{"id":40030,"date":"2013-12-12T21:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T04:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-the-matrix-1999.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T21:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T04:22:30","slug":"movie-review-the-matrix-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-the-matrix-1999.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "The Matrix" (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Matrix (1999)<\/a>
\n “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 …\n <\/p>\n

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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.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Matrix (1999) “The Matrix” was, and is, a … Continue reading “Movie Review: "The Matrix" (1999)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37945,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/movie-review-dogma-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":40030,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Dogma" (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jun-13 10:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I really love this movie. 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