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pbj:
Well, it was influential and now it suffers from “Seinfeld isn’t funny” because it was ripped off so much. What’s weird is the directors refuse to leave the color grading alone and the versions now look nothing like it did in the 90s. I watched my VHS copy recently and it’s still entertaining. It does drag for awhile, though.

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Howard_Casto:
Nah all the matrix films sucked. The first one was mind blowing.... if you've never watched anime or played video games or read scifi before. It was just a "meh" film at best. The other two are hot garbage.

opt2not:
I watched anime, played video games and read sci-fi before watching the first Matrix, and I found it mind blowing.
It’s a cinematographic pleasure. Every shot is well composed and thought out. Lots of Hitchcock and Kurosawa in it. It pays great homage to the old way of film making, you’ll even see some Scorsese in there.

The action sequence has just enough Hong Kong in it to be accepted by the westerners, but still be clever in choreography to flow in sequence.

The story has good pacing, and it inserts enough periodic upbeat action to help those with an attention span of the nine year old to keep up.

And I’m not even going to go into the actual filmmaking breakthroughs they made from a technological stance.

This a good film. If you’re not a fan that’s fine. But you can’t deny what it has done for sci fi movies and the awards it won.

Sometime people just want to go against the popular opinion just to be different. I respect that too.

wp34:
Speed Racer is underrated. I really like that movie. The first Matrix holds up for me. I can't say I care for anything else they have made.

pbj:
I need to attempt to watch Speed Racer again. I was a huge, more so than I should admit, fan of the cartoon series. Blame 90s MTV. I recently rediscovered a framed Speed Racer poster I bought from Woolworth's 25 years ago and I'm currently negotiating wall placement.

Whatever you want to say about the directors, they do make interesting stuff. Jupiter Ascending is a total dud but at least it's.... new? Made it about 20 minutes into SENS8.

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