The Matrix - Regurgitated

[zerozero]

I just don’t get it. I mentioned at work that I’d been to the flicks (Goldmember, funny.)and was asked if I’d seen the Matrix II preview. Minion piped up "no point in asking - zero didn’t like the Matrix" yes I saw the preview, no I don’t like the Matrix

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[dj_alexander]

You like Goldmember but you don't like The Matrix.

Obviously you are Mr BackToFront man.

[zerozero]

goldmember was what it set out to be, i felt cheated by the matrix. ergo!

[dj_alexander]

Yeah, but I felt cheated when I saw Goldmember as I expected it, being a comedy, to actually be funny.

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[zerozero]

Ah, luckliy I adore stupidity so was happy enough with GM.

[ex_thekiller358]

ooeee I didn't like the matrix but then i only like suitable for children.

Gold member was funny i want to adopt a little person.

[chiller]

I thought it was a fun enough romp of a movie, but ... it didn't strike me the way it seemed to strike most people (as a semi-philosophical set of potentials they'd never considered); moreover I found the end of the film, which I had been anticipating with glee from about a third of the way into it, let me down. What I wanted to see (and what would have worked and been deeply satisfying), was that there were an infinite number of matrices. That we all live in our own matrix. No end to the potential of reality. Now THAT would have been worth the price of a ticket - just to see someone say it. But noooooo. Space/time has to be liner, doesn't it, or the paying audience stalks out, all confused. Logic has to apply, doesn't it? Despite the complete lack of a spoon, the thing which enabled the spoon to appear to exist has to be REAL, in letters of graven stone, and capable of being blown up or unplugged.

"Feh" all over the Matrix. It was decent enough, as far as it went. But like sex with no orgasm, it didn't go far enough to

[zerozero]

You are me in a womans body.

[chiller]

It's entirely possible. In which case, take comfort - one of "you" knows all about love!

[cakeandsodomy]

i was gonna try to make some kinda joke along the lines of you being "in" a womans body. nothing immediately springs to mind. another disasterous joke averted.

[kixie]

It's very easy not to like the Matrix, and it's even easier to LOATHE all the hype and people who constantly comment 'there is no spoon' or 'I took the red pill'. Fuckerrrrrrrrs.

Matrix 2, huh? I wait with baited breath...*s*.

I actually didn't dislike the Matrix too much, but when I first saw it and walked out of the cinema I just kept thinking 'what a fucking pathetic plot...a good idea, so badly carried off and so based on modern paranoia...' and kept thinking to myself the thousands of different ways they could have carried it off better.

But if you just like kicking ass scenes it's a good movie I guess.

[dua]

I quite enjoyed the Matrix the first time I saw it - possibly a result of something like Carrie Ann Moss running around in PVC lots, which generally qualifies as a good thing

Generally speaking,

[dua]

the students I've taught in the last five years absolutely loved The Matrix. They bring it up when I refer to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." Apparently, The Matrix mirrors Plato's idea? I've never seen the film and don't intend to. I'm not into violence unless it's so right that it's (like) art (e.g. A Clockwork Orange). The students see The Matrix as expressive of their generation's central myth, much like I see The Wizard of Oz as the story my generation loves to refer to.

Claire

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Re: Generally speaking,

[zerozero]

you should see it so you can point out the flaws in its delivery. it could very nearly have had something to say, but didnt.

Re: Generally speaking,

[cakeandsodomy]

i have to agree with the dissing of the matrix. it could have said so fuckin much but at the end we just get the shitty "possible sequel" ending. he threatens the baddies and flies off. no statement at all. im refusing to see the sequel on principle.

gutted with that ending so i was.