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11/11/2003: "Everything that has a beginning has a video game"

Just got back from seeing The Matrix Revolutions, and I didn't think it was bad at all. Critics have been calling it rather mediocre, especially when compared with the first Matrix movie. But this one pretty much made up for all of the bad dialog and metaphysical mumbo-jumbo that bogged down the second one. Yeah, the bad dialog continued, but at least it was limited to a few characters and conversations in order to squeeze in more fight scenes and lotsa bad guys getting shot at.

But I have some plot nitpicking to get off my chest because hey, I can. So if you plan to see the movie and don't want to be spoiled, don't go to the entry's archive page by clicking here.

When the evil machine Sentinels (aside to co-workers: maybe it's no coincidence they're called that) started to invade Zion and the humans opened fire, I had to chuckle when my friend said: "Hey, it's Galaga." (Aside to DB: The link to KLOV is a shoutout to you.)

Current mood: Wired
Current music: Intermix | Process

NICKPICKING BELOW. DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU DON'T WANT THE PLOT SPOILED.

  • It is unlikely that the machines would have agreed to let humans leave the Matrix and live freely if they chose under the terms of the truce. According to the storyline, humanity was enslaved because human biology provided machines with energy -- and life. Letting humans disconnect from the Matrix would be suicide for the machines.

  • If the sky was clear and the sun bright above the clouds above the machine city, why hadn’t the machines turned to solar power by that point? Why wouldn’t the machines climb above the clouds?

  • If Agent Smith now had the power to infect humans, why did he stop with only one? He could have wiped out humanity himself.

    I know. It's just a movie.

     

     
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    Heh. That's my logo from 2000 at the top of the page.

    Posted by ~ @ 11/15/2003 01:56 PM EST

     

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