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The Matrix Resurrections Trailer will premiere on Thursday 9am EST/6am PST
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Only thing I don't like in the trailer is the weird shutter angle (?) on some of the slow-motion shots. Gives it that smooth "Michael Mann style" that doesn't look very cinematic IMO.
Just my two cents, that was bad.
* The Jefferson Airplane song is so overdone for this kind of vibe that it's just cheesy. Very outdated choice.
* The idea of spending a chunk of the movie with Neo rediscovering that he's Neo and going through the same steps he went through as the first movie is unappealing to me. We've been there already, just seems like a safe and uninteresting dramatic decision.
* On that note, 90% of the imagery, vibe, storyline (at least as presented) is just a rehash of what we saw in the original movie. Reminds me of stuff like Force Awakens or Terminator where the producers clearly said, "OK, we're going back to this after a long time, the fans and audiences liked the original, so let's spin up something similar and they'll surely like that too, right?" If we're coming back after all this time, give me something new, show me something unique.
* The original movie came out more than twenty years ago, and there have been so many crazy advancements in anime, comics, video games since that time; hell, some of the crazy new ideas out there are inspired by The Matrix! So if you're coming back to this after all these years, you're not going to one-up all the wild stuff that's been out there? We're still simply stopping bullets and jumping out of windows? We had that type of action aplenty in the old movies. Still just the same old Agents in suits changing faces? I know the Wachowskis are plugged into anime and games, etc.; there wasn't any cool stuff that she could have been inspired by? Nothing new that would change the way we think about science-fiction, like the original did?
* Photography felt dull and lifeless to me.
Obviously the actual movie could have all kinds of stuff that would make me happy. But this teaser, which is supposed to get me excited, just makes me feel deflated.
* The Jefferson Airplane song is so overdone for this kind of vibe that it's just cheesy. Very outdated choice.
* The idea of spending a chunk of the movie with Neo rediscovering that he's Neo and going through the same steps he went through as the first movie is unappealing to me. We've been there already, just seems like a safe and uninteresting dramatic decision.
* On that note, 90% of the imagery, vibe, storyline (at least as presented) is just a rehash of what we saw in the original movie. Reminds me of stuff like Force Awakens or Terminator where the producers clearly said, "OK, we're going back to this after a long time, the fans and audiences liked the original, so let's spin up something similar and they'll surely like that too, right?" If we're coming back after all this time, give me something new, show me something unique.
* The original movie came out more than twenty years ago, and there have been so many crazy advancements in anime, comics, video games since that time; hell, some of the crazy new ideas out there are inspired by The Matrix! So if you're coming back to this after all these years, you're not going to one-up all the wild stuff that's been out there? We're still simply stopping bullets and jumping out of windows? We had that type of action aplenty in the old movies. Still just the same old Agents in suits changing faces? I know the Wachowskis are plugged into anime and games, etc.; there wasn't any cool stuff that she could have been inspired by? Nothing new that would change the way we think about science-fiction, like the original did?
* Photography felt dull and lifeless to me.
Obviously the actual movie could have all kinds of stuff that would make me happy. But this teaser, which is supposed to get me excited, just makes me feel deflated.
Madness.
Seems to be a bit at the start showing the machines repairing his revolutions body.
There's a moment where they shoot through a cinema screen that is showing the original matrix film ????
Also, getting a lot of monsters inc vibes from this.
Seems to be a bit at the start showing the machines repairing his revolutions body.
There's a moment where they shoot through a cinema screen that is showing the original matrix film ????
Also, getting a lot of monsters inc vibes from this.
Considering stuff like Jupiter Ascending, it feels like the Matrix through the lens of their more current output, not that the quality will be the same.
Will definitely watch Day 1 (streaming).
Also, I think there's an in-universe explanation for the color-grading differences, plus colorful palettes currently appeal to the HDR/Wide Color Gamut crowds of today so a lot of movie production and cinematography is geared towards that now.
Should look fantastic in a Dolby Cinema and at home with a Dolby Vision/HDR10 display.
Also, I think there's an in-universe explanation for the color-grading differences, plus colorful palettes currently appeal to the HDR/Wide Color Gamut crowds of today so a lot of movie production and cinematography is geared towards that now.
Should look fantastic in a Dolby Cinema and at home with a Dolby Vision/HDR10 display.
I dunno - just listed my points below because i find it easier than trying to write linked paragraphs:-
a. having him sacrifice himself to save both sides seems like the most obvious trope in story-telling full stop e.g. see Jesus in the bible stories
b. It's not matrxies all the way down, you only need one more, yes it's pretty obvious but at least it would keep the in-world universe consistent with itself
c. I am still in 2003 and I still hate the film - i did say that at the start of my post :-)
TLDR - I care more about sci-fi universes being self-consistent (and avoiding magical mcguffins appearing in act 2 or 3 of a story to fix things) than I do about the "boviousness" of twists.
Was it!? maybe I only hated 3 then!? I've tried to blank them out of my mind for 18 years...
move along.
That tweet is accurate.
Explanation:
Explanation:
He's a copy of Morpheus that is unaware of his past
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