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[mccartney007]

I went to see "The Matrix Reloaded" with some friends the other day. I disliked the original Matrix a lot, and I can't say I enjoyed this film much either. For some reason the filmmakers seem to think that 9 hour fight/action scenes can hold someone's interest if something innovative is done in them. The fight scenes seemed to drag on and on and the fights were overly choreographed (as in, the fight looks bad because it's too perfect).

I did enjoy the score, though

[homerjbond]

The movie was good...to be more specific, the parts of the movie is better than the movie as a whole.

The fight between Neo and the agent Smiths was nothing short of spectacular, i didn't want it to end!

[SirMiles83]

The Matrix Reloaded was amazing, as well as the first one was. Great Special Effects, outstanding storyline, and tremendous action sequences make both of the films two of favorite films of all time. It succeeds on many levels. It will entertain you on thrill-seeking level, and entertain you on a philisophical level (if you are open-minded and enjoy science fiction).

[Robinson]

Originally posted by Mourning Becomes Electra
I saw it and any complaints about CGI Bond pale in comparison to CGI Neo and CGI bad guys used all over the film ad nauseum when sometimes it looks like they could have done it with wire work and blue screen or just old fashion stunts.  Many extended fight & action scenes seemed like half CGI/computer game.  The film was also very very talky, silly overly portentous talk at that.  

I'll give Matrix Reloaded a little leeway. Since the fight scenes take place inside the Matrix- photorealism isn't necessary. However since the windsurfing scene in DAD was supposed to be "real" one would expect better of the CGI used in that sequence.

While I enjoyed the new Matrix on a certain level. I felt they never expanded on the concepts of reality from the first flick. I'm also tired of oneliners that are supposed to convey depth but often sound like tired riddles or copy from perfume ads.

Just like SW:Ep III, I can't wait for the third one just so I can see how it all turns out.

BTW, the animated shorts on the Matrix website offer some insight into the relationship between humans and the machines. I think that made the moviegoing experience enjoyable for me.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Saw it yesterday, and I was pleasantly entertained by it, especially the Agent Smith(s) fight scene and the highway fight scene. Brilliant. My only gripes were that I was expecting way more from the ultra-cool Twins, and the so-called "trailer" at the end wasn't all that great (especially after waiting 10 minutes for the credits to finish), and the last half hour almost made my brain explode from confusion with that damn Architect babbling on. Well played, but cripes, he can talk. The rave scene was also a little unsettling, especially since Neo and Trinity had those plugs all over them. Anyway, very entertaining, But I don't think I liked it as much as my friend whose been on about it for 2 weeks now.

[PaulZ108]

Originally posted by Double-Oh-Zero
,...and the last half hour almost made my brain explode from confusion with that damn Architect babbling on. Well played, but cripes, he can talk.

Am I the only one who thinks the guy looked exactly like Colonel Sanders?

[Blofeld's Cat]

Originally posted by Rich Douglas
Those of you that think the movie is cool.. check out the game "Enter the Matrix" it's great!

Rich

As this is your latest post Rich, here is as good a place to say it as anywhere else.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

[Robinson]

Originally posted by Double-Oh-Zero
and the last half hour almost made my brain explode from confusion with that damn Architect babbling on. Well played, but cripes, he can talk.

Here's a link to a transcript between Neo and The Architect:

http://reuters.com/n...storyID=2772914

At the very least it should reduce the swelling in your head. LOL

[zencat]

I finally saw The Matrix Reloaded. Not terrible. But not very good. Not sure why it didn't work, but it didn't. I did like the scene where Monica Bellucci asked Neo to kiss her and make her believe she was Trinity. I liked some of what the Oracle and the "Architect" had to say. The rest of it...eh. Had to plug my ears to make it through the credits and to the Revolutions trailer. Looked like more of the same.

That's my review.

[Tim007]

Saw "Reloaded" twice and loved it, although the first one was way better. And I liked the CGI, it looked much better than the one used in Die Another Day. Hopefully "Revolutions" will have more dialouge again and less action, but the trailer didn't look so. Anyway, the scene where the trucks crashed was just great! So was the speech of Morpheus in Zion and the following sequence with the Carribean music. But I hated the Superman flight sequences and Zion with the council, which looked like Star Wars to me.

[Loomis]

I'm not planning to see THE MATRIX RELOADED. No interest whatsoever. The film I'm most looking forward to this summer - by a mile, even though there's not exactly much positive buzz about it - is TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES. I'll also check out the new Lara Croft movie and HULK.

