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lighten up `Matrix2': Dumb, Dumber & Descartes
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:28:19 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Wim Lockefeer <wim.lockefeer () expandedmedia com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:09:32 +0200 To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] `Matrix2': Dumb, Dumber & Descartes Dave - I normally wouldn't react to this, but I simply have to. <soapbox> The Matrix II opens on friday in my country. I have a choice. Either I simply don't read any of the (interesting) posts about the movie that pop up all over the web, or I spoil my most basic enjoyment of the movie : the ride. I don't want to know just yet what happens in the movie. In my opinion, The Matrix is a most enjoyable series of entertainment movies first and foremost. It may be more, an important cultural phenomenon even, but only in the sense that it brings "the masses" in contact with ideas and concepts that have simmered in several subcultures for a long time. Beyond that, it can be applauded as a technical breakthrough, as a fashion statement or even, as is most often the case in the good old entertainment press, "a very promising property". But before all that, it's a ride. This phenomenon of people who have had an academic education in very diverse fields, feeling obliged to analyse and overanalyse a product of popular culture, reminds me of the endless discussions between "trekkies" and "warsies". For Star Trek fans, their series of choice is far superior to the "commercial drek" that Lucasfilms churns out because it has a scientific basis and because it tackles "ideas". To quote that other great cultural icon, well doh ! If I want scientfic information or "ideas" in a larger dose than merely simmering in the background and putting everything in context, I'll read a paper or a textbook. Dear fellow geeks - lighten up ! OK, so midichloreans and death stars are a bit far fetched, but so (admit it) are transporter beams, computers that fabricate food out of thin air and warp cores ! But that doesn't mean that either of them is essentially less entertaining and enjoyable ! Apart from that, I think that the fast show is much better than Monty Python, that George Lazenby was a better Bond, that the Original Avengers were the best, that... (dragged off to his cell, kicking and screaming) </soapbox> There, I said it. w/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-ip () v2 listbox com [mailto:owner-ip () v2 listbox com]On Behalf Of Dave Farber Sent: May 13, 2003 14:43 To: ip Subject: [IP] CAUTION the original mailing is a SPOILER -- `Matrix2': Dumb, Dumber & Descartes ------ Forwarded Message From: Matt Clark <mbclark () ucsd edu> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 03:04:18 -0700 To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] `Matrix2': Dumb, Dumber & Descartes Dave, It seems that some of your readers have apparently forgotten how to have fun. At some point one has to stop hyper-analyzing everything to death, and just enjoy things for what they are. "The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand." -- George Moore ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as sparehed () yahoo com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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