Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86689 posts
Sun Dec-26-21 02:25 AM
56. "There’s been a shift in some circles." In response to In response to 55
>Maybe I’m off base here, but I think current opinion is >basically the same as it was at the time: Reloaded has some >good stuff, but fumbled the ball, and Revolutions is trash.
I’ve talked with a number of people who recently rewatched the sequels and found them to be a lot more thoughtful, engaging, and original than people gave them credit for at the time. I myself thought more or less what you said until the rewatch, and I like them both much, much more now than I did then.
>This one might be better than Revolutions, but not by much.
The action’s definitely way better in Revolutions. Revolutions lowkey has some of the most impressive CGI work I’ve ever seen. I’d probably put them on the same tier, tbh.
>It’s really surprising that you consider this a breath of >fresh air that doesn’t have too much nostalgia. I thought >this movie couldn’t get out of it’s own way with the >nostalgia. It was so bogged down in the original, it >couldn’t tell a coherent story. They were literally playing >the original Morpheus red pill scene over the new Morpheus red >pill scene! I found myself rolling my eyes a lot.
See, I found most of that to be commentary on nostalgia— not just providing it for the sake of providing it, but examining what its impact is, examining how to retell (or continue to tell) existing stories, etc. This article on a quick Google search touches on a number of the things I liked in regard to this: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-matrix-resurrections-rejects-the-nostalgia-treadmill/