Matrix Rev: What did YOU think?

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brandon

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FIRST OF ALL PLEASE ANYONE REPLYING TO THIS THREAD - NO SPOILERS!!! I BESEACH YOU

Personally I loved this film, I think I am going to get shot down in flames by many people but for me this rounded off the trilogy in a very complete way. My hat off to the W. Bros - they have told an excellent story - maybe (as I have seen elsewhere) that occasionally the acting is a little wooden and at the beginning it is a little laboured but we should remember that films are all about telling story and for me the three films together do just that.

Yes, the special effects are absolutely brilliant, and those who go just for them won't be disappointed - but if that is all you go for you WILL be disappointed.

Have YOU seen this film yet, tell me what YOU think

Cheers, everyone
 
i have seen it and im sorry to say the oracle was right, everything that has a beginning has an end. it was a fantastic ending to an already fabulous trilogy! the story behind it was fantastic and the ending was phenomenal! how any film can claim to be as if not better is lying to themselves because that film WILL NOT be topped! one tip, dont take one break! you will miss SO much!

sad to see it end tho :cry:
 
What I don't understand is why the critics are giving it such a negative review. What on earth were they expecting? It has to be said that M1 was ground-breaking (this was the first time I had gone to see a film more than once at the cinema since I was about 10 and sat through Earthquake twice - you could do it in those days) but this 3rd film definitely has to be viewed in the context of the three together. One does not make a whole but three does.
 
Every time i see a matrix film it develops 100x over and the world just keeps getting bigger and bigger (including the animatrix).

I personally LOVED the ending, i thought it was totally fantastic. There were a few plotholes i saw (will mention them in a spoiler-allowed thread later) however that could just be me misinterpretating them.

I think to watch this film you have to throw away any expectations you have...i cant really say any more than this without giving away anything as i cannot think of a sentence which might imply something to do with the plot!

Overall though i thought it was absolutly SUPERB :)
 
So to the people that liked it, did you also like Reloaded? I love the first film, but was hugely disapointed by the second. If it's going to be more of the same, I'm probably not going to bother.
 
I also would like this distinction cleared up. I thought the original was a classic whose memory was sullied by Reloaded. My reaction to the DVD was "been there, done that, get on with it".

I'm probably already on a promise to go see Revolutions at the cinema but I'm afraid the critics were proved right on 2 and I feel they will be right on 3.

G:(
 
I think the techno geeky type boys who love there video games will like this movie more then the rest!

Its just too confusing to get a grip of:confused:
 
Its not confusing at all!
Reloaded and Revolutions are two totally different films. Whereas Reloaded was about asking the questions, Revolutions is answering them. Reloaded was a battle to discover the truth inside the Matrix, Revolutions is a battle to survive in the real world. Reloaded was very much about Neo and Trinity (and a bit of Smith), Revolutions is about Neo, Trinity, Smith, Niobe, Morpheus, Zee, Link, The Kid, Bain, the crew of the Hammer, the people of Zion. Some people said the battles and fights in Reloaded had no purpose, theres the difference, the fights in Revolutions are there for a reason. Without spoiling too much (because its in the trailer), the fight between Smith and Neo isn't just about a fight between two people, it has more far-reaching consequences. The battle for Zion has purpose, everybody's fighting for someone or to get to something. Reloaded may have just felt like a number of set pieces. For the record I loved Reloaded, I'm not going to compare it to The Matrix because as far as I'm concerned I'm taking them as one big story. If you didn't like Reloaded but are open minded, forget your expectations and go and see this, because even if you don't like the story, the battle for Zion is worth the price alone. I believe even the negative reviews have acknowledged that.
 
Hmmmm, may be worth it. After the original Matrix, and Bound, I'm inclined to give the Walchowski's the benefit of the doubt.

Dave
 
actually I wasnt thinking of Kill Bill. I was thinking of The Matrix Reloaded + Revolutions. I am sure that if you did a search on it that it would come up with the fact that originally Reloaded + Revolutions were submitted as one script (obviously before they got the name Reloaded + Revolutions)
 
My turn to post again I think as I started this thread. First of all just to make a point about "geeky boys" watching this film - I am not geeky and not a boy. Yes I love films such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Terminator etc etc etc but I also love films such as City of Angels, Usual Suspects, Gosford Park - OK point is here I don't think I can be categorised as said geek.

Now on to M3 - but first a quick word about M1 - Matrix 1 was a "ground-breaker" it was definitely the kind of film that you go and watch and you come away blown away thinking "wow what did I see there" - I went back and watched a second dragging my husband along as well and have seen the DVD countless times and still love it - so I think I have a handle here on expectation for 2 and 3.

2 was a complicated philisophical story, plus some fairly spectacular s-fx but not better than 1, more of in the same vein - (hold on to this now we cannot beat 1) - then three has more of a story about survival and (goodness this is hard without giving a spoiler) giving everything for a purpose. The W Bros are not trying to better Matrix 1 they are just continuing the story - I honestly believer that if 1, 2 and 3 were one continous story (which is how they should be seen) we would not be saying "oh the first bit was great, the second third a bit crap and the third etc etc" we would be saying "wow what an amazing (6 hour) film - the trilogy is one story, that is how they intended and that is how it should be viewed.
 
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