The Matrix Revolutions and Hope Found In Fic (Unrelated Except for In My Head)

[sisabet]

So I was gonna post all about my reactions to "The Matrix: Revolutions" and then, well I just didn't. And, with out spoiling anyone about any plot points whatsoever: I did not like it. I liked parts of it, but as a whole, I did not enjoy it.

Which actually, really pains me to say, because I wanted to like it. I really was all set to like it and I am so fucking easy when I am in that mindset. This grim determination that I will enjoy myself and this will be fun dammit - well, it's what kept me watching The X-Files and probably why my season 7 BtVS experience wasn't that bad. If I want to like something, I will make every fucking effort to enjoy the experience.

But I just have to admit that if half-way into the movie, I am having to go off into my own version of the movie in my head just to keep from falling asleep, then it just isn't working for me. And it didn't - but some parts did. Just not enough.

Gorgeous camera work in some scenes, incredible lighting and effects and if the movie had been just that I would have been okay.

I'm sad that I did not like it and I still want to like it in that desperate to hold on to an asshole of a boyfriend kind of way. I don't think it is a healty relationship anymore - me and Neo. Which is sad cause it started out mind-blowingly. I'm sad.

So valereix cheers me up. Well - beyond cheers me up. She had me gasping for breath and wow that sounds dirty...cool. I am so lucky that she likes me and sometimes writes stuff that she knows I will dig just cause she can. Or maybe she has all those kinks as well, but I suspect "The Wind Beneath My Wings" thing is just to humor me. I think it should be her calling card - Brian should quote that song in every single fic she writes from now on. Even her original shit. Brian Kinney should show up - walk into a room, quote a line from WBMW and then walk out. Oh!!! Buffy and Dawn are fighting - Brian Kinney turns around in the next booth, quotes WBMW, smiles his shit-eating grin and then drops the smile suddenly (it's like his face can't hold a smile) and then turn around. It could be like Kilgore Trout or something.

But I am off track from what this was becoming which is a "Get Thee Ass to Valerie'S LJ" Fic Rec type thing. For she writes "Blissed" which is so funny that I actually hurt myself.

Brian hadn't put on shoes in three days.

As he lay on his bed, cradling the telephone in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, he contemplated his lack of footwear. His first thought was that it was probably unhealthy to not leave one's house for three days. But then he took another shot straight from the bottle, and his mind was filled with more pleasant thoughts.

"Damn, I have sexy feet."


Go - read.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/valereix/234332.html

Comments

Whoa...

[(Anonymous)]

Undercover Brother here, talking out of his ass.

But I just have to admit that if half-way into the movie, I am having to go off into my own version of the movie in my head just to keep from falling asleep, then it just isn't working for me. And it didn't - but some parts did. Just not enough.

I do the same thing. Not so much the sleep part, but the alternate movie stuff. For me, the better movies are the ones that come close to or surpass my speculation. (But then, the best ones are the ones I sit back mindlessly and enjoy.)

I have seen half of the Matrix trilogy, which means I saw the first on DVD and just enough of the second to catch a glimpse of Monica Bellucci. I never got into it. I don't feel the need to rant against it because enough people are creating a backlash.

But LOTR is in serious need of a backlash and I feel quite alone.

UB

Re: Whoa...

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Just as you can't really get into The Matrix, I can not get into LOTR. I am sad about this movie though, cause I really wanted to like it. I mean - I would have gone (and did try to go) to great lengths to enjoy this movie. It is very disheartening.

Re: Whoa...

[undercoverbro.livejournal.com]

Undercover Brother here, and I finally caved. Don't call it a sellout -- I've been here for months!

Glad to read I'm not alone in my contempt for LOTR. Truthseekersara and I saw the first one, and I think we both hoped that its potential mass appeal would translate into an exciting experience, but we left feeling nothing (especially our numb rear ends). It was excessive and needed at least a good half hour chopped off. Did Boromir (the corrupted Sean Bean character) really need what seemed like ten minutes to die? If he had to take that long, then I expect -- nay, demand! -- an extended makeout session with Aragorn, who's cradling him in his arms.

I was so pissed with Fellowship that I never bothered to see Two Towers. It just looked like more of the same. "The battle for Middle-Earth continues." Yeah, whatever.

So I call upon you, Sisabet, and your legion of friends to fight this madness before it consumes us all. "The precious" needs to be ignored.

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

That was an evil, evil link! I haven't played in the QaF fandom pool but, as I posted in Val's journal, I was feeling a little sad that I just finished watching the S2 DVD's and thought "what the hell?".

Diet Dr. Pepper hurts when it's sprayed through your nose.

Everyone should lose their QaF fanfic virginity to something that inspiring ::wipes tear::

Wind Beneath My Wings. It's just...just...::sob::...so beautiful.