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Reeves Rumors Reversed
AdmiralXyz writes "The rumor that Keanu Reeves was in talks with the Wachowski brothers to produce Matrix movies 4 and 5, in 3-D, is apparently just that. Representatives from Warner Bros. spoke to Wired and called the rumors 'bunk,' pointing out that the school Reeves was supposedly accepting an award from when he made the announcement doesn't actually exist. His publicists made similar statements. Perhaps the film deities have shown us mercy just this once."
and I am thanking him right now!
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
They called it Inception. It wasn't very good. But Keanu looked more animated than I have ever seen him before. He must have taken acting lessons.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
And once again, a like makes it all the way around the world before the truth even gets its pants on.
Does anyone actually verify anything any more?
- Spryguy
There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
...there sure exists strong evidence of absence of spoon.
Or perhaps the whole thing was just a glitch.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Float the rumor, datamine the cyber-zeigeist, and somebody order me lunch; I'm starving.
No, you're not missing anything. You know Hollywood, they can't do math. Have you seen the damages asked in their lawsuits?
Next thing you know they'll want us to believe there was more than two Alien movies.
You know, considering it can be done totally free, I wonder if there would be value in a studio creating a false rumor like this, then surveying the public response on social networks and sites like this in order to get a feel for the market / fanbase for potential sequel?
Better known as 318230.
Alternately, the flood of responses gave them the idea that the public can't wait for more Matrix flix and (in the best SF paradox traditions) the horrible eventuality we sought to prevent has been caused by our own efforts.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
The Wachowskis aren't brothers anymore. I wish people would stop referring to them as such.
"Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language." - Visual J++ Product Manager
Larry is Lana now.
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
The "eleven" isn't a sequence number, it's Clooney's penis size...
In centimeters, I guess.
Bow-ties are cool.
...from couple of years ago.
There is this scene with Julia Roberts pretending to be a woman who is pretending to be Julia Roberts WHILE talking on a phone to another instance of Julia Roberts pretending to be Julia Roberts.
Kinda like this scene only a level or two more fucked up.
Granted, Bruce Willis showing up and pretending to be JUST Bruce Willis is a bit of a letdown, but the movie makes it up in utter lack of entertainment (in the classic meaning of the word).
Clearly, Ocean's 12 was envisioned as a critique of the entire summer blockbuster genre (they even satirized that by releasing it in December), with its overdose of stars and utter lack of coherence or meaningful plot - but apparently people failed to get the joke.
So, they said "What the hell, let's at least make a shitload of money" and reused that same formula and made Ocean's 13.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
You forgot the lost Han Solo movie, "Serenity".
Poor means hoping the toothache goes away.
He was. At the end of the 3rd movie, notice how he is laying when they pull him away. I promise you that I am one of the 17 people on the planet that love all the Matrix movies enough to explain every single scene to the "meh, blah blah blah Matrix 2 and 3 sucked" people.
Agent Smith represented everything that was wrong with us. He would lie (example: "Oh, I am not a bad guy, once you get to know me"), gluttony (all of those Agent Smiths were not needed), murder, vanity. He represented our sins, but on an extreme "I can fly in the air and do cool moves" sort of way.
Neo's name even represented the new changes that would come along with him, similar to Jesus. He was in love, and was soul-less enough to be willing to lose his life to save humanity (soul-less as in he was like a Jedi where you think outwardly).
Now you may ask, "Well if Smith is sins, then sins killed Jesus?" No, Mr. You need to pay closer attention to details. The big robot head killed Neo. This is something that I explained in another post, but I am on a roll right now, so I am going to say it again. The Oracle said that Smith was Neo's counter-balance. Neo also proved that as a balance, he can merge with Smith and survive. Once Neo merged, you could see the big robot head pump electricity into Neo to kill him. If the robot head had waited, Neo would have survived.
There needs to be balance to the equation, so if Neo takes out Agent Smith, there is no balance, so once Neo merged with Smith, to ensure they were not out of balance, the big robot head pumped Neo with electricity (that is what it looks like), effectively killing them both at the same time since at that given moment, they are partially one. Remember, it is a machine. It does not deal in chance, it deals in what needs to be done.
So, somebody who you thought was helping you, ends up killing you, sounds like what happened to Jesus with P Pilot.
More imagery: Agent Smith seems to take form as multiple things, and I could be wrong with some of this, but as Christian folk have told me, Demons help with sins and they are always trying to find a way into our realm of existence (Agent Smith "possessing" Bane anybody?)
Jesus blindly helping his fellow man. They went pretty literal in the movies here.
Come on! The human city was called Zion! Did you see how bright and Brilliant white the room was with the Gate Keepers?
See, one of the cool things they did with the later ones that they did with the first one was even though they talked about stuff, they never really explained it. They did that alot in the first one to bring about that "Are we living in a Truman Show?" type deal. But they shifted more focus to Neo in the later 2 movies instead of concentrating on giving us this awesome "We all might be in the matrix right now" type of thinking, but the questions do not go away. How was Neo able to see without human eyes? How was he able to fight sentinels, basically, with his mind? Is Neo part robot? Is the place Neo at basically just a horrible "overflow" server that they put the people who thought they got freed (As Morpheus says, "Have you ever had a dream that was so real, that you weren't sure if you were awak or asleep?") If this is some kind of "overflow" server, does that mean that the Zionites are really programs themselves?
We truly do not know, but the story itself still brings up these questions. I am sorry that all you paid attention to (not the person directly above me, but the people above him) were the fancy special effects. There is alot more to all 3 movies than you are seeing kids. Free your minds.
I will stop here since this comment is nested pretty far down and chances are nobody will ever read it except for the person I replied to, but seriously, yes, the later movies had alot of special effects. They were flashy. They had action, but they did not derail from basically making Neo Jesus. Anybody who begs to differ, by all means reply to me. We can get into how the last 2 were just as good as the first one.
The world is how you make it
It's a different director for the next Matrix movies - Uwe Boll.
Paris Hilton is cast as Trinity and John Travolta is playing Morpheus. It's a reboot where instead of being batteries for the machines the humans are sex toys but for ratings purposes there will be no nudity. Ahmed Best is voicing the amusing machine sidekick who helps the heroes fight the bumbling Agent Smith played by Adam Sandler.