One hell of a movie.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

The first Matrix movie is one of the best movies ever made, regardless of what you all think!

Who cares if it twists facts with the battery analogy? There is no rule that movies have to be completely factual, or even that a story that attempts to be coherent has to totally rely on "physically possible" explanations.

The Matrix is awesome because it's one of those movies with so much symbolism and subtext you can pull out of it. I could honestly write a fourteen thousand page book on all the crap in the Matrix, from religious symbolism to a sort of deconstruction of biology to the blurred distinction between the bad and the good.

Here's just some shit:
Jesus is obviously a Messiah-figure, yet his "paradise" is a fucked up world were machines run everything and there is constant strife. Heaven and hell seem to have become reversed. The Messiah is saving people from the PLEASURABLE place.

The whole distinction between man and machine? Broken down completely. The humans have fucking sockets in their body. The "heroic" actions are only digitized representations. Thus, the "superhero" Neo who can fly and kick ass and break the laws of physics is not a "human", but a type of non-human in a machine.

Cypher is arguably the good guy. He realizes the Matrix is an infinitely better place than the "real" world. And this coincides with the viewer's attitude. The viewer doesn't want to watch the impotent humans on their ship in "reality", but wants to see them kicking ass in the virtual world, which is so much better. And then the viewer himself is immersed in a "virtual world" of the movie, having his moment of escapism from his own real world. Cypher's the fucking artist here, the good guy, saying we need to get away from all this shit, that an "is" doesn't imply an "ought".

Okay, I'm done. But honestly, the movie fucking rules because you can pull such awesome crap out of it like that.

i just watched the original again. hadn't seen it since i watched the disasters/sequels. luckily, the original is still as good as ever. it just blows my mind how they could get the first so right and the last two so wrong. i'm guessing it was for commercialization. "hey, what say we forget about that whole 'destroying the matrix' thing of the first film and keep it around! we'll have matrix videogames, matrix cartoons, matrix lunchboxes, matrix adult toys. w00t!"

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If anyone wants to photoshop in some captions:

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

[IMG]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/ivytheplant/matrixtemplate2ad.png[/IMG]

XD

That one's great Ivy!

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

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I never understood why people rag on the Matrix so much. it's like, for some reason, everyone expected Matrix 2 and 3 to be Lawrence of Arabia or something....some kind of massive cinematic masterpiece to go down in history.

Dude...it's got weird, cyber-philosophy and action sequences. That's basically what it was engineered for. And that's how 2 and 3 succeed, really.

My only gripe is that the Wachowski brothers were retarded for making such a lame ending to 3 in deciding to NOT EXPLAIN ANYTHING. I knew from the get-go that neither side would win..it was obvious in the first movie. But they left about 500 unanswered issues that NEEDED RESOLVING. A little vagueness is cool, but a whole ton of it is just messy writing that smacks of them painting themselves into a corner and not know what the hell to do.

imagine you thought the original Matrix was awesome. not a good movie, or okay, or a cool action flick, but awesome. one of your favorite movies you'd seen. now imagine everything that was brought up, all the questions to be answered, the intent to destroy the Matrix, to free all of mankind from enslavement, all promised in the first movie, were completely ignored in the 2nd and 3rd.

a good analogy would be this: imagine after Vader tells Luke he's his father in Empire Strikes Back, the topic is never brought up again, either in the 2nd or 3rd movie. it's just completely ignored and the movie goes on as if it never happened. that's what it was like to watch the Matrix sequels for people that loved the original.

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THE MATRIX was a great sci-fi movie, and the sequels were a lot of fun as well. Duh.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

you're totally off my movie reviewer speed call list

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The Matrix flat-out has more brains than most action films before or since.

By packing Aristotilian philosophies into what would be a big-budget Hong Kong action flick, they created something a bit grander (which is what they were sort of aiming for).

I thought the sequels were excellent : they were compelling, innovative and very deep.

it's a shame most people don't see it that way.

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you're totally off my movie reviewer speed call list

No, I'm not.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

you're totally off my movie reviewer speed call list

No, I'm not.

there

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JESUS CHRISTMAS IN SHINY WRAPPING PAPER, THE MATRIX SUCKED INFINITE DONKEY BALLS

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who wrote that shit

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who wrote that shit

yes, boorite, you are The One

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to suxxor my c0ck omg dissburn

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Just to clear something up, Superman doesnt fly because he is magic. He is an alien from another planet. He was born with many powers, and when in sunlight, his powers grow stronger. Basically, his body is a plant. Not to say he isn't one of the strongest beings in the DC Universe at night, of course. Im just going off what some fuckhead wrote to spice up the series, however.

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"No obscene images." I guess I'll just have to settle for saying cocksucker a lot.

Yeah, but plants don't fly!

Like I said, magic.

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He's also a solar battery and can store energy for a short bit of time. So if he was in the dustbowl of the 1930's, he'd be plumb outta luck after a while.

Solar batteries can't fly, although I threw one at a Starbuck's once, just to see how it would sound. It sounded OK.

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They can if you put wings on them. And a motor. And a control module. Yup, flying solar batteries. Tis a newfangled idear, but I bet I can get the public to support me. Especially if I put in rows of seating and immaculately coiffed ladies who will served drinks.

[IMG]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/ivytheplant/flyingbattery.jpg[/IMG]

that was their general cya scientific explanation.

nudge, nudge, wink, wink

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