7 ms·
They deserve that for Matrix Resurrections.
by DecentShoes 2y ago
They deserve that for Matrix Resurrections.
- mvdtnz 2y agoAnd Joker 2 or whatever stupid-ass name they gave it.
- emseetech 2y agoFolie à Deux was a great name though. Not defending the movie but as a title for a Joker & Harley movie it works.
- tjpnz 2y agoShould've called it Folie à Doo Doo.
- wodenokoto 2y agoI haven’t watched either yet, but is the sequel a bad movie or just not at all what one would be expecting?
- LaundroMat 2y agoThe latter. (I really liked both movies by the way).
- franze 2y agoI loved Joker 2! They spent an unbelievable amount of money for the audience to have a really really awful time and awful feeling in the stomach afterwards. Recommended it you want to have a bad time - with a film that just aims at that.
- clown_strike 2y agoIt's a musical. Either of your interpretations applies.
- moomin 2y agoI’m in the tiny demographic who thinks Joker 2 being a musical starring Lady Gaga was a strong decision, let down by waves in the general direction of almost everything else about the movie.
- zeroday28 2y agoHey! I enjoyed Matrix Resurrections.
- jack_pp 2y agoWe demand proof of mental health
- SSLy 2y agogot plenty found in ICD/DSM.
- gigatexal 2y agoSame here
- echelon 2y agoMatrix Resurrections had a super trippy premise, which was in line with the original film. The first half of the movie was momentously expectation-breaking mind fuckery, and I immensely enjoyed it. (I wish I had shut the film off after the reveal.) The action sequences and set pieces were absolutely lackluster and downright boring despite the film's budget. (Not sure if this is due to the age of the actors - the John Wick series seems to have figured this out just fine.) Most damning of all, the story arc, character arcs, and final resolution were phoned in and utterly forgettable. It's tragic, given the ludicrously audacious start of the film. The setup was there, but there was no investment beyond the trick premise. Lana swung for the fences but struck out. It felt like an M. Night Shyamalan letdown.
- jon_richards 2y agoI actually like 2 and 3 in retrospect, but I shut 4 off about halfway through. I liked the reimagining of agent smith ("the man") from an unnamed government agent to a tech bro. The conversation about the new matrix being made "with or without" the original creator was a great fuck you to whoever was pulling those strings. I wanted them to add another couple layers to the mind fuckery. We're used to watching the matrix and knowing which scenes are in the matrix and which are in the real world. Mess with that. Reveal halfway through that the "real world" scenes we've seen so far (in 4, not the previous movies) have actually been in the matrix. In my ideal world, the climax would've been Neo realizing that he's been dead the whole movie, existing as a manifestation of the free machines, giving them individuality and choice the same way that agent smith took away human individuality and choice in 3. Trinity can still be saved, but Neo can never go with her to the real world.
- bee_rider 2y agoWoah, a matrix movie came out… wait, four years ago?
- cadamsdotcom 2y agoBetter to keep living like they only made 3 Matrix films :)
- bee_rider 2y agoOnly two actually, and one of them was an anime.
- moomin 2y agoThis is the correct answer. It will never cease to disappoint me that 2&3 didn’t go in one of the many interesting directions implied by the Animatrix.
- plantain 2y ago3?! I prefer to live like there were only 2.
- arduanika 2y agoRandall would maintain there's only the 1. https://xkcd.com/566/ https://xkcd.com/566/
- defrost 2y agoand Dark City was its name? On a serious not The Matrix was a fine film with fantastic effects but on a scale of Punch & Depth per $ spent on production Dark City delivered more bang per buck.
- WorldMaker 2y agoDark City was a famous budgeting disaster because it spent way too much on sets and went rather over-budget, then did the terrible thing of not making that much money in the box office. The Matrix was able to spend so much of its budget on effects and effects innovation precisely because it got handed so many of Dark City's way too expensive sets trying to recoup some of the costs of Dark City. They are definitely related, and I also think Dark City was the better version of Matrix 1 on a storytelling and aesthetics level, Matrix's innovative effects aside, but then I like all of the Matrix sequels a lot more than I like the first Matrix film.