matrix reloaded
okay. let's review.
within the matrix you have nice food, sharp-looking clothes, and soap.
outside of the matrix, you have runny gruel to eat, grimy rags to wear, and mechanical squid hell-bent on frying you to a crisp.
well, gosh, morpheus, i'll take the blue pill.
back here on earth, here is my review of the movie:
they simply wouldn't stop talking. when they did stop talking for two minutes at a time, there would be hitting. now normally i like the hitting, but this hitting was...well, boring. and then there would be more talking.
and the whole thing was shot in bad-skin-o-vision.
i demand a refund and three apologies.
Comments
I'm told some people are taking the movie as a deeply ironic on our preconceptions about freedom and freewill. They must have had a really boring time in high school.
Posted by: paul | May 19, 2003 11:38 AM
I had a rather good time seeing this. Aside from a few scenes that I think could have been left out (The whole Zion party in particular) it had some twists that allowed the movie to truly fit in as the second part of a classical trilogy. As I was walking out of the movie, the first thing that struck me was that it was "The Empire Strikes Back" a la 2003. As far as the dialog(I need to learn to spell) goes, I think that it was a far cry better than just about any movie I have seen this year. While to some it was sophomoric and silly, I felt that it was a good attempt to bring some deep psychological issues to a disscussable level. I to have stuggled with the question of pre-destiny and free will, and it was nice to have some understandable riddles to go along with it. "you have already made the choice, now you are trying to understand it" *shivers*
Posted by: Tim | May 19, 2003 03:34 PM
My review differs a bit from that of the lovely and talented Julie:
OK, I enjoyed the sex scene, pointless though it may have been -- though it did show, later on, that Neo, of all the "Ones" actually had a love life, and thus is slightly different than the previous 5. So maybe not so pointless.
Enjoyed the fights -- the "Crouching Tiger" quote in the pre-Oracle fight cracked me up, and I liked that fight the best. I thought the multiple Smith fight very very video-gamey, and the computerized Neo LOOKED very computer-generated, so I wasn't a) fooled or b) impressed, and I would have liked to have been.
The problem really is that I had zero expectations with the first one, and was blown away -- with this I had too high expectations, and thus was not. I would rate it a Good Solid Episode, however, mostly for the emotional stuff: making Trinity watch while some floozy kisses her man, Neo realizing the choice he has to make, the Oracle, whom I just love watching. Also enjoyed the French cursing from "the Merovingian" -- it was quite accurate and extremely bad language.
Posted by: Cori | May 19, 2003 04:02 PM
cori, i couldn't agree more with what you said about the pre-oracle fight being the best -- i loved the teahouse vibe. but i hated how computerized a lot of the fighting looked, especially the bits on top of the truck on the freeway. i also loathed the multiple smiths because there really wasn't any there there, you know? no real intrigue, no explanation, just waiting for neo to levitate out of the scene when he'd finally had enough.
and another thing: neo's this badass with super powers, right? so what's the superest super power has he achieved? he can fly. big whoop. i wish he'd at least chosen something interesting.
the merovingian cracked me up. what can i say? i do love the french. i mean, the freedomese.
Posted by: julie | May 19, 2003 05:30 PM
That fight felt the most REAL, and was thus the best. I'm going back just to listen to the French guy swear some more -- hilarious.
Posted by: Cori | May 20, 2003 04:17 PM
Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out
that
he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? [wack-ass diatribe deleted by julie.]
Posted by: Ne0=!0=1=The One | August 20, 2003 05:24 AM
yawn (pfart...) 'scuse me.
Posted by: harold | August 20, 2003 07:08 AM