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   Girl on the Net (girlonthenet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:18:35 JST Girl on the Net

   We are watching The Matrix. And oh... fellow children of the 90s... I was shocked to realise ... it’s absolutely shit? Like, hilariously shit. What were we thinking?! Surely we were all just too drunk on fingering that we didn’t notice how bad it was?

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     Girl on the Net (girlonthenet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:18:34 JST Girl on the Net

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     It looks like a student art project #TheMatrix. It’s just so bad.

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     Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:18:34 JST Emelia 👸🏻

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     @girlonthenet keep in mind the movies are 20 years old & special effects have come a LONG way since then

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     Girl on the Net (girlonthenet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:19:18 JST Girl on the Net

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @thisismissem oh yeah you’re absolutely correct, and in it’s time it was groundbreaking. But... have you watched it now? It is so much less good than I remember it being. In a fun way.

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     Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:19:18 JST Emelia 👸🏻

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     @girlonthenet I did watch it fairly recently (last 4 years, in prep for the new movie)

     If you want a real fun old movie: Hackers with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Lee Miller: 1995

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     Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:20:06 JST Andrew

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @girlonthenet @thisismissem I reckon it's kind of to be expected for stuff that's properly original and ambitious — anything ambitious in 1999 is probably easy to do better 25 years later. And anything original in 1999 even more so — The Matrix was humanity's first real attempt at bullet time, whereas now even BBC Sherlock has it in for absolutely no fucking reason. Makes sense we've got better at it faster than we've got better at doing big explosions or whatever that we've been doing since cinema was invented. All the videogames people remember for their graphics look awful now too.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:22:30 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @andrewt @girlonthenet @thisismissem Graphics reminds me that Toy Story now looks way different than what I remember, at least I think I have a slight nostalgia filter so it's not so bad.