Need to finish Sense8. I stopped watching season 2 when I learned it was cancelled and I heard it ended on a cliffhanger. Did they ever end up doing that movie that tied up the loose ends that I heard about?
i have been looking at Sens8 info for the last day or two to determine whether I was gonna try again to watch it. (I made it about 5-6 episodes into the first season, it just felt interminably long to me the last time I tried... but I really want to get through it.)
Yes, my understanding is that the extra-long finale episode aired on June 8, 2018. So it's all there if you are committed to getting through it. The finale is supposed to double-down on the good and bad of the series, so pretty much it's what you might expect.
I think the Wachowskis don't always hit, but at least even their failures are interesting to look at. Jupiter Ascending is a pretty bad movie that I really wanted to like, but it looks really cool.
Yeah -- it's the only reason I would consider watching it again and/or getting a cheap 4k copy. The dialogue is just terrible, so bad it's difficult to get through the film.... but I remember it being so spectacularly gorgeous! I liked the three Abrasax siblings too.
"Cloud Atlas" is just near and dear to my heart, despite its flaws. I rewatch that movie on a pretty consistent basis. I think The Matrix, Cloud Atlas, and Bound are my favorites... I really would like Matrix 4 to work.
With the trailer coming out, I rewatched every movie. The Matrix, as always, just a 10/10 film. You can sort of see the dorky/cringe dialogue and elements that would infect the sequels but there is such a purpose to the story propelling everyone from one scene/revelation to the next, and none of the obtuse obfuscation in terms of dialogue that might seem deep on the surface but really just hides flimsy structure.
it's really quite elegant in that sense. The pacing is great, it's well-edited, the set and costume design is spectacular, and it's a very accessible film regardless of what the viewer brings to the table. Everyone feels like it is speaking to them, despite the fact it was mostly a secreted trans allegory story driving some of the metaphor. Christians and existentialists alike find meaning in it.
The Merovingian was an interesting look into this 3rd world of exiled programs but their conversation dragged and didn't have a lot of purpose.
The gist is that every effect needs a cause, and if you don't understand why you are doing something, then you're just a pawn of the effect pushing you towards a cause... but Lambert Wilson's scene-stealing aside, yeah, it's way too wordy and hard to understand how it actually reflects on our trio of leads. I mean, despite the Oracle supposedly providing insight to Neo, they are only going to get the Key at her orders, which suggests they are just pawns regardless (whether her plan, or the Architect's, or whoever's). The cake was just excess and belabored the point, although I guess it's unforgettable. To put it all another way, though -- I really liked what they were trying to say... if I could hone in on specifically how what they were saying applied to the plot.
The scene in the bathroom with Persephone might have been my favorite scene in the movie -- it is edited and shot and acted and scored so beautifully, and it's ominous, suggesting future inevitable loss. But it almost feels like it belongs in a different film.
I liked Smith's reveal as the virus he compared humanity to in the first film.
That was a really nice touch.
I will say, I'm glad this is here. I think Lana has a lot to say, as a lot has happened in the past 20 years, both in the world and to her personally. I really liked the attempt at Cloud Atlas, and I really was in to Sense8, hell, I even found things to like about Jupiter Ascending. The Wachowski's have big ideas, they think deeply about the human experience, and frankly they have delved into that human experience enough for me to always listen to what they have to say. There's a world where this is really good. And one where it's sort of meh and that's fine.
I'm feeling like part of the message of Reloaded and Revolutions was related to real-life issues for the Wachowskis, notably Lana with her marriage ending and also (based on the news flowing at the time) likely being when she was making incremental changes related to her gender transition even though it didn't become officially public for a few years. It's hard to be coherent about anything when you're immersed in all that inner turmoil, fear of how it will impact your life including career and well-being (they had quickly ascended up the success ladder, and were trying to hard to avoid any publicity), and then burning focus and energy to make those kind of changes clandestinely. A person only has so much sanity and mental/emotion energy to tap into. I wouldn't be surprised if this is one reason the later Matrix films suffered unfortunately, it's just a lot to deal with including the stress levels.
