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The Matrix Revolutions *SPOILERS*

POSTED BY: SpaceAngler
UPDATED: Thursday, November 20, 2003 05:02
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Friday, November 14, 2003 8:07 PM

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Originally posted by TragicStory:
Neo wasn't seeing code: It was his inner vision. His "third eye." Yet another Hindu and Budhist concept(Blind man who truly sees crap) which the directors shoved in the movie.



And did you notice how, in "inner view," the Deus Ex Machina looked like a mandala?

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Friday, November 14, 2003 8:12 PM

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SOUTHERNMERC - Ummm...pole and battery pack? Sorry, but lightning isn't something that can easily be harnessed.


you've obviously never seen a flex capacitor.
"Back to the future" shows some great lightning harnessing.


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Inara: Who's winning?
Simon: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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Friday, November 14, 2003 9:59 PM

What really irritated me about this movie was the fact that story, plot and explanation was sacrified for religious symbolism and Eastern philosophy, which was not what the original fans had signed up for.

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"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

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Friday, November 14, 2003 10:58 PM

Your irritation is understandable, but the Eastern philosophy was there from the beginning. Granted, it was hiding in the cracks between all the bullet-time, but it was present. My big beef was they didn't have any other supporting people in the matrix like Switch or Apoc, two supporting characters that I really, really liked. The Big Three (Morph, Trin, and Neo) didn't seem to need any other help, and no one seemed to volunteer to give them a hand either. You'd think being the One would make you popular enough to warrant that.

Btw, did anyone else notice that One and Neo are anagrams?

Jayne: "How big a room?"

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Friday, November 14, 2003 11:00 PM

Maniac, my God why didn't I see that? YOU'RE SO RIGHT!!

Heh, gonna have to dig out that trilogy and give it a look see again.

Jayne: "How big a room?"

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Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:47 AM

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Originally posted by TragicStory:
A. a hover craft is not designed to go that high, at least from what I have seen. However, it would not be that hard to design something that could.



If y'all watch the Animatrix, considered cannon, you will see in the "Second Renaissance" episode that the aircraft used to scorch the sky use hover pads very similar to the ones on the Neb, Logos and other hovercraft, suggesting that the hover pads are capable of flight at such altitudes, but doing so simply isn't practical when the machines control the surface.

Oh, my God! Who's flying this thing? Oh, right, that would be me...

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JK
Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:33 AM

And what do you have to go on to support your idea that it's Neo's "inner vision" and not code?

JK

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Sunday, November 16, 2003 7:39 AM

Simple, they ripped it off Dune:Messiah, thats why its inner vision, not code.

Note: I'm well aware it was likely taken from somewhere else before Dune.

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Monday, November 17, 2003 3:30 PM

Speakin' of anagrams, the name of the train station (Mobil) is an anagram for Limbo.

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Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:02 AM

TragicStory:
Thank you, this is 100% what I was telling people after M2 came out:
Zion was a 2nd Matrix for those that rejected the Matrix and we hadn't seen the real world yet. I mean I had a 'holy-crap-revelation" moment watching M2 when he nuked the squiddies, it all came clear. But then M3 tells me I'm wrong.
I think there was a rewrite too...
I like our ending better anyway... it would have been much cooler and it's pretty much what the architect was saying anyway.

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Dr. M

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