Why The First Matrix Movie Will Always Be The Best In The Franchise
On March 31, 1999, an action movie was released that would change the world of film forever. It would combine action sequences that rivaled anything and everything that had come before it, a cyberpunk setting that had come right out of a novel, and the existentialism that one would typically only find in a college classroom. The Matrix immediately became a cultural powerhouse, bringing red pills versus blue pills, bullet time, glitches in the Matrix, and amazing shades to the masses.
With audiences drawing in over 400 million dollars, it was inevitable that sequels would be made. But like many other franchises before and after The Matrix, the sequels did not measure up to the massive expectations that the original set. It's one of the few problems with having a wildly successful predecessor: most of the time, whatever comes afterward will only live in its own shadow.
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The sequels did what any would do with an unexpected mega-hit. Lily and Lana Wachowski went bigger, but as the saying goes, that's not always better. They even made tie-in media like the Animatrix and a video game with live-action cutscenes filmed from the set of The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions. The story got huge and so there came more they needed to tie in with the already thick Matrix lore. But as fans of other massive franchises know, the bigger you go, the harder you can fall.
The Matrix got overrun by the weeds of its own story to the point of not cutting itself out. In came scenes of minutes and minutes of characters going on about ideas that mostly just confused the audience. The sequels presented audiences with amazing concepts and ideas, but they weren't presented as
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