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Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:44:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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Gee, where have I heard all of this before...?
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**snip**
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“You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s
emulators all the way down.”
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Very nice! My problem with the whole Matrix thang isn’t Keanu (though he’s
awful in absolutely everything he does), and I don’t even really mind that the
writers cobbled their little is-it-real pastiche out of a hundred other
sources. What really bothers me is that the films take themselves so
over-the-top seriously, and too many fans seem to think that real, sophisticated
philosophy is being dispensed. No one here seems to have fallen into that
particular trap, but I know about a dozen people who think that the Matrix is
the first film to really tell it like it is.
Weird. Even Trekkies don’t get into Star Trek quite that much, I think...
Dave!
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| (...) Oh, I've met Trekkies. The movie 'Trekkies' is pretty much dead on. The imfamous SNL skit with Shatner--pretty much to a tee. "Get a life! Have you ever kissed a girl? Thought not..." Beyond that, I liked Matix and MR, and will see (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Uh... Yeah Trekkies do get into Star Trek that much. I have been told all sorts of scientific "facts" by Trekkies. Such as; heat is not a form of kinetic energy, mass has nothing to do with momentum, NASA wishes they could harness the power of (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) My problem with the Matrix is that they put (obviously) a lot of work into little easter eggs like that essay expounds on, and have done an generally quite credible job of hanging their mythology carefully - and then they hung the whole thing (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| Gee, where have I heard all of this before...? A well-known philosopher once gave a public lecture on The Matrix. He described how The Matrix had existed many times before, how Zion was inextricably linked to the goals of the creators of The Matrix, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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