[Nottingham] Matrix Reloaded

[Scott Bennett]

Graeme Fowler wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 21:08, James Gibbon wrote:
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>>Nonsense, it's pure toss, all style and no substance.
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>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)?
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>>Brilliantly photography, amazing special effects, wonderful sets,
>>clever editing, but I've seen ITV sitcoms with more interesting plots
>>and characterisation.
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>Really?
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>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.
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>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*!
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>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?
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>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?
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>Graeme
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Bravo! I'm glad someone came back with that! For a while there I was questioning if he'd even seen it yet! 
Cos the way he was talking certainly wasn't the Reloaded I saw twice last week!

Scott