Yeah thanks, just read on it. They did not even write that film, you can't blame them for Ninja Assassin anymore than blaming Spielberg for Transformers 2.
I thought the second Matrix was decent, not bad but the third was awful. Liked V for Vendetta(which they deserve much more credit for than NA because they wrote it), and Speed Racer was incredibly fun. I think their record has a few misses but still rather solid. It's just that they haven't made anything as amazing or groundbreaking as Matrix so many have just been disappointed with them.
For the most part I agree, however I feel like their record is a bit less flattering than "a few misses," mostly because of how they approached V for Vendetta. As a film it was competently executed, but they completely missed the story that Alan Moore was trying to tell. Alan Moor wrote a story that was meant to make readers question the ethics of
everyone, and present a scenerio where there's not necessarily a
right answer to any particular dilemma, only wrong answers that must be chosen by the reader.
In the VfV book, we have a post nuclear world where humanity would have gone extinct if not for fascist regime who brought it back from the brink. And now, said fascist regime is hording more and more power, to the point that the only thing that can restore some sense of normalcy is an opposite force, which in many ways is just as bad. The V from the book is not a romantic hero who beneath his questionable methods is ultimately noble-- he is a dirty terrorist, and even though he gets results, one truly has to question whether or not he is even sane.
The Wachowskis try to create the
illusion that their story is morally ambiguous and open for interpretation, as the book was, but it is not. It's a clear cut story about (as Alan Moore put it) American liberalism vs. neo-conservatism, rather than being about fascism colliding with anarchy to produce something in between. The villains staged a phony terrorist attack just to gain power, rather than rising out of the ashes of war to preserve what was left of humanity. V is now a noble freedom fighter whom all of the Wachowski's ideals have been projected onto, rather than being the dark, morally ambiguous character that Moore wrote him as. The only question the movie makes us ask is "would you have to balls to be a terrorist if it was the only way to make a change?"
I have not seen Bound, but of the movies that the Wachowskis have written / produced / directed, the two I've liked were The Matrix and Speed Racer. The Matrix Reloaded was "meh, it's OK," but Revolutions made me want to unplug completelye from the franchise. I loved Speed Racer, which was a perfect storm of the Wachowski's craziness, a well done script and excellent production design. Unfortunately, that did not work out to well on Ninja Assassin, which was just plain stupid and badly shot.
At this point, I think the Wachowskis are more of a liability than an asset for Warner Bros.
found this on Screenrant.
