OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

[Suicide Junkie]

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]

*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]

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.

[Fyron]

A spoiler is kind of redundant... of course everything in here is a spoiler of some sort!

[Katchoo]

Overall I liked Matrix: Revolutions, but here's the ending I was hoping for:

PARTIAL OBLIGATORY SPOILER ALERT! WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! AROOOOOOGA!

Agent Smith is defeated and the Machines in the Real World begin to leave Zion as per their agreement with Neo. As Morpheus looks upon the Machines leaving and realizes the War is over; and as that kid (can't remember his name, the one whom Neo freed from the Matrix in one of the Animatrix Shorts) runs into the Temple and announces to everyone in Zion that the War is over, one of the Sentiles leaving Zion stops in mid-air and flips open it's radio antennae/dish to recieve a message. Suddenly all the Sentiles turn around and in one tidal wave they rush into Zion and into the Temple, killing every man, woman, and child in Zion.

Back in the Matrix, the Matrix begins to repair itself. The Architect walks up to the Oracle, who is sitting on a bench and looking none-too pleased. Looking at the Oracle, the Architect states coldly "now we start over", and the movie ends.

Had they done an ending like this, it would have left things just as open as the real ending did, but without the sappy ridding-into-the-sunset ending we did get.

But I still like the movie overall.

[Atrocities]

The bitter sad truth about this Matrix movie is that we all had high hope, low expectations. The frist Matrix movie was wonder to behold, the second a formula and the third the second part of the second.

We were given a glimps of something great, and like the matrix being changed, it was taken from us leaving only the sence of dajavo.

[Mephisto]

This site sums it up quite nicely IMHO and it is a fan site. Beware, MAJOR spoilers ahead:

http://www.matrix-explained.com/