Matrix Reloaded?

POSTED BY: DanielFyre
UPDATED: Thursday, May 4, 2006 13:20
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NUCLEARDAY

Thursday, May 4, 2006 1:04 AM

I was so blown away by the first movie, I think it was generally impossible for the sequels to be anything but underwhelming.

(Okay, so even the first one has aged on me a bit, but I first saw it before anyone knew what the Matrix was, so everything was a huge suprise about it. Remember those "What is the Matrix?" commercials? :)

Actually, I still haven't even seen the last movie...

On the other hand, I'm sure alot of people assumed that the sequels would be as well-recieved as the first one. Can hardly blame Mrs. Torres for signing on, spousal obligations or not :)

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PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, May 4, 2006 4:22 AM

I do remember the "What is the Matrix?" comercials. In fact, I remember my math class at the time; we were learning what a matrix was and how to apply it mathmatically, etc etc, and my notes were just peppered with "What is the Matrix?" and "The Matrix has you" in just the weirdest places. I loved the movie. I really think it should have been left "as-is". But oh well.
It's been awhile since I saw the, for lack of a better word, follow-ups, and I only saw them each once anyway. I don't remember seeing Gina. Who did she play?

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DOWIE100

Thursday, May 4, 2006 11:23 AM

Funnily enough I saw The Matrix Reloaded two days after I saw the Matrix for the first time. My was I dissapointed with Reloaded...

Mind you I just compared Star Wars Ep 1-3 with Serenity, thats an even bigger gap in regards to film quality.

Ohh yeah the topic, yes I concur it was Gina who was in Reloaded.

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EST120

Thursday, May 4, 2006 1:00 PM

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Originally posted by NEEDY:
[I like the movies. Sure the sequels aren't as good as the first, but the second has some damn good action sequences and the third... well apart from a slow beginning and a cheesy end, is absolutely fantastic.

I agree. I enjoyed the original and Reloaded. Revolutions was okay but not as good for me. I feel that expectations after the first movie were just too high. Everyone had different ideas about what should happen and there was no way the writers were going to satisfy the fans. The original is a complete movie from beginning to end (kind of like Star Wars was) and that makes it the best, in my opinion. But I also liked Reloaded because it has a pretty neat revelation at the end and there the highway chase scene is really great. There are some inexplicably strange scenes in the movies, though, for sure. The big party after it is revealed to the humans in Zion that the machines are coming to kill them all is a prime example. I would think everyone would be getting ready to defend themselves, not having a rave.

FIREFLYNUTTER

Thursday, May 4, 2006 1:08 PM

i only liked the first... the others were as tho they were just thrown together after a late nite on the town with a carribine and a pair of old socks. Even though they had planned for the movies to be a triliogy straight from the start, it was a bad move in my view, for it too work they needed less blah blah and more ouchie (ie more neo/smith scenes )

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PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, May 4, 2006 1:14 PM

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Originally posted by fireflynutter:
i only liked the first... the others were as tho they were just thrown together after a late nite on the town with a carribine and a pair of old socks. Even though they had planned for the movies to be a triliogy straight from the start, it was a bad move in my view, for it too work they needed less blah blah and more ouchie (ie more neo/smith scenes )

You know, the Neo/Smith scenes were some of the most severely disapointing to me. Think about it. If they both had total control over the program, could both bend the Matrix to their will, why the hell were they just flying at each other over and over? That got so boring! They could have been hurling lighting or trying to make the ground swallow each other, or just picked up really big bits of rubble to throw. No, they flew at each other. Over. And over. And over. And over.
Or were you referring to the uber cool fight in Reloaded? That was pretty good. Actually interesting to watch, at least.

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FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, May 4, 2006 1:20 PM

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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
But one moment in RELOADED always gives me a chuckle and I wonder if anyone else catched onto it. You know that old movie THE WARRIORS (which IMHO is overrated and has not aged well) when Cyprus the leader of all the gangs keeps saying to the crowd "Can you dig it?" Before the rave/orgy scene in RELOADED when Morpheus is addressing the crowd and says "ZION...CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Did anyone expect him to say, or just say to yourselves in a MST3K fashion "Can you dig it!!!"

I was so there! With the bots! In my mind!

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