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  • 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.