*spoiler space* :)
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about hereish enough?
In a nutshell: Feels like half a film (which of course, is what it is).
If considered in it's own right, it leaves a great deal things unanswered
and doesn't bother to introduce or explain several things. It instead relies
on the viewer having watched The Animatrix beforehand to understand them(The
kid who follows Neo around in Zion, The Final Flight of the Osiris, how the
war with the machines began). I was a little bit disappointed that they did
not show Final Flight Of the Osiris before the movie since it would have
been a perfect lead-in. Instead, most people over here would have had to
catch it on Channel5, downloaded the warez version, gone to see Dreamcatcher
or buy the DVD two weeks *AFTER* the film's release.
The special effects were good and I was most impressed to discover later on
that a large portion of the freeway sequence is live, with *real* cars being
smashed and thrown into the air, and not CGI as I had assumed it to be.
In comparison to The Matrix, the scenes in Reloaded do not gel as well
together and you're left with the feeling that it's wandering with little
direction for the first half.
Some overlong or unnecessary scenes:
The zion orgy and Neo/Trinity's lovescene. My attention was caught more by
the various plugs on their bodies than what they were up to.
Morpheus's speech : "Right, so we've got a quarter of a million killing
machines on their way down here in a day or two. But don't worry, we'll be
fine! Let's party!!!" ahem....
Fight scenes. yes yes, we know you can flip about and block people's
punches. We don't need to be shown this AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN.
The orgasm cake.
Neo's messiah like status. Oh please.
I think the Wachowskis have tried to be a little bit too clever with some of
the plot for their own good, with some of the dialogue being utterly
confusing until you pick it apart for hours later on. I'm still not entirely
sure whether some things were deliberate or just coincidence, but I'm just
going to try to intepret a few things:
1) The architect's dialogue. So this is the sixth revision of the Matrix,
and the sixth Zion. From what I understand, Matrix v1 was a perfect world,
but human minds rejected it because it was perfect, and we all want a bit of
suffering in our world. So "she" stumbled upon the reason why our minds were
rejecting it, and the Matrix was revised and reloaded. Now there's been a
bit of speculation as to who "She" is. Neo's guess of "She" being the Oracle
is scoffed at by the architect, so all things are currently pointing at
Persephone.
Now, with each Revision of the matrix, something still isn't quite right,
and anomalies exist, which leads a certain number of people waking up from
the matrix. Zion is allowed to form because the Architect is waiting for
them to eventually discover TheOne. After a period of time, eventually this
anomaly leads to the creation of TheOne, whose code embodies exactly what is
wrong with this revision of the matrix. The prophecy is planted to lure
TheOne out onto their little quest, until he is led back to the Architect
and the Source, where details of the anomaly are examined and the Matrix
corrected and Reloaded. TheOne then picks 2 dozen humans to form the next
Zion. This gets repeated as a sort of self-improvement process.
Now, the big question is, at the end of Reloaded, Neo is able to "STOP" the
sentinels bearing down on them in the real world. But is this the "real
world"? Or is the "real world" still part of the matrix? Exactly *how* is
Neo able to stop them with his puny human brain?
2) Why are the machines even bothering to drill down to Zion? Why don't they
just flood the tunnels with 250,000 sentinels instead?
3) Who is the Merovingian really?
4) If you watch The Matrix again, chapter six, Neo's interrogation by the
Agents, those monitors look just like the ones in the Architect's room.
Coincidence?
5) Did the twins survive that huge explosion? I noticed that they were in
their non-physical form at the end of it.
6) The Oracle hands Neo some candy, but we see it's a red pill and we don't
see him eat it. Morpheus tells us in The Matrix that the red pill was part
of a trace program so that they could pinpoint his location. Was the oracle
attempting to flag Neo's location for Smith?
7) The film's credits. Did they really have to be so long, and did they
really have to thank ALL THOSE PEOPLE? They should have shown the trailer
for revolutions BEFORE the credits started, so that *everyone* in the cinema
theatre would have seen it. As they stuck it on the end of some five minutes
of credits, there were only 4 of us who stuck around long enough :)
Right, I think I've spent far too long thinking about this and my brain has
choked. Feel free to pick and flame :)
cheers
Asan
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about hereish enough?
