I saw the MATRIX 2 thread SPOILERS ABOUND

[Dinkeldog]

Mustrum, it's "Nebuchadnezzar". Named after the king of Babylon in the Book of Daniel.

Was anyone jarred about the awful casting of Agent Smith? All I could think of was him telling Neo he would have to take the Ring to Mordor to save the world while telling Morpheus that he'd never allow his immortal daughter to marry worthless human scum like him.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Now do the math and tell me how many people per day you would have to free from the Matrix to have 24 people go to 250,000 people all in the space of one lifetime (assume the councilman was the One and was Neo's age).

It's an exponential algorithm. Some of the people freed go on to free other people.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Was anyone jarred about the awful casting of Agent Smith? All I could think of was him telling Neo he would have to take the Ring to Mordor to save the world while telling Morpheus that he'd never allow his immortal daughter to marry worthless human scum like him.

I'm not sure if you are kiddin' or not here.

That said, I've always felt that Hugo Weaving was a bad casting
decision for Elrond. He doesn't fit IMO. Plus, I can't stop imagining
him doing the Agent Smith thing.

"As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Baggins. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Frodo Baggins, a bachelor living on your uncle's money, you have a nice hole in the ground, you take care of your garden, and you help your friends when they get themselves into trouble. The other life is lived in adventuring, where you go by the alias of the Ringbearer and are guilty of virtually every crime against Mordor we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Baggins. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been in contact with a certain artifact, the one they call 'The One Ring'. Now whatever you think you know about this ring is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most precious thing in existance. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known tool of world domination to it's rightful owner."

 

[Dinkeldog]

I'm not sure if you are kiddin' or not here.

That said, I've always felt that Hugo Weaving was a bad casting
decision for Elrond. He doesn't fit IMO. Plus, I can't stop imagining
him doing the Agent Smith thing.

"As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Baggins. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Frodo Baggins, a bachelor living on your uncle's money, you have a nice hole in the ground, you take care of your garden, and you help your friends when they get themselves into trouble. The other life is lived in adventuring, where you go by the alias of the Ringbearer and are guilty of virtually every crime against Mordor we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Baggins. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been in contact with a certain artifact, the one they call 'The One Ring'. Now whatever you think you know about this ring is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most precious thing in existance. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known tool of world domination to it's rightful owner."

I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but here's the sentence I originally typed and then thought was too heavy-handed, "After all, we know that actors should only ever be allowed a single role for their entire career."

 

[mojo1701]

Clickie.

 

[Kai Lord]

I'm not sure if you are kiddin' or not here.

That said, I've always felt that Hugo Weaving was a bad casting
decision for Elrond. He doesn't fit IMO. Plus, I can't stop imagining
him doing the Agent Smith thing.

Good thing the rest of the characters were played by unknowns.

 

[Phoenix8008]

Okay, I just re-watched some of the first Matrix movie today and caught something I had missed before which may tie in with the food=programming concept. If someone else already brought this up and I missed it, then I apoligize.

When the Agent's are about to interrogate Morpheous, they prepare the serum which is supposed to make him more tractable to their questions. Both when the serum is being drawn into the syreinge and when it is injected into Morpheous, you can here a little of the "Matrix/Modem" sound like when the mirror stuff went down Neo's throat.

Now, obviously the drug was supposed to affect his mind here so it's nothing new that they must have been altering the programming of Morpheous' construct to make this possible, but I had never caught it before until I heard about the food connection here in this thread. Therefore I thought I'd come here and share this discovery in case anybody else hadn't seen it yet.

I can't wait to see #2. Good thing I don't get my movies spoiled by spoilers! Otherwise I'd be in trouble here!

 

[The Fool]

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[Viking Bastard]

I gave you the benefit of the doubt...

Right. There's some joke in that earlier post I'm missin' isn't there?

 

[Dinkeldog]

Right. There's some joke in that earlier post I'm missin' isn't there?

The number of people that whinged when Hugo Weaving got cast as Elrond because they couldn't see him in any role except Agent Smith.