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| | The Morning News - Unloading on The Matrix Reloaded, by Philip Graham |
 | | Here’s the main problem, as I see it: After you make a movie that racks up a half-billion dollars nobody, and I mean nobody, says boo to you while you’re sucking in a laughing-gas budget that, like Neo, defies the law of gravity. |
 | | Orchestral movie themes just don’t cut it, and when the score for Reloaded starts copping whole sections of Stravinky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, or Philip Glass-ian arpeggios, well, the pretension is thick enough to beat with a conductor’s baton. |
 | | I know, I know – the Matrix movies are pretentious, with all those dopey names like Morpheus and Trinity (and how about, for future films, Piety, or Eucharist, or Pompous?), but they should be cool pretentious, with scary guitars and such in the background. |
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