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The_Eagles
10 May 2007, 10:55
came out in 1999, better than the phantom menace thats for sure. watched it again last night for the first time in about 5 years...keanu seemed shitter than I remember, ah well its still not bad. Thoughts? oh and number 3, matrix revolutions or whatever sucked arse if I recall
I thought the trilogy got progressively worse.
And I didn't really rate the first that highly to begin with.
Mr Eagle
10 May 2007, 13:10
First one was great.
Reloaded would have been great if Revolutions had followed up with the pay-off for everything it set up. But it didn't, so it wasn't. It was merely good.
Revolutions. Oy. I don't believe I actually went to see this at 10am the day it came out :(
dont bowl there
10 May 2007, 15:48
Terrible, maybe give it 1/5.
Armwarmer
10 May 2007, 15:51
Reloaded would have been great if Revolutions had followed up with the pay-off for everything it set up. But it didn't, so it wasn't. It was merely good.
Revolutions. Oy. I don't believe I actually went to see this at 10am the day it came out :(
QFT.
The first one was great, and reloaded set up so many potential brilliant storyline twists and turns.
Too bad the last one absolutely sucked arse, thus also bringing reloaded down with it.
While the invasion of Zion was pretty cool, the storyline was horrid given the built up it had.
Overall:
Matrix - 9/10
Reloaded - 7.5/10
Revolutions - 5/10
ManWithNoName
10 May 2007, 16:20
Loved The Matrix. Great, original, though provoking film. First time I saw it was mindblowing.
Impressive effort by the filmmakers to take a great film like the first one, and a decent sequal in the second one, and screw it up so horribly in the third one.
Brilliant first movie, but should have stopped there.
They would be absolutely nothing without the special effects. I didnt mind the first one but after that they got pretty bad.
First movie was brilliant. 10/10
Others weren't as good...
The Matrix - one of the best movies of the last ten years. It's brilliance in both the concept of the matrix and the effects shouldn't be tainted by how crap the following two were.
Paddywhackers
10 May 2007, 20:05
9/10
Was having this discussion with a mate the other day.
First one was brilliant.
Second one was pretty cool, I liked the ghost twin thing's. Had a storyline about the key maker or whatever it was and left it set up for a reasonably good ending.
Third one :o, completely disregard number 2 in continuing on with the story, all off a sudden the oracle is black and the line is "I can't explain it child", the key maker is forgotten and all of a sudden the machines are coming. At the end they look into a sunset and basically say "well that's just the way it is child". Probably the worst ending to any trilogy ever, in fact the producers should apologise and just make number 3 again.
skybeau
11 May 2007, 11:11
Third one :o, completely disregard number 2 in continuing on with the story, all off a sudden the oracle is black and the line is "I can't explain it child", the key maker is forgotten and all of a sudden the machines are coming. At the end they look into a sunset and basically say "well that's just the way it is child". Probably the worst ending to any trilogy ever, in fact the producers should apologise and just make number 3 again.
*probable spoilers*
I think you need to watch Reloaded again.
The Keymaker died in Reloaded, so its fairly understandable he was forgotten. The machines were ALWAYS coming, this was known in Reloaded. The Oracle gave a little more reasoning than "I can't explain it child"...and you are aware of the REAL reason why she changed, the unrelated to movie reason? It wasn't a great explanation, but she's a computer program.
I'm probably the only one who thinks Revolutions contained two fantastic centrepieces (battle of Zion and Neo vs Smith), with some pretty fanciful stuff in between. But I didn't think it was that bad overall. Left too many questions, that was the real problem with it.
The first movie is an absolute masterpiece, one the best and most accessible sci-fi pictures ever. The second and third were good, but I think they pissed off a lot of fans made with the first movie by getting too complicated with the Neo half man/half machine thing.
Jeffers
11 May 2007, 13:14
*probable spoilers*
The Oracle gave a little more reasoning than "I can't explain it child"...and you are aware of the REAL reason why she changed, the unrelated to movie reason? It wasn't a great explanation, but she's a computer program..
Didn't the actor that played the Oracle die shortly after the first Matrix movie?
The first movie is an absolute masterpiece, one the best and most accessible sci-fi pictures ever.
Agreed.
It could have been the best si-fi saga ever but they botched up the last 2 movies.
Didn't the actor that played the Oracle die shortly after the first Matrix movie?
She died yeah.
Armwarmer
11 May 2007, 16:54
Left too many questions, that was the real problem with it.
It was just too 'Hollywood'.
It simply didn't make a whole lot of sense that the machines would leave Zion.
Bretski
12 May 2007, 20:06
Matrix Revolutions >>>>>>>Matrix Reloaded>>> Matrix
If you understand it, Revolutions is 10 times better
ManWithNoName
13 May 2007, 00:04
Matrix Revolutions >>>>>>>Matrix Reloaded>>> Matrix
If you understand it, Revolutions is 10 times better
I think they banked on everyone seeing those animated films made for between the feature films. Backfired massively when most people didn't see a second of the animated ones.
Rocca Flys High
13 May 2007, 00:10
Not very good in my opinion. I prefer my Matrixes 2x3, maybe even bigger!
mulhollanddrive
13 May 2007, 00:57
I really like the ending to Reloaded, but the first 40 minutes were so rubbish. Then the next hour was a video game, until the last bit which i thought was one of the best twists.
I saw Revolutions at the cinema and was entertained, i doubt it has that much substance if i were to watch it again. I remember in between 2-3 i read probably 50-100 possible scenarios for the ending, and then basically there was no twist to the plot set up in 1+2.
I really like the philosophy aspect of Matrix but that part diminished as the series went on.
Crosby87
13 May 2007, 14:02
This is one of these movies I refuse to watch due to overhype. Lord of the Rings is another (though I've read the books).
gandaal
13 May 2007, 14:51
One of my favourite films of all time but I don't think its going to age very well. It was so groundbreaking at the time in a variety of ways but it also means that about 100 movies since have done the exact same thing.
I really like the ending to Reloaded, but the first 40 minutes were so rubbish. Then the next hour was a video game, until the last bit which i thought was one of the best twists.
I felt that the series would have been better served - made as a video game... as opposed to a movie trilogy (then again it made a lot of money... so i would have been fired for making the wrong decision).
Its just to me, the whole thing seemed too preposterous and unrealistic for it to be considered 'real' - i thought it was better suited as a videogame story.