Originally posted by: Illyrion
I think people forget that the original Matrix released in 1999. There was nothing, literally nothing, like it in US movies before that. It was groundbreaking. It isn’t fair to judge the original against all the stuff that came after. In fact some of the stuff that came after may never have been greenlit at all if Matrix hadn’t opened the door. Tobey Maguire Spiderman came in 2002, Ironman which really launched the Marvel universe didn’t come out until 2008. So if you watched the Matrix after you have seen a few Marvel films I get why you were underwhelmed and all I can say is if you had been there watching it in a theater in 1999 it would have been a very very different experience.
Having said that I agree the sequels were all downhill and the Matrix 4 is 10% nostalgia and 90% meh. Even that doesn’t take away the impact and legacy of the original.
I despise marvel movies. And I hated the matrix. These are not correlated in any way.
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