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Blade Runner and Mad Max are back, so why not The Matrix? The Hollywood Reporter says sources have confirmed that Warner Bros is starting work on a reboot of The Matrix, and it even has a star in mind: Michael B. Jordan, who recently broke out as the star of Creed. Zak Penn (Alphas, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Incredible Hulk) is currently writing a treatment.
The Matrix was not expected to be a blockbuster when Warners released it in March 1999. At the time, writer/director siblings the Wachowskis were best known for an indie film noir called Bound about lesbian lovers plotting the ultimate crime. But the innovative camera effects (bullet time!) and futuristic originality of The Matrix blew audiences away, rocketing it to the fourth-highest box office on Earth that year. Who could forget badass Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, offering the blue and red pills, or Carrie Ann Moss as Trinity, using nmap when she wasn't doing gun ballet. And then there was Keanu Reeves as Neo, downloading data over his brain port and intoning gravely, "I know kung-fu."
Though the sequels never lived up to the promise of the first film, the franchise was a game changer, influencing science fiction to this day. Everything from Inception to Mr. Robot owes something to the style and themes that the Wachowskis popularized. Plus, bullet time has forever left its mark on action scenes, both technologically and stylistically. Any time you see a fight scene that moves between fast and slow motion, viewed in 360 degrees, you are looking at a special effect that the Wachowskis invented.
Don't think you can. Know you can.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:50PM (4 children)
Yeah, this exactly. People are bitching about the cost of movie tickets, but considering how fun you can make movie trips, the ticket prices are still well worth-it, if only the movies themselves were.
We used to enjoy getting a big group of us and getting high, sneaking in pints of vodka and pouring them into our large overpriced sodas, seeing the late-night showing, and really getting into the plots and action. Doubly so when we had access to the drive-in movies. Triply so when we knew the people who worked in the theater and we had our own intimate private showing at 2 a.m. ripping bong loads inside the theater after it closed for the night.
But that was back in the day when Hollywood made movies we all enjoyed watching. Now they're not even worth the bandwidth and effort to pirate. You couldn't pay me to watch them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:37PM (3 children)
You are looking at it through survivor bias.
MOST movies in a given year are terrible.
The same year Full Metal Jacket and The Princess Bride came out, both decent movies. But "Leonard part 6" also came out that same year.
Usually in 1 year only a small tiny handful of movies are worth anything. I have to admit last year was a big stinker. Pretty much only Xmen and deadpool were I think worth seeing. I actually kind of enjoyed Suicide Squad but I had 0 expectations on it. I think they wasted what they had.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:43PM (2 children)
The Princess Bride, decent?
Guffaw, the folks who think Princess Bride is worth watching are the same folks who think Vonnegut and Persig are worth reading.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:52PM
(((opinion-fueled)))
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:13AM
You know you made my point right?
Most movies are not good. Princess bride is amusing 90 min movie. Nothing more. It was good for what it was thats it. But 99% of the other movies meh...