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The one thing that continually gave me the shits throughout all The Matrix trilogy is the banal way they handle exposition and dialogue.

Any time the plot loses enough momentum to require a bit of...

John Taylor once remarked that science fiction is merely "the art of making a scientific 'if' interesting".

Making the sci-fi narrative interesting by dressing it up in the trappings of an action...

How to go to the movies eh?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say...with popcorn.

I'll look out for it.

Thanks.

Your examples from Scott's interfilm pastiche are bloody interesting. I'd never heard of any of those. I'll keep an eye out next time I watch any of his films.

Cheers.

Ilker81x: 'Call me crazy, call me elitist, but nothing in "The Matrix" hasn't been said before.'

Oh God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within...

You make an interesting point about the association of Christ - essentially 'a historical personage, a harmless country wise man of the semi-oriental past, who preached a benign doctrine of 'do as...

This is absolutely true, just read a short excerpt from Empire Online which sums this sentiment up perfectly:

The thing is, I'm not the person I was when I could watch movies just for stupid fun. Ten years down the track, I don't look through the same eyes. I think if you take the position that your...

Anyway, stevetseitz appears to agree with me on the script problems:

'The first film did a much better job of avoiding making the audience feel like they should take dictation without coming...

I'm glad to see someone picked a fight, it gives me something to do. I'll do my best to address your points.

1. Personally, I believe The Matrix fails on a couple of levels -as action and as...

And I thought the first one failed. I was wrong…oh so wrong.

To quote a line from Bulworth, ‘It’s amazing how so many people can put so much money and so much time into something and make...

I watched an old favourite Titus within a couple of days of the recent O (which I thought was terrible) and was wondering what some other people's favourite adaptations are?

Any general thoughts...

I think the best film they've ever made is Fargo. Seemed the pinnacle of everything they'd tried before.

In spite of that, I must have seen The Big Lebowski 50-60 times. I just piss myself at...

For mine, The Dish was a trite piece of fluffery masqueraing as a piece of Australia. Somewhere along the line, the film was tailored for an international audience in a way that Sitch's previous...

The woodchipper from Fargo.
The gun Michael uses to shoot Palozzo (?) in The Godfather OR Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum.
The gnome from Amelie.
The nunchukas used by Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon.

I was watching Blade Runner the other day and I’ve begun to note striking similarities between that and Gladiator. Hardly surprising, I realise, seeing as they’re both directed by Ridley Scott, but...

I had a quick look at the Christian website, that was good for a giggle or two.

Anyway, in spite of the fact that I've been using Christian analogies for The Matrix, I don't believe by any stretch...

Well Tabuno, I guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

I still believe The Matrix fails on both levels, as action and as philosophy, each failing because of the attempted presence of...

As a pure action movie, in a similar vein of Speed or something, The Matrix would have worked far better than it did, being compromised by the bullshit.

It's too fucking long. Admittedly it kicks...

I'm noticed a bit of a trend beginning with X2. In the past, it's been the norm for the grunts in comic books adaptations to be humanely disposed of, usually by being humorously knocked unconscious....

'It just seemed all too easy and unbelieveable to allow me to enjoy it and the imponderable, implausibility continued for most of the movie until the ending'.

This is a movie based on a comic...

I'm hardly surprised there wasn't any backlash from the holy rollers. It's not as if the film was deliberately inflammatory in the way that something like Monty Python's Life Of Brian, from what I...

I quite like the last one, 'what's most troubling is the realization that Fight Club thinks it's saying something significant'.

Seems to be perfectly exemplified by the shot within the film of...

What about Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas? The first full length feature to be filmed entirely with stop motion animation...and a charming little fable to boot.