Why I read Lileks
James Lileks has seen M3, and he gives it a sort-of thumbs up. But this passage here, is why I read the man...
"...The invasion of Zion was one of the most impressive visual achievements I've ever seen on the screen – and this was one of the set-pieces the critics sniffed at. The scenes en route to the Machine City: whoa, to quote the poet. And the final fight between Neo and Smith is every comic book I read as a kid come to life and amped up beyond anything I dreamed. I never thought I would see things like that. Having seen them, I’m grateful. Five bucks for that? Hell, I would have paid eight.
We still see the limits of technology, though. Computer graphics can make a thousand flying squid flow through a hole in a vast concrete dome; they can bring to live tanks the size of mountains, animate robot oracles whose face is made up of a million pieces of metal swarming in frantic concert.
But they can’t take 27 pounds of Laurence Fishburn."
Read it all here.
I'm seeing it monday with my wife.
UPDATE: Really read it. OK. After the review, he Fisks a Harry Knowles review of the movie that drifts mightily from its topic. Another great quote...
"I don’t know what’s more frightening – the idea that anyone takes this boy seriously, or the idea that he’s right: an entire generation got their moral instruction from a Matthew Broderick movie about a computer named after a Burger King specialty."
"...The invasion of Zion was one of the most impressive visual achievements I've ever seen on the screen – and this was one of the set-pieces the critics sniffed at. The scenes en route to the Machine City: whoa, to quote the poet. And the final fight between Neo and Smith is every comic book I read as a kid come to life and amped up beyond anything I dreamed. I never thought I would see things like that. Having seen them, I’m grateful. Five bucks for that? Hell, I would have paid eight.
We still see the limits of technology, though. Computer graphics can make a thousand flying squid flow through a hole in a vast concrete dome; they can bring to live tanks the size of mountains, animate robot oracles whose face is made up of a million pieces of metal swarming in frantic concert.
But they can’t take 27 pounds of Laurence Fishburn."
Read it all here.
I'm seeing it monday with my wife.
UPDATE: Really read it. OK. After the review, he Fisks a Harry Knowles review of the movie that drifts mightily from its topic. Another great quote...
"I don’t know what’s more frightening – the idea that anyone takes this boy seriously, or the idea that he’s right: an entire generation got their moral instruction from a Matthew Broderick movie about a computer named after a Burger King specialty."
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