| Hmm, I have discovered yet another facet of this program. Different coloured backgrounds just for the text..fascinating. I will add that to my also newly discovered knowledge that 3 and a half hours of sleep brings a certain edge with it. As you no doubt already know, ease of reading is not my main concern. And NO- I am not a girly girl, I just couldn't find any stars or thumbs or such. |
| This page is dedicated to Sophie, who mentioned her own critiquing site to me one day. So blame her! |
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| If there are any spelling errors and such, it is not because I am incapable of spelling, it's just that I can't type and am very tired right now. |
| Sunday, May 18, 2003- 23:07 Ha! My computer is being evil to me again. How sad. I had once again begun writing something on my site and it froze, leaving me incapable of saving:( Well, my review will be about "The Matrix Reloaded" because I just saw it and love it. So there. I haven't seen any movies since my last review, which is pathetic I know but so what. I did see a couple of plays put on by my school though, and they were very good. I've been doing a lot of reading, too. So, on with the review. I was supposed to meet my friend (an assumed alias) Bonita and her sister Kaen (a lie) at the theater but that didn't work out. So I sat with my mom and brothers a little more off center than I'd like, but they were very good seats considering we got there 10 minutes before it started on the Friday after the Thursday it opened. Oh yes, I will be talking much about the movie so if you haven't seen it and don't want to spoil the fun, do not read this. I will jump right into the part that most confounds me, when he finally meets the Architect. Now, the movie was a bit much to take in the first time so I had to think it all out at home lying in my bed waiting to fall asleep. Also, I missed some of what the Architect said cause I was looking at the video screens trying to see if they'd put in a snippet of "Bill and Ted" or some such movie. They didn't, by the way, as far as I could tell. So the Architect says that Neo is the sixth one to have been born and find his way to the Source. Now that boggles my mind. Everything that happened in "The Matrix" to some extent had already happened before. The Oracle, a program, had prophecied that the One would be born and that a certain someone would find him. The One at first would not believe then would discover his amazing ability to manipulate the Matrix. Then the machines would dig down to Zion and this is where I really get confused. Are they supposed to kill everyone but Neo and the 23 people he takes with him? Is Neo supposed to found a new Zion in some other part of the Earth's core? And why won't any of the survivor's remember that he wasn't the first One? At the Source, the Architect tell Neo he must choose one door that will allow him to choose 16 women and 7 men (I think) and the other door would let him save Trinity but everyone would die. Now all the other Ones chose to save humanity and not a single person because they were not in love. But why can't anyone from those previous societies of saved people remember that they were not the first Zion? And why will EVERYONE die if Neo chooses to save Trinity? I can understand how the machines would kill everyone in Zion but why do they have to kill the coppertops, too? Did the Architect mean that he would kill humanitiy's hope of ever being free by choosing that door? I don't think so because he says the machines have another way of surviving if the humans ever run out. So I am SO CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm glad Revolutions comes out only six months from now. Gah! The Architect said he rebuilt the Matrix each time the One came and went. The Architect knew, I think, which door Neo would choose. There are so many tiny things that can screw up a good plan. For one thing, Neo falls in love so he cares infinitely more for Trinity that the human race. Second, Agent Smith, that program that seems to have a personal vendetta for Neo. Things are really screwed up when Neo sets him free, accidentally, and he becomes a rogue. Now he has hundreds of copies of himself and who knows what that will do? Plus that guy he infiltrated who left the Matrix to wreak all kinds of havoc in the real world. It's just too much to think about and write about rationally. Sorry! I'm just getting all my ideas out now, I'll make sense of them later. I'll move on to something else. Maybe reading this tomorrow will spur on my brain juices. That scene where Morpheus speaks to the crowd was strange. First off, his voice echoed very deeply. Then, everyone (well everyone WOman) was wearing practically see-through clothing then the horrible dance orgy started. Not great. I've sucked my source dry tonight. I'll finish tomorrow. No one'll notice anyways;) TTFN I give The Matrix Reloaded an enthusiastic 
out of 5 bunny heads.Monday, March 24, 2003-17:27 I will tell you a little story and hope that a certain someone doesn't read this. Saturday I was invited to go see "Bringing Down the House" by someone we shall call Aya. I had already had a rather unhappy movie experience with her sometime in October. So, even though I was reluctant and sick, I was ready to make another attempt and hoped that the behaviour and movie would be much better. She picked me up along with a guy "named" Tae (I am SO cleverly disguising these names) who had a problem with his seat belt. Anyways, we had a discussion about the school play we'd seen the previous night and guessed at how their production of "The Hobbit" in the fall would turn out. This was accompanied by MUCH giggling- not done by me. Finally we arrived at our destination, and I was still hoping that there would be a last minute decision to change the movie to "Dreamcatcher" or "View From the Top" or ANYTHING. sigh. No such luck. I went into the theatre, looking for a spot when I saw a group of familiar faces. Apparently, it was just a chance meeting, but I'm not so sure of that. This was followed by more discussion of "The Core" and such things and a familiar feeling of dread brought on by young teens swept over me. Why, oh why? At 7:20 the lights switched off and the movie began, or rather the previews. Much discussion of these surrounded me including arguements about who was right about the premise of "The Core". Another sigh and smile of self-pity. It's my own fault really. The movie itself was MUCH better than I had anticipated. When you go to the movies with people of a certain age you learn to expect the worst. The Queen Latifah character, Charlene, did not actually break out of prison to be with Peter (Steve Martin). She escaped so he could solve a case for her in which she was wrongfully convicted. Betty White plays this horrible racist person who happens to be the sister of Peter's boss. She spies on them and catches them in a bad position one night coming home from a poker game. There is some beating, some dancing, and quite a few funny moments, actually. One horrible (as in sadly pathetic) part is when Peter buys a black person's clothes and gets into this club. He just looked and sounded like SUCH a complete idiot it was almost embarrassing to watch. Another odd part is when a rich, elderly hieress gets high. Quite strange. There was one actor it took me quite a while to recognize. It is because in this movie he has hair while you usually see him bald on TV. He is actually quite good looking WITH hair. It was the person who plays Lex on Smallville though I don't know his real name. The ending was happy enough, though Charlene ended up with a nasty older man, but hey, it's her choice. I just realized last night that I forgot to relate what happened AFTER the movie. Well, silly me! I'm so sure you want to hear about it;) The credits rolled and rolled till there were none left and we still lingered in the top row of the theatre. I stood away from the group while they giggled and slapped and fell down stairs. I was terribly uncomfortable with all the attendants standing near the entrance with their cleaning products grumbling about us. Finally, after Aya's mom told us to come, we left. But there was still more lingering, this time by the bathroom. I loath this characteristic that females have which drag them to bathrooms in large clumps. I am so glad I do not share it. The trip home was about the same as the trip back, with me greatfully jumping from their car and running to my safe, quiet home. Haha, well, this has been my first movie review, too bad most of it had nothing to DO with the movie. I give the movie
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