Enter the Matrix

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.

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)

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.

“This is Cybebe.”
[crowd goes apeshit. Just absolutely foaming at the mouth wild.]

— 🏜🔋, fka ☕️ (@coopercooperco) December 23, 2021

(Elliott smith needle in the hay voice) I know Kung fuuuuuuuuuuu pic.twitter.com/VgEVTcV44c

— Mister Goblin (@DrMisterGoblin) December 31, 2021

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

Dear God

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-covid-19-tracker-players-list-week-17/17xzodcji35bn1e2w5gnho3r3d

Lol wrong thread

ok i never finished my rewatch of the trilogy (the revolutions rave stopped me cold & i forgot to go back) (sorry brad ilu)

BUT

Resurrections 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

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

the cave rave is the best sex scene of all time

matrix power rankings currently 2 4 1 3, watch this space for updates

finally saw resurrections, cried through the whole thing, 10/10

<3

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

for my anime heads it was very much like watching evangelion 3.0 and the utena movie at the same time

I have seen that comparison(to Eva, esp.) made elsewhere, yeah

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.

otm

i think making it so personal really opened it up.

Revolutions definitely made Reloaded worse for me retroactively, so that's good to know.

i'm personally glad that revolutions will continue to be misunderstood

i could have done without the kung fu scene and the groff agent smith. i liked everything else.

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.

20 minutes feels like a real exaggeration

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

i'm an idiot... they could've just used footage from enter the matrix!

i am not mad at u trayce to be clear
but 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 but

but

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 all
like 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

otm tho

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/

Here it is! https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/04/21/the-grace-of-keanu-reeves/

yes! doing less ≠ doing nothing
that is almost my thoughts exactly, excellent piece -thx for linking

Griffin & David go about as long on this flick as you’d expect https://audioboom.com/posts/8006197-the-matrix-resurrections

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.

xpost listening now, in total hog heaven podcastwise

Carrie Ann Moss is even worse! Anyway I will stop now :)

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

i want speed racer resurrections

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.

keanu is the uncarved block

xp: It would have been more clever if this movie was a reboot and did not involve multiple resurrections

Can I watch this if I haven't seen the third one?

Yeah. Skim a plot summary though.

this is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time, it felt so small, stupid, cheap

Didn’t post this here the other night but this impenetrable line read is absolutely incredible & I keep watching it every few hours. When she takes the big breath and it’s STILL indecipherable? That’s the prestige pic.twitter.com/rQhHlIvRVY

— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) January 3, 2022

This movie is more enjoyable to talk about afterward than it is to watch imo

lmao at that video

I thought I got most of that line when watching it.

Here's the subs:

You call this a choice?

Oh, honestly, when somebody offered me these things, I went off on binary conceptions of the world and said there was no way I was swallowing some symbolic reduction of my life. And the woman with the pills laughed ’cause I was missing the point.

What point?

The choice is an illusion. You already know what you have to do.

it was clear, if fast, for me. definitely don’t judge it based off that phone recording of a tv

I will say that this movie is Exhibit 842 in my argument that Hollywood needs to get over its recent aversion to ADR. It feels like there have been at least a few incomprehensible mumblefests in most every movie or tv show I've seen from the past several years.

I liked the new Smith, if only for the fact that it’d have been a dead giveaway from the beginning who Neo’s boss was. That facial expression as he sees the office shootout take place, his eyes settle on the gun that’s on the floor, and then remembers was pretty fun