I loved the first Matrix, saw it several times. I have seen previews for Matrix Reloaded, it looks like action-adventure with lots of chopsocky moves floating in the air.
It was the ambiguity of the original that appealed to me.
After I picked the kids up from seeing Matrix Reloaded the first time, typical teenagers, all they say is "awesome."
But later Nick asked me whether it would really be better to wake up and leave everything you love, your family, your house, your friends, your pets, your toys, to live underground being hunted and never see anything you love again, just to be free. So apparently Matrix Reloaded makes you think some, too.
My response was that if the way you had all the things you liked was by sucking the life force out of others, that was wrong, no matter how much you enjoyed your life.
That seemed to satisfy him a little, but not much.
Anyway, I said, it's only a movie.
We saw X-Men 2 when it first came out and I was too cramped by the crowded theater and that made my physically uncomfortable. I don't want to go through that just to be the first to see a movie. I did it plenty when I was a kid, though.
