Welp...
Originally Posted at 03:03 AM on Nov. 11, 2003
This started out as something else, but I liked The Matrix portion better, and the first portion I felt was pure insanity, so here we are then.
I saw the Matrix this weekend with my roommate.
If you just want my simple review with nothing else, you can scroll down and just look for the big "TO SUM IT UP" (you can't miss it)- And IF YOU HAVEN"T SEEN IT YET, AND DON"T WANNA DEAL WITH SPOILERS, DON"T READ THIS. I have been waiting to see it since Wednesday (and by that I mean May, but I couldn't see it then, so thats why it was Wednesday), we (my roomie and I) were going to see it together, but Sunday was the first chance we could go (schedule conflicts).
Anyway, we made it, and we're there. The movie hasn't started yet, neither have the previews... or the commercials that lead into the previews. I hate them so much. Why is Estee Lauder advertising in a movie theater anyway? Diet Coke, I can understand, but Estee Lauder, what the hell is going on? What marketing guy(or gal) thought that up? And for the Matrix and Kill Bill of all things (which I saw the week before). At least the girl was cute, that was about the only thing that ad had going for it in my book. Along with the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers video game advertisement. Argh, it wasn't even formatted for the screen, why must they test my patience like this? Then we got the ads for DVDs that are coming out. One for T3: Rise of the Machines came up, and someone in the row behind me exclaimed "THAT'S MY GOVERNOR!" which got some chuckles from all who were in earshot, and started a mini-political debate that lasted into the next commercial. Finally some previews, that are gone from my mind at the moment, I was kinda disappointed not to see a trailer for "Timeline" which was a pretty damned good book (and a movie I'm looking forward to later this month).
Finally, the movie. About damned time. %#*(@%(@# Alright, lets do this! It started off kind of slow, and I have to say, I've never seen Keanu act so poorly as he did in the first lines he shared with Sati, just wow. He gets paid for that?! It wasn't too bad the rest of the way, but that first scene. Woo, that just... hurt. Trinity seemed different somehow, Morpheus was a lot more subdued, but thats sort of to be expected. I really liked Seraph, he was even cooler than last time. Same as Niobe -- When Trinity died I was sort of disappointed, I had no emotional response at all. And yeah, I'm a guy so what? When I saw Top Gun the first time (that I remember), and Goose died, I had to find tissues; granted I was like 8 at the time, but still. We only had Goose for about 50 minutes, we had Trinity for over 4 hours! And my eyes didn't even well up. Whats going on?! She sort of died in the second one (no emotional response their either), thats true, maybe I was prepared for it, I don't know, but I was still disappointed. And Neo dying - I guess? Didn't do much for me either. I mean, I'm not so sure he's dead inside the Matrix, but I'm pretty sure he's dead in the real world. What? I don't know, nobody knows for sure.
I was edge-of-my-seat-thrilled for the Zion battle, and the chase into it, that was some serious awesome stuff right there. But... the rest of it just .. wasn't all that for me. Ya know? The battle with Smith was kind of cool...but the end left me a little baffled.
And for it being said "That's it. There won't be another one." I'm a little sad. I didn't get closure. There's leaving it open ended, like its up to you to decide what happened (End of Castaway) but this is a whole nother can of worms, something completely different. In Castaway there were a couple of options. (1) He got back in his car, drove after her, and they lived happily ever after. (2) He smiled to himself, and drove off. (3) He crossed into the middle of the road and was hit by an 18-wheeler that nobody saw or heard coming, and that was the end of him. - Revolutions leaves too many questions unanswered, and doesn't really end.
We walked back to campus, trying to sort out what we'd just seen, but really came to no conclusions. And I thought to myself... If they could've left it at just the original, with the way things went, I kind of wish they would have... To use a phrase I got to hear a few times through the course of my youth; "I'm not angry, I'm just a little disappointed." - It could've been so much bigger, so much better, but.. how could it ever live up to the stage the first one set up? - Did the Wachowski's have a vision greater than their first step (when they took it)? Probably. Did they follow through with it? I sure hope not, because honestly, if thats where they planned to go from page one, I'm more than a little disappointed. The Vision for what The Matrix turned out to be... came from a $300 million budget. I almost want to just forget Reloaded and Revolutions at this point.
TO SUM IT UP
The conclusions painted by Revolutions left me unsatisfied, unfulfilled, and craving something more. And I also am left with questions regarding minor characters, especially Seraph, regarding backgrounds, and where they go from the end.
I think the whole movie can be summed up in the "conversation" my roommate and I had when the credits started rolling:
Me: "I'm hungry."
My roommate (trying to mull over what he'd just taken in): "Do you have a calculator?"
I'd still like to play the game someday, and I may buy the Animatrix when it gets down to ten bucks. And I will buy Reloaded and Revolutions, but I guarantee, I will not get as much pleasure from watching it start to finish as I do the original. Let alone the DVD getting as much wear. I've probably viewed the movie 100 times by now. Its something I can listen to, hell, it's something I can sleep to. Go figure.
