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I don't get some movie haters

So yesterday I watched Matrix Resurrections for the first time(I know it came out ages ago but I just didn't get around to it), then today I rewatched part of it cause I was confused(Duh, matrix movie).

As a whole I found the movie to be largely enjoyable. There were of course complaints which I had a fun time talking about with my dad, and I have lots of questions that if answered would have made it better(Animatrix part 2?), but still not a terrible movie.

But when I got to see what other people think it's nothing but hate, hate, hate. And there's nothing wrong with hating something(I HATE Botw), but you gotta have an actual reason(I will fight anyone over why Botw sucks). These people that hate it don't have a reason, and I can tell because of he two frequent comments they make:

Blatant transphobia against the makers or ant-"woke" statements

Claims that it made the second and third matrix look good(they were never bad, just worse then the first)

This post isn't to say there aren't absolutely real criticisms to be made about Matrix Resurrections, I just felt like complaining about this nonsensical and unbacked mob of movie hate you see for ever big production these days(I'm guilty of hating a movie for no reason myself now and then).

Anyways, idk what this post is.

Just because the author or director intended them to be a crappy piece of garbage---who never faces the proper repercussions for manipulating, for murdering innocents, for controlling, for blackmailing, for anything else they do to the fellow characters(doesn't even make up for it if they go back to being good)---doesn't mean they aren't still totally a piece of garbage

I'm looking at you:

Max from Rosswell

Allision from Umbrella Academy

Xander(with that one thing he did) from Buffy

Elektra(haven't finished yet, maybe they get better) from Daredevil

Daisy and Yo-Yo from SHIELD

and others

Today on things that bug me which I'm going to complain about because I like complaining

The Muppet rule

The Muppet rule is an idea I often seen spread online, though Tumblr and Instagram but it's presumably on other stuff, which says each Muppet movie can contain only one human.

They even go so far as to say that Long John Silver, played by Tim Curry, counts as a Muppet because he's at times rather goofy, in order to try and make the rule work.

But no.

No.

There is no Muppet rule, and if you've seen even a Muppet movie I'd hope you know this. Muppet movies contain lots of humans, even only going with central character's most have more then one. I don't know how this stuff has been spreading but it needs to stop

Anyone who says Tim Curry is a Muppet because of how he acts also forgets the other side to their character, which is in all likelihood more real then how he treats Jim

I saw the Minecraft trailer recently

No need to share all my thoughts, but considering I've seen some other people talk about it, I figured I'd offer my biggest complain with the trailer and what I'd like a Minecraft movie to be like

Problem: They made everything about Minecraft a joke, including the player avatar. You, yourself, are the joke in this god awful movie, that scoffs on the entire idea of the game. This is the game that gives us the line "And the universe said I love you", and the movie gives us screaming pink sheep

Want: I dunno who else read this as a kid, but a while back I read this book called Minecraft The Island. And, while I understand it would be a lot harder to get the rights for it, it contains everything I'd look for in a Minecraft movie, and has a plot so we don't have to make up some nonsense about piglins. It deals with the single player experience, and cold nights alone in holes, and the panic of almost dying in hardcore, and everything. Hell it was based of a the authors experience with Minecraft. So, that's what I'd like

Also, side note, not that I ever expected it, but the child in my heart still wants a Gameknight999 adaptation lol

School for Good and Evil Movie Rant Notes

VERY SPOILER HEAVY

Good Things

Casting was good

Costumes were good

Sets were good

CGI was pretty good, for the wolves it was a little questionable but it could have been worse

Sophie and Agatha being childhood best friends was pretty good, made me like their friendship more

Sophie also being an outcast with Agatha was fine, it made more sense that Sophie wouldn’t want to go back if she literally had nothing good left there

Scene where Sophie was being dragged away by Schoolmaster was funny and true to books

Bad Things (in no particular order)

Gavaldon doesn’t know about SGE

WHY?!?!!?!?! Would have added so much more to story if Gavaldon knew about SGE

Would have shown how Sophie was only good bc she wanted to get into Good, not because she was actually good

Use of songs like Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo, you should see me in a crown by Billie Eilish, and a cover of Toxic by Britney Spears was very jarring and didn’t really suit film, except for maybe Bilie Eilish song

Lady Lesso is from Gavaldon (WHY) and her character has been merged with Evelyn Sader

There is no August Sader

There is no Professor Uma

Honora is a wicked stepmother instead of a genuinely nice woman

The whole beginning scene with the Schoolmasters, ruins mystery of which brother the Schoolmaster is because they basically say the Good brother won but then they’re like sike no you’re wrong here’s a flashback showing that the Evil brother sneak attacked him after we ended the scene. Would have added more to the movie if there was still the question of which brother was the Schoolmaster