[zencat]

Lara Croft, The Hulk, Charlie's Angels...

[Loomis]

T3, zencat?

[zencat]

Maybe. If I hear it's good. I love the first two movies...but this one just looks like a cheap knock off. Arnold does not a Terminator movie make (Conan 2 anyone?). Also I just don't buy miss cutie-pie blonde as the TX. Had they cast someone like Carrie Ann Moss that would have told me they were making a serious movie, but...

Like I said. I'm letting word of mouth rule this one for me. But I'll probably end up seeing it.

[Loomis]

Originally posted by zencat

Maybe. If I hear it's good. I love the first two movies...but this one just looks like a cheap knock off.  

I'm letting word of mouth rule this one for me. But I'll probably end up seeing it.  

If Cameron was doing it, I'm sure there'd be more excitement over T3 than anything since THE PHANTOM MENACE (what with the film being Cameron's first since TITANIC and his return to the series that made his name). Instead, all we're going to hear and read are expressions of sorrow that Cameron decided to pass.

The T3 trailers don't suggest anything groundbreaking - far from it - but I'm sure it'll deliver the goods as a superior action movie. Unfortunately, critics will totally trash it for being nothing like as astonishing as its two classic predecessors. Still, I'm really looking forward to it.

I do think they should've got Famke Janssen to play the female Terminator, though.

[zencat]

Yes, Famke would have been great.

[Tim007]

The T3 trailer does look crappy and cheap. Sorry to say that but when I saw it before Matrix last week, I thought someone wanted to play a joke on me. The beginning of the trailer looks like Armageddon, but Armageddon did look real, T3 looks like Bond surfing a big ice wave

[JackChase007]

T3 will be good, I'm sure. Mostow did a fantastic job with "U-571", and I have confidence that he'll make Ahnuld fans proud with this installment.

[rafterman]

Reloaded kinda sucks...I went in expecting great stuff and all I got was a bunch of lame Zion rave garbage, councils, endless fight scenes were no one wins and a whole lotta talk that nobody understands....I say screw all the zion stuff and stay in the Matrix.....they failed for me, somehow the film just really doesn't work....it's not the simple little story the first one was, this is overblown.....and did anyone notice just how lame Anthony Zerbe was in it? I didn't hate it, but I came out with a jawdropping huh...really don't know what to think about it....

[JackChase007]

I don't even know why I bothered to stay for the trailer for "Revolutions". I was pounding my feet on the ground from the torture the movie put me thru.

[brendan007]

Originally posted by Loomis

I do think they should've got Famke Janssen to play the female Terminator, though.

She turned them down didnt she? They also shouldve tried harder at getting Linda Hamilton to return, how cool would it be if she was the female terminator.

[univex]

Returning to the topic...did all of you get the matrix story right?

SPOILER WARNING

So, what

[univex]

I

[univex]

Oh and just another mind blowing for the ones who did understand the plot: In the matrix "there is no spoon" but in the "real" world is there a spoon after all? The anwser for those who got it is: NO, there really is no spoon except the one we are made believe it is the real thing, if the "real world" isn

[Harmsway]

HEAVY SPOILERS

Okay, I've seen the Matrix Reloaded 3 times now, played the game, and watched the complete Animatrix. Actually, the game clears everything up.

What the architect says is that Zion is actually a sort of control for the humans - in the sense that 1% of people in the Matrix will eventually wake up. Because of that, Zion exists, and as a result of the Matrix programming, the One actually comes along. But the machines have created a sort of ultimatum for the One to control him - either reset the cycle by being our puppet (selecting a few people from the Matrix and restarting Zion after it's been rebuilt) and continue the human race, or the machines will wipe everyone out. Neo chooses to not reset the cycle - thus throwing a wrench in the works.

There really isn't a matrix w/in a matrix thing going on here - Zion is the real world, but the machines just destroy it once the One shows himself to keep the humans under control.


HEAVIER SPOILERS (FOR ENTER THE MATRIX)

Now the game explains why he goes into a coma at the end of the movie. The Oracle says to Niobe that Neo's mind is trapped between the real world and the Matrix - thus allowing him to shut down the machines in the Real World. The only way he'll be brought back is by Trinity, and she'll have to go through hell to get him back.


So that sums the whole Architect/Neo thing up.