On 4/10/2009 10:20 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Anyone out there read Neuromancer?

Oh, yes, good book :)  I didn't really get the ending, though, but I've 
only read it once and that was years ago.  I'll have to take another 
look, sometime.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I like how they managed to make Shrek II *better* than Shrek I. As in,
> geniunely better. Actually, there have been a few films like that. All
> too often, a film comes out, it's a success, they make a sequel - even
> if that doesn't make any sense. But sometimes, they manage to make a
> really good sequel.

Especially considering they hadn't planned the story for a sequel. They were
surprised by the success of the first one, and didn't expect they'd have to
make a sequel.

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Best alternative Matrix interpretation ever:

  Neo is a junkie (see his junkie friends at the beginning of the movie)
who gets post-effects of acid trips (hallucinations like suddenly losing
your mouth or having a bug inserted in your body). Morpheus is a drug
dealer who offers him some new wonder drug (just listen to what he says
and tell me it doesn't sound like something a drug dealer would talk) and
the rest of the movie is just an acid trip (starting with the melting
mirror and going from there to worse).

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Best alternative Matrix interpretation ever:
>
>   Neo is a junkie (see his junkie friends at the beginning of the movie)
> who gets post-effects of acid trips (hallucinations like suddenly losing
> your mouth or having a bug inserted in your body). Morpheus is a drug
> dealer who offers him some new wonder drug (just listen to what he says
> and tell me it doesn't sound like something a drug dealer would talk) and
> the rest of the movie is just an acid trip (starting with the melting
> mirror and going from there to worse).

And in the end of the trilogy he dies of overdose. :P

It does make sense, true.  I like works open to interpretation. :)

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>> I like how they managed to make Shrek II *better* than Shrek I. As in,
>> geniunely better. Actually, there have been a few films like that. All
>> too often, a film comes out, it's a success, they make a sequel - even
>> if that doesn't make any sense. But sometimes, they manage to make a
>> really good sequel.
> 
> Especially considering they hadn't planned the story for a sequel. They were
> surprised by the success of the first one, and didn't expect they'd have to
> make a sequel.

Same goes for Pirates of the Caribean. Which is why the first movie has 
a bit of everything in it, and was designed as basically a 
self-contained story, while the second movie ends obviously setting up 
for the third.

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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I like how they managed to make Shrek II *better* than Shrek I. As in, 
>> geniunely better. Actually, there have been a few films like that. All 
>> too often, a film comes out, it's a success, they make a sequel - even 
>> if that doesn't make any sense. But sometimes, they manage to make a 
>> really good sequel.
> 
>   Terminator, Terminator 2.
>   Max Max, Mad Max 2.

I'm not sure Terminator 2 is *better* than the first one - but certainly 
its equal.

I haven't seen Mad Max, or Max Max. :-P

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