In a nutshell: Feels like half a film (which of course, is what it is).
If considered in it's own right, it leaves a great deal things unanswered
and doesn't bother to introduce or explain several things. It instead relies
on the viewer having watched The Animatrix beforehand to understand them(The
kid who follows Neo around in Zion, The Final Flight of the Osiris, how the
war with the machines began). I was a little bit disappointed that they did
not show Final Flight Of the Osiris before the movie since it would have
been a perfect lead-in. Instead, most people over here would have had to
catch it on Channel5, downloaded the warez version, gone to see Dreamcatcher
or buy the DVD two weeks *AFTER* the film's release.
The special effects were good and I was most impressed to discover later on
that a large portion of the freeway sequence is live, with *real* cars being
smashed and thrown into the air, and not CGI as I had assumed it to be.
In comparison to The Matrix, the scenes in Reloaded do not gel as well
together and you're left with the feeling that it's wandering with little
direction for the first half.
Some overlong or unnecessary scenes:
The zion orgy and Neo/Trinity's lovescene. My attention was caught more by
the various plugs on their bodies than what they were up to.
Morpheus's speech : "Right, so we've got a quarter of a million killing
machines on their way down here in a day or two. But don't worry, we'll be
fine! Let's party!!!" ahem....
Fight scenes. yes yes, we know you can flip about and block people's
punches. We don't need to be shown this AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN.
The orgasm cake.
Neo's messiah like status. Oh please.
I think the Wachowskis have tried to be a little bit too clever with some of
the plot for their own good, with some of the dialogue being utterly
confusing until you pick it apart for hours later on. I'm still not entirely
sure whether some things were deliberate or just coincidence, but I'm just
going to try to intepret a few things:
1) The architect's dialogue. So this is the sixth revision of the Matrix,
and the sixth Zion. From what I understand, Matrix v1 was a perfect world,
but human minds rejected it because it was perfect, and we all want a bit of
suffering in our world. So "she" stumbled upon the reason why our minds were
rejecting it, and the Matrix was revised and reloaded. Now there's been a
bit of speculation as to who "She" is. Neo's guess of "She" being the Oracle
is scoffed at by the architect, so all things are currently pointing at
Persephone.
Now, with each Revision of the matrix, something still isn't quite right,
and anomalies exist, which leads a certain number of people waking up from
the matrix. Zion is allowed to form because the Architect is waiting for
them to eventually discover TheOne. After a period of time, eventually this
anomaly leads to the creation of TheOne, whose code embodies exactly what is
wrong with this revision of the matrix. The prophecy is planted to lure
TheOne out onto their little quest, until he is led back to the Architect
and the Source, where details of the anomaly are examined and the Matrix
corrected and Reloaded. TheOne then picks 2 dozen humans to form the next
Zion. This gets repeated as a sort of self-improvement process.
Now, the big question is, at the end of Reloaded, Neo is able to "STOP" the
sentinels bearing down on them in the real world. But is this the "real
world"? Or is the "real world" still part of the matrix? Exactly *how* is
Neo able to stop them with his puny human brain?
2) Why are the machines even bothering to drill down to Zion? Why don't they
just flood the tunnels with 250,000 sentinels instead?
3) Who is the Merovingian really?
4) If you watch The Matrix again, chapter six, Neo's interrogation by the
Agents, those monitors look just like the ones in the Architect's room.
Coincidence?
5) Did the twins survive that huge explosion? I noticed that they were in
their non-physical form at the end of it.
6) The Oracle hands Neo some candy, but we see it's a red pill and we don't
see him eat it. Morpheus tells us in The Matrix that the red pill was part
of a trace program so that they could pinpoint his location. Was the oracle
attempting to flag Neo's location for Smith?
7) The film's credits. Did they really have to be so long, and did they
really have to thank ALL THOSE PEOPLE? They should have shown the trailer
for revolutions BEFORE the credits started, so that *everyone* in the cinema
theatre would have seen it. As they stuck it on the end of some five minutes
of credits, there were only 4 of us who stuck around long enough :)
Right, I think I've spent far too long thinking about this and my brain has
choked. Feel free to pick and flame :)
cheers
Asan