Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN

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• jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They are developing a new matrix movie?

  I watched The Matrix Resurrections at home and I gave up halfway through, still haven’t finished it. There were some cool scenes in the early part of the movie that were almost breaking the fourth wall and seemed to pick up the spirit of the introductory scenes in The Matrix, but Resurrections were quickly started to go down the drain.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To me, it suffered the same issue that all reboots have (Jurassic World, Rise of Skywalkwer, etc.). They don’t attempt a new plot and instead try to rehash the original plot but “bigger”, this makes it boring really quick as you know what’s going on, so instead they rely on nostalgia bait or jump tactics to try to keep you engaged.

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  • xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I watched it. The plot really only served as an extended middle finger to Warner Bros. After I finished it, I just thought what a waste. It had promise, but it didn’t try anything new or expand the world in any way.

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Resurrections is an excellent protest movie, in the punk vein.

    It was protesting exactly the type of exploitation that Warner brothers did with the matrix.

    The film is akin to a new lassie film. Only the film ends with lassie being staked out in the sun and flayed alive by a teenage sociopath, whimpering the entire time. It’s a massive fuck you, intended to kill the franchise. There was just enough plausible deniability to get away, and avoid being sued for it.

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Morpheus died in the Matrix mmo shortly before it ended. The Wachowskis consider the game to be cannon so there’s nothing to be done. It’s not some conspiracy against Fishburne and I don’t know why outlets refuse to include that info

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  • jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    From the article:

    However, there could be a fairly simple explanation there: Morpheus dies in the MMO game The Matrix Online. That specific event in the game is considered canon because the writer-directors, the Wachowskis, gave their approval to the game.

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    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Damn, I got caught not reading the article

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• ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The new one was underwhelming. They should have stopped with the original three.

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They should have stopped with the original one. None of the follow-ups were as good as the first. It’s just been a decrescendo of story writing ever since.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They should have stopped with the first one.
    And now get off my lawn!

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    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And not get a fantastic sequel?? M2 was fantastic and the 3rd one was good too

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  • WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I truly believe Resurrections was a purposeful flop to demonetize/kill the series to prevent WB making additional sequels or maybe remakes.

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    • ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, they are making more so that kills that

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  • m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The third was shit, the fourth somehow fixed the mess the third left. And the first half of the fourth is awesome.

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