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I may be the odd one out here, but I wasn't that "wow'd" by the trailer. I loved the cinematography of the original films, that seemed to embrace the dystopic vision of a world permanently trapped on the verge of Y2K. I also found myself disappointed to not see Huge Weaving or Lawrence Fishburn in the trailer, perhaps they weren't available?

Either way I'm looking forward to the film and seeing how the setting fares in a modern context, but was just surprised by how different the trailer felt tonally to the originals.

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Something about the "real world" in this trailer was portrayed too cleanly and fleshy - my memory of the first two movies was that the "real world" was bland, flat, and empty, sterile.

I wouldn’t have described that so easily. You’re right.

I understand why they had to go back. Why Neo had to lose his memory, why they had to go back to being “inside”. It’s been so long that it makes sense people want the first movie again. To take the pill and follow the rabbit. The woman in the red dress is there without a doubt.

So unless there’s some reason for exactly what you described, that it’s all bright and shiny, and Doogie Houser is there, then yea, it’s a much different feel. Maybe it’s because they are “in the core”.

Some comments on YouTube have suggested that the brighter look to the Matrix is because at the end of Revolutions, Sati makes a beautiful sunrise for Neo.

Resurrections will apparently occur in the seventh version of the Matrix, the one at the end of Revolutions.

If I recall every scene in the "real world" was given a slightly green tint that made it look a little more "off" and sterile.

When you say "real world" do you mean the matrix? Because we only get fractions of a second of a glimpse of the "real" world in this trailer as far as I can tell.

It became clean at the end of Revolutions (when the green tint was removed), signifying the transition to the truce. So since the imagery in the Resurrections trailer is clear, that means it picks up where it ended and will move on from there.

The original matrix had a distinct tint to it. Green. The real world was blue.

This was...normal. Vivid, colourful even. It didn't feel like the matrix

> dystopic vision of a world permanently trapped on the verge of Y2K

What a precise description of my own perspective of the movie. Thank you! :)

Isn't too surprising for a movie released in 1999?

One of the charms of the original matrix was that it felt like a bash terminal. The actions of people inside the matrix felt like CLI operations. Programs fighting viruses.

This trailer appears to be more - Transformers-like. More explosions, more fight scenes and maybe some futile goal.

I hope I am wrong and I'm still going to watch it.

I think there's a danger of over-romanticizing a movie we all watched when we were a lot younger than we are today. The first Matrix movie absolutely had a lot of explosions, fight scenes and a futile (within the grand scheme of Matrix lore) goal.

I happen to like fight scenes, especially when they build up the lore.

But fight scenes as the main thing, once the lore is built up, makes for a full experience imo.

I agree, this doesnt scream punk, which is what made the originals so cool. Where is the leather, grit and slider phones?

I am totally underwhelmed. It feels like Inception meets Marvel.

> Lawrence Fishburn

Morpheus died in The Matrix Online which, for some reason, is considered canon.

> I loved the cinematography of the original film

Fixed that for you. 2nd and 3rd were the worst.

You can’t fix another persons subjective opinion.

While I'll happily agree that 2 and 3 are overall bad films, they are not uniformly bad films, like, every second of them is bad or something.

I've never gone looking for them but I bet there are excellent fan edits of them. There's plenty of good material there, it's just also surrounded by too much not so good material, and, sometimes, just plain too much material period.

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