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I'm not sure how much the normal package costed, but every GB I go over 100 costs some ungodly amount. 5 dollars or something. I feel too guilty to ask my dad about it...  

I understand that's what you meant, but I still think it's a poor way of judging something's artistic merit.  It acts on the assumption that everybody in the world has the same understanding and appreciation of film (or theatre, or literature, or art), which is a patently ludicrous idea.  You can measure success or popularity that way, but not quality as you say.  Popularity is by no means equivalent to quality.

No, measuring a film's popularity would involve finding out how many people saw it. If you subjected 10000 people to every film ever made and then had them rank them (hypothetically of course, this is impossible), you can't deny that the overall result would be much more accurate than if you only used one person.
IMDB.com has a top 250 movies list. It may not be completely accurate (the Star Wars films don't belong so high), but it's certainly a better representation than my own personal list (I really like The Princess Bride...) The Matrix is number 30-something on IMDB, so your dislike of it is obviously just yours. Nobody's going to direct films designed to please a single person that they've never met.

Edit: By the way, I don't really have a problem with you complaining about the movies. I just feel like complaining about critics. I mean, doesn't it annoy you when you're reading a bunch of reviews for a movie, and they're all very positive, and then you find one negative review that insists you avoid the movie at all costs.

Just to clarify, my first point was that art is subjective, but the only way you could possibly guage something's quality would be a consensus from everyone who's ever viewed it. If you personally think The Matrix sucked, then that's minus one point for The Matrix.
My second point was to try and form your opinions solely from the artwork as it is. If you were to watch The Matrix in an alternate dimension where it had no hype whatsoever, you'd most likely rate it better than you think you would. I realize it's nigh impossible to view every film you see while completely forgetting what you've heard about it, or to not compare it to other films, but I'm certain that your opinion of a film is better off purely yours and purely of the film. If that makes any sense at all.

The movie still sucks though.
I haven't even seen the Matrix films, but I know that this can't be true. Wether you like it or not, a film sucks if the general populace thinks it sucks, which obviously isn't the case with The Matrix. And I'm sure if you watched the films and judged them based on their own merit and not in a way that's completely influenced by outside information (the nonstop public raving) you wouldn't say it sucks.
While I don't have much personal interest in the movies, I wouldn't lower my opinion of a movie just because other people love it TOO much. When all is said and done, a film is just a couple hours of image and sound. It is not its fans.

I think I prefer the first walk animation... They're both almost identical, but I think the first one moves a little smoother (watch the hand)

Great! Now all you need is for her to mutter in a squeeky, melodramatic voice while really depressing background music plays, and you've got yourself a hit anime!

Las feels strongly about something? Weird

Hmm... I just had a thought.
Scenario: A lot of young teenage kids LOVE the Matrix films.
I wonder if in 20 years, they'll still love the Matrix films, but they'll all be more cynical. And then the creators will decide to make a trilogy of prequels. And the Matrix fans will hate the prequels, even though they're more or less up to the standards of the original trilogy. Wouldn't that be funny?

Man, those girls have terrible postures.  

He's referring to something FlippyD commonly does/did-- Someone posted a link to an image, so he's posting the actual image to save other people the trouble of clicking the link. Or something.

Not to boast (if you view this as a good thing), but my site eviltrailmix.com ate up almost 140 GB of bandwidth in April.
:o :o

By the way, GarageGothic, Tim Burton's next project is looking like it will be a lot better than POA was. It's called "Big Fish"...

I'm a genius in France, genius in France...

It doesn't work...  

Lovegrove.

Religion is like a name. Idiots are idiots, racists are racists, and putzes are putzes regardless of what their names are.

Watching "sports"

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I think part of the reason no one uses it is there are no links to it. Anywhere. I don't think I've ever even been to it.