Details & Review of the Matrix Boxed Set

[JoeGKushner]

Mainly I'm surprised that so many ENworlders seem to see depth and movies as mutually exclusive....I just tend to see stories as stories...although admitedly depth of story is usualy harder through more visual mediums.

Well, my 60 year old mother was just bored with the third one. How long is the fight for Zion? It it's past ten minutes, it's just too long. A fight scene, even one with all the visual elements that Zion's battle had going for it, is not substitution for a good story. Same problem I had with that recent King Arthur remake. "Gee, we don't have anything to say, so let's kill something!"

 

[Welverin]

I'm with RW on the Matrix/Real World issue, I find the parts of the movies based in the real world fundamentally less interesting than what happens in the Matrix and just aren't what I signed up for. They are as big a negative to me however.

I already own all three, and I sadly dont have much extra money to spend so I wont be getting the boxed set,

As a fan you should definitely try to pick it up at some point, pawn you're old copies off on a relative (what I did) or sell them to help soften the blow, but I think you'll be glad you did once you're able to manage it.

 

[Merlion]

Well, my 60 year old mother was just bored with the third one. How long is the fight for Zion? It it's past ten minutes, it's just too long. A fight scene, even one with all the visual elements that Zion's battle had going for it, is not substitution for a good story

But for me, it did have a good story, and the Zion battle scene was a part of/addition to that, not a substitute for it.

I see the three as much like LoTR...to me they are all parts of the story began in the first movie, not seperate ones...but thats just me.

Gee, we don't have anything to say, so let's kill something!"

For me all parts of the Matrix movie had a great deal to say. Although much of it wasnt what you would call declarative sentences, more like suggestions.

As fan ou should definitely try to pick it up at some point, pawn you're old copies off on a relative (what I did) or sell them to help soften the blow, but I think you'll be glad you did once you're able to manage it.

Unless it actually has additional film footage added in, as per the LOTR extended versions, its not going to be high on my list. Special features and whatall are nice, but with all the umpteen movies, books, and RPG supplements I'd love to have and my sparse supply of spare money, its unlikely.

And sadly the only places that actually buy movies usualy tend to sell them at very inflated prices..

 

[John Crichton]

Have you picked up the boxed set yet?

I've finally finished all of the commentaries and the two documentaries on the Roots of the Matrix disc. I found all of them fairly interesting and it was particularly interesting to find out what parts of the movies the critics didn't like (notably the sequels, they're dislikes are rather similar to mine).

I do own the set as of late last week but right now don't have access to my home theater and (call me a snob) I refuse to watch them on a sub-standard setup. I am looking forward to seeing the new transfer and generally checking out the extras. The question now is time.

 

[Welverin]

I do own the set as of late last week but right now don't have access to my home theater and (call me a snob)

snob.

I refuse to watch them on a sub-standard setup.

Hmm, all I have is substandard, but then I don't much care about such things.

The question now is time.

Just remember that if you don't take it, you can't have it.

 

[John Crichton]

Yeah, I'm getting bad. I saved up for a while for my setup and really like it. I can't help it. I am a snob. Doh.

True, between videogames and DVDs I have a lot of catching up to do...

 

[Welverin]

Yeah, I'm getting bad. I saved up for a while for my setup and really like it. I can't help it. I am a snob. Doh.

A nice hi-def tv of some sort would be nice, but even if I saved up enogh money for one I'd just blow it on a pimped out pc.

[/QUOTE]True, between videogames and DVDs I have a lot of catching up to do...[/QUOTE]

Me too, not uch in the way of dvd's, a lot of books though. I finally finish something (Castlevania Lament of Innocence).

Ever get around to playng Onimusha 3, or finishing Beyond Good & Evil?

 

[John Crichton]

Ever get around to playng Onimusha 3, or finishing Beyond Good & Evil?

Um. Er.

* points *

Look! A shiny object!

* runs away *

 

[Welverin]

ooo, shiny!

 

[Dakkareth]

FWIW I liked all three movies. Both in the second and the third movie are scenes, that I cut out wholesale (alltogether maybe 15 minutes), when I watch them. In all three movies some points are overdone and some too weak; people point those out over and over again. The thing to me is, that I don't care. I have my own imagination to fill out blanks, to devise explanations for plot-confusion, carve meaning from the material the Wachowski brothers' work present.

The Matrix works on two layers for me, one being action, effects and incredible amount of raw coolness. The other is the composition of the many ideas the W.s incorporated or alluded to, the setting, its implications and my interpretation thereof.

Now what would really like to see is a well-done matrix book. Not a novelization of the movies, but a book that could have been the original, a part of which was included in the movies.