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>here's a 30 minute stretch where this shit gets meta as fuck >>and starts making fun of itself. At that point, I knew the >>"fans" are gonna hate this. >> >>There's a lot here with certain characters that are going to >>infuriate people. > >The first act is essentially a comedy about her internal >debate whether making yet another sequel to a film whose >selling point was its originality has any merit, if it's >possible to make something that extends a story in a fresh >manner or if all an audience wants is the same safe nostalgia >trip so many movies offer.
Agreed. One of the things I loved dearly was the fact that this wasn't afraid to do the exact opposite of what's expected. I wish more franchise films did this.
> >At a time when nostalgia is at peak popularity, I wouldn't be >surprised at all if such meta commentary and self-reflexive >dialogue tanks with the same fans who love "redpilled" and >shit.
Absolutely.
> >Also, the very end, which I won't spoil... it of course makes >perfect sense textually for the film, but it of course >contains an element tailor made to piss off a certain subset >of moviegoers. I actually really loved the choice, not because >it's "woke" or whatever, but because it's built to and fits >thematically to a T. But... yeah, lmao. Folks will be mad.
The stuff they do with Trinity is gonna make a certain subset of fans shit themselves, especially the final shot. I loved it as not only are the toxic people gonna be mad, but it opens up a whole new set of possibilities.
> >I *do* think that people are right to be miffed about the >exclusion of Fishburne and, to some extent, Weaving. I think >you could've found a way to make them both work pretty easily. >That said, if one of the central fucking themes is "we're not >giving you what you expect, we're changing it up to keep it >fresh, that's more important than the safety and the comfort >of nostalgia"... then I also get why they made some of the >timeline choices they did and casting decisions they did.
Apparently, The Matrix Online is canon. And she desperately needed to put in another 4 to 5 minutes, to sum up what happened there better. Niobe was right there.
But yeah... I loved this movie. ------------------------------------------ America from 9:00 on: https://youtu.be/GUwLCQU10KQ
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