Lets settle on the "stolen" scene seen in the The Matrix Revolutions

If you are a negative person you can look at it as it was stolen or ripped off or copied. Or if you want to be a positive person you can look at it as a homage, a montage, borrowed, a reference.

What are you, twelve years old? Thirteen?

Tell you what. You sweat and strain coming up with a twist that's all your very own...and then let me lift it gratis. See how groovy my 'homage' feels then.

Not like either THE MATRIX or this movie is worth arguing over. If I could figure out the Korean translation for 'piece of incoherent *beep*', I might've even offered a one-sentence review for this dreck.

I only wish I had a nickel for every filmgeek spooging themselves over these empty-calorie wankfests of pointless technique for its own sake. Hey, wow, slo-mo....gunfights with MTV cutting....hand-held shots...changing film stock...all this and breathtakingly idyllic shots of falling rain spattering off a leaf! Seijun Suzuki could get away with this back when nobody else was even thinking of it, but it's a little different now that EVERYBODY and his kid sister is cranking out these Woo/Kitano/Miike-fests.

There are more simluarites than that. The hero was contantly knowcked down by tyhe villian anhd always (slowly) got back up to fight. The beginning of the fight is almost dead on. Close pu the fists (as you mentioned) close up of the face, thena tracking shot of them running into each other. Hell the face to the fist in sow mo and clsose up was even taken (although it was heavilty aided by CGI and only Agent Smith was hit while in Nowhere to Hide they hit each other simultaeously and the actors simply froze in position and held it). However, abother thing that was kinda borrowed was the fighters exxageratingly flying back after being hit. Thi occured in an earlier fight however and (in Nowhere to Hie) they either used a blue screen or had the guy on a dolley then had him jump bacvkwards for the landing. Of course, the idea of people flying backwards after being hit has been around for the longest time in cinema so i gues that doesnt really cout (although that same fi=ght scne e did feature close-ups of the fists as they wer being thrown)


Instead of a hitlist, I have a Do NOt Kill List . . . . . so far no one is on it.

They haven't said anything specific. They just generally say that a lot of anime films and kung fu films have influenced them while making the matrix films.

The only films I ever remember them specifing are Ghost in the Shell and Akira.

P.S. fowler-1. Don't be such an ass. There is no need to get insulting over the post.

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