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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 900829" data-attributes="member: 812">How, exactly would you imagine he might have "won"? I mean, yeah, sure, he was chucking Agent Smiths in all directions -- and clearly accomplishing nothing. They just kept getting up again and coming after him. Not one seemed staggered or the slightest bit troubled by anything he ever did to them."Maybe the TWENTIETH time I hit him, he'll stay down."Uh-huh.This points out another basic flaw these films have in their quest to entertain me. Nobody ever suffers. Nobody ever gets hurt. Heck, nobody ever even loses their sunglasses. It's like D&D -- they all fight at maximum capacity until they run out of hit points and then BOOM they fall down. You never see anyone struggling, trying desperately to get in one last blow before they go down...If we can't see somebody's ability to fight dropping, how do we know whether or not we should be worried? I mean, who cares how many times the Agent knocks Morpheus down if everytime he gets up he's just as good as he was at the start? How do we know if he's in trouble or not? And why do people keep hiring Chinese martial artists to choreograph fights with Japanese swords?Sorry, pet peeve -- katana wielded like tai ch'i swords.Blah blah blah.</blockquote>