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...just as some people sit at home in baggy tops or threadbare sweaters projecting a different version of themselves over the Internet or phone, so crew members of the Nebuchadnezzar transform themselves from grimy refugees to sleek sophisticates once they plug into the Matrix. What sci-fi nerd could ask for more than the instant urbanity afforded by outfits like those worn by Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus...
...WHAT ARE WEREWOLVES AND GHOSTS DOING IN A FUTURISTIC SCI-FI MOVIE...
That may ultimately make Enter the Matrix a little beyond the reach of less tech-savvy gamers, but it will increase the Internet buzz about the game--and the Wachowskis' street cred. If in the future no self-respecting sci-fi director can make a movie without producing a video game at the same time, blame the brothers. Like the film that spawned it, Enter the Matrix already has the makings of a cult classic. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop” is the name of the film’s spaceship), considering that it’s been decades since Paint Your Wagon wiped out the potentially...
...phosphorescent screen by a beam of electrons and viewed through an optical device that resembles an upside-down periscope, the virus particles--this particular batch came from a relative of the Chinese doctor who became Hong Kong's first fatality on March 4--look chillingly like aliens in a sci-fi film. "There are the little buggers," says Dr. John Nicholls, a pathologist at the University of Hong Kong, leaning aside so a TIME reporter can take a look...