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In-Depth Look At Matrix Previews

Posted by Hemos on from the can't-wait-to-salivate dept.

QuietKarma writes "Consider this the first of next year's ads for Matrixx Reloaded and Matrixx Revolutions releases. Here's some semi-official poop from MSNBC with some spoilers. Or you can do what I did and read about halfway through without learning how Reloaded will end. Either that or wait until Harry at Ain't It Cool News comes out with his list of spoilers."

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  1. But can Keanu Reeve's be more than dumbfounded? by MyNameIsFred · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I always thought that the Matrix was perfect for Keanu Reeve's. For 90 percent of the movie, he had to stand around and act dumbfounded. Something he does quite well. In my opinion, the last ten minutes of the movie, where he "understands" his place in the Matrix, was where he did his worst acting.

    Since in the sequels he'll be required to act more than dumbfounded, I'm not confident that he will be able to pull it off. Maybe that's why they're releasing bang-bang, one right after the other.

    BTW, I have the same thoughts about casting in the Terminator, Arnold didn't have to act either. A perfect role.

  2. Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "It's morally ambiguous. Their better off hooked into that machine that scavenging for scraps at some fucked up(more-so) version of Barter Town. What's better: A false heaven or a very believable hell?"

    As a matter of principle and desire for truth, I have no trouble saying hell. At least then I am in charge of my own destiny. Hooked up to a machine, it could malfunction, they could forget to feed me, and oh yeah, choosing that existence would make me really extremely the posterboy for pathetic. But of course, opinions are like...

  3. Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. by anonymous+loser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually the thing that struck me was the whole conservation of energy thing. A human isn't a battery, it's a GENERATOR. You have to feed and water all those humans who then convert that energy into electricity, and that food doesn't come for free either. Somewhere, somehow, the machines are getting energy from an external source (e.g. the sun, geothermal heating) to supplement the energy they already have. They are then using that energy to generate food (even if that food is other humans), which they give to the humans who generate the electricity.

    What's the point? Why not make a more efficient mechanical generator to convert directly to electricity instead? By spreading the whole process out over several steps they are just wasting more energy than they really need to.

  4. Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. by handorf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But of course, all of this is the exact reason why The Matrix is so popular,

    I have to disagree with this. The only question I had coming out of the first movie was "Why in the HELL wouldn't they use compost? Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest).

    I think that the popularity of the movie had 2 primary reasons:
    1) Leather Catsuit
    2) Guns.

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