Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Howard Stern just read Neill Cumpston’s MATRIX RELOADED review on the air. That’s how he started his show, actually. And he actually just read bits and pieces... he couldn’t read it all, obviously. Between that and Peter Travers quoting Neill extensively in his X2 review over at Rolling Stone.com, it’s obvious that Neill has struck a chord.
The funny thing is, his mania regarding MATRIX RELOADED doesn’t appear to be an isolated incident. It’s causing all sorts of hysteria all over the internet this weekend. Some of you are just excited about every frame of new footage available, like this guy:
Hey Mori,
In case you weren't excited enough to see the Matrix 2, here are some links to a few great TV spots that I haven't seen air yet for you to download. In the first link I included called "Jack In", I could swear I saw some sort of Mech Warrior type of thing. That one's new to me...enjoy:
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And then there’s those of you who have actually seen the film. Reactions are all over the place right now, and I’m actually encouraged to see that it’s not an across-the-board blanket positive reaction. I like it when films divide audiences. Keeps things interesting. Check this out:
Hey Harry,
Never wrote in to you before, but I saw something interesting Friday night. The Matrix Reloaded. I know you have at least 4 reviews of this, but I thought I’d give you my two cents, especially because of the circumstances of the particular screening I went to. I’ll try to keep it pretty spoiler free, since if you’re absolutely craving specifics you can refer to Neill Cumpston’s review, and quite frankly, this movie deserves to be watched without any spoilers beyond those included in that review. Sure, the wait is hard, but your will power will be rewarded.
So the screening - I got to be part of the audience for MTV’s Movie House. It was in an absolutely beautiful theater on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank CA, and I was told the episode is supposed to air this Thursday night. By about 6pm, nearly 200 people had shown up to wait on line to get in for the 7:30 start time, and as you can imagine people were stoked. Starting around 7pm, they herded us into the second of six or eight lines that we stood in over the course of the night. To make a long story short, after about three and a half hours of waiting on lines and in cold empty sound stages, and in the rain (a rarity for sunny LA), and being treated to the most strictly dictated and controlled form of MTV-style youthful 18-24 demographic spontaneous excitement and jubilation I’ve ever witnessed (applaud now, a little louder, no that’s too much, okay, half a decibel higher, good, now stop, okay, commence spontaneously clapping now, okay stop, okay wait 20 minutes and then you’ll clap again, and so on…), the movie was ready to begin. I’m not telling you this to complain about the experience (it was worth it) or to take a shot at MTV (I guess it goes with the territory of making a TV show), I’m telling you this because the crowd was psyched to see this flick, but after a nearly 4 hour wait for many, people were tired, hungry, and needed the bathroom, so whatever energy level you may witness on Movie House you should multiply by about 10.
So the movie - well worth the wait. I think I can safely say that the special effects were by far the best I’ve ever seen. Period. The moves they gave Neo were unbelievable. My jaw dropped at the beginning of Neo’s first fight sequence, and I didn’t scoop it up off the floor until the credits started rolling (and by the way, it dropped again when they showed the Revolutions trailer). You know, I was pretty skeptical about Joel Silver’s whole line about the bar not being raised but broken, but I admit now, he wasn’t too far off.
I loved Reloaded. Although, to be completely honest I have to say that I thought the first Matrix was better overall. But as most people would agree, that was a pretty fucking amazing film that would be damn hard to top by anyone. My main reason for liking the first one more has to do with the non-action moments. Reloaded was complicated, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but so much was crammed into this movie that something had to give. Some parts felt pretty rushed, and others were a bit lengthy when comparing their importance to the importance of other scenes that received much less time. Also, when the first Matrix came out, it was a novelty. We didn’t know what the matrix was, and we spent the length of the movie learning about it. Reloaded does have some twists that will blow your mind, but that big idea of our lives being nothing more than an elaborately contrived source of energy for machines was a pretty big shock to deal with. That’s definitely not something to hold against Reloaded, which really did do a good job at keeping things mind bending. Just a thought on why I may have like the first one a little bit more. But Reloaded is an UNBELIEVABLY COOL FILM!!! It was worth the years of waiting, and I already can’t wait until it’s released so I can see it again!
If you use this, call me Captain Popetastic.
