The entire saga was marred by the non-existent connection between "appearance vs. realtiy" of M1 and "destiny vs. free will" of M2 and M3. No attempt was made to connect them going from M1 to M2, and that made the entire concept of the Matrix less interesting if not entirely superfluous as the trilogy rushed to conclusion. Neo managed to transcend the first layer of equations that is the Matrix at the end of M1, and it appeared that he also broke through the second layer of equations that is fate to a certain extent, but how he managed to do that remained a real head-scratcher, even at M3's conclusion.
It was bad. I give it a 2 out of 10. The 2nd one made me excited to see the third one. and I was very disapointed.
I actually thought the Lost World was easily the worst of the series. Not that JP3 was all that good. JP was pretty good, and could've been great had it not been for the ****ty ending. As far as the Matrix movies, Matrix > Rev > Reloaded. But all of them were horribly overrated imo. I really didn't understand the hype around the movies.
I don't know why people always act like it would be so hard to get a corpse ambulatory to the point it could play a role in a major-motion picture. STRINGS, PEOPLE. They could have propped up the dead actress, wiggled her around as needed, and overdubbed her lines in post-production. Seriously doubt it would have been a worse performance than that of Keanu Reeves.
Yeah although you have to admit it was pretty harsh for the actor they killed to play the corpse. REST IN PEACE TERRY KISER
I honestly liked playing the videogame also, that would have been a great flick....esp the airport stuff.
Reloaded was by far the worst - so bad that people didn't even bother to watch Revolutions afterwards. The first one was cool because the premise was so interesting. But once you get past that, their just isn't that much material left to make more movies out of it. The wachowski brothers did the best they could with what they had to work with. Matrix > Animatrix > Revolutions > Reloaded.
Revolutions just had so little of a story that was remotely interesting. Frankly, it got to the point that I just didn't care if they won or not. Just way too long to make a point.
The thing is, if they would've taken the video game and animatrix and put it into Matrix two and three, take away some of the filler scenes (club xion), they would've had a heck of more stories to the movie. For example, the meeting between every one in the beginning of reloaded was in the freaking game and there was a good story line from the animatrix leading to the game, leading to reloaded. They honestly could've done a lot more with the movie and the story. Most Americans don't like animations, so the whole back story that fills in a lot of plot wholes that was in animatrix gets missed and people watched the movie and was like, wtf, this is stupid.
as someone else said here the matrix was a tough act to follow as sometimes the first movie in a trilogy is maybe it was just because I was a fan from the beginning, but I liked all three movies true the first was the best, but I'd gladly watch reloaded and revolutions again.
Of course the first one was great. I was one of the few that liked the second, because it actually seemed to be building something of substance. Which made the third one that much more horribly disappointing. Just a dud of a conclusion (except for the part where the Sentinels are swarming in and getting cut down by the guns) that couldn't even clean up the loose plot points and just lacked any real excitement. And that, in turn, lowered my appreciation for the second one. I'll watch the first one anytime it's on now...and the Animatrix...but the others I really couldn't care less about.
i watched all three and have them on dvd but the matrix I is the only one i've watched more then once. as for jurassic park, in the lost world they brought a freaking t-rex back to america and then it wandered around a neighborhood. it was a pretty good movie up to that part but you gotta draw the line somewhere. in the third one they made-up their own stupid dinosaur and then had raptors making conversation with each other. i have that crap on dvd too. anyone else look at their dvd collection and think they should weed some of it out?
I loved the first one. The second one had some unbelievably good action scenes, and cracked open a plethora of questions concerning the Matrix, it's nature, how it relates to Agent Smith, the Oracle, Neo, etc... all really intriguing stuff that set up the third movie to be outstanding, even if all the third movie did was explain (adequately) the answers to all these new questions. I never sat at home outside of a theater and thought about a single movie or movie set as much as I did the Matrix after I saw Reloaded. I got unbelievably amped for the third movie. And then, somehow, half the Wachowski brother's losing his testicles and becoming a dominatrix's b**** retroactively turned the third movie into ****. All these intriguing questions they brought up in the 2nd film were hashed over in the worst ways. They took the easy way out on every difficult issue and conflict. Either by spewing senseless philosophy that half the populace would just accept as rote to be insightful, or by just presenting an answer that was highly unsatisfying and trying to cover it up with a deluge of action. Booo. And in regards to the action, how is it that these machines and programs are so highly advanced that they can devise a huge computer city to house their "coppertops" and present a fake reality, but they can't grasp even the simplest of battle tactics? When the sentinels broke through into the cavern at the end, and were attacking, they all flew at mechanical gun wielding walkers in a straight freaking line. The humans load their guns up, fire at a constant rate at one point and will kill 90% of them that fly in their direction. Had these sentinels broke up and come at the humans from all different angles, they would have mopped the floor with them. Just seemed so stupid and inconsistent. Also, I don't care how neat the computer technology is, or how big the resultant explosions are, Neo and Agent Smith just flying around and trading punches was a crappy ending fight scene. To me, the actual actor fight scenes in the first movie were better.
