{"id":1196,"date":"2003-05-18T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/19\/the-matrix-has-me\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:50:25","slug":"the-matrix-has-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/18\/the-matrix-has-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix has me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14654,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/redirectore.warnerbros.com\\\/BFROM=whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14514,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hometheaterforum.com\\\/htforum\\\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=140353&amp;perpage=30&amp;display=&amp;pagenumber=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in complete <a href=\"http:\/\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\/\" title=\"What is the Matrix?\">Matrix<\/a> mode for most of this weekend &#8212; saw the sequel Thursday night, watched the original yesterday with Prairie, and then went back to see the sequel again tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been going through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometheaterforum.com\/htforum\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=140353&amp;perpage=30&amp;display=&amp;pagenumber=1\" title=\"Official 'Matrix Reloaded' discussion thread\">discussion thread<\/a> on the Home Theater Forum (all 20-some pages of it so far!), and in addition to a lot of very interesting conversation about the film, many good links have been posted. I&#8217;ve added quite a few of those to the end of my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/the_matrix_relo.html\" title=\"Reloaded\">movie post<\/a>, so if you&#8217;re as caught up in all this as I am, you might enjoy poking around some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, an amusing post from the forementioned discussion thread&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n    I&#8217;m entirely baffled how anyone can characterize this as the WORST Movie\/WORST sequel of all time\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Many people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>don&#8217;t see a lot of movies<\/li>\n<li>have a short memory or attention span, so they give more weight to recent events<\/li>\n<li>have a poor vocabulary<\/li>\n<li>have no sense of scale or nuance, as evidenced by the typical &#8220;sucks&#8221;\/&#8221;rules&#8221; dichotomy<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts in their head at the same time<\/li>\n<li>are unable to balance their high expectations in an objective appraisal<\/li>\n<li>are idiots<\/li>\n<li>are about as useful as a Duracell<\/li>\n<li>some of the above<\/li>\n<li>all of the above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Ken Chan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in complete Matrix mode for most of this weekend &mdash; saw the sequel Thursday night, watched the original yesterday with Prairie, and then went back to see the sequel again tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,1730,2310],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-the-matrix","tag-the-matrix-reloaded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}