Okay, Cap’n. Seems like a number of people were at that Movie House screening. And not everyone was as pleased by what they saw as you were:
Disappointing. I hate to say because I certainly had the highest expectations for the film going in - but overall disappointing. In thinking about this for the last day, I seem to remember that my initial response to the first Matrix was not that it was a Science Fiction Masterpiece that was going to change action cinema as we knew it but that 'Hey - that didn't suck'. The second Matrix is a worthy follow-up to that film - but as a sequel to a film that has become a legend - it's somewhat of a letdown.
The biggest problem is that this seems to be a film by filmmakers that have been wrapped up in nothing else but the Matrix for the last few years. It is completely so immersed into it's own world and it's own story that unless you've watched all the shorts and have an intimate knowledge of the first one, you not only feel lost - but you also lack any emotional response to the characters. The filmmakers act as if you are supposed to automatically care about what is happening without giving you reason to care.
The deadly slow first thirty minutes of the minutes of the film highlight this problem most of all. As Neo and the team return to Zion, we are subjected to scene after scene of meetings and exposition and council chambers and talk and talk and talk in scenes that are just not special in any way. This is, obviously, setting up the story for both films but it has all the specialness and excitement of a preachy Gene Roddenberry 1975 tv-movie. (It's certainly not helped by the presence of Anthony Zerbe (Star Trek: Insurrection, Licence to Kill), whose very presence screams - lousy cheap sequel)
To quote the great Joe Bob Briggs - there is too much plot that gets in the way of the story.
During this whole section of the film you are dying - pleading to return to the Matrix. The Matrix - that's what we love - the weird and exciting technoworld of The Matrix, not this Cecil B DeMille-lite bullshit. When finally, Neo makes a visit to the Matrix to visit the Oracle the film finally comes to life. There is something electric about the world of the Matrix and from this point on the film seems alive.
There is some incredible filmmaking in the next hour of the film. The fight scene with the hundreds of Agent Smiths is the action highlight of the film (and maybe of any film for the last four years). It is vicerally charged and brings your whole soul out of the seat with the audacity of it's filmmaking.
On a quieter vein, when Neo and the rest make a visit to Monica Bellucci and beau in what is most certainly, the hippest restaurant in The Matrix - the Wachowski brothers show that even with a non-action scene they can mesmerize.
From here on out, it's mostly all action with the extended highway chase (which is great but doesn't live up to expectations).
Finally, the film comes to a complete stop on one of those cliched sci-fi 'okay we're in a weird quiet sci-fi setting where we're going to explain it all to you' scene out of Mission to Mars or Contact or something like that. This scene will bore or baffle you (or both - as it did me) If you treat the Matrix religiously, I'm sure this scene will totally engross you and for the rest of the great unwashed of us - this is prime bathroom break material.
Finally, after some more impressive shootouts and fights (that are kind of-sadly, all starting to look all the same), the film comes to a halt on what I guess is supposed to be a shocker and one of those 'To Be Continued' things like it's a cliffhanger at the end of the Next Generation's fifth season or something.
In short, this is a not a bad film in any way. It had moments of brilliance. But the whole is just a long, long way from a sum of it's best parts. Not a letdown close to Phantom Menace, but a letdown nevertheless. Nowhere near as fun as X2.
Call me Frank Poole
Hmmmm... sorry to hear it left you cold, Frank.
That’s nothing compared with this next review, though, which features MAJOR SPOILERS, and which appeared first in our TalkBacks:
While it's true that Neill Cumpston's review could've been lifted by reading the back cover of a DVD, all of the things he says are true, at least sequentially.
I got to see Reloaded as part of a taping for the MTV show "Movie House". They made us wait for about 4 hours in the Warner Brothers Parking garage, out in the rain and inside a huge soundstage. We had to go through no less than TWO sets of metal detectors. No backpacks or electronic equipment were alowed inside. And we got some neat "Matrix code outlining the shape of a key" tee shirts.
So finally, after a bunch of warm-up bullshit, the movie begins. No trailers, just that green WB logo on the black storm clouds. Matrix code streams down. (stop reading now cause I'm gonna ruin THE WHOLE DAMN MOVIE FOR YOU) From the opening logo on out, the most unoriginal, uninspired sequel that has ever shot down my expectations played out. Yes, everything Neill said happened, in the order he said. But before I go into any depth on this movie, I want to make it clear that I was pretty biased coming into Reloaded.
