Why I can't love The Matrix

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I saw your post Phil. Mine is better.

[[Phill]]

Hahahaha [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Not better, just less lazy [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Im pretty sure the French work i meant is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

ty very interesting read

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The Matrix is a fun, unpretentiously pulpy, little sci-fi movie that plays with the question "how do you know your reality is real and not a dream?" To stage that question as a reality you are asked to buy a simple premise. Like most such devices, the backstory of that premise may not be terribly convincing. But that's price you pay for the ride. If the ride's good, then the price is fair. The Matrix is definitely worth the price, IMO.

The other two are a bunch of pretentious claptrap, IMO.

Don't be a nit. It's okay if you don't like the movie.

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Why should we accept a backstory not making sense (in context, of course)? I seriously think that people's standards are far too low in this respect. If having medium-high standards makes me a nit, so be it.

I did like the matrix... I just didn't 'love' it for the reasons outlined in the OP.

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in terms of hollywood screenplays and movies the Matrix is far superior to the majority of sci fi/fantasy films to come out in years. Its easily one of the Top films of the past couple of decades. The brothers spent years writing the original script and then in order to cash in a huge check wrote the two sequels in about a year and 1/2...which is a huge reason they suck.

I'd still take a matrix sequel over half the crap that hollywood generates right now.

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If the sun is blocked out by the use of nuclear weapons, how do they make food for people.

tanning beds ftw.

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But where does all the energy to run tanning beds come from, wouldnt the robots just use that energy source for themselves?

using tanning beds to make food for humans to eat so the robots can leach the energy from them seems like an inefficient circle jerk.

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and all life isn't generated by the sun.

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But where does all the energy to run tanning beds come from, wouldnt the robots just use that energy source for themselves?

using tanning beds to make food for humans to eat so the robots can leach the energy from them seems like an inefficient circle jerk.

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dude, I dunno. If anyone has a problem with the matrix it should be Keanua Reeves, and nothing else.

[doubLe a tom]

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and all life isn't generated by the sun.

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99.99% is, and anything that includes anything that could be considered a reasonable food source.

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But where does all the energy to run tanning beds come from, wouldnt the robots just use that energy source for themselves?

using tanning beds to make food for humans to eat so the robots can leach the energy from them seems like an inefficient circle jerk.

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maybe the robots in the Matrix arn't super effeciant robots.
Go write a screenplay with super effeciant robots who don't need artifical means to create chemical goop to feed humans intravaneously. I'm sure your script will be as entertaining if nor more so than The Matrix.