takes pride in possibly being the only person on the fence about the Matrix sequels
I'm with ya. I think I need to watch them again, just to make up my mind.
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
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juliana - Aug 29, 2006 12:49:27 pm PDT #3834 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Sean K - Aug 29, 2006 12:56:36 pm PDT #3835 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, sharing a fence with juliana doesn't suck.
juliana - Aug 29, 2006 1:02:38 pm PDT #3836 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
snuggles up to Seanie
We should watch together and trade shots when we get cranky.
Sean K - Aug 29, 2006 1:04:03 pm PDT #3837 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I like this plan.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2006 1:08:36 pm PDT #3838 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You'll be off the fence before soon. And onto our side.
-t - Aug 29, 2006 2:29:38 pm PDT #3839 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm thinking alcohol will make it harder to stay on the fence, but less predictable which side you land on when you topple.
Sean K - Aug 29, 2006 2:32:01 pm PDT #3840 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Y'all radically misunderestimate my mad fence sitting skillz.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2006 2:35:41 pm PDT #3841 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the movies will do the shifting quite neatly. Jessica is obviously under the influence of something unnatural.
Aims - Aug 29, 2006 2:41:31 pm PDT #3842 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Jessica is obviously under the influence of something unnatural.
George Lucas.
Gris - Aug 29, 2006 3:34:13 pm PDT #3843 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Toy Story 2 was originally supposed to be a direct to DVD, but then TPTB decided (rightly, IMO) it was good enough to be a theatrical release.
Hell yeah. Better than the first one, in my estimation.
The Matrix sequels... I kinda enjoyed them, especially since I saw them for free with several hundred other Caltech people (talk about an ideal environment) but i could definitely qualify them as "pointless." The first movie stood perfectly well alone. Yeah, it was open-endedish, but in that closure sort of way. Like Lost in Translation. And if They (any They) ever try to make LiT 2, I will personally shoot Them for messing with it.
The Matrix sequels fell into the same trap as the Star Wars prequels - the creator read a bunch of reviews of their original works, and tried to reproduce it, not realizing that the good things about the original(s) were not necessarily things that would get specifically enumerated in reviews. (special effects, cool! Lightsaber duels, awesome! Philosophical take on sci-fi, neato keen! Magical martial arts, radical! Villains with cool costumes, fun!) But if you just take this stuff without something holding it together, and you mostly get crap. Entertaining crap, maybe (though not always), but still nothing to write home about.
Intererestingly (and painfully) enough, I saw one movie a year while at Tech, for free, with a bunch of Techers. And they were, of course: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Pain, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of George's Ego (well, okay, I actually skipped that one and got drunk instead, but I COULD have seen it for free.) I battled hard to get our free movie senior year to be something, ANYTHING else - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy seemed a good bet - but I lost.