The Matrix
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The Matrix was released on March 31, 1999... twenty two years ago today.
Last bumped on Apr 4, 2021, 8:07:41 AM
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" It aged relatively well in regards of CGI effects, stunts, narration. Matrix 4-5 will have a hard time topping the excitement that was generated back then. Masterpiece of 3.16 lore
"A mysterious figure appears out of nowhere, trying to escape from something you can't see. She hands you a rusty-looking device called the Blood Crucible and urges you to implant it into your body." Only usable with Ethanol Flasks | |
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Purportedly the new villain is going to be The Merovingian, either as main or side antagonist. I can get behind that, that Frenchman is gucci. :)
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Donnie Darko was published 2001. Its 2021. Donnie Darko is still pretty fucked up.
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I always thought that The Matrix was kind of "meh/boring".
Donnie Darko was more interesting for me. Perhaps I'm just weird. And old. And a grandma. :D 😹😹😹😹😹
I do not and will not use TFT. Gaming Granny :D 🐢🐢🐢🪲🪲🪲 | |
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just watched donnie darko again a few nights ago. fantastic movie. though the whole time travel stuff REALLY bugs me.
i think matrix is overrated. an entertaining movie, but hardly a great one. | |
" Well, The Matrix has a special place in any movie-going Sydneysider's heart, but especially one who was a teenage boy at the time. We grew up seeing places like LA, New York and London as movie settings, and they were almost mythological in their distance. So seeing Martin Place, Centrepoint Tower (fuck the new name, because it's stupid) and St James station all through a weird, washed-out lens of cyberpunk grunge was a revelation: with the right filters, even our local haunts could seem otherworldly. But fuck me if the movie (and the trilogy especially) didn't age like milk. Off-brand skim milk, at that. Although neither movie could stand a chance against it, Dark City and Equilibrium are of greater value to me as far as dystopian bleak flicks are concerned: the former for its classier approach to 'unknown masters ruling a city out of time and space', the latter for taking John Woo's 'dual pistol gunplay' aesthetic and turning it into a fucking ridiculous but visually awesome martial art, which itself has become a trope: gun-kata, a development of the less stance-driven 'gun fu'. Dark City is stylish, Equilibrium is derivative but exciting -- and The Matrix is just too far up its own arse to be as entertaining as either. Still, without The Matrix we might not have John Wick, so there's always that to consider. Fun fact: the bearded old dude from the second and third movies, 'The Architect', was actually played by a teacher at NIDA, and a friend of mine was a student of his at the time. She said he admitted he had no clue what any of the dialogue was about but a paycheque is a paycheque and drama professors aren't exactly paid like kings. As for Donnie Darko, I never saw the original version, only the Director's Cut. Which is most definitely an excellent movie, although if you're weird then I'm fucking inscrutable because as far as Kelly's movies go, I fucking *love* Southland Tales and think it leaves Donnie Darko in the dirt. Sure, I had to read the prequel graphic novel to fully get it, but I had more fun puzzling out parts IV-VI without the clarity of what came before. And such a batshit cast! Oh, and the movie introduced me to Jane's Addiction and Pixies, so that didn't hurt either. And remember: Teen horniness is not a crime. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Last edited by Foreverhappychan on Apr 3, 2021, 4:42:36 AM
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" damn. i think you and i probably share a lot in common with movie preferences. absolutely love this post, as well as all those movies (dark city, equilibrium, southland tales) shit i gotta watch southland tales again. its been too long. that movie is excellent and hilarious. | |
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Equilibrium is meh. Even that gun-kata it came up with just looks stupid.
I'd rate Matrix as miles above it anyday, both in concept and action. Last edited by Exile009 on Apr 4, 2021, 1:10:02 AM
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Concept? Sure. Action? Sure (although the 'human' CG in 2 and 3 is aaaatrocious). But neither of those were why I prefer it. I already stipulated my reasoning. No need to repeat it. Although I forgot one, which is strangely related to what I said about how the Sydney-based filming of The Matrix made me feel: I freaking LOVE the Fascist architecture of Equilibrium, just as I love the New York noir of Dark City.
The commentary track for Equilibrium is almost as entertaining as the movie too. Makes for a deadly drinking game: anytime Kurt Wimmer says 'if we'd had more money', take a shot. You'll be dead before Sean Bean's character. That'd be a spoiler, except it's fucking Sean Bean. Oh, and Emily Watson does more acting with her eyes alone than Carrie-Anne Moss does in all three Matrix movies. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
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