Movie: Matrix Resurrections

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epilogue wrote:
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VinylGuy wrote:i thought it looked kinda cool. Better than most Marvel movies, just to think bout other big franchises.
damning with the very faintest of praise.

The bad guy seems like some CW show reject.
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tragabigzanda wrote:embargo / non-spoiler reviews on Twitter seem to be all over the place, from A+ to F-
Usually a good sign
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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For me, yes
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Stuff that elicits a wide range of opinions is usually at least interesting, and in my experience has a higher chance of being good

Immediate universal praise from film reviewers usually means fucking Jojo Rabbit or some shit
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I went to the cinema for a screening of the original and loved every second of it, even on what was probably my thirtieth screening. And I've been trying to re-watchvthe sequels but I keep falling asleep during Reloaded. If you had your hopes up that this new one would be great again, I'm really not sure what you were basing that on. My hopes were never up, but I was always going to watch the thing. Nothing could change that.
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After watching Jupiter Ascending, I seriously doubt they have anything left in the tank.
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ill try to see the sequels before the new one..maybe see the last one at least to get the vibe again.
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This is already out there.
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It’s a lot. Its a whole lot. It’s dumb. It’s cool. It’s meta up it’s ass. Or mad mad on the nose. Or both.
Definitely needs a few spins.
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Why does the bad guy always have to explain his dastardly plan? Lots of that kinda thing
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dimejinky99 wrote:It’s a lot. Its a whole lot. It’s dumb. It’s cool. It’s meta up it’s ass. Or mad mad on the nose. Or both.
that's a really great summary of every Wachowskis film since the Matrix, I can't wait
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The whole meta concept for a Matrix movie is interesting, in paper at least. I saw in the trailers that they show a big chunk of moments of the first Matrix so im intrigued on how they actually use that footage.
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To be honest it could lose the first hour and be better for it. Lara is beating you over the head with the point. But you’ll either like that or not. I thought it too much.
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2 hours and a half? fuck
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VinylGuy wrote:2 hours and a half? fuck
The first one is 140 minutes.
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VinylGuy wrote:2 hours and a half? fuck

It really feels it at points. There’s a lot in here feels unnecessary. But when it’s Moving it’s well paced and well thought out.
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got tickets for this thursday
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Harsh headlines on reviews here.

‘The Meh-trix’ is currently leading the pack.
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