My thoughts on Resurrections. Spoilers! You've been warned.

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(22-12-2021, 05:40 PM)Othinn Wrote: Well, that was an interesting ride.

I went in fully expecting MxO to be deemed non-canon, and while it doesn't actually say whether it is or not, the 60 years between Revolutions and Resurrections gives it some "wiggle room."

The biggest problem I could see is what happened to the real Morpheus after Revolutions. But that could potentially be explained thanks to the (in-universe) rumors that Morpheus faked his death and went into hiding. He could have come back at some point after the end of MxO.

Surprisingly, there are a few things in the movie that resonate fairly well with MxO.

Eh, Morpheus was rather instantly made into the head of the Zion council after M3, and he remained there until the end - which contradicts the way he instantly went rogue in MxO.

The 2 are alternate continuations of M3, sharing no continuity at all as far as I can think - however various elements do reoccur in altered form:
-Morpheus dies, but there's a digital clone of him originally starting out as an "antagonist" but then not
-Oracle dies
-Zion destroyed, new city is built
-Neo and Trinity do survive, and the Machines are doing weird horror experiments on them (as the worst fears in MxO might have entailed) - Neo is living in the Matrix hidden behind a different identity
-the new operator is wearing a headset that looks straight out of MxO (whoever those were, forgot - the extraction NPCs? or some coder tool you would wear?)

Maybe a few other things I'm not thinking of atm


Overall both somewhat character-assassinated Morpheus - in one he becomes a destructive zealot with no sufficient justification (unless I missed something), and in the other an effete snob who enjoys his new leader position (acc. to cynical Niobe anyway) and then just lets himself get killed.
I mean he'd already been partially "deconstructed" as early as in the 1st movie, but there's really no comparison.


Other than that, various points and aspects that can be discussed (incl. in response to the 2nd post here), but maybe later or idk - pretty much just watched it once as of now, so might have some brain gaps atm lol