X-Men vs. The Matrix

[Chris Wallace]

But you get what I'm saying, right? All this "Matrix wins it" & "X-Men beats Matrix", LIKE YOU'VE PROVEN SOMETHING! All you can say with any certainty-apart from B.O. numbers (&even that doesn't mean anything) is that you personally like one more than the other.

 

[Trevor Goodchild]

Exactly.
Those are only just your individual opinions. No point for any math. The moment you begin analyzing you already know the answer because you simply feel drawn closer to one than the other. It’s all about what you alone like, what is closer to your heart. Not the ‘quality’, presumed simply out of the film’s popularity.
I myself enjoy both franchises and, despite of what endless flaws I can point out in any of them, I am more forgiving. And I can bring up even more points why I like them but at the end I simply can’t decide because they are really that different. And it depends on my current mood.
So now I voted for the Matrix just for the heck of it. Maybe it’s because it has been on my mind lately.
Once I see X3 I’ll probably vote for the X-Men.

 

[zanos]

Both franchises are lame.

 

[tzarinna]

Matrix

 

[Mr. Socko]

I liked the first two Matrix movies. The last sucked horribly. So Xmen wins.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Wins What? Where's The Prize?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

X2 fumbles the third act.

ABSOLUTELY.

1. The X-Men hit Stryker's base too early, and end up wandering around and wasting time. It's the final battle, Singer, make the film FASTER and MORE EXCITING. Rev it up.

2. Wolverine's fight with Deathstrike was gotten out of the way too soon. Singer should have put it at the very end, just as the other X-Men are trying to escape the base. It's the climactic fight, it should be at the climax.

3. Stryker escapes too soon, and you end up with THREE final confrontations with Stryker (one with Magneto and two with Wolverine!).

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Wins What? Where's The Prize?

The prize is box office takings and DVD sales.

 

[psycho]

In my opinion the X-men franchise is better.

 

[Warhammer]

X-Men over The Matrix franchise, but I like both.
I also agree alot with Kevin Roegele's posts above.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Although X-Men Is Also Winning This Poll Something Fierce. I Guess That Counts For Something.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

i dont see how the sequels shat over the first matrix films. its not like the first film was mind bending or anything. the whole damn thing pretty much explains. the world anderson was living inm werent real and was fabricated by robots. where anderson was really in a huge hive of eggs. and the real people were there all the long and they contacted mr.anderson. hugo weavings character was a virus. the seuels did a pretty good job, they served as a hero versus villain trying to kill the "real world". i dont know what so mind numbing about the first film.


btw the matrix is better than all x movies.( yes ive seen X3)

 

[Chris Wallace]

But You Didn't Like The First Two.

 

[Chris Wallace]

And Come To Think Of It, Didn't You Say You Didn't Plan On Seeing X3?

 

[Sentinel X]

The Matrix sequels were dissapointing but in all honesty Matrix 1>X1 and X2

I havent seen X3 yet so I cant say

 

[deathshead2]

The matrix was neat for a sci-fi film but it tired way to hard to be smarter than it was.It also had 2 other movies that were mind-numbinly dumb. I enjoy the x-films much better that and I saw them with my dad and he liked them which is really rare to see.

 

[Trevor Goodchild]

Hey, now that I’ve seen X3 I feel the need to say:
Tim, be it intuitively or coincidentally, in my opinion you chose two trilogies not so different from each other after all. They may have different messages and philosophies but their structures are the same, much like the Lord of the Rings too.
And now I can say that I don’t regret my previous vote.
No matter the pluses and minuses both franchises have, some of which are similar, the Matrix feels much more satisfying and rounded up. X3 couldn’t handle the large amount of information it tried to squeeze into the short length it had and ultimately it achieved very little. All those plots might’ve been the perfect choice for this movie but they were simply not explored enough for me to care about any of them, contrary to most Matrix characters. Made me feel like I was watching a Matrix: Revolutions kind of story with a Matrix: Reloaded kind of resolution, if you get my meaning.
So there you have it, that’s my opinion, entirely based only on my own experiences and preferences.

PS: I’m not judging the success of X1 and X2 just by the failure of X3, I’m simply viewing them all together as a trilogy compared to the Matrix trilogy. I agree that perhaps the X-Men movies aren’t supposed to be viewed as such but, hey, that’s what we were promised, no?

 

[Sandman138]

ABSOLUTELY.

1. The X-Men hit Stryker's base too early, and end up wandering around and wasting time. It's the final battle, Singer, make the film FASTER and MORE EXCITING. Rev it up.

2. Wolverine's fight with Deathstrike was gotten out of the way too soon. Singer should have put it at the very end, just as the other X-Men are trying to escape the base. It's the climactic fight, it should be at the climax.

3. Stryker escapes too soon, and you end up with THREE final confrontations with Stryker (one with Magneto and two with Wolverine!).

Outside of number three I completly disagree. The climax was not a physical combat, and the movie was better off for that. The climax is they have the chance to end all of it and go home, but Magneto decides to do to the humans what was done to them. That was much more powerful for me than Wolverine's fight. I was cheering for Magneto while he tried to commit genocide and that scared me. To make revolutionary ideology like that so appealing is not always that easy and Singer pulled it off well. However, having so many confrontations with Stryker at the end weakened all three of them.

 

[captain_jimbo]

Matrix was convoluted and lame. Plus it had Keanu. Nuff said!

Yeah, it's the only trilogy that gets worse and worse. Really boring!

 

[Spoarz™]

I was not impressed with The Matrix trilogy, I found it pretty boring to be quite honest.

The X-Men trilogy, though it has its flaws (shafting Cyclops way too bloody much) and may not be the perfect translation of the comic book, I still really love the movies. There are some wonderful moments throughout the trilogy, an excellent cast and some amazing acting. James Marsden's performance at the end of X2 is just tremendous and moving.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

The Matrix trilogy

The Matrix, the first one, is better than X2, the best of the X-Men movies.
X2 is an amazing movie, but The Matrix is one of the finest of the 90´s.
Revolutions and Reloaded vs X-Men and X-Men 3....the Matrix wins, by a nail, and the blame goes to X3.

The sad thing is, X-Men could have been a lot better, if done properly.

 

[Prognosticator]

So i thought now would be a great time to resurrect this thread! but i see others had the same idea. now i just have to figure out which way i want to go with this one...

 

[Timstuff]

X-men = A very solid trilogy
Matrix = The first one was great, but the sequels got progressively worse until it was crap.

 

[Prognosticator]

Okay, i see people are skating away from X3 in a blurred hurry... If anything, I think X3 brings more to the table than the original! But alas, The Matrix wins out due to running times...

Matrix, 2hr, 20min; Reloaded: 2hr, 15-20min; Revolutions: 2hr, 10min...

X-Men: 1hr 05mins, X2: 2hrs, 12mins, X3: 1hr, 10mins...

(I had to throw a little sarcasm in somewhere I feel X3 redeemed the franchise from the original a bit, but i'm STILL on the fence over how i feel about X3, so Matrix definitely gets the cake!

 

[Chris Wallace]

WHAT'S RUNNING TIME GOT TO DO WITH ANYTHING? Longer does not mean better.
Well, having now seen X3, I wish I could vote for X-Men again.