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John Wick꞉ Chapter 4 - (2023 movie)

2023-09-23

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366206/
https://johnwick.movie/film/john-wick-4

John Wick returns to alternately ruin and end his friends lives in the hopes of leveraging an obscure rule to free himself from .. whatever their assassins society is called.

It's adequate, but has nowhere near equality: I think one unimportant woman dies on-screen and then the body vanishes, another gets hurt, and this has to be the most brutally misandrist movie I've ever seen. Feminist approved!

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/matrix

A hacker learns reality is not as it appears.

A sci-fi ripoff of elements of Lucid dreaming, with elements taken from the Neuromancer/Shadowrun "cyberpunk" genres.

A pioneering movie for special effects, which have held up quite well, and its general pot and atmosphere. Technically not original for science fiction fans, but great nonetheless.

One of my favourites, although I really wish the actor playing Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) was good looking.

Bill & Ted Face the Music - (2020 movie)

2022-03-11

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086064/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210505030046/https://billandted3.com/

Reality is poised to unravel for some reason, and only a song can save it for some reason.

Nonsense, and also a terrible sequel-sendoff.

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The Matrix Resurrections - (2021 movie)

2021-12-27

disliked, dystopian-esque entertainment, dystopian-esque movies, entertainment, fiction, Keanu Reeves, movies, R rated, reality-questioning entertainment, reality-questioning movies, reviews, the future, The Matrix series, the present

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10838180/
https://www.whatisthematrix.com/

Neo and Trinity are alive because of science fiction magic, and their minds are blue-pilled again because they create lots of energy for the quota of an AI guy.

The writing is bad, the filmmaking is bad, the in-movie lore is awkward and poorly explained, it has callbacks to earlier movies which strip it of uniqueness, the characters are bad, and the acting is mediocre (sometimes because the characters are bad).

This is not a good movie, either as a standalone movie or a Matrix movie.

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