Attack Of The 50-Foot Monica Bellucci
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mishakSyprina and I went to The Matrix Reloaded at the IMAX theatre last night, she hadn't seen it yet - weird, huh? After that we went back to my place to make Bananas Foster and to crawl the web in search of Japanese Agent Smith Army Reenactment and Matrix Ping Pong.
The New England Aquarium's IMAX screen is 6 stories tall. On it, The Matrix Reloaded is...big. Disorientingly big. The explosions are explodier, the guns are shootier, the cars flip end over end more passionately than ever before. I have a new appreciation for the meticulous care they put into the movie effects, especially in the Zion docking bay and engineering level, the level of detail is incredible. I wish I had a still shots of it all so I could drool over all the intricacies of Geof Darrow's work. I've been a fan of his comics for a long time and it was only after I stumbled across a book at Jackdaw's house that I knew he's responsible for all the art in the Matrix. Wow. He's my hero. We stayed through the credits for the Matrix Revolutions trailer, and I saw my friend Rosa Lin's name in the credits! Sweet little Rosa, BU kid and ManRay scenester, now she's all growed up and doing CGI explosions for the hottest sci-fi movie trilogy ever.
Anyway, as far as the bigness, the special effects are even more overwhelming, but it makes the humans a little less pleasant. The Neo & Trinity sex scene is even less appealing than when I first saw it, the undulating flesh landscapes induce slight seasickness. The Oracle's liver spots could swallow small children, and Lawrence Fishburne is one seriously craggy fellow. Even Monica Bellucci's cleavage becomes slightly disconcerting when you can drive a UHaul through it. So yeah, if you're going to see The Matrix multiple times, it's worth 12 bucks to see it IMAXified; but if you're only going to see it once, well maybe not. Up to you. Make sure you sit in the back.
The New England Aquarium's IMAX screen is 6 stories tall. On it, The Matrix Reloaded is...big. Disorientingly big. The explosions are explodier, the guns are shootier, the cars flip end over end more passionately than ever before. I have a new appreciation for the meticulous care they put into the movie effects, especially in the Zion docking bay and engineering level, the level of detail is incredible. I wish I had a still shots of it all so I could drool over all the intricacies of Geof Darrow's work. I've been a fan of his comics for a long time and it was only after I stumbled across a book at Jackdaw's house that I knew he's responsible for all the art in the Matrix. Wow. He's my hero. We stayed through the credits for the Matrix Revolutions trailer, and I saw my friend Rosa Lin's name in the credits! Sweet little Rosa, BU kid and ManRay scenester, now she's all growed up and doing CGI explosions for the hottest sci-fi movie trilogy ever.
Anyway, as far as the bigness, the special effects are even more overwhelming, but it makes the humans a little less pleasant. The Neo & Trinity sex scene is even less appealing than when I first saw it, the undulating flesh landscapes induce slight seasickness. The Oracle's liver spots could swallow small children, and Lawrence Fishburne is one seriously craggy fellow. Even Monica Bellucci's cleavage becomes slightly disconcerting when you can drive a UHaul through it. So yeah, if you're going to see The Matrix multiple times, it's worth 12 bucks to see it IMAXified; but if you're only going to see it once, well maybe not. Up to you. Make sure you sit in the back.
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Date: 2003-07-25 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-25 10:55 am (UTC)two tangents that sort of weave together
Date: 2003-07-25 07:08 pm (UTC)and I was just expecting him to say, "Machines. Cold, calculating machines who have imprisoned us since time immemorial."