The Animatrix

In case you've been waiting to find out about the Animatrix since I posted this morning, no it's not as bad as people make it out to be. It's much worse. When I went to watch it, I expected from hearing what others said that it would be bad enough where no one would buy it unless it were offered as a set with the other three Matrix films. My expectations were still too high.

If you can ignore the occasional robot POV shot of a guy getting his head crushed--complete with his brain being squeezed out of his skull toward camera--the frequent scenes that are sometimes borderline, sometimes out-and-out pornographic and the poor (at best) animation, it's still a horrible movie. Okay, if you watch parts 2 & 3, you can get a little more background information on the war, but you have to get through all the problems I mentioned already and you don't really learn much, you just get to actually see it.

I will not be watching it again. Now before you get all "your standard for movies may be too high", let me tell you this. I LOVE Godzilla movies--the Japanese ones, not the one set in New York, that one is NOT a Godzilla movie. I like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, even though there's no real battle scene, the first 10 minutes are almost completely in Klingon and Vulcan, the first 100 seconds is just a black screen with music, and there's a 5-minute scene of flying around the Enterprise with no dialogue. I've also tried multiple times to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special, but failed because I couldn't breathe from laughing too hard--I've only made it about a fifth of the way through.