Disappointing, cheap shot (literally and figuratively) attempt to cash some ticket by milking the nostalgia cow.
Like I do not know where to begin....
It feels like they violated a legendary trilogy just to make some bucks.
I know that marketing algorithms dictate to serve yesterday's food retouched and at a premium price instead of risking at attempting something creative/artistic/genuine or simply new but they should have touched the matrix trilogy... really...
The matrix trilogy is a legendary one from so many aspects that revolutionized the film industry and also went so much beyond that even universities were talking about its concept and philosophizing about it.
This is just wrong!
Everything feels either cheaper or out of canon or halfbaked or all 3.
From the colors to the plot, from the actors to the clothes to the dialogues.
Especially the dialogues! I mean ok the plot was nothing to write home about (pun intended) but you could descern that from miles away since the plot of the trilogy is complete near to perfection and doesnt allow for this low hanging fruit reboot... But the dialogues... That hurt me more than everything else!
The dialogues!!!!
In the first 3 iterations out it felt like (and probably was so since you can read pages upon pages analyzing the dialogues) 10 out of lets say 15 words hard a specific purpose to be said like they were said and there couldnt be a better way they had been spoken, everything had an apparent and sometimes a double/hidden meaning as where in "Matrixy 4" its mostly blah blah blah blah superficial boring stuff to fill up time...
Even the names on the original Matrix had meaning, e.g Morpheus the primal god of dreams the authority to wake you up from them, Cypher originates from Cyphus who was the one (in Greek mythology) that betrayed Morpheus, Trinity as in the christian dogma which combines all three facets of God into one as Trinity in the film is the element that combines all facets of the One and makes him complete which leads to a different Matrix conclusion compared to the previous iterations mentioned in the plot..
In "Matrixy 4" we have names such as Bugs as in Bugs Bunny!!! No kidding, that's actually why they call one of the "Matrixy 4" Characters...
It's like the gave it to millennials and told them take them actors and make them "matrixy".
There was no need for Matrix 4 except for making a fast buck as I said in the title cheapshot and disappointing
Even at the first minutes of the movie the nostalgia cheap shot start to surface in the dialogue in the form of repeating epic quotes from the previous movies...
Why did you have to do this to the Matrix? Just leave it alone... My eyes can not unsee that.
I watched the movie for free but I still couldnt go past a few minutes and I felt that I wanted to be reimbursed for damages.
It feels like they violated a legendary trilogy just to make some bucks.
I know that marketing algorithms dictate to serve yesterday's food retouched and at a premium price instead of risking at attempting something creative/artistic/genuine or simply new but they should have touched the matrix trilogy... really...
The matrix trilogy is a legendary one from so many aspects that revolutionized the film industry and also went so much beyond that even universities were talking about its concept and philosophizing about it.
This is just wrong!
Everything feels either cheaper or out of canon or halfbaked or all 3.
From the colors to the plot, from the actors to the clothes to the dialogues.
Especially the dialogues! I mean ok the plot was nothing to write home about (pun intended) but you could descern that from miles away since the plot of the trilogy is complete near to perfection and doesnt allow for this low hanging fruit reboot... But the dialogues... That hurt me more than everything else!
The dialogues!!!!
In the first 3 iterations out it felt like (and probably was so since you can read pages upon pages analyzing the dialogues) 10 out of lets say 15 words hard a specific purpose to be said like they were said and there couldnt be a better way they had been spoken, everything had an apparent and sometimes a double/hidden meaning as where in "Matrixy 4" its mostly blah blah blah blah superficial boring stuff to fill up time...
Even the names on the original Matrix had meaning, e.g Morpheus the primal god of dreams the authority to wake you up from them, Cypher originates from Cyphus who was the one (in Greek mythology) that betrayed Morpheus, Trinity as in the christian dogma which combines all three facets of God into one as Trinity in the film is the element that combines all facets of the One and makes him complete which leads to a different Matrix conclusion compared to the previous iterations mentioned in the plot..
In "Matrixy 4" we have names such as Bugs as in Bugs Bunny!!! No kidding, that's actually why they call one of the "Matrixy 4" Characters...
It's like the gave it to millennials and told them take them actors and make them "matrixy".
There was no need for Matrix 4 except for making a fast buck as I said in the title cheapshot and disappointing
Even at the first minutes of the movie the nostalgia cheap shot start to surface in the dialogue in the form of repeating epic quotes from the previous movies...
Why did you have to do this to the Matrix? Just leave it alone... My eyes can not unsee that.
I watched the movie for free but I still couldnt go past a few minutes and I felt that I wanted to be reimbursed for damages.
- billdtrav
- Jan 2, 2022