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Another new film I probably won't see because I got too twisted by the first three. Which I think was the theme. In all, maybe too much is being made of it. I don't sense any holocaust involved, but naivety is my specialty.
If you plan to see the 4th film, then this NY Times commentary might be prep for you. The author weaves foretelling complication with today's internet and finds that the movies provide a more hopeful outcome than future internet seems to. How's that for a low bar?
And maybe all this will be cause some day for real e-Monkey Wrench Gangs (ala Ed Abbey, and Neo's band) to form up, thwarting the madness of all of us being connected, but no one in charge.
Article quotes; hopefully you can vault any paywalls to it. It reads as complicated as the films:
"Some excitedly heralded "The Matrix," with its pioneering computer-generated special effects and cyberpunk motif, as "the first movie of the 21st century." And over 20 years after its release, the film persists as perhaps the definitive movie of the early internet age. Its influence is everywhere, animating fashion and philosophy, as well as our technological fears and fantasies. Its iconography - from the "red pill," which helps to awaken characters to the reality of their dystopian circumstances, to "the endless allure of Keanu Reeves' sunglasses," as GQ put it - are cultural mainstays. "
"Dominated by a handful of mega-corporations, today's digital sphere seems more in line with the machines' coercive operation than the dreams of Neo and his band of rebels. The internet now stands as a vast web designed to capture our tastes, attention and patterns of thought, and to push them along profit-making lines. The goal is not a world where anything is possible - but a world where everything is predictable and purchasable."
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I am ready for a new "Matrix" film. The internet/interweb is over 20 years old. Should make for a good storyline...?
Wasn't crazy about the psychobabble of the first three, I was totally lost, plot-wise, with this one. I didn't remember any of the minor characters and was ready for a blue pill before the end.
You would have to be beyond hardcore to enjoy this Matrix.
and boring in its perplexity, not in its complication.
Watched ten minutes earlier. SOS with ever/even more precision.
"Predictable and purchasable" indeed!
Reeves the mobile manikin is better served as John Wick.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I liked the original Matrix, but despite multiple attempts I have never been able to get through either of the older sequels. In fact, IIRC the first sequel was one of the few occasions when I walked out of the theater in the middle of a film.
Alas!!!!!!
I agree, the 1st Matrix was interesting and fun.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
cutesy, too many "inside" winks to previous episodes. Making fun of gun battles and then having one seems a tad self-serving? If it's dumb, and it is, man up and just put it out there.
I watched, instead, the latest James Bond: up to the 2 hour mark, it's very good.
Getting the band back together for their reunion and goodbye tour.
Edits: 12/23/21
over the Matrix stuff.
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