News Laurence Fishburne Was Turned Down for 'The Matrix Resurrections'
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u/mrEnigma86 1d ago
Turned down for a role that you played, in a franchise that you were in....
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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 1d ago
Could be worse. Ernie Hudson auditioned for his own character in the Ghostbusters cartoon and got asked to do it more like Ernie Hudson.
He lost out to Arsenio Hall.
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u/DickRhino 22h ago
While that is hilarious, there could be a rationale behind it: voice acting and acting are different things. For a cartoon you have to be able to exaggerate your speech mannerisms, basically talk like a caricature of yourself. A subdued performance can be fantastic in a movie, but come across as boring in a cartoon. So it might instead have been something like "Can you be Ernie Hudson dialed up to 11?" and he couldn't do that as well as Arsenio Hall could.
But then again, Ernie Hudson has done other voice acting work as well and done a good job at it. So who knows what that whole thing was really about?
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u/wloper 18h ago
That happened when I heard the cat speak in Keanu, the Key and Peele movie. I knew it was Keanu Reeves but it just didn’t seem…Keanu Reeves enough.
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u/picardo85 18h ago
That's the same scenario as Charlie Chaplin coming second in a Charlie Chaplin look alike competition
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u/Silvermoon3467 1d ago
I mean, it's entirely possible that they wanted a different Morpheus for artistic reasons and it wasn't intended as a snub towards him.
Even if a lot of people consumed it as a dime-a-dozen action flick, The Matrix has always had a lot going on philosophically and artistically speaking. It's not really the same thing as, idk, Robert Downey Jr getting turned down and recast in an Ironman movie or something imo.
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u/Ordinaryundone 1d ago
This is what I think was the case. Say what you will about Ressurection but nothing about that movie's story or casting feels unintentional. They very much point out how they "brought back Morpheus" but he also isn't really Morpheus, hell they show pictures of Fishburne in the background while they do it. Apparently Hugo Weaving was approached to play Smith again, and he would have done it if not for schedule issues, so they weren't recasting for budget reasons or whatever, I think Ressurection Morpheus and Trilogy Morpheus are just meant to be different characters and the recast helps solidify that.
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u/dplans455 1d ago
The Matrix trio includes Laurence Fishburne. It would be akin to not only excluding Harrison Ford in The Force Awakens but also recasting the character entirely. This was part of the reason I didn't go see the movie in theaters. And given that the movie bombed, other people probably thought the same thing.
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u/Inumayobaka 1d ago
Well, both the different Morpheus and Agent Smith sucked in Resurrections.
Neil Patrick Harris even more so. I was expecting more from someone who was supposed to emulate The Architect.
The music, which used to be awesome in all the predecessor movies, had nothing memorable in the fourth.
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u/RSquared 18h ago
Resurrections' Agent Smith is basically Barry from Archer.
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u/Ted_Cashew 9h ago
"Do I regret taking the red pill now, Barry? Yes I do, Other Barry, yes I do..."
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u/Forward_Steak8574 1d ago
Wasn't this version of Morpheus meant to be different? The whole "resurrection" theme meaning he came back in a different form or something. If I remember correctly they blended his character with another? I don't remember. That movie sucked.
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u/MrT-1000 1d ago
Isn't this partially due to "Morpheus" as a character dying in the matrix online video game? Not a great excuse but I guess the game is canon?
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u/ImagineIvysaur 1d ago
except the version of morpheus in the movie is a computer program based on the real person who has died - they absolutely could/should have brought laurence fishburne back
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u/MordredRedHeel19 1d ago
Exactly! Even if they wanted to keep the game canon, they could have used Fishburne. Cause now I’m wondering why a program that is designed after Morpheus chooses not to look like Morpheus, lol
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u/Comicspedia 23h ago
There are endless ways to write your way to that point, ya know?
Yeah it's canon Morpheus is dead.
Yeah this new alive Morpheus looks an awful lot like dead Morpheus.
So sometimes his arm turns to Matrix letters and he's briefly weakened. Or he opens the computer console installed on his cybernetic arm that every reborn person has. Or he has normal sunglasses and a goatee because the reproduction nailed everything but personal style.
