What went wrong?

>remember the importance of Neo understanding the Matrix in the first film?
>That's not important anymore
>Here's a goblin orgy to make you feel gross

Merv was cool and expanding the verse worked in some ways. They dropped ball in third.

Made ten years too early since neuroimaging is only now becoming a thing.

But would that have even been a thing had Matrix not come out?

Was not needed

huh?

Origin stories, at least for me, and nigh unwatchable after the first viewing.

Take the rave scene and horrible sex scenes out along with any of the last minute tie-in garbage and it'd be a perfect sequel.

"Upgrades"

Also this

early 00s audiences went in expecting an epic action movie like the first one and got pwned

not enough kung fu

Farming humans makes a fuck ton more sense if they were turning into machine learning nodes since there would be no need to teach anything since the human mind already has it built-in.

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We got to see Poor Man's Demi Moore and her brapper dipped in latex once again i think.

FPBP. It was awesome. They even built the highway.

youtu.be/jG-45RHWlU0

It was created by women.

Lots and lots of things.
The action setpieces called attention to hemselves as setpieces. The plot felt forced to feed the setpieces instead of the setpieces emerging organically from the plot.
Smith is a lot more interesting as a vulnerable individual than as a maniacal virus.
Many extremely wooden scenes - chemistryless Neo/Trinity love scenes, dull exposition Neo/Oracle scene, over the top cheesy and wooden Merovingian scenes (that Merovingian forcing an orgasm scene and the Monica Belucci insisting on kissing Neo scenes are cringe).
Dull new characters such as those ghost brothers that get no development and are just there to try to shoehorn in some cybergoth aesthetics.
Trinity and Morpheus act like robots and don't have the charisma they have in the first film (I'll give the movie some credit and say that matbe it was intentional).
Loss of the cyberpunk slow-paced mystic wonder that made for the best scenes in the first film.
The Matrix no longer seems a full world of plugged-in people going about their deluded virtual lives - instead it seems to be a depopulated backdrop for actiom scenes, long before this could be explained by the Smith virus. Where are all the plugged-in humans? We barely see any.
The various Zion characters fail to make me care about Zion because of wooden writing and mediocre acting. Zion never feels like the last bastion of humanity under attack, it feels like some weird boring place full of dull bureaucrats and one-note characters who only exist to praise Neo or give exposition.
I like some things about the Matrix sequels. I like that they move away from the simple good-vs-bad Cambellian monomyth that the ending of the first film sets up and introduce gray moral areas and a complexity in the human-machine relations. But the execution is poor.

>she

>has a dick

They didnt' stop after the first one, when the setting was solved

because everybody wanted more, literally EVERYBODY

ok? How does that contradict my statement?

>dude, human rights

larry was hypnotised by his dominatrix fetish partner and was more interested in getting his testicles electrocuted, being anally fisted and dressing up as a little anime girl than making a film. This is the true reason by the way.

What went right was my dick when Monicca Bellucci was on screen

Story ended with the first one. They added a truckload of unnecessary and contradictory shit to milk it's success.
The Matrix is a fantastic movie and the only one you need to see. The rest is just a cashgrab.
Realoaded still has good parts and a great chase scene.
Revolutions is shit.