So, I'd like to take a moment to poll everyone and let me know what they think about the following... At the end of the first Matrix, Neo could stop bullets by putting his hand up! He could dive into Agents and make them explode! He could fly! He could come back from the dead, even! Now then... In Reloaded, we are treated to Neo FIGHTING 100 AGENT SMITHS WITH A POLE (as you all know from the trailers). Umm...maybe it's just me, but if he can put his hand up and stop 100 bullets in the lobby where he fights the Merovingian's henchman (the people with the weapons on the staircase)...well why the hell can't he just put his hand up and stop 100 Agent Smiths as well??? Of course the fight with 100 Agent Smiths LOOKS COOL...but I'm sorry, I just don't view it as a worthy successor to the action of the first Matrix.
If Reloaded was a stand-alone movie the Wachowskis had done, sure, I'd be slobbering too. It looks really great (except for a few really bad CGI Neo moments). The best parts of the fight, to me, were when Neo would slam the fuck out of a copied Agent Smith and the sucker would go flying up into a building 200 feet away and bounce off a window sill. LOL The 100 Agent Smiths scene, while looking really great and making me wonder how the hell they accomplished it, was just a bunch of chocolate candy with no real substance. I was realy bored most of this movie. What do you all think? Also...if Neo can get killed and come back to life, where is there any danger inherent in fighting ANYONE in the Matrix? Oh crap, I just got shot the fuck up! Ooop! Now I'm resurrected! When you end a movie like they ended the first one, the stakes have to be that much bigger in a sequel. Maybe spend some more time in the real world, fighting stuff you AREN'T prepared for. How about a raid on the humans-in-pods battery plant? Neo has to destroy the Matrix, free everyone and then they have to actually get those millions of people to Zion somehow...while something that makes Sentinels look like Gameboys enters the melee??? The car chase scene is neat-o in most parts, but whenever Morpheus and Agent Johnson are on top of the semi duking it out, the backgrounds look so horribly Playstation 2. Am I crazy or could they have green screen projected some actual highway footage for this??? Trinity heading into oncoming traffic on the motorcycle was badass. Morpheus with a sword and an uzi reminded me of Snake-eyes from G.I. Joe.
I suppose I should talk about the characters now... Neo. Keanu hasn't so much learned to act, as the Wachowskis keep him quiet and pensive. Harry Knowles was right in his review of the original Matrix way back when. The sunglasses help hide bad facial expressions. Eyes are the windows of the soul, and nobody would be convinced if they saw Keanu's blank stare while delivering the Wachowskis' dialogue. But of course, a LOT of the dialogue is weak (especially this time around). The actors do their best, but shit Brothers Wachowski...you got enough money...pull in somebody to help out with something that, to me, is more important that Neo hitting a bunch of CGI with a pole! Anyway, they up Neo's powers a bit, but they don't take it all the way. Maybe they're saving up for the third one, but fuck that. A sequel, a the very least, should be twice as good as its predecessor. That would mean Revolutions should be off the chart compared to the first Matrix. Yeah, that may sound like a tall order, but shit man, look at the brilliance of the first film. The framing, the SFX, the concepts (although lifted from many sources such as religion, anime, kung-fu films, etc.)
Trinity. She gets to kick ass of course, but I was really bored by her hitting cops with her helmet and fighting the Agent in the hallway (they even reused her infamous freezing in the air crane-style kung-fu kick). She was relegated to heroine in distress, and that's bullshit for someone such as herself. They tried to have a neat little moment where he brought her back from the dead the same way she brought him in the first one. The idea of pulling a bullet out of her chest like plucking ice from a cup of water was great. Him jump-starting her heart by squeezing it was great also. But I just wasn't compelled. Of COURSE she ain't gonna die! Fuck man, don't expect me to be on the edge of my seat when I know that Carrie-Anne Moss' name is in the credits of Revolutions!!!
Morpheus. He gets to have a Sparticus speech to the gathered masses of Zion (looking hella buff in the real world...he must do isometrics while piloting the Neb). It was slightly rousing, but shit how I wanted him to say something about humans touching and warmth and feeling and emotion and closeness being the opposite of being a machine. That would've been a better transition into the Neo/Trinity sex scene (which really conveyed a sense of hunger on both of their behalfs). They really play up Morpheus possibly being crazy and the prophesy being a buncha bullshit (as expressed by Captain Lock, who Niobe left Morpheus for).
