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i must be one of about 10 people on Earth who liked Matrix Reloaded better than the original.

i happen to hate Zhang Yimou's "art-house" wuxia films (Hero etc). they're so pretentious and fascist! well, Hero was and i heard the same about Curse of the Golden Flower.

adam i feel the same way about MI 1.

Kill Bill i'm reserving judgment on until i see Lady Snowblood (the movie that most directly inspired it).

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yeah, T2 was hugely influential on me as a kid. i just picked up a used DVD of it, since i'd only ever watched a cut-up tv version of it on VHS! how awesome is that film. the kid-and-robot camaraderie, the nomadic traveling-out-of-the-city, the T-1000 is probably in half the artwork i do, Arnold's one-liners, etc.

speaking of Arnold -- Predator!!