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Jason Silver

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Thoughts and Reflections on Scripture

2003

November

Friday, November 14th, 2003

Matrix - Revolutions

Well I liked the movie. I thought it was way better than the 2nd one, and not nearly as good as the first one-- but then-- isn't that to be expected? Star Wars Episode 4 was the best of that initial trilogy, with the 2nd 'Empire' movie being the worst in my opinion. The same with 'Back to the Future.' This is another triology where the first idea was novel, and the follow up movies were after thoughts to the plot. It seems the only way for film trilogies to really work is to have them all written and produced at once, by the same crew, with the same story. One story spread over three movies is much better than three movies independantly thought out.

Now I know the last two movies of the Matrix were filmed together, but it's not the same thing. When the author thinks up the idea for his first story, all of the metaphors, the symbols, the ideas are NEW. The audience spends most of the first Matrix movie saying, "HUH!?" with a sort of smile on their face. That can't happen to the same extent when we watch the next one-- what made the story unique and appealed to our sense of creativity is no longer unique and creative. The director and producers must keep pushing the envelope for us to be satisfied, or go off in an entirely new direction. Sometimes neither option is possible.

So here I am defending a movie that many are calling a disappointment... and I concede that overall I'm disappointed too. But disappointment has a lot to do with expectations and my expectations were normal for any film that comes out. As far as I am concerned, Matrix 3 stands on it's own. We'd all love it if we hadn't seen the first one.

I know, I know, pretty lame.
~Jason
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