In Reply to: I would also like to add that the Matrix will probably be very... posted by Mrs. Piggy on October 28, 2002 at 17:47:56:
if I have to watch another slo-mo walks-on-walls and dodges-bullets scene, I'll die.Matrix, like '2001' and 'Star Wars' did more to destroy SF than any other films going. Hey Victor, I agree with you on the 2001 thing.
Once upon a time I read SF relentlessly, and it was the ideas in the stories that carried them (unfortunately seldom the characters). This has been refined, like white sugar, down into FX.
FX FX FX.
Cool for about the first 10 seconds, then its, been there, done that.
For me it's the ideas, not the images.
Randy
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Follow Ups
- I disagree... matrix is already influential - darkstar 14:47:43 10/29/02 (4)
- Re: I disagree... matrix is already influential - Jabberwock 20:03:59 10/29/02 (2)
- Anyone see Basket Case.... - Mrs. Piggy 20:08:06 10/29/02 (1)
- Both Basket Case and Basket Case 2. <Nt> - AudioHead 09:45:01 10/31/02 (0)
- FX R not Enuff. - Harmonia 16:43:09 10/29/02 (0)