"Rebooting The Matrix? Yeah, That’s Not How Nostalgia Works" Topic

"Do you remember when you first saw The Matrix? If it was opening day, it was March 31, 1999: Bill Clinton was president, and TLC's "No Scrubs" was about to knock Cher from the top of the Billboard chart. Who were you with? Were you on a date? Did you sneak into the theater? Did you sneak out of the theater, suspecting you might just be in the Matrix yourself? You surely recall at least some of these details, but none more than just how mind-blowing that film was. Synthetic reality, malignant AI, those crazy "bullet time" effects—each twist and turn in the Wachowskis' magnum opus more awesome than the last. It remains a singular moviegoing experience, right? Well, Warner Bros. wants to bring that feeling back.

Tuesday night, as most of Twitter complained about Rachel Maddow's tantalizing rollout of President Trump's 2005 tax return, The Hollywood Reporter published a scoop of its own: Warner Bros. is planning a relaunch of The Matrix. Alphas creator Zak Penn might be writing a treatment, and Michael B. Jordan could star, but no one knows anything more, including whether the Wachowski siblings are involved. (Probably not.) What we do know, though, is rebooting The Matrix is a bad nostalgia play, and one nobody needs."
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At the end of the second movie, Neo stops an attack by the octopus-like robots called sentinels with something like a Jedi mind trick gesture.

It is obvious at that point that he and the gang are still inside the Matrix. What they believe to be real world is just another illusion.

The movies, however, did not take this direction, which I think would have provided a more interesting and less predictable third movie than what we ended up with.

Ho hum! Horrywoods best fans are Horrywood. Its amazing how many of their releases I don't see, thank goodness for alternatives out there.

Why try to remake a film that was a true modern classic. It will never be a patch on the original.

> Ho hum! Horrywoods best fans are Horrywood.

Funny how those films seem to be top moneymakers worldwide.

> Why try to remake a film that was a true modern classic. It will never be a patch on the original.

That still leaves the sequel's up for grabs – if someone can't do a far superior version of the second one they should give up movie making altogether. The only thing that saves the third movie (somewhat) is the battle scene in the hangar bay.

It will have to be truly spectacular for me to see it in a theatre.

Bullet time revolutionized modern action film making. Not necessarily for the better. This will be a flat pedantic retread.

After the second movie I never made it to the third, maybe I should take a look for that battle scene Dynaman. I don't really remember where things left off, but I'm not sure that's a hindrance.

What's all this talk of a second and third movie? There are no sequels to The Matrix, sort of like there were never any sequels to Highlander and Aliens…

Would be more interested in a Matrix TV series: Matrix Untold.

The second and third movies get a lot of flack, but actually are true to the mythos if rather over long with some special effects that don't hold up by today's standards.

The first movie is a classic, ranking up there with Forbidden Planet, Plant of the Apes, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Aliens and Aliens, and Predator.

I didn't mind the plot of the sequels; it was the directing, acting, pacing, timing, cinematography, dialogue, and score. Besides all that, they were okay.

"REBOOTING the Matrix?" My first thought, already?
But just two more yrs. 2019 it'll be Twenty yrs old.
1/2 a genration (Gen = 40 yrs) was not even born when it was released.

The Matrix left me amazed and at times dazed (WTF??) not sure even the writer new 'what do we do next"? w/ the scene.

@Dynaman
Yea, the climatic battle for the hanger and in part between Neo and Agent Smith were the only real high points of the 3rd film.

The most annoying to me was the constant use of, "GD this", "GD that..".
Like the first time a 'child' learns the word "Bitch" was the proper term of a Female Dog.

I started thinkig, the 'child' that wrote the script, had only learned the term "GD", and wanted to put it in Only a Few Hundred times.. just because.

Reboot the Matrix, just another reminder:
Hollywood, HAS runout of imagination.