Finally saw the 3rd Matrix flick
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solarbird to go look at this as a matinee this afternoon, just to go ahead and get it out of the way and since we were both willing to pay matinee price to see it. Picoreview: Enh. It's official. This story really did end for me at the end of the first film.
Things I liked:
1) The crazy guy that got possessed by Smith did a really good job of channeling Hugo Weaving's inflections and delivery. That was almost creepy.
2) Most of the battle between Smith and Neo at the end was pretty cool. With caveats; see below. But I did like how the fight went aerial--as seemed right and proper in the Matrix.
3) They did at least try to work in the change of actress for the part of the Oracle into the story. And the new Oracle actress did a decent enough job.
4) The little Indian girl/program was very cute.
5) Neo unable to get out of the train station, and the fact that they made the "go out one end of the tunnel and come back in through the other end" joke exactly once and then moved on. That way it remained funny. ;)
6) The "everything is made of light" effects that they did for what Neo saw once he'd been blinded were pretty cool... though as with item #2, with caveats. See below.
7) Smith realizing that he/the Oracle had seen the apparent 'end' of Neo coming and being exultant... and then getting really worried as he starts realizing he didn't really understand what the Oracle had seen at all.
8) The butch chick that Zee was paired up with during the battle sequences. She reminded me of Vasquez from Aliens.
9) Neo ending the war by cutting a deal with the machines ("You stop the war, I'll take out this rogue program for you"). That made absolute logical sense and was a much better way of handling it than a big preachy moralistic thing would have been.
10) That last remark of the Architect's to the Oracle, when she asks him if she has his word that those that want to leave the Matrix will be freed. That was a good reminder that the programs don't think like humans do. ;)
11) The brief shot of the sky above the layer of roiling electricity and clouds... and Trinity's reaction to seeing clear blue sky. That was good.
Things I didn't like:
1) GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THEY KILLED OFF TRINITY!
2) And to make #1 even worse, her death scene was extremely lame. And too damned long. I actually thought "SO DIE ALREADY!" in the middle of it, and this is a crying shame given that she was my favorite character from the first film. The death just... didn't move me, and I didn't get enough of a sense that her death meant all that much to Neo either.
3) The shot of the lightning bolt behind Smith during the sky part of the battle: cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy. With an extra side order of cheese.
4) Everybody spent way too damned much time being incredibly portentous and solemn.
5) What is WITH all the unraveling sweaters everybody wears in Zion? Can't any of these people KNIT?
6) They killed off the butch chick. Grump.
7) GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THEY KILLED OFF TRINITY!
8) Now wait a minute... the Indian couple, who were programs, wanted their daughter program to... live in the Matrix? As opposed to where? In a word, "huh?"
9) While Neo getting see everything being made of light around him, it was all also pretty inexplicable, too. I suppose you can handwave this off as being part of the SuperNeo power package, but it would have been nice to have some vague clue of why he got to see all the machines that way.
10) GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THEY KILLED OFF TRINITY!
Killing off Trinity is a major downer for me. She was the character I cared about the most, and the movie didn't make me care enough about the rest of the characters who survived to make me feel like her death was a worthy sacrifice for them.
Siiiiiiigh.
On the whole... yeah, this plotline ended for me with the first movie. I still want to own a copy of the first one on DVD, but I will be skipping buying the others.
solarbird to go look at this as a matinee this afternoon, just to go ahead and get it out of the way and since we were both willing to pay matinee price to see it. Picoreview: Enh. It's official. This story really did end for me at the end of the first film. Things I liked:
1) The crazy guy that got possessed by Smith did a really good job of channeling Hugo Weaving's inflections and delivery. That was almost creepy.
2) Most of the battle between Smith and Neo at the end was pretty cool. With caveats; see below. But I did like how the fight went aerial--as seemed right and proper in the Matrix.
3) They did at least try to work in the change of actress for the part of the Oracle into the story. And the new Oracle actress did a decent enough job.
4) The little Indian girl/program was very cute.
5) Neo unable to get out of the train station, and the fact that they made the "go out one end of the tunnel and come back in through the other end" joke exactly once and then moved on. That way it remained funny. ;)
6) The "everything is made of light" effects that they did for what Neo saw once he'd been blinded were pretty cool... though as with item #2, with caveats. See below.
7) Smith realizing that he/the Oracle had seen the apparent 'end' of Neo coming and being exultant... and then getting really worried as he starts realizing he didn't really understand what the Oracle had seen at all.
8) The butch chick that Zee was paired up with during the battle sequences. She reminded me of Vasquez from Aliens.
9) Neo ending the war by cutting a deal with the machines ("You stop the war, I'll take out this rogue program for you"). That made absolute logical sense and was a much better way of handling it than a big preachy moralistic thing would have been.
10) That last remark of the Architect's to the Oracle, when she asks him if she has his word that those that want to leave the Matrix will be freed. That was a good reminder that the programs don't think like humans do. ;)
11) The brief shot of the sky above the layer of roiling electricity and clouds... and Trinity's reaction to seeing clear blue sky. That was good.
Things I didn't like:
1) GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THEY KILLED OFF TRINITY!
2) And to make #1 even worse, her death scene was extremely lame. And too damned long. I actually thought "SO DIE ALREADY!" in the middle of it, and this is a crying shame given that she was my favorite character from the first film. The death just... didn't move me, and I didn't get enough of a sense that her death meant all that much to Neo either.
3) The shot of the lightning bolt behind Smith during the sky part of the battle: cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy. With an extra side order of cheese.
4) Everybody spent way too damned much time being incredibly portentous and solemn.
5) What is WITH all the unraveling sweaters everybody wears in Zion? Can't any of these people KNIT?
6) They killed off the butch chick. Grump.
7) GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THEY KILLED OFF TRINITY!
8) Now wait a minute... the Indian couple, who were programs, wanted their daughter program to... live in the Matrix? As opposed to where? In a word, "huh?"
9) While Neo getting see everything being made of light around him, it was all also pretty inexplicable, too. I suppose you can handwave this off as being part of the SuperNeo power package, but it would have been nice to have some vague clue of why he got to see all the machines that way.
10) GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THEY KILLED OFF TRINITY!
Killing off Trinity is a major downer for me. She was the character I cared about the most, and the movie didn't make me care enough about the rest of the characters who survived to make me feel like her death was a worthy sacrifice for them.
Siiiiiiigh.
On the whole... yeah, this plotline ended for me with the first movie. I still want to own a copy of the first one on DVD, but I will be skipping buying the others.