Hey escapist, I would like to ask your opinion on the Matrix. Can you believe its 14 years old now!? Anyway its feels like everyone either loves this movie or hates it and thinks its over rated trash. I haven't see a lot of people on the fence on this one. I personally think its a very good movie. What does the escapist thing ?
I consider it to be one of my favorite films of all time. The fact that it combined so many things into a single cohesive whole is one of the things I love about it: It's a film with an intense intellect and a dark message, but the body of a live-action film with dynamic slow-mo gunplay and hand-to-hand combat. The fact that it takes so many conventions of anime and perfectly translates them into live-action makes it work brilliantly. From a personal standpoint, the thing that cements it as one of my more fondly remembered experiences is the fact that it was made in part by one of my personal heroes.
It's a pretty good action movie, that's about what I think about The Matrix. I don't have any problems with it, I just rank with all the other fun action movies I watch once in a blue moon.
I love it. It's a action movie with a hero's journey aspect that doesn't get caught up in the faults of either of those things. It just works as a movie.
The concept was pretty good, if basically nicked from William Gibson, though there have been worse cases of concept appropriation. Still, it was well executed, the action was indulgent but not excessive. All in all, a good action film with a straitforward character development arc and a good plot all round.
It overthought some aspects of it and this definitely made it go downhill into Reloaded/Revolutions.
I have it in my library. I consider them fun Sci-fi movies with action mixed in. It doesn't waste too much time explaining the world but gives you enough information to give you a clear picture of what the Matrix is. The first movie was excellent because of the whole getting pulled out of what you thought was real and having it all explained as a lie thing.
It's a fun trilogy and I'm among the minority that likes the sequels.
Depends on which one we're talking about...
The first one is a classic.
The subsequent sequels were merely a giant April Fool's day prank committed by the Architect to test how many people would actually buy it...
I like all the matrix films, the first is the best though. I also think that Keanu Reeves is a good actor, I really don't understand why he gets the criticism he does.
It's an awesome film. From when I first watched it I was totally in love with the beautifully done stunts, and then the more I watched it after the more I started to enjoy the whole "in-a-computer" thing and the more I started to get interested in what they might do with it.
I liked the first one a lot, and I actually do like the second one.
The third one sucked, except for that last fight.
In fact, it seems the only parts that I like are the scenes when they're actually in the Matrix. The scenes in the real world bore me to hell, which is why I didn't like the third film.
I love it. It's a action movie with a hero's journey aspect that doesn't get caught up in the faults of either of those things. It just works as a movie.
I consider it to be one of my favorite films of all time. The fact that it combined so many things into a single cohesive whole is one of the things I love about it: It's a film with an intense intellect and a dark message, but the body of a live-action film with dynamic slow-mo gunplay and hand-to-hand combat. The fact that it takes so many conventions of anime and perfectly translates them into live-action makes it work brilliantly. From a personal standpoint, the thing that cements it as one of my more fondly remembered experiences is the fact that it was made in part by one of my personal heroes.
Hmmm. Not sure what the 8110 was, but the 'Matrix' phone was the 7110.
I still have two of them and they still feel much better to hold and type on than any of the new touchy-feely ones. Plus, the one-button cover release still works like a charm when maintained properly. You just don't find that build quality these days.
OT: I still like that first Matrix movie, I consider it to be a somewhat pompous and shallow thing, but that does not make it bad in any way whatsoever. It brought new images onto the screen, and it's the first proper, Max Payne-esque Bullet Time sequence I believe I've seen on a cinema screen instead of a computer screen. The Wacho wackos did a splendid job. I also like their 'Bound' one.
I can't handle Matrix 2: Party in the Zion Cave or Matrix 3: Bang Bang Boom Shamalayan of Doom. They make me sick and misanthropic.
I love it. It's a action movie with a hero's journey aspect that doesn't get caught up in the faults of either of those things. It just works as a movie.
It's not bad, and it illustrates some basic philosophical concepts pretty well. The action's also pretty nice. I was never that into it, though.
I've always wondered what would happen if Neo took both pills. I recall that there was an XKCD comic about it, but I've never been fully satisfied with that interpretation.
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