It's like Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White.
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u/Beiki 1d ago
But then it'd be blatantly obvious from the start that's he's Morpheus. I seem to recall them hiding that at the start.
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u/lasquiggle 1d ago
Lame plot twist though
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u/SchwiftyGameOnPoint 1d ago
Can you even call it a plot twist? Pretty sure most people know it was him going into the movie.
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u/ScareTheRiven 1d ago
I'm almost certain there were pre-release character posters that mentioned him, if not flat-out promo articles talking about him "honouring the legacy" or some BS.
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u/SARMsGoblinChaser 1d ago
There was no hiding it... It was telegraphed to the extent that a blind person could see it from a mile away.
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u/Vincent__Adultman 1d ago
Except Trinity is also in the computer program and she notably isn't played by Carrie-Anne Moss to distinguish her from the real Trinity who is. Having Fishburne play the fake Morpheus would conflict with that.
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u/LettersWords 1d ago edited 1d ago
Seems like a bad excuse to leave him out especially when Trinity dies on screen in the third movie and yet they still found an excuse to bring her back.
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u/Calico_Cuttlefish 1d ago
Trinity dies and comes back so much she might as well be Mothra.
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u/Meleagros 1d ago
Damn love this analogy lol
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u/Calico_Cuttlefish 1d ago
The "character dies, comes back, then dies again" trope is one I really hate. I can't possibly give a shit about a character when that happens. "Ahhh I'm dying again, be sad plz" nah.
They did the same thing in Blade 2 and 3 with Whistler.
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u/f8Negative 1d ago
Plus the "morpheus" they end up having anyways like...ok.
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u/Thrilling1031 1d ago
She’s like the whole point of 4 though, and Morpheus wasn’t.
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u/JessieJ577 1d ago
Yeah I think it would’ve downplayed the resurrection angle if everyone was not just Trinity
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u/Sparkyisduhfat 1d ago
I would agree but what percent of people do you think went into the movie either knowing anything about the matrix online or that his death was considered canon? As far as the vast majority of viewers would know, he’s just still alive.
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u/Old_Budget_4151 1d ago
It's matrix resurrectionS tho
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u/Crimkam 1d ago
Morpheus could have been a machine AI copy of the original, and know that he is, and have to come to terms with that as a character. Not that they did much with the new Morpheus anyway, but it’s fiction and they could have written the part with him in mind if they wanted to, which they must not have.
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u/garrettj100 1d ago
She’s like the whole point of 4
The whole point of 4 was to insult the producers, the actors, the original story, and the audience in equal measure.
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u/emmayarkay 1d ago
The machines had access to Trinity’s body though. Morpheus was free of the Matrix and presumably died in the destruction of Zion sometime in the 60 years between the 3rd and 4th films (ignoring the Matrix Online game).
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u/uncultured_swine2099 1d ago
I'm thinking the wachowski who directed it just didn't get along with him. His role in the Matrix 3 wasn't huge either, he was sidelined for much of the finale.
In any case, Lawrence should be glad he wasn't in Resurrections haha.
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u/RrentTreznor 1d ago
I guess I'm in the minority that I thought resurrections was such a bizarre shift that I ended up enjoying it.
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u/McFlyyouBojo 1d ago
It's certainly in a strange situation in that it's not good, but it also holds artistic merit.
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u/Significant-Flan-244 1d ago
I enjoyed it for what it was but have never felt a need to revisit it and I’m not sure I ever will. But I’m also certain I would’ve hated the safe legacy sequel WB would’ve made on their own so I’m at least happy it exists for that reason.
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u/DashCat9 1d ago
I don’t understand why he couldn’t also just play the version of his character that actually appears in the movie.
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u/threebuffsharks 1d ago
Yup! And they pay tribute to him in the movie too.
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u/Csoltis 1d ago
the acting was so bad
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u/Netroth 1d ago edited 1d ago
I got the impression that they were trying their absolute hardest to make a bad movie, which I was then convinced of by that metacontextual scene with The Merovingian. What a betrayal.
