tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post4091386123152248347..comments2024-03-28T03:28:11.926-11:00Comments on Kinemalogue: They want us up in their gray space pushing their WTF buttonsHunter Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-953756534107898602024-03-28T01:33:43.765-11:002024-03-28T01:33:43.765-11:00The Scream movies all handled the kind of thing th...The Scream movies all handled the kind of thing this movie was going for way, way better.Dafnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-13967542514293150692022-01-09T05:47:55.013-11:002022-01-09T05:47:55.013-11:00I liked "bio-digital jazz hands." That&...I liked "bio-digital jazz hands." That's very good, and I will never not appreciate a well-deployed TRON: Legacy reference.<br /><br />I don't want to say Revolutions isn't worth watching, but you may have dodged the bullet (insert joke), because the only bad things I have to say about Reloaded is that Revolutions completely ruins it. (After all, it's one of those simultaneously-produced sequel dyads that's hard to separate into two different films, like Siegfried/Krimhilde's Revenge or Empire/Jedi. The former has the decency to end the first film with Siegfried's cool death so I can sever the boring-ass endlessness of Krimhilde's and Attila the Hun's war on Burgundy from it; the latter has the decency to be The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi. But Revolutions is maybe the most "this is a straight-up continuation of unresolved events in a five hour block of cinema" ever besides The Return of the King.)<br /><br />Without Revolutions, it's a fantastic film, though, basically nothing wrong with it. Even the parts people dislike I like--the Architect, the Zion rave (the rejection of which by nerds is possibly one factor in why e-ticket movies are so aggressively sexless now, amongst others), the burly brawl (it's got seams, but it's about as successful as ambitious 2003 CGI gets).<br /><br />Then Revolutions disappoints by 1)unsatisfactorily explaining why Neo has wi-fi now (the obvious implication is that Zion ain't real either, and that's an unfortunate thing to imply if you're only going to snatch it away) and 2)spending perhaps upwards of 50% of its runtime in Zion, with its politics and squid-war story.<br /><br />Matrix Resurrections is therefore maybe not the worst in the series, in that Revolutions is more stultifying and less watchable, but it still has, like, more gusto.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-68845921345598601692022-01-06T23:21:01.541-11:002022-01-06T23:21:01.541-11:00Sounds like a drag indeed. Despite its gratifyingl...Sounds like a drag indeed. Despite its gratifyingly witty writing and acting, the trailer had me worried with its very...up-to-date cinematography. Also: Keanu's evident reliance on bio-digital jazz-hands. The clincher was the absence of Don Davis as composer. Somehow I never bothered to watch the third installment, but I remember the first two very fondly as maybe the closest our generation got to the kind of thrillingly bizarre golden age musicals you review here. That opening overture cribbed from Hitchcock's "Vertigo"...Mr. Smith loathing the smell of Yoda in the modem...Trinity Joel-Silver-9/11-ing that spermatic gunship into the capitalist ovum before Tarzan-sex-swinging to safety...Mr. Smith's burly brawl a la Busby Berkeley...those Wachowskis were smoking some serious red pills.AJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01557607272542369429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-86802412631947736992022-01-06T23:13:04.609-11:002022-01-06T23:13:04.609-11:00This comment has been removed by the author.AJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01557607272542369429noreply@blogger.com