I boycotted the second cause I didn't like the first, and I'm really not gonna see the third. Most reviews that I've read trashed it.

So who has seen it, and what did you think?


*spoilers may happen?*

I will concede this...the dialogue seemed contrived and wasn't delivered well in many places.

The Zion fight scene was...well...after a while, I didn't care.

I wanted more in-Matrix stuff and less cheesy stiff acting.

And the ending left it all hanging more than it actually ended. Which I suppose wasn't bad. It just could've been better and could've included f'n Morpheus because he was the guy who believed to begin with. It could've been like this:

Always Pissed Off General Guy: "Damn...you were right and we're stupid. I'll buy you a donut."

Morpheus: "Yes...indeed, he was the one. I showed him the door and he walked through it. He didn't just think...he KNEW. He freed his mind. He began to believe. He was told what he needed to hear. I am wise." (Does "bring it on" motion with his hand)

Or something.

There was a lot of repetition. The new Oracle thing sucked. But the battle at Zion was simply fucking amazing. The smith fight had some killer effects, and I think the ending could have been done better but oh well. I still really liked it.

Diesel.....you're.....you're alive?

I think an online reviewer finally named what I didn't like about the sequels.

He said that the two Matrix sequels aren't about the Matrix. They're about Zion. They shift from saving humanity from the Matrix to saving Zion from the machine attack.

So when we get to the end of the third movie and the oracle and architect have this little throwaway conversation about what'll happen to the people stuck in the Matrix ("They'll be freed." "Do I have your word?" "What am I, human?"), that can truly be said to be where I fully realize why I'm disappointed.

Truthfully, I didn't care about Zion. That was kind of a side point to the larger one in the first movie, anyway. I'd take a Matrix fight scene over silly-looking robot things with machine guns a la the Terminator any day.

The cool question about what the Matrix is, is what carried the first movie and has sparked many half-drunken pseudo-philosophical conversations the world over.

The second and third have conversations that start like one of the following:

"So...what was the point of the French guy again?"
"What the hell was the architect blabbering about?"
"Dude....that scene on the highway was sweet."
"What the hell, man? Neo died!"
"Trinity is hot."
"Nuh-uh. That black chick is hotter."
"Whatever. When's the third Lord of the Rings coming out?"

THE MATRIX AND ALL ITS LITTLE TORRID OFFSPRING SUCKS AND IT NEEDS TO GO TO FUCKING RIDICULOUSLY BAD MOVIE HELL.
Thank you.

ain't gonna see the third one... i'll just buy all three on DVD when they come out and watch 'em all together.

I liked the first. and I was thoroughly entertained by the second one. I'ma guy. If shit blows up and stuff flies around the screen real fast.. I'll be thoroughly impressed.

The first Matrix did not change my life. I think the problem is that SO many people were looking for some super duper deep message in the second and third movies because they saw one in the first.. (its debatable whether or not there really is one in the first anyway)..

but when you look at it.. These movies were NEVER intended.. but hell.. the cash was just begging for them to be made.. so they were.. as action movies..

I say.. EMBRACE YOUR INNER "GUY" AND SIT BACK AND WATCH SHIT BLOW UP!!!!!

Yeah, the Christ stuff in #3 was too overboard.

And these are not deep movies. They boil down to:
"WHAT IF THIS IS ALL A DREAM!?!" + The Bible = Matrix Trilogy

Not deep, not life-changing, not all that interesting, definitely not original.

but shit blows up!

That's why I didn't mind them at all.

damn straight.

thats also why Die Hard is like one the greatest movies ever..

ya know..

cuz shit blows up and stuff..

and people get shot in the nards..

I said nards!

"Wolfman got Nards!"