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Matrix Reloaded...
... that part with the French swearing dude... this Merovingian... When that woman eats that dessert, doesn't that look like it could have directly come out of a cheap erotic movie? I mean... seriously... They could have come up with something better. That scene is about totally unnescesary (that and the fighting part with the oracles "bodyguard").
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Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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Originally posted by Structural Integrity
... that part with the French swearing dude... this Merovingian... When that woman eats that dessert, doesn't that look like it could have directly come out of a cheap erotic movie? I mean... seriously... They could have come up with something better. That scene is about totally unnescesary (that and the fighting part with the oracles "bodyguard").
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I was expecting the Ambassador to turn up with a mountain of Ferrero Rocher in that scene.
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Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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(that and the fighting part with the oracles "bodyguard").
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'foreshadowing'
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8 Aug 2003, 19:36
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sorry but i had a throbbing erection at that point, matrixstyled nudity is the new porn imo
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8 Aug 2003, 19:46
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'Lets choose one example of a poor part of a poor film'
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8 Aug 2003, 19:47
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Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
'Lets choose one example of a poor part of a poor film'
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It wasn't that poor.
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8 Aug 2003, 19:54
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'Lets choose one example of a poor part of a poor film'
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I found it indeed a poor film. The godlike powers of Neo removed a lot of the excitement of the movie, and the lack of rules (ie: physical laws) inside the matrix was making it look like a 10 year old threw the story together and added some nice feature whenever the "world" didn't match the script (ie: instant travel to other locations through doors. Or Neo flying around at light speeds, saving the day).
Also, this Morpheus figure and his speeches... really... dragging and repetative.
The only thing I really liked were the twins. They had a nice scary power that fitted in the "world" of the matrix and the highway action scene was quite good, although it dragged a bit near the end when they kept hopping all over the place.
Matrix Reloaded: Overrated
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It just shows that the W brothers aren't as great as people have been saying.
The Matrix had a lot of gimmickary going for it, and it also had a lot more guns. Guns are easier to make fight scenes with.
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8 Aug 2003, 20:12
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Matrix Reloaded: Overrated
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I wouldn't say so, since most people I know didn't enjoy it that much. Indeed, unlike the original Matrix I haven't met anyone who has said "It's the best film ever".
Yes, it's not as good as the Matrix, but that doesn't make it poor.
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8 Aug 2003, 20:14
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I wouldn't say so, since most people I know didn't enjoy it that much. Indeed, unlike the original Matrix I haven't met anyone who has said "It's the best film ever".
Yes, it's not as good as the Matrix, but that doesn't make it poor.
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Given that the matrix was mediocre at best, I'd say it does.
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8 Aug 2003, 20:19
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Given that the matrix was mediocre at best, I'd say it does.
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Well, obviously here we differ since for me The Matrix was the action movie taken to it's logical conclusion.
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8 Aug 2003, 20:20
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Don't you realize its cool to think reloaded is 'just ok', sigh.
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8 Aug 2003, 20:24
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Don't you realize its cool to think reloaded is 'just ok', sigh.
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8 Aug 2003, 20:29
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Given that the matrix was mediocre at best, I'd say it does.
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I think the Matrix was quite good. It put down a whole new world in a rather realistic sence. I could actually believe the story and be absorbed in it.
Cons of the original matrix again were the whole philosophy and the time spent philosophing (sp?) about everything, but these scenes were rather rare in the original and not as annoying.
Reloaded had a number of scenes that pulled you right back into your seat, out of the movie, breaking the illusion...
When that woman ate that desert and the "greenish zoom" on her privates I thought to myself: "riiiiight, that was like totally unnescesary... this could be a porn movie".
Another scene that broke the illusion: mass dance in that cave after Morpheus' (dragging) speech. That was just the right time to get out of your seat and take a piss.
For me (and many others) it's not the thrilling action sequences or amazing FX that makes or breaks the movie. It's the ability to keep one in the illusion of the movie... to have the people who watch it be absorbed in the movie... not to see it, but to live it.
Special effects can make up a lot, but not everything.
Believe it or not... I loved "waterworld" (oops, there goes my credibility). I even held my breath when this waterman dived under water. I lived that movie.
Reloaded broke the illusion too often, making it a poor movie in my opinion.
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Well, obviously here we differ since for me The Matrix was the action movie taken to it's logical conclusion.
