Poll Suggestion: IMDb Poll Board - Actors Who Sold Out

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@mariojacobs​ 

Matrix 2+ were idiot cash grabs that ruined the mythos of the first excellent film.

@NYVKE​ The problem is... (at least I suspect), Keanu Reeves probably signed a pretty strict contract that forced him into making 2 and 3 as they always was planned as a trilogy. If there was any selling out? It was for Matrix 4 where there was likely a new contract created for that returned role. He couldn't be blamed for the failure of the first two sequels as he would have been locked in and difficult to break out of them.

@NYVKE​ I haven't seen the Matrix sequels but I assume you're right.

The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both forming really one movie, were alright and worked great for world building, i.e. we get to see Zion and the machine city, and are introduced the supreme oversight of the Matrix along with other factions like the Merovingian and the Trainman. Even though Reloaded and Revolutions weren't nearly as great as the original, and even felt rushed, not too much about them ruined the mythos of the original, as it seems clear that everything in them was intended from before the production of the original wrapped up. (Spoilers forthcoming.) I mean, it shouldn't really come as too much of a heartbreaking shock that the Oracle is part of the System of Control, that what the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar believed about her was always bullshit extending far back into time to a time preceding their perception of it.

I also don't understand how the first two sequels to John Wick should be treated as shameless cash grabs, but if more of these are planned, then maybe it is getting out of hand. I really like world building. For instance, underwhelming as it may seem, Blade Runner 2049 is somewhat great.

Basically they stopped caring about making good films and just wanted cash. That's what I meant.

Me neither.

Yet now that I think about it, Harrison Ford returning for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies of the more recent decades kind of definitely rubbed me the wrong way, especially in the latter case for which I lay the blame at George Lucas's feet, but even so, there the script more so than the basic plot of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was unsavory. I really can't stand the scene with the abuse of the snake played for laughs. That one scene is the worst in the whole series of movies.

@jeorj_euler​ Is Harrison Ford your choice?