The Matrix (1999)

It is official...I am breaking out of my quest and reaching into important cultural films as well.

Why you may ask?

1.) Because I don't want you missing out on great films. and

2.) I am incredibly amused by this movie...So here we go

This is a horrible film...in the best way possible. I think that when they were writing the script they must have spent weeks designing this complex world and then probably had a day left before they had to have it done so they took everything that is ridiculous about film making and threw it in. However it is often those ridiculous things that keeps us coming back, myself included.

There is a part of me that got to the end of this film and wished I had hated it (the pretentious film snob in me)...but I didn't... I actually liked it a lot...and that is because Hollywood knows what sells and here they sold it.  So the short list:

1.) The Chosen One

2.)The Ultimate group of invincible bad guys

3.) The awesome action sequences

4.) The Judas character ...that everyone loves to hate

5.) The love plot...but really now...there was even a Sleeping Beauty Moment

6.) Martial Arts

7.) The group of Rebels fighting for mankind

8.) The Oracle...or the old lady who knows everything

So take all that, put in all the awful leather clad acting ,(Keanu Reeves...come on he is pretty bad) and over dramatic dialogue then embed it into this complicated alter reality and what do you get? A solid 2 hours and 16 minutes of fun entertainment. Anyone who thinks this is a great artistic feat or some deep reading  of our current societal system of existence is a moron. But anyone who wants to like this film because its just awesome, well I can support that.

Overall: Watch it. Acknowledge that it is everything formulaic about action films, but enjoy it for that same reason. Now go bend some spoons.