The Matrix Resurrections Thread - Woah

Jonathan Groff mmmm (though....was it just me or in the first teaser his mouth did this weird scarecrow like thing...it blurred)
 
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Nope nope nope you had one chance at a first impression and you blew it wachoskis wachoski. Ok ok all jokes aside other than that it looks...a little promising definfetly more colorful and vibrant than the original that's an improvement.....sad thing is the idea for a new matrix is there...given how much has changed since the late 90s/2000s when the original trilogy came out but...yeahhh given how much HAS changed especially in hollywood...I dont get cautiously optimistic about anything anymore.


Also resurections? Seriously? have they still nbot learned that subtitle sucks and is often a kiss of death for any movie that uses it? It would have been less embarassing to just call it the matrix 4 or the matrix chapter 4...hell redownloaded. It harkens back to reloaded, and connects to the entire series.
 
horrorfan89 said:
Also resurections? Seriously? have they still nbot learned that subtitle sucks and is often a kiss of death for any movie that uses it? It would have been less embarassing to just call it the matrix 4 or the matrix chapter 4...hell redownloaded. It harkens back to reloaded, and connects to the entire series.
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Standardized Profile said:
This is a stealth prequel. We're seeing an earlier iteration of the Matrix in which the integral anomaly is slightly older when it manifests. Movie will end with Thomas Anderson meeting the Architect, who tells him this is the 15th time they are going to destroy Zion. Thomas agrees to return his code to the source and reboot the Matrix, but warns the Architect, "One day, there will be another one ... a new one ... like me, who will overthrow your oppression." The Architect says, "When that happens, I'll be ready," and a CGI Hugo Weaving walks into frame and looks right into the camera.

If I'm wrong I'll eat my :popcorn:.
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That actually sounds clever, so it will never happen.
frozenrunner said:
I feel stupid for being excited.
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Fluoxetine Man said:
That actually sounds clever, so it will never happen.

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Like I said I don't get cautiously optimistic about anything anymore. The best we can hope for is the stunts and action to be good...which basically sums up the series as a whole.


And yes that includes the original. I know it's bad form to agree with a lolcow but Doug walker was right, the whole series is overhyped and overrated. With the only thing going for it are the effects and action scenes.
 
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I remember renting one of the games from blockbuster and being thoroughly disappointed, simpler times back then...
 
horrorfan89 said:
And yes that includes the original. I know it's bad form to agree with a lolcow but Doug walker was right, the whole series is overhyped and overrated. With the only thing going for it are the effects and action scenes.
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The 90's has been memewashed to death by Millennial nostalgia miners, and turned into a kind of dayglo parody of itself. Makes me wonder if anybody remembers how it really was. The Matrix wasn't a Great Movie, but it could be the most 90's of movies.

The first Matrix was slicker than a Guido's hairdo, with groundbreaking digital effects, razor sharp aesthetics, and tight editing like something fresh off MTV.

The story was pretty simple and so was the acting - mostly Keanu looking confused or bored and Hugo Weaving chewing the scenery - but it was a solidly entertaining movie. It borrowed shamelessly from a ton of other sources, the Asian martial arts stuff and Philosophy 101 obviously.

But it also fit into a mini genre of 90's techno-paranoia and pre-Millennial anxiety. Earlier in the decade, films like Lawnmower Man, Johnny Mnemonic, Dark City, 12 Monkeys, Hackers, Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor and whatnot had similar vibes, tho none were as successful at packaging them as the Wachowski bros. The 90's was a weird mix of optimism and cynicism, kind of a second gilded age - there was a lot of amazing technological progress and rising prosperity, but also a sense of unease that maybe the folks running things didn't actually have our interests at heart. Maybe the truth was out there, being concealed by shadowy chain-smoking government employees, and this internet fad and all its mass surveillance possibilities might be a little creepy. Y2K was coming, and people were holding their breath, expecting... something... to happen.

Not necessarily something wonderful. In fact a lot of people were secretly disappointed when planes didn't fall out of the sky and the banks continued to function. Fight Club was another (and better) zeitgeisty 1999 movie that tapped into something about people starting to feel restless and trapped by modernity.

Anyway, The Matrix was as 90's as flip phones and TLC's bold manifesto about rejecting scrubs, and it should have stayed in that decade. Seeing 55 year old actors in leather trenchcoats do slo-mo karate against a green screen is going to be extremely gay and retarded, which might make it the perfect movie for current decade.
 
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