I want Mitsui's Birthday. At least I can shared some angst and cool attitudes. But a day later should be good enough? right? hmm... dunno.

So, Happy Birthday me! And I'm still young at heart last time I check.

posted by -anduril- 3:00 AM

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posted by -anduril- 7:46 AM

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I watched The Matrix-Reloaded on Saturday. And lemme tell you, well, it is fricking brilliant! I watched The Matrix back on 99', such an amazing year, lots of new directors emerged, great movies (The Sixth Sense, The Phantom Menace) and just a fascinating countdown to the millenium bug explosion. Back there, I'm impressed. Totally impressed on how they used influences from Asian cultures, 'I know King-Fu' (me and other geeks kept on saying 'I know programming'.- make our lives easier), the acupuncture for medicinal purposes, the Godfather of Logic, Lewis Carroll himself, and most interestingly, the anime style shooting.

Since anime style has a deep meaning in my vocab, I could see the movie has a whole different meaning to me.

For Reloaded, well, for me, it started quite slow in the beginning. The action wasn't as spectacular as the first one, in which Trinity kicked the donut-eating-cops' ass. Then, there's a whole Zion thing, and a lot of new characters introduced. But gotta tell you guys this, the new characters weren't as gripping as the first one, bar probably the Chinese guy who could just ask instead of showing his kung-fu skills.

The action really started to speed up when Neo sees the Oracle. The Neo vs Smiths scenes are brilliant. My friend told me it look too CGI for her, and she reminded of Shrek. But then again, Shrek also took from The Matrix (remember the kung-fu kicking princess everyone?). As for looking too CGI, well, The Matrix is actually a computer program, of course it will look CGI. That's what it do. So I wasn't totally disturbed by it. Besides, the scenes are extremely cool. And I think it's the best Kung-Fu scene in The Matrix.

Of course, everyone talks about the highway scenes. The whole action scene wasn't that original, but the way they executed it is so refreshing. The camera angle, the effects, the explosion, and they got to fights two baddies instead of one. The car chase scene, somebody was right when he said, it makes The Fast and Furious looks like The Slow and The Dimwitted. But my fav is the end, when well, it wasn't much of action, but the way Neo flew from the building as fast as he could make Superman looks.... *insert fav adjective here*

But in the end, can't wait for Revolution. Cos Reloaded, in the end, showed us, that Neo is one screwed guy.

As for the Slash potential, like the first movie, I could see Smith/Neo, probably Morpheus/Neo (his beliefs is quite scary), and don't forget the ack! forgot the bad guys's name, remember when he says to Trinity in the phone 'Look into his big pretty eyes and tell me you believe'. As for Reloaded, Merovigians/Neo everyone? He must be pretty dammed mad when Persiphone seduced him. ehem. Or maybe the guys-who-like all things French is just a pure romantic. hehehe...

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