30 movies hath november - The Matrix (1999)
let's consider The Matrix, shall we? a movie that is over 10 years old, a sci-fi flick, alternate realities, black leather, more black leather, mixed martial arts... no wonder it has endured.
the trailer is...pretty mild, considering
there is also a lot of talk. choose your reality, open your eyes, take the red pill or the blue pill, the rise of the machines, the-young-man-who-slowly-discovers-he-is-the-chosen-one, yaddayaddayadda. and then about halfway through a mostly average nerd flick, the serious shit begins at a non-descript building's lobby
I'll confess. I'll be kicked out of the movie purist group. I put on this flick, get to the lobby shootout scene, crank up the volume and sit back. this be teh shit.
and there is more, and more, and more. pure adrenaline. and then... no weapons, no alt realities, just an old-fashioned hand-to-hand of epic proportions
I'll confess. I'll be kicked out of the movie purist group. I put on this flick, get to the lobby shootout scene, crank up the volume and sit back. this be teh shit.
and there is more, and more, and more. pure adrenaline. and then... no weapons, no alt realities, just an old-fashioned hand-to-hand of epic proportions
and so it ends.
mind you, there is a nasty ugly rumor that The Matrix is just the first of a trilogy.
hogwash
whatever two movies followed this one, even with the same actors, directors, and so on, have nothing to add to this movie. avoid them at all cost. have you been unlucky enough to have seen that drivel, the only solution is to get The Matrix and watch it again and again until any memory of those other movies recedes into the distance.
mind you, there is a nasty ugly rumor that The Matrix is just the first of a trilogy.
hogwash
whatever two movies followed this one, even with the same actors, directors, and so on, have nothing to add to this movie. avoid them at all cost. have you been unlucky enough to have seen that drivel, the only solution is to get The Matrix and watch it again and again until any memory of those other movies recedes into the distance.
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it is also fine to dislike The Matrix
in re baseball: ACK ACK ACK
Hmm...really, a sequel?
That would be interesting.
i first saw The Matrix from middle to end, then immediately insisted we watch it beginning to end... kicking myself for, yet again, missing the opp to see an amazing movie while it was on a big screen.
I'm NaBloPoMo too but not officializing my blather on the intarnets. It may come back to haunt me.
you are! neat-O. but don't worry. we won't tell the <whispers> authorities.
you and LT. such rebels.
btw, now that they are more widely available, try to find a friend with an HDTV/BlueRay when you are going to watch it. this is one of those movies where the Hi-Def really pays out.
I get a kick out of nerd-flicky "there is no spoon", too.
oh, I don't disagree. and it would have been awesome had the filmmakers left it at that. I love knowing just enough to be intrigued. I don't like having concepts in movies fully explained.
then, I may be too harsh: it may also be a matter of a generational/educational/generational gap: as an-almost-forty-year-old when I first saw TheMatrix I was familiar with Plato's cave, the reality you see is not the reality it is, and so on...
I watched the ponderous and mostly pointless second installment --- never watched the third and now only think of it as one film -- much like Ghostbusters.