Matrix Revolutions (no spoilers here)

[X Q mano]

Well...

Saw it yesterday... Can't see what all the people complain about, I really liked it...

[dwndrgn]

I saw the first one and enjoyed it, for the most part. I suppose I'm just too boring to have really enjoyed it to the extent that some have. I've yet to see the next two but I suspect I'll see them at some point either by renting them or just waiting until they come on TV.

As a casual observer, can I ask why they are so widely acclaimed? I mean the special fx were very entertaining, the idea behind the plot was unusual, and like many good stories there were definitely twists. But, I don't see that this move (The Matrix) was so spectacular in itself. Any fans want to disabuse me of my notions?

[Incognito]

The MAtrix as a concept started of interesting enough, simply because it was different. It challenged our perceptions, and made us think, which was a far cry from the empty macho crap often dished out by the studios - "special effects movies" I think is the polite word for the term. The Matrix and Matrix Reloaded challenged some aspect of our boundaries, as all good sf/f does.

Unfortunately, Matrix Revolutions is just one big boring fireworks display. Maybe watching them all together one day I'll enjoy it - but last night, at the cinema, it was simply tiresome. I can't personally recommend the film. I'll air my complaints elsewhere, with spiolers, so that others can challenge my "damp squib"ness.

[jackokent]

Sorry to revive old threads but in England we're having a Matrix run with the final one showing as I type.

My view:

Matrix 1 - good idea - Ok film
Matrix 2 reloaded - Pants
Matrix 3 revolutions - more pants

[Paige Turner]

Glad to see that there are no spoilers here, as the movie was sufficiently spoiled when it was released.

[kaneda]

Yer the 2nd 2 aren't that great in comparison to the first, but they're still good films. Especially when you start looking to the philosophy involved in it, and all the ideas they're trying to put in it, and the stunts and the action and the fact that Keanu looks lush in all of them (). The problem with the last two though, is that you do have to concentrate you do have to pay attention. Most of my mates get lost with the Oracles speech and the (can't rememeber his name, the creators name) speech (even though to be fair most of that is just over blown filler!). If you get lost with the Oracle then the rest of the film will not make sense.

With the 3rd film... well the problem I have with that is the Oracle - RUBBISH!

[Denie Alconn]

Matrix was real nice, left me wanting more.
Reloded was kinda crap, made me wonder why I ever bothered.
Revolution was better than Reloded but way not as good as Matrix 1.

All in all the concept isn`t too bad, very "Asien".

[steve12553]

Matrix by itself left you with a bit of mystery. By itself it was original. It had fresh special effects and the concepts where pretty good if you didn't look to close. But enough is enough.

[alicebandassassin]

yep watch them over last three night never been able to get it but having seen them in order and having see first one now i get it horray but the first one was deffinatly nessasery to watch first. I like that one best too .The second was ok but screamed of being a filler with no begining or end and the third left you feeling that they were not willing to comit to an end but still wroth seeing

[I, Brian]

Thought Matrix was great - seconded was pretty good - third just bored me.

[RonPrice]

MATRIX

The film The Matrix was released in Australia the very week I taught my last classes as a full-time professional teacher, April 8th 1999.I saw it soon afterwards. I had been teaching in classrooms for thirty years. I won't summarize the details of the plot and all the characters. But some of the theme is as follows: a fundamental discovery is made about the world that it doesn't exist. It's actually a form of Virtual Reality designed to lull people into lives of blind obedience to the system. People obediently go to their jobs every day without knowing that Matrix is the wool that has been pulled over their eyes. The reality of life is that people are slaves. The rebels want to crack the framework that holds this Matrix in place thus freeing humankind. Some believe a messianic One will lead a social uprising; this messianic One will possess both mind power and physical strength. I got this summary from Roger Ebert and I know from my reading there are many ways of sumarizing this film -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 4 November 2006 with thanks to Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, March 31st 1999.

Here is my own "poetic reaction" to the film:

The world has been in a great sleep
from which it is slowly waking
thanks to that messianic One
and the uprising has begun
silently, unobtrusively, for
the revolution is global and
out of man's control--it is also
spiritual--having begun within
the Shaykhi school of the Ithna-
Ashariyyih sect of Shiah Islam.
But don't tell anyone--it's the
best kept secret-non-secret in
the world and it is slowly rising
from the obscurity in which it
has been shrouded for 160 years.

Ron Price
4 November 2006

[Sabina]

This is philosophical question... Unfortunatly for my pride, I'm about four years out of touch with most philosophical concepts. Oh well, I think I can still answer this conundrum sensibly enough with my own biased thoughts ... I would probably leave. Afer it all, I would have, or gain, the comfortable knowledge that I could still live in a dream-world if I so chose by e.g writing, or simply sleeping. I've always wanted to do whatever is open to me ...