The Matrix Reloaded

I thought it was quite good. Yes, there were lots of fight scenes, but the plot was enthralling and fascinating, and the story makes sense and is fluid. There are two connections to the Animatrix stories, and of course the connection to Enter The Matrix. It was well made and followed the story line.

Yes, the effects were roapy at times, but if you want the action, you have to expect to be able to see the effects, short of spending the type of money Square did on Final Fantasy...

It was half a film, I expected lots of people to be disappointed with it because of that, I was not suprised.
 
i think they did say that they were going to show some more animatrix but i cant remember the time scale that they said.

i'm just going to get the dvd in the start of june on release.
 
I have downloaded the 90 MB Trailer from The Matrix web site.

It looks fantastic; the special effects are mind blowing

I cannot wait for my opportunity to see it!
 
From what my husband told me, apparently the Wachowski brothers want to release Revolutions in July but Warner Bros want to wait until Nov/Dec (as they want to milk Reloaded for all it's worth, and then get the whole Thanksgiving & Christmas Box Office thing!). Apparently the Wachowskis are now holding on to Revolutions and being a bit snotty to Warner...

Although this was a few weeks back so I could be completely wrong there!

They have def finished Revolutions though as they shot the 2 films together
 
It's not a rumour it is a whole scene in the film. Pay attention.

You've saw the movie. You saw Agent Smith overwrite this man's conciousness to create a duplicate Smith and you saw the duplicate Smith download itself from the matrix into the man's mind. That man now has the mind of Agent Smith.

If one physical change left you so completely flummoxed "Terminator 2" must be the most complicated movie in the world to you: "Why has Connor's aunt got a large metal spike coming out of her arm?", "What's up with that floor, what does it have against the security guard?", "Is Arnie a good guy or a bad guy?".
 
Just because they shot them together doesn't mean that Revolutions is finished.

They would have all the raw footage but the effects work would probably still be going on.

Just look at the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They were all shot together at the same time, but the special effects are still being done on Return Of the King and the cast are still going back for re-shoots and pick ups!
 
I downloaded the this movie a few days ago, and watched it last night.
I thought it was real good - but not excellent lol, i loved the special effects and fighting action that went on that was superb, similar to the movie - The One but with alot more fighting and special effects.
The sex seens of the movie was pretty boring i dunno why they showed all that for.
The ending was cr*p tho :(
But the majority of the movie was cool :)
 
I think that the movie didnt have the same edge as the orginal, too much right and wrong, black and white, good and evil.

To be honest, ifound the first 45 mins of the movie quite boring, but i think this was due to the expectations of the movie, and all the stills that you see in the reviews and the trailers.

Most people probably expected 2hrs of fight fight fight. But if i have to compare it to another Triolgy i would compare it to Star Wars, The Empire strikes back was the middle movie so it had more of a back story, for people to get to know the characters.

This is also true with the Matrix Reloaded, You learn more about Neo's being a jesus like person, to the beleviers of Zion, and his love for Trinity,

I the CG on a whole was quite good, but one scene which disappointed me would have to be the scene just after Neo meets the Oricale, This is when Neo is fighting Agent Smith and his 100 clones, and quality of the visuals are pretty poor when the action gets quite intense, this may not be as noticable when it goes to DVD.

All in All a good movie, Part Three here i come.


P.S. Trinity in the Black PVC catsuit still does it for me PWOARRR!!!!

LOL

:D
 
This is true. I went to see Starship Troopers way back when it came out in the US. That was an R-rated movie and there kiRAB in there watching who were like 7 and 8 with there parents. I do not think this is right, at least not that young.
 
Actually I was dissapointed with alot of the fight scenes. The thing in the original movie that I really likes was the fight scenes which were mostly done by the actors using wires in traditional Hong kong style. HOWEVER in many of the fight scenes here it was obvious the actors were in fact CG (and not very good GC either as they really stood out).

Movie was still enjoyable and the fight scenes that were done on wires were still great and the whole highway scene was breathtaking but it was missing that certain thing that made the first so good and the special effects also didnt seem to quite cut it
 
Has anyone tried watching the first film again, now knowing what we know in Reloaded?

Anyone noticed the architect's TV screens featuring in the first film?
 
The fight scenes were done by strings? I thought it was all special effects? i couldnt see how any of it could of been done by strings? High impacts, twists and turns, slow and fast. I thought the flying type of fighting was all computer generated? maybe not then
 
Thats a resounding no then...
In the scene between Neo being caught by the Agents, and the interrogation/no mouth/bug placement there is a transition where you see the architects monitors all looking at Neo... Makes you realise they've had a story for it all along... Not just cashing-in !
 
Seeing as the Matrix still has anomolies ( Neo) there is still a purpose for the Architect. The Matrix still runs with errors, rather like Windows. He will live on until the Matrix is perfect or it is destroyed.
 
Why would he be monitoring the situation? Well, because he created the Matrix, and had to create the anomoly, and was monitoring his first interaction with the Agents in there. Quite simple.

There is a difference between the Matrix and a lot of other sequels. The Matrix was written completely as three films (story line, plot ideas, not script) long before the first one was made. Film like Star Wars had basic ideas, but they throw new characters and ideas in, where the Matrix was already created and waiting for the go ahead.
 
Aahhh, you're getting the Architects monitors confused with CCTV.....:p

Even if your hypothesis was true, why would the Architect monitor anything when monitoring would be the job of a monitoring program (probably called the Monitor). Why, in fact, is the Architect still around when his function is complete and, according to the rules of Reloaded, he should have been deleted?

Presumably because no one though it through....
 
You are both missing the point, a large part of reloaded is about how programs have specific functions, the Keymaker makes keys, the Oracle intuits, the Architect builRAB matrices. Once the function is fulfilled the program is obsolete. The Keymaker does not move on to make locks for his keys, the Oracle does not design programs or situations to empathise with and the Architect does not become a monitoring program so it can formulate new matrices.

That there are still anomalies in the matrix is not a reason for the Archiect to continue to exist but an inevitability of the choice people wired to the matrix are offered. The Architect explains that without the choice the people rejected the matrix wholly. Choice in turn creates the anomaly which is then controlled and contained via the Zion scenario. None of this can be prevented by any design of the Architects (all of this is said in the movie, does no one listen to dialogue anymore) so the Architect's function is over. Hence the Architect should have been deleted
 
I guess but who is going to delete the architect. Would that be the job of the agents or Neo? Maybe the Architect wrote into the agents program - he is the one who created all the programs isn't he, not too sure of this - that they don't delete him. If they were programmed that way then they wouldn't. It could be the One's job but he fools them into going into the source but I have a sneaky suspiscion that Smith will destroy him as the only way to gain the freedom he thinks he's going to gain by killing Neo.
 
Thanks to the MTV Movie AwarRAB, I'll find it hard to take the architect seriously next time I see the Matrix Reloaded.

"I used to design video games. I created Dig-Dug, and Q-Bert. I didn't do Frogger, but I came up with the name. They were going to call it Road Crossing Frog, can you believe that?"
 
Back
Top