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u/Bellikron 1d ago
I don't buy that as much as a lot of others seem to. There's some references that indicate it and the meta angle is interesting at first, but very few people actively set out to make a bad movie, since you can often make the same point while still making a good product. The things that cause me to doubt the narrative are 1) Lana made statements that bringing Neo and Trinity back to life was a form of emotional healing for her after the death of her parents. It feels weird to call that a lie and say that she would just throw these characters under the bus for a complicated meta joke. And 2) Resurrections was bad in the same ways that the other sequels were bad. The only thing that made it particularly worse is that Fishburne and Weaving weren't there to do the heavy lifting like they always did (they carried the original film in no small part too). It wasn't especially bad in a way that it would feel if you were intentionally tanking your franchise, it just kind of hit the same bland notes.
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u/The_BrownRecluse 1d ago
I don't buy this bad on purpose theory either. I remember watching Lana in an interview and she was likening herself to Rembrandt painting a masterpiece later in life and saying how much this film meant to her, so it doesn't add up that she set out to deliberately make shit.
As much as I love the Matrix and what the Wachowskis did with the first film, everything else they've made has paled in comparison or been flat out bad. I mean, did people forget Jupiter Ascending?
I think people want to believe Resurrections is intentionally bad because it's less embarrassing, it saves face, and makes for a better story, both for the movie and the Wachowskis.
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u/Bellikron 1d ago
Really I think a lot of people forget that the first Matrix is pretty simple, it has a very thought-provoking idea at its core, especially for the time, but the movie itself doesn't explicitly analyze it that much. It's an action movie that made a lot of people think after the fact. The sequels tried to get more into philosophy and got way too complicated.
Also, while I suppose there's an argument that Lana is lying in all her interviews, but I feel like nine times out of ten a person that tanks a movie intentionally to stick it to a studio is gonna be very open about it after the fact.
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u/Significant-Flan-244 1d ago
Yeah, I think a much more likely explanation for it not being so great is that Lana just hadn’t planned to revisit it until the studio said they were doing it with or without her so this wasn’t some long brewing plan to continue the story. Like you said, this franchise has had diminishing returns since the first movie and hasn’t come close to delivering again on how fans feel about it. Reloaded and Revolutions at least have some really memorable sequences, but they were steps down and the fourth one being disappointing is just a logical extension there given how long fans had to wish for more. I think a studio sequel would have been a boring retread along the lines of most legacy sequels, and Lana did something new that just didn’t work. But I don’t for a second buy the bad on purpose idea.
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u/creptik1 1d ago
Exactly. The "they made it bad on purpose" thing is so dumb and I can't believe people still talk about it and act like it's a fact and not some theory a guy made a YouTube video about that just spread.
If you want to know if it's bad on purpose, just watch the bonus features on the bluray. Everyone is very on board with this thing. You think Keanu is signing on for a joke? He, the director, producers, everyone talks passionately about the project and what it meant to them and how awesome it's going to be. There is a lot of footage of the making of the film and it is very hands on and everyone is giving their all. It is a passion project that bombed.
"But they make fun of the studio in the movie!!"
Yeah, that's called satire. It's meta, but not the way you think.
"But they didn't want to make it and had to so the studio didn't do it without them!!"
The part about the studio doing it without them is true. They were reading scripts for a sequel and never found one they liked. Lana wasn't interested at first, but then finally was inspired by an idea and figured out what she wanted to do with it, wrote the thing, submitted it, and the studio liked it too.
Nobody was out to sabotage the franchise or punish the studio. Nobody was more surprised that this lovie didn't do well than the people who made it. Stop spreading these nonsense theories.
(I'm sure it's obvious but just in case, I'm replying to everyone else, not the actual comment above me, who actually has some sense)
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u/Capable-Commercial96 1d ago
I think the reasoning for why they made it bad was because if they didn't the studio was gonna make a sequel anyway. So they took the studio up on the offer to come back with the intention of ruining it so they couldn't keep making sequels when they felt the series was done.
