You're the One? Meh.

I'm watching The Matrix Reloaded on TBS (which is a fair measure of how lame I am) and I was just watching the scene where Neo fights the giant mob of Agent Smiths (or is that Agents Smith?). I'll tell you what, it's kind of lame. I mean, yeah, all that kung fu and such, but seriously it's like twenty minutes of CGI that just isn't all that compelling and by like minute seven you're just kind of anxious for something new.

Remember when you first saw The Matrix? The first one? I remember the opening scene where Carrie Moss is running through the city and then lays a beating on some cops in that abandonded building, that was super sweet. I remember watching it in the theater and just thinking to myself, "Wow! That was fucking cool!" And I don't like action movies. And then the whole rest movie was great. It was a combo of good effects and kick ass action, and yet a strangley compelling, if somethimes necessarily facile, Buddhist/Gnostic/Joseph Campbell thing about heroism and myth and faith.

And then the sequels were just dumb. Like Agent Smith and all the silliness surrounding the clone fight. Honestly, twenty minutes of obviously CGI fighting followed by a bunch of ontological causality bullshit to put Heidegger to sleep which doesn't even make sense and is essentially an excuse to show off Monica Bellucci's bosom (it's a nice bosom, don't get me wrong, but the scene is silly).