So, here are my conclusions:
Matrix:Reloaded: Good
Reloaded on IMAX: Awesome!
I was amazed. I heard so much bad press about it, and I actually really liked it. I have absolutely no complaints about this one. It’s better than the first one, and better than the second one by far.
Anyways, I’m sure there are those who will disagree with me, but if you happen to share my taste in movies, then you will likely enjoy it.
And if, by any chance, you’re in Seattle, go see it on IMAX right away!
I'm a 30-year-old 
Since I was sorely disappointed by the second, I am not holding out any hope for the third. I will wait and improve the viewing situation by watching it at a theatre that lets me sit with beer in both hands. BMAX!!!
Sasha
November 13th, 2003 at 12:09 pm
hahaha BMAX…
excellent.
November 13th, 2003 at 1:17 pm
um….
do you mean revolutions on imax?
November 13th, 2003 at 4:23 pm
reloaded
Scott I disagree with you!
It was NOT better than the first Matrix.
However, it was still good. I liked it plenty. The number and intensity of negative reviews baffles me. What were these people expecting? To be surprised again, like they were by the first film? It would have come off as a cheap twist. The plot worked well enough, the Wachowskis stayed true to the series’ paradoxical philosophy, the effects were spectacular. . . hell, I might go see it again. What’s not to like?
Also,
shot of Trinity running toward the camera in slow motion == hilarious
November 13th, 2003 at 10:13 pm
best matrix theory ever
OK, so, the Architect, right…?
1. He looks like Colonel Sanders
2. As Mouse said in the first movie, “You take chicken for
example. Maybe they couldn’t tell what to make chicken taste like
which is why chicken tastes like everything!”…Wrong, it’s because the Matrix was designed by Colonel Sanders!
November 14th, 2003 at 2:33 am
He does. He was just too amped up to get the title right. We saw it Wednesday night and I must concur, it was tre dope.
November 14th, 2003 at 7:26 am
Finally… a forum where people aren’t flogging this good movie to death!!!!
November 14th, 2003 at 12:52 pm
haha
awesome
November 14th, 2003 at 3:01 pm
Matrix action
I think people were expecting the wrong thing, and I think that lies partly in the way Revolutions was marketed. The trailer made it seem (to me, at least) like it was going to be an intense, all-out, balls-to-the-wall action movie with a huge war between the humans and machines in the Real World, and a fight to end all fights between Neo and Agent Smith inside the Matrix.
And it wasn’t.
As Lawrence Fishburne put it in an interview, Revolutions focused much more on “the spiritual side” of the Matrix, and not on gravity-defying fight scenes or mind-bending revelations about the reality of this universe.
I felt that the entirety of Reloaded was one big, suspenseful build-up to the final payoff in Revolutions, the final truth and the battle to end all battles and whatnot. I felt that there were a myriad of possibilities for where it could go, any one of which would be fascinating.
So when I watched Revolutions, I was a little disappointed to discover that it was still focusing on a conflict (specifically, “the last scans of the Osiris”) that I felt had been made somewhat irrelevant by Neo’s conversation with the Architect.
I haven’t watched Reloaded again since seeing Revolutions, so I may discover that I just misunderstood something, but I was a little bored watching Revolutions because until the very, very end I didn’t feel that there was really anything at stake.
And as for that final fight scene between Neo and Smith: I was bored by that, too. I have felt since the first Matrix (but particularly in the sequels) that the fight choreography lacked a certain impact. At first, I chalked this up the slightly artificial feel anything in the Matrix has, but it went to an extreme in the final fight: it just didn’t feel like a fight. It looked a little too practiced, a little too choreographed. It lacked intensity.
That said, the shock waves were awesome.
November 18th, 2003 at 7:42 am