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[Mooni]

[Insomniac]

[XtRaVa]

lmao...god that sucks and rocks at the same time =]

[peter_magenheimer]

Well, I've heard MANY people insisting there will be a 4th, and even a 5th and 6th Matrix movie, and I've come to the conclusion that all of these people have seen no more than about 4 sci-fi movies (the Matrix trilogy, and maybe one Star Wars movie). I walked out of the movie arguing with a friend about the possibility of more Matrix movies, and this is basically what I said.

I hate to say it, but there will NOT be any more Matrix movies (at least major, cinematic titles). I don't think people realize that this trilogy is sci-fi, and it's a rule that every sci-fi movie, TV series, or book MUST end in a disappointing way. Some may say "Well, they have to make another movie, there's still much more explaining to do!!!!" No, they don't have to make another one. They don't have to explain anything more. That's what directors and writers do, they leave you hanging, wanting more. They leave the speculation up to you. And, personally, I'm glad they did.

[peter_magenheimer]

On the movie itself:

Was it just me, or did anyone else leave the theater thinking "Wow, that did NOT feel like a Matrix movie..."? Maybe it was because of the fact that I had to sit in the front row (the dialogue between Neo and Trin at the end did horrible things to my neck...), but something about the movie just didn't seem Matrix-y. Like it didn't fit.

Or maybe I'm just crazy.

I was a little disappointed with the lack of bullet-time. The only really amazing super-slowmotion scene in the movie was the whole "punch Agent Smith so fast that rain drops seem to stop and his face looks like Play-Doh" scene. That was art. Or something.

I was hoping that Revolutions would end in the same "Heart of the City" hotel (or whatever it was, I can't remember) room as M1 began and ended. You'd think the W brothers would have done something like that, to lend some closure to the trilogy.

But overall, not a bad movie!

[Insomniac]

[joebrent]

Hey, did anyone say how Seraph and Sati got out of the room with all the Smiths? Or didn't they, and they just came back to life when Smith got all blowed up, like the Oracle did?

Had a dream that Stuart Scott was doing play by play of M3. "And here comes Neo, got his PhD - his playa hata degree! Biggin' up against Smith, with the gi-normous punch in the rain...I ain't gonna say nothin', but that ain't right. Booyah! Gettin' his bunnies with the badooka punch! And the Oracle said ya got-ta rise up-pah!"

[Omnie]

[heatha]

It was implied, I guess, but I wasn't sure. Though the Oracle was taken over, too, and returned in her old form, as well as Sati.

Interesting that Seraph would take the child. If the name is meant to be a play on 'seraphim,' his role would have been to stay and minister to the Oracle, unless the child takes over the role as the representation of god.

I finally saw the movie, and I loved it. Theatre was half-full for the matinee show...plenty of room.

I stayed behind to watch the credits in case there were clues or something, and four or five other people were watching as intently as I was.

Really well done. I think I'll go back and see it again.

[Strongjuan]

So you're saying there isn't anything special after or during the credits ?
Glad to hear it...I really need to go to the bathroom after all that popcorn and sotfdrink

[Omnie]

[Marauder]

I see it alluded to here...but just to make it clear for those who didn't understand, the Oracle, Seraph, and Sati came back because the Matrix reset. The Oracle is an integral part of the Matrix, (so Seraph is too?), and Sati was a sky program. That is why they came back even though they all died/got taken over.

[yanka]

Hmm... I don't think Sati was a sky program: if she was, she would have had a purpose (= govern the sky); but the reason she was up for deletion and had to ask Merovingian to help her hide in the matrix is because she was born just becuase, without a purpose.

Btw, thanks to everyone for replies to my "random thoughts".

One of 1000 thoughts that I didn't include is what I think might be a reference to Alice. Remember when Rama explains to Neo that when people say the word "love", they actually mean the label=word, not the emotion (or, in general, that which the medium (=language) describes) itself? In "Through the looking glass" Alice had this conversation with Humpty-Dumpty where he told her that words do not necessarily describe the thing itself, and you can make any word mean anything you want. She then goes into this forest where things have no names, and is forced to really contemplate what the things she sees are (she can't, for instance, remember the word "tree", and even forgets her own name).

The point is, people make words, "love", for example - and after having used it for a few millenia, they tend to recognize only the attributes of the label ("love is for humans", for example) and fail to see the essence of the emotion itself, which turns out to be entirely available for "programs" (though I think I should say "for AI", as that would probably more fairly represent the Bros' stance on the subject of AI/morality). I heard "Simulacra and Simulation" was somehow about that as well (copy without an original).

[ParityBit]

[yanka]