Matrix Reloaded on DVD Before Revolutions

SycloneFX noted that the Matrix Reloaded will be available on DVD on Oct 14, just 3 weeks before the release of Revolutions. This is noteworthy because normally there are large time spans between releases of DVDs and Sequels (although LotR had a special edition released only a few weeks before TTT).

Comments

Sell while the hype is still sort of working.

[LazloToth]

So another disposable, computer generated blob of mediocrity is available on reflective plastic discs before the next disposable, computer generated blob of mediocrity hits the big screen like a fistful of hurled feces. Big F-ing Deal.

PS - Yes, I thought it sucked.

Re:Film... an art??

[handsolo]

Of course I wouldn't contend that film can't BE art. The original poster claimed that film was SUPPOSED to be art, and as such he was deriding the Matrix series (which is admittedly a far more artful contribution to pop cinema). The counterexamples listed serve to reinforce that film can be extremely banal and unartistic and serve the interests of both the public viewer and corporate entities responsible for their production -- that is, to bust blocks.

If film was supposed to be art then the fact that the public embraces such artless explosion-driven narratives (from the point of view of ticket sales) would raise the question : who makes this supposition and what is meant by the term 'art'? Perhaps the art lies in a well executed series of marketing steps that amasses the pecuniary rather than intellectual interests of the mass audience.