Music & Movies

To see what was on the other side?

okay thanks. I think I will check that movie out then.

I don't watch a whole lot of movies, but I've noticed most action movies are very cheesy, such as Spiderman or The Matrix. I don't really understand why they're so popular.

I thought that The Matrix had the same theme as Men In Black and The Truman Show: namely, what if the world around us isn't what it appears to be?

Yeah!

It's all bunch of eletrical impulses designed to do one thing: to keep humans under control in order to turn us into batteries.

Either that, or it's all a television program called The zx20 Show.

lol

I guess the cheesy-ness of action films is just the more gung-ho version of why soap operas and romance novels work. On some level we want the world to be like that, full of passion, defined in simpler terms of good and evil, where even the smaller actions we take actually have some significance.

That's not what's cheesy about it. It's bad acting, stupid, unrealistic things(like the Matrix's "Dodge this!"), etc. Stuff like that are obvious attempts at making it look cool, creating catchphrases, etc. Take the Star Wars action sequences for example: It's fairly believable(it's in the future, but whether or not future technologies would be like that is a different argument), and as far as the fighting goes, they don't stop in the middle of a battle, say a catchphrase, then cut someone's head off while that person just stands there and takes it(Mace Windu's "This party's over" was a bit of action movie cheese, but at least he didn't say it in the middle of some huge fight).

And the Matrix's theme was much closer to the Truman Show than MIB. The first two showed that your entire world is completely different in reality(more so in the Matrix), while in MIB, there's simply a government organization that knows of the existence of aliens(except for that last scene, with the marbles).

well the purpose of movies is to entertain not educate or be a prophet vision (although some movies do). I personally liked spiderman. But then I grew up in a era where comics where popular.

The Matrix is a dumbed down amalgam of Hinduism & Rene Descartes that was shamelessly ripped off from Grant Morrison's Vertigo comic "The Invisibles". If you would like to see the same story told intricately and intelligently, go to your local comic store and look for the trade paperback collected editions. The only shame is that Matrix came out be fore he finished and he changed the ending because he didn't want people to think it was a case of him apeing them.

Ladydyke, the problem is that they're NOT entertaining very well!