Richard's love affair with outer space started when he saw the original 'Star Wars' on TV aged four, and he spent much of the ’90s watching 'Star Trek”, 'Babylon 5” and “The X-Files' with his mum. After studying physics at university, he became a journalist, swapped science fact for science fiction, and hit the jackpot when he joined the team at SFX, the UK's biggest sci-fi and fantasy magazine. He liked it so much he stayed there for 12 years, four of them as editor. \nHe's since gone freelance and passes his time writing about 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek' and superheroes for the likes of SFX, Total Film, TechRadar and GamesRadar+. He has met five Doctors, two Starfleet captains and one Luke Skywalker, and once sat in the cockpit of 'Red Dwarf''s Starbug.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is," Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus famously teased back in 1999."You have to see it for yourself."
He wasn't just talking to Thomas 'Neo' Anderson, either, because his words helped the theater-going public buy into the considerable hype. Everything about"The Matrix" was so stylishly packaged – the impossibly cool outfits, the slow-motion kung fu, those iconic green letters and numbers – that the topic of sentient machines using the human race as batteries became one of the hottest conversations on the planet.
The rock- and dance-infused soundtrack also captured a moment, Keanu Reeves continued his run of picking unexpectedly iconic roles , and a certain Nokia cellphone became a must-have fashion accessory.
But in a world where bullet-time effects had become so ubiquitous that they were used in ads for hotels, everything that had once felt fresh and new had become overfamiliar. Where the original film had been applauded for bringing aspects of anime and Asian martial arts cinema to the Hollywood mainstream,"Reloaded" mostly borrowed from, well,"The Matrix".
At the same time, it made some very strange storytelling choices. It turned out that the last human city, Zion, was home to an extremely hedonistic club night, while Neo – the confused everyman protagonist of the original film – was now a fully blown superhero. Perhaps most divisively, the Philosophy 101 that had always been part of the"Matrix" equation was pushed up higher in the mix, as questions of faith, free will and destiny became all-consuming.
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