I just done watching the movie the matrix which i think is the best sci fi movie ever made. My question is i heard that the matrixs sequels were terrible and the 3rd movie is universally hated but reloded seems to get much more positive reception. So i was wondering if reloded is worth watching?
is the matrix reloded worth watching
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There's a good motorcycle chase sequence on a highway, which was specially built for the film and supplemented with some hard to spot effects work (the traffic sometimes is heavier than it really was even with dozens of stunt drivers), but that's about it. I have all three films, but the one I watch the most is the first one. With Reloaded, I usually just watch that big chase scene. The behind the scenes feature on the highway sequence is interesting.
I'd say the second one was worth watching, but not as much as the first, which was pretty much a classic.
The third rhymes with turd. But I still watched it...
The third rhymes with turd. But I still watched it...
I enjoyed all three. I'll admit the second two aren't as good as the first, but I still enjoyed them enough to buy Reloaded. I had planned on eventually buying Revolutions too, but never got around to it before I joined Netflix, and cut way back on how many movies/TV shows I buy.
There are no sequels to The Matrix. That's what you have to keep in mind. There are no sequels.
As I see it, the Matrix trilogy is basically one good movie with an unnecessary five-hour sequel cut into two parts. One of these days, I'd like to watch it again to see if that still holds true or if I can get something out of it that I missed the first time. I've never seen the full trilogy all at once. I've seen the first movie a number of times, but I only saw the other two once each at the theatre.
Check out The Animatrix. It's a collection of animated shorts. My favorites are The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2 which tells the story of how AI came to be and how mankind became enslaved, and Beyond, a nice little story about some kids who discover that something about the world isn't quite right.
I absolutely love Matrix Reloaded. Except for the rave scene. I think it's an amazing example of how to make a sequel that expands on the original concept without being repetitive. Except for the rave scene. It's full of amazing action scenes and incredible additions to the story and universe that make the original movie so much more interesting in retrospect. Except for the rave scene.
The third movie, while not having a rave scene, is unfortunately a great disappointment. It's a satisfactory ending to the story, but it's disappointing.
The third movie, while not having a rave scene, is unfortunately a great disappointment. It's a satisfactory ending to the story, but it's disappointing.
Given how badly the other two movies bombed story-wise, I'm beginning to think Morrison's accusations of plagiarism has some merit.
They both have good stuff in them but overall they're a disappointment. I say watch them just to experience the good that's in them because they do have some thrilling action scenes.
They're not cool on the level of the first one at all, but they're worth watching. Neat sci-fi action sequences if nothing else and Hugo Weaving can be counted on to deliver some good lines. Reloaded ends with a direct cliff-hanger so... it's kinda an all or none deal on the sequels.
Revolutions is good for the dock battle, especially the APU's are very cool.
The same goes for the Highway escape from Reloaded.
Storywise you can forget both sequels (especially the absolutely dreadful and pretentious Architect character) and just watch the awesome original movie.
The same goes for the Highway escape from Reloaded.
Storywise you can forget both sequels (especially the absolutely dreadful and pretentious Architect character) and just watch the awesome original movie.
The sequels, in my opinion, ARE worth watching...I think why they are hated so much is like the Star Wars prequels -- we had a REALLY good first movie(s), but the new movies fell way short of expectations.
SOme great scenes (the rave scene is definitely NOT needed -- made Morpheus look fat!)/ After seeing them a few times...I think the sequels just felt overloaded....if spread out over a couple more movies it might have been fun.
The Frenchman is a well-played villain. Just seemed a bit much with BOTH the machines AND Agent Smith as villains as well.
If you're watching it on Netflix or something like that..i'd say it's worth it. MAybe some stuff to do while watching (lke laundry)...but NOT as awful as people say. And some stuff that by itself is just amazing (as mentioned, the motorcycle scene in Reloaded, with the theme music, the final battle in Revolutions), and some good acting (I really liked the Keymaster, and an actor does an amazing imitation of Agent Smith)
SOme great scenes (the rave scene is definitely NOT needed -- made Morpheus look fat!)/ After seeing them a few times...I think the sequels just felt overloaded....if spread out over a couple more movies it might have been fun.
The Frenchman is a well-played villain. Just seemed a bit much with BOTH the machines AND Agent Smith as villains as well.
