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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 1211270" data-attributes="member: 9990">Ok, gotta comment on this finally after seeing it last night.  Chase scene:[spoiler] I thought it was great that the Trainman got away, and made more of an interesting quandry of 'what do we do now'.  The figured something out naturally, and I liked how Merv and his peeps are all decked out like they should be - the Devil in his lair, hell, as he was striking deals with all sorts of people from the indian guy to Morph & Trin.  Everyone comes to him eventually...[/spoiler]The Oracle:[spoiler] I think she doesn't really have a 'soul' per se, but probably just sits and runs probability of things occuring in a certain manner based on actions and reactions of everything she sees, which is a lot.  It's safe to say she influences things to an outcome she wants, and probably cooks up ways to manipulate people and outcomes.  After all, this whole thing has happened 6 times before, right?  [/spoiler]Zion:  Cool.[spoiler] The graphics were cool, eventhough some of the timing was perhaps a little off for my tastes.  I was wondering why the 'spiders' didn't use some different stratagies for attacking, but I loved it for the shear amount of action anyway.[/spoiler]War:  what's it good for?[spoiler] I wonder how the war originally got started in the first place, and why the machines bother with the pesky humans when they have enough of a problem with some cancerous programs seeking to doom the system.  And why should Neo save the machine's network for them?  Perhaps in a few hours the machines would have been shut down or taken over by Smith, and if Zion could have held out longer they wouldn't have to worry about being attacked until Smith took total control, which he seemed close to doing.  Would Smith have just shut the matrix and all of the machines down, leaving the humans to die?[/spoiler]Matrix logic: why plug humans into the Matrix to begin with?[spoiler]  I also was wondering why the machines didn't cook up a program or two to deal with Smith, to affect him when they were assimilated just like Neo did.  As Smith controls all of the 'human' minds in one neat bundle, start trying to re-write his code to make him more docile, or put him in a sub-Matrix that keeps the human 'batteries' under wraps.  Then I got back to the original conclusion - if the humans are only used for heat and electricity production, why do the machines ever plug them all in a Matrix?  Why bother when you could keep them floating in the baggies doing the same thing?  Put some restraints on them at birth and forget about entertaining them.  They would lose any advantage to learn and ability to communicate, rendering a pack of free humans pretty close to neanderthals.  But thankfully I am not a machine, as that doesn't make for a great set of movies.  [/spoiler]Overall, I gotta give the trilogy a 10/10 simply for having very cool ideas and running with them, as well as mucking with your mind.  The action scenes are the best out there for this day and age, and with a story that began by making you second-guess what reality is, how can you go wrong?  The religious, greek mythology, and other references were well thought out and depicted and I couldn't have been more pleased with the direction of the films.</blockquote>

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