The Matrix Resurrections Thread - Woah

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Sex Cannon Lupa said:
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.
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Wasn't aware of his training, it just felt more believable because real fight outside of sports, even with some training, tend to be awkward and anticlimatic.
 
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UnKillShredDur said:
At least the first time they did it, it was because the woman who played the Oracle in the first Matrix died in between films.
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UnKillShredDur said:
I've never even heard of Sense8 before, but it looks like you're saying that this is actually *another* time that the creepy troon siblings randomly recast a blacktor with a different blacktor and pretended like nobody would notice the difference or care. (I looked it up, and yes. This does appear to be correct) I'm not surprised though, they all look the same... amirite? >.>
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They also recast the pilot of the ... whatever the ship was called between the first two Matrix films, replacing black guys - again, apparently because of money.

Which is funny, since they keep just recasting black actors when they get too 'difficult', yet the casting for diversity was obvious in this one, as was the way they put old black women on a pedestal. Massive mistake to put Jada Pinkett Smith in old person make-up for it, though. The one recasting that would make sense as the character has aged 60 years, and they didn't take it.

frozenrunner said:
Part of the social commentary in this film is how now people want to "stay in their pods" (an actual phrase in the script) and enjoy what the matrix pipes into their brains
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I'd say spoilers, but no one cares by this point.

The Matrix was never a trans allegory. The Matrix: Resurrections is actually a great trans allegory, though. Because it's explicitly stated in the film that part of how they get people to stay in the artificial world is to manipulate their emotions so that they won't want to take the red pill and face reality. Which is what troons are: people who claim to feel something so strongly they'll reject all reality - and attempts to convince them otherwise - rather than face the truth.

Makes perfect sense - troons are people pushing everyone to take the blue pill. Not the allegory they'd want, but right in line with that tweet screenshotted a few pages back about sequels giving people want they 'need'...

The film itself wasn't good. Everything good from the first film was watered down, if not washed out completely; the action was lacklustre, the fight scenes were poorly choreographed and shot, the music was meh, even the aesthetic wasn't quite right. The meta didn't make sense, and the script and plot were very much on a reddit lefty level. It wasn't so much woke as it was lacking any subtlety and nuance.

As pointed out in previous posts, the Analyst being a misogynist was basic bitch level writing - oh, it's not enough the bad guy is bad, we have to make him say unnecessarily sexist things as well so no one accidentally likes him even a little! Fucking with the population of the earth is one thing, but he does it while performing microaggressions against Trinity! And that goes along with having to knock Neo down to raise Trinity up, not killing any of the supporting cast because they all represent some kind of diversity, and even the netspeak that makes the dialogue so painful to start with. It's not pervasive through the film, and not nearly the worst thing about it, but there's just little touches here and there, including calling Trinity's fake husband Chad, that make it feel like someone in the writing process is your stereotypical Twitter Karen who has pronouns in their bio and lives to be outraged about society and the patriarchy. Maybe Lana (I can't remember their old names) wrote a Tumblr script and was toned down by the others, maybe he wanted to write something completely unrelated, I don't know, but it was an undercurrent. Interestingly, because the two bad guys in the film are both played by gay white actors.

I liked Trinity and Neo, but it was never for their love story, so making that the central part of the film was just another mistake for me. It was fine, but making it a world-changing love is even cheesier than telling yet another Chosen One story. But overall the most accurate line in the film is where they say that Warner Bros. is making a sequel and you can either participate and get out of the way. It's a more interesting failure than The Last Jedi, in that it doesn't fail because it's devoted to shitting on what came before, but instead it's almost too reverent to the source material - all of it, rather than just the bits people liked. The Matrix is very of its time, but at that time it looked amazing, had hints to deeper meanings you could get out of it if you wanted to and/or were stoned, and was a great, fun cinematic experience. For me, the stuff I liked in the sequels was only the stuff in The Matrix (so about half the second film and five minutes of the third), and they Midichlorianed the hell out of those allusions and references to destroy any thought that the Wachowskis had a bigger picture or greater narrative in mind when writing them.

Which is the tl;dr: Really what they needed to do to ape the first one was some cool action, preferably with a special effect executed in a novel or amazing way that made it feel different from other action films. There's none of that. Just a lot of technobabble, some mild Twitter faggotry (and undoubtedly at least one troon in the supporting cast), and wishing that the film was either as good as the first or didn't exist at all.

I've seen very little of people trying to push the troon narrative, but if anyone tries it you can just show them them picture of Lana that's been posted and ask if they support someone who culturally appropriates dreads. Intersectionality is a bitch, troons.
 
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Hey Guys I found a summary of the entire first act condensed into 10 seconds.

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Imagine taking 1/3 of your movie to tell a joke that was done in 10 seconds 40 years ago.
 
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Slime Tube said:
The VelociPastor was better than this crap. Can't understand the positive reaction it seems be getting.
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The VelociPastor was meta done right, because it was a straight-up parody of b-movies, and the tone stayed consistent throughout.

The director actually did a really good job with his actors, too. The acting in The VelociPastor was actually really good and fitting for the tone that it was going for. Looked like the movie was actually fun to make, too.

Give me that movie over Matrix Resurrections anyday.

Hell, I would even pick Llamagheddon over Matrix Resurrections. Llamagheddon actually has some charm to it, as it comes across as a silly movie that a group of friends made together as a fun little inside joke or something. The vibe of that movie reminded me of the old cartoon series, Home Movies.
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
Came across this clip on YouTube. I had forgotten how good this action scene from Reloaded looked:


The choreography, the music, the lighting, the sound editing, the long cuts, etc. This is better than any of the action scenes in Resurrections in every way imaginable.

The absolute state of current cinema when even The Matrix: Reloaded looks as good as it does now ... Good God.
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Loved that fight, but never understood why they added those strange noises to the movement of those weapons -- especially to those ninja daggers Neo used
 
Yuri_ said:
Loved that fight, but never understood why they added those strange noises to the movement of those weapons -- especially to those ninja daggers Neo used
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Same reason they added all the 'whoosh' sounds in old Shaw bros kung-fu movies when people throw punches or kicks. That fight was pretty badass though, and well shot. Matrix II had the best fights of all 3 original movies, even if Matrix I was more revolutionary in shooting fantasy martial-arts combat. Matrix II took it to the next level and beyond. Too bad they choked hard in III and turned it into some SF version of the siege of Helm's Deep.
 
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It had to be posted by TV Tropes eventually.

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The only one of these sorts of reboots that was any good was the new Bladerunner, and that was probably better than the original. All this stuff tells me we are in a cultural dark point as we have been the last 3 decades. It's really depressing that cinema has become this. Maybe COVID is to blame due to logistical difficulties making it hard to churn out a fully baked product but with how bad things have been for so long, I really do think we just live in a time of a dull and uninspired population. If you enjoy your youth and childhood and don't want it to be tainted by poor taste, laziness, and stupidity, don't watch these reboots. If you liked the original Matrix ignore the sequels and make up your own head cannon. Life is too short to let the times bring you down.
 
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The Great Chandler said:
The thing about shaky cam then was that it at least had focused shots that had a purpose to the scene and was reflective of the chaos around it. As usual of Hollywood, they only poorly emulate what worked in the first place.
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Even among artists, most people are not really creative. Most people can only repeat, it takes the truly creative to take old things and synthesize them into something new.
 
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