Matrix Style things

[daveyboy19]

Is it supposed to be funny in films when they do that stupid matrix style kick,dodge etc? Every single "comedy" film made after it came out seems to contain at least one. I just don't see whats so funny about them, yet the whole idiot audience at cinemas laugh themselves to death everytime one comes on.

[Dave L]

I have to confess that the Matirxesc scene in Shrek! was pretty amusing. Although I do wish that film makers would stick to one film type or another. For Example, I finally got around to watching Romeo Must Die a week or so ago, and thought that in general it was an entertaining movie. However the wirework took away any element of believeability and as such this is niether a fantasy nor a reality movie.

Don't get me wrong, I do think that wirework has it's place and in movies like The Matrix and CTHD it can work very well, it just does not fit in a film which is supposed to be acepted a true to life.

Having re-read that it's probably a bit off topic, oh well.

[Mark Orme]

Although I don't think that it was supposed to intentionally funny, the bit with Drew Barrymore on a wire in Charlie's Angels (after the bit when she's tied to a chair) definitely looks out of place. The whole fight scene seems to have her moving much slower than everyone else involved, liking in a 'walking on the moon' type way. Maybe she's subjected to different laws of gravity.

Sorry, getting a bit more off topic.

[niz]

shaolin soccer has got more matrix references than you can shake a stick at... so everybody who moans that the matrix just ripped off hong kong movies should realize that it is as popular over there as it is in the west.

[toot]

i think every film should have a 'matrix thing'. it's much funnier when you see it 40 times :P