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The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer
Escape Tangent writes "The full theatrical trailer for The Matrix: Revolutions was posted just moments ago at thematrix.com. Choose your poison, then oogle at the eyecandy. Here are links to the high, medium, and low resolutions. Sorry folks, Quicktime 6 only." This trailer is much longer than the earlier TV spots, but they're still available.
that Matrix reloaded was more about looking slick and wearing sunglasses than story? When I first saw matrix 1, they didn't need any of that to wow me. It was cool enough seeing some "hacking stuff" going on! Now it's all about fighting (which is abissmal compared to some Jet Li classics) and looking chic. I think Revolutions will probably do the same thing for the teen masses with short attention span, but it'll be bearable if they got some neat stuff in it that M1 had.
Put neo back in a suit and tie or sumthin. He starts acting like Trinity from m1 and m2. Stiff faced. I guess the matrix does that to ya
It meant that when I saw the movie, too much of it was already known to me, so that some scenes (esp. the car chase scene) didn't have a gee-whizz element to it. That said, the playground brawl scene with lots of Agent Smith's was still a shock.
I'll pass and hope to be surprised/pleased at the movie theatre, rather than at home watching "the making of matrix 3" style programmes.
So basically, just like the first film? No doubt this'll get modded as troll/flamebait, but I didn't see the need for sequels at all. The Matrix was a good film, with an open ending that I thought suited the nature of the film perfectly, and left what happens next to the watchers imagination. The sequels just seemed like sequels for sequels sake and I feel actually detract from the imagination and impact of the first film. Not least because they somehow had to bring Neo down from being all powerful at the end of Matrix 1 which casts doubt that the directors/writers intended the series to be a trilogy in the first place.
They tried the same shit 20 years ago with Back to the Future and what happened to that
It became a classic and people remember it 20 years later.
People still say things like - '*some big thing* - Great Scott!'
Sequels are generally bad, yes (Terminator 2 aside), but this was always meant to be a trilogy. There's a difference.
Watch the first one again and notice the subtle shot of the architect's video wall just before Smith interrogates Neo. Watch the second one and notice the nearly-as-subtle shot of someone being taken through the restaurant, who's going to feature more prominently in the third film. They're more interwoven than you think.
The first one introduces the characters. The second puts them in a bad place. The third one gets them out of it. that's a trilogy, not a good film with two poor sequels.
Indeed. Most of it was interesting and imaginitive, but the numerical stuff is a) clearly desperate, and b) ignores the relevance of synthesiser names. Trinity (made by Korg), Prophecy (Korg), Matrix (Oberheim), Prophet (Sequential), Virus (Access), Mirage (Ensoniq), Proteus (EMU), and SH-101 and TB-303 (Roland) are all relevant to the film -- a few of those are probably coincidental, but I'd be prepared to bet that the authors at least had at least a couple in mind.
Also c) it ignores the relevance of Orwell's Room 101, and the simple Neo=One=Room 101 and Trinity=3=Room 303 connections.
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