My mother volunteered to take the kids last night
So Hubby and I reciprocated by packing up two of her teenage sons and Gorbulas and headed off to the drive-in.
The two movies that were playing were Malibu's Most Wanted and Matrix Reloaded.
I actually did not hate Malibu's Most Wanted as much as I thought I would. No, for real. There were parts that really had me laughing out loud. I got a big kick of super-sexy Taye Diggs of How Stella Got Her Groove Back fame acting very silly and not so Leading-Manesque.
My brothers said they know kids that act like the main character-the rich Malibu kid who insists he is a Gangsta. Things have changed so much from when I was in high school (c. 1986-90). Now I do not know if this is a reflection of the times or of Lawrence High School, but no white kids wanted to be a Gangsta Rapper. I hung with a crowd that listened to mostly hip-hop, and at first you could not even buy hip hop in a store, unless it was some DJ store smack in the middle of an urban area, or if you had a friend who was a DJ and could cut a tape for you. That changed around 1986, but only a few titles were available. They never showed any hip hop on Mtv until around 1989 and they started a weekly one hour program hosted by Fab Five Freddy called Yo MTV Raps. I remember getting all excited and taping it. And you never, ever saw any white kids being Wannabe Gangstas. The racial divide both physically and culturally was never ever crossed. I wonder if it is still the same there? I will never know because there is not enough money to pay me to set foot in that High School and see.
As for The Matrix, I have no idea what was going on. There was too much talking that made no sense. The fighting scenes, which are always good, have become sort of redundant after four years. But it would have been better if you knew why he was fighting if he could fly away? There was too much gratuitous sex to make it comfortable to watch with my mother's teenage sons. Trinity, Morpheus and Neo are looking sort of long in the tooth and it was almost painful to look at them.
I could excuse all that for some more costumes, but there were not as many as the last movie, just Neo looking very pasty and skinny and a long black robe thing. And the movie was so dark, but they were always wearing sunglasses. It amazed me they didn't walk into walls.
There was a fun moment with a cameo appearance of Laurence Fishburn's lovely real life wife, Gina Torres who you may know as Jasmine from Angel.
It actually did have some entertaining value, but the fact that I really had no idea what was going on in the storyline made the other little things that mentioned before more annoying. Just like the decentfilms.com review, I am hoping movie three ties it all together so I can know what the heck is going on.
