The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M

Post by pessimizer » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 2:55 AM UTC

ruined wrote: post #158

pessimizer wrote: post #92

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I couldn't have imagined that the fourth would be the worst, though. Not only silly and pointless (I don't care if Neo and Trinity are together, I care about the nature of reality and the fate of humanity), but without Yuen Woo Ping, even the action was trash. I can't stand the parade of superhero movies, but I'd be hard put to think of one I wouldn't have preferred to this. I fell asleep an hour in, tried it again t…

>I care about the nature of reality and the fate of humanity i don't think you'll find that in a film

Post by Apocryphon » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 2:55 AM UTC

babyshake wrote: post #3

Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Suicide Squad, Tenet, the Matrix. Not a great run for WB.

Post by freewilly1040 » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 2:57 AM UTC

Apocryphon wrote: post #136

titzer wrote: post #124

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The first time I saw Resurrections, I was lol'ing at the brainstorming montage, as I saw it as her explicitly sticking her finger in the eye of all the haters and crackheads out there. But the second time it was cringe. I mean, the first Matrix was this unabashedly bad-ass movie that was so fresh, and then by the time number 4 rolled around, it hates itself and everyone else so much that most of the screen time is sp…

I think there's a way to make Matrix 4 that looks upon its own legacy and destroys that baggage, "kill your darlings" and all that, and even maybe many of the scenes filmed in this one could be present in that movie. But the film we saw in theaters is not the quality version of that meta-textual film, it is often very confusing with poor writing, execrable action scenes, and plot that is far less clever than its ambi…

Post by the_doctah » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 2:58 AM UTC

liamwire wrote: post #165

EZ-Cheeze wrote: post #137

I think the saying "set and setting" applies to movies as much as it does to psychedelics. I was hyped to watch it, I was nicely toasted, I watched it as soon as it came out, and it did everything right in my book. For starters, it grabbed me from the get-go: the shot of a SWAT operator's foot stepping into a puddle was totally gorgeous. Everything else that happened was interesting as hell - a program being evolved…

I’m absolutely with you here. I walked into it having intentionally avoided the trailers, and treating the whole existence as a thrown-bone, a “here’s one last throwback to something truly special, in a time when we could all use some familiarity,” while remaining self-aware, and tongue-in-cheek. It knew what it was, looked that right in the face, and said ‘don’t take it too seriously.’ And I didn’t, and it was great…

Post by yucky » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 2:59 AM UTC

titzer wrote: post #61

I saw it twice. I honestly cannot tell if Lana Wachowski hates the Matrix or not. There was this meta montage of "oh we have to make a sequel to the Matrix because the suits wanted it, everybody pile on stupid crap", which was obviously a middle finger to...someone. I laughed out loud at how over the top that blatant F-U was...but given that the movie proceeded to then actually crap on every single thing that was awe…