Sunday, November 09, 2003
so this is combined email for everyone who was disappointed by the matrix. what exactly were you expecting? i wasn't disappointed at all. you guys must have puffed yourselves up all over the place if that movies wasn't exactly what you thought it was going to be. sam, being the crazy guy he is, wrote an excellent little piece on the legion of lions forums.
one of the main points he made is this:
the first one was the groundbreaking kung fu movie
the second one was the groundbreaking action movie (car chases and all)
the third one is the groundbreaking war movie
i mean, really, can you think of action sequences better than the ones in these 3 movies? i sure can't, with the exception of the lord of the rings, and i already liked those ones better, even though i loved all the matrix ones.
was it because it didn't have any more mind bending philosophical insights? how could they end it and leave you confused at the same time. i am so happy they worked to a decent ending like they did, instead of pooping themselves around in circles again.
so yeah, what did you expect? i'm trying to do this without giving anything away, which is kind of hard, but what would you change in order to have the movie live up to your expectations? do you even know what your expectations were? i'm just so confused that everyone is saying it was such a disappointment. i mean shit, watch all 3 at once, i bet you will love them all. its a trilogy, you have to take all three of them in context with the other ones. its a great story. they stuck too their vision and implemented it flawlessly. their special effects were leaps and bounds beyond anything anyone has ever tried. they had to transform the entire earth to this post apocolyptic machine ruled hell, which they did. they broke every rule of physics possible inside the matrix. they had kung fu. they had car chases. they had one person duplicated a billion times fighting people.
if it is disappointing, what would you rather have seen instead? do you really want to sit through terminator 3, or the texas chainsaw massacre to get your action fix? maybe love actually, if you were disappointed in neo and trinity.
its not like this movie was supposed to have sweeping cultural implications, it was a sci-fi action kung fu film, and the trilogy does things no movie in any genre has ever done. these movies were pretty freaking amazing if you ask me, all philosophy and whatever the hell you guys found disappointing about them aside. it wasn't supposed to be a really good movie, it was supposed to be an incredible action movie, which it was. i mean, seriously, what about it disappointed you?
i'm just at a loss, i just don't understand people sometimes :)
so, now that everyone didn't like the matrix, does everyone want to go see radio with me instead? maybe that will get your mind off your disappointment :P
one of the main points he made is this:
the first one was the groundbreaking kung fu movie
the second one was the groundbreaking action movie (car chases and all)
the third one is the groundbreaking war movie
i mean, really, can you think of action sequences better than the ones in these 3 movies? i sure can't, with the exception of the lord of the rings, and i already liked those ones better, even though i loved all the matrix ones.
was it because it didn't have any more mind bending philosophical insights? how could they end it and leave you confused at the same time. i am so happy they worked to a decent ending like they did, instead of pooping themselves around in circles again.
so yeah, what did you expect? i'm trying to do this without giving anything away, which is kind of hard, but what would you change in order to have the movie live up to your expectations? do you even know what your expectations were? i'm just so confused that everyone is saying it was such a disappointment. i mean shit, watch all 3 at once, i bet you will love them all. its a trilogy, you have to take all three of them in context with the other ones. its a great story. they stuck too their vision and implemented it flawlessly. their special effects were leaps and bounds beyond anything anyone has ever tried. they had to transform the entire earth to this post apocolyptic machine ruled hell, which they did. they broke every rule of physics possible inside the matrix. they had kung fu. they had car chases. they had one person duplicated a billion times fighting people.
if it is disappointing, what would you rather have seen instead? do you really want to sit through terminator 3, or the texas chainsaw massacre to get your action fix? maybe love actually, if you were disappointed in neo and trinity.
its not like this movie was supposed to have sweeping cultural implications, it was a sci-fi action kung fu film, and the trilogy does things no movie in any genre has ever done. these movies were pretty freaking amazing if you ask me, all philosophy and whatever the hell you guys found disappointing about them aside. it wasn't supposed to be a really good movie, it was supposed to be an incredible action movie, which it was. i mean, seriously, what about it disappointed you?
i'm just at a loss, i just don't understand people sometimes :)
so, now that everyone didn't like the matrix, does everyone want to go see radio with me instead? maybe that will get your mind off your disappointment :P
