Okay, so the movie is, for the most part, ass juice.

But I struggle to think of a recent Hollywood big-budget action sequence with as much ambition and invention as that freeway chase. It's not even perfect (some of the CGI doesn't look great, and it sorta bends its own rules in order to help the characters survive), but even years later, as I watch it, I'm still taken aback.

Name some other ambitious big-budget effects-laden action sequences of the past decade or so. I can't think right now but want to compare.

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that counts right?

that shit was crazy.

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1. Megan Fox

2. On our way to the theater, we saw a guy getting jumped. The muggers ran off and the guy getting mugged threw himself on the hood of our fortunately-then stopped car yelling 'I'VE JUST BEEN ASSAULTED' (yes, 'assaulted'. not 'mugged', not 'beaten', but 'assaulted') - So I get out of the car to see if he's okay and call 911 for him. Also, it had been a really long day and I hadn't eaten yet, so while I'm helping him out I absent-mindedly pull some string cheese out of my pocket and start going to town on it. The guy, who wasn't seriously injured but understandably very stirred emotionally, took offense to this and starts yelling at *me* for eating cheese in his time of need.

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i have the reloaded dvd here and its on deck to be watched only because of the chase scene.. i absolutely love it...

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But I will agree that it was an awesome action scene. Also they built a fake freeway in my hometown to shoot that scene so I was pretty pumped about it.

The 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies were a let down but they had a pretty high bar to hit so I don't hate on them too much.

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>The 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies were a let down but they had a
>pretty high bar to hit so I don't hate on them too much.

1st movie "Anyone who has fought an agent has died"

2nd movie "go up there and kick that agent's ass"

WTF???

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I think due to the fact that He had their backs and them just believing they had the ability to defeat agents now.


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like what was said, they couldn't take the ones from the first movie, how they gonna handle "hmm...upgrades" (c) keanu
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If it makes anyone feel better, if Naomi didn't catch Morpheus once he got knocked off the truck, then he would have died.

Fun is the new gritty

it makes them feel better. they i here acting like Morpheus was killing Agents left and right.

there's worse comments made in this post than mine.

sheesh

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and it wasnt like the nigga slaughtered the agent
he just got an assist from Jada and knocked him off the 16 wheeler

...is that literally any person on the freeway could turn into an agent. At any time. In theory, if the computers knew Morpheus and Trinity were on the freeway, WHY WOULD YOU SEND ONLY TWO OR THREE AGENTS OUT THERE? You can create agents out of nothing, you're the Matrix. You coulda had everyone on the damn freeway simply stop their cars, get out, and swarm the motherfuckers.

But then, you wouldn't have a scene. So they had to break their own rules, pretend like all the other agents were off-duty, and the two or three on the freeway were more interested in talking shit to Morpheus and the Keymaker than in killing them.

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Did they ever show more than 3 or 4 non-Smith replicating Agents, though?

Fun is the new gritty

...why not just constantly be switching bodies to whoever is closest to them? They only switched bodies a few times throughout that whole chase. If Trinity is zooming forward on the motorcycle, and you inhabit the truck driver to try to smash it over on him, and she pulls back, doesn't it make sense to immediately switch into the body of the guy driving behind her? When she's driving the wrong way in traffic, why not position yourself in ANY of the cars heading towards her and swerve into her?

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lol

thr architect told neo that he had done all fo this before. 8 times before. so he was supposed to survive, he was supposed to save morpheus and at least the key maker to get him tot he source and have the conversation with the architect.

my problem os issue with the movie is really in theat architect scene. it throws out all fothe mysticism of the movies and it is never revistsed. new never tells them and they never ask. the movie just keeps on truckin.

its like your boy met God and he gave you the answers to life, and you don't even want a HINt of what he said.

the highway...yeah the agents could have switched bodies at anytime and they did, but they weren't supposed to kill them you can assume. just the key maker, but not really. the machinesneeded the key maker to get neo to the source. so inately the agenst had to fail, so that neo could succeed and get tot he source.

again the movie pisses on its own mythology and never looks back.