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u/DotaThe2nd 1d ago
The studio might have made a Matrix sequel that failed to deliver on the cerebral appeal of the franchise, I really doubt that that the studio would have made a sequel that also failed to deliver on the action and choreography
Ressurections managed to fail on both, so for that reason alone I wish the studio had their shot. Plus "making it bad to ruin the franchise" is incredibly stupid. It's WB's IP so they are absolutely going to revisit even after Ressurections, except now with less care and way less chance of any significant inclusion by the original creators.
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u/Bionic_Bromando 1d ago
Yeah I took it as their one nod to the MMO, I kinda appreciate that they kept their promise to keep it canon despite how much it messes up any sequels haha.
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u/timeaisis 1d ago
Well that was dumb move. I’ve said it before but Fishburne is the reason the first Matrix works. He brings a gravitas to the absolutely bonkers plot. Can you an imagine another actor explaining The Matrix to Neo and not kind of just rolling your eyes? I can’t.
Matrix 4 was lesser for him missing. The franchise isn’t Reeves and Moss, it’s Fishburne. It’s always been Fishburne.
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u/MakeThanosGreatAgain 1d ago
Man played Morpheus with such fucking conviction I have to agree. This is something I think about everytime Fishburne delivers those lines to Neo after he passes out from shock.
One of my all time favorite deliveries. It just feels real. So subtle and smooth w it.
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u/PayaV87 1d ago
This, that’s why cults work, because people follow man with a conviction.
And (even if he is right) Morpheus is a cult leader. Fishbourne understood that, and plays such a good leader, that people blindly follow him even to their death.
Weaving understood, that Smith is an outsider inside the system. Never will be part of it, never could leave it. He is trapped like humans do, yet he knows the truth. Weaving also understood this, and every frame he is so snobbish, it oozes gravitas.
Based on this two actors we understand the dinamic of both sides, without them even saying anything. When these two meet, the movie best scenes happen, the literal third act is a Morpheus rescue mission from Agent Smith.
Fishbourne and Weaving make the movie.
They never meet in Matrix 2 or 3 ever again. And those movies are more flat because of this.
They are recasted in Matrix 4. And the movie is complete shit.
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u/placebotwo 18h ago
It's why he's great as the Bowrey King too. Not that those were cult members, but he played that part well.
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u/FartingBob 1d ago
Morpheus is 100% convinced in what he is doing and what will happen. That's kind of the entire point of the character. He understood the role and played it with the conviction and belief that the character needed. Fantastic acting.
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u/HopefulTranslator577 1d ago
Fishburne is a lifetime comic book collector and anime fan, he understands the need for a grounding force in a bonkers plot. The man was perfect, and Resurrections was all the lesser without him.
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u/DamianKilsby 1d ago
I'd say it's Reeves and Fishburne, any matrix movie without either one of them is lesser than one with both.
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u/AhChirrion 1d ago
Daniel Day-Lewis was active and he could have played any role perfectly, including Morpheus.
But Morpheus played by Lawrence Fishburne is so iconic, so charismatic, so right, I prefer living in this iteration of The Matrix where Morpheus was played by Fishburne and not Day-Lewis.
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u/pentagon 1d ago
Was he a contender?
Fuck me I'd LOVE to see Day Lewis performing as morpheus. I wonder what he'd make of it.
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u/jumbohumbo 1d ago
I'd love to see him play Agent Smith, imagine his take on the 'i hate this place' monologue.
Andre braugher would have been a great Morpheus I think.
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u/ExpressBanDriver 1d ago
That's the thing with DDL, the man could play any part and bring a completely different take on it and still be brilliant
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u/kookyz 1d ago
The irony of a actor dodging a bullet by NOT being in a film about people dodging bullets.
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u/homecinemad 1d ago
It's possible he/his agent (ha!) wanted more money than the studio were willing to offer. Or he wanted to change the role. Or they were foolish and declined the opportunity to cast him. Who knows. Hollywood is weird man.
