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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bond, James Bond: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: I was equally suprised that the issue of thousands (if not millions) of humans were still used as batteries by the machines at the end. __________________________________________________ Sorry if this has already been answered but, at the end the Architect and the Oracle act almost as if they have just ended a long chess match and since she won she sets the terms. She said all humans who choose to leave can. No mention is made of how they are informed of this. Do they just sit there until contacted by people from Zion? Are they going to blow the Matrix cover story? If so, why bother with the simulation? Zion seems unable to sustain large quantities of refugees given it's limited space and survival on the surface is impossible so I don't see how they could free more then a few people at a time until something can be done about the atmosphere. But then you've got the same pesky machine problem. Plus, a lot of people probably would choose to remain in the Matrix instead of face the harsh reality. __________________________________________________ So at the end I'm left with some big questions: 1.) Are all the humans used as batteries connected to the Matrix? If so, were they all turned into Agent Smiths untill Neo does his thing? __________________________________________________ Yes and yes. Remember the scene of all the Smith's detonating in streams of light as it spread out throughout the city? And the weird behavior of the scrolling code displaying the Matrix? Smith took over everyone in the Matrix. __________________________________________________ 2.) assuming all human batteries are in the matrix, does that mean they die in parts I-II when killed by trinity and co? __________________________________________________ At first I thought they did, which kind of ticked me off at Morpheus and company for their calous treatment of innocent civilians (at the end of Reloaded Neo kills about 10,000 people in the cars he flung in the air in his wake). I based this on Morpheus's statement that if you die in the Matrix, you die in the real world because the mind just shuts down. But I bet that only applies to people outside the machine's control. The Machines have total medical functional control the bodies of the people still under their control, so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible just to restart them in a new "avatar" inside the Matrix. They get a new life, hence the bright light when you die, and whalla, reincarnation. __________________________________________________ If they're all humans, how did the Upgrade Agents take over them in the chase scene in Reloaded? __________________________________________________ They're just avatars, digital recreations of the people in the pods, so an Agent could just hack into them like their software. __________________________________________________ 3.) What was up with the Council? From the Councilor's talk with Neo, I expected some majo revelation about them and the human/ machine relationship. __________________________________________________ That really disappointed me. I was expecting some sort of revelation discovered by Neo that the humans actually couldn't destroy the machines because they needed them to survive and so they would have to form a more equal symbiotic relationship. But no dice. Many of the big questions posed at the end of Reloaded just went unanswered or were given unsatisfactory answers. Why could Neo stop the Sentinels outside the Matrix? I'm expecting the answer to be something profound like Zion and the "real world" is all just another layer in the Matrix. What do we get? A half-assed explanation that the One's powers extend into both the real world and the Matrix. What the Hell? So, magic is possible? Why not just make it frickin' Lord of the Rings then? Neo the Grey uses his powers of sorcery. Weak. And when exactly did the Merovingian have a chance to catch Neo in between the real world and the Matrix? Yet Morpheus and Trinity got out fine, even though they were all togather. Lame. Half-assed again. Trainman, the Train Station to nowhere, the chics playing "Tune in Tokyo", and the showdown with the Merovingian and his legion of S&M henchman (I kept wanting to say "Bring out the Gimp) were contrived and pointless to the overall story. And Persephone's role is reduced to one line and monstrous cleavage (not that I'm complaining). Trinity's death was unnescessary and completely pointless. She's the Tasha Yar of the Matrix. The fight between Neo and Smith was dumb and lasted way too long. They barely even did any of the cool martial arts we have come to expect. They basically just punched eachother in the air, in water, in buildings, underground. The one, and I mean the one, redeeming factor was the battle for Zion. Niobe is a friggin' badass, and I usually can't stand Jada Pinkett Smith (she gets a tad hyper and annoying around her husband). The piloting of the Hammer was one of my favorite parts even though it was very reminiscent of "Final Flight of the Osiris". The guy who played Bane had Smith's mannerisms and inflections down to a science. Good job on his part. I wonder why Neo didn't use any of his nifty real world powers to fight him though? Plus, he actually learned martial arts in his mind, he has the memory of it, why didn't he use it to fight Bane? He's like the Karate Kid, he forgets all the skills in every movie and Mr. Miagi has to teach him new stuff each time. Captain Mifune is a friggin' badass. The APU Corps was awesome. They even gave Annoying Kid and Link's wife major roles in the battle. Locke wasn't killed which makes us aggravated, very aggravated. ;) I'll be kind and give the movie a "B" because I'm in a good mood and I'm grading on a curve with Matrix and Reloaded which were both far superior. As a trilogy it's great, as a stand alone movie, Revolutions was really disappointing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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