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Jun. 20th, 2004 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2Okay, I am officially, fully, and thoroughly sick of being sick. Yes. Absolutely. Tremendously. Utterly.
Waaaaah.
I had to cancel appointments and take days off from my day job. I had to cancel a little trip.
Oh well.
I am watching a little of the original Terminator movie right now, and they're showing the rebel base. The dilapidated, wreck of a base. I was thinking, boy, those Zion rebels in the Matrix series certainly had a cozy little set-up. I still haven't worked out all of the unhappiness over the conclusion of that trilogy. The first one was very cool, but I really liked the second one. I have a weakness for mental puzzles, and a weakness for interesting, melodramatic dialogue, and the second one was very helpful, supplying both. But the melodrama really became too much in the third installment. The only ray of light was the Indian couple and the Marovingian. The rest of the movie characters remind me of the Too Many Jedi problem I first incountered in the Phantom Menace.
What is the Too Many Jedi problem?
In a New Hope, we have only one full-fledged Jedi, dispensing calm and inner peace, gentle, easy with the world. That's great, especially when you have a cocky youth, a rogue, a prissy robot, and a tough Princess to balance it out. He becomes a wonderful balancing mechanism. We have lots of energy being thrown out by the characters, dialogue, tension, and he is able to smooth out some wrinkles. One Jedi is perfect.
But then, in the Phantom Menace, we have two Jedis. Ah. So then both characters are tremendously calm, quiet, and careful. And then the audience...or maybe just me...grows bored. We have no tension, because everything seems so...peaceful. The fight sequences are energetic, but then you have the scene in which Obi-Wan and Quigon are in a submarine with Jar-Jar. They are so calm about nearly getting eaten by various giant fish, and Jar-Jar is freaking out in such a hyperbolic manner, that I just went into full "Ugh" mode. And that's what happened to me with the third Matrix. We have all of these characters, and all of them are speaking in a highly metaphoric, highly melodramatic, deadly tone, that much tension and drama is lost. It seems that when everything is so dispassionate and emotionless, and so melodramatic, that it just heads into the unbelievable realm. Not every piece of dialogue has to be the difference between life and death. In the first movie, we have Mouse and other characters who are high-key and interesting. But by the third movie nearly all of the higher-energy characters are gone, and we're left with only the mythic characters, and it just becomes too...over-the-top.
Just my lone thought for the day. Can't promise that it's sane, sorry, too out of it.
Waaaaah.
I had to cancel appointments and take days off from my day job. I had to cancel a little trip.
Oh well.
I am watching a little of the original Terminator movie right now, and they're showing the rebel base. The dilapidated, wreck of a base. I was thinking, boy, those Zion rebels in the Matrix series certainly had a cozy little set-up. I still haven't worked out all of the unhappiness over the conclusion of that trilogy. The first one was very cool, but I really liked the second one. I have a weakness for mental puzzles, and a weakness for interesting, melodramatic dialogue, and the second one was very helpful, supplying both. But the melodrama really became too much in the third installment. The only ray of light was the Indian couple and the Marovingian. The rest of the movie characters remind me of the Too Many Jedi problem I first incountered in the Phantom Menace.
What is the Too Many Jedi problem?
In a New Hope, we have only one full-fledged Jedi, dispensing calm and inner peace, gentle, easy with the world. That's great, especially when you have a cocky youth, a rogue, a prissy robot, and a tough Princess to balance it out. He becomes a wonderful balancing mechanism. We have lots of energy being thrown out by the characters, dialogue, tension, and he is able to smooth out some wrinkles. One Jedi is perfect.
But then, in the Phantom Menace, we have two Jedis. Ah. So then both characters are tremendously calm, quiet, and careful. And then the audience...or maybe just me...grows bored. We have no tension, because everything seems so...peaceful. The fight sequences are energetic, but then you have the scene in which Obi-Wan and Quigon are in a submarine with Jar-Jar. They are so calm about nearly getting eaten by various giant fish, and Jar-Jar is freaking out in such a hyperbolic manner, that I just went into full "Ugh" mode. And that's what happened to me with the third Matrix. We have all of these characters, and all of them are speaking in a highly metaphoric, highly melodramatic, deadly tone, that much tension and drama is lost. It seems that when everything is so dispassionate and emotionless, and so melodramatic, that it just heads into the unbelievable realm. Not every piece of dialogue has to be the difference between life and death. In the first movie, we have Mouse and other characters who are high-key and interesting. But by the third movie nearly all of the higher-energy characters are gone, and we're left with only the mythic characters, and it just becomes too...over-the-top.
Just my lone thought for the day. Can't promise that it's sane, sorry, too out of it.