The Matrix Trilogy

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  • sickbizzle
    sickbizzle Members Posts: 1,184 ✭✭
    edited February 2010
    the Matrix movies were nothing but overblown, overhyped garbage. the characters all looked like ? with all the sunglasses and black vinyl clothes and ? like what i picture a ? club looks like or one of these teenage white kids emo parties.

    especially parts 2 and 3 were cheezy as hell with all the new pointless characters. it was like some deep symbolic ? at every turn for people too dumb to actually think about it. 'there is no spoon' really ? ? FOH too many terrible lines of dialog to even count. and on top of that the action tended to fail, alot of the kung-fu was too fake, obvious wire stunts like constantly, ? just looked dumb half the time.
  • ItzGravitation
    ItzGravitation Members Posts: 7,205
    edited February 2010
    sickbizzle wrote: »
    i didn't like these movies, can someone break it down what the appeal is here? the characters all looked like ? with all the sunglasses and black vinyl clothes and ? like what i picture a ? club looks like or one of these teenage white kids emo parties.

    the first one was alright i guess, although vastly overrated. but part 2 and 3 were cheezy as hell, it was like some deep symbolic ? at every turn for people too dumb to actually think about it. 'there is no spoon' really ? ? FOH too many terrible lines of dialog to even count. and on top of that the action tended to fail, alot of the kung-fu was too fake, obvious wire stunts like constantly, ? just looked dumb half the time.

    the appeal???
    it went hard plain and simple
    it had a good story but it was hard to understand
    the fight scenes were awesomeHow was the first one overated?
  • sickbizzle
    sickbizzle Members Posts: 1,184 ✭✭
    edited February 2010
    i edited my post because i don't really care, but thanks anyway. the first one had a good story but it was overrated because all the flaws were overlooked in favor of the special effects. the acting and costumes were lame and the fights were not all that, like i said they were too obviously fake with all the wire work.

    i liked the original story but then it just started trying too hard to be some deeper ? . now you got all these nerds breaking it down like it represants jesus and ? and all that, do you really think they were thinking that deep into the script? hell naw, alot of it don't even make any sense or they just didn't even bother to explain. there are serious plot holes too, i've seen websites that broke that ? down and ripped these movies like how stupid it is to use humans as an energy source and ? , if you really dig into it you'll find the entire premise is stupid as hell.
  • bless the child
    bless the child Members Posts: 5,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
    the matrix is real...
  • dirk calloway
    dirk calloway Members Posts: 19
    edited February 2010
    a.mann wrote: »
    Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at aghettotymz.com:

    'The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner.... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.'

    Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, 'The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix.'

    Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. 'This is all about the Benjamins,' said Stewart. 'It's not about money with me. It's about justice.'

    Stewart's future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to ? . 'I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why ? put them here. There's more to life than money,' said Stewart. 'My whole to the world is about ? and good and about choice, about spirituality over 'technocracy'.'

    If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the 'technocracy' represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators.

    Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally publicize her victory. June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart's press release read: 'The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman...a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is...nothing is impossible for them to achieve!'

    Greg Thomas, Editor

    this is FALSE

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp
  • Swiffness!
    Swiffness! Members Posts: 10,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2010
    man the first film was PERFECT. not good, PERFECT.

    I was so hype to see where they'd take it from there....2nd and 3rd flicks ? wasted all that potential. Coulda been the next Star Wars Trilogy, became the next Prequel Trilogy instead SMH

    oh and the whole "they use us as batteries" thing was always stupid as hell, it'd be more energy efficient to use people as firewood instead of feeding them and keeping them alive. in the original script the machines enslaved humanity so they could use their brains as computer RAM in a huge neural net. that makes alot more sense, but they thought it would be too confusing so they changed it.
  • Swiffness!
    Swiffness! Members Posts: 10,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2010
    why were the agents so powerful?

    The same reason Mods can ban posters and delete threads
    why was Neo the only one able to beat them?

    Same reason Admins can ban Mods and move/delete subforums

    And Smith was a Virus. The #1 thing that makes a Virus a Virus, be it a computer worm or ? , is the fact that its SELF-REPLICATING. It can make copies of its self over and over again. Neo connected to the Matrix in the Machine City. Neo let Smith "convert" him after the fight so that the Machines could have a direct connection to Smith again and delete him entirely. Then they basically did a "System Restore" on The Matrix.

    The Wachowskis did a ? job of explaining all that in the films. That's why you didn't understand it.
  • Swiffness!
    Swiffness! Members Posts: 10,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2010
    a.mann wrote: »
    Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case


    This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!!

    A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow presiding.


    Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood , as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.

    Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, 'The Third Eye,' copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works..

    According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that 'credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.' These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been 'often used during preparation of the motion pictures.' The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success.

    Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story.

    MYTH.

    Stewart's case was dismissed in June 2005 when she failed to show up for a preliminary hearing of her case. In a 53-page ruling, Judge Margaret Morrow of the Central District Court of California dismissed the suit, saying Stewart and her attorneys had not entered any evidence to bolster its key claims or demonstrated any striking similarity between her work and the accused directors' films. As of this writing, Stewart's case is no longer before the courts.

    A less than accurate newspaper article about Stewart and her case caused many to believe the woman claiming authorship had won her copyright infringement suit and was about to receive a multi-billion dollar settlement. This 28 October 2004 article, penned by a second-year communications student for the Salt Lake Community College Globe, erred in mistaking Stewart's 4 October 2004 successful counter to a dismissal motion for her having prevailed in her suit. The article asserted Stewart "will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels" and would "soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood." What Stewart had won was the right to proceed with her case, but nothing more.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp
  • Swiffness!
    Swiffness! Members Posts: 10,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2010
    Oh and if you never saw the Animatrix, u need to peep The Matrix's origin story "The Second Renaissance". ? is crazy dope cuz its not like Terminator where the Machines just attack us out of the blue. Mankind actually brings the War upon itself and u feel sorry for the Machines.
  • ItzGravitation
    ItzGravitation Members Posts: 7,205
    edited March 2010
    the Animatrix was cool
    kinda tied some of the loose ends but the movie still confusing as fucc
  • NAWLEDGE_REIGNS
    NAWLEDGE_REIGNS Members Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2010
    The Animatrix >>> The Matrix Trilogy...SMH At The Japanese Doing A Better Job With The Mythos Than The Actual Live Action Films...