The movie had a few short falls some of which have already been stated. No offence to the Wachowski brothers, but I feel that they might have been a little to ambitious with this sequal. I say this sequal because the 3rd and final installment of the triliogy has yet to be released. Regrettably since they were both sequals were filmed at the same time, it would seem as thought that Revolutions will be delt the unfortunate card of following suit.
Heres how I view the production in my mind, WB refusing to give the Wachowski brothers to part of directing the movie due to their lack of expiernce. I'm pretty sure u know the story of them making their short film and WB then allowing them to direct the movie, if ya don't there are probably plenty of places u can read about it. Anyway, from there they cautiously approtched the filming alowing them to create quite literaly a phenomenon. The success of the first film more then undoubtly made the Wachowski brother more ambitious. "Cause and effect" right? "Fate, it seems, is not without a sence of Irony".
KungPaoChicken wrote:I think that people expected way too much out of this movie.
Still, there is a fair amount of excessiveness in the film, but would we have it any other way? Any less and we would be crying for more. It's a queer paradox. They took what worked and ran with it, can we fault them for that? It's a very human thing to do, and hard to criticize especially when we know we would probably make the same decisions if it were up to us.
True we may have exepected maybe a little to much from this movie and it's also true that many of us, if in their position, would have made the same mistake. But then there are those that have a sense and the experience to know when something is just enough or excessive. What changed between the first and the 2nd movie? It might not have been their ambition, it may have been their lack of expierince or it might not be eaither.
In anycase I'd have to agree that at some points in the movie there was an excessive amount of things that werent nesscaily needed to be dweled upon, as pervious posts suggested the sex scene, the long (and at times overly melodramatic) speeches, the explination from the Architect and the very lame dance scene. The Smith battle being another accessive point in my mind, they could have spent probably have the time they did on that and still have it come out to be a good scene in the movie.
Excessive in the areas that really didn't need the amount of explination they recieved. In the amount of wasted film time they could have posisbly give more insight into areas that the viewers would have liked to have seen, IE more background information about and fights with the twins. Which was a concept and character underplayed in the movie that had much potential.
Another problem that I personally found was the use of humor. I can understand comic relief when it's used properly, but at some points when they tried to be funny it just didn't fit in my opinion.
Dispite all of this I loved the movie and can hardly wait til the Revolutions comes out later this year.
The one thing that meats or beats it's counterpart in the frist movie is the Soundtrack, which is a MUST have. *swoons over the soundtrack*
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