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Movie Reviews of The Matrix
Movie Review: Matrix
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was just like new .. can not beat the deals on Amazon !!Movie Review: What's wrong with me?
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, because this movie hasn't received enough reviews I thought I would add yet another. . .THE MATRIX has so much going for it: Dynamic, inventive story; an athletic (yet always goofy-looking) Keanu Reeves; tremendous--I would say revolutionary--special effects; a quirky, albeit irreverent, villain in Hugo Weaving; and one of my all-time favorite character actors in Joe Pantoliano. Plus the film just flows well, and looks so very, very good.
So why the three stars? What the heck is wrong with me? (Actually, that's a loaded question.) I've seen THE MATRIX several times, and I still keep bumping my head against problems the film presents. If our beloved Neo is 'The One' (and by the end of the movie there's no doubt about it) then why all the bothersome inconsistencies leading up to this techno-revelation? "No, he can't be The One." "Yes, he must be The One." "No, I'm not The One." Gimme a break. It drips too much of melodrama. But the sap really runs once (spoiler alert!) Neo is shot by smug Agent Smith, and back on the Mother Ship Neo actually flatlines. . .until Trinity (wow, did Carrie-Anne Moss ever get into shape) whispers in Neo's ear that he can't die, because she's in love with The One--and Neo comes back to life to kick some serious cyber arse. I just find the whole sequence so mushy I want to go out to the driveway and gargle some gravel.
As for the two MATRIX sequels--I've yet to sit through either of them in entirety. Just too much. Guess once you've seen Keanu jump off a building--or stop a rushing bullet--there's no point in looking at more of the same. Maybe I should have taken the blue pill.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
Movie Review: Not the aspect ratio I was expecting
Summary: 3 Stars
It is the regular 2.35:1 movie. I don't know why it was listed as 1.66:1
I really wanted a version of the movie that would fill up my screen :(
Otherwise it's "The Matrix" and you can't go wrong with this movie.
Movie Review: Special Effects Define It, Plot Cloudy at Best
Summary: 2 Stars
"The Matrix" is a science fiction tale made in 1999. It is a very popular movie among young as they encounter the riddles, myths, and quest of finding truth and the meaning of life.
Thomas Anderson (also known as Neo) is a young, handsome bachelor, living an ordinary life He is T Anderson by day, a software techie in a bland office cubicle. By night he is a computer hacker, always alone, feeling he is missing something. He waits by his home computer at night, waiting for a message, a sign of some sort. He does not know what he yearns to know. One night he is told to "follow the rabbit" - like Alice in Wonderland. He does not know what it means until some friends come to his door. He sees a rabbit tattoo on a girl's arm and follows them to a party. A mysterious woman named Trinity seeks him out at the party and introduces him to a deep voiced, handsome, dark man named Morpheus. Morpheus sees Neo as special, the one he has been seeking, and shows him the truth about the world.
Many dark secrets are exposed as the adventure begins. Like "Alice Through the Looking Glass" welcome to " The Matrix", a fictional universe, full of eclectic settings, electrical pulses and charges, references to Eastern philosophy, religion, and characters that know the Matrix is not real, it is artificial reality they can manipulate with their minds.
Imagination and special effects define the movie. Laurence Fishburne aptly plays Morpheus, and Carrie-Anne Moss is a thrilling Trinity. "The Matrix" morphs into surreal science fiction and then hits "earth" again with surprises big and small.
Overall, "The Matrix" reminds me somewhat of the dream movie "Inception" made in 2010. It is a fantastic mind controlled escape movie, and the special effects define it.
Movie Review: I am outraged...1999 disc in 2008 box-when a 2003 remaster exists!
Summary: 1 Stars
I just purchased the newly-in-a- keepcase (not a snapper)edition which has ©2008 on the back cover fine print (Amazon says 2007)
I had held out because I had heard rave reviews of the remaster for the box set back in 2003-which you could only buy in the set at the time . I already had the 1999 disc-so I could wait
So, 5 years later a new package, with new package design work, current year copyright,-and WHV sitting on a nice RM for a few years I thought "Aha! Now is the time to get it it!"=thinking that after all the years they would ditch the 1999 transfer.
I watched the movie and thought, hmmmmmmmm nothing here that outstanding-almost looks like the old disc.
So I put my disc into my iMac, opened it on the desktop-nothing!
I use this trick to determine when a discs is remastered.
They can press the disc for 5 years but the transfer date is the constant on file creation.
WTF? I open to a blank page! no TS_AUDIO, no TS_VIDEO no .VOB files nothing-these would show dates of creation on them, so one can tell the last time a disc was remastered.
My long used trick didnt work.
Then I get the idea to do a 'right click' to 'get info' from the menu
Lets party like it was 1999! August 2-to be exact. Seems like they were hiding something?
an 8 year old transfer in a 2008 box......"File creation date-Aug 2, 1999" hmmmmmm is it just me?
I also notice on the inner ring, a different catalog number-and MADE IN CANADA printed on the plastic)
Curiously, nowhere on the label is a visible date or place of manufacture-which I thought to be law.
And the box has the ©2008 date only
Misspackaging? They should destroy back stock, or stop printinng them-not reship it at this late date as if 'new'
I dont think the marketseller will refund me-"Whaaaa! I got the 1999 pressing I want my money back"-he couldnt know
This has me pi**ed because they have been sitting on a remaster for several years-and it should have been made available as a single disc by now- I didnt want the whole box-back then, or now
After all, it would not be two far out of reason to expect it with new box/design change, that they would use the new transfer,no?
With an economic meltdown happening right before our eyes-$175 Trillion in bailouts (total so far), consumer spending dropping like a stone,- and the deficits-we sit in a trance and allow this
I would not offend the still very large S-DVD market which is still 90% of your revenue-BR can never quite keep a continual average of 10% in monthly sales (source: videoscan/endgadget-industry gerbils- for past 6 months ZD Net-a popular widely read IT i-zine' -say 5% 0f the market)-and now you can bet that will drop with the economy.
a 10% sales drop in DVD sales could be absorbed-a 10% in BR would finish it off
Sales of players are slow now and will be dead in Jan-you can see the writing on the wall-"BUY ANY 1 BR title AND GET 3 FREE!! Not exactly confidence building- which i s why Ive held off- and who knows how long I will have my job?
And YOU?
So Warner-dont pull tricks like you did to 'force' us from LD to DVD-namely-by either giving the BR the special features ONLY, and for SDVD, sloppy pressing and packaging-or not even manufacturing the disc at all.
BOTH SONY and WHV were guilty of this when DVD started. Some will chime in "Nobodies forcing you to go to BR..." Well, if I like watching moves or getting SEs-and they no longer press them on DVD-I AM forced-into BR-not a very good marketing idea when we may soon see 25% unemployment*-and people will only buy NECESSITIES (nobody in finance the fairy tale calculation models that BLS use seriuosly-which curiuosly make things look 'rosier' than they really are-they ONLY count you as UE if you are COLLECTING UC..the rest of you can get lost for all they care) They say 6.5%! ha!