Yeah that killed me. Rita is the embodiment of basic.
My wife got a wild hair and bought this, so my wife son and I have all agreed to watch every movie on it.
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Most are good to great but there is some real losers on there. Im looking at you, Jurrasic Park III.
And yes Ive seen all the Matrix movies and will gladly watch the first again, but I am not looking forward to the rest of the trilogy
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Yes, but this didnât bug me like Temple of Doom, and Jedi did. For Indy and Jedi, I had sky high expectations. One of the first things I said while leaving âThe Matrixâ, after I said, âWhoah.â was, âI hope they donât try to make a sequel to this. It canât be done. Itâs great just the way it is.â. I had no expectations or hopes going into Matrix 2, and I wasnât surprised at the offering, so wasnât overly disappointed.
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Speaking of, we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail last weekend. There are some great moments but overall, it does not hold up as something I enjoyed the entire time.
I mean thatâs one of the things that makes it stand out to me - finishing the first and thinking thatâs just perfect, I hope thereâs no sequel. It just seemed so so so unnecessary. I mean as Edgar Wright put it in an interview, the first ends with Neo being god and then the second starts by basically saying but wait what if he actually isnât god? Great premise âŚ
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I canât blame the Wachowkis for cashing in though. I suppose they earned it with the brilliant first installment, so whatever, go ahead and take the money. Kind of like almost every work of late-stage De Niro where my reaction is, âShrug. Happy for you. Not watching it.â
Matrix 2 was good. Not as good as the original, which would have been impossible, but it was still good.
Matrix 3 was a steeper dropoff and not a movie I ever need to watch again unless I want to see an uncomfortable orgy rave. That said, I still appreciated what they were trying to do with it and at least it wrapped some shit up.
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Animatrix is the most legitimate Matrix sequel.
I am being kinda sardonic but that follow up is what makes Neo one of the best representations of Superman, as well as why itâs so hard to make a Superman movie that pleases general audiences. Having god-like powers doesnât make him a god. Watching him act like one is as boring as Black Adam (the movie) if it doesnât interrogate why thatâs a problem.
To me, Reloaded presented questions and obstacles that felt surprising yet inevitable given the way the first Matrix ended.
Neo has god-like powers. But he is still bound by his humanity as much as the people he is trying to help. He doesnât have infinite power and infinite resources. He doesnât have all knowledge or even all GOOD knowledge. He makes mistakes, and donât forget that a lot of people DONâT WANT TO WAKE UP.
Neo awakens to his powers and is full of his own magnificence, but very quickly he discovers the real world obstacles present for even a person with god-like powers.
His ultimate obstacle is Human Choice. Superman could try to make the world perfect by forcing his will on everyone. Weâve seen that explored in various literal Superman stories, eg Injustice, Batman v Superman, Brightburn, Red Son.
Neoâs Shadow self (Smith) gives it a shot.
The Architect does, too, although he tries less direct means once he sees forcing people is never as powerful as persuasion.
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I have a question about The Flash movie for any law bros ITT. Not a huge spoiler for the whole movie since this is in the opening setup but still a spoiler for sure.
Barry is trying to prove his dadâs alibi that he was buying tomatoes when his mom was murdered.
The opening of the movie shows sorry, the footage doesnât show his dadâs face, he never looks up high enough, so no proof he was at the store instead of at home killing Nora.
But when Barry finds his dad holding his dying motherâthe scene that implicates his dad as the killerâhis mother has just been stabbed. Like his dad walked in and sheâs still dying.
Proving his dad was buying tomatoes doesnât do anything to prove he didnât then come home and immediately stab her, no???
Could the coroner or anyone else prove that she was either dead or still living when he arrived home? Is there someone who could verify that particular wound would take x amount of time to bleed out and thus it would be possible to buy the tomatoes and return home while she was still alive?
Does Barrys dad have flash powers?
Your question somehow makes it less likely that I will ever see this movie. The whole setup sounds impossibly stupid
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I had the same question you did.
To me it seemed like he still arrived soon enough after the stabbing that an expert witness would not be able to lock down time of death with enough certainty that being at the store would matter. But, within the universe of the movie, we are told that it matters, so I guess you can choose to accept that premise or not
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Lol sigh yeah
I just love true crime so it stood out to me.
No joke though something primal activated in me the moment Michael Keaton came on screen. He is without doubt the best Batman of all time. When he is on screen, the movie WORKS.
But otherwise part of the problem is that Flashpoint has been adapted several times over the last decade, at least once in a far superior manner (though animated), so audiences have no significant reason to rush to see yet another take on that story.
Wait a minute.
Youre saying a DC movie is confusing, has stupid enormous plot holes and generally doesnt make any sense?
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Well sure but Keaton does that for most movies he is in
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Right?!!!
I was like lol this dude would MAYBE get an appeal. No way he is exonerated on that alone.
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Right itâs just that Filmcast (obv not you lol) was saying well they donât use the character enough to justify him being played by Keaton instead of a different version of Ben Affleckâs Batman or something, but thatâs just false. Michael Keaton owns the role in a way no other actor ever has in a live action setting. I think his performance stands out even if youâve never seen his Batman movies.