*shrug*

i just wante to see some werewolves/vampires

was telling the truth?

fka nope

and neo believed him. but the architect didnt have a plan for smith. smith and this verison of neo were variable
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if they could just swarm agents at a second's notice like that, the very first scene in the very first movie woulda been Trinity DYING. Soon as the cops got outta sight of the ground crew, they woulda all turned into agents and DESTROYED Trinity.

Obviously there are agent limitations. I suspect some of it has to do with how difficult it must be for the Matrix to keep the batteries believing if they see loads of wild shit all happening at the same time.

fka nope

but Children of Men's marathon of an action sequence towards the end floored me. Like I said, it wasn't a CGI creation (although there was some involved) but they spent days prepping for that shot.

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Or Theo just walking through the protest...


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The whole freeway chase/fight into the city fight shit is just insane.

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"We need to take this cube to the city (Jon Voight: RIGHT!"), it's the safest place" wtf???

But I'm glad they did because I loved what followed...damn that Starscream transforming in mid-flight bit was awesome

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probably not as ambitious

definitely not as expensive

But vastly more enjoyable

but I also though minus the cave rave
it was the best one

Again, lacluster movie but some cool effects

This time the Terminator is sent back in time to kill Bruce Banner's parents so The Hulk never gets born, because the Hulk is the only organic life form left in the future and is wrecking Skynet's shit. Because that's what the movie was about in my dream last night. Makes me want to see it.

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the chase scene...they fucked up a LOT of shit in that scene

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-The opening scene of Sauron knocking fools left and right - maybe a weird pick, but had me hyped from the get go.
-Gandalf and Balrog on the bridge
-Helm's deep, the calvary charge down the hill at the end
-The nazgul attacking the horsemen racing for the city, Gandalf repelling them
-Most of the Gondor battle, but especially the scenes involving the Nazgul grabbing people and dropping them out of the sky. In the books they went on about how terrifying the Nazgul were, but it took the movie for me to understand why.
-The giant elephant attack, Legolas taking one down single-handedly

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the people was in there, denethor had already bitched up the city, and the heads of their army come flinging into the city? that was beyond ill.

cosiggy on Helm's Deep. legolas going tony hawk on the shield down the steps. damn near every battle outdid itself.

and you right about the nazgul. when their mounts were picking up warriors and their horses and just throwing they asses.... man. and those huge catapaults launching fuckin BOULDERS at the city, and seeing huge chunks of stone falling off. incredible.

>-The opening scene of Sauron knocking fools left and right -
>maybe a weird pick, but had me hyped from the get go.
>-Gandalf and Balrog on the bridge
>-Helm's deep, the calvary charge down the hill at the end
>-The nazgul attacking the horsemen racing for the city,
>Gandalf repelling them
>-Most of the Gondor battle, but especially the scenes
>involving the Nazgul grabbing people and dropping them out of
>the sky. In the books they went on about how terrifying the
>Nazgul were, but it took the movie for me to understand why.
>-The giant elephant attack, Legolas taking one down
>single-handedly

"that still counts as ONE" (c) Gimli.

legolas is that dude.

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It would be absolutely amazing since it has imo some of the most epic scenes and battles that have ever been written....my real question is how they would effectively re-create the first 50 or so pages(basically the creation story), and how it could have a length under 5 hours while still doing all the stories justice lol. In that same regard, there's no way audiences would be able to remember all the characters and especially their genealogies because the book just has so much content....I was flipping back and forth with the appendix area to remind myself who was who.

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Not as elaborate as The matrix Reloaded but the tension from that fight was crazy. It's the last action movie I remember actually gripping the seat.

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That's probably the second best fight in a comic book movie.

