The Matrix

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Movie 1, good, interesting, thought provoking. A little fakey at times but so what. 👍

Movie 2+ mostly more of the same. :yawn:
 
I liked the first Matrix movie, but couldn’t seem to get excited about the other two. I normally can’t stand Keanu Reaves. (Reeves?) He is one of the worst actors of all time. I don’t understand why he has done so well. I did like him in Matrix (shockingly enough to me) I guess it was because his lack of personality was type cast.
 
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Cathlicrat:
For similar (themed) Matrix type flicks check out:

Dark City, eXistenz & The Thirteenth Floor

I dig well done Sci Fi.

I am a huge fan of Equilibrium as well btw…I was terribly let down by THX 1138… EQB fits in pretty good with 1984…you could almost look at it as Equilibrium occuring within a generation after the events of the even more depressing flick 1984… But well worth a watch
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I also enjoy well-done scifi but coudn’t stand equilibrium. I coudln’t “buy” into the main theme. The fight scenes were just too “Matrix wanna be” no offense, I just thought Equilibrium was a flop.
 
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Thursday1:
While people are discussing the Matrix, I thought I would post a link to what I think is the funniest review of the movie ever done. I have two guesses as to who wrote this review, 1) someone who never saw the movies, or 2) someone who saw the movies but is deaf, blind, and possibly has no hands (they couldn’t even read the script in braille!). Here’s the link:
traditioninaction.org/movies/007mrMatrix2.htm

I owe a great debt to this site, they have given me so much material for my blog.

Yours in Christ,
Thursday

P.S.
I loved the Matrix, it is one of my favorite movies.
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Goodness, I couldn’t even bear to read all of this review. I think the person writing it is a bit obsessed. :confused:
 
The movie is OK (entertaining) but has a tint of the New Age. It is dangerous to think of the world (Reality) as an illusion which is the theme of this movie. If my memory is correct I believe this drove a young man to suicide after he believed that the movie was true. Also, I have studied and taught martial arts and the fight scenes where hilarious; downright silly! The fight scenes were not very well thought out. The poll doesn’t have a choice such as: It’s not Christian! and shouldn’t be given any attention. That’s what say about the Matrix.
 
So any movie especially sci fi should be avoided merely cause its not Christian themed and espousing Christian concepts and can possibly be a danger to impressionable folks who take these things seriously and literally? Better keep the Old Testament portion of the Bible away from them then. 😉

Not a vacuum I wish to live in or endorse just so the simple minded wont harm themselves. They will find reasons for anything to go off the deep end. Instead of banning films, make sure they take their MEDS.

For fans of the movies, heres a cool site that I turn other fans onto that does about the best job of attempting to explain all the esoteric concepts and themes of these cool flicks. Have fun…and remember! The Matrix is ONLY a movie!..or is it? 😛

www.thematrix101.com/
 
Scott Waddell:
Catholic Dude, you will like this Review of the Matrix

The Matrix is an atrocious teenage boy masturbatory fantasy. Bleeeeech!

Scott
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That has to be the most horrible review site I have ever seen. It is beyond me why they would politicize just about every movie that was reviewed. The Bourne Supremacy anti-Bush and anti-US? Give me a break.
 
I like The Bourne Supremacy more than the first one, and I didnt get any feeling it was anti anything. Too many people just have a problem thinking their Govt is squeeky clean and when they see Agents in movies doing bad things its too much for their rosy world view to accept.
 
James Cody:
The Matrix was the computer programmers idea of the universe. No computers, no Matrix universe!

I think the Matrix had something to do with the nature of reality, or what is reality. A reality constructed soley by the philosophy of computer hackers and programers. It was a concept already explored by Plato, De Cartes, and Kierkengaard that there is more to life than what is seen.

I found the Matrix to be merely entertaining, but not profound. It was not my generation movie, I couldn’t identify with all the leather costumes, the blatant defiance of authority, the technocratic hubris, and punk rock mentality.

I still prefer 2001: A Space Odyssey (which I saw in 1968, and that was very profound) and the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (42).
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I must beg to differ. The original “Matrix” was a magnificent retelling of the Gnostic herracy, substituting the computer for the Demierge. It followed the pseudo-theology almost perfectly, including the belieef that one can be free of this distorted and false existance in which one is abused by a false god, if one knows the secret, and as such is surpassed only by the “Passion of the Christ” in profundity and place in modern cinima. in conjunction with “Metropolus,” a product of the Wimere Republic, I use it as a teaching tool to explain the herricies of early early Church competitors and the dangers of falling into them.
 
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