The Unbearable 'Ponderousness' of Being The One: Lamest 'Matrix' Review I Ever Seen

[catachresis]

. . . is here:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2090943/

Jeez Louise, this Matt Feeny guy has got to be the most constipated cultural studies geek to ever quip the words 'bildungsroman' and 'vibe' in the same wheezy breath. Truly rank maunderings. I think that this twerp gets paid to write his sententious tripe, and it hurts us, My Precious, it hurts us.

[banzibaby]

Well, i know i'll get stick 4 this, but i gotta agree with him, the 1st film was stunning & a new approach, but both the sequels were IMHO really bad, yeah they had great effects, but that doesnt make a good movie, they decided 2 go all spiritual & philosophical (i cant spell lol) with the sequels, most fans wanted action movies, that they got, but the last 2 were just so pretentious will the rambling monologes & confusing quasi religousness, i seen the 3rd film at the cinema & i walked out 20 mins from the end, i just couldnt watch them destroy what the 1st film was, sorry

BaNzI

[LTR12101B]

It's an unbreakable rule - sequels are never as good as the original - Unless the original was so bad they needed a rethink!

The Star Trek movies - First one was pretty poor, then they hit a peak and went downhill from there - the last one I saw, Insurrection, would barely have filled a normal episode!.

Terminator - now there is a case of sequels being pretty ok - possibly due the the special effects being better - The Matrix started out with some good effects - how do you beat "bullet time"? - a fairly twee effect NOW, but the Matrix was first to put it to good use.

[Phil K]

Well, i know i'll get stick 4 this, but i gotta agree with him, the 1st film was stunning & a new approach, but both the sequels were IMHO really bad, yeah they had great effects, but that doesnt make a good movie, they decided 2 go all spiritual & philosophical (i cant spell lol) with the sequels, most fans wanted action movies, that they got, but the last 2 were just so pretentious will the rambling monologes & confusing quasi religousness, i seen the 3rd film at the cinema & i walked out 20 mins from the end, i just couldnt watch them destroy what the 1st film was, sorry

BaNzI

Maybe so - but I see the thread starters point - some of these reviewers are THE most arrogant pompous name-dropping mirror-kissers on the planet. (They've all still got some way to go before they get a quarter of the way to the most arrogant and tedious cow of all though - Charmaine Greer.)

[jonss]

I have'nt seen Matrix 3 yet but after 2 I gotta say it did'nt strike the same chord with me as the original. Maybe the real answer is cutting and combining 2 and 3 to make a really good sequel worthy of the original. I mean, Trinity is rather cool in her leathers and most desirable without them but I thought the love scene in 2 was totally unneccessary and meaningless. How many other superfluous scenes could the director cut from both movies to present a hard core cut of non-stop action. The verbose maggott that wrote the review was correct in one aspect. The writers lost their way. He could have said it all in one paragraph. He's probably being paid by the big word.

[spottydog]

Trinity = MOST desirable

[PC-GUY]

Well, i know i'll get stick 4 this, but i gotta agree with him, the 1st film was stunning & a new approach, but both the sequels were IMHO really bad, yeah they had great effects, but that doesnt make a good movie, they decided 2 go all spiritual & philosophical (i cant spell lol) with the sequels, most fans wanted action movies, that they got, but the last 2 were just so pretentious will the rambling monologes & confusing quasi religousness, i seen the 3rd film at the cinema & i walked out 20 mins from the end, i just couldnt watch them destroy what the 1st film was, sorry

BaNzI

I have to agree 2 or 3 didn't do justices to the first one. I have to say the first matrix is probability one of my all time favorite movies and I thinks it's a shame how bad they killed it with 2 and definitely 3. But that just my option.