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{Spoilers $$$} Oh my GOD! I just saw Matrix: Reloaded!!!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] So I saw it. That was the most plot-heavy action movie I've ever seen, which is a [i]very[/i] good thing. Even though there are $$$ in the thread title, maybe spoiler space is in order... S P O I L E R S R U S Okay. We get all sorts of good exposition about the Matrix and the machines/programs. Some reviewers are saying they don't get all of the Architect's speech. Let me see if I've got it straight. Those who have seen the movie can confirm or dispute. *** So the machines essentially won the war the first time. They capture everyone and plug them into the power grid, and the Architect writes the first Matrix program. However, things go wrong because the humans see through the too-perfect reality. So they scrap the first Matrix and build another based on human history. This one fails, too. The Oracle is written to analyze human behavior and figure out why. She figures that humans need free will, so another Matrix is written. This time, they let the humans have the subconscious ability to detect the Matrix. A minority figures it out, and try to escape. The Agents are designed to scare most of these back in line, so they don't spread the freedom meme. However, as a result of the free-will clause, there is an anomaly that eventually manifests itself as the One. The Oracle propheces to insure that this will happen, because when the One returns to the Source, the program is recompiled or something and starts over. At the same time, the machines destroy Zion. After Zion is destroyed and the Matrix resets itself, the whole thing starts over. A few humans escape, rebuild Zion, and so on, the One comes, returns to the Source, five times. The sixth time, however, Neo chose to save Trinity rather than humanity at large. This is the first time the One has done so. The machines, having gone through this before, are confident they can destroy Zion. Without the One, they will have to scrap the Matrix and kill all the humans in it, but they can survive. *** Thoughts and questions... 1.) This has happened five times before. Apparently, Zion was destroyed every time, and rebuilt to the same elaborate splendor. Was Morpheus off in his date estimate from the first [i]Matrix[/i]? He said they weren't sure what year it was... it seems to me that rather than 2199, it might be closer to 2999 or even 3999. Furthermore, how many Matrices did it take before the whole One thing came up? It could literally be [i]millennia[/i] in the future... 2.) The Architect said that Neo could choose the founders of the next Zion. Do they get false memories, or do they just wake up in a cave and start building? 3.) This is an obvious question that will be answered in [i]Revolutions[/i], but what exactly did Neo do to the sentinels? I'm guessing the other guy that survived did the same thing... Christ/Antichrist set-up. 4.) Sweet merciful crap, Neo's saving of both Morpheus/keymaker and Trinity was the most bad-ass special-effects work I've ever seen! 5.) Jason, I see what you meant about the Burly Brawl effects. It seems that for the first stage of the fight, it is Reeves versus Weaving-mapped doubles with digital Weavings in background, and after he picks up the pole, we go to full CGI until the end of the fight. Sound about right? I guess that'll do for now. Boy, I'd hate to see this movie having never seen the first one... I'd even hate to have seen it having not watched the first DVD the night before! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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