Matrix Resurrections

Agree with that. I found the first half to be pretty great (with the caveat that I'm a sucker for self-referential/meta stuff and appreciate it isn't for everyone).

From the real world onwards though, it seemed to forget all that and not really follow through with any of those bits from the opening section. I do wonder how much studio interference was involved, as the opening half really felt like a director/screenwriter with purposeful commentary on reboots and nostalgic sequels, whilst the second half is as if someone said "that's nice, but can we have our reboot/nostalgic sequel now please".

I recently watched Wes Craven's New Nightmare and it is good comparison point. That's a film that really goes full into breaking down that fourth wall, critical of what the Elm Street series had become, and it sticks with it all the way through, quite literally going full circle by the end and tying its final scene in with the very first. By comparison, Resurrection is pretty much a different film by its final moments, with barely a sinew connecting it with where it begins.

Yeah looks to be around a $100m loss for them.
Seems the HBO plan has done more harm than good last year? Think Mortal Kombat and Dune are the only 2 that still made money at the box office?

I didn't even find it unsatisfying, I thought it was an irreverant and breezy epilogue, but oddly enjoyable.

Which after the last two sequels tried very hard to be THE MATRIX is the best possible direction it could have gone.

I'll probably watch it again at least once.

Am I alone in thinking that maybe the reason certain films seem to look cheaper these days than their lower budget predecessors did, is because now that things are filmed in such higher resolutions to begin with, you can see the quality of the sets and props more closely than you could before?

The film projectors and DVDs were definitely lower resolution than what we have now though, so you know what he means.

There is some truth to that. I remember watching Burton's Batman when HBO Max launched and being able to see the strings that made him glide.

I've not seen Jurassic Park since the 90s and I'm afraid to rewatch it as the dinosaur CG blew me away at the time.

I do think Matrix Resurrection's CG just didn't evolve from the earlier films though. There have been loads of better examples in recent movies.

Am I the only cunt that actually liked this movie?

I also have enjoyed it, twice.

Digital projection may have standardised projection quality a bit more, but certainly film projectors weren't 'lower resolution' in the 90s. Photochemical film prints inherently lost quality for every generation they were away from the answer print, but 35mm film still holds more 'resolution' than the 2k DCPs we had for years in cinemas. It's only fairly recently that some cinemas have gone 4k, the majority still only project in 2k, so essentially Blu-ray.

Decent 35mm and especially 70mm projection craps on that. The problem was that you had such a massive variation in quality of projection, which digital somewhat reduces.

Woah woah tenet is brilliant..don't blame your lack of cohesion with entropy as a "shit film" haha

It's utterly turgid, so bad it actually made me like his earlier films less.

I mean, it's not Transformers 2 bad or something like that, but I expected better of Nolan. 

Nolan's best film is still the Prestige, but Memento and his Batmans are okay (though I only think Batman Begins is actually really good. Dark Knight was carried by Ledger's performance). Inception was fun visually. I quite enjoyed Dunkirk though it's the least Nolan-esque thing he's done. Interstellar had some nice bits but dragged on far too long.

But generally there was something I enjoyed about his films. Tenet was just horrible. The basic premise is frankly dopy, but I could live with that if the film had some fun with it. I mean it's pretty much that episode of Red Dwarf, and makes as much logical sense. They even have to handwave how dumb it is away in the film with the line that went something like "Don't try to understand it. Feel it"

It's a stupid premise pretending to be chin-strokingly smart.

Add into the mix utterly blank characters who lack any character traits, a script that leaps between pseudo-intellectual info dumps and utter cliches - and thats assuming you can hear any of it clearly as the sound mix is genuinely fucking awful.

I don't even think the action set pieces were that good. The airport one was okay. Everything else was just fucking crap. The climactic scene with the daft temporal pincer movement just came across like some office staff playing paintball at a team building exercise. Except some of them were running backwards bEcAuSe ThEy hAvE rEvErSeD eNtRoPy. Never mind that you barely see a single enemy combatant so it just looks like they're firing aimlessly at buildings.

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Sorry, I really hated that Tenet film, and even now I still feel the need to vent about it

Swerved Tenet because of the apparently awful sound mastering. Not sure whether that's a good call or not...

Guess would be around March

Tenet was similar levels of shite to this. At least you could understand the people wasting your time in this...