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Soundwave on 26 December 2021
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shikamaru317 said:
Soundwave said:

This is stupid, there's nothing in the Matrix Resurrections that undoes or really even undermines anything from the previous Matrix movies. 

The Last Jedi was controversial because it radically altered the character of Luke Skywalker primarily and then killed off Snoke and gave an answer to Rey's parentage that people weren't expecting. 

Resurrections is not really controversial in that way. Neo is still Neo he needs time to get his mojo back, Trinity is still Trinity. 

There's even a literal scene in the movie here Neo is reminded that everything he did in the first 3 movies had a massive impact. 

Instead of watching like the 800th Marvel movie, I mean watch it and make your own opinion. Is it going to be as good as the first Matrix? No way, but no blockbuster movie post 1999 is, LOTR trilogy and Mad Max maybe come closest. It's about on par with Reloaded and Revolutions, I would say I like this one better even if the action is not as good, the ideas are more interesting. But yes it is meta-aware as fuck, but I think that works and even makes sense in the Matrix. 

Dunno, haven't seen it myself, just reporting what others who have seen it have told me, some of them really hated it, while others merely disliked it. None of my friends or Twitter follows seem to have liked it. I'll probably rent it at Redbox eventually just to see if it is as bad as others have told me it is. 

If you liked Reloaded and Revolutions, this about on par with those. 

It is meta in a big way though, think Wes Craven's New Nightmare or even Scream IV ... both of which I think are good movies actually. 

The action is not as good as the previous films, clearly the lead actors are a lot older now and it's not really the main emphasis of the story. This story is more about recapturing the "mind fuckery" of the first Matrix movie (where you don't know or don't fully trust what is real, what isn't, this movie goes even further with that though). 

But if you are an actual fan of the Matrix lore, that who stuff about "it totally shits on the old films" ... uh fuck no. It's very much a continuation from the last scene in the Matrix Revolutions, it basically does answer all the questions at the end of Revolutions' last scene. You will see what happened after Revolutions, how things have changed, etc. etc. 

It isn't one of those sequels or "reboots" that goes "well the previous movies didn't happen or don't count so just forget that".