Hello Jimmy!

Nov 26 14:02 03, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Ray Geneburn:

 JA> Great! I'm an old BBS'er from the early days, got out of it when "the 
 JA> 'net" took over, then back in for a short while. Now I plan to
use this as
 JA> my main venue for discussion... :-)

I SysOped one back in the late 1980s.  It was a lot of fun, running at 300
baud, then 1200, 2400, 4800 and then 9600.  Too slow today, though.  I
don't have my BBS up any lomger, but if I had enough requests to put it
back up, I would.  I became a "member" of Fidonet officially in
1991.  That's when I got my node number.

 JA> My turn to agree with you. :-) It was exciting, but drawn out.

Yep.

[...]

 JA> Do you mean the first movie? Or the, IMHO, not so good sequels? Or the TV
 JA> shows? Or all of the above? :-)

I have a soft spot for all of them, except the cartoons.  The first
Superman movie with Christopher Reeve was exceptional, but the sequels
weren't.  Sequels remind me of a line in Spaceballs when Mel Brooks is
talking about Spaceballs II -- the search for more money.

 JA> Since you mentioned it... I was a GIANT fan of the first movie in 77. 

Same here.

 JA> Being 10 year old boy that grew up reading Superman comics, it was a dream
 JA> come true to see it on the big screen.

I know exactly what you mean.

 JA> Superman II was pretty good as well, but 3 & 4 really did not come 
 JA> across to me...

Me either.

 JA> Hmm... I've assumed it was the end, but you've caused me to stop and 
 JA> think about that now... It's obviously not the end of the Matrix, but is 
 JA> it the end of the war?

I don't know.  Only time will tell.  It will be interesting to see what the
Wachowski brothers do.  I'm sure they can get the cast with no trouble.

 JA> My biggest regret in that movie is that the lady that portrayed the 
 JA> Oracle died between movies... I hated to see her replaced, though I think 
 JA> they did okay in the pinch of replacing her.

Yeah.  The first time I saw Gloria Foster was in an episode of Law &
Order.  She shined as the Oracle in the original Matrix movie.  Although
they were filming Reloaded and Revolutions at the same time, it's a shame
she had to die during Reloaded.  I thought they would come up with a
younger version of her with a suitable explanation (after all, she was a
computer program), but that didn't happen.


Regards,

Ray

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