idiots in the media

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You'd think if someone was going to write a review of the third movie in a trilogy that they would have taken the time to have seen the first two. And understood them. Reality, it seems, is sometimes less than real.

Chirsty Lemire of the Associated Press either didn't get it, didn't want to get it, or was told not to get it when she saw Revolutions. Now I'll admit right up front that I did not like the ending (more on that in a later post), but that's not the point of contention here. She just didn't get it.

She didn't get that there was no way that the third movie was going to be as good as the first. It couldn't be. The first focused on Neo, and his relationship with himself, with Morpheus, and with Trinity (just one of a set of trinities within the trilogy); the third, by necessity of the plot and probably in effort to cater to the American Movie Experience(tm), had to focus on The Big Picture(tm).

She didn't get simple things like the APUs. She called them "...monstrosities that completely encase the people inside them". Except that they don't. The APUs are more like exoskeletons than military vehicles. They are what Ripley wanted when she had to settle for a forklift. Lemire also didn't get that the APUs were chock full of irony. She most not have been paying too much attention to the midnight conversation between Neo and the Councilor, or she'd have understood the irony.

She further went on about the APU's "...which make it hard to connect to the people inside them, and harder to care that they are in danger." Wow. A journalist who apparently cannot anthropomorphize. Stop The Presses.

She called the shoot-out scene "disappointing". I thought it was an interesting twist. Literally. She finally reveals her bias when she writes "Revolutions only comes close to inspiring when it takes time to focus on the people". Maybe she should stick to chick-flixs. She missed or didn't get the symbolism, the irony, the Big Picture. She didn't appreciate the scale of time it took to film the two sequels. I cannot wait for her review of the fourth Indiana Jones movie.