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  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah the change in pace and tempo of the fight scenes and gunplay is so divorced from 1+2 to 3. You go from really tight Hong Kong style hard boiled gun fights and practical street kung fu to like you said, Dragon Ball Z mid air power battles of two dude socking each other in the face. It was so boring.

    • Lundi [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      You go from really tight Hong Kong style hard boiled gun fights and practical street kung fu to like you said, Dragon Ball Z mid air power battles of two dude socking each other in the face. It was so boring.

      It's like they complete walked away from the identity of the movies. I know the previous had the flying and superman shit but none of that last battle scene was stylized in nearly the same way.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It’s like they complete walked away from the identity of the movies.

        That's it. It's a major reason why I was so turned off from the sequels. But 2 does have some good bits. Like the highway chase sequence. That feels very Matrix and has some nice tension going on. 3 though I totally zoned out on and really didn't care.

        • Lundi [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I actually really enjoyed Reloaded. Obviously not as tightly crafted as the first movie but it embraces the aesthetics of the Matrix so purely it feels like a supercharged Matrix 1. More skin tight leather, more overthetop slomo, more convoluted philosophical discourse. Just takes everything from the first film and dials it up to 100, which I can appreciate because they had the right to do it after making such a paradigm shifting action film in the first one.

          Revolutions is just them not knowing how to reconcile all of the aesthetic choices that made the Matrix what it was with a major shift in setting.

          • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Revolutions is just them not knowing how to reconcile all of the aesthetic choices that made the Matrix what it was with a major shift in setting.

            Yeah that's it. They couldn't square that shit away and the ending is so lackluster.