My new favorite headline:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2001782017_blaine04.html
No matter what word you cover up, it's still funny.
I didn't post anything in the Matris thread, 'cause I don't want to be the guy that stirs things up when everyone likes it. Usually that comes across as someone just trying to be a dick for a boring night at home. So to my few fans out there:
That movie just wasn't good. The writing was horrible; plot and dialog. So, to prevent a long, rambling post, I'll sum it up in two points.
The first: When you have a movie series called The Matrix, don't have the coolest action sequence... not in the Matrix. The whole pacing was ass. If I would have plotted that movie (setting aside it didn't need a sequel), here's how it would have gone...
Second movie - open as usual. Establish threat to Zion. Must get info to Zion. Edited first Smith fighting sequence intercut with chase scene with Jada from third movie. Fighting the robots from the third movie as the climax. I can take fighting outside the Matrix in the middle part of a Matrix trilogy. Ends on cliffhanger with Smith escaping into the real world and Neo having to go into the Matrix.
Third movie - Start with the scene with the architect telling Neo it was all another test or whatever it was he was trying to blather on about in the second movie. All the actual Matrix fight scenes in the last two movies, including bumping up the two frenchman scenes with each other, the car chase, and the Smith fight. End the same way, I guess, in lieu of something interesting.
Point two: Remember at the end of Gladiator how Russell Crowe told his henchmen to collect his 5,000 men and they would assault Rome and you had just enough time to get excited about it before he was captured and fought the Emperor one on one? They did that about 5 times in the last Matrix.
Don't tell me your cool plan if you're planning on chucking it ten minutes later. The scene with the frenchman and Trinity being a bitch wasn't cool, or shocking or anything but fucking annoying. That was a cool trade. What the frenchman wanted in trade was the first interesting plot twist since Neo woke up in the real world. I was getting kind of excited seeing how they would handle it. Never mind the whole Neo stuck between worlds was ass to begin with. I like this idea about... hey! Wait a minute! You just did a sloppy gun stunt and he just got out! No quest. Not even a fight with the scummy, scary train guy. Super fucking lame.
I'm not saying the movies are a waste of time... that they are as horrible as some naysayers believe. But they aren't all that clever (if you think the Wach brothers intended to write in all that 'deeper meaning' some of you are reading into it, trust me, they're bullshitting you) and they could have been soooo much better.
Aren't you glad I got that off my chest?
(babeep)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2001782017_blaine04.html
No matter what word you cover up, it's still funny.
I didn't post anything in the Matris thread, 'cause I don't want to be the guy that stirs things up when everyone likes it. Usually that comes across as someone just trying to be a dick for a boring night at home. So to my few fans out there:
That movie just wasn't good. The writing was horrible; plot and dialog. So, to prevent a long, rambling post, I'll sum it up in two points.
The first: When you have a movie series called The Matrix, don't have the coolest action sequence... not in the Matrix. The whole pacing was ass. If I would have plotted that movie (setting aside it didn't need a sequel), here's how it would have gone...
Second movie - open as usual. Establish threat to Zion. Must get info to Zion. Edited first Smith fighting sequence intercut with chase scene with Jada from third movie. Fighting the robots from the third movie as the climax. I can take fighting outside the Matrix in the middle part of a Matrix trilogy. Ends on cliffhanger with Smith escaping into the real world and Neo having to go into the Matrix.
Third movie - Start with the scene with the architect telling Neo it was all another test or whatever it was he was trying to blather on about in the second movie. All the actual Matrix fight scenes in the last two movies, including bumping up the two frenchman scenes with each other, the car chase, and the Smith fight. End the same way, I guess, in lieu of something interesting.
Point two: Remember at the end of Gladiator how Russell Crowe told his henchmen to collect his 5,000 men and they would assault Rome and you had just enough time to get excited about it before he was captured and fought the Emperor one on one? They did that about 5 times in the last Matrix.
Don't tell me your cool plan if you're planning on chucking it ten minutes later. The scene with the frenchman and Trinity being a bitch wasn't cool, or shocking or anything but fucking annoying. That was a cool trade. What the frenchman wanted in trade was the first interesting plot twist since Neo woke up in the real world. I was getting kind of excited seeing how they would handle it. Never mind the whole Neo stuck between worlds was ass to begin with. I like this idea about... hey! Wait a minute! You just did a sloppy gun stunt and he just got out! No quest. Not even a fight with the scummy, scary train guy. Super fucking lame.
I'm not saying the movies are a waste of time... that they are as horrible as some naysayers believe. But they aren't all that clever (if you think the Wach brothers intended to write in all that 'deeper meaning' some of you are reading into it, trust me, they're bullshitting you) and they could have been soooo much better.
Aren't you glad I got that off my chest?
(babeep)VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
... i'm still sleeping, though.
i come back soon.
wean yourself off juliana, you must...
g'nite