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Ever watched a movie that you thought was awesome, only to find out it got a bad review? Or even vice versa?


The Matrix Reloaded: It got bad reviews from some people saying how it was all just special effects and no story line. I beg to differ! Of course you have to watch the first Matrix to understand whats going on, and the films special effects are what make it so awesome. How many low budget movies now use the "bullet-time" simply because it was a highlight in the Matrix? I think computer gamers really have an idea of whats going on with the whole "prison for your mind" idea. Booo to those people that gave it bad reviews!


Star Trek Nemesis: Ok, ok. Yes its a star trek movie. I loved star trek while I was growing up. Nemesis was one of the most action packed since Wrath of Khan, all the battle scenes, and the Enterprise ramming into the enemy ship was excellent. Some people said it was too little, too late. I think it was an awesome movie just because it may (hopefully not) be the last ST film ever. You have to first like the series before you like the movies I feel. It opened at the boxoffice the same day as LotR: Two Towers, so naturally it didn't do to good, but that doesnt mean its a bad movie.
 
Hmm, I would have to say Requiem for a Dream. I know it got good reviews and everything, but really it just made me sick in the end. And it doesn't really help when a movie protrays kids who live in your neighborhood as a bunch of drug junkys and stuff.
 
Matrix Reloaded comment: People complain about the Architect and his vocabluary. That was his point! Neo wasnt supposed to understand him , he wasnt Neos Kindergarten teacher. The only things he made clear where the salvation or destruction of the human race choice , he wanted Neos logic to make him chose to the machines benefit.
 
The Pianist: It was a bit long , but that shouldnt matter once you get into it. An epic scale time and topic wise. Great acting and great story. Depressing obviously as its a holocaust movie. Really brought it all home and is a definete must see.


(I dont write good reviews I know)
 
Originally posted by DimitriPopov
The Pianist: It was a bit long , but that shouldnt matter once you get into it. An epic scale time and topic wise. Great acting and great story. Depressing obviously as its a holocaust movie. Really brought it all home and is a definete must see.


(I dont write good reviews I know)
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Very good movie. Truthful depiction of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto around the rise of Hitlers power. The director was held captive himself as a child in Warsaw, as well as many other soruces of information to draw from. Chilling to see how the SS and gestapo treated others.
 
One film that got itself some surprisingly negative reviews (from places around me anyway) was LOTR: TTT. Critics said it was boring and they didn't understand any of it. They said the ent's were boring and confused the story, they didn't get why part of the fellowship was in Rohan, and other stupid comments such as those two. He actually had the nerve to name his review "Bored of the Rings". They gave it something like two stars (out of four) which is just ridiculous.

The Matrix Reloaded was the same way. The guy said he didn't understand it (same guy as the guy above who reviewed TTT, his name is Jeff Simon) and he felt it moved to slow. While I was at the theater I was surprised to see that people were falling asleep and snoring during the architects speech. It's a sad state of affairs when the average American can't stay awake for more than a minute of serious dialog. People also didn't like the fact that the gun play had been replaced with kung fu (kung fu is boring now I guess). I guess they kind of forgot that Neo could stop bullets with his mind now, so a gun fight would be pointless. I thought the film had made that pretty clear with the Merovingian fight scene and all, but I guess it wasn't obvious enough for some people.

It seems that movies which try to tell serious stories with deep themes and undertones are considered crap by most now, no matter how much action the director of the film throws in. People don't want to hear a good story, they just want to see shit blow up!
 
Ahh Matrix Reloaded. I never get tired of poiting out all the things that were wrong with it, but let me try something different this time for a change ...

- Bad dialogue. You only have to watch the trailer to get a taste of all the silly one-liners that are in Reloaded. This is probably the single biggest reason I didn't like the movie.
- Over-commercialized. Forget the Cadillacs and stuff, before the movie began I saw an ad during the previews of an agent telling me to drink Sprite so that I would build more energy. Wow! How clever.
- Too many new characters/little connection with previous movie. I really had trouble keeping track of who's the good guy, who's the bad guy, and who's neither.
- Dubious placement of action scenes. The worst was probably where they were in some room with swords and pitchforks. LOL this isn't a Jackie Chan movie, it's suppose to be serious.


So while Reloaded was OK, it's definatelly not in my top 10 or even top 50 movies :dozey:

Now a severely underrated movie IMO, is Equilibrium. It had some of the coolest action scenes ever plus an emotional story (something Reloaded lacked). The ending was a little bit weak, and it was low-budget, but I think they did a great job.

EDIT .. oh and it had a great soundtrack too :)
 
Wow, bashing Matrix Reloaded and praising Equilibrium in the same breath. I don't know what to say to that.

Anywho, I thought the Matrix Reloaded was a film much better than critics made it seem. Not as good as the original, but what is? I thought the dialouge was fine and I thought the advancment of the story was excellent, I loved the parts with the oracle, the architect scene, and the parts explaining the matrix in general. Excellent movie in my opinion. Plus the pacing was great, fights left and right. The biggest problem with the movie was that the trailers just showed way too much of the action scenes. Luckily they saved some of the cooler ones like (SPOILERS) the fight in the hall with the agents and the ending to the high-way chase. Plus the escape from the exploding building was awesome (end SPOILERS).