One thing I gotta note about the Wachowskis is how they take classically shat-upon groups like lesbians and blacks and give them strong, empowering roles. The lesbians in "Bound" don't apologize for what they are and what they do. And the black people in the Matrix are often smart and hard-working and WELL-SPOKEN. Tank, Dozer, Morpheus, Lock, Link, Niobe, Zee...they're all just regular people who happen to have black skin. Morpheus is, to me, one of the single-greatest black role models in the history of cinema. Intelligent, suave, not a womanizer, doesn't swill 40 ounces or talk in slang. I had never really thought about the symbolism inherent in Morpheus breaking the chains in the first Matrix when the Agents are trying to hack into his mind in the government building. Now, after that black-empowerment speech of mine, I do have to say that both Niobe and Link were mis-/underused. Now, they're still fleshed out and not racial stereotypes. They're just movie convention stereotypes (ex-girlfriend with an attitude who comes back around and disbelieving comic sidekick). As for Niobe, maybe she'll show back up in Revolutions. Guess we'll just have to play the video game to find out more on her. Harold Perrineau, Jr. as Link just didn't sell the part for me. I didn't buy any of it, he had no emotion. Whenever he gave a little cheer after something dope happened in the world of the Matrix, it just felt SOOO hella third unit.
But I gotta say, worst of all, he was there to replace Tank (Marcus Chong had payday conflicts and got his ass booted). What chaps my ass the most is that Zee (Link's girlfriend and sister to the dearly-departed Dozer) says she lost BOTH her brothers to that ship (the Neb) and doesn't want to lose Link. Ummm...time out, Green Bay! Tank was hurt, but alive at the end of the first Matrix! If he died on a mission that happens between it and Reloaded, I'd like to know about it. Has anyone heard if there's going to be an Animatrix that deals with this?
The Kid...annoying as shit, useless to the movie, and I suppose it will make more sense once we see the Kid's Animatrix episode. Boy, that's a really stupid name, too. Spoonboy was cool, but "the Kid"??? How generic is that??? And no, people, the Kid does NOT fight Neo. He doesn't even plug into the Matrix. He just stumbles around, acting badly, and irritating the shit out of me.
Agent Smith. Now, I talked about the fight, but not about his character. He's been freed. Somehow, during getting blown up, a bit of Neo got imprinted on him. Something copied or rewritten. But he is no longer an Agent. He's a free agent, pun intended. So, he's got his own agenda. I don't even remember why he wanted to kill Neo still, I was so bored. It just felt like...hell, people loved Smith...gotta put him back in! People loved Agent Smith and he was badass. Sooo...let's put in ONE HUNDRED AGENT SMITHS! And he'll be ONE HUNDRED TIMES as badass!!! It all just felt so forced and contrived and like a buncha popcorn eater bullshit! Don't get me wrong...I love Agent Smith as much as you guys do. If Hugo Weaving had've made it into the X-Men trilogy as well as the Matrix and Lord of the Rings series, I wouldn't hesitate to call him the most brilliant actor (from a business standpoint) in the entire universe. But enough is enough. Also, I just thought about this. It's a problem that's bothered me with Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man (a character in X-Men who spent most of his time on the team X-Factor)... What happened to the other 99 Agent Smiths? At the end of the fight, they all walk away. But where do they go? Some, but not all, of them show up in a hallway sequence near the end of the film. But what I'm really wondering is...are they exact copies that have their own motivations? Cause then they wouldn't want to die either. It was shown that they all have that infection/replication ability, cause three of them start to infect Morpheus in the hallway. So imagine a perfect copy of Doctor Doom. Wouldn't it try to destroy/betray itself???
Moving on to...the new Agents (Johnson and Tompson). They don't have 1/100th the stage persona that Agents Jones and Brown had in the first film. Which, by the way, where did they go? They ran away after Neo blew up Smith in the first Matrix...did they get deleted? These new Agents are more like low-level body builders. I mean, it makes sense they'd up their power and speed, but you don't have to make someone bulky to do that. To paraphrase Morpheus, do you think size would matter in a world such as the Matrix? The Sentinels now spin around and throw bombs at the hovercrafts of the resistance. Yay. How fucking boring. Replace the Sentinels with something that eats them for breakfast, please.