Schoolmaster is not a mysterious figure, he doesn’t wear a mask and literally just shows up at the Welcoming

Wth was Dovey doing in the Groom Room

There is no Castor and Pollux

There is no Circus of Talents or real Trial by Tale. The Trial in the movie was a test for just Sophie and Tedros instead of a school wide event, not very interesting

Hester accepts a makeover from Sophie

Anadil wasn’t really anything

The fight scene between the Evers and Nevers was too long

Gregor

He was fine but unnecessary

It was very obvious that he was going to die from how hard they tried to get us to like him

Honestly thought he was Tristan because he had red hair

They tell you that failing is basically the same as being ranked Mogrif in the books, you turn into an animal or an object. There is no more mystery of what happens to students when they fail, which ruins Agatha’s scene in the Circus of Talents, so it’s probably good that the Circus doesn’t exist in the movie at all

There is no ranking system in the movie. Unless you fail you’re all main characters.

Tedros killing Gregor. Seeing Tedros kill a character that was Agatha’s friend and who they tried to get us to like does not help us like Tedros, who is meant to be Agatha’s love interest

The blood magic thing was stupid, it seems like the blood magic was what was corrupting Sophie instead of her just being Evil

Also the blood magic CGI was very weird

Also why does blood magic have to corrupt, why can’t they do bad things just because they’re bad people

They really downplayed Sophie’s selfishness and vanity

There is no Agatha makeover scene where she discovers self confidence. Very important scene in book and fan favourite moment

Agatha doesn’t really have any character development

Agatha and Sophie don’t teleport back to Gavaldon after they kiss. A portal appears and they have the choice to walk through it. This completely ruins the setup and motivation for the second movie

Sophie says that Agatha can stay with Tedros and that she’ll go back on her own. Completely contradicts Sophie’s character that she’ll be okay with going back to a town that she hates and that hates her without her only friend

Agatha chooses to go back to Gavaldon with Sophie, literally kisses Tedros goodbye and says that she hopes they’ll meet again someday. Again, completely ruins setup and motivations for second movie

Tedros has lots of time to stop Agatha from going, they take a long time to walk to the portal and he could have jumped into the portal and then they tease a second movie, which has been completely ruined already because of the previous two points

That archery scene where Tedros says that only pure of heart people can shoot an arrow straight. So Agatha helps Sophie shoot an arrow straight and that somehow proves to Tedros that Sophie is good. What

After Rafal and Sophie kiss the schools collapse with the students inside, after Rafal stabs Sophie with the pen the castle literally rebuilds itself and somehow no one died when the castle was collapsing

Also Rafal’s motivation was not to have Evil win, it was to destroy both of the schools, including the Evil one, and rule the world

Dovey was not as cool as Book Dovey, she was closer to Uma, who was a fine character but Book Dovey was cooler

During the scene when the Nevers are showing their talents and Hester has her demon attack Sophie, Sophie literally calls out for help through a closed window, instead of singing/whistling (I don’t remember which) for help like in the book, which showed that when she tried to do something that a Good person does something Evil happens instead

Also the bees were Rafal

There was no Golden Goose scene

Wtf was up with Yuba

When the Evers turned into Nevers after attacking the only thing that changed was that their uniforms turned black and Tedros got some red scratches on his face that you could barely see

Hester’s dress when she turned into an Ever was horrendous

There’s a scene in the Welcoming where a Never boy tries to attack Tedros and ends up chopping off his own arm and I thought that was unnecessary

There’s no scene with the Manwolf in the Doom Room which was in integral scene to Sophie’s character.

During the Trial Agatha uses Tedros’ shield as a sled to slide to Tedros and give him his sword. I thought that was stupid

There’s no barrier between the schools, no scenes where Agatha outsmarted her reflection. Students can just walk to and from the schools freely

Sophie and Agatha just walked up some magic stairs to get to the Schoolmasters tower

The Ever girls say that they don’t want to room with Agatha, and then the next morning when Agatha gets booted from the Schoolmasters tower and wakes up in her bed, the Ever girls are in the room waking up and say good morning to her like the didn’t literally just say that they didn’t want to room with her

I thought the “normal girl” thing that Agatha was saying at the Welcoming was a bit forced and awkward to watch

Lady Lesso said that she would help Rafal get Sophie or whatever and then didn’t really do anything else with that besides cut her hair, seemed unnecessary to have her say that and then not do anything with it

When Sophie grew a wart it looked more like a pimple

“Do I look like I give a shit about smiling” yeah it kinda seemed like you did when you failed Agatha

Hort’s dad was not Captain Hook in the books, he was a member of Captain Hooks crew

That scene where they teased a HortxBeatrix made me almost scream, thank God Hort rejected her