The Matrix Resurrections Thread - Woah

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Remember guys, Matrix 4 is bad on purpose, so it's actually really baysed and you should totally watch and support it.

To me, the ending is a tranny saying the ultimate hero is both male and female, i.e., a tranny.

What I do know is Joel Silver wouldn't have stood for such low-effort faggotry, which is why he has nothing to do with it.

I'm no movie buff but I remember the hand to hand combat scenes in Batman Begins being mostly muddy and unreadable (Which was a shame in an otherwise awesome film). Maybe that's where it came from?

It came from this masterpiece of unwatchability:

Before Bourne 2, shaky-cam was considered the hallmark of terrible directors who didn't know how to shoot action, hence Nolan's overuse of it in Begins.

 

[LightDragonman1]

It came from this masterpiece of unwatchability:

Before Bourne 2, shaky-cam was considered the hallmark of terrible directors who didn't know how to shoot action, hence Nolan's overuse of it in Begins.

I also blame Saving Private Ryan for it as well.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

I also blame Saving Private Ryan for it as well.

You could also throw Gladiator in there. SPR, at least, was trying to make it feel like you were seeing something a cameraman was capturing in real-time. For everyone else it was a trendy style choice that aged terribly and wasn't especially admired even when it was popular.

Edit: apparently Dan Bradley was responsible for the shaky cam menace that raped Hollywood for close to a decade. I remember people were pissed at how shaky Quantum of Solace was (I still don't know how that boat flipped), and The Hunger Games pretty much killed it.

In my opinion, if QOS had been edited like Casino Royale and had a less shit title song it would be considered one of the better Bond movies.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

PS: Trinity looks like she writes for the Mary Sue, has 12 cats, and an intact hymen.

A serious fourth movie sequel would have had new actors, with the originals in cameo roles. It could have been a machine civil war, a machine virus or even an alien threat that requires humans and machines to work together, with some on both sides vehemently opposed. That requires a good writer and a creative director to put it in motion. Instead we have actors in roles that should be played by people half their age and a plot a middle school kid would be embarrassed to show his/her fiends.

I don;t know, maybe this is just a tax write off for WB so they can perform creative accounting. I can't believe this was not only approved but released.

 

[LazloChalos]

I'm no movie buff but I remember the hand to hand combat scenes in Batman Begins being mostly muddy and unreadable (Which was a shame in an otherwise awesome film). Maybe that's where it came from?

Oddly enough one hand to hand combat scene that felt real despite being short and with obvious thrown punches was from grosse point blank.

 

[The Ugly One]

I really hate the Matrix sequels... but they are spectacular looking, you simply can't deny that. Whoever came up with the "shakey-cam close-up" action scenes of today needs to be nailed to a burning cross.

First time I saw that was I think the Bourne Identity. It was cool at the time, but it was, like all things, a technique that makes sense for projecting a mood, in that case, giving the audience a feeling of claustrophobia and chaos. It quickly just became a way to hide the actors being unable to fight at all.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Oddly enough one hand to hand combat scene that felt real despite being short and with obvious thrown punches was from grosse point blank.

Here's another cool one:

For those who don't want to google, Cusack's a legit martial artist who's been training under Benny "The Jet" Urquidez (little guy in the first clip) since like the early 90s.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

A serious fourth movie sequel would have had new actors, with the originals in cameo roles. It could have been a machine civil war, a machine virus or even an alien threat that requires humans and machines to work together, with some on both sides vehemently opposed. That requires a good writer and a creative director to put it in motion. Instead we have actors in roles that should be played by people half their age and a plot a middle school kid would be embarrassed to show his/her fiends.

I don;t know, maybe this is just a tax write off for WB so they can perform creative accounting. I can't believe this was not only approved but released.

It was mentioned on Screen Rant that the “some machines siding with the humans” war Niobe mentioned would have made for a more interesting film than what we got.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Matrix 4 was boring with bad action scenes.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

https://twitter.com/reviewspossum/status/1477364760261844992?s=21

 

[augment]

Well the matrix part 4 was certainly... a movie.

 

[Internet's Boyfriend]

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To be fair it sounds like it's not so much the actors' fault as it is Wachowski either not having a clear idea of what he wants or being so fucked up mentally that he can't form a coherent stream of thought.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

To be fair it sounds like it's not so much the actors' fault as it is Wachowski either not having a clear idea of what he wants or being so fucked up mentally that he can't form a coherent stream of thought.

Pretty sure it's both, since I've come to find out that Matrix 4 was basically his way of dealing with everyone in his life dying.

 

[GuntPunt]

Complete dogshit.

And that woman with 8s in her hair pissed me off to look at because of how stupid it was.

 

[Slime Tube]

The VelociPastor was better than this crap. Can't understand the positive reaction it seems be getting.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

My ex told me she loves this movie and that it had "many layers" and I don't regret at all breaking up with her despite her being a nice girl.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

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I normally don't blame actors for terrible movies, unless in some very specific cases (i.e. the movie is fine, everyone acted okay except for the one faggot who can't act, etc.) in this case its clear the actors where trying to understand what was going on but Larry kept being a retard, Jessica's quote is hilarious, imagine having doubts about your role, lines etc. you consult the director and he starts sperging about random shit, no doubt fancying himself an intellectual, while etnirely avoiding your question.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Again, it seems like the filmmakers were going for a Rebuild Of Evangelion-esque meta-narrative approach with this film, complete with the same lack of clarity given to the actors. And like that series, the execution is extremely suspect.

Which is also hilarious, as the last Rebuild film was The Matrix Revolutions in all but name.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Here's another cool one:

For those who don't want to google, Cusack's a legit martial artist who's been training under Benny "The Jet" Urquidez (little guy in the first clip) since like the early 90s.

i was going to say, its a shitload easier to make an action scene look real when its between two pros, even then the GPB scene is cut to shit, shaky cam is meant to hid those cuts. as good as the fight scene is you can tell every move was done one at a time while the director yelled cut, like a fucking dolomite film.

It was mentioned on Screen Rant that the “some machines siding with the humans” war Niobe mentioned would have made for a more interesting film than what we got.

its like the animatrix all over again. the second renaissance was a half hour of plot that they could have expanded on greatly, while the sequels would probably have worked better as one film, there was way too much padding to those films, zion was shit. also the machines siding with the humans war is technically the matrix online, so a few fanboys got a shout out, but a movie just showing what happened outside of the matrix would have been sweet.

 

[LightDragonman1]

As for my thoughts on the action scenes, while I didn't think they were horrible, that's the issue. They are merely serviceable, not epic or big. This is a series that prides itself on having amazing action setpieces, with moments that go above and beyond, taking full advantage of things such as anime aesthetics, martial arts, bullet time, and gun-fu to elevate them into things you can hardly see anywhere else. Resurrections doesn't really do that, as what you see is what you get in terms of those moments. There's not anything extra added to give spice to them, which only makes the tamer choreography and shaky cam stand out even more.

I know people slag on him a lot, but even filmmakers like Michael Bay realize that to make a truly epic action setpiece, you have to add in that extra element to really keep the audience engaged. The original film did that better than any other movie imo, so I don't know why that wasn't the case here. Even without Yuen Woo-Ping, the chance for adding that extra layer was still there, and they didn't take advantage of it.

For what I mean, I'll let Filmento (yes I know he's not exactly high quality) explain using the aforementioned Michael Bay as an example (8:53 to 13:21 of the video):

His words at 13:07 are especially applicable to why this film is underwhelming.