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Matrix Revolutions Spoiler Party, take 2! | by Buffy_Fett | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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My thoughts (repost from just before rollover) | by Buffy_Fett | 2003-11-06 00:12:45 |
| Like you, I was slightly disappointed. |
by ragman |
2003-11-06 06:15:40 |
It seemed like they were trying to find the quickest and cheesiest way out of the complex web of story lines they had thrown together in the first two movies.
Here are some random thoughts...
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1. They didn't handle the new Oracle very well. I know that the wonderful actor who played her in the first two movies died, but it sounded fakey to have her explain it away as having to take a new shell/form as the result of a choice...but then to not show us what that choice was. At the least, they could have added some suspense to the revelation that she was different. Anything but offering a few off-handed comments about her changing.
2. They shortchanged the entire concept that Zion might actually be part of the Matrix by saying that Neo, as the One, has "powers" that react to their source, even in the real world. There IS a good battery analogy that I think they were trying to make...kind of a polar plus and minus type of thing, but I thought they took a quick, let's-get-this-over approach to that whole issue. All along, they never offered us anything to believe that magic would work in the real world. I thought it was lame of them to expect us to believe it here, especially when the Architect's explanation from Reloaded suggested that the Zion world might actually BE another part of the Matrix. That was the more plausible explanation.
3. They spent waaay too much time showing the defense of Zion. There were characters that they introduced by the boatload in Reloaded, but it took a lot from the main story lines to spend so much time with the battle. And in the end, some of our main characters, Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity, don't spend much time on the screen or have much pivotal action time. I liked Jada Pinkett Smith's character and the annoying kid in Zion, and love story with Link and his gal, but I didn't think they were suitable substitutes for the original group of actors. The story line had them as bit characters, but they're given most of the screen to run with.
4. I would have liked to have seen the battles between Smith (and other Matrix baddies) and Neo evolve into using more of their abilities to break the Matrix's rules. The fist fighting gets old when you know that Neo/Smith could walk through walls, change stuff as they go, etc. I liked the two ghosts in Reloaded and thought that Neo/Smith might have been able to fight in ways similar to them, as well. BTW, what happened to the ghosts? How could they have died in Reloaded when they were already dead?
5. The Architect told the Oracle at the end that anyone who wanted to leave the Matrix would be able to, without any interference from the machines. They made it sound like an uneasy truce...the machines would acknowledge losing a small percentage of their battery power in exchange for the end of open hostilities between the Zion people and the Matrix. I could see that working as an ending point for the trilogy, but it sounded to me like they were holding out for another sequel.
6. I also thought that Neo's end was Arthurian. I half-expected to see Perceval throwing Excalibur back to the Lady of the Lake.
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With all that said, I still enjoyed the movie. It's not that it was a BAD show...just that I had much higher hopes from the team that gave us the first two.
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Remarks on several of your points | by skeptic | 2003-11-06 06:54:38 |
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