Brehs... The Matrix Holds Up The Least of Any Single Film

[ZEB WALTON]

always thought it was overrated as fukk. of course the dweebs it created who used to talk about "u think this is the matrix dude, life is glitching maaaan" in school...

terminator > the matrix when it comes to this sci fi shyt

 

[QuintessentialMan]

Fight scenes alone REDEFINED how to do fight scenes.
Like the next 2 years we saw plenty of people do the ''matrix'' style effects in their movies.
It was trendsetting.

Entire movie was like a double entendre, with multiple meanings and inferences of real life shyt, what is reality and what is not, religion, social order....
Plus it had a genre for everybody. It was a thinking man's sci fi action movie drama romance. rare stuff.

Humans invented AI then tried to kill all the robots by blocking the sun but the plan backfired etc. shyt was craxy plot wise. Not since Terminator had a dystopian sci fi been done so well. Props had to be given. Its a classic.

 

[Maude]

The first movie plus the Animatrix are classic. The Jenner Bros had little involvement in the Animatrix stories that's why they're so well written.

 

[Draje]

I watched this shyt last night like

Where to even start? Dialogue sounds like its from a multiplayer focused videogame

"You scared the bejesus out of me Neo!"

"Don't go back in, thats loco!"

The weird steampunk aeshtetic

Fight scenes are the best thing about the film and they're used sparingly. Neo wins the final fight by exploding the agent from within

Cliches at every corner... 'true power of love' and shyt

The lightning/laser beams

I thought itd end on a serious note but then Neo flies up the screen like a goddamn bat

Acting

The dialogue is theatrical but it allows for plenty character expressiveness and personality to shine through. The shyt is a thinly veiled homage to Greek mythology so it makes sense.

Dialogue is also supposed to be slightly off to you, especially in the first one. You're not supposed to feel comfortable. The world in the Matrix is supposed to feel a little off from what we know and the real world is supposed to feel completely foreign. Dialect is one of the subtlest ways to make you feel they on top of the aesthetic.

And talking about cliches is lame. Most stories are derivative. Also, it wasn't the power of love, it was Messiac. Reincarnation has always been a constant theme of the movies and the "power of love" moment is more coincidental than anything.

Movie is cinematic genius.

 

[Draje]

Same for me, second had Merv as the main villain for a bit, and they should've stood with that...

Third, had the shoehorned Smith/Bane as the villain and it felt so forced.

Nah, Smith was always supposed to be the Anti-Neo. Just like Neo's death, at Smith's hand, led him into being reborn as the One, Smith's "death", at Neo's hand, led him to be reborn as the Anti-One.

It's why he thanks him for freeing him; it's why Smith's main power was consuming, infecting, and ending the cycle of reincarnation.

Merv was sorely underused in the movies though,

 

[Killigraphy]

Nah, Smith was always supposed to be the Anti-Neo. Just like Neo's death, at Smith's hand, led him into being reborn as the One, Smith's "death", at Neo's hand, led him to be reborn as the Anti-One.

It's why he thanks him for freeing him; it's why Smith's main power was consuming, infecting, and ending the cycle of reincarnation.

Merv was sorely underused in the movies though,

Yeah but we only learn that (Smith being anti-one) in 3...that wasn't good writing, that was deus ex ending via forced scenarios. As the Wachowski's have said time and time again, 2 and 3 were basically one movie, and completely apart from 1...to me that was never a good sign, we lost what could've been a simpler, more personal franchise, and instead got a contrived plot with a meh ending.

 

[Brozay]

first two movies are classics, no question

3rd one is terrible imo

 

[Panther]

The first movie plus the Animatrix are classic. The Jenner Bros had little involvement in the Animatrix stories that's why they're so well written.

 

[Oville]

First two I think are still good. Someone whose watching those two for the first time and are interested in those themes will enjoy it. My favorite thing is the series is actually the architect scene from part 2. Then they messed up the whole storyline in the conclusion of the trilogy

 

[Tetsuo]

There's always that one guy

 

[Emoryal]

Tenpted to neg

 

[QuintessentialMan]

PART 4 confirmed

 

[The axe murderer]

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