Your Thoughts on the Matrix Revolutions?

[Macbeth]

Positive ID, yes. He even says as much in the film.



Same here. Most of the other audience members weren't laughing quite as much as me, though, so I guess some of the jokes didn't work for everyone.



Yeah, really.

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Plus, the actor playing Bane had Hugo Weaving's personality quirks and pattern of speech down pat. Sounded perfect.

Yeah, Hugo Weaving bears an amazing resemblance to my CS teacher. You should hear Prof. Keisling (aforementioned CS professor) do his Smith impression. It give me goosebumps...

 

[AshremBayle@Home]

Loved it!

I did find myself asking many of the same questions as you guys about some of the seemingly unresolved stuff.

Great movie though. I think they wrapped it up pretty darn well.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Woah...just...woah.

I expected this to be horrible. I really did...but...I don't see anything unresolved. It all makes sense to me at least.

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Neo's jacking into the Matrix WAS explained, but only in passing. Simply, the one is connected to the Source. He sent orders THROUGH the Source to stop the sentinals, but since he wasn't actually ready for it, he fell into Limbo.
And I have to say...I LOVED the Arthurian ending with Neo. That was just too good.

 

[Macbeth]

Woah...just...woah.

I expected this to be horrible. I really did...but...I don't see anything unresolved. It all makes sense to me at least.

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Neo's jacking into the Matrix WAS explained, but only in passing. Simply, the one is connected to the Source. He sent orders THROUGH the Source to stop the sentinals, but since he wasn't actually ready for it, he fell into Limbo.
And I have to say...I LOVED the Arthurian ending with Neo. That was just too good.

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Aruthrian AND Christ-like! You just got to love those literary allusions.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

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Aruthrian AND Christ-like! You just got to love those literary allusions.

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Yep...I just didn't expect ANYTHING Arthurian at all. That was a big surprise to see the 'boat'. Its just like Arthur in that, he's 'dead' but will come BACK when he's needed.
...did any of the other movies have Arthurian styled allusions? I sure didn't catch any...

 

[Macbeth]

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Yep...I just didn't expect ANYTHING Arthurian at all. That was a big surprise to see the 'boat'. Its just like Arthur in that, he's 'dead' but will come BACK when he's needed.
...did any of the other movies have Arthurian styled allusions? I sure didn't catch any...

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Not that i can think of off the top of my head, but with th number of biblical/mythalogical/literary allusions, I'm sure there must be SOME other Arthurian reference...

 

[AshremBayle@Home]

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..... Its just like Arthur in that, he's 'dead' but will come BACK when he's needed.....

Yea? Whats up with that?

 

[Tom Cashel]

...maybe give it just a bit more rounded tang

Mmmm...rounded tang.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Just got back myself.

I'm really not sure what I thought of it. I know I didn't dislike it. Though I was another person that was not a Reloaded-basher. Like I said though, I'm really not sure exactly what I thought of the whole thing.

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I was a little disappointed at the whole Christ-story - Smith is the Devil, the Devil is in all of us (sin), Neo sacrifices himself for their sins, frees them to make their own choices, will be back when needed. I would have liked to have seen them put a little more twist on the whole thing.

I need more time to let it sink in, but I'll have more thoughts later.

 

[Starman]

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Keep in mind that, in Reloaded, he was accessing the 'code' that made up Trinity to remove the bullet 'code', then using her link to force her heart to restart. In this film, she had real re-bar through her chest. That kind of damage can't be changed. He can affect machines, he can affect code, he can even affect people plugged into the Matrix... but he's not all-powerful.

You're right. I wasn't thinking of his resurrecting Trinity in Reloaded in terms of fixing the code, but in performing a "miracle."

Overall, it was a good movie, but I was a bit let down. The brilliant part of the first movie was figuring out along with Neo the answer to "What is the Matrix?" The two sequels did not have anything like that for the audience. While I enjoyed Reloaded and Revolutions, I don't feel that they became greater than the sum of their parts as the first one did.

Although, the Wachowski brothers greatest crime is not featuring Monica Belucci in every scene.

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