The theater was actually a 20-screen multiplex theater and I worked as an usher and ticket-taker. Eventually they trusted me enough to work the ticket sales booth, and then concessions. I loved that job because I got to see every new movie for free. Instead of coming home right away after work, I'd sneak into a theater and watched The Mummy, Austin Powers and Star Wars Episode 1, which was the biggest hit that summer.
After taking out the trash one afternoon, I walked past the theater showing Matrix and I snuck in to watch a few minutes. What I saw repulsed me. I remember two people in black coats walking down a hallway of some sort. They were carrying these huge guns and shooting people left and right. That image really disgusted me, and Columbine was just a few months earlier.
So, to sum up, not a big fan of Matrix.
Fellow blogger DKoren also recently mentioned not being a huge fan of the movie - read the post here.
So, to sum up, not a big fan of Matrix.
Fellow blogger DKoren also recently mentioned not being a huge fan of the movie - read the post here.
The film that I hate is, Apocalypse Now (1979). An epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot is about two US Army special operations officers. the first being, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), who is sent into the jungle to assassinate the other, insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) of Special Forces. The film was produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
ReplyDeleteI can't say that's one of my favorites either but alot of people do like it for whatever reasons.
ReplyDeleteDiary of a Mad Housewife; Spies; The Twelve Chairs; The Seven Jewels
ReplyDeleteIt's unclear whether you saw the whole movie at some point, or just those few minutes you described.
ReplyDeleteIf it's the latter, you can't judge a movie on a few random minutes that you happened to see. What if you had only seen the tollbooth scene in The Godfather, or only the blackface scene in Holiday Inn?
Note - The Matrix IS a violent film, but there's a completely different context to that scene when you understand what is going on. Basically, it's not real.
Matrix just popped in there. It was repulsive for me to see those images. I tend to me more sensitive to violent imagery than the average movie goer. So I never did see The Godfather as you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem walking out of movies I can't stand, even if they aren't violent such as Mr Popper's Penguins; in that case the movie was so dumb I couldn't take it, and forcing myself to sit through it would've been torture.