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u/Tiny-Setting-8036 1d ago
There were certainly a lot of artistic directions that fourth movie went…. The story was sort of written around the idea of revamping the franchise.
But honestly, the movie could have benefited from having him.
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons 1d ago
I heard it described best as “The Matrix Resurrections is about how Lana Wachowski doesn’t want to make The Matrix Resurrections.”
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u/rashomonface 1d ago
I took it as Lana Wachowski figures out WHY she wants to make The Matrix Resurrections.
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u/RevolutionaryHair91 1d ago
Yes, there is literally a section of the movie where people are in the matrix in a brainstorming room and are pitching a sequel to the matrix (which is a video game in the movie universe) and everyone is retarded as fuck and the only sane people are commenting "wow, imagine being forced to make a sequel to something that was finished and as good as it was". I'm pretty sure there is even a moment actors look straight at the camera like in the office.
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons 1d ago
I appreciate Lana’s audacity to literally have it be part of the story that Warner Bros. tells Neo to make another Matrix or they’ll give it to someone else without giving him any control.
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u/Enthusiasms 1d ago
It's not audacity, WB signed off on it. They both agreed to it because they thought it would make money.
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u/EscapedFromArea51 1d ago
“If you make fun of us for making a soulless cash grab, will it net us a few million more in sales? Great! If anyone needs me, I’ll be crying about being made fun of in my new Ferrari.”
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u/EnamelKant 1d ago
Is there any movie that would not benefit from more Laurence Fishburne?
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u/PM_ME_TRICEPS 1d ago
This movie was a hot steaming pile of dogshit and I felt dumber after watching it.
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u/wut3va 1d ago
As far as I can tell, the film was the Wachowskis giving us the finger, 🖕, because they kind of resented what the fanbase and the studio had done to their vision. It was like here, have your fucking movie, now leave us alone. There were references all over it alluding to that fact. When I watched it, it felt incredibly meta. Watching it from that lens, I kinda enjoyed it, but I never want to see it again.
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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 23h ago
The movie made me feel like I was a a kid at the dinner table, staring down at my plate while my divorced parents were having a passive aggressive fight.
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u/Stevenwave 21h ago
This is legit the mood. I love the originals. The first is obvs leagues ahead, but I've always thoroughly enjoyed the sequels, as flawed as they are.
4 was so fucking weird. That whole opening act feels so wrong. It's uncomfortable and nothing feels genuine. There's writing that's trying to be meta or funny but I'm too busy being like, what the fuck? Then the rest is just, disappointing and shitty rehashes.
I've since learned the gist of the why, with only one sister even wanting to come back, and essentially doing it so WB doesn't just do whatever corpos do. But honestly, I'd have preferred a corporate reboot remake to whatever the hell this shit was designed to be.
At least then we might've gotten some cool action sequences or crazy VFX stuff where it's clear the people behind the scenes love the OG and just wanna do another cool Matrix flick if nothing else.
Reaves doesn't even fight. They just give him a bullshit godmode button. They do nothing interesting with his revival, just, lmao we fixed him. No memorable new characters. Only memory I have is looking at Smith and Morpheus and being, "Mmhmm, mmhmm, no."
And the fights and VFX suck. That's frickin deliberate sabotage.
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u/hoaxymore 23h ago
References ?
It was said verbatim multiple times.
The first half of the movie is just « imagine how incredibly stupid it would be to release a matrix sequel nowadays » repeated 10 to 20 times.
The second half is « See ? You see this shit ? »
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u/TheMancYeti 1d ago
I never got that it was giving us the finger. More like Joe Dante with Gremlins 2 in the sense of not wanting to make another one so just doing whatever the fuck they wanted just to mess with the studio.
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u/shannister 1d ago
It was a terrible film anyways, better erased from memories.
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u/Dependent-Poet-9588 1d ago
The best scene is when they're talking about how the studio was going to make it one way or the other to pressure the actors to come back.
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u/gameonlockking 1d ago
No the best scene is the PS5 demo.
