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Fyron · #**101** May 15th, 2003, 11:05 AM

Well the Matrix was a pretty lame and predictable movie to begin with, so any sequals probably aren't going to be any better.

Aloofi · #**102** May 15th, 2003, 02:35 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well the Matrix was a pretty lame and predictable movie to begin with, so any sequals probably aren't going to be any better.

Fyron, Fyron, how can you say something like this?
The Matrix is the best movie ever, not because of the XFs, or filmaking, or acting, but because it made us think.
It came out in the Last year of the Last century, and quietly it managed to put into the mainstream its warning against brainwashing and media manipulation, it questioned our very way of life, it blew the whistled in the very same industry to which it belongs to.
Because, Fyron, in the end we are nothing more than batteries, powering a corporate world from where we can't escape. We work for them, they pay us, and we give them back our paycheck with profits. We are raised to be good citizens, to pay our taxes, to fuel their economy consuming their goods, to use credit cards with money that we don't even have yet, to fuel them even faster.

We are slaves, Fyron, a new kind of slave that work for 8 hours a day and get 4 weeks of vacation. We are sent to colleges to become better slaves, more profitable slaves, and thus better paid, we can even change the urban plantation in which we work, we can even quit and look for a better paying plantation, but we can't escape our master, this system created to enslave us for ever and ever. There is no hope. We need a Neo. Or....

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Unknown_Enemy · #**103** May 15th, 2003, 03:14 PM

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The Matrix is the best movie ever, not because of the XFs, or filmaking, or acting, but because it made us think.
It came out in the Last year of the Last century, and quietly it managed to put into the mainstream its warning against brainwashing and media manipulation, it questioned our very way of life, it blew the whistled in the very same industry to which it belongs to.

Aloofi, stop everything you are doing and watch "1984". Once you've done it, read the book. Then read the book again.

Aloofi · #**104** May 15th, 2003, 05:23 PM

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Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy:
Aloofi, stop everything you are doing and watch "1984". Once you've done it, read the book. Then read the book again.

Man, a lot of people have recomended me to watch "1984". I have never seen it, I guess it belong to another generation, but I will get the book. Is the book better than the movie, as usually is?

Ruatha · #**105** May 15th, 2003, 06:17 PM

Only read the book, not as good as "Animal farm" though.

"All are created equal, but some are more equal than others..."

tesco samoa · #**106** May 15th, 2003, 07:35 PM

Well the Matrix was a pretty lame and predictable movie to begin with, so any sequals probably aren't going to be any better.

OMG FRYON>..... Some one agrees with you about something on this forum

The movie was ok up to the middle... Then it was yea yea... cannot die... yea yea.... bad acting.... Ok lets end this...

Kind of like that Stargate movie with the Egyptian gods... Really good up to the point they released it was a scfi-movie and decided that things must go boom !

And all this time i thought I was the only one who did not like Matrix ( Actually I thought it ranked up there with Independence Day etc.... a good crack. But don't look too deep below the surface or you will be disappointed )

Narrew · #**107** May 15th, 2003, 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Kind of like that Stargate movie with the Egyptian gods... Really good up to the point they released it was a scfi-movie and decided that things must go boom

*sobs* and here I am hooked on the series, I like Stargate as much as I did B5.

Fyron · #**108** May 15th, 2003, 08:10 PM

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
OMG FRYON>..... Some one agrees with you about something on this forum

Ah!!! It's the end of the world!

Anyways.... the Matrix was not taken as what you claim it was by the general public Aloofi. In fact, you are the first person I have ever heard make such claims about the movie.

narf poit chez BOOM · #**109** May 15th, 2003, 08:15 PM

uh, i like this system. it's a better system than most. and, while i think a lot of coorporations view there workers a bit like drone's, is that any worse, or better than the way a lot of worker's view there coorperation? change for the sake of change doesn't work. what and how would you replace it with?

tesco samoa · #**110** May 15th, 2003, 09:02 PM

narf... wrong thread... i think that post should be in the iraq thread