tonight peter, me and the rest of our roomates went to see the matrix reloaded. we went to see it in hsiminting as the theaters there tend to be a bit better than the ones near our house. hsiminting is usually crawling with teenagers, but tonight it was pretty empty. the sars scare of course, as it's not too far from hoping hospital. the theater wasn't crowded at all, about 30 people. peter kept commenting that there were lots of gay couples there, but i'm not sure if that was for real or just wishful thinking on his part.

i wasn't that impressed with the movie. i don't know what i was expecting, but i guess it was a little more than this. the fight sequences were ok, but too many. and if neo can fly, why does he hang around fighting when it's not neccesary, and why take so long to kill some of the bad guys?(i know it's just a sci-fi flick but still...) morpheus' speech in the temple seemed, i dunno, silly. as did the dance and the sex scene.

just when the film felt like it was getting somewhere it ended.did it really have to take this long to set up the third film? i think i have a problem with a film that feels it neccesary to show scenes for the next film in it's ending. it's not that i hated the movie, i just felt like it meandered a lot without really going anywhere. on the other hand, peter liked it a lot. said he liked it better than xmen 2 and maybe even more than the first matrix movie.