Quality aside ("Revolutions" is pretty draggy), I feel like the "Matrix" sequels are disliked because they replaced the heroic metaphor of the first one with a more powerful but less fun "lol nothing matters, we're stuck in a loop" metaphor.
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I think the moral of this story is *always* stop after the first book/movie/season
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Could argue that they did the same thing with Star Wars franchise, where the mystery of being a Jedi was replaced first with science ("mitochondria") and then with some quasi-religious Calvinism that runs through one family.
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Star Wars turned into a billion dollar game of "exquisite corpse."
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SW Prequels too
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Dune at least laid out that trajectory from the start and followed it through to a relatively satisfying conclusion The Matrices couldn't decide if they wanted Neo to be a saviour or a just a pawn, to where Agent Smith has to just be handwaved into an even bigger threat
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Also Terminator 2 vs (the first) Terminator 3.
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Dune was written with a "messiahs are bad, actually" idea already in mind, so the subtext is there from the jump even if you don't get to the point in the narrative where the theme is increasingly obvious.
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