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Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release
sdirector writes "'Warner Bros. has announced that in a whoa-worthy bit of synchronicity The Matrix Revolutions, the concluding chapter in the Wachowski brothers' hit sci-fi trilogy, will be released simultaneously in nearly 70 countries.'"
Imagine a beowulf of these!
i demand matrix
Indeed.
in Soviet Russia, release matrixes YOU!!!
The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
Wow.... That's a really slow post time, considering Matrix news.... This has been on their site for like 4 days now?
/. system now ;)
I have lost all faith in the
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Arrrgh. It sucks. There I've said it. I was an unabashed fan-boy of the first Matrix. That's why it pained me so much to see the second. If I'd had no previous expectations, I still would have walked away disappointed. And $16 poorer. But not betrayed. The sad part is, I should have seen it coming, the signs were definitely there. Sequels, it seems, are never as good as the original. Especially when the first movie does a good job of coming to a final conclusion. After the first movie, I distinctly remember thinking, "how are they going to continue this?". Everything was wrapped up so nicely for us. In retrospect, this was Hint #1. And we all know that great works of art are solitary achievements, right? DaVinci doesn't say to himself, "Hey, that first Mona Lisa didn't turn out too bad, maybe I'll crank out a couple more". I guess the sign of a true master is knowing when to leave it alone. Hint #2. Of course I shouldn't discount the fact that I had high expectations going into the movie. Now it might be just me, but it seems like the best films I've seen are the ones I've had no preconceived notions about. Like where a friend says, "Hey let's go see if something good is on." That was my experience for _The Matrix_. This is in contrast to _Reloaded_, where I bought the tickets on-line, so I knew I would get a ticket on opening day. I think the reason for this is because I've become accustomed to being disapointed at the theater so often. I think psychiatrists call it the "defense mechanism". If any particular film I go to is a stinker, I shrug it off and swear I'm going to abstain from movies for a while. Just like most of the previous movies I'd been to. No sense in getting all worked up over it, after all, it's only a movie. So then, when a genuinely good motion picture comes along, I'm psychologically unprepared, and I'm blown away. How could I not have picked up on #3? And then there's that commercial crassness swirling around this flick that should have tipped me off. TV advertisements in which the cast is endorsing crap *before* the actual release of the movie should have been a giant neon sign pointing out that we were well on our way to sucksville. So I really don't know why I was surprised that the creators sold out to Cadillac. So that's why I should have know _Reloaded_ was going to be bad. Here's why it actually is. I don't know if I can explain exactly why the first one was so good. I think it had something to do with actually having to think during the film. Everything was new and exciting. There was the meta-physical aspect (i.e. "hey, how would we know if were not in the Matrix right now?!?"). Then there was the cool camera work, and the cool music, and the cool way the agents talked. You're mind was always occupied, always immersed in the film. I wouldn't call it a formula in any sense of the word. Of course I wouldn't have written all of that if I didn't think part II was the exact opposite. The movie just felt wrong. Like they were trying to hard. Or not hard enough. Or something. Maybe it just felt forced. As Yoda might say, "Immersed, not I". Like the first fight scene where Neo takes on all of the Agent Smiths, was it just me, or did that computer generated crap look like it was rendered on a Sony PlayStation? And for that matter, who cares what the inside of the Zion ship hanger looks like. Why are we devoting 5 minutes to watching the ship land in the hanger? How does that advance the story. It felt like I was watching the guys who run the computer graphics machines masturbate. Of course, we are also treated to the engineering level of Zion. A place so boring, that no one who lives there, goes there. So why am I there? Oh yeah, so the old man can say that we are all here for a reason. Like that wasn't repeated 5,000 times elsewhere. And I guess it's comforting to know that some things stay the same no matter what circumstances humanity has to endure. The city council meetings in Zion are precisely as dull as the city council meetings in my home town. I almost expected them to vote on a zoning
While very pretty, it seemed to be just another example of Shirow's broken abilities as a story teller. Like Appleseed, Ghost held some real promise, but it sort of floated away while trying to pretend that it held some kind of deep message which it didn't. Shirow is an adept world-builder, but he has a hard time making an audience care about his characters.
I guess that's what happens when you decide instead to focus your skills on porn; on surface gloss rather than exploring the inner depths of a character's soul.
-FL
Remember, every time you pirate a movie, they fire a producer (and baby Jesus kills a kitten). Pirate at least one a week so they fire all the crappy ones and they either go out of business or make some good films for a change. Keep the pressure on, and remind them who they really work for. You.
Great quote! I will remember this for eternity! Seriously, you make a great point, even though this last quote makes it sound somewhat like you're just joking around, but I love that quote!