What? No Spoon?

Finally broke down and saw Matrix Reloaded last night. I really want to scream, “What a pretentious piece of bullshit!” but honestly can’t. There was a lot of overly pretentious crap, a lot of talking about choice and all kinds of other silly shite. Naturally when that much verbage is being hurled at you, you can’t concentrate enough to think it all through, probably take a couple of viewings but who the hell wants to sit through that flick more than once?

Nor was I overawed by the effects. The reliance on CGI for some major, relatively close-up shots coupled with CGI’s inability to properly render flat texture – rather than a shiny plastic appearance – made some of what should have been impressive fight scenes rather cartoony. Probably the best effects in the whole thing were the albino twins but they turned out to be nigh-useless. Matter of fact, a lot of the really nifty characters in the flick were useless. Bummer. Honestly, I’d rather see a whole movie with the Merovingian, the twins, Agent Smith and Trinity than spend 5 minutes watching Neo’s blank expression as someone throws him a concept more complex than your typical pre-school platitudes.

Oh, and my biggest complaint? What the hell was with the completely gratuitous rave/sex-scene? Neither did anything to advance the story, neither was even particuarly titillating. And if you want me to think that during preparations for the final battle to save humanity we’re all going to bounce around like some sort of polynesian savages to techno music – you’re sorely mistaken. No wonder humanity is enslaved and keeps getting destroyed. Where’s the discipline? Where’s the order, the military training, the weapons factories? I did like the mechs – that was pretty sweet – but again, no wonder humanity is losing the war. Buncha bunny huggers.

No words on the weekend, the Great White Joker in the sky screwed me again, not only did it rain and delay the game for an hour but the minute they called the game off and rescheduled it for a double header Sunday the rain stopped and didn’t start up again for several hours. I tell you, the man is fucking with me and I don’t like it.