#63

Yes, Reloaded is the second one and Revolutions the third. I don’t remember a single thing from Revolutions apart from the very end.

But don’t forget the anthology the Animatrix or the videogames Enter The Matrix and Path of Neo, or the graphic novel series! All of which you had to keep up to make any sense of the storyline.

World of bullshit.

#64

There are 5 die hard films apparently

#65

The Zion Rave bit is one of the worst film scenes ever. Also, an annoying thing about the Matrix sequels was how they expected you to go and watch The Animatrix and play Enter the Matrix to understand who some of the characters were and what the fuck was going on.

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#66

I’m almost certain there were only ever 3 Die Hard films.

#67

I thought that a few of the Animatrix bits were way better than both of the proper sequels.

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#68

I guess with Harry Potter it’s because there’s loads of background info that gets put in, and clues for plot twists future episodes. I know a translator who did the Harry Potter books in her language, and I know the translators had to be given a lot more notes than normal, because there was a lot of stuff that could ruin setups for future twists.

#69

Hard, harder, hardest

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#70

The Hardening, Hard Times, Hard Luck, Workin’ Hard or Hardly Workin’

#71

A long time since I saw any of it, but from what I recall it was roughly a third decent, a third okay but unnecessary and a third bullshit. Presumably the CGI’s dated horribly by now too. The whole Matrix universe was a massive missed opportunity really - it was a world full of opportunities for interesting spin-offs and sequels.

#72

Even the first film is hard for me to watch now. It’s just so full of cheesily delivered dialogue in the first half.

I believe that fight was called ‘The Burley Brawl’ and my god the Matrix fanboys went nuts for it. I was bored just watching the first minute of that.

#73

Yes that but generally children’s (and YA) books don’t bother with description and try not to bore the readers. They are already a very tight story, which is why when it’s a good story like The Hunger Games it can be weirdly exhausting to make your way through the whole book.

For example, I love Dick Francis books - really easy, simple thrillers that you can read as quickly as the first Hunger Games book but you could put them in a 90 minute film with ease. (I realise the contemporary setting is part of this.)

#74

Main recollection of ‘Revolutions’ was how disconnected the character close ups seemed to the fighting. There were a lot of shots of people apparently manning big defence guns while the colony was under attack but really just got a close up of some guy going “AAAAARRRRGGHGHH” while looking off into the distance and apparently holding buttons on the guns down.

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#75

Children’s books tend to feel freer to throw lots of stuff at the reader and expect them to deal with it than a pulp adult book which is aimed at being relaxing and not too much effort.

I dunno if you know the children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones? (She did Howl’s Moving Castle but also a lot of other books that aren’t as well known, but are well-loved by the people that have read them). I interviewed her a little while before she died, and she had a thing about comparing writing for adults and children, in that children expect everything to be new and difficult, and you can throw weird things or words they don’t know at them and they just take it in their stride because they expect reading to be a bit of a challenge, whereas a lot of adults will just turn off if you do that.

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#76

All Hannibal spin offs
You heard me

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#77

Should’ve just left it after the whole Elephants in the Alps thing

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#78

That’s now a banned act!!!

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#79

The bit with the bus was total clown shoes.

Good fun though.

#80

Kick Ass

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#81

James Bond

#82

Spiderman’s various incarnation’s