my favorite movie...
Added 2/7/2010
I love how this movie reinforces the fact that you're in charge of your own destiny - it's one of the main points of my new favorite book - Live Like A Fruit Fly - (the matrix is quoted in it a few times..along with star wars)
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Very Good Movie for your all time collection.
Added 2/1/2010
Good I got this for my all time collection. Prompt delivery from Amazon. Best part is I got the free digital copy for my ipod is a Thanksgiving offer from Amazon.
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This is the kind of film that you must have if you like the ideas that contradict your mind's paradigms.
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The blu-ray transfer for this loked fairly appalling to my eye. Each layer of depth looked overly independent and made the film look very false. I don't know of a better way to describe it, but even at the very low black friday price I would rather buy a regular dvd copy and watch that. Not recommended.
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What's wrong with me?
Added 1/5/2010
Well, because this movie hasn't received enough reviews I thought I would add yet another. . .THE MATRIX has so much going for it: Dynamic, inventive story; an athletic (yet always goofy-looking) Keanu Reeves; tremendous--I would say revolutionary--special effects; a quirky, albeit irreverent, villain in Hugo Weaving; and one of my all-time favorite character actors in Joe Pantoliano. Plus the film just flows well, and looks so very, very good.
So why the three stars? What the heck is wrong with me? (Actually, that's a loaded question.) I've seen THE MATRIX several times, and I still keep bumping my head against problems the film presents. If our beloved Neo is 'The One' (and by the end of the movie there's no doubt about it) then why all the bothersome inconsistencies leading up to this techno-revelation? "No, he can't be The One." "Yes, he must be The One." "No, I'm not The One." Gimme a break. It drips too much of melodrama. But the sap really runs once (spoiler alert!) Neo is shot by smug Agent Smith, and back on the Mother Ship Neo actually flatlines. . .until Trinity (wow, did Carrie-Anne Moss ever get into shape) whispers in Neo's ear that he can't die, because she's in love with The One--and Neo comes back to life to kick some serious cyber arse. I just find the whole sequence so mushy I want to go out to the driveway and gargle some gravel.
As for the two MATRIX sequels--I've yet to sit through either of them in entirety. Just too much. Guess once you've seen Keanu jump off a building--or stop a rushing bullet--there's no point in looking at more of the same. Maybe I should have taken the blue pill.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
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my favorite movie...
Added 2/7/2010
I love how this movie reinforces the fact that you're in charge of your own destiny - it's one of the main points of my new favorite book - Live Like A Fruit Fly - (the matrix is quoted in it a few times..along with star wars)
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Very Good Movie for your all time collection.
Added 2/1/2010
Good I got this for my all time collection. Prompt delivery from Amazon. Best part is I got the free digital copy for my ipod is a Thanksgiving offer from Amazon.
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This is the kind of film that you must have if you like the ideas that contradict your mind's paradigms.
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