The Wachowskis's Next...Cn9

[Admiral_Young]

The Brothers W have announced their next film...an Iraq War film featuring a homosexual relationship between a US soldier and an Iraqi. The plot seems like it might be controversial but I'm more interested in how they're planning on shooting this film.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67911

 

[T'Baio]

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

 

[DonIago]

Well...it could be a decent film, or it could suck. Really, the link offers very little information...even knowing who they were casting would help (they apparently haven't cast anyone yet though).

High hopes, not-great expectations.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

I was wondering the same thing about you.

I thought their rising star plummeted years ago, and the epic technicolor fail of Speed Racer solidified that.

Just call in it now, this movie will be known as "Brokeback Baghdad".

Actually, they probably made that joke before the script was finished. Shit, that was probably the whole pitch.

Maybe they are clever, perhaps too clever...

 

[T'Baio]

People have thought I'm clever?

 

[CorporalClegg]

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

I (and everyone I know) realized that years ago.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I enjoyed "Speed Racer" and wasn't expecting any real substance from it. Really the two films that I've thought were excellent from them were "The Matrix" and "Bound".

 

[Aragorn]

I thought they were the Wachowski "siblings" now.

 

[Rii]

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

I enjoyed Bound, V for Vendetta and The Matrix. The sequels are watchable enough too, the Zion crap aside. That's about as good a hit rate as David Fincher has these days.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

I figured that out after seeing the final Matrix movie.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

Us geeks always instantly realize that writers and directors are not as clever as people give them credit for. It's the "told-you-so" effect, also known as the "Nelson Mutz" effect.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I have absolutely no desire to see that movie.

Nothing to do with the story. I've just never been all that big a fan of the guys behind it.

I thought the first "Matrix" film was okay, and it just kind of got worse from there.

 

[Too Much Fun]

It's hard to get excited about them when they've made five movies and after the first two it was all seemingly downhill. I'm still waiting for them to live up to the potential they showed with "Bound". They seemed poised to go the way of Tarantino and the Coens and that Matrix stuff apparently threw them way off course. They should have just done one Matrix movie and moved on. I loved that fight with the Agent Smiths and the freeway sequence in the second Matrix movie, but two scenes do not make a whole movie worth it. Especially a movie that long.

 

[T'Baio]

it's debatable how much they were even there during the last two Matrix movies. I think Bound and The Matrix are the only two movies they've ever done that they actually cared about and had personal investment in.

 

[Kegg]

I thought Iraq movies didn't do so well at the box office? Maybe not the best topic from guys smarting from Ninja Assassin or whatever the last Wachkowski movie was?

I'm more interested in whether people will finally realize they were never as clever as people gave them credit for.

Us geeks always instantly realize that writers and directors are not as clever as people give them credit for. It's the "told-you-so" effect, also known as the "Nelson Mutz" effect.

With the inversion that geeks always prize writers and directors who they connect with far more then would generally be given credit for.

 

[Reverend]

The Brothers W have announced their next film...an Iraq War film featuring a homosexual relationship between a US soldier and an Iraqi. The plot seems like it might be controversial but I'm more interested in how they're planning on shooting this film.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67911

Brokeback Baghdad? Or Bound in A Hurt Locker? Either way I'll pass. Nothing against the subject matter or the sibling formerly known as the Wachowskis Brothers, but it just sounds like a film designed to attract attention through controversy.

 

[Jack Bauer]

What happened to these dudes anyways? The success/hype of The Matrix went to their heads? After that they just totally crapped out.

 

[barnaclelapse]

it's debatable how much they were even there during the last two Matrix movies. I think Bound and The Matrix are the only two movies they've ever done that they actually cared about and had personal investment in.

I keep forgetting Bound.

I need to watch it again. I haven't seen it in years, and the last time I did (at around age thirteen, shortly before I actually did score my first girlfriend) I was more concerned with using the film to get through those awkward early moments of puberty.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I thought Iraq movies didn't do so well at the box office?

They don't. But I guess every so often Hollywood gets sick of making moves about superheroes and remakes of old TV shows.

 

[Rii]

it's debatable how much they were even there during the last two Matrix movies. I think Bound and The Matrix are the only two movies they've ever done that they actually cared about and had personal investment in.

I keep forgetting Bound.

I need to watch it again. I haven't seen it in years, and the last time I did (at around age thirteen, shortly before I actually did score my first girlfriend) I was more concerned with using the film to get through those awkward early moments of puberty.

Don't kid yourself: the film wouldn't be at all notable if it weren't for its contrasting lesbian protagonists. It's more about how their relationship is bound up in the immediate plot (matters of trust and reliance) than merely 'ooh, girl on girl action', but still.

I'd give it two and one-half stars, possibly slightly harsh on account of my general aversion to gangster films and the glamour they like to lend to wanton brutality.