Last night of this month's father-daughter movie week, so I thought I'd roll back to a film from juuuuuust before she was born. The good stuff is still good, but the annoying stuff is even more annoying than it used to be.
A ★★★½ review of The Matrix (1999)
“The Matrix” was, and is, a seminal movie in the area of special effects (BULLET TIME!), crazy existential what-is-reality SF drama (if you ignore “Total Recall”), and the Matrix Trilogy (the latter two episodes of which everyone would prefer to ignore). Whoa. No, really, it’s stylish, it’s sleek, it’s thought-provoking, it’s almost as cool as it was 14 years ago, though the philosophical gobble-gabble hasn’t improved with age. And it is a major …
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I loved this movie, but they should have left it as a stand alone movie.
+James D. Absotively. The ending of the first is a fine ending for the saga.
I really enjoyed them all. I do agree they could have ended it after the first but for people that have read the written series that would have made no sense.
As far as the philosophical pieces, I thought that made it interesting. Without that undertone the movie would just be flat. Imagine Morpheus just flat out telling Neo the truth with no other reasoning to it. No seriously dude you are the one! Then people would complain how terrible Keenau was. Whereas his acting fit perfect otherwise.
+Jon Weber … written series?
I totally thought it was adapted from a comic series or graphic novel. Doesn't appear to be at all.
+Jon Weber Ah. Okay, thanks, I was very confused. 🙂