Last night Jfer & Stepan came round with their DVD of The Matrix for our Friday night movie. It wasn’t an official movie night, just the four of us, but Jfer says it’s the fifth Friday in a row the two of them have been here for movies. I love it! They brought food from Rudy’s for dinner, which was wonderful (I was still getting out from under the pile of dishes from book group two nights before). Nothing like lots of meat covered up with barbecue sauce and potatoes swimming in butter, ha ha.
The movie wasn’t bad, although I don’t think I’d say it was great either. I think that The Lord of the Rings movies (at least the two so far) have kind of ruined me for a while in regards to any other movies set in any kind of fantasy setting. The team on those films put so much thought and effort into every single aspect of what was captured on screen, nothing else seems to measure up. Maybe for an upcoming movie night we’ll do Bladerunner, since that is the only movie I can think of right now that does such a good job of putting the viewer into another world. It would be interesting to see if it lives up to my memory, since I haven’t seen it for at least five years now.
Posted by elizabeth at January 25, 2003 09:35 PM