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What do you think?

Keanu is a great guy, but I really don't think he would have bothered. The interest in these two films are enormous, I find it hard that it won't make a profit, and he might have been duped by the producers. But here is a thougt, production in Sydney has wrapped up ages ago... Is this a fake?

I don't really care about the Matrix films (actually, yes I do: they piss me off), but from a cinemaphile standpoint, this is good news.

1. Good and bad. Good that there are so many cool special effects, hopefully. Bad that they are worried about how the movie will do. Though it may just be that the money for the FX is just really really high, not that the movie may not do well.

2. Cool how Keanu actually cares enough about the films to give up his own money to get them made.

Keanu is the man, I have a cousin who works in the arts industry, and a lot of her friends are working in Sydney. At the end of shooting, Keanu splashe $70, 000 (AUS) on a party for the cast and crew. The dude is da bomb!

I must say that I'm glad the Matrix series will be continued.

Crown wrote:Keanu is a great guy, but I really don't think he would have bothered. The interest in these two films are enormous, I find it hard that it won't make a profit, and he might have been duped by the producers. But here is a thougt, production in Sydney has wrapped up ages ago... Is this a fake?

Seems odd that the movies would be in real danger if he didn't do it. One wonders how much money has already been spent. There is a point where releasing it and losing money actually makes you lose less money overall than just scrapping them.

I'm finding that article very hard to believe. Producers are worried they won't break even on the new Matrix movie?

I know producers might not be the brightest bunch on the planet, but they aren't that stupid.

It might be because they decided to do Matrix:Reloaded and Revolutions at the same time (or one directly after the other, I dunno), instead of making one, letting it cash in at the box office, then making the others, like any normal guy should have done.

neoolong wrote:Seems odd that the movies would be in real danger if he didn't do it. One wonders how much money has already been spent. There is a point where releasing it and losing money actually makes you lose less money overall than just scrapping them.

$38 million does not seem like a bid difference between make or break, that would easily be opening night takings...

This was reported on IMDb yesterday. I don't really doubt it's authenticity.

http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2003/20030128.html#9

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:It might be because they decided to do Matrix:Reloaded and Revolutions at the same time (or one directly after the other, I dunno), instead of making one, letting it cash in at the box office, then making the others, like any normal guy should have done.

Lord of the Rings ring a bell?

You don't have to pay as much to get people to work concurrently on two movies and you will be assured that you have the same crew.

I reckon that Keanu was taken in for a ride... Either that or he is being paid sooooo much that $38 million is comparitavely nothing

YOu know what the best special effect in The Matrix was?

Making it look like Keanu Reeves can read...

seriously, he isn't worth the money

Crown wrote:

neoolong wrote:Seems odd that the movies would be in real danger if he didn't do it. One wonders how much money has already been spent. There is a point where releasing it and losing money actually makes you lose less money overall than just scrapping them.

$38 million does not seem like a bid difference between make or break, that would easily be opening night takings...

True, which is why it seemed odd.

I saw the trailer during the super bowl. I wasn't impressed. It looked like a repeat of the first movie.

Is this story legit? It smells bogus to me.

Kelly Antilles wrote:I saw the trailer during the super bowl. I wasn't impressed. It looked like a repeat of the first movie.

Yeah, but Oooh, look! Now they have swords!!

Kelly Antilles wrote:I saw the trailer during the super bowl. I wasn't impressed. It looked like a repeat of the first movie.

B....B...But....But it was....20 friggin Agent Smiths! And Neo kicked their asses with a pole! Tell me thatisn'tcool!

Anyways, I was never into the Matrix for its story (its hardly engrossing in adn of itself), nor the atrocious acting, thank slargley in part to our friend Keeanu Reeves. I was in it for the guns. Lots of guns.

Really? I thought the amount of guns made it a little boring and laughable at times.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:

Kelly Antilles wrote:I saw the trailer during the super bowl. I wasn't impressed. It looked like a repeat of the first movie.

B....B...But....But it was....20 friggin Agent Smiths! And Neo kicked their asses with a pole! Tell me thatisn'tcool!

It's been done since then.... over and over and over again. I'm getting tired of that special effects.

The Matrix is all about trying to be really cool. I was never that big a fan of the first one, so I don't see why I would be excited about the second one. It's a market research ploy.

Oooh, we need some fantasy, right? OK, let's have some "chosen one" prophecy bullshit in there. As if it's about magic, like Mortal Kombat or Star Wars. And ooh ooh, we need to get all the little wankers, right? So let's make sure we've got a woman in tight black leather. And ooh! Ooh! We need cool music, so we'll slap some grinding tunes wherever we can. And oh boy, we should throw in some really profound dialogue for the snobs, so when Morpheus explains the Matrix to Neo, we'll have him use really literate-sounding dialogue like "the Matrix is the veil that covers your eyes blah blah blah fires scorched the sky yadda yadda yadda" instead of something straightforward like "believe it or not, you're plugged into a virtual reality simulation". And ooooh, we need martial arts! And guns too! So we'll try to concoct a plot device to have both guns and martial arts be critical to our hero!

*Shrugs* Sometimes you've just gotta shut down the noggin, and stare at the movie blankly like a mindless CGI drone that you are.

ANyways, the Hallway Shootout. At least admit, that was damn cool. If only for the part where he opens his trenchcoat.

"Holy shi-!"

BAM!

Good stuff.

I would have prefered if they went with psychokenesis, like Tetsuo in Akira. No fucking guns needed when you can make the baddies' heads/bodies burst like watermelons.

I defy anyone to state that when they saw the Matrix, that it didn't just blow their mind! I mean looking back on it now (now that everyone else has copied) it doesn't look so cool, but back then it just blew everything out of the water.