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[M.W.]

 

[BlackTron]

It really is all just a simulation.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[IDKFA]

So a remake of the Matrix with Will Smith as Neo?

No thanks. Does anybody really stay up at night and wonder what the Matrix would have been like if Will Smith played Neo?

More creative bankruptcy from Hollywood.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

 

[Tokio Blues]

It must be a joke. Come on, why ruin my favourite saga of all time?

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[RCX]

There is 1 matrix film. Only. 1.

 

[sono]

Is there a punchline

 

[thefool]

Wild wild west is better than matrix 4

 

[ManaByte]

This movie will slap.

 

[lachesis]

So he will slap the agent? Or will the agent slap him?

 

[Fake]

Why?

 

[Tokio Blues]

 

[ManaByte]

So he will slap the agent? Or will the agent slap him?

I know slap-fu

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Is there a punchline

A slapline

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Matrix 4 was one of the only movies that I ever felt was mad at me as the viewer for watching the movie. Like it was my fault the movie was made.


Anything HAS to be better than that. Even a movie made entirely from Unreal 5 with am entire cast digital actors.

 

[Kvally]

Ah no.

 

[Tomeru]

Plot twist - it will be better...




Then wild wild west.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[T8SC]

Awww hell naww.

Don't hate the player, hate the simulation.

 

[Kvally]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

There is 1 matrix film. Only. 1.

I saw Matrix 1 maybe 3 weeks ago on TV by pure luck. I hadnt watched it in ages. Such an awesome movie.

I've only watched 2 and 3 once long time ago. Never watched the recent one. Looks like nobsy cared about the last one as it made hardly any money in theatres.

The second and third movies are so forgettable the only things I remember were the albino twins being hyped up and they were barely in the movies. And in the las movie (I think), there was some older Black guy in Zion city machine gunning endless drones where the movie become one giant shoot em up mechwarrior video game. Total junk.

 

[violence]

Good, I was ready to smack someone

 

[Dirk Benedict]

The internet sucks, except for GAF.

 

[MMaRsu]

Wild wild west is better than matrix 4

Having recently rewatched Wild Wild West.... No LMAO

BUT it does have this

So one that note maybe it is better?

But then there's also this....

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I know slap-fu

 

[M.W.]

I assume it'll be another Kia commercial then, a la

 

[SJRB]

 

[Ristifer]

Kinda want this to be true, just so I can laugh.

 

[ReBurn]

Wild Wild West was a better fit for Will Smith

 

[AJUMP23]

Cool I guess.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Does he get slapped in or out of the matrix?

 

[INC]

No thanks

 

[Rockondevil]

Wild wild west is better than matrix 4

In other news water is wet.

Wild Wild West is a great movie.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Badlucktroll]

will smith for sure would have made a matrix song like how me made wicky wild wild west

 

[Quasicat]

I think this turned me off permanently.

More on topic: I think this turned me off permanently.

 

[Vyse]

Nope.

 

[Ownage]

Wasn't Jada in the Matrix films?

 

[Chuck Berry]

Bullet time face slaps. Nice.

 

[T-0800]

 

[chakadave]

Can Keanu put out a tweet claiming he is being earased?

Wasn't Jada in the Matrix films?

Yeah she was. or at least the video game.

 

[digital_ghost]

Hollywood took the Will Pill.

 

[Days like these...]

This has to be a reboot if it's going to have a chance. I'm skipping it anyway I wont watch anything with will smith in it.

 

[Days like these...]

Maybe what he's trying to tell everyone is that he left that insufferable woman he's married to. He's left the matrix and will live for real.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

As if they hadn't already flushed their franchise down the toilet, they're following it to the sewerage treatment facility to find it and take a big dump on it.

 

[Dacvak]

You idiots are missing the bigger picture here.

We're FINALLY gonna get Keanu Reeves in Wild Wild West!

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Will Smith could have played Keanu Reeves' role of Neo in "The Matrix," but he turned it down. The actor explained he was baffled by director Lana and Lilly Wachowski's pitch, which failed to convey how groundbreaking the movie would be.

I wonder what the pitch was, it seems obvious having seen the film at the time that it was miles ahead of other mainstream blockbusters, but I guess it's not automatically easy to convey that. A good concept, but the realisation of it, the visuals, the cool, all wouldn't have been there to help. At the time of the pitch, Smith would have been riding high after two massive hits, Independence Day and Men In Black, had proven him as a mainstream movie star able to carry a sci fi blockbuster. You can imagine he was fielding loads of sci fi movie scripts all hoping to do the same. To that end, it's not so surprising that Smith passed on something that didn't seem overwhelmingly convincing, or that he'd maybe fear becoming type cast.

Apparently Val Kilmer was going to be Morpheus if Smith had wanted to be Neo.

Just thinking about those movies has made me think about how many great films there were back then. Before superhero slop took over the multiplexes.