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"The Matrix: Revolutions"

Well, it's out and I shall be buying it. "Why?!?" I hear you cry ... well, partly because I have the first two and I like closure and partly because I have the missus' nephews and nieces staying with us most weekends and holidays and a certain amount of my DVD purchases have them in mind.

The nephews (who are both 10) love The Matrix and Reloaded so they'll no doubt want to watch it, much the missus' annoyance.

The subtleties like the way they made Agent Smith turn into a ponce for the sequel?

Or how about how they made it even more glaringly obvious that Keanu Reeves can't act for Toffee, or the way they have the lead male characters walk around in some kind leather dress thing that's supposed to look cool?

Muuuuh, really hated Reloaded, not sure if I'll be bothered with Revolutions. It wasn't that it was an awful film, but compared to the first film it really wasn't very good.

That's the great thing about the trilogy.

The subtleties that you pick up on through multiple viewings.

Did anyone notice in the matrix revolutions that the train that the train man escapes from Seraph, Morpheus and Trinity on. Where it says the destination it just says "LOOP" and in the train station Neo runs out one way and loops round to the other way and just comes back to where he started. Ok that really is insignificant but I thought it was neat.

When I watched it for the second time I already understood everything there was to know about what was going on as I also watched Reloaded about 4 times as well. So i knew that Neo intentionally let Oracle Smith copy the smith program onto him, so that the main machine hardrive could overide the smith file and destroy it now that it had a direct link to it through Neo who was plugged in to machines mainframe (obviously Smith never knew the difference).
I know that when Smith thought Neo was dead he was trying to interpret something he saw through the oracle's thoughts, but was scared when it wasn't completely true at all.
I realised the joke that the Frenchman made about "well you fought through Hell to get here" after trinity, Sereph, and Morpheus went through the area with the anit gravity guys, and the button on the elevator before that said "HELL" on it.
I think that it was a good way to end the trilogy.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Dakarus Joe wrote:
> Hmm I have one question Neo is One Trinity is resembling the 3 but
> what the feck is Morpheuses (sp?) name all about?
>
> Morpheus - Greek God of Dreams. Has a knack for mimicing humans in
> dreams. Neo took the pill, therefore I thought Morpheus was going to
> be a machine. Nope. Nothing as clever.

But Morpheus has a purpose created by the machines. He is integral to the cycle of the Matrix. Like Neo, he may even have a program assigned to him. On the surface he appears to be saving people from the Matrix yet, without knowing it, he is helping the machines.

Dakarus Joe wrote:
> Spoiler
>
> I just watched it again as well and what was that light crap that
> killed the smiths? Forgive I have understood everything the Directors
> had to throw at me apart from this.

Neo let Smith copy himself onto him, and the machines used Neo as a link to Smith's program to destroy Smith. We can only assume that the explosion of light came from the obliteration of Smith.

"out of darkness comes light"

I saw it for the first time today, and, as much as I loved the original, The Animatrix, and have grown to "accept" Reloaded, I just found this one to be a big, steaming, dissapointing heap of crap, basicaly.

We all knew what was eventually gonna happen anyway, so, why did they have to build it all up in such an over-the-top manner?

What's with that final fight against Smith?
We already knew Neo could do his "Superman-thang", but, neither he or Smith were wearing their pants on the outside.

Why couldn't they have just kept it on the ground?


There's an awful lot that really dissapointed me in this third-and-final installement... When the first film came about, I really thought these Wachowski guys had a great eye for vision and unique ideas... But now, after seeing the final two parts to `The Trilogy´, I have to say that, quite simply, I feel they pretty much sold out, in the end. :P

They just went too-far to make this any part of the "Best Films Ever" I really feel this Triolgy could've been.

IHis name may have a connection to the faith he has for Neo who knows?

Dakarus Joe wrote:
> Hmm I have one question Neo is One Trinity is resembling the 3 but
> what the feck is Morpheuses (sp?) name all about?

Morpheus - Greek God of Dreams. Has a knack for mimicing humans in dreams. Neo took the pill, therefore I thought Morpheus was going to be a machine. Nope. Nothing as clever.

Spoiler

I just watched it again as well and what was that light crap that killed the smiths? Forgive I have understood everything the Directors had to throw at me apart from this.