And another movie that i thought was OK but was trashed by reviewers was Stealing Haravard. It wasn't the best of films, but I think it is above the standard fare comedies. Luckily, Tom green's rank humor was not seen anywhere in the movie. I actually like the movie, and I still don't know why reviewers so unanimously bashed it.
 
Bad dialogue. You only have to watch the trailer to get a taste of all the silly one-liners that are in Reloaded. This is probably the single biggest reason I didn't like the movie.
- Over-commercialized. Forget the Cadillacs and stuff, before the movie began I saw an ad during the previews of an agent telling me to drink Sprite so that I would build more energy. Wow! How clever.
- Too many new characters/little connection with previous movie. I really had trouble keeping track of who's the good guy, who's the bad guy, and who's neither.
- Dubious placement of action scenes. The worst was probably where they were in some room with swords and pitchforks. LOL this isn't a Jackie Chan movie, it's suppose to be serious.
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I'm not sure what you mean by bad dialougue and silly one-liners. The only dialougue I thought was bad was during the speech Morpheaus (sp) makes. I really didn't like that scene at all. The only one liner that really stands out is Trinity saying "That's a nice trick".

Yeah, the powerade thing was bad. But that was pretty much it. Why would that affect your opinion of the movie anyway?

There wern't that many new characters. Persephone, the Merovingian, and Link (not really important anyway) were the only major additions. You had trouble keeping track of the good guys and bad guys, what exactly confused you, seriously?

The room was full of swords and pitchforks being used for decoration. That's not dubious. The room is in the Merovingians home and it compliments his personality perfectly. It's overdecorated and overdone, like he is.
 
Don't forget the keymaker (sp?), the twins, the whole boatload of characters you meet in Zion, and that other asian dude (who fights with Neo just for the heck of it).

What confused me .. on who's side is Merovingian and his thugs? (I swear I saw an agent shoot at one of the twins somewhere in the movie) And WTF does he want from Neo?
 
As far as characters go the only important ones were the keymaker (for his short on screen time), the Merovingian and Persephone. The asian guy is called Seraph and was only a program used to guard the oracle. He fights Neo to see if Neo is the one (he already knows Neo is human, and no human can fight like the one can). He may or may not play an important role in Revolutions, not really sure yet. You can pretty much forget the characters from Zion, only Niobe seemed important. The Merovingian (as the oracle said) is not on anyones side really. He is a rougue program in the Matrix concerned only for his own survival. He wasn't after Neo either. Neo and the gang approched him and asked him to give up the keymaker (under advice from the oracle). But the Merovingian refused, so with the help of Persephone (who is pissed at the Merovingian because he is such a prick) Neo and the others steal the Keymaker. The Keymaker is of course the program who knows where the door to the source is and can make a key to unlock it. The Merovingian knows what the Keymaker is going to be used for (destroying the Matrix, and therefore destroyng the Merovingian) and tries to get him back. He of course fails, the door to the source is opened, and Neo is told by the architect that the one was never meant to end anything at all. Neo then leaves the architect, gos back to the Matrix, saves Trinity, and tells everyone that the entire human race is going to be wiped out in a couple of hours. Then for some reason unknown to us., Neo is able to stop five sentinels from killing him and the crew with his mind, knid of like how he stops bullets. Neo is knocked out and put into a bed next to the human incarnation of Smith. To be continued.
 
god the twins... boy were they the stupidest thing ive ever seen... in my entire life... in the history of the entire world.
 
The Art of way--Genious movie--why was it so good(too me at least) 'cause it was innovational--excellent fighting techniques, none of that cliche'd crap.
 
Ahh OK. Now is the Arhitect a program also (or will we find out in the 3rd movie)? Also he gives Neo a choice .. what is that choice and what does Neo do? (I actually read a transcript of the conversation but still don't get it)
 
during the architect speech some guy 4-5 seats down from me goes "ahhh this is boring". I was like.....wow, nice attention span kid.

how can they say "this is boring" when the whole movie was fight scenes pretty much?

and...The Two Towers boring?

?!?!??!

The first one was more boring than Two Towers
 
The architect is a program, he created the Matrix. He gives Neo a choice. Either Neo goes into the door on his right which is the source, picks 23 individuals (16 female 7 male) and rebuilds Zion (it's inhabitants will still be killed) leaving the matrix up and running while Zion restarts in order to keep those who will eventually realize what the Matrix is under control. Or Neo goes through the door on his left, which leads back to the matrix and Trinity, as well as the entire destruction of the human race (the matrix will crash if Neo goes through the door killing everyone connected to it). Neo picks the door on his left to save trinity. What happens will be found out in Revolutions.