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One with three fight scenes and about an hour of poor philosophy?
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8 Aug 2003, 20:36
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Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
One with three fight scenes and about an hour of poor philosophy?
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A movie can be measured by how many fight scenes it has, not the length and/or quality of them? Isn't there more than 3 anyway, depending on what you count as a "fight" scene? How many fight scenes are there in Terminator 2?
And yes, poor philosophy is what makes an action movie. From the dodgy paedophilia of Leon to the meaningless and paradoxical 'No fate but what we make' of Terminator.
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"lets hate something because its popular"
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"lets hate something because its popular"
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No... if you read the thread you can see that there's some good reasons for not liking reloaded. Other than the cliché "let's hate everything that's popular" ofcourse.
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8 Aug 2003, 21:01
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Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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Originally posted by Structural Integrity
... that part with the French swearing dude... this Merovingian... When that woman eats that dessert, doesn't that look like it could have directly come out of a cheap erotic movie? I mean... seriously... They could have come up with something better. That scene is about totally unnescesary (that and the fighting part with the oracles "bodyguard").
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What, and not explain to the masses about causarity?!?
(I applauded inwardly at "everything begins with choice", tho it's purely coincidence)
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No... if you read the thread you can see that there's some good reasons for not liking reloaded. Other than the cliché "let's hate everything that's popular" ofcourse.
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"lets hate something because its popular"
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Vanilla Sky's popular. I like that.
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its not that popular.
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Vanilla Sky's popular. I like that.
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Hating something because it's popular doesn't necessarily mean you hate everything that's popular.
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"fingerpointing because we are finished with venting our opinions and can't think of anything that will strengthen our case for the Matrix Reloaded"
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Quote:
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Hating something because it's popular doesn't necessarily mean you hate everything that's popular.
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True, but if I did that I'd be an unprincipled lout!
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Quote:
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"fingerpointing because we are finished with venting our opinions and can't think of anything that will strengthen our case for the Matrix Reloaded"
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I don't agree that you do hate it because it's popular, I was merely commenting on MrL's point.
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Quote:
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I don't agree that you do hate it because it's popular, I was merely commenting on MrL's point.
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matrix reloaded dragged out a little too much and expectations were way too high. Nonetheless it was a good film and the fight scenes were good (with the exception of Neo swinging round on that **** **** **** wanker **** ****ing **** pole for more than 1/10 of a second...
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Matrix Was a good film imo
Matrix Reloaded wasn't really that good...
but I think it was because I had high expectations due to what the first film left:
The third one should be really good, :reloaded ended with neo unconcious, so as for it not being exciting because of his super powers who knows....
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my fantasy world whilst watching the matrix has been shattered since i dont believe that anyone would think all the explosoins were from terrorists etc. I mean at the end when he supermans to save trinity he destroys everything behind him, how the hell would you explain that to the public?
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The expectations for Reloaded were unecessarily high, considering the fact that The Matrix wasn't very good anyway.
I probably liked Reloaded more than the Matrix fanboys, since my expectations were low.
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Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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Originally posted by Structural Integrity
... that part with the French swearing dude... this Merovingian... When that woman eats that dessert, doesn't that look like it could have directly come out of a cheap erotic movie? I mean... seriously... They could have come up with something better. That scene is about totally unnescesary (that and the fighting part with the oracles "bodyguard").
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its a shame that you werent able to enjoy that scene.
the scene with the merovingian was imo the best part of the movie.
He spoke of causality and power.
it was a direct hint to what was going to happen at the end of the movie.
the causality principle comes directly from the great philosopher Rene Descartes.
he was the one who said that everything in our world exists because of cause and effect.
"I think ergo I am " is probably the most famous philosophical quote ever.
Because of the dualism of mind and body, descartes implicates that the cause of this must be god.
The whole scene with the merovingian had 2 meanings :
1: Neo is being played with like a chessfigure
2.Neo was going to meet god( in this case the creator)
reloaded is such a fantastic movie!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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"I think ergo I am " is probably the most famous philosophical quote ever.
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I think therefore I am, or cogito ergo sum. Mixing languages isn't good.
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Re: Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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The whole scene with the merovingian had 2 meanings :
1: Neo is being played with like a chessfigure
2.Neo was going to meet god( in this case the creator)
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You have - no imagination
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- no skill
- That scene can have hundreds, nay, thousands of meanings. I'm quite sure the makers meant more that two things with it.
