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[Cunth]

For me it was discovering that the capital of the 'free' world they are fighting for was just a bunch of hippies dancing in the mud

 

[nikolino840]

Need only one if they want to make a philosphical movie

 

[OmegaSupreme]

The rave scene is definitely up there. The awkward sex between neo and trinity. They look like siblings for christ's sake. So much really. Shit sequels to an overrated movie.

 

[nkarafo]

Overexplaining convoluted themes.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I'm probably in the minority, but I found the first Matrix movie to be mediocre at best and I've never seen the sequels. Watching the trailer for the second movie was more than enough to scare me away.

 

[triplestation]

i was a little kid when i first watched the matrix i was like this shit is some nonsense

i didn't get it

then i find out later oh wut if our worlds not real wats even real omg kung fu

yeah i never liked the matrix

 

[nush]

Nobody knew what the fuck was going on in them. They were allowed free reign after the success of the first one and the lack of a script doctor shows.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

The first film was about a dude becoming a fucking bad arse. Instead of two more films of him kicking arse like a God, you got mere mortal themes of love and compassion.

The second film should have been about fighting the human resistance and the third film about tearing it all down.

 

[SirKicksalot]

Reloaded's pacing. Slow as fuck until they find the Keymaker and it feels like it's missing a reel after the freeway.

 

[GamingKaiju]

The god awful CGI. Neo looks plastic during some of the fight scenes, the choreograph for the fight scenes was just bad, the whole Zion thing was just cringey and not needed imo

 

[nikolino840]

Reloaded's pacing. Slow as fuck until they find the Keymaker and it feels like it's missing a reel after the freeway.

This one?

 

[MasterCornholio]

For me it was discovering that the capital of the 'free' world they are fighting for was just a bunch of hippies dancing in the mud

You know what that's called?

Hippie Soup

 

[captainraincoat]

the entire zion parts in both movies were shit....matrix reloaded would of been a better movie without those parts
revolutions was just borning

 

[Grinchy]

For a movie trilogy about breaking into computer programs, it's interesting that the biggest hacks involved with the whole thing were the 2 weird fucks who were in charge of making it.

 

[Loke]

Too much CGI nonsense, the burly brawl looked awful back then and still looks awful today. Also too much emphasis on Zion, sorry but I don't give a shit about Zion.

 

[eot]

The god awful CGI. Neo looks plastic during some of the fight scenes, the choreograph for the fight scenes was just bad, the whole Zion thing was just cringey and not needed imo

The morpheus vs agent fight on the truck looks meh to me, something is off with either the lighting or the compositing

 

[Xaero Gravity]

I don't know, but I can tell you the best thing about them

 

[The ninja farmer]

That they took the cool, mystery and action beats from the first one

And then trashed it all by trying to go deeper and further with it. (Big chunks of the second and especially almost all the third. although the action was cool for the time, mostly

The first was an amazing experience in a packed cinema, especially going in cold

But once the secrets of the matrix were out, they filmmakers seemed to decide that they would only raise the bar for special effects in the sequels and try to show how smart and clever they think they were (did you real care about Zion, etc ......)

They could all have been something special. Now, I am not even sure that a 4th film can save the series, or bring anything new

 

[Insane Metal]

The fact they exist

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

OP nailed it . The Zion rave and the sex scene were embarrassing.

But also the constant fighting (the highway scene must last, like, fifteen full minutes) and the infinite Agent Smiths were terrible.

 

[GV82]

But also almost all of it, they felt like they were expensive fan films of the first movie.

 

[Mistershine.]

That fucking playground fight scene, what the actual fuck. Its like they forgot to put the real cgi in the film and just left the screener effects in by accident. That shonky copy of xmen origins had better cgi.

 

[Space Runaway]

I think the ending and "solution" that ends the whole war was ridiculously flimsy and unsatisfying in every way.

 

[Stilton Disco]

I remember sitting in the cinema, watching the rave and thinking to myself 'Aren't all these people that escaped the matrix able to do so because they're a bunch of massively introverted computer geeks? They should be playing some matrix version of D&D instead of this bollocks'

But the main thing the sequels got wrong was spending too much time in the 'real' world. The first movie wormed because it was our reality being subverted, not some science fantasy world wank.

 

[Mistershine.]

I will admit I thought the neo catching trinity scene was cool.

 

[kunonabi]

the entire zion parts in both movies were shit....matrix reloaded would of been a better movie without those parts
revolutions was just borning

Revolutions was the closest I'll ever get to an Exo-Squad movie so it at least has that going for it.

 

[-Arcadia-]

I loved Reloaded, at least back then, but I guess I'd need to rewatch it.

My biggest problem is Revolutions. Arriving something like 3/4 of a year later, and relying solely on Reloaded for plot set-up, and to deal with most of the fun/philosophical in-the-Matrix stuff, it felt like half a movie in terms of the story it was trying to tell, and not very much like a Matrix at all, with the focus on the real world.

Films... don't work that way. You can't just slice them in half, and expect an audience to take them as a whole. Revolutions needed to stand up by itself as a Matrix movie, and it didn't.

It felt like the equivalent of pausing a movie for a couple of days, and coming back to watch the finale.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Making a sequel to such a great movie is a hard pill to swallow.

