Matrix: Revolutions synopsis

[kingpaul]

In my local paper today, they did a brief synopsis of many movies coming out from now 'til the end of November. One of these was, of course, Matrix Revolutions. They had this to say:

The skinny: Fans hope part three is more like the first movie and less like part two, which bombed this summer. Keep your fingers crossed.

Reloaded bombed? I thought it was a good movie...maybe I'm in the minority.

 

[Morpheus]

In my local paper today, they did a brief synopsis of many movies coming out from now 'til the end of November. One of these was, of course, Matrix Revolutions. They had this to say:



Reloaded bombed? I thought it was a good movie...maybe I'm in the minority.

It was a good movie. Too many yahoos thought that it had to be just like the original to be any good-much to their disappointment.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

In my local paper today, they did a brief synopsis of many movies coming out from now 'til the end of November. One of these was, of course, Matrix Revolutions. They had this to say:



Reloaded bombed? I thought it was a good movie...maybe I'm in the minority.

Whoever wrote that is misinformed.

Matrix Reloaded cost $127mil to make.

To date it's made $280 mil .

That's not a bomb.

 

[kingpaul]

Whoever wrote that is misinformed.

The gentleman's name is Gerry Weiss. The article can be found here: http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030921/ENTERTAINMENT07/109210250

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

It didn't actually BOMB...it just didn't live up to a lot of expectations...kind of like how the Prequel moves for Star Wars just could NEVER live up to the expectations they had...no Matrix sequel can live up to what they 'have' to. I still think it was a great movie though

 

[Kai Lord]

Heh heh, I always love the "you weren't impressed with a movie I liked, therefore your expectations were unreasonably high" argument....

It didn't actually BOMB...it just didn't live up to a lot of expectations...kind of like how the Prequel moves for Star Wars just could NEVER live up to the expectations they had...

Why not? The Empire Strikes Back did.

no Matrix sequel can live up to what they 'have' to.

Why not? The Two Towers did.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Heh heh, I always love the "you weren't impressed with a movie I liked, therefore your expectations were unreasonably high" argument....

But its nearly always true. Besides, I wasn't all that wonderfully impressed with it...MY expectations where unreasonably high. To be able to see both sides, one must KNOW both sides.

Why not? The Empire Strikes Back did.

And then some. There are ALWAYS exceptions.

Why not? The Two Towers did.

Depends on who you ask, actually. I've heard a lot of people that say Two Towers DIDN'T live up to thier expectations at all...not that I'm one of them, of course.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Heh heh, I always love the "you weren't impressed with a movie I liked, therefore your expectations were unreasonably high" argument....

While some may use the argument that way, what the argument is really about is hype. Many people were disappointed with the movie because it either wasn't what they wanted it to be (which is unfair) or because it didn't live up to everyone saying how much better it was going to be (which was practically everyone).

Why not? The Empire Strikes Back did.

Star Wars had considerably less hype that Matrix has when ESB came out. It's only until the last decade or so that the hype has grown on this movie. Not surprisingly, it's because the people who were dazzled by the movie when they were younger (people like us) are now the ones running the major components of the hype machine - websites.

Why not? The Two Towers did.

The Two Towers was in print long before the movies came out. While there was a great deal of expectation surrounding the effects and seeing a book most of us have grown up with brought to film, no one was really surprised by how the story turned out. After all, most of us have read it.

Did I think Revolutions was perfect? No. Did I enjoy it? Yes. I knew as soon as the hype machine started going into gear that there was absolutely no way that it would be good enough to live up to it.

 

[Kai Lord]

Star Wars had considerably less hype that Matrix has when ESB came out.

Boy are you off on this one. Not only was it the highest grossing film of all time, Star Wars was a cultural phenomenon. It was everywhere. Bedsheets. Lunch boxes. Action figures. T-shirts. Holiday specials (groan). Not to mention the actual film playing in first run theaters for a solid year. It was on every kids mind at school, it was what we all wanted to be on Halloween and what we all drew pictures of in class.

And it wasn't just kids. Everybody was into Star Wars. When we learned there was going to be another one, the hype was every bit as feverish as when TPM was announced.

Hype for Matrix Reloaded? Not. Even. Close. In this age of a gazillion multiplexes and $10 tickets it made a killing its opening weekend, yes, but it wasn't even a blip on the cultural radar until Joel Silver and WB started pimping it heavily a few months before the release.

The teaser that was released in the summer of 2001 looked interesting, but was still shadowed by anticipation for The Two Towers, and absolutely dwarfed by the hype for ESB.

Did I think Revolutions was perfect? No. Did I enjoy it? Yes.

Sweet! Where did you see it? Are there really two Matrixes? Is Neo a machine? I want to know how it all ends, tell us!

 

[LightPhoenix]

Boy are you off on this one.

Yeah, point recinded. I was wack.

Sweet! Where did you see it? Are there really two Matrixes? Is Neo a machine? I want to know how it all ends, tell us!

Well, everyone gets naked and has an orgy, and then, get this! Eric Noah is Neo!

Yeah... I obviously has a massive brain fart when I typed that post. I should be shot and hung. And drawn and quartered. And commit ritual seppeku.