Posted by GTJDorris at nat-gateway-1.top.biltmorecommunications.net on November 08, 2003 at 14:33:01:
Okay, so I've been reading the posts on the movie so far and since I have now seen it, I wanted to add my 2 cents as well as a few new points I hope. Let me preface this by saying I'm studying engineering, I've taken computer science classes, I know and understand computer programming, so this whole over-extended metaphor is very close to my area of expertise:
1)the acting continued to be bad. Totally and utterly unconvincing "love" between Neo and Trinity.
2)it was terribly written. The dialogue was so God damned predictable. I'd lean over and say what a character was obviously about to say, to my date before they said it (luckily she was dumb and thought I was genius)
3)If Neo can save Trinity one time, why not again? That's rhetorical because it doesn't make sense whatever anyone says to me.
4)How can you have a world between the fake/computer created/"Matrix" and the real/three-dimensional/solid world? You can't. There just is no correlation to reality with what those fat fucking brothers wrote.
5)How can a program fight deletion? It can't. It doesn't have a say in the matter. It's deleted or it isn't. Period.
6)So I guess they thought they were being very sly in transforming this into some half-assed retarded Christ figure movie. Boy that's original.
7)Did anyone else think the makeup on Neo's eyes looked like the worst makeup job (and story explanation of why they look that way) since THE KILLERS by John Woo when Chow Yun Fat has that big crust grow over his eyes in about 30 seconds? I mean, Neo gets hit with a cable and instantly both eyes crust over but nothing else does? That's not how a wound happens. It just doesn't.
8)I thought the Indian people/programs were explaining to Neo that they were trying to get their daughter/program OUT of the Matrix. But then she's inside it for the rest of the movie.
9)What (in terms of their fucking stupid metaphor) literally "happened" when Neo let Smith take him over? I understand "he blew them all up to save everyone" but that doesn't explain HOW he did that to a program.
10)There is no way for a program to copy over onto a human, the way Smith came out of the Matrix and into a human body. Can't happen. Sorry. But based on that, the second and third movies fail miserably without all these other points.
11)So at the very end instead of having a unique story/plot to base all this cool action "within the rules" (by having it taking place in computer code, not in the real world) it comes down to Neo being Jesus and Smith being the devil? That is so fucking weak!!! How fucking retarded. I loved the first one and they have totally ruined it by the garbage that came after it. And naturally if your opinion is the opposite I'm not going to convince you (because you're wrong) and you're not going to convince me (because, again, you're wrong).