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From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 12:16 AM
Subject: Matrix Revolutions (Spoilers)
> I saw the new Matrix movie today.
>
> What is everyone's thoughts?
Personally, I think they pretty much showed their hand that the much vaunted
philosophy of the second movie was all talk. The third movie, IMO, didn't
even _really_ need the second movie. The "depth" was all pretty much surface
veneer lifted from things that either we already have been programed to
acknowledge as story archetypes or are references to popular culture. You
could walk in and basically sit back and say, "Man vs. Machine, A Bad Virus,
Frodo Journeys to Mt. Doom, DragonBall Z Fight, Sacrificial Christ Figure,
The End."
Really, was anybody else bored with the Smith v. Neo fight? It was like
setting "godmode 1". All the action with none of the suspense. You knew Neo
would ultimately win, even though he had to sacrifice himself to do it, so
it became just a drawn out exercise in special effects.
And when Neo got to the machine city and looked out at it, all I could think
was, "You made it to Mt. Doom, Frodo!"
And the blinding of Neo? Van Damme in Kickboxer anyone? Use the Force Luke?
It's a constantly rehashed action thing that the overpoweringly strong
protagontist has to become blinded but then resort to heightened senses.
There were some things you could pick on if you wanted to make the movie
deeper than it was, and I think Angel is doing an interesting job of it.
Although I disagree with several of his theories.
Sati is a program. Both her parents were programs. Her mother, as a
"creative" programmer, created Sati even though there wasn't a need for her.
It's all part of the new approach to the Matrix that the Oracle referred to.
The Oracle was referred to both as "Mother" and as the counterbalance to the
Architect. In the first movie, Smith mentioned to Morpheus that there were
previous Matrices and they were well ordered and ultimately failures. Only
by intruducing a fudge factor into the system was it able to be sustainable.
The Oracle was the mother of that fudge factor, fuzzy logic, chaos theory
algorithm.
Neo didn't touch the Source. To control the bots, he basically used 802.11b.
I think it wasn't clearly explained because the Wachowskis didn't really
know either. It was just "cool" to have a Force push. The Matrix already
stole the limelight from Star Wars, so why not steal the powers too?
I bitch, but I was entertained. It just wasn't deep. And the music for
Revolutions was better than Reloaded (but not as good as 1).
-Kevin
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