Originally posted by: Spencer278
i hated all of the matrix movies
OK, I own the Matrix (first, DVD). Only first watched it around 6 months ago and watched it again a couple days ago.
Pluses:
1. Really good special effects, sometimes anyway.
2. Pretty good casting.
3. Pretty good acting.
Minuses:
1. Bad script. If the Wachowski brothers had hired a really good script writer the movie would have been FAR better. It's a really weak part of this movie.
2. It's terribly noire. Down, depressing, humorless, bleak in the extreme. On my system, anyway (Sanyo PLV-Z2 front projection), it looks very dark a lot of the time, like night shots. A lot of the scenes looked really washed out. I had to turn up the contrast in an effort to combat it.
3. Absurd premise. It's a recurrent theme in modern blockbuster sci-fi movies: The machines try to take over the world and the human's have to fight to survive. The Terminator movies, Total Recall, the Matrix movies, and others I'm sure. I think you almost have to be a psycho to get into it. I much prefer a sci-fi movie that doesn't take an absurd premise and play it to the hilt. Bladerunner, for instance. It had some of the same themes, but it let some humanity into the movie.
Yes, I found myself hating it some of the time. I don't like resenting a movie, but this one does that to me. I'm trying to understand why so many people come back to this movie again and again.
There are very serious major flaws in that movie. All that dumb stuff with the "oracle" was just unforgiveable. They should never have gotten into all that talking exposition stuff.
