Also saw the Matrix. Blah. The special effects
aren't as great as they're hyped to be.
The Matrix is, to me, Blade Runner 2. Remember
the original ad campaigns for blade runner? They showed nothing
but long jumps across skyscraper roofs and Pris doing her
twenty-somersault thing. Then you see the movie and that's *ALL*
the action in the movie.
So I figure the Wachowski Brothers were
thinking, like me: "Wouldn't it be cool if we made a movie
like the Blade Runner ads promised?"
Well, if you've seen the trailer of the Matrix,
you've seen about half of the action in the film, and almost all
the cool stuff.
The promise of that fantastic Blade Runner
ad/trailer has still not been delivered on.
Why the fuck is jumping so goddamned cool? I
don't know, but it is.
PS: Keanu Reeves was much better than expected.
So far the only good movies, in which he HIMSELF was also good,
remains "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and
"...Bogus Journey."
Speed was lame, and he was moderately annoying.
In most other films (especially Dracula) he's been a bad actor in
a bad film.
In the Matrix, he was an okay actor in a kind
of lame film.
He was pretty in-shape, though. I'll give the
guy that.
But he looked very silly doing kung fu.
