Details & Review of the Matrix Boxed Set

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

And the reason why I liked 3 (at all) was because of: GIANT ROBOTS.

Crichton, you're a man after my own nerdy heart. Filmmakers should never underestimate the power of giant robots.

GONE WITH THE WIND - Sherman never could have burned Atlanta if the Confederates had giant robots.
CITIZEN KANE - CFK climbs inside his Gundam and vows to smash every Zeon until he finds Rosebud.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE - Giant robots talking for two hours would have been so much more intriguing than carbon-based actors.
KRAMER VS. KRAMER - Instead of fighting for child custody in court, Dustin Hoffman dons his power armor suit and Meryl Streep is converted into a killer cyborg. Cue the fight music.

 

[ShadowX]

That's kinda odd, John. I ended up liking the second movie, and generally disliking the third. Or rather, I liked the parts in the Matrix in the second movie. The parts in the real world were rather uninteresting. Part three was mostly in the real world, and when it wasn't, it wasn't anything that I hadn't seen before done better by Dragon Ball Z.

Dang, I really wanted Neo to shoot a kamehameha.

See, Matrix 2 made me think there was some twist coming up, something unexpected, something like "The machines are only sentient as long as they can leech from the dreams of humans in the matrix," or "Neo's going to go to the machine half of the matrix, where there are no humans, and he's going to kick digital butt there."

Instead, I got a long sequence of shooting lots of squiddies, and Neo and Smith just punching each other to no discernable effect. The only part of the third movie I liked was Neo fighting Smith in Bane's body, because Neo was not invincible there. Man, the ways they dropped the ball with never following through on the possibilities of werewolves, vampires, and Merovingians really disappointed me.

Matrix 2 had promise. Matrix 3 didn't follow up.

That is exactly how I felt.

Now about the comments on the philosophical elements of The Matrix, it was about as deep in that department as Xenosaga. Or in other words, none at all. It merely used allegories from many different sources but added nothing to them. If you want to see a well done story that leverages metaphysics I recommend you read Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.

 

[Alzrius]

I ended up liking the second movie, and generally disliking the third.

I agree completely.

For me, it was that the first sequel seemed to do everything the first one did, only better. More specifically, it seemed, like the first one, to hint that there was more, and when it gave answers, it presented them quietly, and the lack of fanfare is what made them so shockingly powerful. Less is definately more there, and Reloaded did a great job of letting it's subtlety speak volumes.

Revolutions, by contrast, felt the need to continually wrestle you to the ground and cram its symbolic messages down your throat.

Part three was mostly in the real world, and when it wasn't, it wasn't anything that I hadn't seen before done better by Dragon Ball Z.

Which just goes to show that a copy is never as good as the original.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Which just goes to show that a copy is never as good as the original.

Superman?

 

[Alzrius]

Superman?

What about him? He never had anything DBZ-like.

 

[Arnwyn]

I know there are some big Matrix fans around here. What do you think?

Nope. I already own all the originals, plus the Animatrix, plus the game.

While I really enjoyed the Matrix trilogy, what I have is enough for me.

 

[Wolf72]

I'm voting for "Fan of Giant Robots" too ... heck it was warfare with giant robots ... that was my favorite part of all 3 movies!

I was completely enthralled when the special edition of SW:ANH came out ... man! extended battle scene with the Death Star.

Giant Robots ... space battles ... that's what it's all about!!!

 

[John Crichton]

I'm voting for "Fan of Giant Robots" too ... heck it was warfare with giant robots ... that was my favorite part of all 3 movies!

I was completely enthralled when the special edition of SW:ANH came out ... man! extended battle scene with the Death Star.

Giant Robots ... space battles ... that's what it's all about!!!

Crichton, you're a man after my own nerdy heart. Filmmakers should never underestimate the power of giant robots.

GONE WITH THE WIND - Sherman never could have burned Atlanta if the Confederates had giant robots.
CITIZEN KANE - CFK climbs inside his Gundam and vows to smash every Zeon until he finds Rosebud.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE - Giant robots talking for two hours would have been so much more intriguing than carbon-based actors.
KRAMER VS. KRAMER - Instead of fighting for child custody in court, Dustin Hoffman dons his power armor suit and Meryl Streep is converted into a killer cyborg. Cue the fight music.

Ah, my people.

One can never fully appreciate the value of big ships and robots and said ships and robots blowing up all over the place and blowing other things up. It's an art form really.

 

[Rackhir]

I liked the sequels. Of course I was never expecting anything from them in terms of "Deep Meaning" or anything other than Popcorn time. I think the philosophical stuff had waaaayyy too much emphasis on it in peoples views of the movie. It's like the people who want to construct philosophies based on the Star Wars movies. They are essentially just movies, if you want philosophy, pick up a book.

The one thing I was disapointed about in the sequels was that Neo never destroyed any of the Agents. The Agent Smith battles in particular would have been much cooler if he had been ripping apart and trashing AS's left and right as ever more kept pouring in.

Personally, I had been avoiding picking up any of the movies, precisely because I knew a boxed set like this would inevitably be coming out.

 

[KenM]

I'm voting for "Fan of Giant Robots" too ... heck it was warfare with giant robots ... that was my favorite part of all 3 movies!

I HATED that robots in the Matrix movies for one big reason. The piolt/ driver had NO PROTECTION WHATSOEVER. "lets design our main defenses of the city so the user will be totally exposed to enemy fire." They did not even have plexiglass or something, they had nothing. Totally stupid.