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Matrix: Revolutions
2004-04-15, 2:44 PM #81
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The actress that played the original oracle died between reloaded and revolutions. They could have used a cardboard cut out of her, but that wouldn't have been convincing. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
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Still say they could have replaced Reeves with a 2x4 with a smiley face painted on it, and just moved it South-Park style and the acting would have been better..

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2004-04-15, 2:45 PM #82
Oh, and in the first movie when Trinity is talking to Neo in the car the first time..
Neo wants to get out, and Trinity says something to the effect of "You've been down that road before, Neo."

What did that mean/were they alluding to something else?

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2004-04-15, 2:49 PM #83
Probably meaning that he has walked away on some of the chances he has had in the past, which is why he is a loner hacker who lives by himself, has a dead end job, and sells illegal programs to druggies.

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2004-04-16, 12:09 AM #84
The fight sequences really bored me.
Why watch slow-motion CG fight scenes when you can watch Bruce Lee or Jet Li do the real thing?
Jackie Chan could have made 100 films with the Matrix budget and the 70s style kung fu films have far more impressive fight scenes.

Granted, those Hong Kong kung fu films don't usually have particularly groundbreaking storylines or award-winning actors (although there are exceptions, as with Crouching Tiger, and Flying Dagger), but neither did Matrix Revolutions; it just pretended that it did.
The original Matrix was extremely interesting with it's sociological metaphors, as it was basically a film version of Plato's Cave. Reloaded was confusing and generally acted as a link film and sparked lots of questions and controversy (like the scene at the end where Neo uses his powers everyone thought that the 'real world' was actually in the Matrix too), building up Revolutions which turned out to be a big dissapointment...
...They sort of ignored the whole thing at the end of Reloaded, added in a train (that, might I add, makes no sense at all given that The Matrix is a program.. How many times have your exe files jumped out of your monitor?) and then ended with a 'everyone lived happily ever after' ending. I think I may have missed something because that ending was such a stereotypically 'happy ending', and that doesn't seem right at all. The machines just...stopped fighting.. What will they use for power, without enslaving humans? Start using monkeys and cows as batteries?
Then the monkeys and cows would rise up against the machines..

..hmmm..
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2004-04-16, 8:47 AM #85
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by happydud:
Still say they could have replaced Reeves with a 2x4 with a smiley face painted on it, and just moved it South-Park style and the acting would have been better..

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2004-04-16, 8:04 PM #86
Yeah happydud once your done reading that article you should read the one he wrote about people stealing his work. It very well written...

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2004-04-17, 6:52 AM #87
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mort-Hog:
The fight sequences really bored me.
Why watch slow-motion CG fight scenes when you can watch Bruce Lee or Jet Li do the real thing?
Jackie Chan could have made 100 films with the Matrix budget and the 70s style kung fu films have far more impressive fight scenes.

Granted, those Hong Kong kung fu films don't usually have particularly groundbreaking storylines or award-winning actors (although there are exceptions, as with Crouching Tiger, and Flying Dagger), but neither did Matrix Revolutions; it just pretended that it did.
The original Matrix was extremely interesting with it's sociological metaphors, as it was basically a film version of Plato's Cave. Reloaded was confusing and generally acted as a link film and sparked lots of questions and controversy (like the scene at the end where Neo uses his powers everyone thought that the 'real world' was actually in the Matrix too), building up Revolutions which turned out to be a big dissapointment...
...They sort of ignored the whole thing at the end of Reloaded, added in a train (that, might I add, makes no sense at all given that The Matrix is a program.. How many times have your exe files jumped out of your monitor?) and then ended with a 'everyone lived happily ever after' ending. I think I may have missed something because that ending was such a stereotypically 'happy ending', and that doesn't seem right at all. The machines just...stopped fighting.. What will they use for power, without enslaving humans? Start using monkeys and cows as batteries?
Then the monkeys and cows would rise up against the machines..

..hmmm..
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2004-04-17, 12:54 PM #88
System Theory is still the best one out there

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