(01-05-2022, 12:54 PM)samtheman Wrote: @ Bada and mugatiya: I found the new matrix movie a big let down. I mean it is watchable. However it was like recycling of the old story, similar to new star wars movies which did not bring anything new to the table and left us with burning question, was a new movie really necessary?
Bringing people back from dead, is just lazy script writing. Especiallly the way they rebuild a dead human, not a programme, even if they do manage to do it which is very unrealistic ,how do we know new human will have same consciousness. Bit silly. Matrix itself says there were many neo's before the current one, as there were many matrixes before, so could have done something creative and brought back neo in a more realistic way if that was really needed
On the contrary, I actually quite liked it.
I understand what you mean about bringing dead people back, but let's face it, Matrix wouldn't be Matrix without Neo and Trinity; it's already a little letdown without Morpheus. So there was no way they were going to not bring them back. And honestly, when you watch sci-fi you need to suspend belief up to a certain point and buy in to the premise and go along with it. The machines reconstructing Neo is not any more unrealistic than the entire premise of the movie is it - they cloud the sky to block the sunlight so machines wouldn't get energy, but then machines use up humans to generate energy. So... where do they get the energy to feed the humans? Without sun there would be no energy and the planet would be dead. You need to buy into that BS to enjoy Matrix, and if you do then machines reconstructing humans isn't so hard to believe.
And I do love some of the new concepts - like humans finally getting along with some of the machines. I really liked that part, that they realizing you don't have to fight all machines and that there's much value in cooperation than war. And the fact that machines realizing the same and siding with humans is also a neat tie in to the Matrix cannon (not part of movies) as well. If you don't know - in the beginning, the whole thing started with a robot killing it's master, then the humans killed / decommisioned the robot and this sparked a huge debate and eventually divided the humanity where some of the humans sided with robots and went to war with other humans. Those robot+human faction won and they were the founders of the robot city we see, and those humans were the first (voluntary) subjects of the Matrix where they wanted to escape the harsh reality and live in a dream world while in return the machines got the energy they needed. So this idea of humans working with machines again kinda comes full circle and I loved the idea.
What I didn't really liked was the visuals/fights/action sequences. Holy **** that was a let down. As soon as I watched the movie I mentioned this to Muga in a chat, and later I found an article that articulated exactly how I felt. In the OT, they didn't just shake the camera and create illusion of fightigh, they had clear focused one on one fights, cool martial arts, and even gun fights were focused and clean/crisp. The new movie is not different to any of thousands of other Hollywood movies in that regard. Fights were too much chaos, much of it clouded in darkness, and just wasn't momorable at all.
Here's the article: https://screenrant.com/matrix-resurrections-action-scenes-fight-choreography-worse-disappointing/
And I do love some of the new concepts - like humans finally getting along with some of the machines. I really liked that part, that they realizing you don't have to fight all machines and that there's much value in cooperation than war. And the fact that machines realizing the same and siding with humans is also a neat tie in to the Matrix cannon (not part of movies) as well. If you don't know - in the beginning, the whole thing started with a robot killing it's master, then the humans killed / decommisioned the robot and this sparked a huge debate and eventually divided the humanity where some of the humans sided with robots and went to war with other humans. Those robot+human faction won and they were the founders of the robot city we see, and those humans were the first (voluntary) subjects of the Matrix where they wanted to escape the harsh reality and live in a dream world while in return the machines got the energy they needed. So this idea of humans working with machines again kinda comes full circle and I loved the idea.
What I didn't really liked was the visuals/fights/action sequences. Holy **** that was a let down. As soon as I watched the movie I mentioned this to Muga in a chat, and later I found an article that articulated exactly how I felt. In the OT, they didn't just shake the camera and create illusion of fightigh, they had clear focused one on one fights, cool martial arts, and even gun fights were focused and clean/crisp. The new movie is not different to any of thousands of other Hollywood movies in that regard. Fights were too much chaos, much of it clouded in darkness, and just wasn't momorable at all.
Here's the article: https://screenrant.com/matrix-resurrections-action-scenes-fight-choreography-worse-disappointing/