neotank Wrote:How in the F***ING hell can you people DIS the original MATRIX!!!!!!!??
Easy! My opinion of that film continues to go down. My original opinion: I thought it had a largely original plot and was entertaining overall, but I also thought it was horribly overrated and had a stupid ending. (I still think the wake-up kiss thing is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in a movie. Did they mix up pages with the script for "Sleeping Beauty"?) For me, the movie was 2.5 stars, max. But on that first viewing I thought I'd want to at least own the DVD; it seemed good enough for that and had some cool effects. But I've caught it a few more times since then in various venues, and it just doesn't hold up for me. I never did buy it and probably never will now. There are some movies that you just stop and watch when channel surfing just because it's on and it happens to entertain you. "The Matrix", on the other hand, is a movie I now tend to surf by so fast that I'm in danger of accidentally causing a time vortex with my remote and sending my TV back to the Oligocene.
Understand that it's not that I
hate the movie, despite the title of this thread. I don't. It's more like I just find it rather... blah. There are a few interesting concepts and scenes, but the whole just doesn't hold together well, IMO.
neotank Wrote:The ending scene where Keanu and Trinity walk into that building and just UNLOAD on those sons a bitches could be one of the best action scenes ever.
I actually didn't care for that scene, with one exception: The bit where Trinity kicked the shotgun out of that guy's hands, over his shoulder, and blew him away was pretty cool (though it would've been cooler if it had been filmed as one shot). Otherwise, I kept getting sick of the constant slow motion, which I found boring and cliché.
Strangely, my favorite part of "The Matrix" was probably the Oracle. I thought having the wise Yoda-like character shown as an old woman baking cookies in this high-tech movie was a nifty reversal. It made the ordinary environment of a kitchen seem somewhat surreal given the context.
I think the main scenes I actually kind of liked in all three of those movies were not action scenes, interestingly enough. Take that however you want.
neotank Wrote:I also loved Temple of doom
With you there...
neotank Wrote:and Close Encounters
... with you there ...
neotank Wrote:and Highlander 2.
... and now you've lost me. And we were so close to a solution to the world's problems.
neotank Wrote:Although I will say King Kong was way overrated.
The new one or the original?
Blake