current selection | nigo – march of the general
feelin’ | matrix-y
ill first stick this bit of info into the precedings. theres a new teaser trailer up for a roland emmerich film called the day after tomorrow about a post-“apocalyptic” second ice age…a pretty scary (but real) possibility. it stars dennis quaid and jake gyllenhaal, one of my favorite actors at the moment…so take a look.
in a little over 12 hours, ill be watching the finale to a 4 year trilogy…woo! there have so far been a fair amount of bad reviews and an even amount of good (and some disturbingly excited) reviews for matrix revolutions. i think paul clinton, who i incidentally think is an absolute arse of a reviewer, stated it best when he said, “when it comes to the matrix franchise, either people love it — really, really love it. or they hate it — really, really hate it.” cant disagree with you there, ass cheeks. the reviews have been almost predictably split down a demarcated boundary. most of the tepid-to-vicious reviews have been from your average pedestrian fare (newspapers, etc…), while almost all of the positive reviews came from cinema and entertainment sources (ign, cinescape, etc…) so since i subscribe to the latter, ill probably be thoroughly entertained.
after reading a number of reviews, i started noticing a pattern. not in the uniformity of critiques of the matrix specifically, but how some of the critiques are repeated over and over again. many of the negative reviewers kept stating how everything is cliched and uninventive…unimaginative. i was thinking then…have we gotten to the point where we’ve seen everything? because apparently nothing is new to these people…they seem to have seen it all. i wonder how shitty it must be to be a movie reviewer, b/c nothing fascinates them anymore…pure entertainment is placed behind the need for critically intellectual masturbation. but whatever…matrix, woot!
