Dear Andy and Larry,
I know that you must be basking in the warm glow of all those positive reviews for Speed Racer-they both had nice things to say. I realize that Speed Racer was just following in the footsteps of Dick Tracy-a film that pretty much ended the actor careers of Madonna and Warren Baetty, though to be honest, I haven’t missed either one of them. So I am not even going to ask why you thought making a movie out of a forty year old cartoon was a good idea, or why anyone would have given you the money to make it.
We all know why you were given the money to make it-The Matrix.
I would like to thank you, Wachowski Brothers, for making The Matrix-in my humble opinion the Best Movie Ever. I would then like to ask you a favor-please make a sequel to The Matrix.
The other day I went to see Hancock-not a bad movie, just not a great one. One of the Trailers had Keanu Reeves and was kind of dark and had a feel of computers and the end of the world. For just a moment-it looked like a sequel to The Matrix and there was a sudden holding of breath in the theater. Then it turned out to be The Day The Earth Stood Still and everyone said-Oh, right. Just what we need-one crappy remake.
Now I know that you made two more movie set, more or less, in the Matrix universe. A lot less than more. At the end of The Matrix, as I’m sure you are well aware, Neo became a God. He could kill Agents, crash the Matrix when it tried to run a search on him, and he could fly. The flying was the least important aspect of Neo’s new powers-Neo was The One-who could REMAKE the Matrix as he saw fit.
Now I understand that having Neo become a God limited your story options a bit. There can’t be a totally pointless car chases-which you seemed proud of being the most expense car chase EVER(also the most boring car chase EVER)-as Neo would not be restricted by the laws of time and space that govern the Matrix. At least you were able to use the boring car tricks in Speed Racer to make it shockingly boring as well. Neo wouldn’t even need the doors that the bad guys use in the other Matrix movies, he would just be wherever he wanted to be.
So you choose to forget the last ten minutes of The Martix-fine, you can do that and never explain why. Then you did it again with Reloaded-you skipped the last ten minutes where the world should have ended and Neo had Real Power in the Real World. Easier to forget about it than to try and make sense of it-or even mention it in Revolutions. So in effect what we had with Reloaded and Revolutions were two alternate Universes where the Neo we meet in The Matrix never existed.
I want to see a movie with the Neo from the last ten minutes of The Matrix as the main character. And I think I am not alone in this. If they can reboot The Hulk, then by God, You Can ReBoot The Matrix. Really, we’ll all forget that those other two movies ever happened. I have already mostly forgotten them.
The Matrix was a near perfect film-Orson Wells never made a sequel to Citizen Kane and Margaret Mitchell never wrote a sequel to Gone With The Wind. We never found out what happened to Rick after the credits rololed on Casablanca. Speileberg wanted to make a sequel to Close Encounters, but ended up with ET instead.
If your other Matrix movies had been other stories set in the Matrix Universe, it might have been alright. But you had to murder Neo and Trinity and turn Morpheus into a coward hiding in the basement. This is totally unacceptable. Make a sequel to The Matrix. Bring back the original Agents as well, forget all that bullshit with Agent Smith and the Upgrades. Forget the cast of a thousand Programs and tell the story of THE PEOPLE trapped in The Matrix.
I didn’t need to see Zion and didn’t like it when I did see it. The story was changed from Freeing Humanity, to saving Zion-complete with the pointless bickering of politicians over exactly how to save Zion. Billions of slaves or a handful of jerks? Let’s save the handful of jerks and forget we ever mentioned the Billions of Slaves. I want the Wachowski Brotherss to make a sequel that faces the real issues raised in the Matrix-death for the machines, means death for humanity-but it would be a good death.
We all want a new Matrix Movie-please give it a try.
