You say you want a revolution?
May. 15th, 2003 05:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aruanIn order of importance:
The Twins were such the squeefest for me. So sexy! [Ed. Note: Eeee! Adrian and Neil Rayment are *adorable* in real life! Go watch.] "We are getting aggravated." With the hair and the accents and the clothes and oh.my.god. did we mention there are *two*? Personally, my favorite part of the entire movie was the 10 seconds of sequence in the parking garage when Morpheus is fighting them while Trinity's concurrently shooting at them. They can do the same kind of dissipating thing as Nightcrawler, and it's just so fast and incredibly cool. Seriously, every second they spent on screen I was all 'Ooh' and 'Aah' and 'Wow' and 'G.U.H.' and, well, as Agent Elrond-Smith (*snerk*) summed it up rather nicely...
"More." Uh, yes. And also, Jesus, Mary, *and* Joseph was Hugo Weaving hot in this movie. And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isilya, I was totally thinking of you the whole time, as he spent the large majority of his screen time that was not fighting Neo flirting... with himself! "Oh, God." "Smith will suffice." And the expression on his face every time he turns someone else! It can be found under the dictionary definition for the adjective smug.
The love story of Neo and Trinity. Dude, rocked my socks. Also, I'm always so happy to see actors who know how to kiss (hell, regular people too, so few good ones around) but wow, I totally bought that they loved each other that much.
The Architect. How fucking cool a name is that? And this line: "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept." *shudder*
Fascinating issue of hope being the greatest asset as well as the definitive weakness of mankind. How scary is it that the machines have accounted for the anomaly of The One and continue to use him to keep the human race in some sort of twisted rat maze of dead-end struggle? *bristles*
Poor Morpheus! Everything he believed is a lie - unless the Oracle's a rogue program, too, who knows the workings of the Matrix and can see things independently of it.
Speaking of which - guess Smith is a vengeful free agent now, eh? I don't know whether he was more dangerous before or now.
Sigh. Lamentably, I called a lot of the stuff that was supposed to be shocking/surprising. Even more lamentably, people other than the brothers Wachowski obviously had a hand in this, 'cause this ain't just your stylistic, intelligent film anymore - I can see the boardroomful of soda/sneaker/whatever marketing executives sitting down with the studio heads and splicing in what their demographic data shows the 16-24-year-old age bracket wants. I'm fairly convinced there was a solid, well-executed, story-centric movie here. But as it is, The Matrix Reloaded ended up with a lot of un-plotty screen time which was made up for in five-minute-long monologues by various characters, and while far be it for me to say that the fight scenes were in any way unwelcome, they felt a bit gratuitous at times, and at others made the stuff in-between seem like blatant and unconstructive setup for the next one. Definitely not up to par in execution with the first one, though the plot and its twists were even more ingenious.
The new supporting characters did nothing for me. Minus the Twins, of course, who were duly noted, and perhaps the French guy for some ungodly reason. Maybe I want to know what kind of Hades parallel he's to become, even sans his Persephone. That and, well, he's met Neo's "predecessors." There've been six now! Six! I wonder what the others' choices were...
And sadly, most of the cool stuff was totally given away in the trailers, which I can only grit my teeth about now and resolve to change the channel when one comes on for any movie I want to see in the future.
That being said, there were *plenty* of moments where I was clutching at Miranda, sighing in bliss, clasping my hand over my mouth after certain involuntary outbursts of enthusiasm, and left feeling more impressed than I've been by a movie in a while. I had a great time.
There's probably more. I need to see it again and you know, not be typing this at six o'clock in the morning.
To sum up, for those of you wishing to remain unspoiled: the Twins were a rockin' good time, Agent Elrond-Smith is better than ever, the special effects were hella pretty, the seeds planted for the third movie are intriguing and I couldn't even begin to guess the plotline, but this ain't your mama's Matrix. Go see it a couple of times to catch everything, but cuddle up with the original until the third movie comes out.
