Comments | joyfulwanderer: Woah

joyfulwanderer

Woah

Mar 05, 2009 22:44

I just realized that The Matrix came out 10 years ago this month. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago at all. More like five or six, maybe. It will be lost to past decades soon- still alive and relevant for the people who love it, but fixed in time two cultural turns away. It's still my favorite movie. It's weird to think of it as not now. It ( Read more... )

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_juju_ March 6 2009, 04:00:13 UTC

What are you saying? That I can dodge bullets?

lullaby_lune March 7 2009, 01:56:27 UTC

10 years?? It can't have been that long...

anonymous March 11 2009, 14:26:35 UTC

10 years? Oh man. It still ranks in my fave 5 of movies.

As for the "watchmen" movie, that movie is completely irrelevant. The GN may have been great back in '85, but everything that was "new" or whatever has been covered extensively since then by all the media forms.

Sorry to go off like that :-) I just think "watchmen" is one of the most over rated stories ever...

signed,
Derrick

joyfulwanderer March 13 2009, 01:14:30 UTC

O.o

I was merely commenting that from what I understand of it, Watchmen had clearly influenced the Wachowski brothers (same guy wrote V for Vendetta), and that The Matrix in turn had influenced recent comic book movies allowing Watchmen the movie to be made.

Haven't seen it (yet), haven't read it (yet), and can understand why you wouldn't like it on a lot of levels based on what I know of it, but no, I don't quite get the suddenly going off out of the blue...