"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 11:27 AM 6/8/03 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote:
> >
> >I've seen some of the other comments challenging the writing of the movies.
> >As science fiction, The Matrix and sequel(s) certainly have problems. But
> >as a reading of the Merovingian Heresy and as a Gnostic philosophy
> >parable, The Matrix and Matrix: Reloaded really hang together quite
> >nicely. The philosophical stuff that is spouted in great gouts in the
> >second movie by General Exposition (or "The Merovingian") is not filler,
> >it is in fact the heart of the movie, at least as far as the
> >philosophy-obsessed Wachowski brothers are concerned.
>
> Uh, I get enough discussion of philosophy in the course of a normal
> day. Can't I go to a movie just to be entertained?
Yeah, what he said. And why hasn't anyone mentioned the explosions?
With good enough explosions, who *needs* good writing, anyway? If I
want good writing, I'll read a book!
Julia
who really likes good explosions in movies, and who felt totally
*gypped* at the end of "Duel" [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067023]
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