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I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in some rave scene.
by comrade1234 1y ago
I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in some rave scene.
- Drunk_Engineer 1y agoThat was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
- andrehacker 1y agoSorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
- to11mtm 1y agoEh... I feel like they have aged better over time than a lot of 'trilogies'. They do not measure up to the original but they aren't truly terrible, at least if you're looking at them from a more philosophical standpoint.
- sokoloff 1y agoReloaded may have been passable as a standalone film (if not seen as a disappointing sequel by comparison to the original). Revolutions was (IMO) terrible standalone or as a sequel. It felt like more of a CGI-heavy cash-in on the series than anything else.
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- globular-toast 1y agoI thought Reloaded was amazing at the time (I was a teenager). I saw it three times in the cinema. I was so excited for Revolutions. Had all these theories about what the architect said, why did the kid give him a spoon etc, are they still in another level of the Matrix? Then when it came out I saw it once and pretty much never talked about the Matrix again. Massive let down.
- dylan604 1y agowhat about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
- echelon 1y agoThe first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past that strong debut. The second and third films were a total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche audience and was itself a mixed bag. The surprising and unsolicited fourth film had some promise in the first third of the film - I loved how it subverted expectations and was a meta deconstruction of the series itself. After the provocative and almost blasphemous setup, the film quickly devolved into poor action, weird pacing, and overall bad plot and character arcs. In a word, it felt senile. (The action shouldn't have been that bad with Keanu helming John Wick. It was just laziness.) The denouement was just same-y slop we see in every other dialed in action movie. Such a letdown for such a shocking cold open. If you haven't seen the fourth film, it's a bit of a mind fuck. But turn it off the minute the reveal is over. That part is a treat, but it isn't worth your time otherwise.
- parpfish 1y agoStar Wars and The Matrix anre great examples of over-explaining removing mystery and undermining your world building.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoSorry, they are as canon as the phantom menace even if you don’t like them (neither do I for that matter but hey, if these creators wanted to wreck their legacy who are we to stop them).
- frollogaston 1y agoReloaded is ok. It's not like Star Wars 1 (which btw isn't real), more like Star Wars 6.
- throwaway422432 1y agoReturn of the Jedi (6) was perfectly fine. More like 7 which was ok as a nostalgic cameo vehicle, but resulted in throwing away the Rogue Squadron arc which should have always remained canon. But not like that hadn't happened before. Anyone remember Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the original sequel to Star Wars?
- bigstrat2003 1y agoReturn of the Jedi was in fact the best of the original trilogy. It's weird to use it as a point of comparison like that's a diss.
- frollogaston 1y agoIt's not a diss, it was an ok movie. Most people consider it less great than 4 and 5, partially because they redid the big scene in 4.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoIt did feel derivative, but then they just did it again with one of the sequels because they could, except this time it's a death planet instead of star/moon. The Empire or whatever they called it had been reduced to a parody / comic relief.
- chrisallick 1y agoI remember being at the alameda skatepark and hearing them shoot the freeway scene where the twins are driving a mac truck and trinity comes to help.