I know I've touched on this subject before, but I still have some things to say.
First, I know that these movies have some flaws. The pacing, the dialogue, the acting, Fishbourne's mystery gut in Reloaded and Revolutions (where did it come from? when will it reappear!?), but they're not nearly as bad as everyone continues to claim. If you expend a little bit of energy and analyse the films as they are, almost all of the plot elements fall cleanly into place. On paper, they're brilliant. On screen, they're still pretty good, but a lot gets lost in the translation.
Here's the funny part. I've talked to a lot of people who didn't like the sequels purely for the reasons I've outlined, but I've also talked to a whole lot more people who hate, HATE them, and the explanation is usually that the Wachowskis didn't make the movies that were in those fan's heads. "I thought in Revolutions they should have been in a matrix inside a matrix." Congratulations. They weren't. Deal with it. "I thought Morpheus should have been The One." Not a bad idea, but they didn't do that. People who object these kinds of reasons are talking about the movies that the Wachowskis 'failed' to make, not the ones they actually did make, and that's just unreasonable.
Posted by orion at May 20, 2005 2:21 PM