{"id":585,"date":"2003-05-25T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2003-05-25T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighnet.org\/wordpress\/?p=585"},"modified":"2003-05-25T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2003-05-25T21:07:36","slug":"the-matrix-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gator3134.temp.domains\/~raleigh2\/2003\/05\/25\/the-matrix-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix – Eh…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to seeing the new Matrix today. So many people I know liked it. Matt for instance sure seemed to groove<\/a> on it. I on the other hand was ready to nod off as soon as the thing started and it never quite lived up to my hopes and expectations (whatever those may have been).<\/p>\n

Anyway, Spoilers Ahead<\/a>:
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\nI thought it was too long by a good 30 to 60 minutes. That whole deal with the French guy – get that right out of there. What was the point? A bunch of the fight\/chase scenes would have been better had they been edited more. I get that, that’s kind of the whole point of the movie, but I never, ever felt any jeopardy for the characters. <\/p>\n

Neo is basically indestructible, so there aren’t any villains to challenge him. The new villains spend their whole time fighting the less-super Morpheous and Trinity, and even there I didn’t feel it. Neo’s only challenge is can he go fast enough to save his friends — a device they use twice. <\/p>\n

Plus, I mostly didn’t care about any of the characters on even the most basic level. When the ones who were supposed to be hacking the back-up power grid fall over dead, I didn’t spare one moment to care. Amazingly, the movie didn’t either. Neo’s conversation with the Oracle was satisfying, but his conversation with the Architect was a lot less than I would have liked it to have been. I don’t know what I wanted it to be, but not that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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