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'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today
shelleymonster writes "The Matrix Revolutions was released worldwide at 9 AM EST today. With a running time of 2 hr. 9 min., I'm expecting the /. reviews to start pouring in around 11:30. Since critics are saying things like, "Matrix finale could put you back in a coma," and, "The final episode is a slam-bang, dreary mess," I'm curious to hear some real fans' reactions." Many readers have pointed to the BBC's review; they were not amused. Were you? Update: 11/05 17:17 GMT by T : Read on for one reader's (spoiler-free) first impression.
wickedweasel writes "Just came from one of the first showings of Matrix: Revolutions (Germany, don't know why, but it started 2:30 pm here) and came by to drop some comments (no spoilers). To cut it short: not even close to the first one, and honestly spoken way worse than the second one (which wasn't _that_ bad). The ones looking for cool action will hardly find any, neither will the ones who came for the story (like me) be satisfied. Only a few good scenes in and around Zion, some quite big plot holes and unfinished threads and, most important, an unsatisfying end, to say the least. I guess I'll be flamed for my opinion by the die-hard-fans, but hear this: I once considered myself one too until I saw this."
The Ending REVEALED! "The Speak The Truth Scriptment" --REAL MAJOR MAJOR NO SHIT PLOT SPOILERS-- The Matrix Revolutions Part 1 of 3 Movie opens with the green code, Warner Bros. and the logo, The Matrix Revolutions. The code dissapears and we see a flash as the movie picks up exactly where the last one did, with Bane and Neo on the tables, knocked out. Trinity is slowly whispering to Neo to wake up, then talks to the nurse. The nurse explains that it seems that Neo is jacked into the Matrix. Trinity questions how this is possible and relays the message to Morpheus. Morpheus gives her the news that Niobe's ship has crashed and she is stranded with Ghost. Morpheus says that shes got important information in regards to Neo. Trinity says to hurry up and go. They fly the Hammer into a crater and find the crashed Logos. Morpheus and his crew go into the ship to discover that the power is out. With a bit of repairs, the ship will work again. During this time, Bane awakens, but notices that he is another room and not in Neo's place. Also during this time, Niobei explains to Trinity that the Oracle has loads of information as to the whereabouts of Neo and how to save him, and that only Trin can save him. Link finishes the repairs on the ship by giving some of the Hammer's power to it and it is ready to set out. Morpheus and Trinity ask for the Logos so that they can go into broadcast depth, as well as they explain that there is a survivor on the Hammer which needed to be taken to Zion (they dont know Bane is on the Logos). Niobe and Ghost take the Hammer and head back to Zion while Morph, Link, Trin, and the unconscious Neo head into broadcast depth. Trinity looks at Neo, pleading for him to awaken and we get a nice fade into Mobil Ave. Neo sees three power-lines in the desert of the real inside of his head. Neo awakens in Mobil Ave with a headache. He checks his body for injuries (including his belly-button), and gets up and sees a little girl there. She smiles at him, and he tells her to wait. He looks around and sees that he is in some sort of abandoned subway station. He reads "Mobil Ave." on the walls. The little girl (the child) walks up to him and says "welcome to limbo. I am Sati". Neo asks her what happened, where Trinity is, where he is, etc. Sati says that he is in a place between the Matrix and the Machine World. Neo gets up, confused, and tries to walk away, with Sati following. She says that the body cannot live without the mind, but the mind can live without the body, and not to worry because help is coming. A subway train whizzes by... stops... then keeps going. Neo notices the "LOOP" at the front and back of the Train. Meanwhile, Trinity and Morpheus arrive at the Oracle's apartment, and are greeted by Seraph. He explains that they must defeat him in battle before meeting with the Oracle, but suddenly Smith bursts through the door. Three Smith Clones comes in, and Morpheus and Trin try to battle it out with them, but are beat. Seraph steps in and beats the Smiths and kicks them through the door. Trinity and Morpheus wonder how Seraph could possibly be so powerful, and he simply says "You dont believe in angels?" Seraph takes Trinity and Morpheus to see the Oracle. The Oracle welcomes them, and Trin wastes no time in asking about Neo. The Oracle says he is being held captive by the Merovingian, and that he is in a place between the Matrix and the machine world. Morpheus asks about her appearance, and she explains that she was given up the Merovingian by two programs which hatched a child within the Matrix which is vital to the future. She says she had to change appearance to escape the Merovingian. The Oracle tells them that Neo needs their help and that the only way to break him out is to go see the Merovingian, who controls the time within the Matrix, in Club Hell. Trinity and Morpheus are set to go, but Seraph decides to go with them to help out. We see a couple of scenes with Smith taking over people within the Matrix, laughing more and more and becoming more and more human. Back In Mobil Ave, Neo de
Niobe is the mother of the matrix and Trinity is really a man.
Yes, it's true. Pieces of the ship sticking through her guts. Right near the end. Bummer.
And the architect gets pissed . . . Neo kills all of the Smiths by letting smith take him over, then self-destructing. This happens after he makes a pact with the machines to take out smith if there is peace between humans and machines. So in the end, lots of people die but the war is over.
The only thing Ewoks could save is their own furry little ass-pussies.
Oh, I'd soooo like to stick my cock into one of those tight furry little
holes then strangle it to death when I cum. Yeah!
Even if it's male. Wouldn't matter. As long as it's Ewok, baby!
