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It's scary that as of now, 21 people have voted for something OTHER than the original film. 
What is your favorite Matrix film?
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Turanil
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Pure snobbery...
Most people pretend to prefer the first film and disregard the two others out of pure intellectual snobbery.
It's often mainly a posture to appear somewhat intellectually superior in disparaging the two sequels. Why this is so? Very simple: when it was released, the first film was unique, totally new, and nobody could expect something like that. In loving the film you thus associated yourself with this uniqueness, you felt you were out of the vulgar masses. However, the film got so much success that it became a trend. So, now, in acknowledging you also like the two sequels you would admit to follow the trend, and so belong to the vulgar masses. But in disparaging them, you pitifully try to be above the others, on an artistical and intellectual point of view. Pure intellectual snobbery.
In any case, the success of the first film came from its uniqueness. Now, the two others being just the sequels of the first film, they can't be a new and unique thing again.
For my part I like the full trilogy, with a preference for the third film, that seemed IMO to promise interesting revelations. The third film was for me a deception because it emphasized so much on combat, and no extraordinary revelations like for instance the real-world being in fact only another level of the Matrix, with Zion being the equivalent of a common PC trashcan (that you empty once in a while).
Anyway, there is enough in this post to be flamed!
Most people pretend to prefer the first film and disregard the two others out of pure intellectual snobbery.
It's often mainly a posture to appear somewhat intellectually superior in disparaging the two sequels. Why this is so? Very simple: when it was released, the first film was unique, totally new, and nobody could expect something like that. In loving the film you thus associated yourself with this uniqueness, you felt you were out of the vulgar masses. However, the film got so much success that it became a trend. So, now, in acknowledging you also like the two sequels you would admit to follow the trend, and so belong to the vulgar masses. But in disparaging them, you pitifully try to be above the others, on an artistical and intellectual point of view. Pure intellectual snobbery.
In any case, the success of the first film came from its uniqueness. Now, the two others being just the sequels of the first film, they can't be a new and unique thing again.
For my part I like the full trilogy, with a preference for the third film, that seemed IMO to promise interesting revelations. The third film was for me a deception because it emphasized so much on combat, and no extraordinary revelations like for instance the real-world being in fact only another level of the Matrix, with Zion being the equivalent of a common PC trashcan (that you empty once in a while).
Anyway, there is enough in this post to be flamed!
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