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Date: 2005-02-13 05:40:34

Comment:

The thing with The Matrix is that the  wachowski brothers gathered strong influences from all around them to put into that film. From Hong Kong movies and Cyberpunk Science Fiction to Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. In doing this they ended up with a film that was both original and extremely entertaining. The whole process was very similar to George Lucas when he made the original Star Wars. That movie was born out of movie serials from the 40's and 50's, old Westerns and Japanese films and the spaceship dogfighting sequences were all influenced by stock footage from WWII. The difference between these films and a movie like Underworld is that the motivation behind it is to obviously jump on the current trend of action films with ariel acrobatics and slo-mo shootouts. Simply making the lead character a Vampire doesn't change this fact, you can pretty much see that the only reason they're vampires is because the filmmakers needed some excuse as to why they all have these superhuman abilites.Now whenever a new and original film is released and it's very successful there are always going to be people who jump on the bandwagon, there's nothing really wrong with this and if people get a kick out of seeing the same thing time and time agin then fine but don't be fooled into thinking it's anything more than recycled fluff.