Owlofcreamcheese posted:

A ton of actual film development uses unreal 5 now.

I imagine this is movie assets with a bunch of sliders turned down more than stuff they put lots of work into for a game.

Archer666 posted:

The soundtrack for the first movie is getting a vinyl reissue with a new Don Davis interview:

https://www.kerrang.com/the-complete-matrix-soundtrack-to-get-deluxe-vinyl-reissue

Mister Chief posted:

The production quality is not consistent I would say.

I may be reading too much into it but it felt like it got better as the story went on and there does appear to be a distinction between different parts of the movie after certain events in terms of how they are shot.

The early half seemed to favour CGI massively and then the later half seemed mostly practical where possible. Again, might be my imagination.

thrawn527 posted:

checkplease posted:

Just got out of seeing it in IMAX. Loved it.

Some thoughts:
-A lot of talk about the action scenes, but I enjoyed the intro scenes and subway fight at least. These were better in the original, but thats kind of the point.

Shiroc posted:

They literally took a leap of faith together which is what freed Trinity to save Neo and become his equal as far as 'powers'.

Butternubs posted:

The tagline should have been "we made the film wrong, as a joke"

TTBF posted:

Do you think what The Analyst was doing with Neo was a genuine attempt at therapy? Do you think he was seeing patients other than Neo?

ImpAtom posted:

The opening of the movie literally involves the protagonist dealing with the fact that a sequel is being made to a personal passion project of theirs without their say or consent and their only choice is to come back or let something personal and private to them be picked to death by focust testers and marketing people who try to narrow it down to specific popularity points. It's not exactly subtle about the fact that Warner Brothers is demanding they retread already finished ground considering they literally say that in the film.

SUNKOS posted:

He returns to help Neo and Trinity in the coffee shop at the end. When the Analyst has frozen time and is on his way to shoot Trinity, Smith appears and is somehow immune to the time fuckery that the Analyst pulls and proceeds to attack the visibly confused Analyst (which unfreezes everyone) and messes up some agents/cops as well. After the fight is over and Neo & Trinity are reunited, the Analyst then activates the swarm before getting shot apart by Smith who then states that their alliance ends there and disappears, revealing the body he was inhabiting at the time was the barista who acts visibly confused. I'm guessing that Smith essentially being a beta for the swarm (Revolutions) meant that he knew what was up and noped out to save himself.

Don't have a clue why he came to save Neo & Trinity after trying to kill him earlier however. Still really wish Weaving had been there for that final Smith scene because him interrupting and scaring the poo poo out of the Analyst would have been so much better. After the film ended my first thoughts were a reconstruction of that scene with Weaving and his particular way of speaking and mannerisms, it would have been excellent. Still would have made no sense (unless I'm dumb and missed why he suddenly wanted Neo alive rather than dead) but would have been much more entertaining, imo.

I think the franchise is dead now so we'll likely never see it explored further but it felt oddly wholesome to have Smith come and save for day for Neo & Trinity.

HorseLord posted:

smartphones claim another victim

HorseLord posted:

it doesn't matter where you saw it. you were looking at your phone

DaveKap posted:

Y'know... I totally understand Lana trying to take back the franchise, prevent WB from running it into the ground, and pushing forward the messages she wants to push forward...

...but there is something to be said for the hundreds of other people who worked on that first film (and maybe the other two) and contributed to its greatness and how they might feel about its continuation being what it is. I'd be interested in what Bill Pope thinks, for example.

So for fun, I decided to see if he expressed any opinions. Here's an interview where he talks about how filming for the Matrix sequels sucked rear end because the Wachowskis were trusting in Stanley Kubrick's style of filming of doing 90 takes:
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/07/the-matrix-cinematographer-sequels-mind-numbing-1234573077/
This kinda kills the argument (for me, anyway) that filming taking 4 months was a detriment to the film.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

I mean… machine’s entire energy source is manufacturing humans (from birth). Sure there’s probably extra steps to rebuilding an already existing human but we (as batteries) are their bread and butter.

Colonel Whitey posted:

My one big knock on the movie is that it lacked any kind of distinctive visual flair or language. Other than that I think I liked it and can’t wait to see it again on HBO Max, a Warner Brothers product

MJeff posted:

The dock fight in Revolutions doesn't do a ton for me because Mifune and Kid and Link's wife all feel pretty undercooked as characters, but the Hammer's run through the mechanical (NOBODY CAN FLY MECHANICAL) tunnel was really great, I thought.

Horizon Burning posted:

this was not a good film. like, the audio mixing, the fight choreography, the general plot, the weird smith 2.0 guy, merovingian showing up to rant about video games, the entirely ridiculous meta creation movie director stuff. did they make this film wrong as a joke?

DaveKap posted:

Has there been any discussion about "The Kid" from The Animatrix/Revolutions who was awoken by throwing himself off a building? While watching the movie I expected his 75-year-old rear end to show up as the head Neologist but we got nothin.

quote:

While speaking with EW's Around the Table, the new Matrix cast members admitted that they had trouble understanding their characters during off-set conversations with Lana Wachowski.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas told a story about asking Lana to describe her character Sati before a BTS interview and coming out "so much more confused than when I walked in."

Abdul-Mateen II expressed a similar sentiment, saying that sometimes after asking a question he'd say "Golly, I wish I didn't go ask because now I'm more confused than before I went in." Jessica Henwick, who plays Bugs, quickly realized that “Every time I ask she's going to talk about life instead,” and that Wachowski didn't want the actors prepping their characters at home, but rather finding them while filming on set.