"Why do my eyes hurt?"

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of The Matrix being released. Hard to believe it’s been ten years already. As I mentioned last year, I decided to follow up my Star Wars marathon of 2007 with watching The Matrix trilogy in 2009*. In anticipation, I ordered The Ultimate Matrix Collection, which includes The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Animatrix, and more special features than I’ll be able to watch in my lifetime.** So tomorrow after work I’ll watch the trilogy. I’ve been looking forward to this for a long while and will be blogging it like Star Wars Day.

Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

* I was also going to do a full-blown Alien Versus Predator marathon in May for the 30th anniversary of the original Alien, but have decided to make it an Alien Quadrilogy marathon instead, maybe including the two AvPs, but probably not. Even I have my limits. ;) This decision also neatly solves the “what order to watch them in?” question.

** Seeing as how it’s only $25.99 now versus it’s previous $52.98, I couldn’t pass it up anyhow.