Whats I"m Up To

11.21.2003

Well now that i have few moments of fresh air, let me startby saying I was at the first showing of the Matrix: Revolutions in my area, and yes i liked it. But lets review now. Before the first Matrix movie came out, I had seen the trailer, and thought it looked amazing, and it did everything a good trailer should do, but most don't. It looked amazingly surreal, you had no idea what was happening but it looked cool , and it gave a few snippets of dialogue which were great. And didn't reveal any plot points that could be understood from the trailer. It just made the movie look cool, and made me want to see it. When it came out me and myfriend Dave used the public bus system to get to a theater to try and see it I was 17, hoping we wouldn't be carded...we were, a whole afternoon wasted. Eventually my Uncle took me since I recommended it to him and he already saw it. Oh man I loved that movie, it was great all I hoped for, I left the movie with my hand searching the back of my head to make sure i wasn't plugged in. I got it on video and watched it...well let's just say I watched it a lot. Then we started getting trailers for Relaoded, and it looked awesome, then Reloaded came out, and I bought the videogame the same day. Reloaded was ok...I liked it but it wasn't what I expected, or really wanted. The famed bullet time was gone other than one totally CG shot. The first movie took so much time and effort in keeping the actors in the movie. When Neo and Morpheus fought it was coreographed but there was real contact. The actors never left the screen, or were replaced by CG actors. Also the first movie combined many different fight types, and a lot of classic movie ideas. In fights they had a Kung Foo fight, an amazing gun battle, a wester style shoot out, and a street fight. Some classic movie moments are a chase scene, the traitor(*gasp*), a prophecy, and super powers. All the while it looked cool doing it. Reloaded had kung foo fights and aparently Neo has all purpose powers now he just can't explode Agents anymore, and a little weapon action, and the freeway scene. It also had a lot of unnesseary scenes and filler. The Morpheus Zion speech, the Rave, the Sex, the 1000 Smiths, and none of the fight scenes except one had a clear winner. Plus the removed Keano from every shot they could with an obviously CG replacement, which made it look hokey.And the entire story wasfind the keymaker, get the keymaker, talk to architect, save Trinity. The Revolutions started trickling throughas always some very good trailers appeared, and this was gonna be the end of a 6 month Cliffhanger, and end of the Matrix.#1 Revolutions did things better than Reloaded did, we saw much less computer Keano, an amazing superman style fightthe like of which has never been seen.Much less filler, but the filler there was wasn't as bad. They didn't waste precious time explaining things, which I actually liked. It was like its not about the why its happening, but that its that its what had to happen. The fight for Zion was astonishing so much carnage and craziness. And geez they threw enough religious symbolism for an entire college course. But it was good, its over, and they didn't do what I thought they were gonna do, which i think most people were worried about. There is no "Matrix within a Matrix, within a Matrix, wihin a..." cause that would have be dumb.so

The Matrix - 9/10
The Matrix: Reloaded - 5/10
The Matrix Revolutuions - 7/10

Eh me tired, go sleep now, I'll try to write more tomorrow

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