Definitely skip this movie. It hinges a lot of the events of the movies directly prior to it. This is not some tour down memory lane of the first movie that does it’s own thing. This is a direct continuation of The Matrix Revolutions. It and Reloaded are very much addressed at the same frequency or even more than the…

My reaction after everything I’ve read in the last 12 hours

Played several iterations of the game through early access on Steam in 2019, but I held off on doing the last boss or two that they’ve added over the last couple years so I could give it an earnest full play through when they completed it (which, like most things, ran into covid related delays). It really was, even in…

You want to talk about absolutely joyless extensions of the first movie? Pacific Rim: The Black on Netflix is even worse than Uprising. I thought Uprising was downright bad, but I also don’t begrudge those that enjoyed it. There are fun elements to it, Mostly thanks to John Boyega. I also think some praise needs to be…

Finally. Definitive proof that Matrix 4 will just be absolutely weird as f—- all.

I recently went to go see The Matrix (the 1999 one) in IMAX format. Mostly because it’s one of the best movies ever made and also because I wanted to see every single pore, pockmark and stray fuzz on Keanu Reeve’s face. I happened to catch the trailer for Moonfall in my showing and I really gotta wonder how Emmerich…

Neo is not responsible for the Machines committing genocide. The Machines are making that choice. They could do the ethical thing and let their slaves go. Instead they entrap Neo into making that false choice. That’s why him choosing Trinity is still the correct choice. A choice under duress to do a particular thing…

It’s possible if a bit of a boring conclusion. The point of the sequels was specifically that the machines didn’t need levels upon levels of the digital Matrix to control humans. Humanity comes with systems of control backed in. The machines just needed to make a majority of humans to accept the Matrix and as for the…

It is overall the most ethical decision. Neo would be condemning humanity to slavery if chose differently. Going through the door that lead back to the Source is the wrong choice no matter the reason you choose it, even if he chose the other door for “selfish” reasons. 

I wouldn’t go so far as to call Jason Reitman a hack overall across his career, but in that moment? Yeeeah.... yeah. It was cheap.

I can’t wait. Just hook that to my veins. As a life long X-Men fan, the “when did X-Men get woke!?!” posts make my day.

I really f---ing hope so. I would love if it just takes a break for 10 minutes to describe how the term red pill means you’re trans and the clowns on reddit are dumb. Break the 4th wall, Lana. Just show up in your own movie and dunk on those fools.

It’s a shame Marvel Heroes Omega failed and was also severely affected by the CEO of Gazillion Games’ “alleged” (but fairly well documented) sexual misconduct. Everyone else in that studio deserved better than the shit show of that game’s collapse in late 2017. I was an active player from closed beta to server…

I too came here to quote Quint from Jaws. But since you’ve already used the one I was going to let’s go with... “Stop playing with yourself, Hooper!” 

Digging how goofy Neil Patrick Harris is just sitting in a chair being a therapist. I love it. I’m sure, given the naming conventions of The Matrix series, his character is just “The Therapist” or “The Analyst”. Because if it’s important in this series it’s capital T “The” and a capitalized noun. The Oracle, The…

The more I think about the ending (and the movie overall), the less I like it. It’s not a terrible movie by any stretch, but its problems are too numerous to give it a pass. TL:DR upfront - I don’t hate the movie, but I’m going to go into why most of it does not work.

Flashback to the first trailer in 2019 (in the…

This is my hope as well. I don’t think Lana is really going to give us something as cut and dry as The Force Awakens, nor would I really want that. I have a perfectly good Matrix blu ray box set no less than 10 feet from me at the moment (though I’d be happier if WB went in a changed the names of Lilly and Lana in…

The other issues is that the world building is there... and by there I mean in the Animatrix, the anthology comics, the video games, in ARGs and an eventual Matrix Online game that continued the story to get it all. Some of those things are hard to find now (like the PS2 games). I’m also definitely brushing up on the…

As someone who unironically loves the sequels, warts and all, I can’t stress how excited I am for this to steer hard into the sequels’ territory too. Those movies, as poorly paced and overly excessive as they are had so much to say about life and that’s my jam.