Hard disagree.
2 had some pacing issues, but all 3 are amazing works of science fiction, the last 2 suffering from understandably not being able to top the first movie's reveal of "Your entire existence was a lie." 2 and 3 expand on the lore while visually presenting deep philosophical concepts, but as studios have learned, trying to appeal to the widest audience means not challenging your audience.
They have since gone so far with that lesson, it has lead to stuff like the new Star Wars trilogy, a plotless trainwreck of endless appeals to nostalgia so blatant I'm surprised they didn't have force ghost yoda turn to the camera and smile impishly like austin powers.
The next ones are:
- The Matrix Reduced
- The Matrix Reused
- The Matrix Recycled
- The Matrix Retired
There is only 1 movie and it's The Matrix. The fuck you talking about "trilogy?" You must be confusing The Animatrix with the real movie. It's the only way.
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The trilogy is far better than the latest abomination of a movie that came out a few years ago. I felt like that one was created solely to cash in on the franchise name.
Yeah, it was. They even said so in the movie. It could only have been more obvious if Lana Wachowski had looked into the camera and said: "Yes, I am only making this movie so that the studio doesn't make it worse."
I have never seen a movie argue so vehemently against its own existence before. It's worth seeing just for that.
This is actually why I think it is "underrated". I mean it isn't a good movie or even a good story to begin with, but this insanity seems so intentional, so meta, so self destructive - it's worth seeing.
Also, call me crazy but I think that it would have made an unironically interesting theater play. A lot of scenes scream theater and would have worked much better in that setting. The whatshisname the french guy blabbing his monologue during that fighting scene is so obviously theatrical, and the clips from the first movie being projected in a theater would also work with just half the cringe.
I like the theory that she purposefully make it so bad the franchise was killed but in a way that executives would still think it's a great movie that will make a lot of money.
I expected my comment to be more controversial but apparently, people are really for the truth. Good.
I say the Matrix Trilogy because Matrix Revolutions is an antimemetic cognitohazard inconceivable by the human mind.
When the squids first breach Zion and there's that shot of every single APC APU firing at them... just
I say The Matrix Trilogy because Resurrections had so many references and clips from the first movie that it doesn't count as its own film.
I say The Matrix Nonalogy* because there is one movie and several short films in The Animatrix (The Second Renaissance was needlessly cut into 2 parts)
(*no I don't)
