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Nov. 7th, 2003 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfI got home from The Matrix Revolutions, and I promptly conked out for four hours, for no reason other than I was tired and dehydrated. It is an auspicious start to the Birthday Weekend (hinthint).
So, yeah. I liked Revolutions. The more I think about it, the more I like it, unlike Kill Bill (how exactly does watching more Asian hack'n'slash than most film geeks on the planet automatically make Tarantino an expert on Japanese culture?). I liked the new Oracle a lot, and Sati is the cutest child evar. Seraph is the heir to (pre-Bulletproof Monk) Chow Yun-Fat coolness. It was shitloads better than the last one, most notably because there was no Morpheus Braveheart speech this time. I was kind of disappointed by the Merovingian this time, but eh.
But lord, Wachowskis, could you have disguised your (non-Christian) influences any less? The Dune reference was so painfully obvious as to be trite. It's great that you read quality literature, but no need to trumpet it so loudly. And really, the whole Dragonball Z sequence at the end was quite silly. Silly Wachowskis. There's much better anime out there to imitate. Okay, I guess it wouldn't make sense with the Inuyasha-like cleaving, but it would look no less ridiculous than the final showdown. And I think the ending of this pretty much renders anything other than a Christian interpretation of the whole Matrix arc null and void.
So, yeah. I liked Revolutions. The more I think about it, the more I like it, unlike Kill Bill (how exactly does watching more Asian hack'n'slash than most film geeks on the planet automatically make Tarantino an expert on Japanese culture?). I liked the new Oracle a lot, and Sati is the cutest child evar. Seraph is the heir to (pre-Bulletproof Monk) Chow Yun-Fat coolness. It was shitloads better than the last one, most notably because there was no Morpheus Braveheart speech this time. I was kind of disappointed by the Merovingian this time, but eh.
But lord, Wachowskis, could you have disguised your (non-Christian) influences any less? The Dune reference was so painfully obvious as to be trite. It's great that you read quality literature, but no need to trumpet it so loudly. And really, the whole Dragonball Z sequence at the end was quite silly. Silly Wachowskis. There's much better anime out there to imitate. Okay, I guess it wouldn't make sense with the Inuyasha-like cleaving, but it would look no less ridiculous than the final showdown. And I think the ending of this pretty much renders anything other than a Christian interpretation of the whole Matrix arc null and void.
