There is no spoon...but there might be a fork
Well haloween was really quiet, just chilled with the fam and watched this crazed show about some sex addict who murdered his entire family and was found not guilty. What a great system we have.

Actually haloween did allow something to pop into mind. I have been struggling with a couple scenes in the screenplay in terms of a large gathering around the main protagonist and the central antagonist. The gathering needs to happen on a momentum basis but I was trying to have the characters bring it about and it just wasn't working. But the celebration or seasonal event will work perfectly.

I have been to amped to see Matrix Revolutions and I have been doing my best to stay away from aintitcoolnews.com but I couldn't help myself. From what I have read I think my worst nightmares have come true.

See, the thing was with me and the first Matrix was I had never seen the trailer or a preview at all. I drove down to the theatre to just go catch a flick and I saw the Matrix poster then figured "why not".

I left there so blown away I went back again that night. There are so many elements I loved about that film, too many in fact, but I have to admit, Reloaded left a seriously bitter sweet taste in my mouth. It is a tough thing to promise the claims that SIlver told us. How the UCAP system was so perfet we couldn't tell the difference between the synthetic and the real, that going to the Matrix again would be like living in that dream world we were all opened to.

I think the UCAP worked, but it was the animation, specifically the physics of motion and weight that leaked into the realism. In the first Matrix, especially in the opening scenes with Carrie Ann we saw fantastical kungfu and jumping which we accepted because they still seemed to carry a sense of weight. In Reloaded, especially in the burly brawl, everyone seems to weigh five pounds. That gravity is lighter than it seems normally other than them 'bending' the rules. And this is what makes it seem unreal, not the situation but the elements which make it up, like a deck of cards if one falls everything tumbles with it.

The wire work and slo mo combo was simply flawless in the first movie (except for the final kick to agent smith which sends him flying back before Neo enters him). Reloaded was too synthetic and yes I will use what seems to be the standar cliche now and say that it was indeed like watching something off my playstation2.

One thing I wanted to see but didn't in Reloaded was Neo using his computer programming prowess. For him to one up the machines and their "creative" abilities which only seems to make the whole tasty wheat issue that much funnier.

For Neo to use his brain instead of his braun to give the resistance an advantage in the matrix while they were at a disadvantage in the real world just seems to work for me. Then again I could be crazy. "still using all of the muscles except the one that..."

Not to mention the entire "sure you have, every story you have heard about vampires or..." Now could you just imagine that, those programs fighting Neo instead of Agent smith, or Agent Smith enhancing them some how. How bout diving deeper into the biblical overtones in the entire movie and have a flock of black winged angels chasing after Neo through the clouds instead of more Smiths. Again just a thought.
(I think this was expressed as well by Mor on AICN) Or even worse, upgraded agents.

The door was just so wide open and I think the audience for the most part just felt as though they were still waiting by time it had finished.

I am in no way condemning Revolutions before I see it but I just have that feeling, you know.