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.
I'm the opposite, personally: As much as I hate every single thing about Resurrections, I'm still glad that he haven't gotten a shitty Rings Of Power like show out of it instead... or some insulting reboot that's trying to take itself seriously with all of those same "notes" from the studio.
Yeah fair lol. I just figure, this was such a miss for me that I'd take whatever else just to see what happens.
But if we're wishing, why not, ya know, give us something good, people? There was a nugget of something cool half way through with some machines joining humanity. A whole film about that would've been more interesting.
That's part of why it's so frustrating too. It'd been so long, and it was so deeply part of their lives, I assume, you'd think the Wachowskis would've pondered side stories or other sequels or prequels.
I'm less forgiving of what we got too, cause...ah, have the sisters made a properly good flick since Matrix 1?
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u/Stevenwave 1d 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.