let's see if this message goes through, my last one didn't...

That's because Reloaded was still living off of the good reputation of the first movie and left a lot of questions, being the first half of the full movie and all. Besides, Revolutions answered all the questions, so what was there to talk about? The best part of Reloaded was Colonel Sanders... And Trinity's 5 story tall ass in IMAX theaters (I'm not being sexist, my girlfriend agrees).

There was no Colonel Sanders moment in Revolutions. It was just a straight action movie with philsophical pretentions. "Let's throw in some philosophers saying things that really have little to do with the plot, and make a few of the actors say philsophical things that have nothing to do with the plot."

I read an early script of the Matrix and it wasn't as good. Just a few scenes changed subtly and those made it a great movie. I wish whoever told the Wachowski Bros to change those scenes in the Marix told them to change some scenes in the sequals as well.

And I don't know what The Architect is talking about, it's obvious that the 2nd half of the unbalanced equation was Smith.

By the way, all you Alais fans, the woman that plays the blonde british woman, Vaughn's wife, was in Dark City. Ah Melissa George.

I look at it this way... The Matrix was a great science fiction movie, I'd be willing to call it a masterpiece. The sequals were designed to create a franchise. They live in the world created by the first movie without having any deeper message, and can create spinoffs - cartoons, comic books, video games, where the first movie couldn't really do that.

btw. Rob, what's the new link for the FAQ, I need to change it on my site.

Mark
www.markzilla.com/ar
www.marktwa.com

From David Litchman <Davel23--rcn.com> on 12 Dec 2003:

> Isn't it interesting how when Matrix: Reloaded first came out this list
> was
> full of speculations over what might be going on with that story, and
> now
> that the final (and quite disappointing) chapter has been released no
> one
> has anything to say. I'm not really surprised, Matrix: Revolutions
> pretty
> much just totally dropped any of the interesting things the previous two
>
> films brought up about the nature of reality and turned the finale into
> just another action flick.
>
>
>
>
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