Posted 10:35 PM by Floyd

While on the subject of The Matrices, I will relate my two main objections to the original movie:

First, all the fight scenes where the heroes stop time and lay waste to their (simulated) human opponents strike me as cowardly at best. Should I film myself slicing up the banana slugs in my yard? The Columbine massacre rubbed this in our faces: Was it really cool when two people dressed up in trenchcoats and blew away everyone in sight?

Second, White committed more race-pandering blather when he praised the Oracle:

When Gloria Foster returns as the Oracle, reiterating the sexy mama act that was so astonishing the first time...

B-U-L-L-F-U-C-K-I-N-G-S-H-I-T. The Oracle character was mawkish and appeared to have been conceived while channel-surfing late at night and happening upon the Psychic Hotline. I remember watching Foster in the theater, already sullen after numerous insults to my intelligence, and thinking, "I suppose this counts as restraint. I expected to see Whoopi Goldberg."