Edit: The only reason I didn't like the twins was their "ghost" forms looked awfully fake, very CG'ish. The Merovingians little private infantry had lot's of potential too. They alluded to thing like werewolves (silver bullets were the only thing which could kill two of the Merovingians programs) and vampires, as well as ghosts (based off the oracles speech). But they never fully acted on it. Maybe in Revolutions.
 
Uhh .. why does the Architect want Zion rebuilt? I though he's trying to destroy it.
 
Originally posted by LoneDeranger
Uhh .. why does the Architect want Zion rebuilt? I though he's trying to destroy it.
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Did you even watch the movie man?

qckbeam you did a great job of explaining the charecters and how there arent many you should have to think about for very long.

Zion is a method of allowing the Human mind to accept the Matrix by unconcious choice. Without Zion there is no choice and the mind rejects it killing the machines 'battery'
 
All right, I guess I'll just have to watch Revolutions to make sense of it all.

BTW, I really loved Matrix 1. I saw it like 7 times. :cheese:
 
I thought Reloaded was a little contrived with action sequences but the story made a lot of sense to me and I can't wait to see Reloaded :)
 
Thanks Dimitri :)

As was said, Zion is the choice that those whose minds reject the illusion of the Matrix must have. If it didn't exist there would be no way to control the humans who knew what the Matrix really was. The reason it needed to be reset was that as Zion got larger and larger, the threat of the matrix being revealed to all as an illusion grew larger and larger. An "escalading probability of disaster" for the machines. So when the population of Zion reaches a certain number the machines kill it off and use the one to reset it. They had done it six times already.
 
Also, the "systemical anomoly" i.e. Neo was the inevitable glitch in the Matrix that was caused by choice and in order to put the MAtrix back into working order he would have to reset the system.... Also in the firstone when Morpheus talks about how the original; "One" freed the first of us I believe he was talknig about version 5 "The One" which is pretty cool or so I thought.
 
Originally posted by qckbeam
Thanks Dimitri :)

As was said, Zion is the choice that those whose minds reject the illusion of the Matrix must have. If it didn't exist there would be no way to control the humans who knew what the Matrix really was. The reason it needed to be reset was that as Zion got larger and larger, the threat of the matrix being revealed to all as an illusion grew larger and larger. An "escalading probability of disaster" for the machines. So when the population of Zion reaches a certain number the machines kill it off and use the one to reset it. They had done it six times already.
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OK so from this I can infer:

1. Each person has a choice to be either part of the Matrix or Zion?
2. There are six other "ones" running around somewhere (one of them is Trinity, right?)
 
No, all the other "ones" were kiled whe nthe reset the Matrix and the one chooese who goes to Zion the rest of the human race tays inside the matrix and lives through version 7
 
Every person is given a choice, although the choice is experienced at a near sub-concious level. So they don't say to themselves, "I'm going to be part of the Matrix" or "I'm going to ba part of Zion". They fall into those categorys semingly by fate, although it was really choice. The other "ones" are all dead. They came before Neo. You see, what we see happening in the Matrix 1 & 2 (in two up two the architect scene) has already happened six times beforehand. The difference this time is that Neo didn't choose to reset Zion.
 
No but they weren't Neo persey... They were Ted Mikes and Bills... The exact same thing did not happen in every version... I imagine the sequence of events would be similar but not the same. Because the architect comapred Neo to the other "ones" and explaine why he was different. Ya dig?
 
Originally posted by LoneDeranger
OK so from this I can infer:

1. Each person has a choice to be either part of the Matrix or Zion?
2. There are six other "ones" running around somewhere (one of them is Trinity, right?)
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1) Pretty much
2) No.. thre were six other "ones" before Neo, all of which made the same choice to destroy Zion and rebuild it with a chosen group of people, Neo however did not take this course of action (obviously)


Edit: wow, this thread is quick :) I'm too slow.. argh
 
Hmm, I guess that makes sense.

Ok those 23 people he needs to choose .. does he choose them from the Matrix or from Zion? Either way, shouldn't there be 23 people in current Zion who know that they were chosen by the one (and know who he/she was)?
 
Yeah, that's what I meant there. Thanks for clearing it up :cheers:
 
The 23 new people are picked from the Matrix, and yes there are 23 people in the current Zion who were picked by the former "one". Morpheus was one of them.
 
lol, never thought Matrix would cause a debate that big. Anyways.


Dreamcatcher got good reviews, I thought it was pretty dumb myself. I rented it expecting a horror type movie, its more sci-fi thriller then "red room red room" scary. :)
 
No, morpheus was not one of them...
Morpheus was freed much later than the original and isn't it possible that those who were choesen by the One did not know who it was and also possible that the ones who were chosen by the one are long dead?
 
I saw a clip of revolutions and Roy Jones Jr. fights that chinese guy protecting that chick. That's going to be a good fight I think.
 
Finding Nemo

Loved it! Don't know why no-one likes it??

Dory was my favourite.

anyone?
 
Im still in two minds about reloaded simply because its only the first part of a film. How can you review a film by only watching the first part and not know how it ends?? Therefor im reserving judgement on reloaded until ive seen revolutions...
 
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