For you Matrix fans, they are bringing out a box set of all the films at the end of the year, not three discs, not six, not even seven, but TEN Makes the Alien nine-disc set look a bit weedy. Not quite as silly as the Forty-Eight disc Star Trek sets though.
I know itâs an oxymoron, but you watch it thinking âit could have been so much better if theyâŚâ and itâs actually quite addictive.
It got progressively suckier from Reloaded to Revolutions. Therefore, the critics talking about how it sucked is a definite plus! I want it!
Let me try to expand on this threadâŚ
THE MATRIX COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IFâŚ
âŚThe Oracle was in Brazil. They could do a language download and all speak Brazilian Portuguese in the streets of Sao Paolo⌠The soundtrack could have some Brazilian punk/funk a la Chico Science & Nacao ZumbiâŚ
Why set everything in the anglophone world? The Matrix is about breaking restraints. The actors could have pulled it off. Iâd love to see Keanu speaking like a Brazilian and doing some Capoeira and Brazilian Jujitsu moves with some funky Samba-Metal⌠That would have funked it upâŚ
TEN DISKS? Thatâs a good example of many things:
Wasted space - Christ, imagine the pitiful use of space and technology they must be making. Just like they do on a lot of DVDs, Iâll bet they left a fair bit blank unnecessarily, partly because TEN DISK SPECIAL EDITION OMGWTFBBQ is much more marketable than FIVE DISK SPECTACULAR OMGPLZ
Idiotic consumers - I mean shit, why? TEN DISKS? Who the hell is going to watch all ten? Itâs just for wank value. That way you can look c00l3r than your friend with the pitiful 3 disk (or whatever the total would normally be) set. Youâre spending some obscene amount extra for crap you donât need and probably wonât watch just to wank on about having the OMFGROFLMAO SPECIAL EDITION when you could, you know, just buy the movies normally.
Marketing over purpose - see the above two. The only reason theyâre packing so many disks is because special edition toss makes more money because people get suckered in to thinking itâll make them cool.
As big of a fan as I am, this is just a complete waste of money. There is absolutely nothing new being offered except special-feature type stuff, as well as gasp an actual interview or two/commentary with the reclusive Wachowski Bros. If they had managed to package an âAnimatrix 2â with the set, I may have considered buying it. I guess for behind-the-scenes buffs, itâs a fun purchaseâŚbut Iâll pass. :raspberry:
[quote=âSinister Tiddlywinksâ]Iâm a Matrix fan who thinks the Matrix sucks.
I know itâs an oxymoron, but you watch it thinking âit could have been so much better if theyâŚâ and itâs actually quite addictive.
It got progressively suckier from Reloaded to Revolutions. Therefore, the critics talking about how it sucked is a definite plus! I want it![/quote]
Brilliant, Otto. They lost me completely in the first movie when they went on about how the sun was completely hidden and the machines were extracting energy from humans. Like, oh, humans donât need to eat??
I saw the second one, âMatrix Rewarmedâ, and the scene in which Neo is in a room with hundreds of TVs, each with a different reaction, was totally offputting. The club scene was irritating, as was Neo flying around like Dork Kent/Superduperman. I never did see âMatrix Refriedâ.
Great idea on the language thing. I saw a fantastic movie a few months ago, âNo Manâs Landâ (about the uncivil war in the former Yugoslavia), in which there were, IIRC, six different languages used. It added a lot to the movie, I thought. And they just put in subtitles for the non-English, which was great and worked for all of them.
Flying scenes with real airplanes (even CGI) would have been a lot neater. Neo in an all-black carbon-fiber-mat Dreamwings Valkyrie going at Mach 2. . . .