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The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.

Plus the Wachowskis have Chicago street names throughout.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.

The first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past that strong debut. The second and third films were a total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche audience and was itself a mixed bag. The surprising and unsolicited fourth film had some promise in the first third of the film - I loved how it…

Star Wars and The Matrix anre great examples of over-explaining removing mystery and undermining your world building.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

#33

Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.

You have to go a long way to get to the "outback" from Sydney, though Hollywood has other ideas. I laughed in Mission Impossible 2 when they set up their base in the desert for their operation in Sydney Harbour. Just a short 500km (at least) helicopter ride away.

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Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.

Neo fights giant Kangaroo Smith

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Eh... I feel like they have aged better over time than a lot of 'trilogies'. They do not measure up to the original but they aren't truly terrible, at least if you're looking at them from a more philosophical standpoint.

Reloaded may have been passable as a standalone film (if not seen as a disappointing sequel by comparison to the original). Revolutions was (IMO) terrible standalone or as a sequel. It felt like more of a CGI-heavy cash-in on the series than anything else.

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Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.

Sorry, they are as canon as the phantom menace even if you don’t like them (neither do I for that matter but hey, if these creators wanted to wreck their legacy who are we to stop them).

Reloaded is ok. It's not like Star Wars 1 (which btw isn't real), more like Star Wars 6.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Heh :) Sydney downtown is very beautiful and very city vibe.

Especially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me

I was surprised to see the pedestrian crossing button right in the centre of the woman in the red dress scene.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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I worked in that area a while back. It is (was then) a quiet part of Sydney just commercial offices and business that supports it. Despite being a fairly central location. It's a beautiful place to hang out you can walk to harbour views.
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