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Mel Mudkiper posted:I have to admit I have a fondness for the Wachowskis as creators more than I have fondness for their creations. Even The Matrix? I kind of have no use for anything else they made, but I feel like it really does hold up.
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What stands out to me about the Matrix sequels is how disconnected they feel from the first film. That film is surprisingly gritty and tactile and visceral. People get dirty, the violence veers into being uncomfortable, there's outright body horror. Looking at it, you can practically smell the smells that Agent Smith is complaining about. The very next movie we've got Neo fighting 1,000 clones of Agent Smith where nobody feels anything and everybody is just flopping around. Not just because there's more CGI, but the scenes with actual human actors & stuntmen are more inert too. The sequels are sterile and weightless on a fundamental level that goes way beyond "They used lots of early 2000s CGI" or whatever. They do much less while using much more of everything - more runtime, more money, more effects. They're not exactly cash-in sequels, because they're still way too weird to be generic Hollywood blockbusters, but they come across more like fanfic writ INCREDIBLY large than than a natural continuation by the original auteurs. Mad Max: Fury Road is like the spiritual antithesis of the Matrix sequels.
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