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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 1996065" data-attributes="member: 4601">Au Contraire!  The main reason people didn't care for 2 and 3 was that they did watch them with their brains off- and both movies are extremely "brains on".  The first Matrix film was extremely Manichean, good vs. evil- the second and third revealed that we live in a much more complicated world, a multi-layered, multi-dimensioned reality.  The first movie was pure gnostic ascent- the second and third were about integration.  I got this- and was nothing short of blown away by them.  Of course, I'd read the relevant philosophers and scientists that the Wachowskis borrowed from...Watch them with the commentaries in the ultimate boxed set, they're much more understandable that way (if you can follow Dr. West and Mr. Wilber, that is).  Oh, and make sure you've seen The Second Renaissance- that helps as well.(Someone on this thread ridiculed The Second Renaissance- they've gotta be out of their fleepin minds!  That was the most terrifying twenty minutes of animated footage I've ever seen in my life... the sheer feeling of desolation at human stupidity, the Buddhist imagery, the machines as protagonists... wow...)But yeah, the Matrix sequels are great films, and I don't get why folks think otherwise...</blockquote>