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by qbasic_forever 1639 days ago
shrug I really liked it. It felt like Lana Wachowski re-imagining what they really wanted to do for the first movie, but now 20 years wiser and more experienced. I loved how it brought in more color--some scenes almost reminded me of Speed Racer with all the hues.
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Thank god she didn't do this to the first movie. We would have missed out on a legendary movie and gotten this shit instead.
You’re not the only one. It’s already my favorite. It’s like the first, but taken a little more seriously. More conventionally dramatic. Less comic booky. The way I wanted the Matrix movies to be treated all along.
It had both some of the elements of the first (deliberate) and much of the nonsense and mysticism of the second and third.

That was what was so childish about 2 and 3, and that childishness remained here. The role-swapping in service of allegory was annoying, as well.

The change of hues in the trailer was enough for making me skip the movie.
Colour grading is fairly low down my "make or break" list.