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Since it will be my fortieth birthday in just under two weeks, I decided that I am going to buy myself The Matrix trilogy on blu ray. Yes, that means I will own the original film FOUR TIMES on three different media (VHS, DVD*, blu ray). I'm not getting the 4K version, since although my PS4 says it has HDR, I don't know if it can handle 4K, and I'm pretty sure my TV can't. So just the bog standard boxset for me.
Relatedly: I bought second hand copies of the soundtracks I don't own, which includes the original score from the first film. I have a taped copy from way back when, and how I've never managed to pick up a CD copy in all this time, I have no idea.
And then I made the mistake of watching some videos about the trilogy the other day. A couple were about why the sequels were better than you thought/good (although I don't need convincing). One of them was like, "well the og film isn't perfect anyway, why are you complaining!" and um, nobody said it was perfect? Just sit your arse down and...I dunno, stop thinking about things too hard?
Also watching those videos reminded me that a lot of complaints I heard about Reloaded came back full force after Jupiter Ascending got released**. Which just makes me think: I'm sorry? Are films not supposed to be fun? Does everything have to make absolute sense? No, it doesn't, and they absolutely should be! I watch films to enjoy myself, is everyone else not doing that?
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WRT my phone/internet woes last week: the landline has remained...weird. There's no dial tone and, although people can call me, if I answer the phone it just sounds like it's ringing out to somewhere. I also can't make outgoing calls. So today I finally did a line test again, and they were like, "Oh, there is actually a fault! You need to book an engineer!" I had been hoping it would fix itself, or someone else would get them to come out, but I might be the only person on the street who actually still has a landline. So someone is coming tomorrow morning! I don't know what they're going to do, but I kind of wish this had been fixed a week ago? (Although my ISP was telling me there was no fault on the landline when I knew darn well there was).
Oh well, hopefully the person coming tomorrow can sort it, and then I will be back to getting mad at spam/scam callers thinking I am my mother, and correcting people who thought they'd rung the local junior school (their phone number is ONE number different from mine, and it's such an easy mistake to make).
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*I have the entire trilogy plus The Animatrix twice on DVD at this point, so uh, yeah.
**I still haven't watched it yet, but I am absolutely going to after I've watched Revolutions. Because I've been rewatching the trilogy because WHY NOT.
Relatedly: I bought second hand copies of the soundtracks I don't own, which includes the original score from the first film. I have a taped copy from way back when, and how I've never managed to pick up a CD copy in all this time, I have no idea.
And then I made the mistake of watching some videos about the trilogy the other day. A couple were about why the sequels were better than you thought/good (although I don't need convincing). One of them was like, "well the og film isn't perfect anyway, why are you complaining!" and um, nobody said it was perfect? Just sit your arse down and...I dunno, stop thinking about things too hard?
Also watching those videos reminded me that a lot of complaints I heard about Reloaded came back full force after Jupiter Ascending got released**. Which just makes me think: I'm sorry? Are films not supposed to be fun? Does everything have to make absolute sense? No, it doesn't, and they absolutely should be! I watch films to enjoy myself, is everyone else not doing that?
~
WRT my phone/internet woes last week: the landline has remained...weird. There's no dial tone and, although people can call me, if I answer the phone it just sounds like it's ringing out to somewhere. I also can't make outgoing calls. So today I finally did a line test again, and they were like, "Oh, there is actually a fault! You need to book an engineer!" I had been hoping it would fix itself, or someone else would get them to come out, but I might be the only person on the street who actually still has a landline. So someone is coming tomorrow morning! I don't know what they're going to do, but I kind of wish this had been fixed a week ago? (Although my ISP was telling me there was no fault on the landline when I knew darn well there was).
Oh well, hopefully the person coming tomorrow can sort it, and then I will be back to getting mad at spam/scam callers thinking I am my mother, and correcting people who thought they'd rung the local junior school (their phone number is ONE number different from mine, and it's such an easy mistake to make).
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*I have the entire trilogy plus The Animatrix twice on DVD at this point, so uh, yeah.
**I still haven't watched it yet, but I am absolutely going to after I've watched Revolutions. Because I've been rewatching the trilogy because WHY NOT.