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No Hugo Weaving either it looked like.
Hopefully, his character Agent Smith is still in?
Agent Smith was destroyed in Matrix 3. It was a reasonably major part of the plot.
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#52so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.
No Hugo Weaving either it looked like.
I recently realized that in an action movie the hero almost doesn't matter. The villain makes or breaks the movie. Luke Skywalker, John McClane, Neo: they're irrelevant next to Darth Vader, Hans Gruber, and Agent Smith.
Hugo Weaving was on fire as Agent Smith in The Matrix. One of the best performances I've ever seen. The interrogation room at the beginning, and the desperation with Morpheus at the end, are just pure perfection. This movie is going to suck unless they can figure out a new villain half as good as Agent Smith in Matrix 1.
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#53this is kinda nice. you see guys, there is no need to look at the correct time and go and use "AI" to generate the speech and text in real time using the latest and greatest in tech. you can just as simply pre record all time 1 to 59 and then join them. much easier and i dare say, much more elegant
It’s not a recording. Modern video editors/compositors can do batches with dynamic content. So someone had a list and just rendered all the segments out.
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#54I'm reading here various conspiracy theories about how the current time was inserted by one technical trick or another. We should at least consider the possibility that this was simply a preview of the matrix we all live in, and to prepare us for waking up in a vat of mucus.
Actually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines.
What if you’re never really sure you exited the simulation? LOL
When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake. But when you’re awake, you KNOW it. How?
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#55so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.
Spoilers for a game that cannot be played in 2021 and can barely be watched on YouTube: Morpheus died in The Matrix Online and the filmmakers have stated the events in Online remain canon.
They could still call him for some "pre recorded message we just found" or w/e.
I also find it quite rude since morpheus is arguably the most (after neo, of course) representative character of the franchise.
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#56Why is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?
Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…
I agree to the extent that the Architect in Matrix 2 [?] had some interesting things to say, and his explanation about why the machine needed humans almost redeemed the idiotic rationale of the first movie (electrical generators???). But, that and few other interesting ideas aside, I found them tedious and not well constructed.
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#57so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.
Spoilers for a game that cannot be played in 2021 and can barely be watched on YouTube: Morpheus died in The Matrix Online and the filmmakers have stated the events in Online remain canon.
I don't know if that's a good excuse - Neo and Trinity both died in Revolutions but Keanu and Carrie-Ann Moss are back.
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#58Why is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?
Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…
I think they were too cryptic and the Wachowskis were consumed by the grandiosity of their own mythos, but they were still impressive for what they attempted to do: build a sci-fi epic.
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#59Why is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?
The truth is there is no movie
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spoilers for a game that cannot be played in 2021 and can barely be watched on YouTube: Morpheus died in The Matrix Online and the filmmakers have stated the events in Online remain canon.
I don't know if that's a good excuse - Neo and Trinity both died in Revolutions but Keanu and Carrie-Ann Moss are back.
They're probably digital backups of uploaded memories or something like that. Both of their bodies were at the Machine City at the end of the trilogy, after all.