 minutes or more was just bits of the other films!
And I'm gonna say it. We all love Keanu but that man cannot act.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 2 January 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
20 minutes feels like a real exaggeration
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 January 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
instead of projecting actual clips from the first movie in that room they should've committed to the bit and remade them in half-life 2 era source engine
― ✖, Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
i'm an idiot... they could've just used footage from enter the matrix!
― ✖, Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
i am not mad at u trayce to be clearbut this is a rant i need to get off my chest bc i see it alot the Keanu cannot act thing drives me fucking ~crazy~yes i am a stan butbut as written, what would a “well acted” Neo look like. like, please tell me. he inhabits the role incredibly well & by not trying to do too much ppl just go oh he is doing nothing which is not the same thing at alllike no one says carrie ann moss can’t act bc she stands around delivering lines stonefaced. thats what is required of the role. but ppl understand that bc she has the benefit of no one saw her in anything else ever & she didnt spend decades laboring under the conventional wisdom of critics that you are sooo terrible at your job, which you arent and never were anyway this is not the keanu thread i’ll shut up
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
otm tho
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
I can't find the *really* good article about Keanu's acting that I was reading a while ago, but this one's definitely pretty good:
https://lithub.com/the-hero-we-need-keanu-reeves-is-demolishing-all-our-dumb-stereotypes/
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link
Here it is! https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/04/21/the-grace-of-keanu-reeves/
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
yes! doing less ≠ doing nothing that is almost my thoughts exactly, excellent piece -thx for linking
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
Griffin & David go about as long on this flick as you’d expect https://audioboom.com/posts/8006197-the-matrix-resurrections
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
the "Keanu can't act" accusations better fit a film like Devil's Advocate, where he actually tries for some gravitas and fails. he's a pretty convincing Neo and those are the roles he does well.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:22 (two years ago) link
xpost listening now, in total hog heaven podcastwise
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
Carrie Ann Moss is even worse! Anyway I will stop now :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 January 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link
saw resurrections and it was pretty good! not everything worked but most of it did. much better than revolutions for sure, though it doesn't reach the same heights as the first two. i do wish hugo weaving had been available though, that would have made this version of smith even better.
not really surprising that a lot of people hated this though, it really requires being at least familiar and sympathetic towards the sequels + having tolerance for its self-indulgent meta stuff which i guess most people don't. personally i loved mgs2 and could have done with even more of it though
― ufo, Monday, 3 January 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link
i want speed racer resurrections
― ufo, Monday, 3 January 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
I haven't seen any of this yet and may yet watch some of it, but I know the very general gist and saw someone else suggest that it should have been called "The Matrix: Rebooted," and I think that's very clever.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 January 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
keanu is the uncarved block
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
xp: It would have been more clever if this movie was a reboot and did not involve multiple resurrections
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 3 January 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
Can I watch this if I haven't seen the third one?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 3 January 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah. Skim a plot summary though.
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 3 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link