The Matrix Resurrections – Official Trailer 1

Pretty great. The beginning was a little confusing because where are we? It's like a repeat of the beginning of the original, but it's also all slightly different. It all becomes clear in short order. There are all the essential spectacular elements, king-fu fights, gun fights, and a very spectacular motorcycle chase with Trinity driving. There is also the continuing love story between Neo and Trinity. There are also some funny bits. I don't remember any of that in the first three movies. The dialog is much the same as in the first three movies - curt, profound sounding statements, but don't try to make sense of them, they are just stuffing to make the scene complete.

Bullet Time

I was going to say something about how rogue programs could continue to operate in the ginormous computer system that contains The Matrix, but we are experiencing a smaller version of this everyday with the virus programs that are constantly attacking our everyday computers, so we basically got the same thing. Bullet Time can be done simply by access the supervising program's schedule and letting your character's program run more frequently.

   

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Normally a character program would not be able to access that schedule, but if you are sneaky and are willing to peek behind the curtain, well, all things become possible.

The Twins

The Wachowski brothers/sisters, responsible for the first three Matrix movies are working independently now, this movie was done by Lana (Larry). Mostly I don't want to hear about your transexual perversions, but dang, these guys/gals/people sure make some fantastic movies. I can't help but think of the Frenchman's twin albino wraith thugs as the on screen versions of The Wachowskis.

We saw this film at Movies on TV on Christmas Eve. I think there were ten people in the theater, and our group was half of them. Also on HBO.

The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Official Trailer #1 - Keanu Reeves Movie HD
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Much better than The Matrix Reloaded, but still not nearly as good as the original. This one moves right along with a decent amount of suspense. A lot of it seemed like a good old fashioned war movie, a hopeless battle fought against an implacable foe, desperation in every move they make.

In a way, it gives us a much better depiction of what mechanized warfare is like, better than the WW2 movies we have. Our war movies tend to focus on a few people and a few machines. Intellectually we might understand that there were thousands of ships and airplanes involved, but you don't really get a feel for it. But here in The Matrix Revolutions, you get to see what mechanized warfare is really like with zillions, literally zillions of enemy combatants on the screen. That's what our military-industrial complex has been building ever since 1940. While we might have let off the throttle a bit, many more countries are joining the arms race. I doubt we will see another conflagration like WW2, but conflict is part of our nature so there will continue to be firefights scattered across the planet.

This movie seems much more prophetic, nearly 20 years later,  now that we are seeing just how much more computers can do. Much of the stuff in the show seems like things that we are developing now, or will be in a few short years. Back then the amount of suspension of disbelief required was much greater. Now it it doesn't take nearly as much. Okay, we don't have the repulsars they use to lift their hovercraft, but ask me again next week and I may have a different answer.

HBO, 2 hours+

The Matrix

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In preparation for going to see the latest Matrix movie, we rewatched the original. It was great when we saw it the first time and it was nearly as great this time. Not so much suspense, obviously, because we know how it turns out, but dang, the pace is just breakneck fast. Two hours of getting hammered by twists and turns leaves you feeling like you've been through the wringer.

2 hours+ on HBO