If you're watching it on Netflix or something like that..i'd say it's worth it. MAybe some stuff to do while watching (lke laundry)...but NOT as awful as people say. And some stuff that by itself is just amazing (as mentioned, the motorcycle scene in Reloaded, with the theme music, the final battle in Revolutions), and some good acting (I really liked the Keymaster, and an actor does an amazing imitation of Agent Smith)
I find all three movies watchable (the third only for the action scenes rather than the film as a whole), but only the first two enjoyable with the first remaining by far the best. The second still gets a knock for setting up everything that the third movie utterly obliterated about The Matrix universe, but it can be forgiven since it only set it up and hadn't yet done the obliterating itself.
At the end of Reloaded it's still possible to believe the far more interesting premise that...
Unfortunately, that possibility is killed by Revolutions, along with...
Oh, and remember Morpheus being a total badass in the first movie --and the second, as you'll see? Not so fats! (pun was an unintended typo at first, but kept because it was so apt) It turns out Captain Will Smith's Wife is much more of a badass, and Morpheus is now just her Yoda-like mantra spewing inept co-pilot who can't even keep up with her Jagger-like moves. Don't get me wrong, I like Niobe, but why did Morpheus have to morph (see what I did there?) into such a worthless chump at the same time? His whole character is reduced to being the crackhead on the street corner who talks to you about finding God in weird riddles and poems about what you believe, and all of his badassery was transplanted into Niobe and Captain Endlessly Screaming Samoan Warbot Driver (is he talking about the pilot, or are the robots themselves Samoan? Watch and find out!). I think someone slipped Morpheus some bad ecstasy at the shitty cave rave in Reloaded and he never fully recovered.
Reloaded has a bad CGI and goofy (seriously, a bowling pins falling sound when Neo knocks all the Smiths down? Next thing you know, they'll have Chewbacca making Tarzan yells as he swings from a vine) but still awesome brawl against a plethora of Smiths and one of the best, longest, most visually stunning, and most complex car/bike/truck chases ever seen coming immediately off an an amazing melee combat scene in a gorgeous chateau. It's like an hour long action extravaganza in the middle of the film before getting slightly bogged down by Neo's verbal dressing down by The Thesaurus... err, I mean The Architect.
So, Reloaded is definitely worth seeing. Just be prepared for the fact that it's going to make you want to watch Revolutions, and that that movie is going to take a giant steaming dump on all your hopes and expectations about where the trilogy was going.
At the end of Reloaded it's still possible to believe the far more interesting premise that...
Zion is only another layer of the Matrix and another layer of control by the Machines until it's revealed in Revolutions that nope, Neo just has superpowers in the real world too and Smith can just take over real human bodies.
a character who the whole second movie was built around saving or sacrificing but who is discarded in the most pointless way imaginable in the third, undermining the choice of the second film.
Reloaded has a bad CGI and goofy (seriously, a bowling pins falling sound when Neo knocks all the Smiths down? Next thing you know, they'll have Chewbacca making Tarzan yells as he swings from a vine) but still awesome brawl against a plethora of Smiths and one of the best, longest, most visually stunning, and most complex car/bike/truck chases ever seen coming immediately off an an amazing melee combat scene in a gorgeous chateau. It's like an hour long action extravaganza in the middle of the film before getting slightly bogged down by Neo's verbal dressing down by The Thesaurus... err, I mean The Architect.
So, Reloaded is definitely worth seeing. Just be prepared for the fact that it's going to make you want to watch Revolutions, and that that movie is going to take a giant steaming dump on all your hopes and expectations about where the trilogy was going.
To be honest:
Neo ends the first movie with the line about "showing them a world without you", exposing the truth of the Matrix. No other promises or goals, just peeling back the mask.
And he dies doing exactly that, through Sati, making the sky turn a rainbow hue not possible for Earth, as the 10 billion members of the Human race wake up from their nightmare of being bodyjacked by Smith, probably remembering every minute of it.
And the Machines can't do shit about it, as their control of the Matrix is done through the Architect, whose contempt for the very nature of humanity won't allow him to do something he sees so sickeningly Human as lie, and even states as much, that they will honour their cease-fire.
So...yeah, as drawn out and boring, overly pretentious and annoying as the sequels are, they eventually live up to the first films promise, literally.
And he dies doing exactly that, through Sati, making the sky turn a rainbow hue not possible for Earth, as the 10 billion members of the Human race wake up from their nightmare of being bodyjacked by Smith, probably remembering every minute of it.
And the Machines can't do shit about it, as their control of the Matrix is done through the Architect, whose contempt for the very nature of humanity won't allow him to do something he sees so sickeningly Human as lie, and even states as much, that they will honour their cease-fire.
So...yeah, as drawn out and boring, overly pretentious and annoying as the sequels are, they eventually live up to the first films promise, literally.
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