The Matrix Revolutions opened today. The first show was at 6am this morning. Why 6am? The studio thought it would be a great idea to release the movie worldwide at exactly the same time. So my burning question is this: Why did Los Angeles get the 6am time slot??? Most people would agree that 7pm is probably the most ideal time to watch a movie. It's not too early and it's not too late. So who gets the 7pm slot? None other than Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan...basically all the Stans! I'm wondering if this was intentional. Even a 5pm show in L.A. wouldn't be bad, but no, Moscow got that one. I thought the movie business revolved around us so why did we get such a lousy time slot? I guess it's so it can be released on Nov. 5 worldwide. Eh, who cares?

Anyways, I had the opportunity to see it this morning. Last night, less than a third of the tickets were sold for the 6am show this morning. I was surprised since it was Westwood. I figured there would easily be 1000 college students that worship this franchise so much that they would be the first to see it. Apparently not. Anyways, I opted not to see the movie this morning for one reason. The last movie I did this kind of thing for was Star Wars Episode 2. I saw a 4am show. I even took the morning off of work so I could sleep after the movie for a few hours. So I saw this movie and I was tired the whole time. Then on the way home I was grouchy. After I slept, I forgot half the movie, but I did remember it wasn't good enough to be worth all that pain. So when this opportunity came, I just thought is this movie worth all this pain? Then I thought, is any movie worth all this pain? I couldn't think of a single movie. I would say the only drive to see a movie this soon is if you're surrounded by people who will talk about the movie, but everyone I work with doesn't really watch movies. So I think I'll catch it this weekend. Hopefully someone will want to see it with me that hasn't already, but I guess there are people that always want to see a movie twice (or more). Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the Matrix franchise, but I'd rather enjoy it under better conditions.

As a sidenote, I think the names Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions were dumb names for the movies. I think I just would have preferred Matrix 2 and 3. I think it would have been better to call it the Matrix Rebooted or the Matrix Overdone, ha ha.