finally saw the matrix this evening and it wasn't terribly terrible. things ought not swarm like that, i think. amusing that they laid off the crappy techno and went for the low impact orchestral/choral aspect, aka, imbuing the mundane with the epic. reminds me of the last cremaster film, which was just as obtuse as the rest but held together by that dark, awesome opera. all things should be staged thus...like the bergman version of 'the magic flute,' which i have to get my hands on sometime soon.