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Found a funny review on Yahoo that mentions this site, a good review that reflects how we feel I think.
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All Explained Here
by alexrivera03
There are a bunch of geeks at a Web site called matrix-explained who have been debating for MONTHS what the outcome of the trilogy would be and how all the questions would be answered. I just checked out that site and BOY are they FUMING. The administrator "knnknn" is ready to shoot himself, I think. I feel REALLY bad. It's like if your birthday is coming up and everyone keeps going around whispering so you suspect a surprise party. Well, when your birthday comes, not only does it turn out there is no party, but the whispering was about a trip to Hawaii that everyone else was taking but they did not want you to know about it. You will feel let down and betrayed by this movie. If you're like 90% of the sheep out there and you liked the computer animation and the pseudo-philosophical name-dropping (but never cared to piece together what they were talking about), you might like it. If you like to draw conclusions that make sense and are not content to say 1) "the W. brothers intentionally left questions unanswered" or 2) "It's all about the Bible man, you just have to figure it out" (but have not actually done so yourself), then you will hate it. The people writing reviews calling others stupid are the ones whose minds are appeased by having a little mystery-bone thrown at them to gnaw on (i.e. the real stupid ones). The ones complaining that the movies did not make sense are those brave enough to call the W. brothers what they are: hacks. That is, "hacks" in the writing sense not the computer sense. Had they been computer hacks/hackers (or even cab drivers who also go by that nickname) maybe they would have been able to form a cohesive storyline with a punch. They think that by dropping names like "Merovingian" (a supposed bloodline related to Jesus), by referring to Zion (a Jewish homeland, or perhaps a reference to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"), or by throwing in license plates like DA203 in the 2nd movie (which refers to Daniel 2:03 in the Bible) they can create this profound religous/scientific statement. Well, they could have if they had tied up the loose ends in a meaningful way: maybe something to do with the ethical and theological ramifications of artificial intelligence. Anyway, they dropped the ball. Bottome line, the W. brothers got approval for the first Matrix and made a great movie. So great in fact that Warner brothers asked them to do 2 more (which are actually one movie, chronologically and climactically un-seperated, then just split into two, but anyway). So they got millions more to spend but had to expound on a cool, mysterious pseudo-realm called the Matrix that was never meant to be expounded upon, lest the holes become evident. Visuals were excellent, of course. Everything else sucked, especially Keanu's acting as you might imagine (how did he ever get a job after Bill & Ted? Only he could be the star in a blockbuster like Speed and act so horribly that he inadvertantly turned Sandra Bullock into a star and household name). So before some numb-nuts says, "ALEXRIVERA03, you're wrong about the nebulous end to this movie," or, "you just can't figure it out," or whatever, ponder this: we go to a movie to have a good time, be enlightened, see hot chicks in screen, hot effects, whatever, right? Some movies leave questions unanswered that make us think (like the Exorcist or Sixth Sense). In the case of these movies, we're content to walk out of the theatre not knowing everything since the subject matter can't really be addressed in the physical realm. In other words, they have to do with demons or ghosts so the movie can't give us a real tangible answer but we're cool with that. Some movies leave questions unanswered but then answer them. Like Empire Strikes Back when we had to sweat it out for years to find out what happened to Han Solo. Reloaded left a ton of EXTREMELY cool questions unanswered that were not even addressed in Revolutions. That's just bad movie making. This is a fictional reality that we movie-goers know nothing about so we expect to have our questiosn answered. It's not like Sixth Sense or Exorcist where we can go read books about ghosts and demons to draw our own conclusions. This is an idea, a place that the W. brothers made up and had a responsibility to explain but did not. All they had to do was say, "When that 1% of humans reject the Matrix (as per the anomoly spoken of in Reloaded), they awake NOT into the real world, but they wake up in a second level of unconsciousness called Zion. They think it's the real world, but it's a computer counter-measure to trap rogue consciousness. Neo is a program--the sixth of his kind (again, referred to in Reloaded) who is seen as a savior in Zion, but is actually a program created by the machines that helps them weed out and herd the rogue consciousnesses into Zion, then Neo leads them there so they can destroy it." This final movie could have been about how this 6th incarnation of Neo finds out the truth about what he really is, then enlightens the Zionians (Zionites?), helps them break out of this NEWLY REALIZED level of captivity into REAL reality. Here, they're all lying around sleeping in grassy meadows naked and the only machine controlling them is a small laptop. And everyone lives happily ever after. Wouldn't that have been cool? Where's my million? It would've still left questions in our mind about the origins of counsciousness, and our quest to be God and create consciousness ourselves, but it would have addressed the baloney contrivances it had created in the 2nd movie and left us with a feeling of "Wow". You know what it was like. Every horror movie in the 80s ended in the same way: After the killer/beast/whatever is killed, the protagonist is going home and SHOCKINGLY, the beast we presumed dead pops out of nowhere. End story. Did you ever see one of those movies and say, "wow. Now THAT was profound." No! You probably said, "wow, that f-n sucked. I just wasted 2 hours of my finite life. I want my finite monetery funds back." Well, Matrix 3 f-n sucked, it wasted about 7 hours of my life between the 3 movies and I want my money back!
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