I'd give the new Matrix movie a 7 or 8 out of 10. I think the 6.1 rating (when I last looked on IMDB) is fair.
I would have been perfectly happy if they never made the movie but I did think it was enjoyable and an alright flick. Nothing special at all though. It has no memorable scenes/moments like the first one did.
I'd give the new Matrix movie a 7 or 8 out of 10. I think the 6.1 rating (when I last looked on IMDB) is fair.
I would have been perfectly happy if they never made the movie but I did think it was enjoyable and an alright flick. Nothing special at all though. It has no memorable scenes/moments like the first one did.
At best it deserved a 3/10.
Half the movie was flashbacks from the other movies. The action scenes were slow. Agent smith had the charisma of a terminator.
This movie should have been called, the matrix explainer.
Not even a fan of JL and DiCap, fanfkingtasic acting and deep. I understand some might find it overdramatic and/or overly politicial, but you can't argue what it reflected isn't true in today's world. A wake-up call is needed for this world, if facts and science can't convince people then it need to be dramatic.
I also watched Don't Look Up last night and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I was pleasantly surprised by its message. I expect anyone not wanting to look into a mirror will dislike this film.
LOL I had no clue this movie was basically a movie poking fun at the previous administration and our society as a whole right now. I thought it was like Armageddon or something. It's hilariously true and if you are a Trump fan you will not like the movie. It only got better as it went on as far as it representing what is going in in our society. I will say though, skip the scene like 30 seconds into the credits.
At best it deserved a 3/10.
Half the movie was flashbacks from the other movies. The action scenes were slow. Agent smith had the charisma of a terminator.
This movie should have been called, the matrix explainer.
Maybe not half the movie but it was overly reliant on flashbacks and remakes, like the opening Trinity fight scene.
I'm not a fan of the series so it doesnt matter to me but I like to be honest. It was lazy and pandering and not particularly clever.
The word sophomore means "the wise fool" and I think that describes Warner Brothers and the Wachowskis at this point.
Maybe not half the movie but it was overly reliant on flashbacks and remakes, like the opening Trinity fight scene.
I'm not a fan of the series so it doesnt matter to me but I like to be honest. It was lazy and pandering and not particularly clever.
The word sophomore means "the wise fool" and I think that describes Warner Brothers and the Wachowskis at this point.
I'm just saying how people are being overly dramatic and over analyzing everything in reviewing this movie expecting something like part 1 again. It's just not gonna happen.
Oh and BTW it wasn't Trinity in that opening scene, that musta gone over your head.
Don't look up was great. 9/10 I watched it with two Trumpers last night during our annual Christmas day party.
Needless to say they were not very amused by the end. The entire time they kept trying to compare the movie to the "overreach" of governments in response to COVID.... until it became too obvious it was about them and their cult of science/reality denialism. The scenes of presidential political rallies complete with slogan hats in response to the comet really triggered them and you could see the penny drop on their faces as they realized.
I kept the peace though and sat in satisfied silence.
I'm just saying how people are being overly dramatic and over analyzing everything in reviewing this movie expecting something like part 1 again. It's just not gonna happen.
Oh and BTW it wasn't Trinity in that opening scene, that musta gone over your head.
Entertaining, not great. Some funny characters and moments, a bit clichéd. Typical Disney, tries to coax some tears from you. Nice soundtrack. Better overall movie than Luca.
Oh I agree. I like the first Matrix. Everything else they made was pure shit though, especially matrix 2---probably the worst film ever made. The fucking worst.
I did watch No Time to Die last night. It is one of the better Bond flicks, certainly among the Daniel Craig flicks, as well. I re-watched Spectre again, too, because I had mostly forgotten what happened, and not sure why people dislike it. It's quite good.
These last two flicks, especially NttD, are sort of loose re-writes of On Her Majesty's Secret Service--which remains the best Bond film ever, and it's not really close. There's good reason that they wanted to rehash this, because it's actually the only Bond film with a plot and characters, and I've seen them all about a dozen times each (well, maybe not the Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan ones, because most of those are terrible--the first 3 for Roger Moore are excellent, though. ...even Goldeneye doesn't hold up anymore, which is kinda weird. Go watch it if you haven't seen it in a while, like when you were still fond of the video game. It's strangely bad and dated, lol).
Anyway, you've got Bond actually considering doing something with his life, and all of that getting ruined, of course, because he's James Bond. There's a few call back lines to the original film and of course the closing credits are, again, Mr Louis Armstrong. A lot of people will not likely recognize this kind of stuff, but it's there for a reason. The opening titles are a call back to Dr No. So, this has a lot of fan-service in it but I wouldn't say it's distracting or obvious in such a way to ruin anything (I guess like people are complaining about Spiderman, which I haven't seen yet).
The action is superb and Craig is still a great Bond. I definitely like him more than Connery now (who only did 2 really great ones, honestly. The rest were OK or just pure shit). I like the campy throwbacks to seemingly obsolete car gadgetry. The plot or "caper" is a bit...odd and nonsensey, but then it is a Bond flick. It's kind of silly to dismiss the nonsense and impraticallity/impossibility of a villain's scheme when it comes to Bond flicks. but, that's also my chief complaint:
I like Rami Malik, but he was miscast. I mean, he was properly creepy and was quite good in his role, but he's a 30ish year old dude playing a guy that would be 50-60 or so by present time. It just...doesn't look right at all. If anything, makeup should have done more work to help him look his age. I feel like he was cast because he's been a hot get for the time. This is a thing that happens in film generally, but for Bond it was certainly never necessary. There are plenty of great actors that do good work in these roles, are cheaper, and it's not like casting outside of Bond is going to bring people to the theater. They only care that it's a Bond flick. Everything else is superfluous. Mads Mikkelson wasn't very well known outside of Denmark or wherever when Casino Royale came out, but he was great and CR was all the better for him being in it. Now he's also kinda everywhere.
Ana de Armas was awesome...I mean, she's always awesome. I watch anything that she is in. But she was kinda pointless here. I realized that her scenes--well her being in the scenes--was completely inconsequential to the story, but then I guess the point of her is that she is expected to be part of the new direction for Bond/007 franchise. It's the only explanation.
I haven't been reading up on it, but I'm not sure what they will do with 007 and I'm not convinced that we saw his replacement in this film. But, the idea of Bond these days is quite ossified and it's likely that Broccoli will be going in quite a new direction with the franchise. A lot of the (early) rumors are probably true.
Well, it's a good and proper send-off, I think. There was a lot of "stuff" happening all over the place and it kinda felt like a show bing cancelled midway through the season, with 2 episodes still unwritten and about 2 more seasons of plot left to cram into the end (I mean, "we're just going to kill off everyone that this whole Craig series has been slowly building to, and toss in an entirely new plot and people sort of out of nowhere"). That isn't so bad for a Bond film--they're all like that--but with this series, they were making one central storyline, and I seem to recall Daniel Craig surprising the producers with a decision to leave early (I think they were expecting another 1 or 2 for him after this one)? It definitely feels that way.
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