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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

not really, he made a woke movie, it went broke, keanu still got paid but was cool enough to donate 70% to charity

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I liked it, though obviously hoped for more.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

yeah I guess it could have been worse but I hoped for more, the world of the matrix's first movie is very interesting and it could still be a succesful franchise, but woke themes and the idea of true love for trinity being the only thing that matters is cringe.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

the idea of true love [...] being the only thing that matters is cringe.

Ugly pop culture truth.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I can get the wachowski's putting some romance in a movie, that could help it's box office, people like it no doubt. But in the first matrix it was set up oddly, trinity meets Mr. Anderson and right away they're in love, and no reason is given. Then in the sequels the nature of the matrix is never explained beyond the architect's cringe dialogue and Neo saves Trinity out of love so apparently that is the main moral of the story of the whole thing, not all the other cool philophical stuff in the movies. And that's just continued and is even more cringier in the new sequel. Fine if the whole sequence of movies is about true love conquering all, at least have better writing and acting to show the main characters have chemistry.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The next sequel may explain how love is an illusion.
"Wake up, time to die, after some existential angst."