The Twins were such the squeefest for me. So sexy! [Ed. Note: Eeee! Adrian and Neil Rayment are *adorable* in real life! Go watch.] "We are getting aggravated." With the hair and the accents and the clothes and oh.my.god. did we mention there are *two*? Personally, my favorite part of the entire movie was the 10 seconds of sequence in the parking garage when Morpheus is fighting them while Trinity's concurrently shooting at them. They can do the same kind of dissipating thing as Nightcrawler, and it's just so fast and incredibly cool. Seriously, every second they spent on screen I was all 'Ooh' and 'Aah' and 'Wow' and 'G.U.H.' and, well, as Agent Elrond-Smith (*snerk*) summed it up rather nicely...
"More." Uh, yes. And also, Jesus, Mary, *and* Joseph was Hugo Weaving hot in this movie. And
isilya, I was totally thinking of you the whole time, as he spent the large majority of his screen time that was not fighting Neo flirting... with himself! "Oh, God." "Smith will suffice." And the expression on his face every time he turns someone else! It can be found under the dictionary definition for the adjective smug.The love story of Neo and Trinity. Dude, rocked my socks. Also, I'm always so happy to see actors who know how to kiss (hell, regular people too, so few good ones around) but wow, I totally bought that they loved each other that much.
The Architect. How fucking cool a name is that? And this line: "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept." *shudder*
Fascinating issue of hope being the greatest asset as well as the definitive weakness of mankind. How scary is it that the machines have accounted for the anomaly of The One and continue to use him to keep the human race in some sort of twisted rat maze of dead-end struggle? *bristles*
Poor Morpheus! Everything he believed is a lie - unless the Oracle's a rogue program, too, who knows the workings of the Matrix and can see things independently of it.
Speaking of which - guess Smith is a vengeful free agent now, eh? I don't know whether he was more dangerous before or now.
Sigh. Lamentably, I called a lot of the stuff that was supposed to be shocking/surprising. Even more lamentably, people other than the brothers Wachowski obviously had a hand in this, 'cause this ain't just your stylistic, intelligent film anymore - I can see the boardroomful of soda/sneaker/whatever marketing executives sitting down with the studio heads and splicing in what their demographic data shows the 16-24-year-old age bracket wants. I'm fairly convinced there was a solid, well-executed, story-centric movie here. But as it is, The Matrix Reloaded ended up with a lot of un-plotty screen time which was made up for in five-minute-long monologues by various characters, and while far be it for me to say that the fight scenes were in any way unwelcome, they felt a bit gratuitous at times, and at others made the stuff in-between seem like blatant and unconstructive setup for the next one. Definitely not up to par in execution with the first one, though the plot and its twists were even more ingenious.
The new supporting characters did nothing for me. Minus the Twins, of course, who were duly noted, and perhaps the French guy for some ungodly reason. Maybe I want to know what kind of Hades parallel he's to become, even sans his Persephone. That and, well, he's met Neo's "predecessors." There've been six now! Six! I wonder what the others' choices were...
And sadly, most of the cool stuff was totally given away in the trailers, which I can only grit my teeth about now and resolve to change the channel when one comes on for any movie I want to see in the future.
That being said, there were *plenty* of moments where I was clutching at Miranda, sighing in bliss, clasping my hand over my mouth after certain involuntary outbursts of enthusiasm, and left feeling more impressed than I've been by a movie in a while. I had a great time.
There's probably more. I need to see it again and you know, not be typing this at six o'clock in the morning.
To sum up, for those of you wishing to remain unspoiled: the Twins were a rockin' good time, Agent Elrond-Smith is better than ever, the special effects were hella pretty, the seeds planted for the third movie are intriguing and I couldn't even begin to guess the plotline, but this ain't your mama's Matrix. Go see it a couple of times to catch everything, but cuddle up with the original until the third movie comes out.
