put it in your middle finger and sing along

Resucked:
ok so i had issues with the first Matrix film for awhile, but over the years i've come to like it...in fact i watched it again tonight to refresh before Matrix Relourded. i still think 1 is overrated but it's a good solid flick. the overwhelming hype coupled with the fact that it broke some technical ground meant that the sequel had a lot to live up to.

i miss my ten dollars. we had some good times together. he'd wait patiently in my wallet, never complaining about those pesky ones, high-and-mighty fives, or arrogant twenties that seemed to never be around. yes, he was a loyal ten dollars, willing to sacrifice himself for me for almost any reason. looking back now, i wish our parting could have been the result of a more meaningful movie...hell, i could have rented Porkies 2 three times from blockbuster and still had enough for some chocodiles from 7-11. sadly, my annual chocoporkydile weekend(may 14-16) will have to be postponed this year, as my ten dollars was needlessly sacrificed for the sake of the Matrix Redoodled.

Matrix Refolded is not a good flick, not on any level. but what about the action scenes you ask? well they are ok for the most part, and yes there are 2 really cool scenes, but they serve no purpose... at one point(the annoying frenchman scene) i asked reid how a movie could be so interesting and painfully boring at the same time. it is both well made and poorly constructed at the same time...all the effort went into the eye candy and mythology, causing the filmmakers to forget about character and dialouge altogether. as a result we're left with hollow characters(almost always severly over or underacted) that i didn't give a damn about, and a loping, dragging, boring plot with absolutely no sense of pacing at all. when a character in the movie has to jusitfy yet another kungfu fight for the audience, something is really wrong.
i could go way more into problems i had with the details of the universe and mythos of the film(and believe me there are plenty) but i could be much more forgiving of those if it was an otherwise well-made film, and sadly it isn't.

the Matrix Rejiggered made me want to see X2 again so that i can enjoy a good (CHARACTER DRIVEN) comic/fx/action/popcorn film...and it'll hold me over until the Matrix ReBarBQutions comes out in november.