The Matrix sequels

[temper_tantrum]

Just like Harry Potter

 

[Cid]

The first Harry Potter was shit.

 

[Cid]

In fact I suppose I'd congratulate them on consistency.

 

[DotCommunist]

Harry Potter is a bourgeois fantasy about how he, the Special one, escapes the confines of his life among normals and goes on to have Tom Browns adventures amongst the sort of m/c establishment that is part mallory towers and part Hobbiton Academy For Gifted Twats.

I hated those books

 

[8den]

Harry Potter is a bourgeois fantasy about how he, the Special one, escapes the confines of his life among normals and goes on to have Tom Browns adventures amongst the sort of m/c establishment that is part mallory towers and part Hobbiton Academy For Gifted Twats.

I hated those books

You secretly wanted to be Rupert Gritch didn't you DotC.

 

[Cid]

Indeed. Not read the books, but watched the films back to back (ketamine may have been involved) - little better than eugenics for the free market generation.

 

[temper_tantrum]

The first Harry Potter was shit.

Not quite as epically shit as it became later on.
Although I'm touched that y'all have taken me seriously enough to begin to discuss the point. It was a joke.

 

[DotCommunist]

You secretly wanted to be Rupert Gritch didn't you DotC.

I secretly wanted a quidditch match to be interrupted by imperial stormtroopers on those hoverbikes. The Imperials slaughtering the dickheads entire with lasfire and screaming among flappy burning robes.

 

[DotCommunist]

Not quite as epically shit as it became later on.
Although I'm touched that y'all have taken me seriously enough to begin to discuss the point. It was a joke.

ALL FANTASY IS DEADLY SERIOUS TEMPAH.

it represents what we can't or won't articulate through the fiction of the mainstream.

/Serious Face is Serious.

/po

 

[Cid]

Yeah I fucking know that ffs? Why are people on urban so ready to see their bollocks as something people will take seriously?

AAArRGGHH!!!

I only realised it was a bank holiday tomorrow about 5 hours ago. I may be self employed but I'm going to take advantage of it and get pissed and ranty at my boss's expense anyway!

 

[Cid]

I secretly wanted a quidditch match to be interrupted by imperial stormtroopers on those hoverbikes. The Imperials slaughtering the dickheads entire with lasfire and screaming among flappy burning robes.

But there'll be some obscure fucking spell that Harry discovers in some fucking dungeon guarded by a titan that can be defeated because you love your dad and it'll be called 'stormtrooperus distructorus'. Fucking load of shite with shite cherries.

 

[temper_tantrum]

ALL FANTASY IS DEADLY SERIOUS TEMPAH.

it represents what we can't or won't articulate through the fiction of the mainstream.

/Serious Face is Serious.

/po

Even Harry Potter? Your commitment astounds me

 

[danny la rouge]

The first Harry Potter was shit.

You mean the last Harry Potter. Dreadful film.

I haven't seen any of the Matrix films.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

eXistenZe was worth 10 Matrix films. In concept and execution. Also, an organic weapon that fires tooth bullets?

DEATH TO THE DEMONESS ALEGRA GELLER!

Wow. I had forgotten about that film. 'Trout Farm.'

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Harry Potter is a bourgeois fantasy about how he, the Special one, escapes the confines of his life among normals and goes on to have Tom Browns adventures amongst the sort of m/c establishment that is part mallory towers and part Hobbiton Academy For Gifted Twats.

I hated those books

It would only be good if it turned out it was all in his mind. A fantasy in the broken mind of a boy who has lost his parents and lives with a family that loathes him. Yeah, it might be good if it had been pans labyrinth.

 

[danny la rouge]

It would only be good if it turned out it was all in his mind. A fantasy in the broken mind of a boy who has lost his parents and lives with a family that loathes him. Yeah, it might be good if it had been pans labyrinth.

So you're saying the books would have been good if the 7th one had ended that way?

I think we're using different definitions of good.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

So you're saying the books would have been good if the 7th one had ended that way?

I think we're using different definitions of good.

No, I think if it was a different story altogether. If he had this fluffy children's story juxtaposed to the harsh reality of his real life and unstable mental condition, and if there was only one book and it wasn't a childrens book. What I mean is that the basic premise was played out in a different way. A bit like some of the takes on the shiny world of superheros by people like alan moore, pat mills or grant morrison.

 

[danny la rouge]

A bit like some of the takes on the shiny world of superheros by people like alan moore, pat mills or grant morrison.

That simile means nothing to me.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

A dark re-imagining of Potter. Not the actual books.

 

[8den]

A dark re-imagining of Potter. Not the actual books.

Just wait around five minutes. Franchises are getting reboots all the time these days. Batman, Spiderman, Superman....

How about we give it to Noel "Mickey from Doctor Who" Clarke to do a gritty ish reboot.

"Check out me wand bruv, well weapon"....

On a complete aside looking on IMDB about Kidulthood it informs me that the films' plot keywords are

Keywords:

Growing Up | Ambulance | Spitting | Older Woman Younger Man Relationship | Split Screen | See more »

Spitting?

 

[ruffneck23]

The Matrix 4 is going to be called Matrix : Resurrections.

Cant say I'm excited for it though.

 

[SpookyFrank]

How about we give it to Noel "Mickey from Doctor Who" Clarke to do a gritty ish reboot.

This has aged well.

 

[skyscraper101]

The Matrix 4 is going to be called Matrix : Resurrections.

Cant say I'm excited for it though.

I watched this recently as I was on a plane with 8 hours to kill and it was on the inflight system. Even though the original sequels were absolute toilet, for the sake of completeness I indulged. Unsurprisingly, it's just as bad as the other sequels with confusing nonsensical plots and a storyline that seems to go nowhere. Load of bollocks.

 

[krtek a houby]

I watched this recently as I was on a plane with 8 hours to kill and it was on the inflight system. Even though the original sequels were absolute toilet, for the sake of completeness I indulged. Unsurprisingly, it's just as bad as the other sequels with confusing nonsensical plots and a storyline that seems to go nowhere. Load of bollocks.

It started off quite meta, which was fun but soon settled into sequelitis and all was lost.

Still maintain The Animatrix was the best sequel/prequel/spin-off.

 

[Gromit]

It started off quite meta, which was fun but soon settled into sequelitis and all was lost.

Still maintain The Animatrix was the best sequel/prequel/spin-off.