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Ever notice how movie sequels tend to be worse than the the previous version, while in theory software sequels are supposed to be an improvement?
No offence, and I could get modded down -1 troll, but really... you need to get out more.
Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
they make impulsive decisions but don't know why. they are slaves to the ideas they use to justify their impulsive decisions -after- they've made them.
Ahh, so the trilogy is a methodical dismantling of the Democratic party's platform. It all makes sense, now.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
The lone gunmen.
Oops, gee sorry, I guess I should have "SPOILER" in big letters or something, right?
Yeah, I'm still bitter about the editor that put that up on the front page of slashdot
TDz.
the 13th floor was much more well done than existenz, but still lacked commercial success due in large part to the inaccessibility of its execution of nested realities.
it's worth noting that both existenz and 13th floor were much more straightforward than the matrix and less densely packed with metaphors. they seemed to be merely a cursory exploration of the subject for the purpose of telling that particular story, rather than a piece on the philosophy of reality itself.
that aside, if you build up a story around certain characters, revealing at the end that they weren't 'real' robs the entire sequence of cinematic weight for most people. This is very similar to the 'it was all just a dream sequence' movies, which are similarly, uniformly reviled. Excepting the case where it is established early on that the movie is about people exploring the reality of the dream sequence, such as Flatliners.
All three movies (13th floor, existenz, the matrix) establish early on that they take place primarily in a virtual world for a reason. Cinematically you must establish that what matters in the alternate world -matters-. there is a -real- person at the end of the line being affected by what happens in the fake reality.
you can't lie to your audience and change the rules halfway through. The audience will naturally try to sympathize with the characters that are most like themselves in the story. If you reveal your main characters are just dreams or simulations of -actual- real people at the very end - the audience will feel cheated that they cared about pointless conflicts and characters.
13th floor and existenz are robbed of rewatchability for most because the whole movie is a gotcha. the ending implies that everything that happens was pointless, as the most human characters, the ones the audience will relate to, are not affected whatsoever by the previous sequences. They have their own tangential motives and are wholly removed from what just happened.
the 'real' characters aren't the ones struggling and exploring reality. So there's no point in watching it again, beyond study, because nothing that happens matters to the 'real' characters.
Note how audiences didn't care when normal people were killed by the dozens in the original Matrix? Simulated people aren't seen as 'real', and receive no broad audience emotional attachment.
Philosophically that's an incorrect analysis, but it is still the emotional reaction of the mass audience at this point in human history.
(Any form of life capable of higher order thought and memory experiences its reality as being just as 'real' as you or I experience our own reality. thusly they should be considered just as 'real' as you or I.)
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
penile dysfunction!!!!
SUSPENSE??? In the first one???
Which one is he going to take, the red pill or the blue pill???
Is he going to pass the test??? I'm not sure! I've never seen a movie before!
Is he actually going to be "The One"??? Gee, lemme think...
Is he actually dead, or will he come back with the aid of a girl yelling at him??? (bet you never saw that one before *cough* Abyss *cough*)
After the first half hour of very promising filmmaking, the first matrix turned into a completely obvious, philosophically simplistic pile of crap. Amazingly, the second one went down hill from there... big surprise that the third is worse.
I mean, where do you get off even *thinking* that there was actual suspense in the first matrix? Did you really not know what was going to happen?
I am sorry if this seems like flaming (and sorry 'bout all those ? marks), but really, I just don't get how people see the first Matrix and see good filmmaking. If Trinity had turned out to be "The One," that at least would have been interesting... but instead is was the same ol' shlep, pretending to be sci-fi.
I LUVd THIs thing caled a movey. IS godness intacked. Hello dave and the like!! Matrix is fun! See it sirahs!! I love u btw!! Byebye! Tere needs more seks altohhh. !GET?? :) bye
PS Wat is asciis??
Thats just stupid talk.
If smith does this everytime, why did the machines let Neo jack in just so Smith could kill him (when they clearly could)?
We already heard that the previous ones were reintegrated into the matrix, and Zion was rebuilt from a selection of One-choosen survivors.
I'll not waste anymore more time debunking a halfassed theory about a halfassed movie.
Excellent post. I just saw this a few hours ago.
What really gets me, and others, is that all the concrete rules and exposition in 1 and 2 simply are tossed out the window. Revolutions seems to be a sequel of a movie never made. Reloaded did setup a lot of questions regarding determinism and how real Zion was. All this was brushed aside on what was a good action movie with some very hack work connecting action scenes.
I believe we will sooner or later find out this was a big editing disaster. First off, Persephone was already described as being a 'big character' in the Revolutions, yet had two lines. The architect describes her as the 'emotional' mother of the Matrix and Revolutions is full of people expressing their love to one another. I think it becomes obvious that a significant part of this movie was supposed to be an exploration into the emotional lives of programs and people, but was cut or never produced.
The stuff they kept was the bare minimum to end this trilogy. Big robot fight in Zion. Big Neo vs Smith fight. Some kind of peace/stalement and a hint that this is just another iteration of the Matrix with the 'I think we'll see him again' line from the Oracle.
The great setup about determinism/causality was dropped. The great potential of Persephone was dropped. Some kind of solution to the main man vs. machine problem never took place (this may be intentional - the humans were played for chumps to release programs or the matrix will reboot again so it doesnt matter). etc.
Expect the rumor mill to be full of stories regarding control and creative differences in the making of this movie because it doesn't quite fit the mold and really looks hacked together to make the release date.