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Cloud Atlas, Speed Racer, and Sense8 ... flawed as they may be, are exactly what I want more of. I'm down for whatever they decide to do.

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I'd counter and say that any movie the Wachowski's/one of the Wachowski's wants to make is a movie that is necessary to the sanity of the human race. All I can really hope this time is that it doesn't take ten years for people to appreciate it like everything since the original Matrix.

This week I've watched Stuber, The Infiltrator, Signs, Parasite with my brother, Elysium, Bound, King Of New York, Kiki's Delivery Service, Payback, and The Bad and The Beautiful.

I enjoyed all of these movies. A few I've seen before. The two that really blew me away in my first-time viewings are King of New York and The Bad And The Beautiful. New York is easily my favorite Ferrara movie that just blew me away with its blend of exploitation thrills and genuine thematic resonance. Bad and Beautiful is one of the best movies I've seen about Hollywood and is another reason why Kirk is my favorite old Hollywood star. RIP you glorious bastard.

Kiki was another winner for Miyazaki, although it is on the lower end of the totem pole for me. Still, its charms just won me over.

Decided to watch Bound bc the Matrix set photos got me ready to finally fill up this blind spot. It's a great damn movie, but what is most wild to me is that it is so solidly a down to earth Noir that isn't swinging for the fences. I wasn't prepared for moderately restrained from the Wachowski's. It's truly even crazier that they followed this up with The god damn Matrix.

I think Elysium gets a bad break. Is it perfect? No. But the world-building and thematic interests in tandem with Neil's giddy B movie action aesthetic just works for me. Sadly, I think this one has aged all too well in a world where ICE is trying to keep people from reaching the land that can save their lives.

TV wise, I started watching Narcos and that has gotten its hooks into me. I love true crime and you can't go wrong with the Pablo Escobar story. Nor can you go wrong with the Harley Quinn cartoon, which is just slaying me with each demented episode. Slowly working my way through Clone Wars and loving each episode. So happy I get a 7th season at the end of that journey for me.

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I’m not the biggest fan of The Matrix series (also I will defend the sequels, don’t @ me) I never desired or wanted more and even I got a little giddy seeing that photo of Keanu and Carrie on the motorcycle. I think age sometimes has a lot to do with it. We are a generation (I’m 50) living thru batshit times and need a fix from something we know, we understand and maybe reminds us or relieves us of our current madness.

I’ll be there on opening night for Bill & Ted as well.

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I was just thinking that we didn’t need “Terminator: Genisys”, but here I am watching it on Netflix. I also watched “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny” last night and we needed that more than we’ll ever truly appreciate.

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I started the Watchmen series this week, which I loved but want to take slowly — to savor its quality, and to temper its intensity. And I finally got my eyes on Knives Out, which was so good I watched it twice. The kids loved it, too, so much they were dancing around the living room & cackling about their favorite parts as the credits played. So much fun.

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Right, Drew.

But we DO need a TERMIANTOR FUTURE WAR movie, right? ;) (Yes, I kid you..)

Yah, another MATRIX film doesn't seem "necessary" -unless it's the origin of Trinity. But, maybe I'm still naïve, but I'm actually getting curious what would fire up the Wachowskis to make another one, and that it was compelling enough to bring back Keanu and Carrie Ann.

When it comes down to it, you can say you don't need another film in a series, and be correct.

But in doing so, you also stop GODFATHER II, ALIENS, and TERMINATOR 2-JUDGEMENT DAY from existing.

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I was frustrated by the way the first trilogy of movies ended. If they can fix that with more films, I'm down.

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So I’m two episodes deep into Hunters. I don’t know if it’s necessary great TV, but there’s a moment where Al Pacino is ready to break out laughing from what another character said. If anything it seems like the crew and actors are having a damn good time, which at the end of the day I think that’s wonderful to see

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The world needs a new Wachowski movie.

Regardless of the title on the poster, I get the feeling this will largely be an original story, inspired by a very different chapter of life. I was told by a few folks working on the film that the themes being explored this time around were a direct result of the Wachowskis very recently losing both of their parents within the span of a year.

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Watched “Poetic Justice” for the first time. I’m late to the early Singleton films, but I love his voice. How is it his career went the way it went as a director in the 2000s? This was a sweet and endearing story.

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For me, it always boils down to this: Is there a valid creative reason for the sequel? A new idea/approach, and/or a good, exciting story? If so: Bring it on. If not, it more often than not feels like a cynical attempt to make a quick buck. As for "Matrix 4", I don't know yet. Did Lana really have a good idea for how to continue the story, or was it simply the safest/easiest option to continue working after Netflix cancelled Sense8? Only time will tell. However, for me, it's always harder for a franchise to come back when the previous movies gave me the feeling that the story was told to its end. Which certainly applies to the "Matrix"-trilogy.

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I'm pretty excited for a new Matrix movie, perhaps more from an experience angle than anything. I liked the first movie, loved the second movie, and hated the third. But all three were doing things with special effects that were pushing the tech at the time. If the new movie can do things we haven't seen before, and hopefully the story is imaginative and engaging, then I'm in.

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Jason Lei Howden sure turned out to be a giant, wet sack of human shit, eh?

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The only flick I managed to watch this weekend was 1971's THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, which I wanted to like, but couldn't quite get there. Really didn't like the ending. I did have fun looking up some of the locations on Google Maps to see how they look today, which is a goofy thing I tend to do.

Question for Drew - I've heard mention of a Taika Watiti "War of the Roses" project with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman attached, but I am slightly confused. Is it a film base on the 15th century civil war in England or a new adaptation of the Warren Addler novel that DeVito adapted in 1989? Honestly, either way I'm interested, but I would like to know which one is coming.

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While you are right that we don't specifically need any movie; when it comes to films in a series the question could be asked whether or not additional movies are a good idea as they may take away from the nice ending that the previous one had to tie the group of films together. In the case of The Matrix one could argue that we don't need another one. But I for one am curious to see it.

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My first impulse when I heard about a new matrix movie was why fuck up a legacy? But now that I’ve actually seen the two actors together again in set photos, I want to see the film.

Does anyone have any idea why the other Wachowski sibling is not involved in the production?

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