11-08-2003, 10:38 AM
My disappointment regarding Revolutions is that instead of picking from a plethora of mindbending/boggling potential directions to go, the W.Bros went with a tamer route. Basically, they could have gone with the road less travelled and closed out the story arc by making the audience go "holy $#@&..."...though it would have required a lot more "daring" to drop that sort of bomb.
I went in with expectations of having to think...something to kick around over and over with friends whilst uttering "um...whoa...". Instead, I came out thinking "Oh, well there were some cool explosions and interesting images..." and pretty much not anything else. This is why I refer to Revolutions as the "lowest common denominator" flick.
Different people involved with the production of the trilogy were oftentimes heard gushing about the brilliance and genius of the W.Bros. In a way, I have to admit that on one front I don't disagree with them. They took a mindblowing story that had infinite promise and managed to dupe the general viewing populace into spending ducats to view Reloaded and Revolutions...expecting prime rib and getting chili-cheese-corndogs instead. The genius lies in the fact that they were able to hoodwink everyone for so long...
I went in with expectations of having to think...something to kick around over and over with friends whilst uttering "um...whoa...". Instead, I came out thinking "Oh, well there were some cool explosions and interesting images..." and pretty much not anything else. This is why I refer to Revolutions as the "lowest common denominator" flick.
Different people involved with the production of the trilogy were oftentimes heard gushing about the brilliance and genius of the W.Bros. In a way, I have to admit that on one front I don't disagree with them. They took a mindblowing story that had infinite promise and managed to dupe the general viewing populace into spending ducats to view Reloaded and Revolutions...expecting prime rib and getting chili-cheese-corndogs instead. The genius lies in the fact that they were able to hoodwink everyone for so long...