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u/roguefilmmaker 1d ago
The PS5 demo and the movie trailer were better than the movie
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u/youmustbedocholiday 1d ago
Yeah, I knew when I watched that scene, the director was talking directly to the viewer about the shit stain of a film it was going to be.
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u/hugcub 1d ago
I enjoyed the beginning because it felt mysterious and you were not quite sure what was going on, def gave me matrixy vibes. Then the last 2/3 of the movie existed and it turned into, just awful, painful, terrible nonsense.
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u/roguefilmmaker 1d ago
Yeah, the first act was mysterious and I was excited to see what would happen next but the rest of the movie was painfully bad
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 1d ago
Biggest letdown I've ever had in a film, felt so low effort and half-baked. Moving to NPH as the antagonist after Weaving just felt like a huge downgrade on top of it. Few movies I try to forget and that's one of them.
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u/ScramItVancity 1d ago
It was like a remake of the MTV Movie Awards sketch with Justin Timberlake but taken slightly seriously.
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u/Pale-Club-4929 20h ago
The recasting choices in this movie are about 40-50% of its problem. Losing Fishburne was big - Yaya was fine, but obviously Larry and Keanu had a ton of chemistry and history. But recasting Smith as... Jonathan Groff? Again, a good actor, but so clearly not the same character in the least that like what was even the point of using Smith again?
Another 40% of the problem is the action, so shitty it seems intentional. The final 10%? "That's for using kids!!"
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u/nice_one_champ 1d ago
There was some inspired moments in Resurrections (I quite liked the meta first act), but it had too many problems. And it’s most fatal flaw was including Morpheus and Smith:
-The screen time required to justify why/how they had both returned absolutely killed the pacing and strained credibility, which is insane because the plot mechanic required to make this happen was kinda introduced in Revelations with the Oracle
-And the worst sin was deciding to write a digital Morpheus into the real world, meaning they had to create that stupid plot mechanic. This was way too far and absolutely ridiculous writing from any standpoint, and not necessary (which makes me think that maybe there was plans for Fishburne to return early on)
-The actors were well cast, but the above writing issues absolutely hampered anything they could do to save this mess
-Neil Patrick Harris’ character was an ok villain (and was original at least), so beefing up his role could’ve worked to fill Smith’s part. And literally anything else would’ve worked than Morpheus being shoehorned in
-And to cap it off, by the end of the film (after going through the exhausting narrative hoops to make their inclusion happen)they feel completely unnecessary to the story. The meta-jokes about studio interference seem to be an attempt to justify this, but the entire this is an absolute clusterfuck as a result
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u/SupervillainMustache 1d ago
I think Yahya was fine, but the film definitely missed the presence of Fishburne and Weaving.
It turned out pretty badly though, so maybe it was for the best.
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u/fpaulmusic 1d ago
Absolutely brain dead move by producers
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u/nmn13alpha 1d ago
Considering how brain dead the movie was, I'd say he lucked out.
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u/jim9162 1d ago
Probably for the best, matrix 4 felt like it was made by a college film student.
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u/WoodyManic 1d ago
Fishburne should have been in the movie. He's the linchpin of the saga and a fine actor to boot.
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u/Si-Nz 21h ago edited 20h ago
Funniest thing about this movie is that, if this was the only recent movie you would have seen of Keanu Reeves, you would have thought the man is too old to still be starring in action movies. You can almost see the wires here, or the bad edits to hide him switching with stuntmen. He looks so old and immobile. Carrie too, the flying scene was... so so bad. Just a bunch of ropes holding an old woman in mid air (no offense to Carrie, she still looks great and im sure she can still portray a badass in a better movie)
..............But this was literally filmed in between keanu releasing movies for probably the most well known ongoing action franchise...where he looks like the most competent action star out there.... (John Wick...)
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u/Help_An_Irishman 1d ago
The actor who played Tank screwed himself out of a continuing role in the franchise after the first movie.
Apparently he thought that he had become a Hollywood hot shot and that Tank was indispensable to the franchise, so he wouldn't take part in the sequel for less than $1M. So they threw Harold Perrineau in there and just said that Tank had died.
Haven't seen that guy in anything since.