Rush hour 4?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

I feel I'm the only one person who loved Matrix 4, it was literally made for me. I liked that it kept continuity with 2/3 while still telling those movies to **** off since they sucked.

THAT'S what you got out of 4? I didn't get that at all from it. Like the Wachowski that did 4 said, it was just a different sort of movie about resurrecting "mom and dad," with not a whole lot of interest in getting back to the superheroics of 2 and 3. Not because there's any resentment for them, but just because that's a radically different story than what's going on in 4.

[sdp]

If you want me to expand then sure:
The movie acknowledges 2/3 happened, but reboots it as "well the machines are still doing what they want even if humans are technically free". So it kinda goes back to the ending of the first movie where the power dynamic of yeah you have the machines but at the same time humans now have power as well. The movie in general is a love story about Trinity and Neo and it worked really well for me while at the same time setting up a universe where they can make new movies after this one. Which clearly didn't happen since this one bombed so bad. But yeah, I liked it but I understand how the meta commentary of the first 40 minutes filtered pretty much everyone.

Originally Posted by IMJ

Still - I'd buy it on boomer-disc I suppose if one day they finally released a 4k boxed set that included the Animatrix. That cool anthology all but disappeared from pop culture.

That's another trend from the 2000s that should come back. Those weird Direct to video anime interquels of movies. Animatrix was great, Riddick got one of those as well, Batman Begins also had one. There's others I'm forgetting, Hellboy and some others.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

at the same time setting up a universe where they can make new movies after this one. Which clearly didn't happen since this one bombed so bad.

They're making Matrix 5 right now. Like I just said.

[IMJ]

Yeah the second Riddick movie really drew me in, and I bought (and I think I still have) that animated bridge-flick. But then as I saw the rest of them I realized that the 2nd Riddick flick was the odd-man-out and that I didn't really like the franchise all that much.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Yeah the second Riddick movie really drew me in, and I bought (and I think I still have) that animated bridge-flick. But then as I saw the rest of them I realized that the 2nd Riddick flick was the odd-man-out and that I didn't really like the franchise all that much.

Chronicles of Riddick sucked. "Let's take the murderous bad guy from Pitch Black and try and build a Star Wars universe around him... in glorious PG-13." The closest thing to it is, you know those Snyder Rebel Moon movies on Netflix? It's like that but even worse, I think.

[CyberCubed]

It's funny how many movie series were in their early installements in the early 2000's. Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise only had 3 movies by the early 2000's...can you believe that? Fast and Furious got their start back then and now have like 10+ movies, the Harry Potter movies just started, the James Bond movies with Daniel Craig had just begun, the MCU wouldn't even start till 2008 and we just had Spider-man and X-men basically. Batman Begins had come in 2005, the Star Wars prequels were still going, etc.

Man, feels like a lifetime ago.