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<blockquote data-quote="theburningman" data-source="post: 1213934" data-attributes="member: 1006">I still don't know if I liked this movie or not.&nbsp; Since it is taking me so long to make up my mind, I'm thinking it's probably going to wind up being 'not'.It just didn't satisfy me.&nbsp; I'm usually the one telling my wife that I liked a movie that she didn't like because &quot;a perfect, happy ending&quot; just wouldn't be good enough, but I have this nagging feeling of being let down and disappointed by this movie.&nbsp; And I liked Reloaded.It irritates me because, like many others, I feel like there are a lot of points (especially from Reloaded) left unaddressed and dangling.&nbsp; Just see any of the above dissatisfied reviews.&nbsp; And no matter how many of the rationalizations I read among the posts above, the feelings of irritation and dissatisfaction don't fade.And no matter what anyone says, it's not enough that this movie had amazing action sequences (I, too, was awed by the battle for Zion, until I began thinking about how easy it seemed to be to kill squidies now, and the flying effects in the Neo/Smith final battle were very cool, but the whole fight just seemed to lack the emotion and urgency that its parallel in the first movie had) and that it was entertaining.&nbsp; I did find it entertaining while I was watching it, but the reason everyone kept talking about The Matrix long after the neatness of the special effects wore off was because of the literary, religious, and philosophical allusions that peppered the first one and added depth to it.&nbsp; Not because it was just 'entertaining'.It makes me sad that I feel like this movie took some of the most brilliantly realized (if not exactly original) concepts that have ever appeared on the screen, and just left me wishing that I had never seen anything besides the original Matrix.(I'm not worried about Return of the King, since I already know the ending, but please, God, I'm begging that Episode III will be a better payoff than this.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="theburningman, post: 1213934, member: 1006"] I still don't know if I liked this movie or not. Since it is taking me so long to make up my mind, I'm thinking it's probably going to wind up being 'not'. It just didn't satisfy me. I'm usually the one telling my wife that I liked a movie that she didn't like because "a perfect, happy ending" just wouldn't be good enough, but I have this nagging feeling of being let down and disappointed by this movie. And I liked [I]Reloaded[/I]. It irritates me because, like many others, I feel like there are a lot of points (especially from [I]Reloaded[/I]) left unaddressed and dangling. Just see any of the above dissatisfied reviews. And no matter how many of the rationalizations I read among the posts above, the feelings of irritation and dissatisfaction don't fade. And no matter what anyone says, it's not enough that this movie had amazing action sequences (I, too, was awed by the battle for Zion, until I began thinking about how easy it seemed to be to kill squidies now, and the flying effects in the Neo/Smith final battle were very cool, but the whole fight just seemed to lack the emotion and urgency that its parallel in the first movie had) and that it was entertaining. I did find it entertaining while I was watching it, but the reason [I]everyone[/I] kept talking about [I]The Matrix [/I] long after the neatness of the special effects wore off was because of the literary, religious, and philosophical allusions that peppered the first one and added depth to it. Not because it was just 'entertaining'. It makes me sad that I feel like this movie took some of the most brilliantly realized (if not exactly original) concepts that have ever appeared on the screen, and just left me wishing that I had never seen anything besides the original [I]Matrix[/I]. (I'm not worried about [I]Return of the King[/I], since I already know the ending, but please, God, I'm begging that Episode III will be a better payoff than this.) [/QUOTE]

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