I think Matrix 4 will come down to how good Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss is

 

[Mr Hyde]

In Reloaded it was pretty much everything except the freeway scene, which single handedly payed for the ticket. The action delivered there has not been topped yet. Simply an amazing achievement in the art of high octane action.

Reloaded as a whole was desperately trying to sound intellectually, so much that no one, not even the fucking creators of it, understood what was going on. The rave party at Zion and the aforementioned sex scene, produced cringe levels never before seen, and I remember nothing but torture during the entire scene, which lasted an eternity.

Revolutions I don't remember one single thing about, which I'm actually grateful of because I've heard through the grapevine that the movie causes permanent brain damage if you see it. Which explains why I don't remember anything.

Fuck.

 

[Karma Jawa]

The first film was great. Two and three felt like being cornered at a party by the boring guy nobody invited.

 

[infinitys_7th]

For me it was discovering that the capital of the 'free' world they are fighting for was just a bunch of hippies dancing in the mud

I always found it funny how you see no semblance of that idiotic shit in the third movie. A fucking rag orgy

The other worst part I remember was Neo stepping out into a mountain range and the door closing behind him, trapping him. Then he had to fly off to rescue Trinity IIRC. That was some DBZ "Goku is on the way for 30 episodes" bullshit.

 

[Corrik]

I thought the train driver stuff / area and a lot of the Merovingian stuff was pointless (despite Persephone's tits). The 100 Smith fight had terrible cgi also.

I mostly liked them though.

 

[GymWolf]

how much time do i have?

 

[Relativ9]

The stupid fucking kiss...form an AI!?!

 

[TheWanderingOgre]

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[FreedomOfSpeech]

The matrix is philosophy for those that never thought about philosophy.

Didn't like part 1, didn't see the others.

 

[Halo is Back]

They went too over the top. That car chase scene with the Albino twins was pretty dope though. That french chick was also hot af

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

You guys give the 100 Smiths fight shit, but that was CGI in 2003. For the time it was pretty damn revolutionary. I thought all 3 movies were awesome, but each one got progressively worse. Revolutions would have been better had it not focused so much on the real world antics.

The Neo/Smith fight at the end was great, but that was what I was waiting for the entire movie. Everything but that and the club fight scene was boring. Reloaded might be my favorite of all 3 simply because it was the first R rated movie I went and bought my own ticket to myself and I saw it multiple times, so I may be biased. However, I thought it was pretty damn exciting regardless of cringe Inducing rave scenes.

I really hope the 4th Matrix is good. It sucks Laurence Fishburne isn’t coming back, though. He IS Morpheus. Maybe it will revitalize the whole franchise and bring about a new trilogy that is better in every single way. A guy can hope, can’t he?

 

[SirKicksalot]

I thought the train driver stuff / area and a lot of the Merovingian stuff was pointless .

Those parts explain that the machine civilization is not Skynet (which it 95% is in the first movie) and reinforce the cyclical nature of the Matrix. Now, was all this really needed? I can't tell. Would Neo's bargain make sense without the movies making it so clear that the machines are basically human?

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I don't remember much about the sequels except:

1. They sucked

2. There was hype about those dopey albino twins, yet they were barely in the movie

3. The sequels changed from mindbending sci-fi and human/matrix coexistence to 100% machinegun video game battles with mech suits

 

[Rest]

The end didn't make any sense. Neo didn't destroy Smith, Smith just self destructed for no apparent reason. They shouldn't have made the movie if they didn't know how to end it.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

 

[MGHA]

Will smiths wife.

 

[Kagey K]

To be continued......

The worst thing a movie can do, and I went to that shit day one in theatres to leave pissed off.

A good trilogy will tell 3 self contained stories that tie together, instead of that shit.

 

[GreyHorace]

Prioritizing philosophy lectures over good storytelling. The Wachowski's lost me when the characters spent most of the time talking about stuff rather than doing stuff.

 

[Rockondevil]

The end didn't make any sense. Neo didn't destroy Smith, Smith just self destructed for no apparent reason. They shouldn't have made the movie if they didn't know how to end it.

Smith took over Neo. The machine world then destroyed Neo, who was Smith, thus killing Smith.
The machine world knew that the program Smith was becoming too much and was overwhelming everything.
The machines need the Matrix to run without problems as that’s their power source.

After they took out Smith it seems like the world just rebooted without his program having been essentially erased.

 

[DKehoe]

The third one has way too much Zion stuff. No one cares about that.

 

[Surface of Me]

Neo saying the N word was really weird for me in the 3rd movie.

 

[Mistershine.]

Smith took over Neo. The machine world then destroyed Neo, who was Smith, thus killing Smith.
The machine world knew that the program Smith was becoming too much and was overwhelming everything.
The machines need the Matrix to run without problems as that’s their power source.

After they took out Smith it seems like the world just rebooted without his program having been essentially erased.

Wasn't it more along the lines of neo knowing he couldn't beat Smith from the outside so let Smith assimilate him, knowing he was stronger and would be able to beat him from the inside.

 

[Frogman_676]

the unrealistic and ridiculous fight scenes.