Original sentence: Following The Matrix, countless films have now begun to make abundant use of slow-motion, spinning cameras, and, often, the famed bullet-time effect of a chatacter freezing in mid-air and the camera panning around them.The effect has been parodied in many comedy films such as Scary Movie, Shrek, and Team America: World Police, and in TV series such as The Simpsons.The religion of Matrixism emerged from the Bahá'í Faith, the Wachowski brothers' films and the writings of Aldous Huxley
Edited sentence: All of these Matrix-based comic references are also becoming cliché and dry.Following The Matrix, countless films have now begun to make abundant use of slow-motion, spinning cameras, and, often, the famed bullet-time effect.The religion of Matrixism emerged from the Bahá'í Faith, the Wachowski brother's films and the writings of Aldous Huxley.The spoof, which makes for an easy laugh, usually revolves around a chatacter freezing in mid-air and the camera panning around him/her - the signature effect of the Matrix.There are countless spoofs or references to The Matrix, most often in comedy such as Scary Movie, Shrek, or Team America: World Police.This has led to a degeneration in the cinematic intensity of highly expensive bullet-time sequences, for they are often done melodramatically or with poor style (in the rush to add a bit of bullet-time to a film), and has made bullet-time a standard often unimpressive effect, which is in turn often satirised in comedy, with over-dramatic bullet-time sequences for uninteresting, banal or ridiculous actions