I have to disagree: People make a way better living by hiring people that know their shit and make it a classic that makes money even 30 years later. Their movie that had potential to be the best Matrix movies of them all and it went down the drain by not hiring the best people / get better consultancy.
An experience script writer could have told before production that the script alone is not ready for starting production / hiring studios / casting. Also the art direction was not good. Such a patchwork of triple A content with triple C parts … they should have stopped the whole production and reshoot / rework like 60% of the scenes / story / set design / VFX.
Eh, even the best crews sometimes produce average results. Movies are very complex to make, with loads of people involved. Even with the best screen writer, director and actors a movie might go to shit when the suits get involved. This has happened so so many times.
Not saying this is the case with the Matrix, I’d put all the blame on Wachowski for that one.
TBH I was never a fan of the original. It had cool action sequences, but I felt it tried too hard. Animatrix was cool tho, would have liked to see more of that stuff.
I agree. In this case, I think it comes down to the basic foundation - lacking good storytelling. Like, OK I want to write a good pop song but can’t create a good melody, lyrics, and proper harmony, so I try to cover it with complex rhythm, glitches, and colors. Oh wait!
well, i didn’t even know it was a remake Never saw the original one. Don’t know if I will make up for that, as I am not a fan of Stellan Skarsgård. Although he played a really good villain in the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!
On a “what to watch on Netflix” moment with the wife (just finished “Casa de Papel”, saw “don’t look up” already) started watching this with low expectations… and tought it was a solid film!
Just saw Titane at the cinema and I want to recommend it to everyone but know at least half of everyone will hate it.
Minor spoilers of the first half hour of the film:
Young girl is in a car crash and has a titanium plate installed in her skull. An older her is a famous exotic dancers at car shows. A stalker tries to assault her so she kills him. Then a car calls to her so she shags it, then she finds out she’s pregnant with the car’s baby and goes on a small killing spree, and then it starts to get weird.
Good Takashi Mike-meets-Calire Denis vibes. Ultraviolence. Taboo-breaking. Pointed (but not heavy-handed) questioning of masculinity and gender. Lots of body horror. No small amount of deadpan humour. Weird as fuck. Hilarious and awful.
Watched a couple yesterday that are worthy of your attention:
Quo Vadia, Aida?
Heartbreaking retelling of events of the Srebrencia massacre in the mid 90s. It’s an astonishing piece of work, keeping tight focus on the human cost of warring and brutal regimes without straying into overt on-screen violence and is all the more powerful for it.
The Lost Daughter
Confident and tight debut for Maggie Gyllenhaal in a writing and director role, carried along magnificently by a possible career-best (and that takes some doing) performance by Olivia Colman. Utterly gripping!
New scream film
Not recommended especially if you hated the way the matrix was so self referential and trying to be smart.
More derivative and predictable than you could imagine. Please stop making these.
One well know actor in it has a weird very very wide mouth, It was quite distracting
so ridiculous.
Never saw the original one. Don’t know if I will make up for that, as I am not a fan of Stellan Skarsgård. Although he played a really good villain in the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!