Originally Posted at 03:03 AM on Nov. 11, 2003
This started out as something else, but I liked The Matrix portion better, and the first portion I felt was pure insanity, so here we are then.
I saw the Matrix this weekend with my roommate.
If you just want my simple review with nothing else, you can scroll down and just look for the big "TO SUM IT UP" (you can't miss it)- And IF YOU HAVEN"T SEEN IT YET, AND DON"T WANNA DEAL WITH SPOILERS, DON"T READ THIS. I have been waiting to see it since Wednesday (and by that I mean May, but I couldn't see it then, so thats why it was Wednesday), we (my roomie and I) were going to see it together, but Sunday was the first chance we could go (schedule conflicts).
Anyway, we made it, and we're there. The movie hasn't started yet, neither have the previews... or the commercials that lead into the previews. I hate them so much. Why is Estee Lauder advertising in a movie theater anyway? Diet Coke, I can understand, but Estee Lauder, what the hell is going on? What marketing guy(or gal) thought that up? And for the Matrix and Kill Bill of all things (which I saw the week before). At least the girl was cute, that was about the only thing that ad had going for it in my book. Along with the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers video game advertisement. Argh, it wasn't even formatted for the screen, why must they test my patience like this? Then we got the ads for DVDs that are coming out. One for T3: Rise of the Machines came up, and someone in the row behind me exclaimed "THAT'S MY GOVERNOR!" which got some chuckles from all who were in earshot, and started a mini-political debate that lasted into the next commercial. Finally some previews, that are gone from my mind at the moment, I was kinda disappointed not to see a trailer for "Timeline" which was a pretty damned good book (and a movie I'm looking forward to later this month).
Finally, the movie. About damned time. %#*(@%(@# Alright, lets do this! It started off kind of slow, and I have to say, I've never seen Keanu act so poorly as he did in the first lines he shared with Sati, just wow. He gets paid for that?! It wasn't too bad the rest of the way, but that first scene. Woo, that just... hurt. Trinity seemed different somehow, Morpheus was a lot more subdued, but thats sort of to be expected. I really liked Seraph, he was even cooler than last time. Same as Niobe -- When Trinity died I was sort of disappointed, I had no emotional response at all. And yeah, I'm a guy so what? When I saw Top Gun the first time (that I remember), and Goose died, I had to find tissues; granted I was like 8 at the time, but still. We only had Goose for about 50 minutes, we had Trinity for over 4 hours! And my eyes didn't even well up. Whats going on?! She sort of died in the second one (no emotional response their either), thats true, maybe I was prepared for it, I don't know, but I was still disappointed. And Neo dying - I guess? Didn't do much for me either. I mean, I'm not so sure he's dead inside the Matrix, but I'm pretty sure he's dead in the real world. What? I don't know, nobody knows for sure.
I was edge-of-my-seat-thrilled for the Zion battle, and the chase into it, that was some serious awesome stuff right there. But... the rest of it just .. wasn't all that for me. Ya know? The battle with Smith was kind of cool...but the end left me a little baffled.
And for it being said "That's it. There won't be another one." I'm a little sad. I didn't get closure. There's leaving it open ended, like its up to you to decide what happened (End of Castaway) but this is a whole nother can of worms, something completely different. In Castaway there were a couple of options. (1) He got back in his car, drove after her, and they lived happily ever after. (2) He smiled to himself, and drove off. (3) He crossed into the middle of the road and was hit by an 18-wheeler that nobody saw or heard coming, and that was the end of him. - Revolutions leaves too many questions unanswered, and doesn't really end.
We walked back to campus, trying to sort out what we'd just seen, but really came to no conclusions. And I thought to myself... If they could've left it at just the original, with the way things went, I kind of wish they would have... To use a phrase I got to hear a few times through the course of my youth; "I'm not angry, I'm just a little disappointed." - It could've been so much bigger, so much better, but.. how could it ever live up to the stage the first one set up? - Did the Wachowski's have a vision greater than their first step (when they took it)? Probably. Did they follow through with it? I sure hope not, because honestly, if thats where they planned to go from page one, I'm more than a little disappointed. The Vision for what The Matrix turned out to be... came from a $300 million budget. I almost want to just forget Reloaded and Revolutions at this point.
TO SUM IT UP
The conclusions painted by Revolutions left me unsatisfied, unfulfilled, and craving something more. And I also am left with questions regarding minor characters, especially Seraph, regarding backgrounds, and where they go from the end.
I think the whole movie can be summed up in the "conversation" my roommate and I had when the credits started rolling:
Me: "I'm hungry."
My roommate (trying to mull over what he'd just taken in): "Do you have a calculator?"
I'd still like to play the game someday, and I may buy the Animatrix when it gets down to ten bucks. And I will buy Reloaded and Revolutions, but I guarantee, I will not get as much pleasure from watching it start to finish as I do the original. Let alone the DVD getting as much wear. I've probably viewed the movie 100 times by now. Its something I can listen to, hell, it's something I can sleep to. Go figure.
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