Matrix Revolutions

some people just can't handle the fact they got beat down by some smartass robots. i think if it was me, and i think i know me tho i can't be sure, i would like to live my life as much on the 'outside' and as close to the truth as possible. it was only Matrix v1.0 which was supposedly the real deal utopia where nothing fucked up but apparently we puny fleshlings just can't deal with that.

The Matrix is better in all ways possible:
1) Super kung fu skills for no apparent reason
2) Flying!
3) Everyone wears either leather, rubber, or crazy goth Maoist costumes all the time (contrast this with the horrifying dumpsterhippie chic sported by everyone in Zion)
4) Choices of food besides plain oatmeal
5) Sunlight
6) Distinct lack of people who wander around talking like drunk third year philosophy majors.

I would commit suicide if I was stuck in Zion.

xpost: Tracer Hand, computer flowers. DON'T. NEED. WATER!!!

Well, that and the whole "being a slave to robots who are sucking your life force" thing but I think I wouldn't mind that soooo much. If I had to choose between listening to Morpheus, who is clearly completely fucked in his head, and being a robot battery, I think I'd choose robot battery to be honest. Morpheus just sounds like my crazy ex boyfriend and it wasn't amusing when he talked like that either :/

xpost stevem that idea rules!!!!!!!!!

"damn you rock'em and sock'em robots, can't we just get along?!"

same reasons humans do - as the narrator says in The Second Renaissance 'man made machine in his image'

the little girl was the new Oracle i thought - but the old Oracle came back when the Architect/Machine God did an undo on all SMith's meddling anyway.

But you're staring at me
Like I need to be saved
In your Jesus Christ pose
Arms held out
In your Jesus Christ pose
Thorns and shroud
Like it's the coming of the Lord
And I swear to you
That I would never feed you pain

But your staring at me
Like I'm driving the nails
In your Jesus Christ pose
And you stare at me
In your Jesus Christ pose
Arms held out like it's
The coming of the Lord

And would it pay you more to walk on water
Then to wear a crown of thorns
It wouldn't pain me more to bury you rich
Then to bury you poor
In your Jesus Christ pose

I kind of think the ends of both of these short "found art videos" were better than the ending of Matrix Revolutions though :/

The final battle in the skies is like Superman II (1980), only nowhere near as fun.

- The Smiths did take out Seraph and Sati; the Smith who confronted The Oracle in her apartment was the Smithized Sati, much like the Smith who confronted Neo was the Smithized Oracle.

- The robots intentionally grimmed up the atmosphere to make life inimical to the free humans. This was mentioned in the first movie, IIRC.

- The rules defining the Matrix are different now; anyone who wants to leave and go to Zion can do so; the people in the Matrix are being given the choice. Likewise, the programs with "no purpose" which would normally have been deleted, like Sati, are now free to exist within the Matrix.

- The end of the Neo/Smith fight: Neo lets himself get absorbed by the Smiths. Neo is jacked into the Matrix via the Source of the robot city. As soon as he gets absorbed, the robot city sends a gigantic fuck-off power surge through his body. NeoSmith blows up. However, NeoSmith is also insanely fuckoff powerful and takes all of the Smiths with him (most likely due to the "opposites attract"/"balance the equation" thing, with an allusion to the symmetry of Neo creates/Smith destroys shown back in the first movie). All of the programs infected by Smith are freed, presumably along with all of the people.

Why was the Oracle lying in the pit at the end of the Smith explosion? Becasue the Smith infection had been driven from her.

woah i hadn't even noticed this and i watched chunks of it last night (divx download)!

Also, is it particularly important what the machines were going to do with Neo's body at the end?

potentially yes

I thought it was the other way around - the human scientists caused the permanent could to destroy the solar energy of the computers.

I can't remember enough, but I think the only recognizable things we see after the Smithplosion are programs - it's not entirely clear that there are any humans left ("there are levels of survival that we are comfortable with").

I'm basically bitter about the whole thing because I feel complicit - I did a lot of cheerleading of the "it's only half a movie" sort after Reloaded, and in fact I got bad bad warmovie instead.

it seems that only programs can be retrieved after Smithery and not humans in the Matrix.