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banananor posted...

i remember them both as pretty awful. to say something nice, at least one of the fight scenes in reloaded felt impressive at the time

i do intend to rewatch them by myself and confirm whether they're as bad as my memory

i specifically say *by myself* because my co-viewer is guaranteed to complain, talk over, or otherwise distract from the technobabble- such that i won't be able to tell whether the movie's genuinely nonsense or i just wasn't paying close enough attention

it's certainly not ALL nonsense. one thing that makes 1 feel so separate from 2 and 3 is that the original is a very straightforward movie and the sequels are way more symbolic and insinuating. i won't bring up truffaut's law again, but 2 and 3 are movies that definitely get better if you watch them several times. and even then, a lot of the stuff in it only makes sense if you know a decent amount about philosophy and religion. i know i'm coming off as a pretentious "you just didn't get it" asshole - and maybe i am one - but it's pretty frustrating to see 2 and 3 get dismissed as 100% bullshit by people who probably can't even tell the difference between jean baudrillard and ayn rand. (edit: to be perfectly clear, this isn't in response to your post. i'm talking about people in general who dismissed the movies as 100% bullshit.)

...all that being said, some of the stuff in the movies definitely IS nonsensical technobabble, though, at least to me. i've wasted way too much time reading rambling matrix articles and watching matrix youtube videos and some dialogue still makes me go "nope, this doesn't make sense."