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The Matrix
I thought it was tedious, self-satisfied nonsense. Some impressive visual effects and a bit of half-baked philosophy did not a good movie make. Everything about it seemed to be focused on being cool, rather than telling a decent story.
The matrix trilogy is an excellent story. And I cannot agree with you. I'm sure you don't wanna hear an essay about it though. Everything fits so well and it's full of significance. The ending of it was brilliant.
They fucked up with that cringe 4th movie though
The first movie was okay, but they dropped the ball on 2 and 3 in my opinion. They weren't bad but definitely not what I'd consider brilliant.
I enjoyed the 2nd, but 3rd just missed the mark completely.
1st: Yes, let's explore this rabbit hole
2nd: Let's explore it some more and progress the story
3rd: same as 2nd but neo becomes wizard Jesus when blind, apparently.
Iirc, the 4th movie was intentionally bad and meant to be a bomb because the wachowski sister that did come back only did so that no one else would touch their story.
Intentionally bad still bad. And a middle finger to the fans, plus stealing their money
The movie literally tells you what it is doing at the start when Neo talks to that CEO person. "We're making this with or without you." I didn't really like it either until it turned into a heist movie halfway through and I got it. She was just taking the piss. It's not a FU to the fans but to Warner Brothers.
I didn't see it, but IMO based on your description the appropriate thing to do would be to make the best movie she could, or to have refused, even if that meant them making it without her. Taking up the offer of making the movie and then deliberately doing a bad job is a giant "fuck you" to everyone who bought tickets.
(If they did make it without her, it might still have been bad or even undermined her intentions with the franchise, but at least her name would be clear. And fans are very good at saying "yeah no we don't consider these corporate-made extensions of the auteur's world to be very good. We consider it a separate canon." Look at Star Wars, or the Dune novels after Frank Herbert's death, or how people were reacting to Netflix's Avatar after Mike & Brian left the production even before it released.)
There's a whole story to this movie. I'm sure someone's made a 3 hour deep dive into it explaining why she did it and what the studio was doing, but I think she saw the script they were pushing and just couldn't let them make it. I don't think the movie is bad bad, it just doesn't make any gd sense unless you watch it through the lense of this wachowski sister going through transitioning and dealing with the loss of several close people. She's just slapping random shit together because it made her feel good.
I completely understand why huge matrix fans wouldn't like it though. They didn't sign up for a meta commentary on Hollywood and trans people. But as more of these completely shit super hero movies come out the more I can appreciate what she did.
Ironically if you accept it's a "fuck you" film, like you've been invited round to the wachowskis to watch one of the their random side projects it becomes enjoyable again
That's the only way to enjoy it imo. If you watch it seriously you'll be like, wtf is this shit. But if you imagine the wachowski being like, look at this bullshit I made them do, it becomes a sort of meta comedy. I am not joking when I say I was in a state of bewilderment before the heist scene. Then I busted out laughing because of how ridiculous it was and the movie became enjoyable.
The irony is the matrix has always been "meta". Repeatedly breaking out of each paradigm to show you the last one was an illusion. So in a weird way it is a proper sequel, just not in a way that anyone's going to like.
Not like that though. The other movies it worked with the lore, Resurrections just mocks itself outside the universe just to get a "haha" fuck that.
The people paid to see the movie, a good movie
Yeah but did we really expect it to actually be good?
Each to their own I guess. I enjoyed the ending, because that meant it was over ;-)
Do you mean just the first one or the trilogy as a whole?
I thought the first one stood up far far better on its own rather, many things left unsaid, rather than the rest which tried to fill out the story, and not too well
I mean the first one, as I've never seen the others :-)
I get that many people do like it, and that's all good, but I dislike how it often seems to be verboten to say even the slightest negative thing about the film.
The Matrix is great, it has some good explanation of philosophical concepts, yet is action packed and intelligent.
The rest of the trillogy, just meh...
The. rest. of. the. trilogy. is. also. widely. panned...
The matrix is good precisely because they don't spoon feed everything to you.