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Re: Matrix Reloaded explained...
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Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:53:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Brown wrote:
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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.
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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 it is technically scientifically sound. Now that said, I will agree
that there are far better ways of turning “food” into heat and the whole thing
is still really silly in that regard.
-Mike Petrucelli
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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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