Why I’m Meh About Matrix Resurrections
Even though I feel The Matrix is among the best movies ever made (it’s in my top ten list), my reaction to the fourth Matrix movie has been “meh” even with the drop of the trailer several days ago that gives the movie the appearance of being well-shot, well-acted, and with great VFX. There are numerous reasons why I’m still “meh”.
The first reason is The Matrix: Revolutions. I felt The Matrix: Reloaded was a good to great sequel to The Matrix (I am probably in the minority with that statement.) I feel as though the third Matrix in the trilogy is where it fell apart. It seemed like the Wachowskis ran out of ideas, and it turned into a movie with numerous clichés. While I didn’t feel it was an awful movie, it was certainly anti-climactic.
The second reason is the sequels to other major franchises that have come out over the past decade. They’re all mediocre-at-best, while some of them are awful. They’re mediocre-at-best because the movie studios are playing it safe and without taking risks, there’s much lower chances of the reward of a great movie.
The third reason is the way Hollywood itself has been acting the past ten years and the second reason is related to it – Hollywood has gone extremely far left, so far left that their extremist ideology is bleeding into virtually everything coming out of it. Ghostbusters 2016 is a good example of where the second and third reasons combine to make a true stinker of a movie.
The fourth reason is Lana Wachowski herself, the director of Resurrections. For reasons that I don’t fully understand, many transsexuals hate me, a straight white male. I have to assume Wachowski hates me because everywhere I go now online, I’m subjected to being told I have a lot of “privilege” and that I’m everything wrong with the world. And people who are not straight, white and male have the most heated rhetoric. Many gay people wish I were dead. Many black people wish I were dead. Many women wish I were dead. I don’t think it’s too presumptuous to assume Wachowski hates me too and possibly wishes I were dead since I don’t toe the extremist left line, especially when her sister Lilly famously told Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump to fuck off.
For the record, I inquired with four different neurosurgeons across three different hospital systems if I could turn in my straight white male privilege card and get my brain tumor removed, and they all would not take my card. I was genuinely surprised because it’s gotten me everywhere else in life. I’ve never had to work a day, I’ve been given a million-dollar home, I can pick whatever I want off a restaurant menu for free, and walk through the back VIP door of concerts, strip clubs, and your mom’s house simply by flashing the card.
The fifth reason is Jupiter Ascending, directed by the Wachowskis. I don’t exactly know what the hell happened with this movie, but it was obvious by watching it (and the title) that it was supposed to be the beginning of some big franchise. What was made was a shit-show of a movie, however. One thing that stood out while watching it was the performance of Eddie Redmayne in the movie. I had not seen him before, but his acting was AWFUL. So I looked him up and he had just won best actor the year before and was also in a movie called The Danish Girl where he plays a girl (who is presumably Danish? LOL). This reeked of far-left Hollywood pumping somebody up because he was a he playing a she, even though genders don’t exist or something.
The sixth reason why is that the trailer itself for Resurrections makes the movie look like it’s effectively a soft reboot of the franchise. They’re bringing back Neo and Trinity for nostalgia purposes, but nobody else. So it seems like they’re bringing those two back to bridge the gap between the old generation of Matrix characters and what will be the new generation of Matrix characters. We’ve seen this before with Disney’s continuation of the Star Wars movies. While I thought the Force Awakens was a good (but definitely not great) start to the new trilogy, The Last Jedi was a character assassination of Luke Skywalker combined with a horrid plot molded around far-left ideology that killed the entire Star Wars franchise for me. I have to wonder if something like that is going to happen with Resurrections.
I could go on, but I think you see my reasons for having reservations about Resurrections. Given the ham-fistedness of Hollywood now and the fact that the Wachowskis came out and said after The Matrix that the movie was a trans-allegory, I fear a ham-fisted trans movie that assassinates the character of Neo. I hate to use an online hot take cliché, but I want to see Lana Wachowski subvert my expectations by making a great movie. One thing is for sure, though, and that’s that Resurrections will not be as good to me as The Matrix was, despite how good of a movie Resurrections may be. This is because The Last Jedi and other movies have now caused me to look up the entire plot and all the spoilers of a movie prior to me deciding to watch it, thus ruining any surprise. That’s the legacy of all these horrid movies from Hollywood the past decade.
Update – 12/27/2021 – after watching a couple of reviews including spoilers, I will be skipping The Matrix: Retardations and not watching it at all.
