[Nottingham] Matrix Reloaded

[Graeme Fowler]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 21:08, James Gibbon wrote:
> Nonsense, it's pure toss, all style and no substance.

Blimey, talk about cage rattling. I think you may have missed the truly
obscene amount of 14th thru 20th century philosophy the cast had to read
in order to attempt to understand the script (have you ever really
*read* Kant, or Plato? Did you understand it?); the fact that the first
film was produced (as was was the original Star Wars which had a
similarly ground-shaking response) on a percentage basis - i.e. the cast
could come away with zilch; do you ever bother to look beyond what's
being fired at your auditory and visual systems and try to see why the
film has been made (believe it or not, a lot of people involved with
film and media really do believe in what they're doing - it ain't all
about money for them)?

> Brilliantly photography, amazing special effects, wonderful sets,
> clever editing, but I've seen ITV sitcoms with more interesting plots
> and characterisation.

Really?

I think you may be confusing the latest greatest
so-called-comedy-about-aspiring-middle-class-right-wing-but-right-on-educationalists (or whatever is being purveyed as "comedy" these days) with something that might actually be described as entertainment.

Yes, it's just a film. But for once it's a film that doesn't have Tom
Bloody Hanks, Jim **** Carrey, Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant or... (you get what
I mean) in it, produced for an increasingly yet unlikely mass market,
the majority of whom go to see it because it's actually *good*!

Getting off of my high horse for a moment - I think the WoW! factor's
gone from this film, because that was all in the first one. This is
simply furtherance of the story - which, like I said earlier, was always
destined to be a trilogy. Are you a LOTR fan, by the way?

Remember: there'll probably be "2Fast, 2Furious" next time you go to the
cinema. Tell me why that ever got near the big screen? Style? Maybe.
Substance?

Graeme
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Graeme Fowler <graeme@graemef.net>