"the matrix redux"
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this is my first real blog in a while. if any of you have been coming back, i apologize for the late post. but there've been a few things that i've had to take care of before being fully sure that i could come back and post. my blog juices had run out after the last few. but i know that simply posting lyrics to songs that you're never going to hear isn't something that people can call a blog. oh, no, it takes a lot more than that to count as a blog, doesn't it? or does it? the question, friends, i leave to you. anyway, today we're going to be talking about the matrix [some more]. at about...15 hours from now, at 12:45 on a thursday morning, i'm going to be watching the matrix revolutions. now, the initial buzz online is basically non-buzz...don't avoid, but don't expect too much at all costs. most people don't like reading reviews...in fact, some people don't read them because reviews are written depending on the tastes of the reviewer. i like reviews...not only do they highlight particular plot points, sometimes, just sometimes, reviews demonstrate the stupidity of the reviewer. but never mind about that. the initial buzz for revolutions has been rather negative. but people want to know what happens. it's not about special effects or bullet time or yuen wu-ping's kung fu anymore...it's about whether or not neo can defeat smith [duh] and whether the real world as we know it is in fact, real.

now, some people have questioned whether or not the fabled wachowski brothers had in fact, even touched reloaded. their no publicity clause was a major point to make, and some parts of reloaded didn't look very wachowski. it's hard to say if the wachowskis were even there in the first place. but one thing you have to notice about reloaded [and it keeps on getting better with each viewing] is how each scene seems to be played to a perfection. i don't know if the brothers storyboard each and every scene [but the detailed storyboards are unbelievable], but the way that it's all presented, reloaded was one hell of a tight movie to shoot. planned to perfection...maybe a little bit too perfect, but what the hell, yea?

so tonight, as i walk into that gsc cinema, anticipating the [anti-]climax for what some people can claim to be the star wars trilogy for our generation [which isn't a long way off], my expectations are going to be kept where they've always been: on neutral ground. no one said that it has to be fantastic...it probably already is.

there is no spoon. i think they all use plastic.