The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
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GuardianX
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I just can't believe how this movie is this bad. It blows my mind. Like if you play MMOs for a decade, you should be able to play fairly decently at that 10 years mark.
These are actors who have been in the business for decades, and no one even tried to salvage this shit show.
The theory that they were contractually bound to make this movie makes some sense to the reason why it was so bad, if the theory is true. Really though, if I was a big name actor..I wouldn't want my name attached to this shit show.
Cybsled
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The whole "humans as energy" angle was stupid - the studio forced that in Matrix 1 because they thought the audience couldn't understand using humans as a network of computing power sources instead. Even in the 1st movie Morpheus says they use humans "and a form of fusion". So controlled fusion power exists. Why the fuck do you need humans as part of that power system? Are they farting helium-3??
If they need heat, geothermal would get them a lot more than people as well. It is just a dumb plot device. And like you pointed out, them going into space would be better long term. Unlimited solar power, unexploited resources. Unless the material humans used to blacken the sky has some anti-AI element to it, no reason they couldn't just go outside the atmosphere.
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Caliane
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so, who reviewing this crap has played the video games? I'm assuming that shit is all canon, so, maybe some of this makes sense if you are up to date on that?
like, watching a review now, and it mentions Morpheus being dead, and resurrected, and not knowing how or that Morpheus was even dead in the first place. well, he died in the games. (I haven't, but I think it was mentioned, and the cut scened linked in this thread earlier.)
like, watching a review now, and it mentions Morpheus being dead, and resurrected, and not knowing how or that Morpheus was even dead in the first place. well, he died in the games. (I haven't, but I think it was mentioned, and the cut scened linked in this thread earlier.)
spronk
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i played the MMO but only for a few hours around beta time, it was pretty terrible but fun in that early, janky, MMO way
the MMO isn't canon anymore apparently cuz the stuff in there directly contradicts this movie. In the MMO Morpheus is mad that the AIs won't return Neo's body, starts fighting against the machines again, is declared a terrorist by Zion and killed by the machines in some big event or something.
In this movie Niobe says Morpheus believed peace with the machines would last forever, became the leader of Zion, and died when Zion was wiped out (i don't think she says why). So while you could try to reconcile the two its really not the same at all.
the MMO isn't canon anymore apparently cuz the stuff in there directly contradicts this movie. In the MMO Morpheus is mad that the AIs won't return Neo's body, starts fighting against the machines again, is declared a terrorist by Zion and killed by the machines in some big event or something.
In this movie Niobe says Morpheus believed peace with the machines would last forever, became the leader of Zion, and died when Zion was wiped out (i don't think she says why). So while you could try to reconcile the two its really not the same at all.
Fight
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This movie is a complete waste of time, and a 4/10 at best.
There were a couple good ideas in here, but they quickly brushed them under the rug and got back to the terrible characters, dialogue, and mind numbing story.
Having the machines fracture into competing hives, at war for energy resources is a great story point. That explains why you have some machines that would see it in their best interest to work with and use the humans as partners. It is also a reason for them to try and bring back Neo, as he could be a trump-card to beat the other machines at their own game. He would be like their virus or their Smith that can play in their world, but by his own rules.
That is all you need as the foundation for a continuation of the story. Not fake Morpheus, not fake Smith, not "Trinity: I'm the One now", not video game designer Thomas Anderson, and certainly not those new Zion losers who are just as annoying as ever.
The biggest travesty in my opinion is their complete disregard for the danger of the Matrix. Agents are a joke, guns are a pew pew set-piece, and the zombie swarm is when they fully sold out to the Marvel-mouth-breathers. This is stupid fucking movie for stupid fucking people.
There were a couple good ideas in here, but they quickly brushed them under the rug and got back to the terrible characters, dialogue, and mind numbing story.
