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nigeltdeThere're these stickers up around the uni distributed by the sexuality officers or the GBLT Association or something. It's a picture of four happy young things standing with their backs to the camera. The caption reads something like 'Your sister...your teacher...your neighbour...your priest...your best friend...' etc etc 'Anyone you know could be gay' (and then blah blah blah closet blah worried blah acceptance cakes). But, uh, don't they say the same thing about paedophiles? Are they TRYING to make GBLT people sinister, deceiving creeps? Perhaps not the best awareness campaign, guys.
Went to the midnight Matrix 2 session, and I pity the HELL out of the poor cinema people. The Matrix crowd is a lot noisier and scary-looking and the LOTR crowd. The movie itself was good fun, one long music video really, but the action sequences were AWESOME, although the martial arts were not really my kind of martial arts, not messy enough, too practised looking--but that I suppose is a result of the mythology. The sfx were MUCH better, although you can still tell the cgi people during the action scenes. And Hugo Weaving! What a scene stealer. How the hell he manages to emphasise every syllable in 'Mr Anderson' is beyond my ken. The sequences with the million Agent Smiths were brilliant. I'm not very invested in any of the characters except Agent Smith--everyone's trying too hard to look ubercool, and Keanu can be a little off-putting at times. Oh! Except for the Keymaker (he was so cute!) and those sweetass ghost dudes. It tried for profundity once or twice and fell short, but that's ok because I wasn't enjoying it on a cerebral level at all. The whole 'matrix' thing, which was so novel in the first movie, is a little boring now and I found myself not paying too much attention to the exposition, which was so convoluted and riddled with unanswered questions that it was difficult to follow anyway. On the whole, much more fun than the first one.
Went to the midnight Matrix 2 session, and I pity the HELL out of the poor cinema people. The Matrix crowd is a lot noisier and scary-looking and the LOTR crowd. The movie itself was good fun, one long music video really, but the action sequences were AWESOME, although the martial arts were not really my kind of martial arts, not messy enough, too practised looking--but that I suppose is a result of the mythology. The sfx were MUCH better, although you can still tell the cgi people during the action scenes. And Hugo Weaving! What a scene stealer. How the hell he manages to emphasise every syllable in 'Mr Anderson' is beyond my ken. The sequences with the million Agent Smiths were brilliant. I'm not very invested in any of the characters except Agent Smith--everyone's trying too hard to look ubercool, and Keanu can be a little off-putting at times. Oh! Except for the Keymaker (he was so cute!) and those sweetass ghost dudes. It tried for profundity once or twice and fell short, but that's ok because I wasn't enjoying it on a cerebral level at all. The whole 'matrix' thing, which was so novel in the first movie, is a little boring now and I found myself not paying too much attention to the exposition, which was so convoluted and riddled with unanswered questions that it was difficult to follow anyway. On the whole, much more fun than the first one.