- In fact, they've crammed those "philosophy" scenes full of references to the past present and future in that universe.
- This is how to make a numbered list...
- Causarity...
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Re: Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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its a shame that you werent able to enjoy that scene.
the scene with the merovingian was imo the best part of the movie.
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It's not the conversation that was the problem. It was that juvenile zoom in on her crotch. The entire theater had an expression of 'well, I'll bear thru this for the sake of the movie'. Just like the dance scene. And the Architecht.
I personnally enjoyed Reloaded - saw it twice in theaters. But it did have it's moments...
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Let's face it, Reloaded was alwasy going to be less of a 'OMG' movie because the original had already done that part.
There are no surprises in Reloaded until we get to the final half hour (apart from Mr Smith becoming essentially human in whatever 'layer' of the Matrix everyone believes themselves to be in')
That said, as a film and not being analysed like some sort of O level English Lit book, I loved it. I could quite happily go and see the film another few times, simply because, as a film, it's bloody good.
The trouble always comes when people decide what's going on beforehand and the storyline doesn't match it.
As a spectacle, it's bloody great, and that's why I go and see movies at cinemas, not wait for DVD/Video/download...the experience of the film at a cinema is everything.
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They even made the fight scenes dull. I mean, even SOME bg music (eg that one of the Agent Smith/Neo fight that pavil posted on here a while ago), rather than just a low whine increasing in pitch.
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I have to admit, when the crane goes into the ground in T3, it's the first time I've been in a cinema and actually had my mouth wide open in a 'fk me' kind of pose...
I didn't get that from Reloaded.
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As it was the Wacacahfaophsfpassaski brothers who were responsible for most of the hype, I think judging the film needs to take into account that the writers/directors are total morons.
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I enjoyed it a lot
The ending of the car chase with the 2 trucks crashing and Neo rescuing Morpeus and the Keymaker definitely had the 'wow' factor for me, much more so than the T3 truck.
Yes, the rave scene went on too long, and the Architect scene was awful, but I loved the idea of programmer's 'backdoors', and the many oblique references to the Illuminatus mythology (about the only conspiracy theory the first film missed out!).
The third film will have to outdo the fight sequences ib this one, which should be amazing if they manage to pull it off, and I look forward to Morpheus (who is, let's face it, an irritating git) discovering that he's been wasting his entire life with the Zion 'construct'!
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The Illuminati stuff has been done to death already.
Although so has everything else in the film.
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Re: Re: Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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I think therefore I am, or cogito ergo sum. Mixing languages isn't good.
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The use of "ergo" was a small reference to the architect and his frequent usage of the word "ergo".
It`s a shame that you couldn`t comprehend that reference.
It does however, combined with your pedant behaviour, explain why you were not able to enjoy Matrix reloaded.
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Re: Re: Re: Matrix Reloaded...
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You have- no imagination
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- That scene can have hundreds, nay, thousands of meanings. I'm quite sure the makers meant more that two things with it.
- In fact, they've crammed those "philosophy" scenes full of references to the past present and future in that universe.
- This is how to make a numbered list...
- Causarity...
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you are - arrogant
- jealous, because you did not know the reference to Descartes in that scene
and it`s causality and not causarity
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=causality
what the hell is causarity anyway?? is it an actual word or did you make it up??
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Let's judge the trilogy.
Star wars, the empire strikes bcak wasn't that well either.
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I enjoyed the original Matrix film and went to see matrix reloaded simply because my friends did. I do not fall for hype and had no expectations going in as I feel this is the best way to sample things. However I was bored throughout even in the extensively overdone car chase and the predictable fight scenes. I felt no tension during said scenes because you kinda knew that Neo was in no serious danger of dying because hey theres a trilogy to finish yet.
I can't even say I thought the film was good, I thought it was a really bad way of bringing people up to date ready for the third film.
and yeah W you keep throwing the word causarity around and nobody has any idea what it is please explain ?
I covered causality in law but never came across causarity
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Personally i thought it was the best of the three, at least the battle of Hoth and the lightsaber fights.
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The only decent thing in reloaded was the Ducati 996. Not the scene - just the bike. A nice bike.
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Oh god its amateur philosopher hour again.
ITS A FÜCKING ACTION MOVIE, ACCEPT IT AS IT IS.
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