[Aloofi]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:


Funny I did not really like the first movie.... But I liked the second one.

Hehe, I'm exactly the oposite, I didn't like the second one, but I love the first one.

What I didn't like in Matrix Reloaded:

1- Martial arts.
It was lame. Unlike in the first movie in which a very careful work was done, in this one there were some mistakes, it felt like opera, like choreography. Most hits were not concentrated at the contact point, tecnique was poor, especially in the lower train (legs position) while doing upper train hits. (you can see this in Neo's fight with the program protecting the Oracle). Neo's and Morpheous's styles were good looking, but failed to concentrate their hits. Most other styles were rather poor.

2-Computer Animation.
This one was the movie killer for me. Computer Generated characters were use in close up takes, showing openly that they were not real. The worst scene was the fight between Neo and Agent Smith. about half way into the scene Neo becomes a CG character, and it pushed me completely out of the movie, it was so awful that it felt like there was somebody else fighting in there! Also of notice is the scene of Neo flying. I wonder why they dare to use CG characters in close ups. That brakes completely with the principle of special effects of trying to make believe the audience that its real. On the other hand, the free way scene have a many CG cars and trucks, and with the exception of the 2 trucks that crash at the end, you can't tell which one is real and which one is not. This is because unanimated objects can be made very crediable with computers, but living things, especially humans, can not. They didn't even use photo mapping like in Lords of the Rings with the Gollum character. Basicly, the effectes were not bad, but they were poorly used, so the blame is completely on the Wachoski brothers, not the companies making the effects.

3- The message.
The anti-media, anti corporative message is still there, but it took me 2 times watching the movie to see it. Why? Because now their message is hidden below an extra layer of misiformation. Because now the Matrix is a major movie, part of the stablishment, a big buck maker, unlike the first one, that was a risky uber-indie filmed in Australia and an unexpected box office hit. Still, you can dig out the message by the names of characters, ships, the city, by some lines said mostly by supporting characters (unlike in the first one) and by many visual clues, which is actually an improvement from the first one, in which most info was spoken by the main characters.

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