The Wachowski Siblings are now the Wachowski Sisters

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Habbaku

#75
March 10, 2016, 04:03:40 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 10, 2016, 03:32:40 PM
I didn't get the feeling that it was about nothing at all.

:hmm:
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celedhring

#76
March 10, 2016, 04:21:56 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 10, 2016, 04:03:40 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 10, 2016, 03:32:40 PM
I didn't get the feeling that it was about nothing at all.

:hmm:

Bad grammar. I didn't get the feeling it was about anything at all.

grumbler

#77
March 10, 2016, 04:38:33 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 10, 2016, 12:56:10 PM
I've seen The Matrix multiple times.  It stands up well to repeated viewing.

Yes, on first viewing it's mostly about the big reveal.  But what else is there to recommend?  It's a damn good looking movie.  The sets and costumes, the action sequences (bullet time!), great performances by Fishburne and Huge Weaving (and Keanu Reeves fairly wooden acting actually works for him in The Matrix, though everyone else is bland to terrible).  The movie is also jam-packed with a lot of allegory (I totally missed the Neo as Christ the first time around, though it seems pretty obvious now).

I've seen it twice, and was bored to tears the second time.  All of the pretentiousness of the movie comes out the second time.  The allegories to Gnosticism and the Hindu belief in the unreality of the world are cute, but, I thought, obvious the first time.  I agree that the movie looks good, but that is not improved, I don't think, by repeated viewings... one starts to see the flaws the second time around.

I will grant that some people may find repeated watching worthwhile, just as people find repeated readings of Ulysses worthwhile.  I'm not one of them.

I can watch T2 multiple times because the score is so brilliant and the action scenes so well done.  That movie's action scenes make those of The Matrix pretty tame, and Insane Linda Hamilton is fun every time.
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The Brain

#78
March 10, 2016, 04:40:09 PM
T2 :x
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celedhring

#79
March 10, 2016, 04:43:56 PM
Quote from: grumbler on March 10, 2016, 04:38:33 PM
I can watch T2 multiple times because the score is so brilliant and the action scenes so well done.  That movie's action scenes make those of The Matrix pretty tame, and Insane Linda Hamilton is fun every time.

:yes:

It's been 25 years, and with all the FX and camera tech advancements, the entire last act of T2 is still one of the best rides you can watch in film.

Malthus

#80
March 10, 2016, 04:52:27 PM
I always loved the first Terminator movie, because Linda Hamilton looked very much like my first real GF in that movie.  ;) Same big 80s hair, same cute perkiness - though she was a decade older than my e, when we were going out. 

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LaCroix

#81
March 10, 2016, 06:23:53 PM
felt the same way with her

viper37

#82
March 10, 2016, 09:26:38 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on March 10, 2016, 06:23:53 PM
felt the same way with her
the computer looked like your first real girlfriend?
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Capetan Mihali

#83
March 11, 2016, 07:40:35 AM
Man, you know I couldn't watch The Matrix on the big screen when it came out, the lines were out the door.  (Went for The Passion of the Christ, instead, you know -- just me and my two pals, and a minivan-load of five or six nuns, that's it.)

But because of this thread, I'm going to really watch it.  I've seen nasty bits of "plastic surgery disasters" with suction cups being pulled off while Morgan Freeman does Morgan Freeman, but I ought to really see the film.
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Martinus

#84
March 11, 2016, 08:14:27 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on March 11, 2016, 07:40:35 AM
I've seen nasty bits of "plastic surgery disasters" with suction cups being pulled off while Morgan Freeman does Morgan Freeman, but I ought to really see the film.

Wow, that's really transphobic.

Queequeg

#85
March 11, 2016, 01:43:14 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on March 11, 2016, 07:40:35 AM
Man, you know I couldn't watch The Matrix on the big screen when it came out, the lines were out the door.  (Went for The Passion of the Christ, instead, you know -- just me and my two pals, and a minivan-load of five or six nuns, that's it.)

But because of this thread, I'm going to really watch it.  I've seen nasty bits of "plastic surgery disasters" with suction cups being pulled off while Morgan Freeman does Morgan Freeman, but I ought to really see the film.
Those movies were not out at the same time.  Was it showing at like a student theater?
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Barrister

#86
March 11, 2016, 02:20:26 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on March 11, 2016, 07:40:35 AM
Man, you know I couldn't watch The Matrix on the big screen when it came out, the lines were out the door.  (Went for The Passion of the Christ, instead, you know -- just me and my two pals, and a minivan-load of five or six nuns, that's it.)

But because of this thread, I'm going to really watch it.  I've seen nasty bits of "plastic surgery disasters" with suction cups being pulled off while Morgan Freeman does Morgan Freeman, but I ought to really see the film.

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Valmy

#87
March 11, 2016, 02:25:35 PM
Pretty sure it was Samuel L Jackson  :P
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#88
March 11, 2016, 02:43:47 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 09, 2016, 04:41:33 PM
The Matrix was one of the best things ever.
The sequels were pretentious and dumb.

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derspiess

#89
March 11, 2016, 03:18:57 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 11, 2016, 02:25:35 PM
Pretty sure it was Samuel L Jackson  :P

Wrong.  Carl Weathers.
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