Reeves Rumors Reversed 156
AdmiralXyz writes "The rumor that Keanu Reeves was in talks with the Wachowski brothers to produce Matrix movies 4 and 5, in 3-D, is apparently just that. Representatives from Warner Bros. spoke to Wired and called the rumors 'bunk,' pointing out that the school Reeves was supposedly accepting an award from when he made the announcement doesn't actually exist. His publicists made similar statements. Perhaps the film deities have shown us mercy just this once."
There is a god (Score:3, Insightful)
and I am thanking him right now!
Testing the water (Score:4, Insightful)
You know, considering it can be done totally free, I wonder if there would be value in a studio creating a false rumor like this, then surveying the public response on social networks and sites like this in order to get a feel for the market / fanbase for potential sequel?
Re:There is a god (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know why people hate Matrix 2/3 so much.
Other than being one half hour too long, I thought it was a fine science-based fiction, as good as any of the classic novels (I Robot, Foundation, 2001, Ender's Game).
Your lack of taste is appalling. Seek help!
Re:There is a god (Score:3, Insightful)
Because The Matrix was a cult movie with a strong plot and some thought-provoking themes, while Matrix 2/3 was simply action flicks with good casting and shiny effects that brought nothing new to the franchise and simply churned money over it?
The Matrix was an excellent movie of immortal value. Matrix 2/3 was merely good action movies of passing notice only because of the original =P
I don't hate them, but I can surely see why fans of the original think they were bad for the story.
Re:There is a god (Score:5, Insightful)
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Why? People make movies, you don't want to see them, don't buy a ticket. You save some ridiculous amount of money and have a few hours extra to indulge in something you will enjoy. Why is that so hard?
I don't get all this scorn and derision. If you don't like something - a movie, a web site, Fox News - ignore it. Change the channel. Isn't that what people always say when fighting for freedom of expression versus censorship? "You don't like it, you don't have to watch it."
Re:There is a god (Score:4, Insightful)
Both the sequels had strong, thought provoking themes, they just dealt with the parts of philosophy that make everyone today edgy. Epistemology (how do we know what we think we know is real?) Is fun but it doesn't actually provoke fistfights most of the time. If someone starts discussing how we know that what you see as green isn't what I see as blue, we'd probably both roll our eyes and make a joke about laying off the whacky tobaccy - we may pitty the person who is unsure what is real, we may worry about his sanity, but we don't (most of us) feel threatened by his statements. Universality of Ethics (Neo isn't driven by Kantian imperatives to do what is 'universally' best, but by his specific emotive commitment to just one person (Trinity, of course), to do what's best for her.), and Free will vs. Predestination (particularly the Merovingian's take on it), both still give some people fits of blinding rage when they actually get invoked in conversations (for example, some people fight quite seriously over claims that a person was made to do something bad by society, to many people that's not just philosophy, it's politics), and I won't even mention what some people in the past have done over Philosophy of Religion issues. Matrix 2 and 3 went into areas of philosophy that more people get uncomfortable with. They didn't necessarily do it well, but they did it.
It's not even that the first one did a good job on the philosophy. Any speech about epistemology that uses such a distractingly, jarringly wrong metaphor for anyone who knows physics as Morpheus's coppertop soliloquy is certainly no better than the Merovingian's bits, and while the Architect's actions are not a really subtle, nuanced, mature commentary on how an all knowing being can allow evil either (unless you're a Gnostic and think he's representing the Demiurge, not the real God, then just maybe there's some little depth), at least there's some meaningful understatement from the actor there.