It would have to be an 'alternate 1998', I suppose...
I've only seen the first Matrix film, and frankly I wasn't very impressed. Once you got past the flashy cinematography (which was really only impressive because they were the first to do it; now that multiple-shot effects are commonplace, it doesn't look so cool), the plot was quite badly flawed, and the characterisation (particularly Neo and Trinity) flimsy. 'We're all being controlled, what we perceive as reality is in fact engineered' was done better in Dark City, and I'm sure I remember the 'people in pods' thing from an old Outer Limits/Twilight Zone.
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Date: 2003-12-04 08:25 am (UTC)I've only seen the first Matrix film, and frankly I wasn't very impressed. Once you got past the flashy cinematography (which was really only impressive because they were the first to do it; now that multiple-shot effects are commonplace, it doesn't look so cool), the plot was quite badly flawed, and the characterisation (particularly Neo and Trinity) flimsy. 'We're all being controlled, what we perceive as reality is in fact engineered' was done better in Dark City, and I'm sure I remember the 'people in pods' thing from an old Outer Limits/Twilight Zone.