The Matrix Resurrections: a review in bullet points 🎥 fabiorusso.net

@ohBananaJoe @fabio I think Ressurections is a setup for a television series. I watched it but wish I had not. The trilogy is where the Matrix universe ends for me. I did not need this last movie.

@fabio After our conversation on @HemisphericViews I need to page @martinfeld - I wonder what his thoughts about your take would be?

@khurtwilliams they could have done so much with it. Even the story told in dialogue about the machines having a civil war lets you think. Let’s imagine not only artificial life created by the human kind, life that wars us, but then wars against itself? Why we not watching that?

@ohBananaJoe I am sure I misunderstood many things and I look forward to learning more. “Nobody touch my baby” not a good reason to make a movie. If you don’t wanna do it let someone else take the shot. Or not, but then you don’t get to use the unwillingness to do it as the justification and free pass on why the movie’s bad.

“Warner bad” cool on a Hollywood interview, not as a fresco on 10 minutes of runtime. And sure movie as an expression of the filmmaker’s mind is great, but good movies have more. This doesn’t.

@ohBananaJoe by the way thank you for reacting to my humble review, I really appreciate discussing this.

Hi, @fabio! I enjoyed reading your review after @canion tagged me above—thanks for the notification, Andrew!

I hope you don’t mind, but as someone who really enjoyed Resurrections, and meeting the expectations that Andrew probably has for one of my typically-long responses 😂, I thought that I'd write a counter-review that is based on my own opinion and understanding of the franchise. (I very much enjoyed writing it after reading yours carefully.)

As you’ll notice, I disagree with your assessment, but that’s what makes it fun! 👍🏽 I’ve written each answer to match and address the headings and bullet-points of your initial blog post. Thank you for tolerating my very long response; I'd love to hear if you have any further thoughts!

Apologies to @jean and everyone else here for the fact that the post was all originally in the reply.

@martinfeld @fabio This has to be the most epic opus of a reply ever to grace the servers of micro.blog. 😆

@canion not just micro.blog I feel! In fact ‘Epic’ doesn’t do justice!!

@canion @johnphilpin Thank you both for your acknowledgement! 👍🏽😂

@martinfeld Remember when people were asking for a character limit on replies? 🤨

@jean Oh whoops! I don’t recall that actually! To me, this is what makes Micro.blog so much better than Twitter and others: you can have an extended conversation or thought process that isn’t necessarily broken into bits. (I do apologise for destroying people’s feeds today though.)

@martinfeld I agree it’s nice to be able to have longer replies. I just wanted to put my snide comment out there to discourage others from being quite that long!

Originally we envisioned that people would post longer replies as a blog post. We could truncate longer responses. But hopefully you haven’t started a trend and we’ll keep things as they are.

@jean Now that you say it, of course it should have been linked as a separate post! In the back of my mind as I wrote it, I thought it would collapse into an opening sentence/heading and link as longer posts do, then I published it, saw that it was whole and thought, Whoops, well it’s there now…

Please feel free to use my essay-reply as an example of what not to do on Micro.blog. 🙂

@jean I have rectified the issue by republishing and linking it within the thread as a separate post. Thanks for your patience!

@martinfeld I’m going to add a hidden feature unlock in the next version of Gluon that triggers when you get past your reply character count 😂

@vincent That’s a good idea!

@martinfeld oh wow!! I'm super humbled and grateful my post spawned this. Will read and comment asap. Thanks so much for the discussion. 🐱 and a +1 on conversations here being unburdened by artificial limits.

@martinfeld @fabio wow. Point / Counterpoint. I’ll have to go watch it for a 3rd time. I enjoyed the movie on a purely entertainment and escapism level. I spend 50-60 hours a week running restaurants and don’t have the brainpower, but really enjoyed reading both views

@hawaiiboy @martinfeld @fabio - it’s still on my list to watch the first time - I feel there is no need to any longer 😇

@martinfeld I think it’s only you and me that needs it

@JohnPhilpin Why did you keep reading with the spoiler warning at the top?!

Also yes, maybe just long responses for us! 😂

@hawaiiboy Thanks for reading both! I encourage a third viewing.

@martinfeld quicker to read it than watch the movie 🥸

@fabio Thanks for kicking off the discussion!

@fabio I would watch a movie about machine civil war. 🍿

@martinfeld Thank you for doing that. I didn’t read the post because I still haven’t seen the new film yet, but something so epic should live on your blog for posterity. 🙂

@jean A great point! I look forward to seeing it appear on my 'On this Day' page. An amusing memory!

@khurtwilliams Agreed! I wouldn't argue with an extra film about that. I'd also love to see what would happen (in another film or extension of the story) if they were actually to succeed in unplugging the majority of humans from the Matrix simultaneously.