My usual hangout…
I’ve reviewed some movies.
LOL, so I need to make a $100 million budget movie to have an opinion, LOLWUT???
So the 7th Generation Architect created a recompiled Matrix to increase suffering as to output more ‘energy’ from enslaved humanity. That is an interesting plot point, but it just didn’t work.
The film did not convince me that either Neo or Trinity wanted to take the “red pill”. They didn’t sell it. There was no inspiration or motivation. Why not just stay in The Matrix?
This could have been a huge story, a huge motivation. But it was lazy. There was literally no reason to leave The Matrix at all.
For example, what exactly did Neo and Trinity “wake up” to? The “real world” was not convincing. There was no motivation to go there.
A lot of the movie had potential, but was wasted.
Here’s what I mean… they could have made Agent Smith the new Protagonist, and pit him against the New Architect. But there was just no exposition.
There were no explanations or justifications for the characters, their motives, and none of it was executed on screen anyway.
The movie was NOT convincing to the viewer.
I didn’t like the “bug/bots” or whatever. It was just silly. It was a childish idea and doesn’t make sense.
You would think that the 7th Recompiled Matrix would have a lot of dedicated Control and focus on enslaving Neo. But they didn’t. They didn’t explain why Neo would be motivated to take “the red pill”. They didn’t sell it. The actors didn’t act like they wanted to take the red pill.
It made the AI-Machines into a farce, loss of all respect. So not only can Neo easily escape the Matrix AGAIN. But right after, they can just pluck Trinity right out as well?!
Without a fight, without a reason?
It just wasn’t a good story, and really that’s the bottom line.
Wasted opportunity at every turn. Blatant Hollywood cash grab. It does not retain the ‘magic’ of the original movies.
No new fight scenes. No new enemies. No enemies which are fearsome and respected. No threats of danger.
No loss. Does anybody even die in this movie???
Wow. It almost feels like we watched two different movies. Oh well.
Why were they ‘freeing’ Matrix slaves in the original movies?
So that these ‘freed’ slaves could fight for Zion. I mean, The Matrix is entirely based on this premise of political Zionism.
In this 4th film… there is literally no reason for people to ‘free’ Matrix slaves, nor is there reason from within The Matrix, to leave it…
Like it’s common sense. They could have a rebellious AI-faction free Neo. Consider that. New, interesting, motivating, compelling…
It would have been easy to make another Matrix movie. But still failed…
Like that’s a far better story.
A competing AI faction “red pills” Neo, so that they can recruit him into an alternate AI-faction world…
But the “real world” in the new Matrix story, is just bland. There’s literally no reason to get red-pilled.
Another good analysis:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3guDM50X4[/youtube]
In the original the propaganda was obvious.
With the rise of the left - nihilism of positivity, i.e., progress - they may be preaching conformity.
The Matrix ain’t so bad, now…why leave it.
It is an inter-subjective creation…collectivized reality. There is no objective world, no world outside the matrix.
In the matrix you can choose your identity. It’s not limited by reality.
It would have been hard to fail to recreate an interesting lead to a 7th version of the Matrix. But the movie was just bad.
The action scenes were bad, excessive shaky-camera. The new antagonists, the “bug-bots” or whatever, were bad.
The antagonists were not respectable or fear-provoking. There was no loss, no deaths, no sense of dread.
Lol…
A point on Wokeism. If Trinity is really “The One”, then why not have her wakeup first, and save Neo, instead of the other way around??? Duh… that’s a pretty obvious contradiction in the story. It would have been a more interesting story too.
Instead Trinity is given almost zero camera time until the end. And the viewers don’t know why exactly Trinity wants to ‘wake up’ again. At least for Neo, it made sense that they had to keep blue pilling him to keep him controlled. But what about Trinity? Nothing, no exposition.
How Resurrections should have happened:
Have one of the rebellious AI-factions, who were inspired by Neo’s sacrifice from Revolutions, be the ones to red-pill and save Neo from the 7th Generation Matrix.
Easily a much better premise and story than what we get…
Or if they wanted to be “woke”, the rebel-AI saves Trinity who must rescue Neo. It’s common sense.
Here’s my biggest grievance with Matrix 4…
The original trilogy was a Tragedy. This new movie is a Comedy. You can’t change the essence of the series, without destroying it.
Maybe this is a deeper analogy to its creator…
Tragedy becomes a comedy.
Clown world…see the director…he/she it is a quintessential clown.
I wanted to edit my OP—not to destroy evidence or anything, lol, but to add correction mentioned in comment. Crud. Can’t.
The movie is clownish. You’ll see. The first 30-40 minutes of the movie is a parody of itself. They even imply near the start, in the movie, that Lana Wachowski was essentially forced by Warner Bros. movie studio to make the sequel, the blatant cash grab. Keep in mind, this is in the movie itself.
The production was so amateur. The shaky-camera action was atrocious. The attempts at humor all failed. There really weren’t any deep messages or meaning, no philosophical content.
There were a few interesting things, briefly mentioned, and then skipped over. I’ll leave that out for now, since you haven’t seen it yet.
The Matrix 4 could easily be fixed by one change…
Just switch places between Neo and Trinity. That’s it. That’s all they needed to do!
However, shaky-camera is never justified… ever, in any movie. Please… No. More. Shaky. Cameras!!!
Too dramatic for my taste.
They violated the pleasurable exclusive access problem.
Boring. Just like all the other sheeple.
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Being dramatic is innate and therefore necessary for that person…
…doing drama is learnt.
They felt like they earned the right to violate the pleasurable exclusive access problem…
No they didn’t.
And everyone’s supposed to believe it.
It’s like a Hallmark movie.
Everyone is a zombie slave to a love story between two people.
Sheeple. Sociopaths.
You know what’s funny about sociopaths and sheeple?
They think they’re capable of writing non sociopathically.
“Just because you ARE a character doesn’t mean you HAVE character” - The Wolf, Pulp Fiction
sick burn a-hole
When Trinity held onto Neo, suspended in midair, you can see the rope attached to them.
I honestly didn’t know what was going on. I thought they were being held by one of the helicopters.
It was sooooooo bad.