Having the machines fracture into competing hives, at war for energy resources is a great story point. That explains why you have some machines that would see it in their best interest to work with and use the humans as partners. It is also a reason for them to try and bring back Neo, as he could be a trump-card to beat the other machines at their own game. He would be like their virus or their Smith that can play in their world, but by his own rules.
That is all you need as the foundation for a continuation of the story. Not fake Morpheus, not fake Smith, not "Trinity: I'm the One now", not video game designer Thomas Anderson, and certainly not those new Zion losers who are just as annoying as ever.
The biggest travesty in my opinion is their complete disregard for the danger of the Matrix. Agents are a joke, guns are a pew pew set-piece, and the zombie swarm is when they fully sold out to the Marvel-mouth-breathers. This is stupid fucking movie for stupid fucking people.
ohkcrlho
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So... From what I can gather, this movie is a meta 4th wall TFA type movie?
Lol utter garbage.
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TBT-TheBigToe
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During the early trailers a movie would come to mind every time; Ghostbusters 2016: Answer The Call.
It's the colour scheme and colour saturation and general look of the entire picture. I hate movies that look like that, it takes a special kind of movie to rise above that dislike of certain colour schemes/saturation like The Grand Budapest Hotel does because the colour scheme/saturation has to work with overall movie. If it is a movie that is meant to be surrealist or "not-reality" it isn't a problem because, for me, it works. However, movies like Matrix 4 or Ghostbusters 2016 don't work because they are not surrealist (intentionally) nor is that removal from visual reality part of the reality the movie is trying to portray. It just looks, and comes across, as cartoonish.
I did see a minute of this on twitch, a fight in a train, and it was baffelingly bad. Terrible green screening and layering of visual action pieces. Like you could tell the fight in the foreground and the fight in the back ground were not filmed on the same location at the same time, they were shot separately and digitally layered. I understand this is how it is just done but it was blatantly obvious, add that to a bad green screen of the background of the train and it just looked terrible. The editing was awful, cinematography was awful, choreography might have been good but the camera was bouncing all over the place and the edits were too quick to see what the hell was going on.
And it was just screaming in my face; Ghostbusters 2016: Answer The Call.
If that is the first movie that comes to mind when someone sees a trailer, or just a minute of your movie, then you have made some terrible fucking mistakes making that movie.
It's the colour scheme and colour saturation and general look of the entire picture. I hate movies that look like that, it takes a special kind of movie to rise above that dislike of certain colour schemes/saturation like The Grand Budapest Hotel does because the colour scheme/saturation has to work with overall movie. If it is a movie that is meant to be surrealist or "not-reality" it isn't a problem because, for me, it works. However, movies like Matrix 4 or Ghostbusters 2016 don't work because they are not surrealist (intentionally) nor is that removal from visual reality part of the reality the movie is trying to portray. It just looks, and comes across, as cartoonish.
I did see a minute of this on twitch, a fight in a train, and it was baffelingly bad. Terrible green screening and layering of visual action pieces. Like you could tell the fight in the foreground and the fight in the back ground were not filmed on the same location at the same time, they were shot separately and digitally layered. I understand this is how it is just done but it was blatantly obvious, add that to a bad green screen of the background of the train and it just looked terrible. The editing was awful, cinematography was awful, choreography might have been good but the camera was bouncing all over the place and the edits were too quick to see what the hell was going on.
And it was just screaming in my face; Ghostbusters 2016: Answer The Call.
If that is the first movie that comes to mind when someone sees a trailer, or just a minute of your movie, then you have made some terrible fucking mistakes making that movie.
Attog
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I remember one scene with one of the flunkie chicks wearing a short skirt and maybe some tall leather boots. That was pretty cool.
Goatface
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imdbneo is so old he has carpal tunnel
i swear he's using the vertical mouse the wrong way
In the first scene where Thomas Anderson is sitting bored behind his computer, just after the 'perimeter breach' notification on his screen, he uses his computer mouse the wrong way around. The cord is at the bottom of the mouse.
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