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   polyanarch April 12, 2009 at 13:04

   Not a Movie, not a film. Both of the propaganda pieces that followed The Matrix were “retraction videos” -nothing more.

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   tricstmr April 12, 2009 at 16:15

   I have to agree..

   .. although I thought reloaded was doing okay–it ended well with, at least for me, the opening for a really cool existentialist quandary–namely–when neo kills the squidlies by thinking–it opened up the possibility that the “reality” that the humans thought was real.. was actually just another level of the matrix.. or some meta-matrix or something like that..

   and then.. Revolutions came–and it’s like some movie producer just said “COOL, NOW LET’S GIVE NEO SUPERPOWERS AND HE CAN BECOME LIKE SUPERMAN. YEAH.”

   annoying as fuck, I agree.

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      polyanarch April 12, 2009 at 17:12

      Re: I have to agree..

      when neo kills the squidlies by thinking–it opened up the possibility that the “reality” that the humans thought was real.. was actually just another level of the matrix.

      That didn’t fit in the reasons why they were retracting the premises put forth in the original movie. The purpose of the two retractions was to kill that individualist anti-authority bullshit -not support it.

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   jfitz April 12, 2009 at 20:35

   I agree. “Matrix Revolutions” was disappointing. It was a movie, not a film; it offered nothing new to the genre. There were no new ideas, nothing to think about, so it wasn’t science fiction. It was a lot of special effects and battle scenes and … um… nothing else worth remembering, apparently.

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