May 27, 2003
Whee, just recently saw Reloaded, and just got a copy of it today. Too bad the copy sucks ass, but it let me look through the movie again and see the cool stuff again.
Overall impressions of the movie?
I liked it.
I went in mostly to see it for the action and the fight scenes, but I also liked what they [The Wachowski brothers] did for the story as well. The first Matrix might have seemed particularly awe-inspiring for the idea that our day to day lives were false, but it was also something that had been done before in Sci-fi novels, most specifically it's done in the "Cyberpunk" sub-genre. It's also from that genre where the first Matrix leeched a lot of it's ideas, especially from William Gibson. (Apparently it also rips quite a bit from some comic book series called "The Invisibles", but I've never read it) Anyhow, in the second one, they seem to break away from being a rip-off in terms of story and ideas, and make the movie series into it's own, original series. At least that's how I felt. I don't really want to say too much about it, but yeah. And the fight scenes were also pretty sweet as well, although in the fight scene with the Merovingian's lackeys, my friends say the Asian person with sunglasses and shoulder length hair was a woman, and I'm almost positive it was a male, but on my, umm.., copy, of Reloaded, it's very unclear, so I can't tell. Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to Revolutions, which is supposed to be coming out in Sep or Oct sometime I think, not sure.
Overall impressions of the movie?
I liked it.
I went in mostly to see it for the action and the fight scenes, but I also liked what they [The Wachowski brothers] did for the story as well. The first Matrix might have seemed particularly awe-inspiring for the idea that our day to day lives were false, but it was also something that had been done before in Sci-fi novels, most specifically it's done in the "Cyberpunk" sub-genre. It's also from that genre where the first Matrix leeched a lot of it's ideas, especially from William Gibson. (Apparently it also rips quite a bit from some comic book series called "The Invisibles", but I've never read it) Anyhow, in the second one, they seem to break away from being a rip-off in terms of story and ideas, and make the movie series into it's own, original series. At least that's how I felt. I don't really want to say too much about it, but yeah. And the fight scenes were also pretty sweet as well, although in the fight scene with the Merovingian's lackeys, my friends say the Asian person with sunglasses and shoulder length hair was a woman, and I'm almost positive it was a male, but on my, umm.., copy, of Reloaded, it's very unclear, so I can't tell. Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to Revolutions, which is supposed to be coming out in Sep or Oct sometime I think, not sure.
# posted by Yann : 19:54
