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agitpro

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

6.3
10
  • Sep 15, 2003
  • It's a Pistalero Fairy Tale

    Personally I thought this was perhaps the second most entertaining film I've seen this year, surpassed by the other Depp vehicle "Pirates".

    In all I thought it was a wonderful homage to the previous vehicles in the series and to the disasters that the Crow movies turned into (come on, just look at Depp's character at the end...)

    The one element that really did it for me, that set the whole thing up, was that initial opening scene. Oddly enough I expect that's exactly what an opening scene is supposed to do. The idea that the stories he was telling about Mariachi, first name El, were exagerated and charicaturish made the movie that much more enjoyable. There wasn't a single character that wasn't over-the-top or at least played to the hilt, from the somberly sensual Mariachi, to the stoic and manly General, to the sweetly sadistic and paranoid CIA agent.

    I was entertained from one end of the film to another, mildly confused with some of the cheap editing, but quite willing to pass that off as an homage to the first film.

    An $18 movie if there ever was one.

    I just think that El should stop hanging around women.
    The Matrix Reloaded

    The Matrix Reloaded

    7.2
  • May 19, 2003
  • Best sleep I've had since Titanic

    Sure I'll Spoil the movie for ya, not like it didn't spoil the series for me.

    Rating? Its a $5.00 movie, though I spent $12.61 to see it.

    What happened to Tank?

    Save your money and rent Dune and Thirteenth Floor or eXistenZ and you'll get the whole movie but with a craft called acting and plots that last more than 15 minutes. You'll even get CGI which approach realistic looks. (The English production of Dune definitely has much more realistic CGI though they need to teach P.H. Moriarty how to fight.) Dark City is a much better Matrix movie, and hell, even Johnny Mnemonic has better acting and a more believable story line.

    Why in hell was Neo worried about Trinity dieing? Its not like he isn't the Messiah anyway. Ooohh bringing back the dead, like that isn't a 2000 year old plot point. Hello! How about something NEW!!!

    And I think that anyone who has spent any time reading Frank Herbert, Verner Vinge, Orson Scott Card or Terry Brooks would find the whole "Cause and Effect" argument a little stale. So the system manipulates people, Whoopdy Doo! How about a real plot twist and actually make Pre-Determination the final truth. Make Free Will the Myth.

    How about this plot point no one has mentioned. The Architect MUST protect Neo both inside and outside the Matrix, which means that either the Architect has agents outside the Matrix already or Zion is just another level of programming and they really aren't free yet. I suppose though, that the Architect could also have a number of Neos racing against each other to reset the Matrix. Which would make Thomas. A. Anderson a moot point from now on.

    On tip, next time you create a CGI character based on real people, how about mapping a detailed GIF of their actual skin texture onto your CGI dummy so you don't plasticize their faces and don't use Blurring in order to hide transitions in the characters without blurring the backgrounds to the same extent. The introduction of the Smiths was some of the crappiest CGI I've seen since. the rescue sequence in U571, or almost all of the ship sequences in Speed 2, or perhaps the many different scaled versions of the Hulk in the ads for that upcoming disappointment. Real people have pores, wrinkles and blemishes, something that they managed to get right in MIB, but couldn't do that with Matrix even with the extra 6 months of Post Production.

    And Hey! Let's throw in a shot where Neo moves so fast that he picks up crap in his wake just like they had Firefox do; hey how about his ability to warp the programming around him when he goes Superman (though he didn't have to do his PowerCrouch T in the first movie); maybe he should be able to see down a hundred feet of corridor with MassiveZoom Vision T; and maybe he should be able to stop hundred of bullets in their supersonic trajectories without them having to obey the laws of physics and expend all that energy in some other form like heat, light or sound but we can't have him stop a door from closing remotely. That should be impossible.

    Right.

    I suspended my disbelief and now I can't reach it anymore.

    The Rave scene? That looked cool but the music sucked (maybe they should have run the credits faster and used one of the songs they had commissioned for the movie).

    The Sex scene? That was a sex scene? I guess Neo does a lot of Keggles.

    The Architects Speech? See my comments on Frank Herbert et al.

    The Oracles speech? Ditto.

    The Backdoors? Neo is a Hacker/Cracker right? Why wasn't he looking for them anyway? Why hadn't he already come up with a set of Lock-Picks?

    The Cause-Effect vs Predetermination argument? Manipulation, simple and direct just like those Authors I mentioned used it after all it isn't like the Architect didn't know who Thomas A. Anderson was (remember the size of the File on him?), the Architect just didn't tell Agent Smith everything, and interfered where it was necessary.

    And WHERE IS TANK?
    The Matrix Reloaded

    The Matrix Reloaded

    7.2
  • May 14, 2003
  • Ho, hum. So What? Who Cares?

    Thought I'd throw those in.

    This movie will look like crap on television, and it doesn't look much better on the big screen.

    Save your money, Johnny Mnemonic was a better movie.
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