[identity profile] the-flea-king.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The stuff inbetween the lines is what I liked best about Matrix, and the sequels subsequently ruined it. It could be my days of playing Shadowrun, but I love the idea of a ragtag group of more-powerful-than normal rebels fighting against and blank and corporate entity that is nearly omniscient.

It was like they took a hacker asthetic, of the misfits fighting the system, and gave it a hollywood polish. Neo should have been a 240 pound pasty guy with an acne problem and hard drives full of porn.

(Remember the scene in the beginning, when someone comes by and buys something from Neo on a disk? What could that have been but really kinky porn!)

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
If Neo had been a 240 pound pasty guy I might have loved that movie.

[identity profile] the-flea-king.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It would have made the scenes involving Kung Fu much more wild. It's easy to believe that someone with Keanu's build can by spry. Someone with my build? Not so much.

[identity profile] douglain.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He was pretty pasty though.

[identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Pasty, perhaps, but he still weighed less than me.
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[identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Not with all that leather on, probably.

Him, not you.

[identity profile] rnb.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The sequels made no sense. The story was completely done at the end of the first movie. It didn't have anywhere else to go. So they changed the story. Ridiculous.