I remember when not every movie that came out was an existing property that was milked for all it was worth.
I don't even care about that. There's plenty of franchises that I like and have no problem with them continuing on for however long interest sustains them. At the end of the day, I have endless love for multiple franchises that are well past their 25th iteration in each case
I mean, I'm not even actually
angry or upset or anything about them making a new Matrix. They can go ahead and make it and I'll reserve judgement and maybe catch it on blu-ray or TV or whatever somewhere down the line. No, my reaction is mostly just confusion. I just don't get it from any perspective beyond the studio really liking the cashflow. The first movie was great, Reloaded was pretty good, Revolutions was a mess. Nothing the Wachowskis have done since then has been all that great (at best. They've produced some real clunkers at worst), and I'm confused about plugging back into this franchise (pun intended) by resurrecting
both your lead and primary supporting character after they each bought it in the last movie.
I'm getting M.Night Shamwow vibes here where it's like there's desperation to restore a once-lauded directorial stable by going back to a formerly popular well far too late to really do anything. Jupiter Ascending was their The Last Airbender (ye gods was that an unholy firestorm of awfulness), and this is like Glass or whatever the one he just did that tried to go back to the well of Unbreakable and that more recent movie with James McAvoy (the name escapes me). Either that or the one returning Wachowski is just so desperate for sweet, sweet studio money that she let the suits badger her into making exactly the kind of movie a marketing department asks for, damn the sensibility of it from a storytelling perspective.