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by laudablepuss 12/31/2022, 9:15pm PST |
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I wasn't invited to any parties so I'm drinking (stella artois) alone with my dog and watching the Matrix trilogy again. Earlier my nephew helped me kill expert-mode Skeletron, so it's a fairly nerdtastic evening.
The Matrix: as I've mentioned before, I didn't like it initially! My thoughts at the time were, "so it's the terminator except less interesting?" "Take the pill that looks like a red hot." Also, it conveniently justifies the murder of innocents, basically. This is a maybe a small point, but those idiot cops before the guys with M-16s show up were just sad.
But it definitely grew on me. You kids may not remember but this movie became the single biggest reason to own a DVD player when it came out. I wish they'd never even made a VHS version (I wasn't sure such a thing existed until a few years ago.) Anyway, you gotta give me some slack on this, it's a lot to take in on first viewing. Some really good stuff here with the oracle, agent Smith dead naming Neo relentlessly (thanks MM), and Neo coming to believe that he can save Morpheus. He didn't really know it was impossible so he just went out and did it. Sure people were telling him that, but what the hell did they know? While I haven't saved humanity, I can relate to this on a certain level.
Lots of people hate the sequels and I still don't get it but whatever. Rifftrax (for Reloaded) started right out with saying they wished it was a better movie and I stopped watching at that point. Better than what? Santa conquers the fucking martians? People are dumb assholes sometimes, I swear.
Oh CNN axed alcohol for their correspondents during NYE tonight, so drunk Andy Cohen is off the table. Uh, wait a minute . . . Andy is drinking champaign straight from the bottle. High five! Lol |
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