chriskirkgeek, where in the heck did you get the idea that 'most people' hated Avatar and the new Star Trek? Avatar has an 82% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Star Trek has a 94% favorable rating from the same site.
Movies you love but (most) everyone else hates
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That's the basis for the whole series, yes.
The "flash-forwards" he experiences in Zion could be read as subconscious thoughts and images picked up in the Matrix but not expressed until some later time. As for broadcasting signals, the fact that Sentinels operate individually suggests that they have broadcasting transmitters of their own. So Neo's theoretical transmitter wouldn't have to be that strong at all; it could be like an iTouch picking up a wireless internet connection in a Starbucks. That, and the whole upper levels of the planet could be bathed in a low-level Machine radio frequency could for all we know.
Ethernet can yield stronger and faster connections than wireless.
I admit that these explanations are somewhat tenuous, and if you hate the sequels for them I certainly can't blame you. The philosophical implications of the transmitter hypothesis are also a bit iffy: in the first movie, pretty much all machines were inherently evil at worst and dehumanizing at best. By the end of Revolutions, however, the hero is a full-on cyborg and the reformed Matrix looks like a relatively pretty place to live. It's almost as if the Wachowskis decided that living hooked up to a computer for hours and hours on end isn't all that bad... so long as they got their royalties.
Of course, then there's the other alternative theory to the false (imho) "blue matrix" explanation, and that's simply that Neo's got some Jedi-style supernatural magic even in the real world. And since that magic only concretely expresses itself in digital terms, the philosophical result would be much the same as above.
Well, I don't mind if someone did like it.
On reflection, Revolutions going in a direction I didn't expect (to put it mildly) probably wasn't it's biggest flaw, it was the endless, endless scenes in Zion. If it had turned out Zion was just another level to the Matrix, it would not have made that aspect of Revolutions any better. The only way to do that is to have made it shorter.
But, to end on a positive note, the Neo-Smith fight was absolutely worth the price of admission. I said that to my dad when I was leaving the theater, and I watched Revolutions just the other day (granted, with Rifftrax attached), and the sentiment is still there. That's an epic confrontation.
And how does this relate to The Matrix Reloaded?
Blade Trinity is pretty universally dismissed. (And rightly so, in my opinion. Wesley Snipes & Kris Kristoferson are clearly phoning it in. Jessica Biel doesn't have the screen presence neccessary to carry her part of the movie. Parker Posey is totally unimpressive as a villain. Dominic Purcell is tied with Van Helsing's Richard Roxburgh as the suckiest screen Dracula ever. So, basically, you've got Ryan Reynolds making a valiant effort to carry the movie by himself, with all of this dead weight holding him back. Good luck.)
However, I thought that Blade II was very well regarded. I know of lots of people who even like it better than the 1st one.
I wasn't aware that there were any sequels to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Caveman
Hah! I haven't watched it in probably thirty years, but I confess that my college roommates and I watched CAVEMAN everytime it was on cable . . . which was fairly often back then!
Journey To The Far Side of the Sun aka Doppleganger. But I'm a huge Gerry Anderson fan and love the movie, even if it's premise was copied in an early 70's TV movie called The Stranger with Glen Corbett.
Cheers.
Cheers.
I don't understand why people hate this one. It's one of my favorite classic films. Not exactly a parallel universe story (one of my favorite science fiction themes), but close.
Caveman was absolutely hilarious. One of my favorite movies when I was a kid. The caveman who speaks English...the ginormous fly that lands on the one guy's face...the giant egg...
Does anybody besides me like Orphan?
I enjoyed it.
I hope I don't get in trouble for bumping this thread, but I really have to sing the praises of The Matrix Revolutions. I just watched it for the first time yesterday (TNT aired all 3 Matrix movies back-to-back-to-back), and was completely blown away by it. There were a few things that I wasn't quite clear on, and a few characters who could've used some deeper introductions, but that's ultimately neither here nor there.
The only real substantial complaint I have is that the ultimate direction of Neo's story arc in the film could've been spelled out a bit more succintly, especially after he said that he needed to go to the Machine City, but the film worked well for what it did explain, and ultimately the conclusion was satisfactory, especially since the closing coda with the Oracle, Sati, and the Architech did provide some clarification and clarity in that regard.
I also have to give the filmmakers props for having the creative wherewithal to A) maim Neo in the real world and B) kill off Trinity, both of which were things that I really wasn't expecting (especially the latter, given that they'd already mined that particular plot point during the climax of Reloaded).
The only real substantial complaint I have is that the ultimate direction of Neo's story arc in the film could've been spelled out a bit more succintly, especially after he said that he needed to go to the Machine City, but the film worked well for what it did explain, and ultimately the conclusion was satisfactory, especially since the closing coda with the Oracle, Sati, and the Architech did provide some clarification and clarity in that regard.
I also have to give the filmmakers props for having the creative wherewithal to A) maim Neo in the real world and B) kill off Trinity, both of which were things that I really wasn't expecting (especially the latter, given that they'd already mined that particular plot point during the climax of Reloaded).
Aka Stranded in Space? Only good for riff fodder on MST3K.
I'm also curious whether they ripped off Counter-Earth from Marvel Comics or the other way around--although I'd bet money that a Planet X on the other side of the sun but in Earth orbit is an older idea than either (if a terrible one).
Oscar (One of my favorite comedies)
Hudson Hawk
Disorganized Crime
Hudson Hawk
Disorganized Crime
Clue.
That was one of my favorite movies as a kid, up there with The Goonies and Ferris Beuller's Day Off. My 10-year old self thought it was witty and classy as well as funny and suspenseful. I loved the 3 different endings and the third one was a mindblower at the time...right out of Murder on the Orient Express.
Tim Curry will always be Wadsworth to a part of me...his voice, always It, as well. ...Michael McKean will always be Mr. Green...Madeline Khan, Mrs. White...Peacock, Mustard, the rest.
Looking at it now, it may be the 1983 version of an SNL movie or a Steve Carell comedy...easily able to rub one the wrong way. But still, to me, it has a special place in the pantheon of my childhood entertainments.
That was one of my favorite movies as a kid, up there with The Goonies and Ferris Beuller's Day Off. My 10-year old self thought it was witty and classy as well as funny and suspenseful. I loved the 3 different endings and the third one was a mindblower at the time...right out of Murder on the Orient Express.
Tim Curry will always be Wadsworth to a part of me...his voice, always It, as well. ...Michael McKean will always be Mr. Green...Madeline Khan, Mrs. White...Peacock, Mustard, the rest.
Looking at it now, it may be the 1983 version of an SNL movie or a Steve Carell comedy...easily able to rub one the wrong way. But still, to me, it has a special place in the pantheon of my childhood entertainments.
I thought everybody loved Clue!
