r/MadeMeSmile • u/moonpies4everyone • 27d ago

This letter from Ron Howard to Newsweek after they grilled 9 year old Jake Lloyd’s performance in The Phantom Menace. Favorite People

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u/MakingItElsewhere 27d ago

I'm not a star wars fan. I'm a star trek fan. We often don't get along. But the one thing we mostly agree on is that kid deserved no hate for that movie. He did a great job with what he was given.

Some fans really are just toxic.

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u/Micu451 27d ago

The greatest actor in the world can sound like a hack when they have to work with George Lucas dialogue.

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u/MakingItElsewhere 27d ago

That's the thing. Sci-Fi fans WANT TO BELIEVE premises we're given. We're susceptible to the crazy. We WANT crazy, unhinged, off-the-wall things thrown at us, as long as they make some semblance of sense.

Bad writers keep trying to lead us down dark roads, lit only by the fires of past writers mistakes. We smell smoke, and we're out.

If you told me Barbie would be a better story than Matrix 4 twenty years ago, I'd have scoffed at you. But here we are. Barbie makes sense. Matrix 4 doesn't. So I recommend Barbie over Matrix 4.

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 27d ago

I believe I heard matrix 4 was intentionally bombed by one of the creators because they didn’t want to make it but the studio said it was being made with or without them

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

For those who haven't watched it, a character literally says that in the movie, specifically mentioning warner brothers.

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 26d ago

Really though it was a fine film. I wish they used more guns because the matrix scenes always look way cooler with guns but it was fine. It didn’t break the lore or anything. Really I think the idea of downloading a persons consciousness is pretty cool. I think it leaves a lot of room open for further exploration. Like “am I talking to the person I have always known, or are they a reconstruction? Am I a reconstruction designed to be attached to this person?”

I liked it. Not the best movie ever. I really wouldn’t recommend anyone run out and see it, but as a continuation of the Matrix, especially considering the creators disdain in making it, I feel like it’s a good movie to watch both in terms of science fiction, and commentary on current real world trends.

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u/Excellent_Key_2035 27d ago

Can confirm I read this too. It was a big fuck you statement.

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u/MakingItElsewhere 27d ago

So....how do you feel about Matrix 5? Because the whole idea makes me want to bomb a studio.

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u/Excellent_Key_2035 27d ago

Man they needed to let the series end ASAP. But Hollywood, she be hungry.

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 26d ago

Dude chill. Someone else might make “the matrix 5”, and it might be a perfectly fine movie. It might also be a giant pile of trash.

Neither of those outcomes warrants violence, or even the pretend make believe exaggeration claiming you would want violence.

Fight club is my favorite movie of all time. Fight Club 2, and 3 are weird nonsensical graphic novels stuck in a bizarre meta world that I personally don’t enjoy. I don’t wish any ill will on Chuck, or anyone involved in the graphic novels creation.

It’s okay to not like subsequent entries in a series. You don’t need to be so serious about it.

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u/kibbles0515 26d ago

Aw, I liked Matrix Resurrections.