OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

Atrocities · #1 November 7th, 2003, 07:37 AM

Matrix 3

SPOILER

WTF happend here?

I actually like the movie despite its lame *** ...... You have to see it

DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE, IT WILL RUIN IT FOR YOU.

This movie made a lot of sense even though I missed the first 15 minutes of it because of traffic. (oh well, thats what I get for buying my tick on Fandango.) All most all of the questions from the first two movies were answered. You just have to listen for them. Basically put, Neo is able to exsist in both the machine world (Matix) and the real world. He is a product of both and therefore can manipulate both. In the Matrix he can manipulate physics, in the real world he can control the machines, partly. Zion had indeed been destroyed many times and rebuilt, kinda like Vade is Lukes father. You just have to wait for it to be explained better in the next triliogy. Oh ya, there will be a sequal, that you can count on.

Well lets talk about the movie now. The movie explains that Neo has gained the ability to control the machines much like the programs in the matrix have gained the ability to reproduce. Neo begins to understand that the Matrix is as much a living breathing things now as any human. He is advised by the new Oricle to follow his path and that he already knows his path and the answers to his questions. The answer is he is the balancer in the unstable equation that is Agent Smith.

The Machines do indeed breech into Zion, and this leads to one of the best battle scense I have seen since the Original Star Wars. Very impressive and I look forward to seeing it agian.

Trinity dies and Neo sacarfices his freedom, and possibly his life to bring the war between the humans and the Machines to an end. Neo travels to the Machine city and confronts the Machine lord who agrees to end the war if Neo can defeat the rogue virus program that calls itself Agent Smith. Agent smith has infected everything in the Matrix including the Oricle and when Neo arrives to fight him he beats him. Neo is defeated and allows Smith to convert him into a likeness of himself as he had done with all of the other programs in the Matrix. This proved to be Smiths undoing as it balanced the matrix and cancled him out. The movie ends with the Machines pulling away from Zion, Neo being hauled away by the Machines, and The matrix restored with the agreement that any human that wishes to leave may.

Lame ending to an otherwise ok movie. For the Zion battle scenes, I recommend this movie be seen at the theater. Best time Matenee, but worth the $10.00 prime time showing as well.

Remember I also thought Pearl Harbor was ok as well. So take my recommendations with a grain of salt.

[ November 07, 2003, 05:53: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

tesco samoa · #2 November 7th, 2003, 07:59 PM

MATRIX 3

SPOILER

DO NOT READ
5 minutes into the movie you make a decision. Do i try to figure it out or just watch the movie. I just watched the movie. What happened.
easy. the 7th reset happened.

Atrocities · #3 November 8th, 2003, 02:55 AM

SPOILER

Well put, the seventh reset. That would have been the better name for the movie. The Matrix - The Seventh Reset.

I think that they had no idea how to direct this monster they have created and opted to go for the money. You know with an ending like that there is going to be a sequal or three.

Follow the money - forget the story line, just follow the money.

Taera · #4 November 8th, 2003, 03:13 AM

MILD SPOILER

Whats Seventh Reset? Anyhow, i enjoyed the movie. One of the reasons was i had very low expectations of it, but it was okay. i didnt enjoy the cheesy cheesy dying scene (you know whats that), and the Last 20 minutes of the movie... the fighting was lame, and so was the end, but the movie was okay. A couple of cheap tricks and dead-end mysteries, but its okay. As i said, i liked the movie and i'd recommend it to everyone.

Suicide Junkie · #5 November 8th, 2003, 04:30 AM

The architecht guy in the 2nd movie belaboured that point.
There were 6 previous incarnations of The One, which would make Neo the 7th.
Mr Architect implied that all 6 went through with the reset (Zion gets wiped out, pick X-many people to repopulate and start from scratch)

Mephisto · #6 November 8th, 2003, 04:50 PM

*Spoiler ahead*
My problem with the film is that it did not make me care about the characters in the movie. You know that the fight between Neo and Smith will decide the outcome so where is the point of the long battle in Zion? Nothing that happens in Zion makes a difference and we know this from the very beginning of the film. Did the love between Trinity and Neo make any difference? Was the destruction of Smith all there is to Neo? How sad.

[ November 09, 2003, 21:38: Message edited by: Mephisto ]

Taera · #7 November 8th, 2003, 09:27 PM

I agree mephisto, but put a SPOILER on your post. But still, I agree, this is what the movie was lacking - some identification with the characters, and feeling of importance of what is being done. Well said.