I really loved Cloud Atlas, I read the book afterwards and it was basically the same thing. Jupiter Ascending was okay at best.
One of my friends used to get us free advanced screeners for movies that hadn’t come out yet in general release at the UA at King of Prussia. You would put your name in online and then wait in this long line and hope to get in. They were fun, sometimes they would have contests and they would give away free t-shirts. I think I saw about 10 movies that way. One of those we went to was Cloud Atlas, I really loved seeing that in the theaters, it was so unique and we saw it at least a month before it was fully out.
I remember my experiences around the Matrix more than the movies had an impact on me. The first one I worked at Stop N Save Software (owned by Electronics Boutique) with another member of the forums here no less and it was an interesting and fun time in my life it was the summer I graduated from college, but when the second one came out it was the first time I went to Europe to visit my brother in Avignon France. The Cannes Film Festival was starting while we were there and my Father knew I wanted to go so he said to me let’s rent a car and you and I go to Cannes, so we did the first day of the festival. We rented the only automatic they had. We couldn’t get in anywhere but we saw all of the hotels that were done up for the Matrix and Terminator 3 and other movies, there were cool French Matrix posters everywhere we stopped all the gas station rest stops had magazines with it on the cover. Later my Dad saw a sign for Monaco and he said let’s do it and I drove through Monaco including that tunnel. They were setting up for the race in a couple of weeks and I watched it the day I got back to the USA, and that’s what got me into F-1. The end of the trip we were in London and my Father and I saw Reloaded in a theater there, such good memories.
I’ll give Matrix 4 a chance I hope it’s good, it’s probably the only reason I’m keeping HBO Max until then, although my Father will want to watch the Sopranos movie at his house.