Comment Re:You're saying geeks have no taste? (Score 4) 249
I think what Mr Katz is saying is that *most* geeks will love the Matrix for what the Matrix shows and conveys about the world of the hacker / virtual reality / etc. There is no such thing as *all* in the real world; it is a common mistake writers make when trying to generalize. The key point of his essay was that The Matrix was able to capture the essence of hacking and virtual reality on a level the The Phantom Menace could only hint at. Yet, the media focused on Star Wars as *the* movie for geeks.
Speaking from my own experience with both, when I watched the Matrix, there were times when I just giggled out loud from what I was watching on the screen. It moved me on a level I have not felt in *many* years. I walked out of the movie theatre with that "bigger than life" feeling. I'm not saying it was a perfect movie, far from it. Just that it captured a culture (hacking) in a way that I have never seen before. On the other hand, The Phantom Menace generated an "eh, it was pretty good, but had some real problems". I walked out of the movie with my feet still planted firmly on terra-firma.
Speaking from my own experience with both, when I watched the Matrix, there were times when I just giggled out loud from what I was watching on the screen. It moved me on a level I have not felt in *many* years. I walked out of the movie theatre with that "bigger than life" feeling. I'm not saying it was a perfect movie, far from it. Just that it captured a culture (hacking) in a way that I have never seen before. On the other hand, The Phantom Menace generated an "eh, it was pretty good, but had some real problems". I walked out of the movie with my feet still planted firmly on terra-firma.
