Posted by Mixed Nuts Man at pcp02432479pcs.trnrsv01.nj.comcast.net on November 10, 2003 at 14:33:16:
In Reply to: (spoilers) posted by Ralphy ™ on November 10, 2003 at 14:23:19:
: -Since seeing Animatrix, you know how badly machines can kick the humans asses, so you know the humans had no shot. I was actually afraid for them.
Animatrix was great...hands down...
: -Machine City/Sky - nice touch.
Too bad seeing the sky lasted for 2 seconds and was completely forgotten as most aspects in the sequels were....It gave us false foreshadow and hope considering NOTHING was resolved in the end
: -The fact that this and Reloaded are basically one long movie, so here we are watching half of an act 2 and all of an act 3, which justifies it's format.
Too bad Revolutions paid little heed to Reloaded...Revolutions didn't touch on almost any aspect Reloaded set up...The Twins are definately the best example. They were hyped as being so great and cool, yet had barely any screentime and were so extraneously forgotten....
: -The themes that have been there since the first film remain: choice vs. destiny, Neo the messiah, ying and yangs (neo/Smith, Oracle/Architect, etc).
What made Neo great was his self doubt and confusion...not his pompous invincibility.
: -As mentioned in Reloaded, machines and humans really do need each other. Having Smith rule the Matrix to prove this was great.
Smith was extraneous in these. Written in for the sole purpose of bringing him back for popular demand. His goal was to get rid of Neo and that only.
: -Loved the final fight, loved Hugo Weaving throughout the whole film.
Oh yeah, gotta love redundant and repetitive fighting that creative giant blue orbs of power
: -Did it borrow from other films? Yes. So did Kill Bill. Big deal.
I'm not calling it a rip off....Never did...Helpermonkee told me that there are essentially 5 stories told in the world, just retold 60 mililion different ways
: -The story. If there had to be sequels, I'm glad they went this route.
The story was terrible. Absolutely awful....
: -Monica Bellucci's boobs.
Shows where your mind is focused
Here are the big problems
-The character development regressed so much. Morpheus became this horribly useless man. Trinity and her love for Neo completely took away from the independence her character once possessed...and Neo...My God did his character get destroyed.
-The dialogue was awfully trite. Over and over did they say these horribly wooden things that made the audience cringe. And to top that off, the acting degressed so much that it was painful to hear the words com eout of their mouths....not to mention that I have never seen an on screen kiss seem so forced and dry
-You have this great set up of a fight with Neo and Agent Smith in a human body, but of course he has to play the Evil James Bond vilian and reveal the whole plot, just in enough time to be defeated...then let's top it off with Neo all the sudden become superman in the real world too
-The whole point of a revolution is to overthrow. Nothing is resolved in the end. There was absolutely no motivation or purpose for the "truce" Neo called with the machines. The machines had no reason to accept it. Smith wasn't that much of a threat. He only cared about destorying Neo and that was it.
-Every single thing the original Matrix stood up for was destroyed. The idea of the small band of rebels revolting. The idea of these characters learning who they are instead of snapping their fingers and becoming it. not to mention throwing extraneous and useless character after character.
I could go on and on, but all in this, this was the worst film of the year hands down. There is nothing that makes this stand out other than how terrible it was