{"id":866,"date":"2007-12-24T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/action-movie-eye-candy-the-matrix\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T02:00:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T07:00:53","slug":"action-movie-eye-candy-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/action-movie-eye-candy-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Movie Eye-Candy: The Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"380\" height=\"317\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q4Iimq6OxNQ&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Mark suggested that I atone for my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/times-richard-corliss-on-critics-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">elitist post<\/a> by posting an eye-candy action movie sequence.  I&#8217;ve been trying to think of an unusual one to match the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/07\/district-b-13-parkour-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">parkour scene from <i>District B-13<\/i> I posted a while back<\/a>, but what with being on vacation, home, and my computer deciding not to let me access the internet on my dad&#8217;s network (forcing me to sneak time on his computer after he&#8217;s gone to bed), I opted instead to settle for my all-time favorite shoot-out scene from <i>The Matrix<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark suggested that I atone for my previous elitist post by posting an eye-candy action movie sequence. I&#8217;ve been trying to think of an unusual one to match the parkour scene from District B-13 I posted a while back, but what with being on vacation, home, and my computer deciding not to let me access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[497],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":505,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/no-new-sytycd-so-the-matrix-instead\/","url_meta":{"origin":866,"position":0},"title":"No new SYTYCD!!  So, The Matrix instead&#8230;","author":"Jandy","date":"July 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"There's no So You Think You Can Dance this week! I'm totally bummed. I've been looking forward to it all week. Wah. I guess they figured they wouldn't get anyone watching on the fourth of July. Oh, yeah, Happy Independence Day, everybody! 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