theprequelsrule said:

twooffour said:

theprequelsrule said:

I don't think The Matrix has aged nearly as well as the original Star Wars film. When I saw it in '99 I definitely thought it was an A+, but only a few years later I could not really give it anything better than a solid B. Part of it has to do with my increasing distaste for elaborate and heavily choreographed action sequences.

Well we can disagree on that last one, but I was rather talking about its influence and impact, which I think is safe to say was pretty huge.

It's not a such "clean", all-around paragon of a great action adventure film like Star Wars.
But it's extremely memorable, and has wreaked its fair share of havoc :)

I don't think it's long term impact was huge. It's rather forgotten today IMO. For the first 3 to 5 years afterward; yes, it was highly influential.

People still dress as characters from the films at cons. I saw two life size statues of Agent Smith and Trinity at Monsterpalooza a couple months back.

It's a safe bet a lot of people have the movie on Blu Ray at this point. The DVD was the "disc you pop in to show off your HT system" for years.