Movie night

Saw The Matrix: Revolutions last night with hotokegi. Spent the first three minutes of the film whispering fervent, repetitive prayers to the movie gods (who, for the record, I think are probably Dionysus, Scheherazade, and Leo the MGM Lion) asking them to please let this one be better than the last one. And, lo, it was. Aside from an excessive amount of celebrations on Coruscant at the end of the film, and an incongruous Oscar-moment, not bad at all. Changes in apparent speed of motion were fairly appropriately used throughout (unlike in Reloaded, where apparently any sudden movement was an acceptable use of bullet-time...). Much visual impressiveness, overall. Less philosophy, and more explosions, which I appreciated, as I thought that the last film got pretty far out of the writers' depth on the philosophy end.

Anyway, no spoilers here - just a note that it was worth my $8.

In other news, the trailers for The Last Samurai and Troy impressed me - I'll likely end up going to see them both.

Movie night

Saw The Matrix: Revolutions last night with hotokegi. Spent the first three minutes of the film whispering fervent, repetitive prayers to the movie gods (who, for the record, I think are probably Dionysus, Scheherazade, and Leo the MGM Lion) asking them to please let this one be better than the last one. And, lo, it was. Aside from an excessive amount of celebrations on Coruscant at the end of the film, and an incongruous Oscar-moment, not bad at all. Changes in apparent speed of motion were fairly appropriately used throughout (unlike in Reloaded, where apparently any sudden movement was an acceptable use of bullet-time...). Much visual impressiveness, overall. Less philosophy, and more explosions, which I appreciated, as I thought that the last film got pretty far out of the writers' depth on the philosophy end.

Anyway, no spoilers here - just a note that it was worth my $8.

In other news, the trailers for The Last Samurai and Troy impressed me - I'll likely end up going to see them both.