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   From: vagans@eanna.net   
      
   On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, ghost wrote:   
      
   > So...   
   >   
   > I'm trying to figure out why it sucks as badly as everyone says it does.   
      
   Probably for similar reasons why you think a film sucks. I'm sure there   
   are "why's" and critics and fans will be absorbed delineating them.   
      
   I actually liked the original Matrix up to the point when Morpheus   
   appeared and his portentiously shallow utterances, which put it on a   
   level with a 1970s Marvel Comic book for me. That kinda destroyed any   
   "willing suspension of disbelief" on my part and I cannot recover it.   
   So, I watch Mx3 for amusement, practicing my MST3K one-liners.   
      
   So, I guess I think they suck because the dialogue/characters sound   
   silly when they're supposed to be serious, and the inconguity makes me   
   laugh.   
      
   I like some films that are seriously flawed one way or another. Dark   
   City, for example; not even Kiefer Sutherland's incomprehensibly hammy   
   performance ruins it, imo. But not the Matrix Franchise. That went too   
   far.   
      
   I have hopes for I, Robot. We'll see.   
      
      
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