Mmm, so... Crazy amount of people sitting down and talking for an action movie, almost like a black and white French film. Anyway... I remember how people said at the time how the previous sequels 'Matrix Revolutions' and 'Matrix reloaded' were not as good as the original. 'Resurrection' is like a sequel to them...
“The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
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#32shrug I really liked it. It felt like Lana Wachowski re-imagining what they really wanted to do for the first movie, but now 20 years wiser and more experienced. I loved how it brought in more color--some scenes almost reminded me of Speed Racer with all the hues.
Thank god she didn't do this to the first movie. We would have missed out on a legendary movie and gotten this shit instead.
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#33"Is it just me, or is this boring?" -- my friend about 45 mins into it.
Re: “The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
#34I'm happy SOMEONE is enjoying it. Because it... christ it was awful. I had no expectations for it, and it felt like some big budget fan fiction tripe. Almost a parody. But I've come to understand that whether you enjoyed it or not comes down to what you decided the film was about, early on. For me, I assumed it was all in Neo's head. Especially the bits outside the Matrix. So I didn't bother investing in or even taki…
I enjoyed the parody. Visual aesthetic of the original but at high resolution (might rewatch in 4k for the fun of it)
Since I had no idea what the plot was I didn't form many future expectations. I think the dialog won't hold up well long term
Re: “The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
#35shrug I really liked it. It felt like Lana Wachowski re-imagining what they really wanted to do for the first movie, but now 20 years wiser and more experienced. I loved how it brought in more color--some scenes almost reminded me of Speed Racer with all the hues.
The change of hues in the trailer was enough for making me skip the movie.
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#36I thought the movie was entertaining.. but also trash and way too long.
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Going in, the bar was pretty low given the reception of the 2nd and 3rd movies. I went in to this thinking it would be their "star wars ep 7", and it kind of was. Except comparing apples to apples, Ep 7 was much better than this, which isnt saying much. I love Keanu but his acting just isn't that good. He's the same character as in the John Wick series. The writing is a lazy attempt to be meta and deep. They make direct self references to Warner Brothers forcing them to reboot. "Stories never really end, we keep telling the same ones again and again but with different characters". Okay. There are some hot takes about the zeitgeist, how the new matrix manipulates our feelings instead of our facts (hint Twitter and facebook).
So yeah, the first 30 mins are a slog, but then the action kicks in and the action scenes are pretty fun.
The ending is what you'd expect, the good guys escape the matrix - again. As for humans vs machines, to be continued.
Hopefully the sequels don't further mirror the star wars reboots.
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#38If you look at imdb user reviews, then many people seem to be saying it is trash.
The script has some very interesting ideas and a really entertaining anger toward its own existence. The actual filmmaking however is really cheap and poorly done. Bad editing, bad shots, bad fight choreography.
Some of that is due to COVID restrictions.
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#39I really enjoyed it, it was very self-aware and meta, even breaking the fourth wall. It could have been a bit deeper, but it still gives a lot to think about (existence and such)
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#40What a load of incoherent nonsense. > Recursive functions and algorithms are a cornerstone of computer science, that is simply how computers work. No, not at all. > What is recursion? It simply means taking something you have, running it again, but running in such a way that it gets slightly better next run. What in the... > Even the word “Resurrections” sounds a bit like “Recursion” which might be a coincidence, yet…
> Repeat it thousands or million times, and you get a far, far better result than what you started with.
I wish.