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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).
Why do you write such stupid things?
Isn't Slashdot meant to be against this whole MPAA thing? I mean, aren't the **AA the enemy? But whenever a Star Wars, or a Star Trek, or now Matrix and LOTR come out, it becomes News for Nerds.
You want to know why the MPAA and RIAA has power? Because they can. We all say that we want to get rid of their copyright extending, draconian law creating presence, but nobody has the sack to do it (myself included).
Hollywood is fucking trash these days, I can't understand how such a smart community can't see right through it. They're not making movies to be appreciated 20 years down the line, they're making movies to bring in the big bucks the first weekend, before everybody knows that they're crap (case in point Terminator, Hulk, Angels 2... anything they've come out with in the past 5 years, save maybe the LOTR movies).
And we all fucking walk right into their plot. Yeah, Congress is going to listen to us.
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.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
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.