Matrix: Revolutions plot revealed

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and i must say, this is extremely disappointing and really fucking ghey sounding.

tons of spoilers, read at your own risk.
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Okay, Neo's in Matrix "limbo" - somehow his mind got "jacked in" to a train
stop outside the Matrix - the wild eyed guy in the Rev. trailer is the train
man, controlled by the Merovingian. The Oracle tells Trin and Morph this and
they threaten Merv (you're willing to die for this man?) and go and save Neo
(who in the meantime has met some new characters and had a vision of three
lines in the black dessert). Back in the real world now. Niobe gives Neo and
Trinity the logos ship after the Hammer powers it up so they can go to the
machine city (01) and try and save Zion. Meanwhile Bane (Smith) has
awakened, killed the nurse and snuck into the Logos. The Hammer heads back
to Zion to try and stop the sentinels with its emp as a last ditch effort,
and soon realize Bane has killed, escaped and must be on the Logos - but
it's too late to turn back and save Trin and Neo. Aboard the logos, Bane
blinds Neo with an electrical conduit during a fight before Neo kills him
(just after realizing he's smith inside) Trinity is beat up but okay to fly
the ship, with Neo's "second sight" - he can somehow sense the machines
life-force and "sees" them now. The Hammer tries to sneak back to Zion but
the sentinels hear them and chase them all the way home. Meanwhile, Zion is
getting the **** kicked out of it by all the sentinels. The crippled Hammer
crashes into Zion and blows it's EMP knocking out the remaining diggers and
sentinels. Meanwhile the logos is on the surface, flying over/by the fetus
fields and power plant, following three power lines to the city (like in his
vision). In Zion, they are trying to restore power while evacuating to the
deep tunnels and temple cave from Reloaded. More sentinels arrive in the
defenseless Zion and jump start a digger to continue into the bowels of Zion
and finish of the rest of it's people. Neo and Trinity have now crash landed
into the machine city after fending off bigger, meaner sentinels and an
armada of huge ships shooting shrimp bombs like from Reloaded. Trinity dies
from the crash and Neo goes on to confront a huge godlike machine that he
makes a deal with to confront smith and save the matrix (and the Ai's ?)
from being taken over (smith has altered the matrix and cloned himself into
everyone). Back in Zion the sentinels stop their attack at the last minute
and wait. The ai's jack Neo in and he fights smith, smith wins (neo pretends
to lose or fights long enough to prove he tried) and takes him over, but the
new clone freaks out, (the machine city ai has a direct link to smith now)
explodes and all the smiths explode or something... Neo dies as a result and
is hauled off by the AI's to who knows where. Everyone rejoices and the
matrix get's reloaded with a truce between man and machine.

"what about morpheus, the council and previous ones?" - morpheus navigates
the hammer for niobe (the best driver- I think ghost must be manning the
guns) and faces off with the sentinels at the opening to the zion temple
(story boards of this was spoiled a couple years ago), he may take part in a
fight to save neo, but that's about it - (he lives). i don't remember the
council being mentioned or anything about previous ones

"What about the kid" - he plays an important role durring the battle by
manning a fallen mech and shooting a chain on the zion dock door at the last
second, allowing it to open so the hammer can enter zion and use its emp. -
he lives

-no cypher, no matrix within a matrix, no phone booth scene from matrix one.

-seraph(puts up a good fight),oracle,important child (mentioned in
game)...all taken over by smith

I left out a lot of details obviously (fights,take-overs,etc.) but that's
the main jist of it.

hope you don't regret reading this!
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:(

i like all the theories that we've tossed around before much better.....

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I had some hope for the series after the architect (the only really intresting and thought provoking part of Reloaded apart from the Keymaker), but that sounds just awful.
"Good taste is the death of art."
-Truman Capote

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dhn wrote:I had some hope for the series after the architect (the only really intresting and thought provoking part of Reloaded apart from the Keymaker), but that sounds just awful.
quoted for agreement.

Re: Matrix: Revolutions plot revealed

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darkness wrote:
TC wrote:and i must say, this is extremely disappointing and really fucking ghey sounding.
So it fits in with the rest of the series then. :P
heh, Mike speaks the truth!

If movies like this and Kill Bill inspire such slavish devotion from fanboys, someone should really give me a budget and some film, 'cause I can do this. I'll make someone their money, I swear it! Gimmie some guns and a camera crane! I've seen enough entertaining movies to rip off that I can probably reel off a trilogy!

