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Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:44:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler wrote:
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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.
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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 on a short screw in drywall.
I can enjoy the Matrii (excepting that horrible speech) as long as I very
carefully leave my suspension of disbelief outside the door: 1: humans make
lousy batteries. 2: conservation of energy dictates that you can’t get more
energy out than you put in.
James
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Well actually you get the same amount of energy out that you put in, just in a differnt form. In this case the heat (which is considered wasted energy that "disappears" into the void, for most things) is actually the desired form of energy. So (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Spot on. And then there's the reason the war started- the humans essentially blotted out the sun to cut off the machines from their solar power. Were they fundamentally unaware that they were cutting off the *only* source of food for humans? (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) **snip** (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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