We watched Matrix Reloaded the first weekend of it showing here and I liked it, but I do think they’ve turned it into too much of an action movie and a lot less philosophical one. The first movie had the balance just right I believe. Despite all the great pains they took to make the computerized fight scenes look realistic, they still ended up looking slightly like something out of a computer game. To their credit, though, they almost pulled it off and this technique will now be copied a bazillion times and will become common place. Then someone else will improve it and take the next leap forward, and everyone will copy that too. Ad infinitum.

We also went to the Adnan Sami concert last weekend, and I liked some of the songs, not all of them. My wife and our friend Richo enjoyed it tremendously.

As for this weekend we wanted to relax, so we just got on the tube without deciding where to get off Well, sort of. We ended up at Embankment pier, I bought an old copy of Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, and we ended up doing some shopping as usual.