
March 24th, 2004, 09:13 PM
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Re: OT: Matrix
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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I found the first movie to be very interesting and revolutionary, but after seeing it once or twice I lost interest in it. The second movie was a logical continuation of the first as the third was of the second.
I do not buy the ending of the trilage at all though. We all know that he is inside of a matrix that is inside of a matrix and so on and so on. How else could he see everything in the "real world" as code?
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He coudn't see everything in the 'real world' as code. He could only see elements of the matrix in the outside world (like Smith-possesed and the AIs/squids/constructs, all else was darkness).
Overall I loved the series. It showed the rise and fall of a messiah in an apocalyptic world, whose very coming was designed as a tool to further the apocalypse itself. Pretty slick.
Everything was internally consistent and well played out, unlike other flicks that rely on some kind of disappointing deus-ex mechanisim when it gets to the crunch (ie. Superman reversing time by flying aroung the planet, just about any episode of Trek... ). It's rare enough to find a series that shows the fallout after the 'big event' (where most such movies stop) but the Matrix went one set further, it actually did it well.
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