Will Smith's I, Robot... looking back, was it great or what?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, April 7, 2025 14:47
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Quote:And in real life, beer makes The Matrix make sense... temporarily at any rate.
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
a bottle of beer in the Matrix is an icon for a program that simulates drunkenness
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by LeopardFlan:
Like, the pill is given WITHIN THE MATRIX PROGRAM, so it can't possibly work on the actual body!
Its not a pill - its an icon for a trace program, probably using a security loophole in the Matrix code that makes coppertops react to what they eat. Neo "runs" the program by swallowing it. In the same way, a bottle of beer in the Matrix is an icon for a program that simulates drunkenness and a cheesecake can contain a virus which... well... you know.
Aha. Now that makes a kinda sense!
Still think the Matrix's plot is unsensibly illogical, though... or possibly I'm just thinking too much of the sequels (
), haven't seen the original in a while...
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I liked it. Good flick.
The T.Rex they call JANE!
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Well, I was first in line for The Matrix (and I loved the sequels, dammit!) at Grauman's Chinese, which is also where I saw I, Robot.
I won't say the one is better than the other, because they're different stories altogether (I'd compare it to Minority Report, though), but I was thoroughly impressed with Proyas' film!
I know many people refused to even see it because it wasn't the book, but you really couldn't have translated that to film as written, anyway.
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Quote:I totally didn't see the robotic arm thing coming; I'm so gullible sometimes while watching a flick the first time.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I liked it. Good flick.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:So, not so much a fan of the laws of thermodynamics I take it?
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Well, I was first in line for The Matrix (and I loved the sequels, dammit!)
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:So, not so much a fan of the laws of thermodynamics I take it?
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Actually, I am. Is that the only aspect you were paying attention to?
I was able to find a few other levels on which to appreciate those films.
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Quote:Just bein' nit-picky science nerd with ya; the first one still has great stuff in it for me.
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
I was able to find a few other levels on which to appreciate those films.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
I was able to find a few other levels on which to appreciate those films.
Of course, The Matrix was deeply awesome film. If only:
(a) they'd found some other bit of technobabble as an excuse for the human farms, and
(b) "Revolutions" had continued in the direction suggested at the end of "Reloaded", with the "real world" and Zion turning out to be just another part of the Matrix - rather than giving Neo superpowers that worked in the real world because of (mumble mumble blah).
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In the first flick, the mission statement was to destroy the Matrix. The post 9-11 sequels tried to take a more live-N'-let-live tone, and that felt like a cheat to me. Other's mileage obviously varied.
The laughing Chrisisall
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