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Date: 2004-01-19 21:11:21

Comment:

you dont need to compare the special effects to compare the whole movie! all u need is the acting, storyline,enjoyability, but the matrix doesnt need any acting, all they do is put on serious grim faces and talk with no expression. lotr has a mix of comedy(gimli and gollum/smeagol) joy,sadness which all adds up to good acting!
the fight scenes in the matrix r xtremely boring and seem to go on and on and on and on until u fall asleep. like the fight in matrix revolutions when the chinese guy,morpheuse and trinity have a gun fight sumwhere in the beggining to get to the french guy. it seemed like they had wires or sumthing,and wat kind of action is trinity sliding sideways from a wall firing continuous bullets! but im going to judge this movie fairly because it isnt all that bad. the only parts i liked were wen the machines invaded zion and wen neo had a fight with agentsmith in the thick rain.
LOTR has great battle scenes and a lot of action. seeing 100 people against 10,000 orcs in the two towers really interested me in how they were going to win. it was also the most exciting battle scene i had seen until the return of the king. looking at 600,000 orcs against 200,000 men and remembering the battle scene from helms deep i was expecting the best  battle scene i had ever seen in my whole life. and you know wat? IT WAS! it was particularly exciting when rohans forces came to help minas tirith and wen the huge elephants enterd the battle and also wen aragorn jumps out of the boat, looking as if hes all alone and then out of nowhere, an army of the dead rush forward and wipe out all the orcs on the battlefield.(sorry for any spoilers!)
so as you can see, i have more favourite parts in lotr than the matrix but they r both good movies! anyone can post me back just start with "lotr vs the matrix" in the beggining of your post or just email me at liksoong@hotmail.com with the subject as lotr vs the matrix.