The Shrine

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://linux10985.dn.net/display.cgi?id=15192&">ouch</a>

Pretty nasty review of the matrix reloaded.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>For that ever so dependable and intelligent source: Ain't It Cool News. I hit the back button when I read the HTML title.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>And Roger Ebert gave it 3 1/2 stars. Of those two critics, who are you REALLY going to listen to?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm not even really excited about the second, I didn't really find the first one interesting at all. I'm just not into shock value films like that, The sixth sense, and others like them.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Ignore him, he ain't shit, that movie fucking rocked.</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I wouldn't really call the Matrix a "shock value" film. It's pure science fiction, as I see it.</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>But I do agree with you on the dislike of films that I would consider "shock value" or in the case of Sixth Sense, "surprise ending" movies, simply because the surprise is often not worth the wait, and those movies pretty much destroy any re-watch value.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I agree that the beginning was slow, and had me wondering just what kind of movie it was. Then that all changed.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Though I don't watch movies too often, it's certainly true in a lot of Anime and games I've seen. "Oh no this is too predictable, so let's throw something that totally doesn't make sense to show we're smarter!" Of course, since so many things operate by that logic, you can often outsmart the producers by just guessing the least likely outcome. So not only does the outcome suck, but you already know what it's going to be too.

That's why I usually prefer to read about anything before I actually watch/play them. I don't like getting into this one-up game of guessing with the authors. If the plot reads like something I can expect and follow, fine. It's not a spoiler really since I would have guessed that anyway. If it's like 'haha you were wrong all along', that saves me the time of watching/playing and maybe even paying for the product. Very rarely do I read something that actually make sense (in retrospect), and to me that makes the story more enjoyable to see why an improbable plot twist make sense. Cloud's part in Final Fantasy 7 is probably the best if not the only good improbable plot twist that I enjoyed, more so the second time when you can actually see why it's like that.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>This review is complete bullshit. He simple misses the point of both movies.</div>