Fun is the new gritty

X-2 Nightcrawler intro is the best action scene of the last six years

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>Name some other ambitious big-budget effects-laden action
>sequences of the past decade or so. I can't think right now
>but want to compare.

but it doesn't get much better than Morpheus' bushido blade shoot the gas tank move

the more I see it. Im mean it looks so cool so I always gave it a pass. But the more I see it the more I think "Com'on!!!!"

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from the Anakin and Padme being sent to that arena to be eaten to the battle with Dooku, Obi-wan, Anakin and Yoda.

That was pretty damn impressive...and is probably my favorite star wars battle scene

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see, i consider that to be the conclusion of one huge sequence.

From the arena executions, to the jedis fuckin up droids, to the clones showin up DEEP, to big ass battle, to yoda and dooku.

One LOOOONG battle sequence, and fly as hell to me

for some reason though it stayed with me
but you're right they should get credit because it was layered events
and quite the built up to that fight
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"damn this is one looooooong ass battle"

and the shit was paced really well.

Sci-fi fight scenes have just been gettin better since the matrix

Hollywood-esque, but it was a perfect exclamation at that time

preemptive FU to the haters, but the tunnel scene in Live Free or Die Hard was incredible

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in otherwise unbelievable situations.

Some of these might not be what you meant, but they were sho nuff oooohhhh shit!! action scenes:

Drunken Master 2: Jackie Chan + furniture vs. a whole mob of guys.

The end of the Wild Bunch: even to this day few movies fuck with the last 20 minutes of that movie in terms of sheer carnage.

Desperado: The whole scene that starts off with those two guns popping up out of Antonio Banderas' sleeves...ahh...

Oldboy: Really, there was only one main action scene in the movie, but it was seriously one of the best I've seen. Ever.

Azumi: From the point where it's Azumi vs damn near all of Japan, to the big fight with the villain with the ferris wheel camerawork...nice.

Dead Alive: This shouldn't really count but when I saw it with friends we had to rewind it and watch it again. I mean he had that lawn mower going for a long. long. time.

The Good, The Bad and the Weird: One action scene in the 'thief' town was really, really well done. I was trying to figure out how they had so many things going at once and managed to get it all together in front of the camera. It must've been tough.

City of Violence: Again, the last 20 minutes. It's like they were trying to one-up The Wild Bunch. They didn't, but man!

Of course I have to mention the classic Untouchables baby scene. It was intense in it's day. Although I saw that movie again recently and, sadly, it hasn't aged well.

Based on 'big budget, effects-laden' in the original post, some of mine (Oldboy) might be ruled out...

But I stand by them all as action scenes that work it.

but the Dark Knight Harvey Dent escort scene was pretty fucking badass. Mugfuckers were straight cheerleading at the end of it all three times I peeped it in the theater. It was awesomely paced and only hurt by the bad acting of Random Cop #5.

fka nope

and it was CRAZY at IMAX

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I liked that one

epic

they had this feature about how they cgi'd it but still made the dogs look "real." no you didn't.

how cool is that?

so i wouldn't have had to watch that garbage. those dogs were creepy and unrealistic, just like everything cgi in that movie. the last movie did a much better job, and that was even criticized for looking fake.

i mean at least make the drool on those motherf*ckers look real.

They over-textured it and made the colors less saturated in an attempt to make it look "more realistic", but the animation (that is, the actual movements and acting of the animated characters) was subpar, the models were deforming all over the place, and - save for the shots composed more or less for the trailer - the effects had an awfully cheap and unconvincing look about it.

For example, compare Norton's transformation into the Hulk to Eric Bana's. Bana's, I believed; Norton's, not so much.

After everybody complained at how fake looking the first one was, all I read in this one was about how they were fixing up the effects to make it all look more real and natural.

Nope. It seemed like they just fell back on cheap parlor tricks to disguise crappy CGI.

The Hulk's movements in particular were terrible.

went HOARD.

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