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by 2muchcoffeeman 488 days ago
Lana swung for the fences but struck out. It felt like an M. Night Shyamalan letdown.

I still don’t know why she even agreed. The pay check?

If they wanted to bring it back, they should have discarded all the previous stuff besides the basic premise. The original movie even had this whole thing about Neo being the sixth “The One”.

That’s 5 prequels right there. And the obvious exploration of what happened after the reboot.

Trying to bring back the cast except as a way to hand over the franchise (by dying) is almost always going to be stupid.
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SSLy 488 days ago
> I still don’t know why she even agreed. The pay check?

She put it bluntly in the first 15 minutes, in meeting scene.

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vincnetas 488 days ago
the scene :

    ...now the packet in front of you has our focus group research inside you'll find the breakdown including key word association with the brand the top two being originality and fresh which i think are great things to keep in mind as you begin working on matrix four and who knows how many more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeN9Cjkan0
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moomin 488 days ago
Yeah, Neo is told the project is going ahead with or without his involvement so he gets involved to make it suck less.
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prepend 488 days ago
It’s hard to imagine a suckier version of what they made.
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echelon 488 days ago
I think it's brilliant.

Only when the reveal is done and the action starts does it begin to fall apart as a lackluster story with subpar motivations and arcs.

Until that point it's a fantastic mindfuck.

If they'd simply left it as a drama with no action at all and focused more on character development, it could have been amazing.

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moomin 488 days ago
Oh, it's very easy. Watch Terminator: Genisys sometime. Or the Alien vs Predator movie.
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testing22321 488 days ago
> I still don’t know why she even agreed. The pay check?

She has explicitly said in interviews they told her they would make it with or without her, so she made it crap on purpose to tank the franchise. It was supposed to suck.

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nsteel 488 days ago
Wouldn't such a public statement be enough to ruin their argument in the lawsuit against WB?

> Village Roadshow complained that the Burbank studio’s pivot away from an exclusive theatrical release had destroyed the value of a key franchise.

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