The Oracle. The revelation that the Oracle is not human, but a sentient program as well was a neat twist. Too bad Gloria Foster passed away, I'd be really curious to see what else they would've done with her. Turns out that she's the mother of the Matrix, or something. I'll have to watch a key scene again to figure out what's what.
Seraph. The Oracle's bodyguard, of sorts. If you can get past him, you MUST be the One. Um, sorry. The fight wasn't that great and Neo could've just jumped into your ass and blew you up. Boring. Move along.
The Merovingian. A French bad guy who talks a bunch of nonsense. Basically, he has the Keymaker and isn't letting him go. Also a sentient program from an earlier version of the Matrix. Blah blah blah. He runs away, might be back for the sequel, although I doubt it.
Persephone. The Merovingian's wife who betrays him because he cheats on her. This is a good idea gone bad. Programs that become sentient and become more and more human as they become more and more complex. I just didn't care about any of them, though. And then they go and waste a ton of $$$ on CGI of the Matrix code showing a woman's bladder popping, making her have to go pee or something. Either that or the Merovingian gave her an aphrodisiac and she ran off to the bathroom. Now that I think about it, that may have been it. Cause he does retreat away to the bathroom himself or some shit.
Bah, move on to his bodyguards, the Twins. The Twins look cool, but all their dialogue is pretty worthless (sadly, there are NO really great quotable lines in this movie, except MAYBE Morpheus' speech about "isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for"). About the Twins...that part where the giant explosion happens on the overpass during the car chase is what's supposed to kill them, but it's unclear whether or not that's what happened. They get blown up into the sky and turn into ghosts. Couldn't really tell if they disapated or not. But even still, damnit! They can turn into GHOSTS! They were shot through, sliced through and punched through by "ghosting out" just before the impact came...so why the hell didn't they just do that when their SUV started flipping over??? And they never explain how the Twins can ghost out. Just that they are from previous versions of the Matrix.
The Keymaker. Has found backdoor entries to get to certain locations in the Matrix (as well as bubbles where you can't be detected). He has the key that can get you to the Matrix mainframe, where the idea is that in Revolutions, Neo will fight his biggets challenge and free all human minds from bondage.
The Architect. The guy who created the Matrix, now turned into a sentient computer program model of himself that guards the mainframe. I wish they'd explain WHY it was made in the first place, by a human at that! Was it for military training? Erotic fantasies? Anyway, his monologue was really boring and really confusing, and those two go together like peanut butter and chocolate when it comes to making me tune out. But since I'm so big into the world of the Matrix, I'll go to another free screening (be DAMNED if I'll pay to see this) so I can try to make something of all his gobbledy goop.
Then there's Zion. Pretty neat how they designed the place. I love the idea of a city deep in the ground where it's still warm, built in a huge cylindrical chamber that has hundreds of crosswalks connecting areas together. But really, the logistics of sewage removal boggled my mind. There's a great little exchange here between Neo and the head Chancellor-type guy about how machines and people are interdependent and how they don't always know how machines work, but there is a reason for them and it all works out in the end (a metaphor for Neo and faith and whatnot).
Oh yeah...in Zion, they have these giant robot suits with guns for arms that watch the main gates when hovercraft dock. And oh, how clever...the operator of that robot suit spun his guns and dropped them to his side like a Wild West cowboy. Yee fucking ha. That is so goddamn inane. That in the "real world", having done that 20 million times in your life, you would spin your gun arms like that at that exact moment. Feh! Alright people, I realize that by now, I must sound like a total asshole. Don't get me wrong. You AIN'T gonna find a Matrix fan who knows more about backstory or has thought more about this concept than myself. But goddamnit, I guess that's just the curse of having an active imagination.
And just so I'm not totally ragging on this movie, let it be known that I thought there were some BRILLIANT moments. Such as... Neo flying out of the building just as it explodes, pulling a wake of fire behind him. Neo flying into the sky, coming down through the clouds and pulling them after him as well. Generaly, the flying sequences were just plain DOPE! When Neo pulls the wake of cars behind him as he rockets at 2,000 mph through the concrete canyons of the city was phenomenal! When he swoops in to catch Morpheus and the Keymaker just as two semis crash into each other and explode in bullet time was pretty cool also, but hella fake compared to the wake of cars. Oh, and when Neo has to fly from the mountains back to the city...well hell, just how big is the world of the Matrix when you're inside of it? Is it a full world, like Earth? With continents and countries? Are there are stars and the moon in the sky? Cause, if he could, Neo could fly to the moon since "that's not air you're breathing" and rules like gravity don't apply. Why the fuck am I the only one who thinks about all these extrapolations?
