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Matrix Revolutions--Holy CRAP

Professor Zoom

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Last night, just for a lark, I rewatched Matrix. Great movie. Beginning to end.

Coincidentally, the whole Matrix trilogy was on TV today. I just finished watching Matrix Revolutions.

Holy crap. I forgot how bad it is.

I know I'm just slagging off... But, seriously, cliche dialogue delivered by cardboard characters.

I was thinking of starting a poll about which is the most annoying characters in sci-fi.

At first, only the Kid would have been represented on the list, but then, slowly...I wanted to add:

Mifune
Niobe
Lock
Merovingian
even Morpheus became annoying.

At the end, when the Kid is running through Zion screaming, "it's over! It's over!" I was really hoping a strain Sentinel would just punch a metal arm through him.

I haven't seen it since it first came out, and then I was just disappointed. Watching it this time, I'm just mad. MAD. What a wasted opportunity.

I seriously got a headache watching it.

I think they just got lucky with The Matrix.
 
Honestly, I don't even like the original Matrix anymore. It was cool when it came out because it such a new thing, but I tried re-watching it a few months ago, and I thought it was so BORING!
 
Gotta agree. I tried to watch the original a while back and couldn't even make it all the way through.
 
Thirded. (Is that even a word? I'm getting a 'correction' red line under it, so I guess not..:lol:)

Anywho, 'The Matrix' used to be one of my favorites, but not so much now.

Maybe the sequels tainted it for me?
 
Most people are still trying to forget Revolutions this thread is counterproductive to that, by tearing open old wounds. :borg:
 
I watched the Matrix so many times that I can't watch it anymore. It was great. I enjoyed the staircase fight in Reloaded and Monica Belluci's nearly transparent white latex dress. The kid that followed Neo around was annoying. He came from that Animatrix feature and they tried to tie everything together between the video game and the animated flick. That whole franchise seemed to transform from an unstoppable comet ascending to the heavens to a complete dud that crashed like a Lead Zeppelin. The whole thing just seems to be over.
 
Mike Farley said:
Gotta agree. I tried to watch the original a while back and couldn't even make it all the way through.
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Not RoJoHen said:
Honestly, I don't even like the original Matrix anymore. It was cool when it came out because it such a new thing, but I tried re-watching it a few months ago, and I thought it was so BORING!
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I feel the same way about the Lord of the Rings movies. It's amazing how one day a movie is the Beezeez, and the next a pile of rubbish (Independence Day, anyone?).

And yeah, the sequels totally ruinned the first for me too.
 
After watching part 2 and 3 I can see that the whole story of the Wachowski brothers stealing Martix 1 from an unknown writer seems to be more and more true...
 
This just shows how important a third movie in movie trilogy is. It should at least be decently written if you want fans to remember a franchise fondly. ROTJ, BTTF3, and POTC3 were okay.

Nearly everyone thinks Revolutions was crap.

Spider-Man 3 sucked too. That's why we are getting a reboot.
 
Professor Zoom said:
Last night, just for a lark, I rewatched Matrix. Great movie. Beginning to end.

Coincidentally, the whole Matrix trilogy was on TV today. I just finished watching Matrix Revolutions.

Holy crap. I forgot how bad it is.

I know I'm just slagging off... But, seriously, cliche dialogue delivered by cardboard characters.

I was thinking of starting a poll about which is the most annoying characters in sci-fi.

At first, only the Kid would have been represented on the list, but then, slowly...I wanted to add:

Mifune
Niobe
Lock
Merovingian
even Morpheus became annoying.

At the end, when the Kid is running through Zion screaming, "it's over! It's over!" I was really hoping a strain Sentinel would just punch a metal arm through him.

I haven't seen it since it first came out, and then I was just disappointed. Watching it this time, I'm just mad. MAD. What a wasted opportunity.

I seriously got a headache watching it.

I think they just got lucky with The Matrix.
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Let's not forget that the Bible is also full of cliches...
 
Love all three Matrix movies - love 'em I tell ya. Don't understand the hate. Watching the trilogy straight through on Blu-ray is an awesome experience.
 
I remember hearing a few years ago about some fan-edit project that was supposed to take Reloaded & Revolutions and splice them together into one coherent, 2hr long film. Sounded unlikely though not impossible and I'd be curious to see if they ever managed to pull it off.
 
Reverend said:
I remember hearing a few years ago about some fan-edit project that was supposed to take Reloaded & Revolutions and splice them together into one coherent, 2hr long film. Sounded unlikely though not impossible and I'd be curious to see if they ever managed to pull it off.
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Two hours seems impossible. Four, I could believe.
 
If I had the time, I'd give that a shot. For starters, you could lose upwards of 15 minutes just from the car chase sequence in Reloaded. But I just don't care enough about the trilogy to make the time. The first film was fun, the others were, at best, pretentious.
 
Matrix, and its sequels, were all style over substance. If you look closely, there is no friggin substance at all, just a bunch of plot lines that go nowhere. That's lame and boring.

But what happened to the Matrix over time shall ya all teach a lesson of what will happen to LOST in the future. Today it's so amazing, in a fear years it will be boring as hell.
 
I don't think you can compare The Matrix with LOST. LOST had a bunch of really awesome characters that you grew to care about. Even when the Matrix was new, I didn't give a shit about any of the characters. It looked awesome, sure, but that's all it had going for it. Nowadays, things look awesome all the time, so the one thing The Matrix had going for it is now the norm and therefore a lot less impressive.

LOST will still have an engaging story and great characters. Other shows may try to copy it, but very few will succeed.
 
A couple of years ago I rented all three from the Library. I had seen the original but not the sequels. I turned the second one off about half way through and never watched the third one.
 
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