I hope you're wrong but I suspect this will be the case. The car chase/shoot out gave me bad flashbacks to The Matrix Reloaded.

Different from the one in the Matrix Reloaded. The internet claims that that's the Ediety Knot, but those two don't look the same either.

>> ^mxxcon:

Dammit Ant! quit reading bluesnews before me!


I haven't been to Blue's News since the 17th!

>> ^quantumushroom:

It's not often that I agree with you @quantumushroom, but you make good points. I enjoyed this trailer but it doesn't bode well for the film. A swearing pothead teddy bear? OK, that's funny, but this trailer pretty much does the joke. There needs to be a lot more to make a good 2 hours than this one joke and if a list of white-trash girls' names is the best of the rest, this movie's in trouble.
>>> It doesn't matter, that's the sad thing. Turd was probbly dirt cheap to make and the worldwide doody crowd will recover expenses. It's like the laziness that used to infect albums has shifted. Now instead of one or two songs carrying a mediocre album, one or two jokes (or one scene) can carry a whole sh1t movie.
I could see this appealing to the "Office Space" crowd (which I am a member). Although it doesn't have that "this could be me" quality, it seems to have a familiar style to it and maybe the jokes are there. (It occurs to me now that Office Space was also a live-action film by an animated cartoon creator, hmm.)
Office Space is a masterpiece. We all have met characters similar to the OS characters, it's well-acted and the dialogue flows. The plot of the outside consultants suggesting promoting the guy in a trance who does NOTHING is genius, and it's beyond funny how only Lumbergh, the memorable droning boss who is otherwise oblivious, is the only one who sees the insanity.

That said, the "one living stuffed animal" - well, it's a story. It's fiction. Maybe it's explained and maybe there are others but either way, who cares? That's the world that the story is set in and if you can't suspend disbelief then very, very little fiction must be acceptable to you.

I prefer movies obey their own rules and logic, including the logic of the fantastic. Example: In Mattress Reloaded, Neo blocks thousands of bullets with the wave of his palm, but then has to spend 20 minutes blocking kicks. Obviously they had to do something in order to have action, but what they ended up with was boring.


There's something about the atmosphere of this trailer that says Office Space to me. Whether or not the full film is anything like as good remains to be seen and in all probability it won't be anything like as good. Perhaps this appeals to me because when I was a kid, me and my brothers had teddy bears with crazy amounts of detail in the bears' imaginary world. Good times.

I don't think that Matrix Reloaded flaw is the same; at a guess in Ted, the "one living stuffed animal" is explained just by him making a wish as a child and it coming true, and why this only happens once isn't discussed. That's flimsy, but not inconsistent in the way that Reloaded was.

Yes, Animatrix is essential Matrix viewing. The Second Renaissance pt 1&2 is what Matrix Reloaded should have been.

I saw Dreamcatcher in theatres back in 2003 because they showed the premiere of Final Flight of the Osiris (Animatrix segment 3) as an accompanying short. Was totally worth it, even if I had to sit through Dreamcatcher afterwards. If you haven't seen Dreamcatcher, there is a large focus on aliens that come out your asshole and you know you have an alien in your ass because you can't stop farting powerfully. Not joking, there are full scenes which are meant to be serious in which actors are grimacing in medium close-up while loud farting noises are laid on top.

>> ^ctrlaltbleach:

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Inception was not that good a movie IMO - too contrived, too simple a concept trying to be deep. I'll take an M. Night hook over Inception any day.

I forgot to mention that I actually thought The Village was a good flick too. I can't helpt but think that if Hitchcock was alive today- some of you would be railing against his repetitive schtick. Always seeking the new new you are. M. Nnight is soooo 2003.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Payback:
Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.

...Inception was 1:45 of The Architect scene from the Matrix: Reloaded! It was all The Explainer, except occasionally when guys were shooting other guys.

>> ^Payback:

Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.


...Inception was 1:45 of The Architect scene from the Matrix: Reloaded! It was all The Explainer, except occasionally when guys were shooting other guys.

>> ^Throbbin:
I like the Matrix Trilogy. All 3 of the movies were entertaining and fun.
I challenge internet-movie-nerd-ragers to list a single movie that didn't suck balls in their opinion (no porn allowed). A single movie. Then the rest of us can take pot shots at it.


The Princess Bride, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, and the Godfather! And because maybe that's not really fair, here are some movies that it's okay to dislike: Predator, Conan the Barbarian, the Shawshank Redemption.

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This has already been said before but part of what made The Matrix so good was that it took place almost entirely within "our" world. We only saw snippets of what the real world was like, outside of the Matrix. Reloaded tried to incorporate more of the real world while balancing out scenes within the Matrix, but by Revolutions, it almost entirely took place in the real world. Add to that the heavy philosophical allegories, the fact that it took Trinity a full 10 minutes to die after being impaled on 35 pieces of rebar, and any other number of problems that plagued the last 2 movies.

I still think the way that Reloaded should have happened was Neo somehow "reboots" (Reloads) the Matrix causing everyone to wake up for a moment inside the real world. Then, after they fall back into the Matrix, they begin to talk with one another about the "dream" everyone had, with Neo acting as a Messiah-like figurehead. Revolutions would have shown the world-wide fight within the Matrix against the agents/Matrix/whatever, with humanity eventually winning and waking up for good. This sillyness of computer programs, Trainmen in the Limbo world and iterations of Neo splitting off and re-absorbing back into the system was just that....silly.

Crake already said most of what I had to say regarding why the second and third made the first movie worse. QT also made that point very well, as Fusionaut pointed out.

The Matrix Reloaded had exactly three good scenes in it. Neo vs. The Smiths, The Chateau Fight and the Highway Chase. The rest is an attempt to surpass the first movie's philosophical ideas that fails miserably. The entire Merovingian segment was just sad.

The Matrix Revolutions had the same problem as many superhero movies seem to have. When you have a character with too much power, it soon becomes problematic to create plots that aren't solved with "Neo flies in and saves the day". So instead of thinking up an actual challenge to those powers (or, to delay that challenge until the end of the film, with the Smith fight), they simply disable the hero.
Cyclops gets disabled in every single X-Men movie. He's more a cripple than a superhero.

I don't want to get into the whole prophet, architect, control and the rest of the philosophical concepts they try to introduce in Reloaded and Revolutions, because, while in the first Matrix they were so subtle with their actual message, in 2 and 3, they simply cram them down your throat like it's a classroom.

The magic in the first movie is completely obliterated by the sequels. That's the best way I can describe how I feel about it. It's also why I don't regard them as relevant when discussing The Matrix with friends.

>> ^gwiz665:
Sci-fi goodness. I like this speech, even if it could be "dumbed down" quite a bit so everyone understood.
He should've pulled a "joker" and switched the doors...


It didn't need to be "dumbed down." It needed to be rewritten. He spends eight or nine minutes and a full thesaurus worth of words to say NOTHING. He just babbles on for the whole scene without doing anything other than be redundant as hell.

>> ^marinara:
is that the rambo theme i hear? errr. terminator?
http://www.adammillerweb.com/sheetmusic/Terminator.mid


Matrix Reloaded too. Which Terminator theme remix is this?