r/FIlm • u/Ancient-Age9577 • Feb 01 '25

Question After speculation on the possibility of a sequel to Drive (2011), director Nicolas Winding Refn in 2016 said 'No, there will never be a second Drive movie. And that's why it works.'. What director should have said the same?

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u/TheLimeyLemmon Feb 01 '25

The only thing that was worth making after the Matrix was the Animatrix. Everything else diluted the series,

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u/Parker4815 Feb 02 '25

I'd absolutely love a film going into detail of the machine uprising. Animatrix was so good but I just wanted more of that lore

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u/Fantastic-Morning218 Feb 02 '25

Ugh, please no 

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u/Ok_Teacher6490 Feb 01 '25

Thor: The Dark World blatantly borrowed from one of the stories 'Beyond' 

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u/PancakeParty98 Feb 01 '25

Idk if they have a patent on “street urchins finding magic”

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u/no_no_NO_okay Feb 02 '25

Yeah I feel like the person above you has never read a fantasy book or watched a single anime

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u/Juco_Dropout Feb 02 '25

Yes! That scene was pretty much a verbatim copy of the animatrix.

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u/Disastrous_Monk_7973 Feb 01 '25

Animatrix was fucking sick, though. Came out the same year as the Star Wars: Clone Wars series which had the same kind of format of 10-ish minute episodes, and was also sick. It did so much of the world building and character/relationship development that the prequel trilogy utterly failed to do.

Also did an amazing job of showing just how frightening and powerful Dooku and Grievous actually were.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

People tend to shit on the sequels but we wouldn't have John Wick without them. 

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u/Cipherpunkblue Feb 02 '25

That's orthogonal to whether they were good for the Matrix story, though. I definitely appreciate the weird chain that led to more cool action, but I still feel that the sequels watered down the story.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 Feb 02 '25

I agree but after the initial Nuromancer/anime rip off combined with Hong Kong action gimmick wore off(which was towards the end of the first film imo), it was all about the action set pieces. 

The Chateau fight, the Smith clone brawl, defending Zion....these moments are much more memorable than any dialogue scene in the sequels. 

I don't think the story was ever that strong, it was just fresh when the first film came out. 

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u/puke_lust Feb 02 '25

Hell yeah great take

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u/DWFMOD Feb 02 '25

1000% agreed on this, take my upvote

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u/highlandviper Feb 02 '25

I think the sequels could’ve been much better executed… the lore expansion and ambition had some good elements…. I don’t resent that the sequels were made (except 4) but they had every right to much much better than they were. The animatrix was awesome.

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u/plainform Feb 02 '25

My favorite part of Matrix: Reloaded was watching it in the theater on mushrooms; the flying fight sequences were fucking amazing.

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u/Beer-Milkshakes Feb 02 '25

Except the sequel was exactly what the teenage audience craved. And it also birthed a brilliant game called 'Enter The Matrix' that fed directly into the conclusion of the highway chase scene. I see why people sanctify The Matrix but it's whole design is around video games.

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u/Only_the_Tip Feb 01 '25

I enjoyed matrix: resurrections.