What was the worst part of the Matrix?

[Darth_Pugwash]

Just when I thought I had got over the Star Wars prequels, along comes this.

Number one was great, number two was a disapointment, number three was an insult to the first two.

 

[the mormegil]

You all say the 3rd was awful, an insult to the others. That's only 'cause you're comparing to to the first. The 1st was amazing, no doubt about it - and very original. Imagine the 3rd by itself. It's really not that bad, it just looks it compared to the 1st. Sure, it's cheesy as hell, but it passes as a half-decent Sci-Fi/Action film.

Get past your original disappointment and accept it. Go on, you can do it...

 

[thestonesfan]

You all say the 3rd was awful, an insult to the others. That's only 'cause you're comparing to to the first. The 1st was amazing, no doubt about it - and very original. Imagine the 3rd by itself. It's really not that bad, it just looks it compared to the 1st. Sure, it's cheesy as hell, but it passes as a half-decent Sci-Fi/Action film.

Get past your original disappointment and accept it. Go on, you can do it...

Oh, I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it...I did. I especially liked the Zion battle (But why didn't the machines just drop a few nukes down the hole?) Hugo Weaving was great, there was enough to like about it.

But with a movie that tries to be so epic, it's hard not to look at the flaws.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I liked the trilogy overall, but Revolutions just didnt satisfy.

The FX/Action was great, especially the kung fu. Those big robot machine gun thingies were downright dumb though. Have the Wachoski's never seen Return of the Jedi! You saw what the teddy bear things did to the robot walkers! I will never be able to take a big walking robot seriously after seeing that.

 

[thestonesfan]

I bailed before part 3, but what really did it for me was the pretentious waffle of the architect's speech. Spend some of that FX money on an effing script editor, bro!

I actually liked the architect's speech.

But, I did think the fight with the hundreds of Smith's looked way fake.

 

[the mormegil]

Oh, I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it...I did. I especially liked the Zion battle (But why didn't the machines just drop a few nukes down the hole?) Hugo Weaving was great, there was enough to like about it.

But with a movie that tries to be so epic, it's hard not to look at the flaws.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm glad you can see around the flaws though, some can't. They won't accept the fact it isn't perfect, which is sad.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

That was not aimed at me, was it? My tongue was firmly in my cheek as I posted the comments about the robots, sorry if that didnt come accross in the post.

 

[RoddyVR]

i liked the walker robot/suit machine guns. i'd like to get one of them.
i'm still amazed how they let the machines NOT be able to hack ANY security the humans had on their computers.
i think the humans should have been using like WW2 age weaponry, cause anything with a computer in it would be highly succeptible to Machine takeover as far as i'm concerned.

can anyone explain to me that whole "smith taking over a 'real' human body" thing? what kind of theory makes that work?

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Um, well the human brain is essentially a computer, so I guess Smith basically just copy/pasted himself over whoever he is taking over.

 

[thestonesfan]

can anyone explain to me that whole "smith taking over a 'real' human body" thing? what kind of theory makes that work?

The same theory that has Neo with real-life superpowers.

The only reasonable explanations (by sci-fi standards) is that a)The real world wasn't real at all, or b) The machines augment the humans they grow.

 

[the mormegil]

i liked the walker robot/suit machine guns. i'd like to get one of them.
i'm still amazed how they let the machines NOT be able to hack ANY security the humans had on their computers.
i think the humans should have been using like WW2 age weaponry, cause anything with a computer in it would be highly succeptible to Machine takeover as far as i'm concerned.

can anyone explain to me that whole "smith taking over a 'real' human body" thing? what kind of theory makes that work?

The brain is basically just a computer, so he just overided it.

How would the Machines be able to take over Human mech warriors?

 

[Alexnm]

The worst part?

Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions.

 

[RoddyVR]

The brain is basically just a computer, so he just overided it.

How would the Machines be able to take over Human mech warriors?

if its gotl a computer in it i'd think its obveous. an AI, give free reign over its own evolution would create tech MUCH faster then a human (just cause it could learn everything, while a human would forget 90% of what he learns), so they could easily figure out ways of taking over other computers. at the very least they could make a computer virus that would crash any computer and make a simple nano tech delivery system to basicaly just "rain" onto the enemy machines. any computers would either crash or turn on the humans. and there you go.

that whole "the Xion computers are incripted/password protected and the machines cant get in" thing is so bogus its almost funny. what the hell kind of encription could a human make that an intelligent computer couldnt crack. with the computing power the machines had, they could have just tried every password possible or every encription possible over time. and that's not even considering that the machines had BUILT Xion and probably all its computers (or at the very least had had free access to it all quite a few times with the previous incarnations of "the one").

 

[DvR]

if its gotl a computer in it i'd think its obveous. an AI, give free reign over its own evolution would create tech MUCH faster then a human (just cause it could learn everything, while a human would forget 90% of what he learns), so they could easily figure out ways of taking over other computers. at the very least they could make a computer virus that would crash any computer and make a simple nano tech delivery system to basicaly just "rain" onto the enemy machines. any computers would either crash or turn on the humans. and there you go.

that whole "the Xion computers are incripted/password protected and the machines cant get in" thing is so bogus its almost funny. what the hell kind of encription could a human make that an intelligent computer couldnt crack. with the computing power the machines had, they could have just tried every password possible or every encription possible over time. and that's not even considering that the machines had BUILT Xion and probably all its computers (or at the very least had had free access to it all quite a few times with the previous incarnations of "the one").

But then, why should the machines be in connection with Zions computers? I reckon Zion has some stand alones

 

[Turner]

I was just fine with the trilogy, until the cop-out ending in Revolutions. As eye candy it was great! But the ending to me was very much 'let's get this over with.'

I'm still undecided on The Matrix Online.

I've seen two of the animatrix's, and they were great! The Kid and Last Flight of the Osiris. Need to see the others.

 

[cgannon64]

Pokemon Imitation-Fu: That ****ty part at the end of the third when they make giant explosions of energy balls, just like Mew vs. Mewtwo in that Pokemon movie. Yes I saw that. Back off.

 

[the mormegil]

You're right it was!

 

[thestonesfan]

WTH is a mewtwo?

 

[cgannon64]

Someone else who say Pokemon: The First Vengence of Money-Grubbing Japanese Corporate Whores!

Gimme five!

 

[cgannon64]

WTH is a mewtwo?

Its the second version of Mew.

And Mew is a cat. That can shoot balls of electronic, er, thought, er, energyl