A few miscellaneous points: Final Flight of the Osiris was basically crap (kinda like Vampire: Last Blood in that regard), but at least it worked as a physics model demo*. Amazingly that was the one thing that the Final Fantasy movie didn’t do, which just goes to show the effect the first Matrix movie had on action movie concepts – apparently no one had thought of such neat tricks as bullet time before the Wachowskis. Or rather no Western mainstream action movie maker had thought of it. But just as well.

A sort of a documentary about the Matrices just finished on Five. It belonged to the new breed of documentaries which don’t actually teach you anything new. This time we were treated to the unbelievable insight that making the new movie cost a shitload of money. Wow, couldn’t have figured that out myself.

Then there were the over-the-top interviews. A geek (a female geek for that matter) who proclaimed to have seen the original movie over 150 times. That works out to about twice every fortnight. It’s not that much, is it? My second favourite was a doctor of something or other who opined that the Matrix movie presented the most accurate view of future as far as sci-fi films are concerned. I don’t know what they put into his drinking water but I want some.

Naturally the Neo flying bit of footage was shown n+1 times. That and bits of the car chase. I think they also had managed to include a 15-second bit of interview with the Wachowski brothers, who look – to me – like Kevin Smith and another, thinner Kevin Smith.

*: Well, it did have a skimpily dressed lady in it as well. I guess that’s a definite bonus in the movie’s core audience segment.