Shit, someone let ME write some comics, yo! Agent Smith answering the phone and coming out into the real world! This has the single best potential, IMHO...but they squandered it. No scene were Smith talks about what it's like to have human senses and weaknesses and have to breath and eat and whatnot. If he could escape from the Matrix that way, he would be free and have no reason to want to kill Neo. It would have been a great turn of events to have Smith need to join the resistance to stop the machines cause he was now mortal and could die. He'd have information on how to stop Sentinel attacks and take out key strategic points and whatnot. But NOOOO...buncha bullshit instead about Kain (the guy he infected) being taken over by Smith and sabotoging stuff.
At the end, they reveal that Neo has powers in the real world as well. Neat twist, but dammit, I like the idea that the Architect proposed instead. The Architect says that even the prophecy of "the One" was made up by the Matrix as a system of control. I've always been keen on the idea that it was all one big lie, one big fantasy cranked out by the Matrix that spun out of control and led to the downfall of the machines. I just love the idea of perfect machines having to create an imperfect fantasy world because humans are imperfect and hence, imperfection leads to chaos and boom, the system fails. Hubris, baby!
Alright, I'm basically done bad-mouthing this film except for one last note: how goddamn horrible the soundtrack and the score are. Don Davis' score of the first Matrix basically hasn't left my mp3 player for about four years now. The use of horns and synths just got to me. Horns ALWAYS make songs sound bigger, more epic. And they were just GONE in this score. Hell, even the soundtrack was lame. Yes, we get another Rage Against the Machine song. P.O.D. is on there. The hell? But worst of all, the movie ends with a goddamn DAVE MATTHEWS BAND song!!! Umm...now, I happen to like most of his early stuff (before it all sounded like the same song). But in no way, shape or form does a cyberpunk thriller need to have DAVE MATTHEWS BAND playing at any point! The beauty of the first soundtrack is not only are all the songs dope and make you wanna rock out...but the titles and the lyrics are relevant to the movie as well. "Mindfields" by Prodigy. "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine. Etc. Hell, the music (mainly remixes) that use for all the TRAILERS is better. "The Revolution Will be Televised" is a GREAT song. "Chonga Fury" by Juno Reactor in "Final Flight of the Osiris" was a great choice also. But fuck, man! :(
To recap: All-in-all...this movie is NOT a worthy successor to the Matrix. I think it's pretty obvious that if you watch the first one, it's a stand-alone story that is just great ending where it does. Much like the first Star Wars. Unfortunately, Reloaded ain't no Empire Strikes Back. So yeah, of course everyone is gonna go see it. And yeah, everyone is gonna rationalize and say "yeah, but the fights were really cool" or "but the flying was dope" or whatever. But that does NOT a good movie make, IMHO.
Disappointed and getting ready to "doge this!" from everyone's replies, Derek C. Wallace
P.S. If you wait through the credits to see the trailer for Revolutions, be prepared to be disappointed. It's a random series of clips that doesn't really convey what's going to happen. Besides, if you've seen the 2 minute, 30 second trailer for both Reloaded and Revolutions, then you've seen most of the footage already.
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Holy cow. And before you jump on me for printing spoilers, I only decided to do it after I realized that TIME Magazine, which was granted official access by the studio, has already run all the story details possible, including a detailed description of the cliffhanger ending. Keep in mind... this is a magazine that is consider the “real” press, one that was given a screening of the film by Warner Bros. and which, presumably, was asked to do a cover story as a result. I’m guessing Warner didn’t know that the story would come across as a fairly negative review, and that it would give away every secret of the movie almost two weeks early. Way to court the “legitimate” press, Warner Bros., and way to act like total fucking assholes, TIME. We intentionally worked with our first reviewer, Neill, to make sure there were no spoilers in the review that would ruin the movie. He hinted at quite a bit, but he was careful. And we’re the ones who are considered the “outlaws.” Go figure.
Last up today, an ANIMATRIX review:
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