The Matrix Revolutions…
I don’t want to spoil the movie so I’ll keep any details to myself.
My wife is a huge Matrix fan so of course we were going to see the new one on opening night. That wasn’t enough though. She wanted to see it on the BIG screen. I heard the IMAX theater in San Antonio was showing Matrix Revolutions and we got tickets to that. Shannon called in the first hour they were available last month and got us a seat.
The great thing about seeing it down there was they have assigned seating. No sitting around for hours to hope to get a good seat. You just need to show up about 10 minutes before the show and find your seat. This is the way it should be. I hate that whole waiting in line thing. We had about the best seats in the house. Middle of the row at the top. You never want to be in the front row at an IMAX showing, it’ll kill your neck craning to see the top of a 7 story screen. Once we were seated, the movie started. No trailers. No commercials. It just started. I hate the 14 commercials that theaters insist on showing these days.
Let me say this about seeing a movie on IMAX. Ho-lee Shit, it’s awesome! When a character’s eyeball is taller than you it’s freaking impressive. An IMAX screen is probably about 4-6 times the size of your average screen. The picture was very clear. You’d think that blowing it up to 70mm would result in resolution loss but it didn’t. The Wachowskis planned on it being released on IMAX and filmed accordingly. As for the movie itself, I liked this one better than number 2. No 10 minute Britney Spears video of people dancing sans underwear like in the second movie. I felt that was a bit gratuitous. The fight scenes were good. They used less computer generated action. I thought the “Burly Brawl” in Reloaded looked very fake and detracted from the film. Of course, anytime you get to see Carrie Moss running around in PVC is a good day.
Of the three films I still prefer the first. Call me a purist. If I had to pick an order I’d say 1 then 3 then 2. If you get the chance to see Revolutions on IMAX though, do so. You won’t regret it.
: One of Us by Joan Osborne