Date:         Sat, 17 May 2003 00:46:41 -0700
From: solipsis <solipsis@HEVANET.COM>
Subject: the matrix did suck
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA

Barky:

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pretty much sucked..


First of all, in the scene where he fights the 50 or 60 Smiths.. He should have used
the ground as a kind of trampoline,
creating a pleasing/confusing ripple for the Smiths to deal with, just jumping up and
down and making large ripples through
all the buildings the ground etc. (I'll get to why in a minute) Then he should have
begun to spin rapidly, so rapidly in fact,
that if he held out the hollow sign pole it would begin to sing, so now he's bouncing
and spinning say 5600rpm, now
what happens is he begins to sychronize his bounces leaving a ring of smiths in the
air for a moment.. Now he intuitively
programs himself to be a kind of rotating death bead on a long guitar string playing
by an enormous invisible finger,
when the invisible string is plucked, he moves in a specific circumference shattering
the Smiths, or perhaps he spins very fast
as he is plucked and the vibrational harmonics shatter these pesky constructs.. I
guess my point is, that for Neo, the Matrix
should be something much more akin to a lucid dream, I mean seriously, if he can fly,
he should be able to bend reality in a much
more convincing way..

The Albino dread-lock ass/ass/in's were weak, and the dance scene reminded me of the
ewoks celebration scene except
they used moby or something instead of the cool gopher marimba music on the empire
strikes back..

the revelation that there are rogue programs populating the matrix was real cutting
edge, except that TRon was more visionary and it was what 50 years ago.. best thing
abou the whole movie i suppose was the japanese code motif..

oh and the conspiracy angle, or the cyclical history riff, neoadam and the
anomaly-harem, whatever.. that was interesting
i guess, but for me the whole thing was just plain too John Woo.. I still wonder what
AI wouldve looked like if Spielburg hadnt
ruined it.. didnt he ruin it.. or would it have sucked anyway.. Dr. Strangleove was
good..

The Zion traffic controller scene was pretty interesting, but it seems like every
movie you see these days has
holographic pseudoscreenless gui's sprouting out of every surface of your body..

You'd think someone might watch Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou and get an idea or two for
a whole new "revolution" in cinema
called Modernism, where the filmic image is a sort of "art-form" where color and form
and story are these metaphoric artifices
meant to create poetic experiences simulating dreams.. that would be really, like,
incredible, there could even be symbolisim
and stuff,

Luckily I can watch the DVD version of ATALANTE now and wash it all out of my
mind..or just read my new lost and found times..
Well I guess I shouldnt complain too much, I went to the matinee and it only cost me
a little over 5bucks, thats a Latte' and a muffin..

lq (barky)

*tyrosine hydroxylase