If it's not real then why call for "realism"?

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Originally Posted by Galloglaich

This is a good analogy, and there is another way to look at it. DC or Marvel Comic books and Soap operas may be highly enjoyable for certain demographics who never get tired of them, but usually the very young and the very old respectively... A lot of people (myself included) are too old for the former and not senile enough yet for the latter .

Originally Posted by Galloglaich

I guess it kind of depends what kind of grasp of reality you have. What seems like a niggling detail to one person strikes another as complete derailment.

When I was eight, the idea of Superman flying around, picking up skyscrapers, wearing tights and a cape, and fooling his close associates by wearing glasses all seemed pretty reasonable. Schoolmates who argued about this or that superhero power struck me as petty and small minded.

But by the time I was thirteen or fourteen superheroes in general seemed pretty corny... today I couldn't follow a story about superman to save my life, let alone act one out as a serious participant, I would just get bored and my mind would wander after two seconds. It takes something a bit more grown up to catch my attention. I really don't think I'm alone in this.

I don't know whether you are realise you are doing it, but your recent posts (I've included two above) are rather condescending.

Stop it, or you'll be banned from the thread.

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Originally Posted by Galloglaich

I must be missing something, because I thought the majority of the 'magical' scenes in the Matrix, at least in the first film (the one everybody liked), took place in a virtual reality. Therefore it was realistic. I think that is what a lot of people liked about it.

I don't think the issue was the Matrix itself as a virtual reality, but the reason why the machines created it - to get energy from the humans.

That doesn't make any sense. It would have been better to claim they need the processing power of the human brain or whatever. (That doesn't make much more sense, since we actually need the processing power of our brain for ourselves , even in a virtual reality).