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Filming of Matrix 4 Brings 'Excitement, Some Damage' to San Francisco (nbcbayarea.com) 100

"It's only been a few months since we learned that The Matrix 4 was actually a real movie that was going to actually happen, and was actually going to star Keanu Reeves, and now the movie is actually filming in San Francisco..." writes Cinema Blend. "However, making things real is apparently causing real damage in the city by the bay."

NBC Bay Area reports: Filming of "The Matrix 4" brought helicopters, explosions and cars flipping in the air to San Francisco over the weekend, but it also resulted in some damage. The heat from the explosions was so intense it melted the covers of a couple building lamps and melted the plastic cover of an advertising street sign. Workers who replaced the plastic said it cost about $2,000...

Filming of "The Matrix 4" in San Francisco wraps up on Sunday.

BGR reports that a few locals shared their own videos of the filming online, including one Twitch social media analyst who found prop cars at the old Transbay terminal that "smelled freshly burnt."

One YouTube user also shared footage of what they describe as "Keanu Reeves or Stunt Double Jumping off building in San Francisco."
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Filming of Matrix 4 Brings 'Excitement, Some Damage' to San Francisco

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  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday February 29, 2020 @05:43PM (#59782802)
    I don't mean they're bad, but I never understood the hype. Aside from the silliness of using humans as an energy supply I grew up on Kung Fu movies and had already seen that kinda wire-fu stuff before. I'm not a big gun action kinda guy though so that might explain my reaction. I'm more a "giant robots and space battles" guy.
    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      Movies? There was only one Matrix movie. Not sure what Matrix 4 refers to, since there was no Matrix 2 or 3.

    • Re: (Score:1, Funny)

      by aeropage ( 6536406 )

      Both the Wachowski brothers removed their dicks. That in itself is sufficient for endless Hollywood praise and 4 Oscars.

      Uh oh, I'm about to get downmodded. Good thing the creator of this actual Holographic Universe has my back.

    • by Misagon ( 1135 )

      The first movie was also released during what-you-could-call "peak cyberpunk". That's part of the reason why it got hype. And after Johnny Mnemonic, Keanu Reeves may also have been the cyberpunkiest actor of them all.
      Yes, the movie took many elements from Kung Fu and Anime, but those were new to most of the Western audience at the time.

      The two sequels were not as well liked as the first, and are often considered to be redundant.
      Personally, I feel like the new movie is even more redundant: Cyberpunk is not a

      • by aeropage ( 6536406 ) on Saturday February 29, 2020 @07:20PM (#59782972)

        Still waiting for Neuromancer. -That-, I want to see.

        • God no, we've had 'Johnny Mnemonic' already as an adaptation of a William Gibson work with Keanu Reeves in it, and it was awful.

          For me, part of the romance of Neuromancer is it being in text only, so I can make up my own pictures for how the Future looks.

      • Cyberpunk, yes, but in retrospect it seemed to anticipate the superhero movies that have been so dominant for so long now.

        That was my beef with it though. Once they're in a simulation and therefore no laws of physics apply, why is anything interesting or surprising or anything else? "Whoah, there are two agent Smiths! Now 6! Now 50, 100!!!"

    • by Anonymous Coward

      I don't mean they're bad, but I never understood the hype. Aside from the silliness of using humans as an energy supply I grew up on Kung Fu movies and had already seen that kinda wire-fu stuff before. I'm not a big gun action kinda guy though so that might explain my reaction. I'm more a "giant robots and space battles" guy.

      I'd say the quality of the writing was good was better than average. I'm a fan, so I'm biased, but as real hardcore sci-fi, it was such relief to see after years and years of soft, fluffy pseudo-sci-fi that was, and is, really much more fantasy, than science, fiction. It didn't hurt that the special effects combined and perfected the transition between intensely fast fight scenes and the slowed down detail often missed in the heat of the moment. Acting was good, so was casting. They created an effective alt

    • Everyone but the first was indeed bad.

    • The first movie was amazing.
      • The first movie was amazing.

        It was. The film takes itself too seriously to hold up as well as it might have. When your buddy explains some crazy philosophy to you while you are both in high school, it's pretty novel. When he does it in middle age, still, it's a drag.

      • by antdude ( 79039 )

        Ditto. Sequels, meh. I am not expecting much from this fourth one.

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      The idea of a secret cold war taking place in what we think of as reality was quite compelling, and it was well done and stylish. The budget wasn't huge so they had to limit the scope which actually made it a lot better.

      The sequels just ditched that and now Neo goes around destroying entire cities and Agent Smith kills most of the human race, culminating in a Dragon Ball Z / Hokuto no Ken fanfic crossover. There were some interesting philosophical ideas but they were not presented well.

    • and had already seen that kinda wire-fu stuff before

      Given the number of technological innovations that went into the first matrix film I think we can all conclusively cough an *ahem* bullshit *ahem* in your general direction. Equating what was going on in the first Matrix film to general kung fu wire stuff is simply asinine.

    • As the first movie goes, it was rather ground breaking technically the special effects were very well done and fresh. Of course, after 20 years of boring CGI yawnfests, it may seem a bit "meh" by today's standards, but you could also say the same about other movies like Star Wars.

      I do agree that the sequels just weren't that good. Once into the 2000's you really couldn't carry a movie with just special effects anymore, and it's clear they didn't know where to take the story after the first movie - mostly

  • Another? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Orgasmatron ( 8103 ) on Saturday February 29, 2020 @06:01PM (#59782834)

    Sweet! They are finally making a second Matrix movie? Odd to call it "Matrix 4", but whatever.

    • Maybe it's like Star Wars, starting on episode IV and they'll fill in the gap with prequels later...

      I'm not one to prognosticate, but I'm not sure that bodes well for the quality of episodes 2 and 3...

    • by majorme ( 515104 )
      I wish people would stop perpetuating this stupid joke. They've taken a note from Cameron and have been filming Matrix 3 and 4 simultaneously for months. That's the reason you see 4 in the name. They are making TWO new movies
    • In this one Neo finds out he is actually "The Eno" and makes some ambient synthesizer music.
  • They went from 1 to 4 ? What happend to Maxtrix 2 and 3 ?

  • There was a Matrix 2 & 3? How time flies when you don't give a shit.
  • When they banned cars, I'll bet you thought it was going to be all sunshine and roses.

  • Matrix 4? Yawn. I am waiting for something more... excellent. [imdb.com]
  • Coming in the Matrix 5, an AI version of Mark Fuckerberg achieves sentience and rampages throughout the entire star system obliterating privacy every place it goes,.
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  • 1 --> 4???

    Oh right.. this must be that sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. Causes the second movie to be numbered four instead of two.

  • Also filming in Chicago. Which the previous movie used street names from.
  • Brought to you by the same people that say *you* need to drive less, turn down your thermostat and forgo many other things - for pollution's sake.
  • As long as Neo doesn't ride out a nuke in a lead-lined refrigerator, we might be okay.
    • I was watching them film from my office window and didn't see them with a refrigerator, I did on the other hand watch them shut down a cafe tear everything out of it and make it into a cafe with a different name.
  • This is definitely going to be one of those soft-reboots they do now. They even have an in-universe excuse to do it. Think like a booze-addled Hollywood hack writer: After Neo blew up in Matrix 3, the machines weren't defeated and had to recoup. They re-instantiated a copy of Neo because they realized the Matrix was too unstable without a true Hero to look up to. Little did the machines know but a tiny fragment of Agent Smith yet lived in some dark corner of the Matrix, where he is gathering his streng

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