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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.
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Date: 2003-05-16 08:58 am (UTC)I guess you guys probably didn't know it but you know that little geeky kid that kept bugging Neo when he was in Zion? Theres actually a whole story about how he got to be there which also explains why he keeps going "you saved me" etc.
Its part of the Animatrix DVD which explains a whole lot about the storylines. Things like how the machines eventually took control over the humans, failed attempts to get people out of the matrix by other members of the Morpheus's crew and other interesting little tidbits that give you more of an idea of whats going on. I've got a copy half downloaded about now so if you want a copy just sing out :)
I probably should of put this in my own LJ but I'm tired and lazy.
*cuddles* Hope your well Jessie :)
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Date: 2003-05-16 05:40 pm (UTC)Hope your leg gets better *g* That crowd rush was insane.