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<blockquote data-quote="Ashrem Bayle" data-source="post: 842524" data-attributes="member: 3103"><p>My apologies Barsoomcore, my post probably did seem hostile or pretentious. Didn't mean it that way. Sorry.</p><p></p><p>I would like to clarify a bit.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I disagree. I thought the initial shock was pretty clear and was only made more so by the fact that he dropped to his knees and puked.</p><p></p><p>I loved the fact that I could identify so well with the character. Maybe it was my particular mindset at the time, but throughout the most of the movie, I was saying in my head "Wow. That would suck if it happened to me." Oddly enough, it was when Neo gained his "super powers" that I my identification began to fade away. By the end of the movie, I had switched more over to sympathy, though maybe not entirelly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, it doesn't sound familiar. That is kinda the point though. The Matrix was the first to bring it into the public's eye. I know it was definatly the first place I ever saw bullet time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You thought wrong. Perhaps I was generalizing too much. I was just saying that if two people approached me, one wearing a Matrix tee shirt, the other wearing a Britney Spears tee shirt, I'd be more inclined to listen to the Matrix fan. Of course, that Britney Spears fan could be a rocket scientist for all I know, but it in my experience, this is very rarely the case.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes. There is some "goofball sophomoric spouting" in the movie. I also happen to think that their are some lines in there that can carry some legitamate philosophical weight. I mean, they aren't spouting Shakespear, but I didn't go to see that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The reason I said you didn't "get" the Matrix comes from the fact that you sound like you where looking for something else in the movie. The Matrix was a special effects powered action movie wrapped in a nice little pseudophilisophical package to hold it all together.</p><p></p><p>I don't watch <em>Dumb and Dumber</em> in hopes of finding the meaning of life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashrem Bayle, post: 842524, member: 3103"] My apologies Barsoomcore, my post probably did seem hostile or pretentious. Didn't mean it that way. Sorry. I would like to clarify a bit. I disagree. I thought the initial shock was pretty clear and was only made more so by the fact that he dropped to his knees and puked. I loved the fact that I could identify so well with the character. Maybe it was my particular mindset at the time, but throughout the most of the movie, I was saying in my head "Wow. That would suck if it happened to me." Oddly enough, it was when Neo gained his "super powers" that I my identification began to fade away. By the end of the movie, I had switched more over to sympathy, though maybe not entirelly. Well, it doesn't sound familiar. That is kinda the point though. The Matrix was the first to bring it into the public's eye. I know it was definatly the first place I ever saw bullet time. You thought wrong. Perhaps I was generalizing too much. I was just saying that if two people approached me, one wearing a Matrix tee shirt, the other wearing a Britney Spears tee shirt, I'd be more inclined to listen to the Matrix fan. Of course, that Britney Spears fan could be a rocket scientist for all I know, but it in my experience, this is very rarely the case. Yes. There is some "goofball sophomoric spouting" in the movie. I also happen to think that their are some lines in there that can carry some legitamate philosophical weight. I mean, they aren't spouting Shakespear, but I didn't go to see that. The reason I said you didn't "get" the Matrix comes from the fact that you sound like you where looking for something else in the movie. The Matrix was a special effects powered action movie wrapped in a nice little pseudophilisophical package to hold it all together. I don't watch [i]Dumb and Dumber[/i] in hopes of finding the meaning of life. [/QUOTE]
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