I just got back from my Matrix Premiere. It was good, better than I thought. I had actually written a 20 minute extra lengthy post about it, that I forgot to copy before I sent so it is floating in cyber land somewhere. See why machines aren't soo good.

Okay, let me see if I can try to recreate the writer's magic I wrote down without sounding too sleepy and frustrated by this greedy thing called cyberspace.

I didn't so much care for the philosophical bullshit. That I can explain later. ( mayb e tomorrow since I am so tired to go into it right now) Though I did go for the eyecandy, it was well worth it. It was one of those movies you see and you wish you could just hug him and tell him, yeah, you did a good job. It made you surpass existing, you live now, indelibly etched in our memories as the man who made it happen. I remembered how happy he was that his friends could finally see it, I am sure he must have said to them, yeah, I told you I kicked some ass in it. I could just imagine how proud his mother was at seeing her son, do all that. How does one go from being dyslexic to mastering an unknown perplexing art like Martial Arts. It's uncommon.

However, there were a few glitches in the Matrix nonetheless for me. The special effects were a bit too computer gamish for me. At a point you start to ask which fight did he actually start and end. To the point I wasn't looking forward to the fight scenes because I knew I would end up watching some kind of 3-D computer game. So much of that was just done over in post-production that the actors must have been amazed at how much they found themselves being able to do on film eventually. That was what was soo fresh about the first one. It didn't do too much, just enough. It started a trend and it imprinted with its seal on how fight scenes and action movies should go. But the second one just sort of reworked that magic to the point it was diluted and overdone, losing the freshness, more like a watching a video game with people put in intermittently. To the extent, I wasn't too intrigued about seeing The Matrix Revolutions because it would just become a more diluted potion of the magic that had begun so virginal and fresh. There was also so much stunt work that I lost Keanu here and there. No wonder, he got the stuntmen Harleys, there was every bit of them everywhere immersed in images of him.

Then, the flying. It was good at first when occasion called for it. But then, when it wasnt needed and it was all over the place at every instance, it felt like watching 20th century Superman.

How harsh right? You see I am a fan, but I draw the line here and there. When some things wrong and doesn't look right, I say this is not good. I love you to death but if you were any other actor this wouldn't be a good idea right about now. Think of the critics. That's what this felt like at some point. But I think his acting, his innate sensitivity, and the calm with which he overcame certain obstacles in the film just showed him as maturing as an actor.

Finally, I close with Lawrence Fishburnes wise words about him on the Charlie Rose interview yesterday. He said, whilst Keanu was sitting right beside him, when they were each asked to decsribe how the other resembles their character in the movie. He described Keanu as very compassionate (a word I have heard about him from everyone)highly intelligent, an introspective questioner, a reluctant leader and a man who because of his intelligence attracts the reverence and followership of a leader. To hear someone describe me so deep while I am sitting in the same room with them, is just like Whoa! Words like that are usuually reserved until your dead then it would be too late. But it must have hit a nerve. It hit a nerve in me. He must have hit a nerve in Lawrence for hom to say that. And to think 50 or 60 years ago, a black man wouldn't describe a white man as such even if you held a gun to his head. The world as we know it has changed to a good extent.

So, if you know him, tell him, hey man, you did good, excellent. You've done it without trying too hard and by just being cool. It's something you can be proud of years from now, even if no one else is, you should be proud of yourself for getting it together and doing a damn good job.

So goodnight.

I shall cut and save before I lose this one too