I don't have much to add here but I offer this as a curiosity: Bruce Campbell's cult classic Army of Darkness was released in the US and the UK with different endings. I suppose the US ending was seen by more of the world than the UK ending but to those in Britain I have to assume that the ending we all believe to be the "real" ending is to them the "alternate" ending. So what happens if they were to make a fourth film?
As for The Matrix I didn't loathe the sequels even though they were far inferior. Keanu needed to lose the sunglasses and more time should have been devoted to the script, but the movies as they are still have some good ideas in them, they're just not fully developed; victims, I think, of a studio system that simply can't sit still waiting for the filmmaker (or filmmakers) to deliver another surefire blockbuster (as usual, to a film they never expected to be a hit in the first place). Plus I think the initial audience reaction to Reloaded would have been ENTIRELY different had they kept Agent Smith a secret somehow.
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Date: 2006-07-08 04:57 am (UTC)As for The Matrix I didn't loathe the sequels even though they were far inferior. Keanu needed to lose the sunglasses and more time should have been devoted to the script, but the movies as they are still have some good ideas in them, they're just not fully developed; victims, I think, of a studio system that simply can't sit still waiting for the filmmaker (or filmmakers) to deliver another surefire blockbuster (as usual, to a film they never expected to be a hit in the first place). Plus I think the initial audience reaction to Reloaded would have been ENTIRELY different had they kept Agent Smith a secret somehow.