I might have to borrow Mike's treatment for his new movie from the DLDB, though, for the bare bones of my film....that was fucking classic... :ay:
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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From a discussion with the ever-angry Jaime about Kill Bill...
There's a difference between drawing inspiration from previous works, and outright stealing scenes and plot points. I don't think anyone would deny that Tarantino always pays homage to other films in his works. But this time there's barely an original idea to be found in Kill Bill.

>So, were you like, "Hmmm, a PRO but I should deduct some points because it wasn't very original..."? Probably not, huh?

No, I was more thinking con, but bumped up to a mixed for some nice visual shots and the anime sequence.

But if you liked Kill Bill, just wait for my new film! It's about a college student who comes home after his father has a heart attack, only to discover the seedy undercurrent of the town he lives in. He starts going out with a coked-up homecoming queen, who gets killed by her ex-lover, a failed actress who hired a hitman who was a jazz musician that also killed his wife because she was cheating on him and making pornos. His wife gets pregnant from all the cheating and has a deformed baby which grows up to be a side-show freak, until he is rescued by a couple on the run from the girl's jealous mother. Half way on their trip, their car breaks down and they have to ride a lawn mower the rest of the way. When they finally get to their destination, they all take jobs mining minerals that are vital to the travel and transportation industry, until they lead an insurrection against the corrupt government. I'm sure it will be a hit.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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Woah, I just rewatched Reloaded and I liked it a lot more with the knowledge of how this might continue. The ability of fast forwarding through the rave scene and knowing about the length of the fight scenes definately did also help the enjoyment. Revolutions is looking a lot better for me now.
"Good taste is the death of art."
-Truman Capote

The Matrix Revolutions

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No, haven't seen it and probably won't for a while...just noticed it's getting, hmm, decidedly MIXED reviews. Would be curious to see what anyone/everyone has to say about it. I did finally see Reloaded a while back, and would certainly call it pretty strained in parts, to say the least. Wish they would've centered that one on the Zion attack and maybe had the humans come up the surface for the big finale in this, but hey, I'm not a millionaire filmmaker so what do I know?
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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Alexhead wrote:it's getting, hmm, decidedly MIXED reviews.
quite a few reviews have come across the wire this week, and not one has been positive. the backlash, already brewing for RELOADED, is now in full swing, it seems.
This is a snakeskin jacket. And for me it's a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.

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O-dot wrote: quite a few reviews have come across the wire this week, and not one has been positive. the backlash, already brewing for RELOADED, is now in full swing, it seems.
Of course, it could be getting negative reviews because it's a crappy movie, not due to any backlash. The first two were, I can't imagine things would suddenly improve for the third.

Actually, so far all the reviews I've seen have been fairly neutral. Most seem to think it's better than Reloaded but not as good as the first.

Re: The Matrix Revolutions

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darkness wrote:
O-dot wrote: quite a few reviews have come across the wire this week, and not one has been positive. the backlash, already brewing for RELOADED, is now in full swing, it seems.
Of course, it could be getting negative reviews because it's a crappy movie, not due to any backlash. The first two were, I can't imagine things would suddenly improve for the third.

Actually, so far all the reviews I've seen have been fairly neutral. Most seem to think it's better than Reloaded but not as good as the first.
Yeah, that's about what I've seen, no huge slams but nobody really getting too hyped. One review I read had a good point, that the "through the looking-glass" charm of the first one has been all but disregarded in favor of big, murky action sequences. And I'd agree with Mike that the first one wasn't exactly Citizen Kane II, anyway.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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Alexhead wrote:One review I read had a good point, that the "through the looking-glass" charm of the first one has been all but disregarded in favor of big, murky action sequences. And I'd agree with Mike that the first one wasn't exactly Citizen Kane II, anyway.
that's what pisses me off. i mean, i haven't seen this new one yet, but damn you know - why did they have to go and blow their philosophical wad on the first movie, letting these last two turn into Rocky movies? the story (derrivative as it is) was what i loved most about the first one. the ground-breaking special effects were a great bonus. if the second film is any indication, this one will suck too. great action sequences only hold attention so long, and even the most amazing special effects without story will seem tainted and worthless.

and again, unless it turned out to be what i posted here, i pretty much knew i wasn't going to like it. then when this came out, i knew it was over before it started...

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haha, gotta love rotten tomatoes:
Watching the movie is sort of like finishing off a filet mignon dinner with Pop Rocks.
right now it's at rotten - 37%.

check it out.

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I do wonder if that's why it took so damn long to get the sequels going, if they had not, in fact, planned out a solid 3-film arc but were suddenly big-time Hollywood filmmakers with two contractually obligated movies to pump out after the unexpected success of the first one. There seemed to be a significant disconnect between the first and second movies.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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The good news is, Harry over at AICN absolutely LOVED IT!!!!!

:roll:
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."