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Neither bro, I wouldn't watch it if it's cam quality.
I got myself a decent setup. Black Ops ****, have to wear camouflage just to watch kinda vibe.
I think we might finally agree on a film though cos it was alright imo.
Ive got a dodgy rip in 4k quality ready to play if anyone wants it.
Ill watch it later with the mrs
I'm waiting for the new Spiderman film now. Not really a fan but heard lots of good things about it.
I’ve just watched it - 8.8
****ing loved it. I’ve had a few Christmas Eve snowballs so maybe it’s allowed me to enjoy it a lot more than I should’ve but a lot of the humour is brilliant and the star cast all play their part. Definitely recommend watching it for anyone that likes satire/ stupid comedy with a serious undertone. One of the best movies of the year for me.
I watched it today. Not as brilliant as The Big Short but still very good imo.
I don't think everyone will like it but I enjoyed it. Good piss-take on the modern world towards things like covid and global warming.
The bit when Jonah Hill says in front of a big rally something like "Look at her, she has to be the sexiest President ever, if she wasn't my mum..."
I watched it today. Not as brilliant as The Big Short but still very good imo.
I don't think everyone will like it but I enjoyed it. Good piss-take on the modern world towards things like covid and global warming.
The bit when Jonah Hill says in front of a big rally something like "Look at her, she has to be the sexiest President ever, if she wasn't my mum..."
enjoyed it
giving it a 7.6
good humour, easy watch, not too predictable
Jonah hill and De Caprio are always brilliant
Matrix Resurrection
3/10
Steaming pile of horse manure that people will pretend to enjoy because of the size of the brand.
3/10
Steaming pile of horse manure that people will pretend to enjoy because of the size of the brand.
I’m so pleased I’m booked in to see this …. Only heard bad things
I'll write a CK essay on it later. You can spend the 2.5 hours reading it instead of watching the film. Hope the popcorn is decent bruh.
Surprised you think so.
I had no hopes for it before watching it. Posted the same on here at the time. There's no pretence on my part as I was getting ready to slate it.
But after watching it, I thought it was decent.
Far enough
IIRC we had a convo a few months back about how the original trilogy was carried by the first film. I just felt that this latest chapter had all the bad habits of 2 and 3 and almost none of what made 1 so unique.
I promised Sucky an essay but cba so I'll bullet-time my thoughts (I'll get my coat too):
SPOILER ALERT
- So basically the entire storyline is a question of extracting Neo and Trinity because we owe them one? The humans have stopped saving ppl from the matrix, the machines are actually helping the humans and the entire plot is driven by sentimentality. Stacked up against something like survival of the human race, you can see why many found that underwhelming and as the film progressed I found myself not really giving a damn whether the hastily conceived and miraculously delivered master plan worked or not.
- The machines lost all of the dark menace they had throughout the first films. Especially the agents, who barely feature and when they do are dealt with easily even by stock characters. Oh and then of course within 5 minutes of meeting the new agents, one of them is revealed to actually be Morpheus. Wtaf.
- In fact the entire film lost all of the brooding, tense noir that made the first one stand out. We are meant to be sucked into Neo's existential crisis surrounded by lattes, man-buns and aloe-vera dips. I get it - the world has changed - but the urgency and potency of every scene in the first film was totally absent. Remember holding your breath when the squids hunted the Nevuchanezzar? Or when Morpheus crashed through the wall to confront Smith? Yep, me too.
- I liked the Architect to Analyst switch but why make the mastermind of the new and more effective Matrix so damn pathetic? And, as was a huge problem with the 2nd film, the story arcs that are genuinely intriguing (top of that list is STILL Cipher's question from 1999, which wasn't ever dealt with bc techno babble was more important for exposition: Which is better, a life of ignorant bliss or a life of miserable truth?) are glossed over so we can hurry things along to a climax no-one cares much about.
- Which reminds me: why was everything so rushed?! One of the many things that set the first film apart was its near-perfect understanding of pacing. This offering was the polar opposite. Neo's existential crisis and the genuinely interesting questions he is grappling with are just starting to get interesting when BOOF, off we go down red pill road and we now have to watch an actor pushing 60 trying to do kung-fu.
Same problem with Trinity's rescue. Its like 'well I have a husband and kids and an entire life that means stuff to me and I' BOOF I actually hate being called Tiffany, f this imma head out. Gone in 60 seconds is an accurate description.
- Then there is the completely ambiguous role of the new/old Smith and how he ends up helping Neo at the end?
- The film itself promises a new bullet time, which turns out to just be Neil Patrick Harris doing exactly the same thing as Quicksilver in X-men.
- The premise that removing Neo and Trinity from the new Matrix will cause it to destabilise and implode, yet by the end of the film aside from an errant flock of birds nothing untoward has happened.
- Some ridiculous and unexplained exposition about a machine civil war and Zion's fate with neither developed far enough to make any sense.
- The Matrix is now Land of the Walking Dead. Lol. So instead of developing the agents to be more effective, we'll just use zombies.
- There isn't a single side character you find yourself caring about, simply because as mentioned they place themselves in mortal danger completely voluntarily, unlike the first film where every second was a back against the wall fight for life.
- The fact that the Analyst seems totally fine with losing. Why are the machines so damn nice this time?!
That's just a few of my peeves
Fishbourne and Weaving turned it down, and it is glaringly obvious why.
Horse manure.
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